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I actually have one of these, now! I'm amazed I got this far. Fics available for funding by donation are listed below. I'm borrowing from the ever-marvelous

ysabetwordsmith here by listing the name of the person who prompted the story. I've also learned about rate calculations by following her examples and links. For information on the orange!verse, and the Schrodinger's Heroes project that spawned it, see her menu page.

Just for my own sake, if a person donates for one of these fics, could they please send a private message or drop a comment or... something of that sort? I've never done this from the writerly side before, and I have no idea if PayPal will send a message of its own when a donation comes in. Edited to add: It does send a message! I still have no objections to people dropping a line, though. I don't often equate usernames with real names, especially if I don't know you RL.

Miller's Speculation
prompted by

thnidu, with a hat tip to Professor Virgil Miller, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. Sponsored by R. A. Olivero, a very old RL friend
Original ficlet. The quirkiest cautionary tale/moment of ironic justice you ever did see.

"Meteor Scatter"
prompted by <

perfectworry, Sponsored by

ysabetwordsmith
Orange!verse. Quinn has nothing at all against other people's stars.

Tuning Up
sponsored by

mama_kestrel
Orange!verse, several years before the events of "Adjacent Universe Splatter". Rebroadcasts to the northern States started first.

Autumn On The Oak Savanna
prompted and sponsored by

ysabetwordsmith
Original ficlet. The scent of newly-harvested fields in the fall... and quite a bit more besides.

Spring Is Honest
Written in trade with

helgatwb, who asked for a piece about early spring. I obliged, with Wisconsin in late March.

Musical Gift
Prompted by

siliconshaman, sponsored by W. Blondeau, an RL friend
Orange!verse. "Someone's got to speak up. I'm having fun while I do it." Meet Eric.

Dual Path Echo
prompted in a roundabout way by

siliconshaman and

ysabetwordsmith, sponsored by W. Blondeau
Orange!verse. To Helen, love is verb, noun and natural state of being.

Working The Bands
On both sides of the border, people are rolling up their sleeves.
Orange!verse, $43.

Halo
Orange!verse. Il est bien, sa bon, even when it ain't. Meet Doc and Sister.

In The Clear
sponsored by R. A. Olivero, an RL friend
Orange!verse, immediately post Open Carrier and Carrier Wave (both still in progress). Dat is niet alleen uit vanavond. Eric meets a refugee.

Outbander
sponsored by W. Blondeau
Orange!verse, set just before Cat's In The Cradle. "It's for my girlfriend." A trans* citizen of America (recurring character) gets by.

Thy Father And...
There are two sides to what Kendra's inherited.
Orange!verse, $5.

Signal Strength
sponsored by W. Blondeau
Orange!verse. Concurrent with the events of Cat's In The Cradle. At eighteen, Kendra gets an education by radio.

Keeping A Logbook
sponsored by W. Blondeau
Orange!verse. These are the things Sandy carries.

Jammed Transmissions
Every refugee has a story of their own.
TW: visceral imagery (current), violence, police brutality, racism, homophobia, harmful institutional reactions to neurodiversity (all past, current environment supportive)
Orange!verse, $41.

Clandestine Stations
What makes the local Waxahachie team help with rebroadcasts to the southern States?
Orange!verse, $10.50.

Ragchew
Just what gets written in safehouse fridge notes, anyway?
TW: brief but vividly mentioned symptoms of illness
Orange!verse, $25.

QRM
sponsored by

ysabetwordsmith
Orange!verse. Sharing space in Canadian safehouses is far from uneventful.

Legal ID
Prompted by

ellenmillion. Carlos doesn't envy the lawyers one bit, but...
TW: references to child abuse and violence (past, current environment supportive)
Orange!verse, $11.50.

Modulation
sponsored by

fyreharper
Orange!verse. "We're geese, not coyotes." Carlos and Quinn make a run to Detroit.

Parliament Hill's Reply
Released for free post the 2016 U.S. election.
Orange!verse. In Brampton, Leigh muses on Lady Liberty's inscription and the people who cross the border.

Essential Components
Orange!verse. Which items are vital at the safehouse in Brampton, and why?

