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hermionesviolin posted: Massachusetts Universal Voting Restoration

For anyone registered to vote in Massachusetts -- you can sign up to get reminded when it's time to officially sign papers to put on the Massachusetts ballot a measure to repeal the Massachusetts constitutional amendment that took the right to vote away from people serving felony sentences.

From an email from Progressive Mass:
Unlock Democracy in Massachusetts

In 2000, Massachusetts passed a constitutional amendment that took away voting rights from people incarcerated for a felony conviction. This stripping of rights was in response to political organizing happening in prison. The Empowering Descendant Communities to Unlock Democracy project and allies aim to get voting rights restoration on the statewide ballot. If you are a registered voter in Massachusetts, please take a minute to fill out our pledge form now: https://tinyurl.com/uvrpledge. Once the Attorney General approves the language, organizers will reach out to those who filled out the pledge with dates/locations for nearby signature collection efforts.

The EDC to Unlock Democracy is is committed to ensuring that democracy does not stop at prisons and jails in Massachusetts. It is a collaborative project between the Democracy Behind Bars Coalition, the African American Coalition Committee at MCI-Norfolk, Healing our Land, Inc., and more. To get in touch email EDCtoUnlockDemocracyMA@gmail.com.

desertvixen

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ruric

More progress!

Yesterday I did a tip run with a full car - 10 bags of rubbish, a load of paper and cardboard, a bag of tins and some sadly deceased houseplants and soil.

I've booked 2 more tip runs on Saturday and Sunday morning - to keep the momentum going!

I've scanned a whole load of old toiletries - 39 items - to the Boots (a local pharmacy for non-UK folks) Scan to Recycle scheme. When you recycle 5 items and spend £10 you get a bunch of loyalty points which can be used for future purchases - you can only do 1 drop of 5 items per day to get points. So I have 8 days (plus £80) of spending to get those points. The small bag of recycling will live in my car and over the next couple of months I should work through it without having to do 'extra' spending to qualify. Which means by Xmas I should have a bunch of loyalty points to put towards buying some nice scent or just covering spending next year.

EARLY MORNING WINS

* Cat food order (Republic of Cats) placed for mid August delivery
* Cat food order (Untamed) delayed until mid Sept
* Oddbox order tweaked (fortnightly fruit and veg delivery)
* Remembered to put plastic/aluminium recycling out for collection (first time in about 8 weeks)!
* Assembled a salad for lunch to take to work
* Packed work bag including all items which need actioning today

I should have just enough cat food left from the stockpile to last until the mid-August delivery and clearing the recycling means the last bit of current clutter from the hall, landing and stairs is gone.

This evening I'm hoping to have enough energy to do a bit of cleaning and continue my digital decluttering.

So far I've managed to get on top my primary and secondary incoming email (after a purge last week) though there are still a few items to delete or file in my inboxes. The big issue is I've had my primary Gmail account for 20 or so years and there's a whole load of archived email in sub-folders that I need to check, save to Dropbox if critical or delete. I think I need to dedicate 15-30 mins a day to start working through these - they might then be sorted by Xmas.

And then there's the rest of the digital cluttering- downloads and pictures but that's a problem for future me.

Work goals for today/tomorrow

* get both inboxes up to date
* complete outstanding tasks from incoming email
* make a plan to finish issuing inspection notices this week
* book September inspections in diary
* cemetery rep to schedule meeting/cemetery site emails

Time to hop in the shower and head out!

doranwen

updated 2025-08-04

This post is my complete list of recs for FBI: Most Wanted through Season 2, organized by time in canon (and then sorted by length). (For FBI: Most Wanted recs organized by ship & author instead, go here.) Note that any of Bastet5's fics in the lists below are for their series The Wild Hunt and may be confusing if you aren't reading the series in order.

I haven't watched any of Season 3 onwards yet, so I won't be adding any fics to this until I do. (I will endeavor to keep any ongoing fics updated as new chapters are posted, however.)

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

The fics below all have major ship(s) listed beneath them. If there are any minor/background ships you want to avoid, please leave a comment and ask for a list to be made for you. Note that ships may refer to one-sided or unrequited ones as well as to requited/mutual.

