I'm pleased to announce the first glimpse at Applesauce, the original animated series that catapults queer storytelling to new imaginative heights. Produced by yours truly and Dex Craig, the love of my life, Applesauce will take you throughout space and time in an epic tale spanning from modern-day gay ghettos to the end of the universe.

The series follows Unity and Identity, a pair of 18th century dandies who must protect the universe from threats arcane and wild. Reality is fundamentally unstable, and they must continually mend it to prevent the end of everything.

Without further ado, here's the first two adventures of Unity and Identity! In the first, they must prevent a Celtic legend from ripping apart the galaxy:

And in the second, they must prevent an existentialist from taking his tragic out on the universe:

We're thrilled with the way they turned out. We weren't sure if we had enough computing power to render the sort of visuals we had planned, but the shots came out great. And I love the performances by the voice talent. Unity and Identity are played by the fabulous Don Hardy and the effervescent Brandon Grimaldi. Both worked with us in our previous production, Pandemonium, but unlike that project, we're able to redo the takes dozens of times until every line is exactly right.

Which is just one of the liberating things about animation. There are no limits to the visuals. We were always obsessed with trying to make the effects in Pandemonium "look real", as though objective reality were somehow desirable. In an animation, the audience just accepts that you have two pretentious fags bobbing in space -- and one reclines -- next to the giant BDSM god ripping apart the sun with his bare hands. It's not supposed to look real.

We have two more minute-long teasers on the way, and then we'll begin production on the first full-length episode. We'll be posting our progress right here on DoorQ, so stay tuned!

My husband doesn't play video games. He gets upset when I monopolize the big screen TV with hours of first-person shooting. He doesn't understand how I can possibly gain such spiritual bliss from levelling up my Mysticism skill, or why I really, truly needed to Catch Them All.

My husband doesn't play video games. He does, however, play Super Mario Galaxy. In fact we play it together, because some genius at Nintendo realized that my marriage was at stake, and wanted to help. Super Mario Galaxy includes a co-op multiplayer mode, in which one player -- the gamer, if you will -- controls Mario, and the other player -- the widower -- controls essentially everything else.

The key thing that makes this work is that there is nothing, absolutely nothing that the second player can do to actually hurt the first player. My other half has a blast waving the Wiimote around and shooting gay-ass rainbow wonder stars at bad guys, I have a blast because, you know, Mario, and everyone's happy except the divorce lawyers.

Also I had to smile when I heard Dex squeal with joy: "OMG! He turned into a bee!"

Yes, dear, yes he did. You heard it here first: the family that games together stays together. Thank you, Nintendo. Thank you.

But it's not all about me. doorq.com has brought together an amazing group of talented writers, animators, filmmakers and more. In this day and age, there's nothing stopping anyone from making a queer anime, a lesbian space opera or a horror flick in which the transgendered character is the hero, not the enemy. Our community's culture has been stuck on planet Earth for too long -- let's let our imaginations soar.

I'll also be writing up reviews of other queer genre projects, such as the wonderfully microbudget gay horror flick The Sacrifice, so stay tuned. Meanwhile pick up a camera, start a blog or a comic strip -- I want to see what you have to share in this technosnazzy age.