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We started our Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraiser on the first day of Summer 2025, and I'm proud to say that we have managed to reach - and surpass - our goal!

Over the last three weeks, generous donors have stepped forward and together, we have raised $2,187.46 - almost 10% above our goal!  We should be in good form for the next year, but the fundraiser will continue in case anyone wants to donate, with the chance to get either a sticker (with $10 minimum donation) or a t-shirt (with a minimum $100 donation).

Thank you to everyone who has donated, ensuring we can cover our expenses for the next year.  And for those of you who have donated, we will be in touch with outstanding questions like addresses and shirt sizes.

It's Summer here in North America, and that means Squidge's annual fundraiser is kicking off!  Once a year we raise funds to get us through until the next year, with a goal of at least $2,000.  Can we do it again this year?

The theme of this Summer's fundraiser is "Summer Sleepaway Camp" - so let's get camping, shall we?  And to go with that theme, we'll be offering t-shirts and stickers for those that donate.  If you donate at least $10, you'll get a sticker, and if you donate at least $100, you'll get a t-shirt.  And what, pray tell, is the giveaway image?

   

There you go!  You actually have two choices - either one with the tagline, "...and there was only one bed!" and one without the tagline for those that want to keep a bit of mystery about the shirt.  The fundraising is going to continue all Summer long here, and if you can contribute, we'll gladly send you your fundraising gift(s).

You can donate by using PayPal and sending money to donations@squidge.org or by clicking the yellow donate button here:

Thank you for being a part of Squidge.org, and let's make this our best fundraising year so far!

Something crashed at the ISP and the entire network is down. No current ETA. 

Apparently our ISP, Ziply Fiber, is having intermittent outages in the Pacific Northwest.  We had a 45 minute downtime earlier, and a 15 minute downtime just now.  If you can't access any Squidge.org services with the exception of FenRecs.com (which is remote hosted) then please wait a bit and then retry.  Sorry, but this seems to be out of our control.

As always, you can open a trouble ticket by clicking here if you see something amiss.

We attempted an upgrade (a one-click, no mess upgrade which bombed) to get around a defect, but it bombed last night and no amount of pleading and prodding would get it to work. So this morning we're live on the older version of our image hosting software and things are back up.  If you see issues, please let us know.

About an hour ago we went down for about 20 minutes, but things should be up and running smoothly now.  We had a power issue (electrician is testing some things) so we had to flip the breaker.  And while most items are protected via battery backup, one of our systems blurped and didn't automatically come back up.  We're good to go now, though.  But if you see any issues, don't hesitate to contact us.  Thanks!

We've come up with a theme for our annual Summer fundraiser, but in order to bring our thoughts to fruition, we need someone who has some illustration experience. What we're looking for is a cartoonish-like cabin at night (here's a Shutterstock picture for reference).  And while this is for fundraising, we can't pay all that much.  But if you've got experience and would like to help out, please reach out to us - either here or you can reach me at boardwalter@squidgellc.org

Thank you - and keep on Squidge'n!

Squidge.org is proud to bring you FenRecs.com - a new site that's designed to share fanfiction and other fanworks recommendations, as well as places for community discussion, from writing advice to beta requests to fandom and pairing recommendations.  The site uses open-source software called Lemmy, and it is designed to be much like Reddit.  If you don't know what Reddit is, it's a website that allows people to have different communities (subreddits) where they share things - from pictures to news to stories.

For privacy reasons, you won't be able to access FenRecs.com unless you have an account.  This seems to be the best way to keep people's privacy requests fulfilled.  The site allows you to block other accounts, but the one thing it does not have (at least at the moment) is tags.  So you cannot search for or add tags to posts, nor can you block tags.  We'll be continuing to research and see if we can add this in the future.  Additionally, there is the ability to have downvotes for posts, but it is disabled at the current time.  If and when the site rollout goes smoothly, downvotes may be rolled out as well.

If you are familiar with Reddit, then FenRecs.com will be second nature to you.  You'll find Fic Recs and other discussions that you can upvote.  A post with lots of upvotes will mean to the casual visitor that this is a fic that many people like.  A post with fewer upvotes doesn't mean the work is any less valuable than a higher upvoted fic.  It just means that not enough people have red it to recommend it.

User registration is going to be fully open from 10am Pacific Time until 4pm Pacific Time January 2nd, 2025 - just a six hour period.  We're doing this because we do need an influx of people to come in, poke around, create some communities, and add in some fic recs and/or other discussions.  After 4pm Pacific Time 1/2/25, registration will still be open; however registration will need to be approved by admins.

So head over to FenRecs.com and show fen some love with discussion and recs!

Questions?  You can leave a message here, or drop us a support request.

Like just about every other non-profit out there - and quite a few for-profit corporations that are trying to hijack Giving Tuesday into a capitlistic way of selling more junk - we're here to tell you that it's Giving Tuesday. Today is supposed to be about supporting non-profits that make a difference in your life.

We're just one non-profit organization in an ocean of other organizations asking for support. And if you could, that would definitely help us out. So if you have a buck or two, please consider donating this Giving Tuesday to us by clicking here, or if you're logged into your PayPal account, you can simply send a donation to donations@squidge.org

Thank you for considering Squidge.org this Giving Tuesday!

Please note that due to an influx of bad agents, signups for Squidge Images are temporarily disabled.

Yeah, I wish we didn't have to do it, either.  But because of people not in fandom who are trying to use anonymous hosting for non-fandom things like rape/snuff images and for-sale/commercial listings, we've shut down signups.  The only way to get an account at the moment is to submit a ticket to us, asking for an account at Squidge Images.

Thanks for understanding.