Below are the recs:

( 1x01 )

( 1x02 )

( 1x03 )

( 1x04 )

( 1x05 )

( 1x09 )

( 1x10 )

( 1x11 )

( 1x12 )

( 1x13 )

( 1x14 )

( 2x01 )

( 2x03 )

( 2x15 )

( backdoor pilot )

( indeterminate )

( multi )

( post-S1 )

( pre-series )

( S1 )

( S2 )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

ruric

Having stepped over, around or turned a blind eye to the chaos immediately around me I spent a chunk of last week wrestling a semblance of order into parts of the flat.

I've surfaced cleaned and tidied my kitchen. The small bag of items to sort as part of the Boots Scan to Recycle scheme has been emptied and scanned and most items will be dropped off today (with the pending ones going either tomorrow or Wednesday). The other small bag of misc stuff has also been sorted, put away or chucked. My kitchen floor is clear of trip hazards, my work surfaces are cleared and I have a meal plan and a fridge, fruit and veg bowl full of healthy and nourishing food. The kitchen will have a deep clean in my first week off work.

I've also emptied and sorted 5 boxes of stuff and 2 bags of items that were cluttering up my hall, landing and stairs and audited my cat food stash so I can unfreeze my subscription. The cats get Untamed and Republic of Cats on alternate month subscriptions but yours truly stuffed something up a while back and I ended up with a 3.5 month stockpile! This has mostly been eaten so today I'll unfreeze one order to arrive mid-month and set the other to come in around mid September and then I should be back on track.

Now the boxes and bags have gone I can once again get into and out of the flat without having to shimmy past various obstacles. Alas my recycling box for plastics doth floweth over so I need to see if I can take any of those to the tip this lunchtime.

I spent quite a bit of time over the weekend deep cleaning the bathroom and now it sparkles and smells delightful and I have uncovered a bunch of bath bombs, lotions and potions and will be indulging like a hedonist for the whole month. I am fully embracing the concept of Use The Nice Things (*whispers* before the apocalypse comes).

Whilst cleaning the bathroom I realised there are 4 things I do need to do before autumn/winter sets in:

1. Book a service for the boiler. It's been behaving a bit oddly over summer (hot water cutting out mid-shower then coming back on again) and I think it may need a new pump.

2. Couple of minor plumbing tasks in the bathroom: I think the seal between the cistern and where it rests on the top of the loo may be showing some wear and tear and there's an issue with the pipe coming from the sink too (another minor leak). I'm debating whether to put on my big girl pants and You Tube a solution or whether it would be a better use of my time and way less stressful to just pay a plumber.

3. The outside of the stable door from the bathroom to the back garden needs sanding, staining and varnishing. I forgot to do it last year and it now looks rather sad.

4. Similarly the front door and front gate could do with a coat of paint before the rain starts!

I do need to review my To Do List of Doom - there were 300+ tasks on it in January. Some of those have been done but it's long overdue a proper review.

I'm currently 8 days into #Project65Days - seeing how many things I can get done before the end of September (current goal do 4 things a day) when hibernation mode sets in and I don't want to do anything apart from be a sloth until March!

Onwards and upwards - I have the morning off, a tip run at lunchtime and then will be working afternoon through evening. Time to get a wiggle on.

ruric

Today I thought I should update DW as I've been MIA for a couple of months only to find my last entry was 2 February.

Apparently I have been reading but not really posting or commenting. Put it down to the fact that when things are pants I direct my rage via other more pulic platforms and have spent a lot of time over the last few months signing all the petitions, sending money when I can to places where I think it might have the most effect and writing increasingly pissed off letters to my MPs and councillors.

For my own sanity I think I need to have one online space which strives for a sense of normality and that's going to be DW. Everything else is over on my Twitter, Threads and Insta accounts.

In a brief catch up what I have I been doing since February? Working and possibly doing so excessively from March through to last week as (a) spring/summer are my busy seasons and (b) there's a lot of change going on. At one point I was about 100+ hours in-hand with flexi time (it's a lot less now). I've spent some time on the allotment, less time in the garden and the flat is still chaos.

