This is Grand. 10x Grand, to be precise.

[neadods]

spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam, spam I'm totally avoiding getting ready for work tomorrow, can't you tell? PS: My review of The Rapture is up on USF.

I may be the only one left following the Ianto charity smackdown, but I thought there ought to be a post to commemorate the passing of the 10,000 pound mark.

Ianto Wants a Pony: 2,025.56 (second highest fundraiser for the charity)
Save Ianto Jones: 8,000.25 (*The* top fundraiser for CiN, according to the Just Giving page)


This is the Best. Idea. Ever. It doesn't matter if Save Ianto actually gets Ianto back (I'm remaining pretty skeptical about there being a Torchwood S4 at all, frankly). The triumph is that it's so easy to be snotty about people who send in coffee or pencils or whatever the "thing" drive is for the fan petition du jour. But there's no possible way to blow off (much less patronizingly blow off) that that much money without pinning on an "I'M AN ASSHOLE, ASK ME HOW" sign on that's so big that even people who don't give a rat's ass about TV will be sneering. You just don't diss charitable donations. You certainly don't diss the contributors to the top two individual fundraisers as dumb, hysterical, unable to handle drama, etc., regardless of the impetus!

I doubt it will bring Ianto back. I doubt there's even going to be any more Torchwood to bring him back to, in tie-ins or on TV. But just for introducing a form of protest that cannot be dismissed, for saving two horses and countless children, for expanding the long-standing connection between fandom and charity - this whole thing should be noted as a Great Moment in Fannish History.

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*The* top fundraiser for CiN, according to the Just Giving page

On a pedantic point: it may be the biggest fundraiser through Just Giving, but it's a long way off being the biggest fundraiser for CiN, which scooped £37 million pounds last year and always cops for some whopping corporate donations. Not to belittle the fundraising at all - eight grand is a lot of money in anyone's book and it's one of the biggest fandom fundraisers I've seen.

I reserve the right to view "Save Ianto!" campaigning as ridiculous at the same time as finding the fundraising awesome. Apart from anything else, I suspect most donors didn't expect it to bring Ianto back at all, and had other reasons for making their donations. I do hope the idea catches on, because it would be nice to think that some good could always come of fannish commotions.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I figured CiN had to have some big corporations behind it - I get the impression Just Giving is just for the individuals who register with them.

Still, being at the top fundraiser of any subsection is not a shabby accomplishment.