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prismatic-bell:

So after talking to a few people, AN EVENT WILL OCCUR.

This Thursday (30 April 2020) at 12pm MST/3pm EST/7pm GMT, I will be livestreaming a reading of GOOD OMENS by @neil-gaiman​ and Terry Pratchett (GNU) to fundraise for the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 relief and research efforts.

HERE’S YOUR INFO:

Who? Me. Where? My YouTube channel, right here. When? The reading will be Thursday, but the donations start first. Why? Because I’m going crazy in quarantine, you probably are too, and extra money to the WHO will save a lot of lives and also maybe, possibly, shorten the period in which I cannot find laundry detergent because of hoarders. Also, Trump just pulled all US funding from the WHO. So like … they could really use it right now.

HOW THIS WORKS:

1) Donate any amount you like to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Response Fund. (The link will take you directly to the relevant page.) PLEASE NOTE I WILL NEVER TOUCH YOUR MONEY. Your donation goes directly from you to the WHO.

2) You should get a thank-you email that will (probably) say it can be used for tax purposes or “should be retained for your records” or something similar. It will include the amount of your donation. Screenshot it.

3) Use the photo-editing software of your choice to black out your identifying information (any credit card info, your real address, your name, etc.); the only things I need to see is your email address as the recipient, and the donation amount.

4) Send your edited page to covidcharityevent@hotmail.com. (Yes, I made a Hotmail address in the year of our Lord 2020 just so I wouldn’t have to log out of my primary email. Bite me.)

5) I will tally up the donations received by 12pm MST (my time zone) on Thursday. Every $10 USD equals one page read. If you donate in another currency, I am aware Google exists and is free and I can convert it to USD. (Since the most likely “another currency” is euros, I did the math: we’re within just a couple of cents of being identical right now. $10 is about €9,20.)

6) You can continue to donate past this point until one of two things happens: either I have stopped reading for more than an hour due to lack of donations, or I finish the book. (You can also donate after that and it’d be really rad, but I can’t exactly make up more pages.) I will stop for ten minutes every hour-ish, at the end of a chapter, for stuff like bathroom breaks and obtaining additional beverages, because reading aloud is thirsty work, and to update the donation total.

7) The total minimum amount to finish my edition of the book is $3 960 USD. Yes, if we hit that amount I will keep reading until I finish the whole thing–no matter how long it takes. You don’t have to donate in order to listen in, but if you can that’d be really bomb.

8) Yes, I will probably do voices, even if I don’t intend to. It’s how I read in my head and if I go on long enough it comes out when I read aloud, too.

9) This project is made possible by @neil-gaiman​ being a generous angel and giving his express permission for people to read his work publicly, as long as it’s for free.

10) Please REBLOG, tweet, throw this on your IG, share it with everyone you know, and spread the word to reach the goal!

#letsreadgoodomens!

This is such a nice thing! Donate, join the reading spreez and let’s have a tiny bit of fun (or maybe lots of fun?!)

(via prismatic-bell)