Open Carrier Part 1
sponsored by

mama_kestrel
Orange!verse. Kendra makes a decision.

Open Carrier Part 2
Kendra gets rolling.
Orange!verse, $5.

Open Carrier Part 3
Kendra spends her first day and night on the road.
Orange!verse, $7.

Open Carrier Part 4
Kendra makes it to Detroit.
Orange!verse, $6.

Lighted Display
Posted for free. Orange!verse. This little light of--wait just a second.

Heaven Is Subjective
sponsored by

technoshaman
Orange!verse. "People still hate up here," Sandy says.

Trusted Voice
Orange!verse. You need a couple of passable musicians and a lot of willing hearts. How Leigh does what she does.

Arco Iris
Free verse poem, not part of any specific universe. Someone asks a soundmage for a magical rainbow. She provides as only she can. This poem was the un-posted inspiration of a rainbow/color challenge a while ago.
Original, $5

Summer To The Winter Country
Prompted and sponsored by

technoshaman. Original. Summer might be sand.

The Senses Of Same
Prompted by

ysabetwordsmith. Hope, wonder and hunched shoulders.
Original, $9.50.

Bring Back The Wonder
Sponsored by McSushi, an RL friend. Original. Just what would it take?

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Central Branch Library, Madison, WI
Crossposts: http://chanter-greenie.livejournal.com/239490.html

Means opening the windows and airing the place out, and relishing in the fact that it's finally warm enough and nice enough to do so! It also means changing the flannel sheets for cotton ones, potting plant seedlings, and sweeping the balcony. Said balcony's outside window ledge now sports a row of five plants, my overwintered Short's aster, dill, winter thyme (yes, I know, puns ahoy), pineapple sage, and a yellow daylily cutting from my childhood home. We'll see how everything goes.

Current Mood: sleepy

Specifically that one plant, or possibly those two or more plants, whose leaves I was petting as I was selecting herb seedlings for the kitchen garden's starting: I wish I'd known how best to take care of you. I wish I'd had the knowledge of what you need if you're going to a balcony kitchen garden, to say nothing of recipes for later. I wish I'd been able to take you home. I will be keeping a look out if I'm there next week, but as it is, I don't know that the same plant seedlings will be on offer. If it isn't me, may you have found an excellent home to go to in the week between markets, even if it isn't mine.

Wobbly tenses are wobbly. The sentiment behind them is still, hopefully, obvious.

This post brought to you by tipsy!Chanter and her righting past wrongs thing.

Thank you, Canada! Reasonable, non-xenophobic heads have prevailed. An outright liberal majority is not a certainty just yet, but still. Wheeeew! :)

Current Mood: relieved

No, not me. :) My day's been brightened by hearing what I at first thought might've been some kind of wind-related weather spinner, except that a) it changed locations and b) it wasn't activating with noted wind gusts. Several minutes and two canceled recordings later (darn cars), Merlin IDed the intermittent, peeping and infrequently almost trilling spinner sound... as a merlin. As in the actual falcon, right in the midst of a west side park. I played someone else's recording to get an audio match of my own, and yep, that's exactly what it was! Talk about your new ID for the life list!

So. cool. :D

Current Mood: pleased

Otherwise known as, my *gosh* that was a tremendous crowd at Madison's rally yesterday! I am appallingly bad at estimating crowd size, but the capital steps and lawns were nothing short of a sea of people and signs. It was incredibly diverse out there too, in terms of age, race, gender, economic circumstance and ability, which was excellent to see. People kept spotting my Red Cross pins and either asking what they were or recognizing a fellow donor; someone from Saint Paul, MN just achieved her own ten gallon pin, yay!

