JoeHundredaire is creating Fiction

Scribbling, scribbling, madly scribbling away.

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$295

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Milestone Goals

Fill Out My MCU Phase 2 Collection

$20 per month

The Dark World. The Winter Soldier. A bunch of jackasses standing in a circle. Outside of Iron Man 3, I don't yet own anything out of Marvel's Phase 2 and so I'm writing off of memories that are up to two years old at this point. If I pull in a mere $20 a month here, I can fill my collection out by February, and even pick up both seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - in HD even - before Avengers 2 comes out.

Marvel Unlimited Subscription

$30 per month

I'll be the first to admit that my knowledge of certain corners of a few fandoms that I work in is weak. Marvel's Earth-616 is the biggest offender in that regard, because I'm a relatively new fan of their comics given that the Avengers just celebrated their 50th birthday. Even if I could locate and buy all those back issues - and find time to read them - storing them would be completely infeasible. Heck, I'll even admit that I haven't read anything out of Earth-1610 since Ultimatum dropped and I set an issue on fire after seeing Blob eat poor Wasp. So I want to get myself onto Marvel Unlimited, their digital back issue service. Through it, I'll be able to read up on anyone or anything I need to deliver the best stories I possibly can.

Forever and then Flash and maybe Arrow and...

$55 per month

There are a lot of interesting television shows out there these days, and not enough time to watch them all. Lord only knows why my cable provider doesn't seem keen on supplying me with a DVR even when I offer to pay more, and having to wait three months for an episode on a major network to repeat during winter break isn't really feasible for a writer. An extra $25 a month would help me begin diving into all new fandoms; my buying power would slide up to $45 a month in between when I finish my Marvel collection and when their next movie hits store shelves.

iPad Palooza!

$160 per month

I'm by no means expecting it to happen overnight, or for a few benevolent someones to dump the funds for an entire iPad in my lap all at once. But if I start pulling in roughly $160 a month on here, I can meet my above goals while still putting away enough money to buy a larger capacity iPad Air in roughly six months. And I'll need the storage space, because you wouldn't believe how much reference material I have squirreled away for each of my stories.

Awesome Anti-Tremor Pill Power!

$260 per month

Yes, I am ranking this after my iPad because as it stands, I'm currently paying for my pills while I cannot afford to pay for an iPad. Long story short: I need medication to keep my hands steady and my body violently (read: projectile vomiting) rejects the generics. So my insurance makes me pay a hefty price for pills I won't puke. Not fair, but that's life. If I can reach this tier? It becomes an avalanche: I can pay for my pills with Patreon money, which frees up $100 a month I currently spend out of pocket, which means I can buy my iPad and media faster, which means I can permanently remove those goals sooner...

5 Milestone Goals

reached

An iPhone Without Data...

$325 per month

...can do some fun stuff but is pretty antisocial in the grand scheme of things. This goal falls into the same category as above: I currently pay for it out of pocket, but if I can meet this particular goal, I can reinvest money and use it to permanently eliminate lower tiers. Or I can afford to get out of the house for a weekend for a local comic con, meet some fellow geeks, and get all sorts of new story ideas. I mean, Kat from Blue Belle and Everywhere I Go is 100% a girl I met when I wandered across a Marvel group photo shoot at a comic con...

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About

I'm just a dude with a laptop and far too many ideas than I have time to write. But I'm gonna try and write 'em all. Although by the time I finish these ideas, I'm pretty sure I'll have hundreds of new ones all begging for my attention...

Location

Connecticut, USA

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I got into the world of fan fiction over a decade ago, when the owner of an archive I was highly active on as a reviewer noticed that I delivered feedback that was more literate than most and invited me to begin collaborating with her. From there, I struck out on my own... and posted a few things that make me cringe when I look at them today. But like everyone else? I got better. And I continue to get better.

Writing is an art form that occupies a unique position within the fan community. It is unlike any other form of creativity insofar as that it is largely frowned upon to receive payment for your work. Fan art? Commission it if you're like me and can't draw a stick figure. Cosplay? Commission it if you can't create it yourself. Search for Dr. Who on Etsy, and it coughs up 15,966 different items for sale. Try to find someone to write you some Eleven/River fic? You'll have a much harder time.

