[MOD] Updates and new projects!

[acidae.livejournal.com]

You guys are absolutely fantastic. Just wanted to get that out before I say anything else. It's only been one day since we kickstarted the fundraiser here in the community for Japan's disaster relief, and our current amount raised?

$587.39 USD.
How amazing is that? We might even reach $2000 at the rate we're currently going!

Now, some quick notes about the main fundraising post before I move on:

- If you've already paid for something and I have not informed the seller about it yet, please PM or leave me a comment! It gets pretty confusing with all the donations pouring in, and some also come with no notes or are purely donations and not purchases of any services/goods, so it is entirely possible that I might have missed yours by accident.

- Sellers, please don't delete your comments after you've commented on the post! The Masterlist of offers is updated manually by myself, with lullabyeforyou chipping in to help me compile the comments into handy links; more likely than not, we won't notice that you've deleted and reposted your comment, and end up keeping a dead link in the Masterlist because of that. If you have anything to add or fix, please use the edit function if you have a paid account, or simply reply to your own comment with the necessary details.

- Like before with Haiti, I have put up a sticky post on the main page of the community here, and tried something new this time around with a fundraising thermometer widget instead of a text update. I'll try to update it once a day so you guys can also keep track of just how much money we're raising for the cause so far!


Onto the second half of this post!

Since a fair amount of people have expressed interest in selling and/or auctioning off goods with proceeds going towards this fundraiser, I will be waiving the no sales rule in the community for this one occasion to host a local garage sale. It will consist of transactions between fans only, and all proceeds earned from these sales must go towards the fundraiser, or they will not be allowed in the post. The things you sell also do not have to be limited to Arashi-related items, and can range anywhere from secondhand books to KAT-TUN singles to jewelry! I'll be making the official post with all details later tonight, so that will give you some time to do a quick inventory and see if you have anything you might want to donate, and maybe even snap a few pictures for your sales comment.

There is also something very exciting planned in the near future for this fundraising effort that will involve many different contributors in the fandom. I can't divulge much more than that at this point, but do keep an eye out! ♥

Thank you to all of you once again for making this happen, and keep up the awesome work!!

Comments

[i-k-a-h.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is amazing! I am so happy! ♥ I hope we will manage to reach even more. ^^

[thefortysecond.livejournal.com]

Things like these give me hope for the world :)

[username-hannah.livejournal.com]

This community is amazing ♥ I think these kinds of things make us all realise just how amazing it is. I'm so glad we can help, even if it isn't huge ^^

[heartsho.livejournal.com]

Fuuuuu~ Yay Arashi fans! I'm SUPER impressed (and proud) of my fandom right now.I hope we can continue to donate a lot of money. I'm pulling out my wallet right now ^^

[ale-irenear.livejournal.com]

Can you tell me the address where I can donate ??? Directly.

Is it a Paypal account?? I'll really apreciate it !! =)

[acidae.livejournal.com]

Hello! You can donate directly to an organization such as the Red Cross, or you can donate to the fundraiser we are running at arashi.fundraising@gmail.com. Thank you! :)

[yuelnaye.livejournal.com]

amazing!!!!!!

Rainbow power saikooooo
let's keep doing it minna!!!

[birdiieee.livejournal.com]

Oh My God!! You guys are amazing indeed!! &hearts
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Arashi found out about what you guys are doing? :D

I'll prepare something to sell too :)

[dngrslyevl4.livejournal.com]

I am so glad I am a part of this fandom <333

[asweetsymphony.livejournal.com]

Yay! ^__^

[hozrien.livejournal.com]

Wish I could donate ^-^ but yay for our fandom <3

[stormy-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Wow!
That's great! I hope that we'll get even more money til the end of march!
But I'm really impressed...I mean...587.39USD in ONE day?!AWESOME!!
For all the people who're helping out with this and donating money or just praying for the people in japan...Thank you sooo much!

I simply ♥ this community!

[maricha74.livejournal.com]

That's great!
I'm going to donate
Do you have a paypal button or do I have to go directly to my account there?

