I've been waiting TEN years to write this post! AT LAST: 🎉🎁♻️ You can now gift (or receive) patronage. Please make someone's day...or ask for what you'd like! (Patreon)

Hello my loves!

Free and open post.

I've been waiting OVER TEN YEARS to write this feckin' post!!! For REallllll!!!

Greetings from Boston. It's SNOWING. The Brattle Theatre show with Amie McNee was STUPENDOUS and so was the afterparty....thank you all for coming! I'll send up stories and photos soon, and THE FILM CAME OUT GREAT, so you'll all get that as soon as we get it edited up.

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We posted this to the upper tires in beta a few days ago, NOW....IT COMES TO ALL!

TL;DR!!! You can NOW GIFT PATRONAGE to anybody (strangers and old-school patrons alike), The team is setting up a hand-hewn system so you can secret-santa-style bestow patronage to people who would like to get the upper tier perks, but can't afford it. To gift a membership (or memberships), just click here and then hit "gift membership". Reminder to do this on DESKTOP/browser instead of going through the App to avoid additional fees. ;)

If you do it and it works, please please please leave a comment !!!

I love this one from the beta round in particular...and a local friend of mine just bought a year of top-tier patronage for her daughter. I love this. :)

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MORE DETAILS.....and HOW it all WORKS!!

First of all....thank you to the $15+ (and legacy $10+) patrons who helped us BETA this process, and also fills up the patreon gift table with possible gifts.

SO....AT LAST. The team at patreon has officially kicked off a few ways of GIFTING PATRONAGE.

I have literally been asking them to build something like this SINCE GODDAMN 2015!!!!.

It’s such an obvious THING that should be possible … but for credit card and bank and universe reasons the answer was always no no no maybe maybe maybe someday.

IT IS SOMEDAY!!!!!

I've been working with the crew over there at Patreon to figure out how we can best do this, it's slightly complicated, and the tools are still in the works, but we are just gonna go for broke and give it a try!!

Don't forget, patreon is still a growing company, run by human beings, complete with glitches and such.....and they're HERE to hear our feedback, so please please let me know in comments or at patreonhelp@amandapalmer.net if anything's buggy or confusing!!!

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LET'S GO!!! LET’S GIFT!!!!!

This may sound confusing, but it makes sense.

Read slowly!

There are a couple of ways to gift patronage (drawings by me, thank you, thank you, I am multi-talented):

1) You can GIFT PATRONAGE to a specific special person out there, who you know, and who is NEW to my patreon! You can gift a single month, custom months (up to 11 months), or a full year.

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2) OR....you can bestow patronage to a specific person who is ALREADY here. You can either gift them an upgraded membership tier (say, from $5 to $25, so they can get Art in the Mail), OR you can gift them membership AT their tier for a specific period of time. (Note for "legacy" tier members, e.g. the $1 people: if they don't change anything else with their tier during the gifting period, they will resume back at the legacy tier they were previously stationed after the period of the gift. If they somehow change or update their tier during the gifting period, they will lose their legacy tier access.

This is a little bit of a workaround, but it should be okay.)

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3) OR.....you can BE A MAGICAL MYSTERIOUS PATRON-SANTA / BENEFACTOR and give membership (as many as you want!) to a STRANGER…..or STRANGERS. Wheeee!!!! GO FUCKING CRAZY!!! GIVE PATRONAGE TIL YOUR HEART EXPLODES TO UNKNOWN RECIPIENTS!!! 

How will people get the patronage? Glad you asked. Some of the crew on Team AFP are literally going to do this by hand. The team will organize a waiting list of people from all over the world (and from the free membership tier) and we will send the unique gift membership links out BY HAND to people who want them.

To be a santa benefactor: just create a gift, and share the link (or links) with us by emailing it to patreongifting@amandapalmer.net and we can give out the links to interested folks for you. (FUN TIMES!)

NOTE/QUESTION: I am all about transparency....if anyone who gifts WANTS to be thanked/shouted out in a post as a benefactor, that's totally great and we can do a dedicated post. Just let us know when you email us the links.

Technical thing! If you purchase a gift through the app, the App Store adds a whole bunch of fees - so make sure to use your browser instead and just go to http://patreon.com/amandapalmer/ and purchase directly from there!

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Note: when we post this to the FREE MEMBERS and any of them wanna put a hand up to receive a surprise membership from one of the more generous patrons here, they will be asked submit this form.

Here are some more detailed instructions from Patreon if this is at all….confusing. Or comment here and we will be checking all day today and tomorrow. We will make a bigger post to the whole Patreon in a couple days and if any of you have been generous enough to secret santa, there will be gifting to give!!!!

OK, GO!!!!

To gift a membership (or memberships), just click here and then hit "gift membership!" Reminder to do this instead of going through the App Store to avoid additional fees ;)

If something doesn’t work, comment!! Ask!!

We are here, reading!!!!!!

X

Amanda (and Team AFP!)

P.S. the artist at work.....thank you, thank you.....

Reminder that my LAST SHOW of the year is December 19th at The Magic Room in Norwood, MA: THIS JUST IN, Bitch is opening up! Tickets are here and selling fast. :)