Do we deserve to be any less recognized and compensated for the joy we bring others? I've long held the - rather unpopular - belief that no, we shouldn't. In the past, I've used GoFundMe to help defer the cost of the illustrations that I commission from artists for my work, but that was just money passing through me to another individual. In eleven years, I've written over a million and a half words of fiction spanning a dozen fandoms, and received nothing at all in return for what I've given others.

Although I'm not going to lie, I've got absolutely no regrets about getting someone to draw me a picture of Elsa as an N7 Fury from Mass Effect 3...

I'd like you to help me change the status quo, though.

As an individual with a degenerative neural condition, I'm not lucky enough to be able to curl up anywhere I can find space for a notebook and scrawl my thoughts onto paper. I am completely reliant on electronics to record my thoughts and it's not always practical to pull out my laptop, if I can even bring it with me. Thanks to iCloud, all of my stories are constantly hovering just out of reach when I'm away from my laptop. I would love to have an iPad, so that I can write even more and therefore deliver more fiction to my readers. I'd like to be able to invest more in artists both familiar and new, to bring that thousand words that an image is worth to more of my work. I'd love to buy up entire seasons of TV shows on iTunes so I can watch, rewatch, pause, and rewind to my heart's content. I could even buy up new shows and movies that I've been curious about but been unable to justify the expense of on my budget.

I could.

But only with your help.

PS: For those of you who love the art that accompanies my story and are eyeing the top tier, my girlfriend is running a Patreon of her own. Considering one of her funding goals helps pay off a purchase she made on my PayPal Credit and I get her existing iMac if she can fund a new one before it dies? I figured it was worth a bit of cross-promotion. ;)

Pledge $1.00 or more per month

3 patrons

Every little bit helps and you've gone out of your way to help me. Even if it's just the cost of a taco, it adds up and so I'll do my best to honor your donation by giving you access to my Patreon Activity Feed, where I hope to post snippets of upcoming stories, amusing bits that won't quite work out but I wish would, character sketches by my girlfriend, and other random stuff. Additionally, while in the past I've not maintained a "Dedications" section on most of my work, I'll be adding one to every new story I post from here on out as well as every existing story updated with new content. Everyone who wants it will get a shout out in there.

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2 patrons

I write a lot, and I write it fast. Not wanting to blitz people's inboxes with update notifications, I do my best to spread things out when it comes to posting. But for a $3 a month donation, you'll not only get the above rewards but also access to everything I write as fast as I write it. Who knows, you might even catch something I miss and be able to help me plug a plot hole. Or you could go "hey Joe, that was awesome but you know what would be even more awesome?" and I'll go "holy crap, that IS awesome, lemme go rewrite this!".

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10 patrons

At my height on Twisting the Hellmouth, I had over a million and a half words of fiction posted. That number has dropped to 468,074 words now that I'm over on FanFiction.Net. While I do plan to move more of my stuff there eventually, not everything will make it. And not everything I've written was even on TtH. Miss a particular story? Wonder what I've never shown you? For a mere $5 a month, you can go digging through a shared folder on my Dropbox that has every HTML file, DOC, and DOCX I have managed to locate, chronicling eleven years of writing. Unposted stories, failed stories, never before seen experimental variations of existing stories... who knows what you'll find?

Oh, and of course, all of the rewards above.

Pledge $10.00 or more per month

3 patrons

Thanks to the tiered privacy settings on Patreon, I can make it so that some posts are available to the entire world, some posts are available only to patrons, and some posts are only available to certain patrons. And so for the low, low price of $10 a month, you can move up from the general feed to seeing my more interactive posts. Sometimes, I have two story ideas and can't decide which to write first. You can help me pick. Sometimes I reach that "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" moment and both roads seem equally awesome, and so you can help decide which of two outcomes a story will take. And sometimes, I'm kinda like Cisco on The Flash, and shouldn't be allowed to name things. Hopefully you guys will be able to help me out when those situations arise.

And... you guessed it, all of the above.