Live Long and Marry

lady_ganesh and I have created livelongnmarry, a fandom fundraising auction for marriage equality. It went live today, and you may sign up now. Bidding opens July 1, and closes July 15.

Live Long and Marry will raise funds to fight the discriminatory anti-marriage bill which will be on the California, USA ballot in November. Right now same sex couples can legally marry in California. If this bill passes, it will legally destroy those marriages without the consent of the married couples.

Including George Takei's! Look at him and Brad in my icon: aren't they happy and sweet? They deserve to have their love and commitment and responsibilities to their relationship legally safeguarded and acknowledged. And so do all other married couples.

You can help! Here's how you can:

1. Spread the word! Please publicize and link to the community.

2. Bid! Amazing goodies will be offered, such as fanfic, original fic, art, cookies, and much more! We have gorgeous jewelry, signed novels by Martha Wells and Steve Berman, an art commission from telophase, and much more!

3. Sell! Offer something you can give, and help raise money for a truly joyous cause. Detailed directions for making a selling post are in the user info.

If you want to sell, PLEASE announce it on your own LJ as well, so your friends will know you're offering something.


Thanks to musesfool, octopedingenue, astolat, lithium_doll, janni, sartorias, and kate_nepveu for their pre-launch advice and support.

Live Long and Marry

lady_ganesh and I have created livelongnmarry, a fandom fundraising auction for marriage equality. It went live today, and you may sign up now. Bidding opens July 1, and closes July 15.

Live Long and Marry will raise funds to fight the discriminatory anti-marriage bill which will be on the California, USA ballot in November. Right now same sex couples can legally marry in California. If this bill passes, it will legally destroy those marriages without the consent of the married couples.

Including George Takei's! Look at him and Brad in my icon: aren't they happy and sweet? They deserve to have their love and commitment and responsibilities to their relationship legally safeguarded and acknowledged. And so do all other married couples.

You can help! Here's how you can:

1. Spread the word! Please publicize and link to the community.

2. Bid! Amazing goodies will be offered, such as fanfic, original fic, art, cookies, and much more! We have gorgeous jewelry, signed novels by Martha Wells and Steve Berman, an art commission from telophase, and much more!

3. Sell! Offer something you can give, and help raise money for a truly joyous cause. Detailed directions for making a selling post are in the user info.

If you want to sell, PLEASE announce it on your own LJ as well, so your friends will know you're offering something.


Thanks to musesfool, octopedingenue, astolat, lithium_doll, janni, sartorias, and kate_nepveu for their pre-launch advice and support.

Vassalord, by Nanae Chrono

I can't improve upon Tokyopop's back cover blurb for the hilariously nutso manga: Charley, a cyborg vampire who does the Vatican's dirty work, is the thrall of the local vampire playboy Johnny Rayflo.

Chapter one, "The Confined Elagabalus," opens with a flurry of incomprehensible action concluding with this exchange:

Vampire playboy, dripping with God knows what liquid and impaled on a crucifix: "Hey, Cherry."

Cyborg vampire, also dripping with God knows what: "My name is Charley."

The panel layout and action sequences continue to be intermittently incomprehensible, but basically Charley and Johnny are vampire vampire hunters, sort of, who live in sin together in Sacramento, which in this world is apparently a suburb of Los Angeles. There's a cyborg dog, or maybe he just wears a cape. A cross falls on a vampire priest and squashes him flat. There is an evil group of demonic, blasphemous, vampire Unitarians.

This was quite fun and funny, not to mention slightly gross, moderately sexy, and totally insane, and I'm definitely reading the next volume. The omake at the end, in which the mangaka explains the inspiration, is nearly worth the price of the book. So is the lunatic plot twist toward the end.

The mangaka clearly knows exactly how ridiculous this all is, and much of the comedy is deliberate. Possibly all of it, though I have my doubts about Sacramento.

Vassalord, by Nanae Chrono

I can't improve upon Tokyopop's back cover blurb for the hilariously nutso manga: Charley, a cyborg vampire who does the Vatican's dirty work, is the thrall of the local vampire playboy Johnny Rayflo.

Chapter one, "The Confined Elagabalus," opens with a flurry of incomprehensible action concluding with this exchange:

Vampire playboy, dripping with God knows what liquid and impaled on a crucifix: "Hey, Cherry."

Cyborg vampire, also dripping with God knows what: "My name is Charley."

The panel layout and action sequences continue to be intermittently incomprehensible, but basically Charley and Johnny are vampire vampire hunters, sort of, who live in sin together in Sacramento, which in this world is apparently a suburb of Los Angeles. There's a cyborg dog, or maybe he just wears a cape. A cross falls on a vampire priest and squashes him flat. There is an evil group of demonic, blasphemous, vampire Unitarians.

This was quite fun and funny, not to mention slightly gross, moderately sexy, and totally insane, and I'm definitely reading the next volume. The omake at the end, in which the mangaka explains the inspiration, is nearly worth the price of the book. So is the lunatic plot twist toward the end.

The mangaka clearly knows exactly how ridiculous this all is, and much of the comedy is deliberate. Possibly all of it, though I have my doubts about Sacramento.