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From:

torachan

User Name:

torachan
Email address: kyuuketsukirui@gmail.com
Examples of my work: You can see examples of my summaries, scanlations, and translations on my website.

I'm offering: Japanese to English translation. Your choice of manga/doujinshi summary, translation, or full scanlation.

Summary: A summary of a full volume (~180 pages) of manga. This can be a volume in a series or a stand-alone. My summaries range from 1000-5000 words, depending on the amount of action. You must be able to provide raws or if you are not sure where to find raws, ask me if it's something I can find (I am just not willing to actually buy any manga for this). If you bid higher than the starting amount, I may be willing to do more than one volume.

Translation: A script-style translation of a manga or doujinshi, up to 40 pages. This can be a chapter of a longer manga, a one-shot, or a doujinshi. If you have two or more things that combine to ~40 pages, that's okay, too. Again, you must provide raws (especially for doujinshi, as I have no resources for finding them myself). If you bid higher than the starting amount, I may be willing to do more pages.

Scanlation: A scanlation of a manga or doujinshi, up to 20 pages. This can be a short chapter of a longer manga or a short doujinshi. If you have two or more things that combine to ~20 pages, that's okay, too. Again, you must provide raws (especially for doujinshi, as I have no resources for finding them myself). If you bid higher than the starting amount, I may be willing to do more pages.

I don't have any limits regarding graphic sex or violence. Het, slash, femslash, gen are all okay.

Fandoms: For doujinshi, any fandom is fine. It doesn't have to be something I'm familiar with.

Additional Info: I have 10+ years experience as a professional translator.

Starting Bid: £10 (about $16 US)

Edited Date: 13 March 2011 04:53 (UTC)

From:

uruhia

User Name:

uruhia
Email address: PM me!
YM/AIM/Gtalk/ICQ (optional):
Examples of my work: No examples up, as I think readings should be confidential, but check out the decks I have available to use.

I'm offering: A 3-card reading (I might expand, if I don't get a good answer from the 3 cards I draw), using any of the decks I own (see above link), on any question you'd like (remember that I'm not a medical or legal professional, of course). I'm a new reader (a year's worth of reading on tarot, and only about 10 readings to my name), so no miracles, but I'll give it my best! I'll send you a write-up of my reading, and scans of the cards in it.

Fandoms (if appropriate): Here's another option: Do you RP? Fan a certain character? Reading for characters can be a lot of fun! Give me info about your character, and a question they might ask, or you want answered about them, and I'll read for them.

Starting Bid: £3

From:

sabinetzin

User Name:

sabinetzin
Email address: mcangmar at gmail
YM/AIM/Gtalk/ICQ (optional): AIM: neferubastet
Examples of my work: I don't have an example handy, but you can PM

coffeesuperhero or

arymabeth, who I've read for.

I'm offering: One tarot reading consisting of two spreads: one three card spread and one larger spread on the question/topic of your choice. You have your choice of format; I can read for you in real-time via Skype, AIM, or Gtalk, or I can complete the reading and email you the results. You will receive photos of your spreads as well.

Additional Info (optional): I've been reading for about three and a half years, and I read from the Tarot of the Dead, in case, y'know, you don't like skeletons. I am a card reader, not a psychic; this is not an offer for a psychic reading.

Starting Bid: £10

Edited Date: 13 March 2011 17:54 (UTC)

From:

lightsinthesky

User Name:

lightsinthesky
Email address: reddawnartist @ gmail.com

I'm offering: A year of postcards sent to you! That's one postcard per month, starting next month. Some postcards will be Austin/Texas themed, others will be whatever I happen to find. Could be postcards of art work, actors, anime, rock stars... It'll be a surprise! (If there's anything you absolutely don't want postcards of, simply let me know!)

Additional Info: Will send anywhere in the world. I'll be paying for the postage.

Starting Bid: £2

From:

veleda_k

User Name:

veleda_k
Email address: veleda AT sailormoon.com

I'm offering: A year of postcards from Boulder, CO! One a month until next April. Subjects could include local wild flowers, local wildlife, the Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain National Park, and scenes from around beautiful Boulder.

Additional Info (optional): I will ship anywhere in the world.

Starting Bid: £2

From:

sacredporn

User Name:

sacredporn
Email address: PM

I'm offering
I'll turn your fanfic (or any document, really) into a .mobi format ebook.

Starting bid
1 pound for every 5,000 words. If your fanfic/document is 5,001 words long, starting bid is 2 pounds.

