Today’s theme is auctions. There’s a long post on my races yesterday at the expat life blog, including the rowing club’s auction where I bought some old boat parts. And I need to post a heads-up:
Bidding starts tomorrow on the fandom auction at Live Long & Marry! All benefits go to the fight to keep same-sex marriage legal in CA.
I don’t think the word “fandom” here means anything but “lots of fanfic is on the offering list” and “this was the brainchild of two people heavily involved in fandom”. Stuff offered ranges from original fanfic to jewelry (custom or already made) to signed books (I expect the bidding to be hot and high on the signed copies, directly from the author, of Tam Lin) to services ranging from wardrobe advice to editing. I’d have offered beadwork myself, but shipping is difficult for me so instead I have offered two original poems, a sonnet and a terza rima, on a topic of your choice. All offering posts are tagged by subject (like offered: original poem) and offerer, to make it easier to see what’s available, and bidding is in comments.
This is not my fight, in particular. I don’t care much about laws specific to CA. I’m straight and already married so the results don’t affect me directly. The do affect me indirectly, as part of the freedoms and attitudes of my country. What *is* my fight is civil rights in general in the United States and in the world, and this is a battle in that war. Go look. If it’s your war too, or if you’re just interested in snaffing some of the cool stuff on offer, I hope you will do what you can in the matter of either offering or bidding.