Live Long And Marry! + Chimera Fancies!

Two awesomely fantastic things are happening on Livejournal today.

One: The auctions over at livelongnmarry have started! Hopefully, everyone has heard about this; if not, it's a number of auctions for the express purpose of raising charitable donations to help defeat the initiative gunning to make same-sex unions in California null, void, and illegal.

There are all sort of cool auctions: get your stories critiqued by pros (such as Elizabeth Bear, Kate Elliot, and Rachel Manija Brown)! participate in an erotica-writing boot camp with Hanne Blank! win a tabby cat hat! get care packages or hand-written letters or custom icon sets or signed books or baked goods... the awesomeness is nearly unlimited. There's even a custom chimera_fancies pendant up for grabs!

That brings me to the second fantastic thing happening on Livejournal today:

A new chimera_fancies sale is going to live!

Any long-term readers of my journal know of these remarkable fairy tale poem-pendants. If you don't, check out my Chimera Fancies tag.

Absolutely not to brag about getting to see some sneak previews, but there are some gorgeous pendants in today's sale. And Mia's doing something new: she's posting the sale in advance of the sale actually going live, which should give people time to browse and pick which ones they want to go for without that frenzied free-for-all fear dogging their browsing. Look for it to go up soon! (The sale opens at 2 PM PST!)

Go forth and buy something shiny!

Chimera Fancies Sale Wrap-Up

Wow. Seriously: wow. The sale over at chimera_fancies was one of the most frenzied free-for-all sales I've seen outside of Christmas season retail. I could say that sale resembles a bone cleanly-picked by the finest pirahna in the Amazon and that wouldn't be much of a stretch.

Mia's work speaks for itself, literally: the poem-pendants are little sirens in the realm of wearable art. I'm so happy that something my friend loves to do is selling so well: she's even scored a feature on a fashion blog!

I threw myself into the fray with her today, gladly helping sort out who got what by virtue of their claims. And now that the furor has died down, I'd like to bring attention to a few pendants still in need of homes:



If you'll click on each pendant above, you'll be taken to the sale they were featured in. In some cases, there are a couple of other pendants still available as well. Browse around and see what beauty you can find!