I've been looking through James Gardiner's Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures, and have absolutely fallen in love with one picture. It's a photograph from ca. 1880 of two fifty-ish men who would be the very image of respectability except that one of them is sitting on the other one's knee, and they've got
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Lately, I've been thinking about guns. Not in the real world, where I tend to believe that guns are Bad Things (although I'm not an absolutist on this--I don't think there's anything wrong with using guns to hunt [for food, not for sport]). No, I'm thinking about guns in films and television.
Have any of you read Gyles Brandreth's Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance (UK title Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight MurdersSomebody recced this to me, and I gave it a try because, well, it has Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in it, and together, they fight crime! But I got about fifty pages in and was appalled by the weird coverup of
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So far, livelongnmarry has raised over $10,000 to support marriage equality. ($47.50 of that total was bid on the story I offered, which delights me to no end.)
Like any other kind of human interaction, fandom has its share of bad behavior and nastiness. But it can be pretty damn wonderful, too. We've done some good work here, and kudos to the livelongnmarry mods for making
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But I'd love to make even more money for this very worthy cause. As you'll see if you click the link, there are a lot of fandoms I'm willing to write in, and I'll do my best to create a story you'll really enjoy.
Well, I want to do something for livelongnmarry, and since I can't buy, I guess I'll sell.
One fanfic, 1500 words minimum, boyslash or gen, by October 1. There are a lot of fandoms I can write. For full details and/or to bid, see my post here.
I wish that I didn't have to be extremely careful about money right now, because the bidding has begun at livelongnmarry. There's all kinds of cool stuff for sale--fanfic, professional critiques, jewelry, art, yummy baked goods, lessons in how to read Mayan glyphs (yes, really)--and it's all in support of equal marriage rights for lesbian and gay couples
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When I was a young teen, I was obsessed with the Style Council. (Yes, I know. But I soon became obsessed with the Smiths, and the coolness of that cancels out the, er, not-so-coolness of the former, right? Right
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Over on lgbtfest, there's a post where you can link to past stories you've written about LGBT issues or themes. You can also rec other people's LGBT-themed stories there.
This is a way cool thing.
Please note that not every slash story qualifies; the story should in some way deal with the experience of being LGBT.