Elliott Dunstan
CREATOR
Backed 5 projects in The Book Bazaar 2025
3 months ago
Project Update: Fully Funded! (Barring Incidents...)
Hello everyone! I'm astonished that I get to make this post, but GULA is FULLY FUNDED! Of course, this comes with some caveats. Cancellations and whatnot happen, so please do keep pledging if you haven't already; at the time that I'm posting this, we're only $6 above the goal, which is a VERY slim margin. But it's still a great feeling, and we've got a little while longer to go!
Before I get into the administrative stuff, I also want to acknowledge that I hit this goal last night and in the last few hours of World AIDS Day -- the 37th day this has been commemorated and, for the first time, with genuine hope of a cure and vaccine in the near future. GULA covers a lot of ground, and it's impossible to capture all of it without just essentially long-forming the poem over again, but the AIDS crisis is one of those historical moments that's very close to my heart. Certainly after living through (and continuing to live through) another neglected pandemic, all of the essays and notes from the AIDS crisis hit that much harder. It's an honor and a privilege, and a testament to the hard work of thousands and thousands of queers and allies around the world, that I and my comrades can live and thrive and do the work today. In particular, I and so many other avant-garde, surrealist, club-kid queers would not be who and what we are without the oft-unsung work of Klaus Nomi, one of the earliest losses to the AIDS crisis. May his memory, forever and always, be a blessing.
Onto some admin notes. A few things--
1) Stretch goal! At 3,000$ (CAD, as all my stuff is) GULA is possible to do in color. Now, I don't expect this to happen in less than 24 hours.... but the option is on the table! It's incentive to keep it going (and to give me the aforementioned cushion). Even within that goal, though, more money means more room for quality control, nicer materials, printing upgrades, etc. [Why is it double the amount? The type of color-work I want to do not only costs more because color, it a) expands the pages needed, and b) makes the creation of an accessible version a bit more of an involved process.)
2) UNRWA! While final numbers will be crunched after everything is said and done, preliminary data gives us $231.40! (Why are there decimal points after you rounded everything, Elliott, you ask? I had some $1 tiers I forgot to account for, but it's all good.) However -- please see my new poll at the bottom (for backers only) asking about a fundamental thing I overlooked! When I was figuring out UNRWA donations I forgot to account for add-ons and donations. So I'm asking you, friends, how best to handle it!
3) The Book Bazaar! At the moment, there is still one project unfunded. Obviously this simply won't do -- so please check out The Primal Rift! We're hoping for a 100% funded Bazaar, and we're SO CLOSE to getting it! The Primal Rift is the third in The Chaos Portal, a trilogy of YA dark fantasy books.
That's all for now! Thank you SO MUCH for getting us this far -- now onwards!!
Before I get into the administrative stuff, I also want to acknowledge that I hit this goal last night and in the last few hours of World AIDS Day -- the 37th day this has been commemorated and, for the first time, with genuine hope of a cure and vaccine in the near future. GULA covers a lot of ground, and it's impossible to capture all of it without just essentially long-forming the poem over again, but the AIDS crisis is one of those historical moments that's very close to my heart. Certainly after living through (and continuing to live through) another neglected pandemic, all of the essays and notes from the AIDS crisis hit that much harder. It's an honor and a privilege, and a testament to the hard work of thousands and thousands of queers and allies around the world, that I and my comrades can live and thrive and do the work today. In particular, I and so many other avant-garde, surrealist, club-kid queers would not be who and what we are without the oft-unsung work of Klaus Nomi, one of the earliest losses to the AIDS crisis. May his memory, forever and always, be a blessing.
Onto some admin notes. A few things--
1) Stretch goal! At 3,000$ (CAD, as all my stuff is) GULA is possible to do in color. Now, I don't expect this to happen in less than 24 hours.... but the option is on the table! It's incentive to keep it going (and to give me the aforementioned cushion). Even within that goal, though, more money means more room for quality control, nicer materials, printing upgrades, etc. [Why is it double the amount? The type of color-work I want to do not only costs more because color, it a) expands the pages needed, and b) makes the creation of an accessible version a bit more of an involved process.)
2) UNRWA! While final numbers will be crunched after everything is said and done, preliminary data gives us $231.40! (Why are there decimal points after you rounded everything, Elliott, you ask? I had some $1 tiers I forgot to account for, but it's all good.) However -- please see my new poll at the bottom (for backers only) asking about a fundamental thing I overlooked! When I was figuring out UNRWA donations I forgot to account for add-ons and donations. So I'm asking you, friends, how best to handle it!
3) The Book Bazaar! At the moment, there is still one project unfunded. Obviously this simply won't do -- so please check out The Primal Rift! We're hoping for a 100% funded Bazaar, and we're SO CLOSE to getting it! The Primal Rift is the third in The Chaos Portal, a trilogy of YA dark fantasy books.
That's all for now! Thank you SO MUCH for getting us this far -- now onwards!!
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