[acidae.livejournal.com]

Hi there, I just added a donation button to this post (please let me know if it works!) if you'd like to try it that way. Otherwise, you can send directly to arashi.fundraising@gmail.com through Paypal. Thank you! :)

[nxm9473.livejournal.com]

/butting in. IT WORKS! I just tried donating and it went through! Ah~ I'm so happy right now. :)

[maricha74.livejournal.com]

yes it works!!
just made a donation!
my confirmation nr : 0SK19578Y2830354S

[nocturncemetery.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that I AM SO PROUD OF OUR FANDOM!!!! All these money in one day is amazing! Hope we gonna reach 2000$ in few days ^0^

[c-alen.livejournal.com]

OMG!
i'm so proud with this fandom.
thank you for doing this.

[lovein-ice.livejournal.com]

i love the idea of selling things for fundraising!
i actually have a lot of extra Arashi stuff to sell, kinda went crazy during my last trip in Japan =X

[acidae.livejournal.com]

That is a very good question! I was actually stumped by this for a while, trying to figure something out. In the end, though, I think it wouldn't be very feasible to set up something for that. It would be harder to prove who had donated and who hadn't, not to mention it would be near impossible to keep those who hadn't donated from commenting on the post, thinking it's just a normal requests post. That would then turn out a bit unfair for those who did donate, I think...

I'm sorry, but I think at this point your best bet to request scans would be the Masterpost of requests provided by the community. :( Thank you very much for donating though, and I hope you understand!

[acidae.livejournal.com]

Is there something in particular you wanted scanned? I own quite a bit of stuff so I might just have it on hand for scanning. (if it's very recent though you may be out of luck...)

[acidae.livejournal.com]

Ah, I own that! I can definitely try and squeeze some time out to scan that for you once the donation's made.

At the rate things are going, I think I'm going to donate the first $2000 to Red Cross whenever we hit that mark, and then keep collecting money and see how things go from there. It's probably going to run through March and maybe all of April depending on how things go (eg. if people continue to donate, etc.). You can definitely take your time! :)

[aoihikari.livejournal.com]

Please let me know when you put that garage sale post up, at the moment I'm selling items on my personal LJ and on my comm ohno_daily and so far have got $50 worth of bids, but I have an brand new BNMF shirt and used Ohno poster I'll be more than happy to auction off to this cause! 8D

[aoihikari.livejournal.com]

ps: also would you be willing to share the code for the donate link so I can spam it on my various comms too? :3?

[acidae.livejournal.com]

Not at all! I'm currently working on that post, so it should hopefully be up within the hour. Here is the code for the donation button, by the way:

<center><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"><input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="B6AWUR8CGPDY6"><input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form></center>

You should be able to just copy and paste directly (provided I didn't mess up the coding...). Thank you! :)

[acidae.livejournal.com]

Hi there! The sales post is up now, so you can leave a comment there whenever you're free. Sorry for the delay!

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/3749990.html

[aoihikari.livejournal.com]

thank you! posting now. :3

[sandreen.livejournal.com]

Mod, you are awesome! :) No other community I know is doing something like this. :)

This is wonderful

[kurayami-sama.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this.
I already donated as much money as I can afford to before this started but this is really wonderful.

[valentinekent.livejournal.com]

Everyone needs to seriously thank the mod for organizing something this well put-together and helpful. Huge kudos to you! :D

[tashiichan.livejournal.com]

THIS.

Amy, you are amazing for organising this so promptly and efficiently. You would make Arashi themselves proud. THANK YOU. <3

[tonieboo0013.livejournal.com]

This fandom is full of so many generous people. I can't believed we donated over $500 in one day. I haven't even put in my donation yet, and I'm sure there are more like me out there.

Let's keep climbing.

[tashiichan.livejournal.com]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

It's moments like this when I'm just so damn proud of this fandom. It's just so amazing, it makes me want to strive harder in my contributions to the cause.

[shhboombang.livejournal.com]

I'm so proud to be part of a loving and awesome fandom! ♥

[skippiey.livejournal.com]

This fandom is truly awesome ♥

[birdiieee.livejournal.com]

How about ... another update? :D