On the plus side I am getting to grips with the flat after 5 months of ignoring or stepping over or around things, the allotment doesn't look too bad and I have a plan to whip the garden into shape this month.

I've got two weeks booked off (15 August to 1 September) and the plan is to sort out the allotment, garden and do some maintenance on the flat. I also plan to go to Wales the last week of the month.

I'm also looking negotiate working remotely for some chunks of time over the autumn/winter season - possibly the last two weeks in October, the last week in November and first week of December and a week to 10 days in January, February and March.

Fingers crossed it all happens!

doranwen

updated 2025-08-03

This post is my complete list of recs for FBI: Most Wanted through Season 2, organized by major ships (and then author(. (For FBI: Most Wanted recs organized by time in canon & wordcount instead, go here.) I didn't originally have a post for this fandom because I had too few fics in my database for it, but I finally got around to adding all of the fics from Bastet5's series The Wild Hunt so now it's definitely over 30 fics. Note that any of their fics in the lists below are for that series and may be confusing if you aren't reading the series in order.

I haven't watched any of Season 3 onwards yet, so I won't be adding any fics to this until I do. (I will endeavor to keep any ongoing fics updated as new chapters are posted, however.)

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

The fics below are all organized by major ship(s). If there are any minor/background ships you want to avoid, please leave a comment and ask for a list to be made for you. Note that ships may refer to one-sided or unrequited ones as well as to requited/mutual.

Below are the recs:

( Clinton Skye & Kenny Crosby, Clinton Skye & Tali LaCroix, Jess LaCroix & Clinton Skye )

( Clinton Skye & OFC )

( Clinton Skye & OFC, Hana Gibson & OFC, Kenny Crosby & OFC )

( Clinton Skye & OFC, Jess LaCroix & Kenny Crosby )

( Clinton Skye & OFC, OMC & OFC )

( Clinton Skye & OFC, Sheryll Barnes & OFC )

( Clinton Skye & OFC, Tali LaCroix & OFC )

( Jess LaCroix & Clinton Skye )

( Kenny Crosby & Ivan Ortiz )

( Kenny Crosby/Hana Gibson )

( Kenny Crosby/Zadie )

( no major ships )

( OMC & OFC )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

ride_4ever

July postal mail received!

james sent me a postcard with a reminder of how many days until Halloween and

elayna sent me another postcard for my "wall of Alaska cards from elayna".

Current Mood: posty
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

doranwen

A Redditor requested short fluffy/humorous/cracky fics without smut, so I pulled what I could from my fic db. All of these are 4000 words or less, so are quick reads.

Since this is a request post, it will not be updated as time goes on. Links are valid as of the day posted, but no guarantees are made for the future.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

All themes are listed below fics so you can decide what to click on or not. For more information on themes, see this post.

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( Alphas )

( FBI (CBS show) )

( FBI Most Wanted )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( Gold Diggers )

( Push )

( Speed )

( The Matrix )

I'm already aware that the fic marked with the tombstone is long vanished from the 'net and is not even on the Wayback Machine. However, if any of the other links above no longer work soon after the post date, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks! (If it's been a long time since this post was made, please first check the regular post that the fic should be listed in to see if the link has been marked accordingly, since this post will not be kept up-to-date.)

Enjoy! :)

thisbluespirit

Okay, I knoooooow I am being rubbish at all my other bingos currently, but if

allbingo's August theme happens to be irresistible, everything will be different this time, right? XD

(Tbf, the odds are rather better than the last few weeks anyway...)

But, I give you a Crime Classics Bingo Card made from titles from the British Library's crime catalogue:

Someone from the Past	He Who Whispers	Tour de Force	Fear Stalks the Village	Antidote to Venom
Family Matters	Foreign Bodies	Tea on Sunday	It Walks by Night	Green for Danger
Settling Scores	As If By Magic	WILD CARD	The Black Spectacles	Somebody at the Door
Twice Round the Clock	The Man Who Didn’t Fly	Excellent Intentions	Crossed Skis	Serpents in Eden
The Wheel Spins	Final Acts	Deep Waters	Not to Be Taken	Bats in the Belfry

I love it. I even got the source for The Lady Vanishes, go me! Any suggestions? (With the usual caveat of me probably doing something else anyway, heh.)

bemused_writer

The 23rd was the 20th anniversary for Conqueror of Shamballa! I won't lie, this was difficult knowledge, but I thought it would be fun to commemorate it with a bunch of icons, mostly from the movie, but a few from the 2003 anime as well. (^^) I rewatched it on Wednesday, and it really is a visual treat of a film!

