#1- http://www.specktra.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29206
you already have these benefits, as you are already a donor. the paid subscriptions is just another method of donating to the site, this being a script which comes built in with the forum
#2- these are just fan-groups for those two collections. More may be made in the future. They came from the discussion about the speed at which color stories are released.