How is this service useful?
- People can read your fanfic/document on any mobi-compatible devices, including Amazon's Kindle.
- People can read your fanfic/document in any mobi-compatible softwares, including Amazon's FREE Kindle software which is available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows PC, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone 7.
- As much as I love AO3, their mobi converter has not been perfected. I can make sure your .mobi ebook does not contain any weird characters or funny formatting.

Who can bid on this service?
Absolutely anyone. It doesn't matter that you are the author of the fanfic or not. As long as you can link me to the web page where the fanfic is posted, or email it to me as a document, we'll be fine.

What about the accompanying artwork?
If you wish, I can put the posters, dividers etc. into your ebook. Keep in mind that the images will likely be scaled down and you ebook will definitely have a larger file size. it doesn't cost extra to put the artwork in.

How long will it take?
Depending on the word count, but I imagine no longer than 2 - 3 days.

From:

muccamukk

User Name:

muccamukk
E-mail address: muccamukk@dreamwidth.org

I'm offering: One year of mail from a lighthouse. I'm a lighthouse keeper on the west coast of Canada, and I will send letters and post cards once a month for a year. Topics will include lighthouse life and other ocean-related things.

Additional Info: will send anywhere in the world.

Starting Bid: £5

From:

busaikko

User Name: busaikko Email address: busaikkobaby atmark yahoo dotcom Examples of my work Japanese stationery: <a href="http://www.tensukemarket.com/admin/images/af3ad2d44aefab0908aaa1c2421d76fa.jpg>google image of a stationery store</a> I'm offering: One B5-size box (kind of like a cereal box?) of stationery (letter sets, pens, pencils, notebooks, shitajiki, pen cases, stickers, etc.) Fandoms (if appropriate): some character goods possible (One Piece, Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty, Mario, Keroro Gunso, Dragonball, etc.) - let me know if you have a preference! Additional Info (optional): Will post from Japan to anywhere. I am not sure how reliable our international post is at the moment, but will try to send this month. Starting Bid: 10GBP

Edited (line return fail, formatting fail, argh, I give up) Date: 14 March 2011 03:09 (UTC)

From:

ariestess

User Name:

ariestess
Email address: ariestess @ dw
Examples of my work: free 1-card readings

I'm offering: 1 6-card personal star reading with your choice of the decks listed in the examples above; additional readings can be added depending on final bid

Additional Info (optional): I've been doing tarot readings for over 20 years. If the personal star reading doesn't suit your needs, we can work with a different spread, as well.

If you have any questions you wish to ask me regarding this offer, please feel free to PM me here on DW

My preferred charities are American Red Cross & Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières

Starting Bid: £5 [~$8 USD]

Edited Date: 14 March 2011 06:34 (UTC)

From:

clairshadows

User Name: Clair Shadows
Email address: clairshadows@hotmail.com
YM/AIM/Gtalk/ICQ (optional):
Examples of my work: N/A

I'm offering: A CD of weird and wonderful insect photo's + flowers if interested.

Fandoms (if appropriate):

Additional Info (optional): Insects are from the wilds of Australia NSW.

Starting Bid: $1 GBP

From:

jaebility

User Name:

jaebility
Email address: fademarkblue[at]gmail.com
YM/AIM/Gtalk/ICQ (optional): n/a
Examples of my work: My postcrossing account.

I'm offering: A year of postcards from New York City! I have a huge collection of postcards - photos of NYC, of pieces of art, of the weird and wacky. Let me know if you have a preference. On the back I can write a drabble, a poem, a random fact, or a terrible drawing.

Fandoms (if appropriate): n/a

Additional Info (optional): I'll use your address only for this, obviously. And I will absolutely do international shipping.

Starting Bid: £2

From:

moon_aire

User Name: moon_aire
Email address: saishusong19@gmail.com
YM/AIM/Gtalk/ICQ (optional):
Examples of my work:

I'm offering: Complete Death Note set, English, Vol. 1-12, 13 (How to Read)

Fandoms (if appropriate):

Additional Info (optional):

Starting Bid: 63GBP

From:

zoamh

User Name:

zoamh
Email address: starrarte[at]gmail[dot]com
You can see things I've created at: N/A

I am offering: Utah in a box!