I can say both that I shouted/chanted/sang myself hoarse during all that, and that I'll be wearing different shoes next time I rally. The current walking shoes are great for getting miles in, but they don't have much cushion for when you're standing in place on concrete steps. Oh well. I did not, as requested jokingly by the sidelined by sickness

meimichan, drop the F-bomb during events, but I was keeping an ear out for an opportunity to do so. It just didn't happen. :P

Some of my favorite signs from yesterday:
*The Turd Reich, including Trump, Musk, et al photoshopped into exactly the uniforms you'd expect
*Hands Off My Public Schools, carried by a kid old enough to know exactly what he was doing (as a family including multiple teachers across generations, we thanked him for that one)
*My Parents Fled Europe To Escape This Crap
*Elon's Not A Cheesehead, He's An Asshat
*I'm Not Usually A Sign Guy, But Jeez

My eye is now on May 2, and the pro-immigrant rally being planned for the same location. Heck yes, I'm going.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Apoki - Space (stuck in head)

Anybody else find it fitting in the best sort of way that a pro-democracy, pro-human rights and anti-erasure rally is happening on First Contact Day?

Anyway, off I go, as soon as I dry my hair... and wait for two of my aunts to get here. They're parking at mine and taking the bus downtown, which will be a new experience for them both, since they don't want to brave traffic and parking. Heck, that's a major reason for public transit in the first place! It's sounding like the crowd in Madison is going to be enormous. My mother and elder niece are already downtown (they dropped in briefly on the way), one of my nieces friends and her parents are going, several of my own friends might turn up (yo,

meimichan!), and that's just my immediate circle of RL connections. Judging from the chatter online, this is going to be massive. Let's hope it's entirely peaceful. I want us to make the national news for all the best reasons and none of the worst ones.

You know I'm wearing my royal blue fleece with all the buttons and pins and patches. I intend to pick up a new addition or two, should anyone be selling something suitable. I have an assurance from L (my niece) that yes, she can definitely draw a pride flag or two on my face. That assurance was given as she was touching up and adding to her own rainbow artwork. The sign I'll be carrying is two-sided, 'keep your tiny hands off my human rights' on one, 'resist your local fascist' and an upraised solidarity fist in pride colors on the other. I'll do my best to get pictures to share later. For now, a quick use of hairdryer and brush, and I'm off!

No counterprotesters, please, universe...?

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Apoki - Space

Susan Crawford will join the Wisconsin Supreme Court. AP race call at 9:16 PM. Liberal majority maintained.

WHEEEEEE-EEEEW!

When I heard the news for the first time, I shrieked so loudly in relieved glee that my neighbors might have wondered what the heck was up. Whoops. :P My youngest sister later texted the family group chat, "Chalk one up for the good guys." My response? "Chalk one up for the good *girls!*"

In short, stick it, Elon. I won't suggest where.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Civic Media livestream

It gets me every time we spring forward. It's the same if I'm traveling; even the hour hop between Wisconsin and Michigan or Ontario messes with me, returning from Oregon played merry havoc with my head, and I was a mess and a half in Ireland for a full two days. Yet, for whatever reason, I have far less of an issue going the other way.

Ugh!

Current Mood: sleepy

The

fandomtrumpshate fandom crafts bazaar, to which I've been looking forward all this month, is now live!

*zooms over to investigate*

Current Mood: pleased

I note that the browsing period for the

fandomtrumpshate auction is officially open!

See the linked comm for an FAQ, the list and details of the organizations receiving this year's donations, etc.

I've got my eye on the fandom crafts bazaar, myself.

Current Mood: determined

I say this as someone who loves the NPS, land stewardship and history: To whichever bigoted and/or petrified fools agreed to erase all references to trans folks from the Stonewall Monument website, flat-out using the term the LGB movement in the midst of committing a wider act of attempted reality erasure...

F you very very much!">

For those disinclined to click, this link goes to a radio edited version of a magnificently fitting song by Lily Allen. You still might not want to play it at work.

Current Mood: irate
Current Music: see entry

This post brought to you by the letters ZZZZZ. In other words, running out of some necessary meds without realizing it until late evening yesterday meant a less than restful night, a loooong day at work today, and a dash to Target immediately after work wound up. Thankfully that went off without a hitch. OTC meds purchased and retrieved. I'm going the heck to bed.

I did, earlier tonight, tag in on an ACLU training call that I thought was going to involve much more practical information on how to support immigrants and refugees locally and nationally. It turned out to be much more about phone banking on those issues which, having cold called out in the past for other progressive causes and knowing the sheer volume of spam people get, myself included, had me tagging back out again. I appreciate the effort, but even if you're calling folks on a donor list, you're still contributing to the spam flood for very little return. I can find far more worthwhile uses for my energy. We'll see what tomorrow's immigrant/refugee-related 'know your rights' call is all about. Hopefully it's more useful.

