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You’re quietly walking toward maybe:fiction with curiosity and care. This tier helps keep the light on — and you’ll be the first to know what’s unfolding.

Run Into Each Other Friend

You believe in maybe:fiction and want to see it grow. You smash cake into a friend’s face — lovingly and for that, you’ll receive a free workshop per year and physical copies of any and all storybooks released during the season.

A Sweet Kisser

You’re fully inside the maybe:fiction universe now. So much so that your skin is turning purple, pink, or blue.
Along with all previous perks, you’ll receive:
	•	A printed photobook of maybe:fiction happenings
	•	A hand-drawn Zorlop (made collaboratively with your input)
	•	A private consultation and support about how to throw a more whimsical or artistic birthday, party, or any event really.

Zorlop

You believe in slower streets, intimate art, and making your neighborhood a little weirder.

Neighborhood Co-operator

You’re not just along for the ride — you’re blowing up the balloons. You want to help grow maybe:fiction and see what it turns into, and your name (or your cozy little org) will appear in our storybook of sponsors.

Neighborhood Co-producer

You cannot bear a world where the mundane doesn't touch the whimsical. You want people running into each other every day, throwing water balloons at one another, and studying strange artifacts that might teleport them to new universes. Your name will glow softly across our projects, woven into every season.

Neighborhood Co-conspirator

<h2>💸 What you’re funding</h2>In 2025, your support is helping launch maybe:fiction studios and it's debut project: season 1: when a friend knocks — produced by studio founder, Ishaan (and many more co-operators).  But this is just the beginning. Your support also helps:<ul><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Sustain Ishaan's ongoing fiction, illustration, and community organizing</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Monthly creative workshops, gatherings, and other experiments</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Future support for other artists and gatherers whose work fits the maybe:fiction ethos</li></ul>This isn’t just about funding art. It’s about sustaining a different way of making — and gathering. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1747781640/wysiwyg/nvzdbkrodseyjjl6hkps.jpg" style="width:326px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> <h2>🌀 What is maybe:fiction?</h2>maybe:fiction is an arts studio for real-world interactive experiences — we make things that are bottom-up, co-operative, improvisational, not overly precious, and anti-spectatorial. Based in Brooklyn, we create stories and events that invite you not just to watch — but to step inside. Today, its spirit lives in my <a href="https://www.notion.so/1e3ef7faca8e80e2898ffed97071935e?pvs=21" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">fiction</a> and <a href="https://www.notion.so/1dcef7faca8e80d0839ff4c74246cbc5?pvs=21" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">illustrations</a>— and through <a href="https://www.notion.so/1dcef7faca8e8055963ec320545949fa?pvs=21" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">community gatherings</a> where people create and share together in playful, experimental ways. You can see some of that past work <a href="https://www.notion.so/Hey-it-s-just-ishaan-1dcef7faca8e8088baf9d6f04580bed6?pvs=21" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">here</a>. <hr /><h2>📖 About Season 1: </h2><h2>when a friend knocks</h2>Season 1 is a real-life anthology of fiction and experience:<ol><li style="box-sizing:inherit">The Stories: Five short stories exploring whimsy, togetherness, intimacy, enchantment, and legacy — to be self-published in Fall 2025</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">The Episodes: Public, participatory events that bring each story to life — imperfectly, communally, and in the flesh</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">The Finale: A gallery, a museum, or maybe just a room full of leftovers — remnants and traces of what we made together</li></ol><hr /><h2>🧭 What makes maybe:fiction different</h2><ul><li style="box-sizing:inherit">No attention economy. We fundraise and share through human ways — flyers, conversations, quiet invitations. No endless scrolls.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Physical presence required. The work lives in the world, not on a screen. You’ve just got to be there.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">You’re a participant. No spectators. You’ll write, build, draw, search, share. You’re part of the fiction.</li></ul><hr /><h2>🌍 Why “when a friend knocks”?</h2>it’s a nod to a world that expired. a friend showing up at your door just to ask if you wanted to play basketball. what else was there even to do? computers were chunky cubes, more for reference than immersion. assigned to schools, libraries, offices, homes — not humans. the most entertaining app on your phone (if you even had one) was a little red ball that bounced through tunnels and over spikes. TV shows couldn’t be consumed in one big gulp. when a friend knocks isn’t a way to bring that world back but just a reminder that it existed once, that we can still feel its textures, and  live in it, just a little, for small grasps of time.<h1> </h1>

Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;display:inline-block;margin:0px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name , Thank you for becoming a monthly supporter of maybe:fiction. Your support helps to build this thing slowly, beautifully, and on our own whimsical terms. We get to say yes to messy stories, real-world rituals, neighborhood experiments, and art that doesn’t need to go viral to be meaningful.  Welcome to the neighborhood,Zorlops <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1747781436/wysiwyg/veqitv9oqsckhjkb8bfo.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" />

💸 What you’re fundingIn 2025, your support is helping launch maybe:fiction studios and it's debut project: season 1: when a friend knocks — produced by studio founder, Ishaan (and many more co-operators).  But this is just the beginning. Your support also helps:<ul><li>Sustain Ishaan's ongoing fiction, illustration, and community organizing</li><li>Monthly creative workshops, gatherings, and other experiments</li><li>Future support for other artists and gatherers whose work fits the maybe:fiction ethos</li></ul>This isn’t just about funding art. It’s about sustaining a different way of making — and gathering. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1747781640/wysiwyg/nvzdbkrodseyjjl6hkps.jpg" style="width:326px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> 🌀 What is maybe:fiction?maybe:fiction is an arts studio for real-world interactive experiences — we make things that are bottom-up, co-operative, improvisational, not overly precious, and anti-spectatorial. Based in Brooklyn, we create stories and events that invite you not just to watch — but to step inside. Today, its spirit lives in my <a href="https://www.notion.so/1e3ef7faca8e80e2898ffed97071935e?pvs=21" target="_blank">fiction</a> and <a href="https://www.notion.so/1dcef7faca8e80d0839ff4c74246cbc5?pvs=21" target="_blank">illustrations</a>— and through <a href="https://www.notion.so/1dcef7faca8e8055963ec320545949fa?pvs=21" target="_blank">community gatherings</a> where people create and share together in playful, experimental ways. You can see some of that past work <a href="https://www.notion.so/Hey-it-s-just-ishaan-1dcef7faca8e8088baf9d6f04580bed6?pvs=21" target="_blank">here</a>. <hr />📖 About Season 1: when a friend knocksSeason 1 is a real-life anthology of fiction and experience:<ol><li>The Stories: Five short stories exploring whimsy, togetherness, intimacy, enchantment, and legacy — to be self-published in Fall 2025</li><li>The Episodes: Public, participatory events that bring each story to life — imperfectly, communally, and in the flesh</li><li>The Finale: A gallery, a museum, or maybe just a room full of leftovers — remnants and traces of what we made together</li></ol><hr />🧭 What makes maybe:fiction different<ul><li>No attention economy. We fundraise and share through human ways — flyers, conversations, quiet invitations. No endless scrolls.</li><li>Physical presence required. The work lives in the world, not on a screen. You’ve just got to be there.</li><li>You’re a participant. No spectators. You’ll write, build, draw, search, share. You’re part of the fiction.</li></ul><hr />🌍 Why “when a friend knocks”?it’s a nod to a world that expired. a friend showing up at your door just to ask if you wanted to play basketball. what else was there even to do? computers were chunky cubes, more for reference than immersion. assigned to schools, libraries, offices, homes — not humans. the most entertaining app on your phone (if you even had one) was a little red ball that bounced through tunnels and over spikes. TV shows couldn’t be consumed in one big gulp. when a friend knocks isn’t a way to bring that world back but just a reminder that it existed once, that we can still feel its textures, and  live in it, just a little, for small grasps of time.

maybe:fiction

Launch maybe:fiction studios and help fund season 1: when a friend knocks

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Free

Run Into Each Other Friend

US$7

A Sweet Kisser

US$15

Zorlop

US$25

Neighborhood Co-operator

US$250

Neighborhood Co-producer

US$500

Neighborhood Co-conspirator

US$1,000

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