Additional Info: I'll send you a box filled with Utah goodies from my home state. Postcards from the snowy ski resort-laden north and beautiful National Park-laden south! An "eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may be in Utah" shotglass! Something with a moose on it! Diet caffeine free Mountain Dew! Local music! (Indie, not Mormon Tabernacle Choir, although if you do want MoTab for some inexplicable reason I can throw in a CD)

I will also go to an Arctic Circle or Crown Burger and sneakily steal you a whole bunch of fry sauce - you will not find this stuff anywhere outside of Utah, I guarantee it.

The larger the bid, the more I'll throw in. I'll cover shipping to anywhere.

Starting Bid (in USD): 5 GBP (~USD$8)

From:

jazzypom

User Name:
Email address: jazzypom@gmail.com

YM/AIM/Gtalk/ICQ (optional):

I'm offering: A care package from England. Teas, postcards, soap, chocolates. Lemon sherberts - the kind that Dumbledore adores, it seems.

Additional Info (optional): I'll ship anywhere.

Starting Bid: $5

Edited Date: 15 March 2011 00:42 (UTC)

From:

dragonfly

User Name:dragonfly
Email address: dragonfly at mojavedragonfly dot org

I'm offering: Collector's Plate from Firefly

This exquisite artwork (I don't care what Simon thinks) is identical to the plate Kaylee considered buying for Simon in the Firefly episode, "Safe."

In real life, the plate is a painting of Ko-Ching, a character from the eighteenth century Chinese novel, The Dream of Red Mansion. Ko-ching is sitting at her writing desk, holding a long-haired cat.

Fandoms (if appropriate): Firefly

Additional Info (optional): Will come in original box with Bradford Exchange documentation.

Starting Bid: £10

Edited (lowered the starting bid) Date: 16 March 2011 05:29 (UTC)

From:

dragonfly

User Name: dragonfly

Email address: dragonfly at mojavedragonfly dot org

I'm offering: A care package from Wisconsin. All items will be native to Wisconsin. Food items could include, cheese, wine, brats, links, cranberries, jelly, chocolate, maple syrup, honey, cheese curds and beer.

other potential items: collectible cow cards from the Sassy Cow Creamery; the logo from an Ian's Pizza box; Frank Lloyd Wright tourist items; a triangular pin fashioned from the copper of the original roof of the Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeting House of Madison, WI; genuine copper cow bell; small creamer in the shape of a cow; "I heart Ian's" sticker worn by an actual labor protester; pink protest sign saying "Walker your pink slip is coming", worn and wrinkled from being waved at the recent protests; various items bearing the logo of the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers; and various items bearing the logo of Rose Bowl participants, the Wisconsin Badgers.

Special Requests considered: If there's something from Wisconsin you'd particularly like to have, ask and I'll try to include it.

The size of the care package will depend on the amount of the bid.

Additional Info (optional):I'll handle shipping within N. America. Outside N. America, I'll ask the auction winner to split shipping with me.

Starting Bid: £10

From:

cdvla313

User name: cdvla313
E-mail address: cdvla313@aol.com

Alternate contact method (optional): DW PM/cdvla313 on AIM

Offer: A care package of various Broadway/theater related items, which can include Playbills, programs, flyers, small merch items, possibly large merch items/props/costume pieces depending on how much it goes for.

Additional info (if applicable): It'll be a grab bag of shows, but the winner can suggest a couple of specific shows and I'll do my best to include stuff from them. :) You can inquire about what stuff I have, if you're thinking of bidding a high amount

Delivery date/method: Snailmail, um, latest the beginning of May, should be earlier. It might take me a little to get stuff together. Will ship internationally.

Starting bid: 5 GBP

From:

melannen

User Name:

melannen
Email address: user name - at - yahoo.com

I'm offering: For approximately the past ten years, I've been folding paper cranes. I currently have nine-hundred-and-fifty-some, but I've been putting off finishing the thousand because I can't think of anything I want that I'm certain enough about to spend 10 years' worth of wish on it.

If you win this auction, you can e-mail me your wish, and I'll fold the last few dozen cranes and make your wish, then mail them to an address of your choice (you pay postage from the US) or dispose of them in some other way you specify.

Additional Info (optional): The cranes are folded out of scrap paper, mostly small foil candy wrappers, mostly in strings of 25. So they're shiny, but not really decorative, and some of them show the marks of having knocked around with me for ten years and multiple moves. Bid on this for the wish, not the craft, or you might be disappointed.

Also, I reserve the right to decline a wish that is openly malicious or otherwise ethically problematic, at my discretion.

And I make no guarantees whatsoever that any wish will come true.