( 115 icons under the cut... )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: That Digital Highway

desertvixen

My general preferences are here.

Treats are always appreciated!

( It Was The Pictures That Got Smaller... )

doranwen

Below is more information about my recs lists, in Q&A format:

( Are the links valid? )

( How did you decide on fic ratings? )

( Which info about the fics came from you? )

( What is your criteria for Gen/Ace-friendly fics? )

( How did you categorize ships? )

( Are there warnings of any kind for fics? )

( What have you marked as favorites? )

( Is (a particular) list complete? )

( Will you make a list for (INSERT FAVORITE FANDOM HERE)? )

( Can I ask for a specific list to be made? )

( How do I tell you about this awesome story/fic collection/fic archive that's missing from your lists? )

lightbird

On Day 1 of the

sunshine_revival challenge I presented my first completed needlepoint project. It wasn't bad for a first try (and it's a cute design), but I wasted a lot of thread (did a lot of removing and re-doing, lol) so I didn't have enough thread left to do the finishing border.

I've since completed 2 more bookmarks, and though not perfect they are better, and I was able to get the finishing border done on both!

Et Voilà

Green Scene

The Great Catsby

I'll probably work on a couple more canvases eventually, but taking a break for now. 🙂

thisbluespirit

Things continue much as before. I wanted to make a post, but I haven't quite the brain for reviews or the like, so here are two random quick things:

1. Back when we were all making top 100 lists,

osprey_archer did a picture books one, and there was a discussion in the comments about US vs UK picture books, so I did a UK one, with the best/most popular/influential picture book illustrators I could think of (up to 2010 when I stopped being a children's librarian and, indeed, anything much), but it took ages to try and make sure I wasn't missing people and put all the covers on, and then I kept forgetting I'd made it.

It's here for those who like clicking on books in a list.

(I apologise for the lack of 2010s and 2020s; but I have not kept up at all! Also I included picture books only for the most part, with a few honourable exceptions, so this means there are very few early reader type books & no comics, but there are picture books for older readers. It needs to be an unorthodox size and shelved in the kinder boxes! Also, I focused on illustrators not authors. Plus a tiny handful were just personal favourites, but it is my list. ;-p)

2. I was talking about Outrageous, the U&Drama/Britbox TV series about the Mitfords last time. It continued to be excellent and it finally occurred to me that I could link the trailer, which would be helpful:

Watch on YouTube

doranwen

updated 2025-07-24

This post is for keeping track of which fandoms I've finished or am working on adding to my fic database.

Completed fandoms:

Alphas
+ anthropomorphic
C-16: FBI
Cybergeddon
Deep Impact (1998)
* FBI (CBS show that first aired fall 2018)
* FBI: Most Wanted
Flood (2007)
Fried Green Tomatoes (both book and film)
Gold Diggers (1995)
Push (2009)
Speed (1994)
Stick It (2005)
The Matrix (including Enter the Matrix, The Animatrix, and The Matrix Awakens trailer)

* on hiatus from adding or updating fics since I am behind on watching canon
+ not a main focus = I save fics only as I come across them and will never go through it thoroughly

Note that with more active fandoms, I may at times be behind in keeping up with new fics.

