Two More for the After Dinner Crowd
We’re well past the $13,000 mark with four and a half hours to go! Every time I try to predict how much we’re going to make, y’all blow right through it. I thought $10K was a long shot, and then today I was thinking it would be awesome if we could hit $12.5K.
At this point, I’m not even going to try to guess whether or not we’ll make it to the $15,000 goal. I’m just going to say thank you and put up another pair of cover poses.
The fundraiser runs through midnight tonight!
First up, we have Twisted by the delightful Jennifer Estep. This pic nicely demonstrates both the boobs-and-butt pose and the foreheadectomy epidemic sweeping the genre.
I also did my best to match the anthology Fangs for the Mammaries, edited by Esther Friesner. I was delighted to have a story in an earlier volume in this series. Friesner puts together such fun stuff.
I definitely didn’t get the angle right in this one, but it was the best I could do without a much bigger box. I’m just sad the pink fangs don’t show up more clearly.
Mel
December 31, 2012 @ 7:20 pm
Double-sided tape. Yep.
The first one would ave been even more perfect with just a tiny rotation to the left.
Lise
December 31, 2012 @ 8:26 pm
Love the Purina (I presume cat food) box! I can’t tell what the bracelets are in the top one, though. Tape?
R. Mike
December 31, 2012 @ 8:29 pm
Based on the comments by the Molotov Cocktease cosplayer Mrs. Mars, I’m guessing tape is what’s holding that shirt on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/themsmars/2758313411/
Jim C. Hines
December 31, 2012 @ 8:35 pm
One is a leather bracelet my son made, and the other is a string-woven one my wife got at a convention.
Jaws
December 31, 2012 @ 8:54 pm
No, it’s obviously hooks onto nipple rings.
Oops, I guess not… unless the shirt’s Clooney-in-Batmanesque protruberances are falsies…
Michelle
December 31, 2012 @ 9:20 pm
Love the little smiley on your hand in the top one. It’s all in the details.
What’s the knife equivalent though? A torch? It looks like there’s a wire coming out of the top…
Jim C. Hines
December 31, 2012 @ 9:27 pm
Lightsaber hilt 🙂
Michelle
December 31, 2012 @ 9:37 pm
Aah. Very nice. 🙂
Lee Martindale
December 31, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
Spirit gum, says she who popped out of her Aldonza costume during dress rehearsal and was met in the wings by the wardrobe mistress with a large bottle of the stuff.
Julie
December 31, 2012 @ 10:44 pm
The Jennifer Estep cover is a reverse-Wilson! Love it, Jim. 🙂
Jayle Enn
January 1, 2013 @ 1:51 am
I’m not the only one who misread the ‘shirt’ in the lower right image as something else, right?
Also, whichever adventuring party ends up staking that vampire will find a century’s supply of Nolzur’s Marvelous Glue-Pots.
SDScattergood
January 1, 2013 @ 2:44 am
I’d love to see you rocking some model trains in the background–the smiley face is indeed a fine touch.
IT
January 1, 2013 @ 12:02 pm
I honestly read that caption as ‘how does this shit even work?’ and my honest response was ‘I have no idea, sorry’.
My lower back is on fire just looking at some of those poses. I think I’ve managed that position once, in the process of stretching. Oi.
Jim C. Hines
January 1, 2013 @ 12:09 pm
That would have been an appropriate caption too 🙂
Jim C. Hines
January 1, 2013 @ 12:09 pm
Thanks! I’m very glad someone noticed and appreciated the smiley 🙂
bibliphage
January 2, 2013 @ 9:12 am
I’m rather curious about the final total. I don’t suppose you’d mind sharing when you get a chance?
Jim C. Hines
January 2, 2013 @ 9:16 am
The main fundraiser page has the final total of $15,271.11.
I’ve got a few more things that will hopefully bring the ASF a little more money in coming days, but that was the official total at the end of the December fundraiser.
Denisetwin
January 2, 2013 @ 2:33 pm
Smiley face totally wins! You really did great with the Twisted pose, best match to date I think!
Dawn
January 2, 2013 @ 5:36 pm
They make a kind of fashion tape (same idea as double-sided tape) that would do it. I will refrain from making other observations on the impossibility of her wardrobe. Love the fangs, the “coffin” and the smiley face!
Great news on the final total!
Christine A. Hook
January 2, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
I don’t know what I like more…the smiley face on the palm of your hand in the first photo, or the fact that you’re sitting in a Purina cat food box in the second. Thank you for the laughs!!!
Random Michelle
January 2, 2013 @ 7:44 pm
HOLY CARP! SOMEONE WORE THAT SHIRT (minus the strings)! IN PUBLIC!
http://gofugyourself.com/american-fugdol-2-01-2013
From the looks of that picture, the answer is Very Strong Tape.