Starting Bid: £30 ($50)

From:

bookchan

User Name: Bookchan

email: Book _ baby at hotmail

I'm offering:
Care Package from Amsterdam. I'll be taking a couple of day trips to Amsterdam over the next month and I'll put together a package from the places I'm going to be visiting. It'll include stuff from the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank Museum plus post cards, key chains and what ever other random stuff looks like fun.

Fandoms (if appropriate): Art!

Additional Info (optional): I'll pay for shipping and the size of the package will depend on amount the winner bids.

Starting Bid: 10 GDP

Edited Date: 15 March 2011 18:28 (UTC)

From:

deborah

User Name:

deborah
Email address: deborah -at- dreamwidth.org

I'm offering: A signed and/or personalized set of the fantasy novels Graceling and Fire, by Kristin Cashore, English language editions, to the four highest bidders. Kristin will mail them anywhere in the world.

Starting Bid: £11. Please make your donation to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières.

Additional Info (optional): I'm posting this offer on behalf of author Kristin Cashore, who is away from home and unable to do so herself at this time. Kristin doesn't have access to her closet at the moment, so she can't guarantee *which* English language editions (American or U.K., hardcover or paperback) she has available, but it will be one or the other.

Bidders, please indicate if you'd like the books signed or personalized, and if personalized, to what name. The author reserves the right to decorate the title page with stickers of knights in shining armor jousting with fire-breathing chickens.

Edited Date: 15 March 2011 23:18 (UTC)

From:

themockingbird

User name:

themockingbird
Email address: adivaw at gmail dot com
Examples of my work: Example! Please note, as each box is custom-complied, your contents will probably look nothing like this.

I am offering: A mystery box. The winning bidder will let me know his or her likes/dislikes, interests, maybe favorite books or television shows. I will also maybe secretly ask for info from the winner's friend's list. I will take take all this information, go out, and compile a MYSTERY BOX (ooooh), full of various things I think might make my winner smile.

Fandoms (if appropriate): Anything is game, since this box will be personalized, but I am familiar with Burn Notice, Supernatural, Fruits Basket, Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, the BBC's Merlin, Ouran High School Host Club, Naruto, FMA, and most stuff Marvel and DC to name a few things.

Additional Info (optional): On top of being an adept scavenger hunter, I also write, bead, and crochet. I will be incredibly flexible with taking input on what the box might possibly contain (food allergies, can't stand the color purple, etc), but mostly I'm just going to have at. Your Mystery Box will contain at least two personalized-for-you finds, among other goodies, which might include snacks, music, scribbled bits of fanction, books, jewelry, and maybe even a crocheted something, depending on how high the bidding goes.

I will ship anywhere, but I do ask that, in the event the box gets very heavy and I'm shipping far, far away, that we can split the cost of shipping. I would prefer the donation to be to Doctors Without Borders.

Starting bid: 10GPB

From:

raisedbymoogles

User Name:

raisedbymoogles
Email address: literati.knight@gmail.com
AIM: SunstoneWEAPON
Examples of my work: N/A

I'm offering: A box of goodies and merchandise from the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC. Items may include but are not limited to postcards, keychains, Japanese crafts, nonperishable food items like hard candy, and a few pictures of the cherry trees taken by me.

Fandoms (if appropriate): N/A

Additional Info (optional): The festival is from March 26-April 10 this year, so your care package will be sent out sometime around mid-April.

Starting Bid: $20

From:

librariana

User Name:

librariana
Email address: librariana(at)o2.pl

I'm offering: Trinkets (keychains, fridge magnets) and postcards from Cracow/Poland and Munich/Germany. I will send you anything that can fit into the biggest size letter envelope, because packages are ridiculously expensive where I live :/

Starting Bid: £7

From:

shelby_danvers

User Name:

shelby_danvers
Email address: cj.klekowski @ gmail.com

I'm offering: A year's worth of postcards sent from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. That's one per month, plus extras for birthdays or special occasions if you'd like :) Postcards will likely feature local landmarks/events, possibly other Canadian places (I plan on travelling this year), and just general Canadian-ness.

Additional Info (optional): I'll ship anywhere in the world.

Starting Bid: 3GBP

From:

kigan

User Name:

emory
Email address: hakuen at gmail

I'm offering: One six-month Dreamwidth paid account, or equivalent points (175), forwarded to the Dreamwidth user of your choice. If you want it split some way, that's fine with me too, whatever works.

Starting Bid: £5