I'ma fly this flag that I got in my hand!

[chanter1944]

Can we raise our voice tonight?
Can we make a little noise tonight?

Hat tip to the thisfinecrew community, wherein I spotted a signal boost for an excellent comm. Two, if you count the comm I just linked. I joined, and now I'm passing it along! Heads up to any fannish friends who may be so inclined, fandomlovespuertorico is a go!

I'm oh so tempted to offer one or more of the fics still on my sponsorable list over there...

Cookies if you get the reference in the subject line, and the dovetailing one immediately following. :)

ETA: I changed the subject line from a Spanish to an English one, because I (go figure) misheard, and thus misquoted the line I was aiming for. Music in one's second language is hard when you're rusty at said second language, yikes. I'm making the same reference as before, just via another snippet. Yes, the second line still dovetails. :)

Comments

[technoshaman]

Raise this flag? And the Maple Leaf and the Flag of Puerto Rico?

(Did you see the coat of arms of the new Governor General of Canada? If you didn't, go google... )

FREEK FLAAAAAAAG... HOIST!!!!

[chanter1944]

Re: flags flying: I did not! Do tell? I'd go look it up, but the eyeballs, they don't work worth beans! I'm simultaneously entirely serious about the eyeballs not working, and not intending any offense whatsoever by the flip response. <3

The subject line is a (misquoted, frak, lyrics are hard to copy, I have to fix it) line from In The Heights, specifically "Carnaval del Barrio". So is the first line of the entry, from further on in the same song.

[technoshaman]

Ah! Another Lin-Manuel fan!

Sorry I forgot about the peepers. Okay.

I don't know formal heraldry for beans, so I'll describe it plain language.

The main shield is blue on the left, black on the right. In the upper left corner is the crown of the Queen of England, indicating Her Excellency's royal office. Much of the rest of the shield is covered by a white wing, for her penchant for flight. The crest is an astronaut's helmet, crowned in laurel; the supporters are Canadian lynxes, the compartment (lower bits) are an earth without borders and the motto PER ASPERA AD ASTRA, and a Sigma for science; atop the crown is a bar of music (her OTHER avocation).

It's flipping gorgeous.

[chanter1944]

Zero worries re: eyeballs. :)

Yep, another Lin-Manuel fan! :D

Re: that flipping amazing shield: Oh my *goodness*! I have stars in my eyes forever. <3 <3 <3! Canada is *so* lucky to have someone like that in office...

[hitokage]

I joined up last night, we'll see if I get any bids. Looks like a LOT of people are offering writing, so....

[chanter1944]

Ooh! :) There seem to be a lot of similar fandoms over there, at least at the moment, so that may help? If I'm remembering right, yours are not the ones that appear to be most common over that way as yet.

I should really add a couple of my unsponsored pieces to the buy it now post.

[hitokage]

Yeah, just from what little I scanned, it was a lot of MCU and NuTrek offerings, which I'm not up on the first enough to make it a main offering and don't follow the latter at all. If someone wants to try talking me around to it, I did give a bunch of my older fandoms, but yeah, my main offerings were for Blizzard's games, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Jrock RPF(ish), and originals. We'll see.

Out of curiosity, how do you decide on sponsorship prices for things?

[chanter1944]

As to my own works, or as to auctions? For my own work, I tend to use something close to the semi-pro rates ysabetwordsmith has linked in the past; it comes out to roughly 2 cents American per word, because I can't find the link right now.

[hitokage]

Ah, I should've been more clear, yeah, I meant for your own works. It's one of those things I've been wrestling with again lately, so I get curious as to how others have settled it.

[chanter1944]

Zero worries! :) Hopefully the description made sense. I really do need to find that link...