help_pakistan

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As we have done occasionally in the past, we are stepping outside the boundaries of this comm a little to pimp a very worthy cause, the help_pakistan fandom auction.

Our own ayesakara, author of the beloved Psycho!fic and who lives in Pakistan, posted about this new community in her LJ, but that's the only place, so far, I've seen this comm publicized and so we want to help get the word out here and to ask you all to pimp in your own LJs and comms. There's not a lot of time left for this auction.

The link above gives details about the auction and we're calling on the QAF fandom to help with this effort. Writers, vidders, graphics makers, podcast readers: YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! And for those among us who don't create the art, BID! Creators, offerings will stop Friday (you have until October to finish your offering) and bidding will end Saturday. It's not too late to get in on the action.

And here's a delicious link to the QAF offerings.

To offer a bit of perspective: The United Nations has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.

One thing that's such a gift about being a member of fandom is how we make friends with people all over the world through our shared love for a tv show. How fabulous is it to count up all the countries we could visit and actually know someone to meet for dinner? Our ever-smaller universe needs us all to pitch in when these awful disasters happen. Especially when they're happening right in our friends' backyards! Please help in some way, if you can. Every little bit adds up to a lot of assistance for our friends. ♥