An Impassioned and PBS-Style Plea!

[Obsidian Reaver]

I NEED YOU!

Desolate Jedi #1 appears to have been a major success, and I'm extremely eager to keep the story going. BUT, I really need your help in doing so! Part 2 is going to run close to $590-700, and trying to pay for it alone will be VERY tough (doable, but tough). So, if you liked DJ #1 and have some spare cash lying around, I could really use some patrons to lend me a hand and help make Desolate Jedi #2 a reality.

Donate to reavercommissions[at]yahoo.com at Paypal.

And remember, without your help, Desolate Jedi #2 and its successors likely will not come to fruition. I'd like to give Lunate the script by June 15-17th, but without donations...I just don't know.

And if you donate, please reply and let me know so I can add your name to the recognition video I intend to make to show my gratitude.

If you, collectively as a community, can handle half of the cost ($300), I can shoulder the rest! Currently $25 has been donated!

So far only two people have donated, so come on folks, lend me a hand and Desolate Jedi Part 2 might just see the light of day!!! The Reaver needs you!

[Obsidian Reaver]

Hmm, disappointing...

So be it.

[Obsidian Reaver]

So, was I wrong to ask for donations in the first place...?

[sodacat]

A better title might have helped.

Alternatively, yes, this might be the limit of the fan support for this project.

[bro4man]

It would be more easier just to make the comic book project and have people pay for an finished product(s) then to ask for money for an project that have no guarantee that if won't be cancel for whatever reasons???

[Obsidian Reaver]

Originally Posted by bro4man

It would be more easier just to make the comic book project and have people pay for an finished product(s) then to ask for money for an project that have no guarantee that if won't be cancel for whatever reasons???

A sound idea, but I'm not sure I'm able to *sell* things that involve an established IP (ie: Star Wars).

One reason donations were preferable.

Sodacat, I'm sorry if my title wasn't 5-star. Was just trying to be personable and humorous (which I must have failed at, obviously)...

[TF-Viewer]

I would like to, but I have to start saving for things, important things... I'll be honest I'm just saving up for the upcoming video games due out in late summer through the holidays. There's too many coming out, otherwise I might have contributed. So if you must blame someone, blame Nintendo.

[Obsidian Reaver]

Originally Posted by TF-Viewer

I would like to, but I have to start saving for things, important things... I'll be honest I'm just saving up for the upcoming video games due out in late summer through the holidays. There's too many coming out, otherwise I might have contributed. So if you must blame someone, blame Nintendo.

*sigh...




...video games *are* important.

To be honest with you, I've been severely depressed by this for a few days now. I felt ignored by the community, a community I've been a part of for three years now.

I'll just flat-out say it, I don't have many friends in RL. I was never the outgoing type, and preferred my own company to that of others. I never built up a strong and populated circle of friends, even though I started trying to later in life.

When I joined this community back in 2011, I was thrilled with the notion of sharing in something I liked with other like-minded individuals. I consider you all friends. You're more friends to me than anything I have in real life, and so I do whatever I can to impress you and stay relevant. I write things I think you'll like because I want your approval. I commission things for the same reason. And I occasionally try to inject my own interests into both of the above because I hope that if you see or read about them, you might develop a similar interest. I want to share more with you, because the thought of becoming irrelevant to you all, to be ignored by you, *devastates* me. It honestly hurts.

And I try so hard to keep that from becoming a reality, even though I know I fail more often than not in my efforts. As an introvert, I find it hard to just jump into the random and fun F&BS threads, and I have a difficult time starting conversations on my own. Wish it were different...wish my titles were a little more witty heh...

...that's why this thread depressed me so much...the lack of interest in it, of *any* replies whatsoever beyond what's been posted here today, made me feel...ignored, by the only people I consider my friends...it made me feel irrelevant to the very people I want so desperately to please and share with...and that hurt me, deeply. More deeply than you may know or realize.

I care what you think of me. I care about what you want. I want to share with you and I want to have fun with you. I thought I could do that by telling a great, illustrated story in a setting I care strongly about. I thought folks were interested, and with the donations I just wanted to strengthen my means to keep the content flowing...but the silence...I must have misread things...another failure.

Bah, I've emoted all over you enough for one day (hell, for a lifetime, most likely). This thread is largely pointless at, well, this point. I canceled the sequel with Lunate, and I've asked the Govenor to deactivate this account. I'm sorry if I came across as, fuck, I don't even know. Needy? Overly-friendly, or zealous in trying to be relevant? Maybe just clueless. Your pick.

Just trying to give, and to be accepted.

It's not easy.

[Amahain]

I'm sorry the comic was a bust. I can understand your frustration. For what it's worth, I think you're an awesome contributor to the TF community and I hope you stick around.

[gladewalker]

Try doing it through GoFundMe or Kickstarter or something.
Explain it's a fanfic and post the link.
It'll work a lot letter.
Also a link to the original you're continuing so people know what you're talking about might help.

For example I have no idea what "Desolate Jedi" Part 1 was....

[hexen]

Honestly, I'm sorry that the community didn't contribute as much as you expected but as far as I am concerned I didn't really contribute with the project because well...I don't.

People who know me know that I'm also VERY afraid of spreading my Credit Card info around the internet (I tend to use banking billet to buy stuff online and when the place doesn't accept that payment method I just don't purchase anything at all) and I am having to deal with more bills lately so I did not really have anything to spare.

I can only guess how sad this must have made you but I also have to say you shouldn't really plan your content around user contribution, most people on this "community" are faceless guys/gals that are in only for the thrills and would never really come out to say hello much less contribute to a project like this one, despite being very happy when such projects are done and shared with them.

I really wish this fiasco doesn't drive you off and I wish you keep writing and making your personal comissions at your own leisure though, even if you do not feel like sharing those with us anymore.

[TF-Viewer]

C'mon, don't quit. It's not worth giving up over what essentially amounts to bad marketing. You still have really great stories that people like. I've felt like quitting before too, I've gone so far as to delete all my stories a time or two, but I always regret doing it and put them back up. I have a feeling you'd regret deleting your account, please reconsider.