{"id":21849,"date":"2016-05-19T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2016-05-19T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:58:37","slug":"butt-my-butt-update-john-chu-and-adam-troy-castro-join-the-600-stretch-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21849","title":{"rendered":"Butt My Butt Update: John Chu and Adam-Troy Castro join the $600 stretch goal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s supporting my Make Lemons into Jokes campaign! For those coming upon it for the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/posteriors-for-5477113\">here&#8217;s my explanation of what it is and why I&#8217;m doing it<\/a>. (Short version: A bigot is using the Hugo Awards to harass me and LGBTQ people, so fuck him. Let\u2019s follow the Scalzi strategy\u2013and raise money for something he hates. In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/lyon-martin.org\/\">Lyon-Martin health services<\/a> for LGBTQ folks.)<\/p>\n<p>We have achieved the $400 stretch goal: &#8220;If You Were a Cuttlefish, My Love.&#8221; I showed it to Mary Robinette Kowal and a few other folks, and she gave me an unintentional blurb: &#8220;I LOVE THIS WITH THE LOVE OF A THOUSAND <span class=\"il\">CUTTLEFISH<\/span> EGGS.&#8221; I hope y&#8217;all enjoy it, too!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re partyway to the $500 stretch goal when Liz Argall will make an original comic in her series&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingswithout.com\/\"> Things Without Arms and Without Legs<\/a>&#8230; and Without Butts?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Socks-need-feet.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1510\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1510 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Socks-need-feet.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Socks need feet!\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Socks-need-feet.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Socks-need-feet.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that John Chu and Adam-Troy Castro will be joining us for the $600 stretch goal &#8212; a round robin story about dinosaurs.\u00a0The other authors\u00a0include me, Brooke Bolander, Ann Leckie, Ken Liu, Juliette Wade, and Alyssa Wong!<\/p>\n<p>Signal boosts appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who&rsquo;s supporting my Make Lemons into Jokes campaign! For those coming upon it for the first time, here&rsquo;s my explanation of what it is and why I&rsquo;m doing it. (Short version: A bigot is using the Hugo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2016\/05\/butt-my-butt-update-john-chu-and-adam-troy-castro-join-the-600-stretch-goal\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-lemons-into-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21850,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions\/21850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}