Next to add:

Profiler
Tomorrow When the War Began (book & film, but not TV show)

doranwen

If you've stumbled across this and don't know what on earth the database is, here's a brief explanation:

I blended my fannish and geeky sides together during the summer of 2019 when I realized I had a problem finding the fic I wanted to read. "The one where that happened" and "a fic where the two characters cuddle/hold each other" aren't very helpful at finding stories with an author/title organization system, and my memory, though very good, has its limits, of course. It didn't take me long to realize that there was no suitable online system for this (especially if you read fics from more than one site, such as both AO3 and ff.n, not counting the gazillion other fanfic archives and websites out there), and no existing offline one. (At the time either AO3's external bookmarks wasn't a feature yet, or I wasn't aware of it. And either way it's nowhere near as feature-full as I wanted.) So I taught myself how to make a database (with considerable help from a forum volunteer with the more difficult parts), and began entering the fics I have saved on my hard drive (which is an awful lot).

The easy part was creating the database; the hard part is stocking it with the information. It will never be "complete", and it will be a very long time before I even add all the stories I've already saved to my hard drive. However, I can already generate quite a few useful posts, which you can find many linked here at my master recs post, and others by looking at the specific recs posts tagged with "fic database". You're welcome to ask for a report of your own to be generated; read the Fic List Q&A for more info.

If you have an interest in creating your own database, I can give you a blank version of it for you to use for the fics you want. Just leave me your email address (comments screened below for privacy) so I can email you with the details. Read below to know what you need to tell me, as some aspects require customization to your specific needs.

( Database specifics )

Note: All of this information is in a Mega folder as well, but I found it difficult to keep it updated, especially since my current version of LibreOffice makes generating and updating reports a royal pain. I therefore decided to move all of the pertinent information to Dreamwidth. The recs lists in pdf format that are shared on there may still be of interest but as the links are not clickable, they are nowhere as user-friendly, and at this point are out-of-date.

doranwen

updated 2025-08-07

Below is a full list of all themes in my database. Some are named the way AO3 does them, some are not (and some have multiple names in the same tag to make it clear). In some cases I combine similar themes into one tag because I don't find it useful to distinguish between them. I also tag for some grammatical features that are not usually tagged for on AO3, and for the ending type (positive, sad/unhappy, cliffhanger - except for fic collections and most poetry). For fics that have a major romantic/sexual relationship tagged, I usually tag for the relationship status (beginning, established, one-sided/unrequited, unhappy, etc.). And I have themes that equate to each of AO3's mandatory warnings. All of those tags are in the list below, mixed with all the trope and content tags.

Themes vary as to the extent that they must be present for tagging. Some (such as Breathplay) may get tagged if there are just a few sentences of it. Others (such as Food / Cooking) may only be tagged if the fic is centered around that theme (since eating is a common activity and may appear in numerous fics; it isn't notable unless the scenes focus on it). Present Tense may be tagged even if the fic is inconsistent with tenses and bounces between past and present, since some people find it unpleasant and would prefer to avoid. (Past tense is considered the default and is not tagged for.)

Note that the existence of a theme in my database does not indicate the relative frequency of that tag. Some are used only on one fic. Others are used on literally a thousand or more (Positive Ending is rather common, naturally).

If you think a particular fic should be tagged with a theme and it isn't, please let me know! In many cases, I may simply have added the theme after the fic was added to my database, and could not remember which fic(s) needed that theme tagged.

( Themes )

( Some explanation of specific tags )

You're welcome to use this to request a customized recs post for you. I can both filter for fics containing a specific theme or two (though it is much harder to filter for fics containing both at once), and/or exclude all fics with a specific theme tagged. Comments are screened so you have privacy to request exactly what you want without making your exclusions public, in case you are embarrassed or shy about them (but if you don't care who sees your comment, just say it's OK to unscreen). Recs lists that were requested with only a single theme included may be posted publicly as such, whereas recs lists that exclude a theme or two may be simply posted with your nick as the recipient. (Exclusions will not be listed publicly; only you will know what was excluded.)

marmolita

I posted this on Tumblr with the preface that this is the kind of post I used to make on livejournal, then I was like, hmm, maybe this post should be on dreamwidth! But I'm too lazy to format it again so I just copy pasted, sorry for the formatting issues. Also there's likely missing context from the random things I've been talking about on tumblr so maybe this afternoon when I'm home (bc posting to dw from a phone is a nightmare) I will catch up with some other things that ought to go here. Anyway, random stuff behind the cut!
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