Current Mood: sleepy

This post brought to you by working as a customer service rep during November's latter half and all of December, plus the general takeover of radio and television by sleigh bells, kitchy lyrics, and exhortations to celebrate the seeeeeason with this, that, and the other. :s Seriously. Somebody wake me up when the all-pervading commercial cheer and scramble is over and done with. New year is much more my thing anyway.

I don't intend to dunk on Christmas the actual holiday. I'm fine with both religious and secular observances. I just wish it were a lot less in one's face. For two months.

Current Mood: tired

Exchange while on a walk this evening, amid the first snow flurries of the season.

Me, amused/bemused, to a person going the other way: How do ya like the snow?!
Fellow pedestrian, masculine-voiced and with feeling, in an accent that I'd hazard a guess as either Nigerian or Ghanaian: I don't!

That reply was lightning quick and perfect in delivery, sir. XD Given this neighborhood is filled with people from around the world, I doubt you're alone in not liking the white stuff.

Current Mood: amused

Today, I am disgusted at the short-sighted, racist, sexist pile of shit that is over half this country. I am staring in disbelief at segments of the population who the incoming kankerlijer* openly hates, who nonetheless voted for him. This is how Hitler came to and clung to power, you idiots.

Tomorrow, I'll fight. You'll find me volunteering with Open Doors For Refugees, at the very least, and I've told relatives, straight out, that if there are attempts made at mass deportation in my city, I'll be one of those forming a human barrier to enforcement, so they may have to come bail me out. Not on my watch, buddy. I'm also getting involved with some sort of trans-inclusive, trans and enby positive queer activism locally. It's about time I did, and I am making damn sure whoever I link up with are trans and enby positive, celebratory, before I join. No more of this MOGAI spaces tacitly becoming LG spaces stuff. None.

I will leave my reproductive possibilities, my own potential connections to IVF, quiet for now, but they do exist.

... ¿Mis hermanos, mi familia, por que¿ :( :( :(

Today I cry. Tomorrow, I fight.

Checking in, and please do ping in, on all my circlefolken. Is everyone safe, as in not in immediate genuine need of a physical or mental crisis call? We're all in horrified shock, yes, but I want to make sure no one is in immediate danger.

*Thanks for the word,

camwyn. It fits the incoming guy horribly well, in both actions and message, and yes, I know it's a nasty Dutch swear word.

Current Mood: nauseated

Had a surprise hour off work at the end of today, so ran and voted early in-person absentee. I was going to go on Friday afternoon, because our office closes, but when the opportunity presented itself, I jumped at it. It was busy but well-organized at the designated site (the downtown library), which was all great to see. I was in and out in, at most, a quarter hour. And I admit, I triple checked my selections, just to be darn sure I didn't goof somewhere. Thanks, anxiety brain.

On the way in the door, I stopped to check my mail, and got into a conversation with our mail carrier that ended in my passing her the info that yep, you can vote in-person absentee on Sunday at Central Library during a certain time window. She was all about it! Yay! And she is, from other parts of that conversation, not voting red, as it were. Double yay!

Current Mood: it's chilly in here

This message brought to you by the tipsy dame who realized she was just barely beyond the deadline, and who sent a frantic e-mail with an expectation of a reply in the negative only to get a positive instead! <3 I got in just under the metaphorical wire, and thank you so darn much, Kat and Livi? Livie? Kat's the mod I know, anyway. Thank you! <3

Warm fuzzies for the Uleswaps mods. ZZZZZs for me.

Current Mood: tipsy

sovay aptly put it, I have been shot in the shoulder. Twice, even, as I got the flu and Covid vaccines in the same appointment. I figure, with the Toronto trip and the attendant blood donation (yes, I'm doing the 'up over the border birthday run, donate as part of the celebration' thing again this year) in a matter of weeks, I should get any side effects that might hit me thoroughly out of my system with time to spare.

If I start feeling iffy while out playing radio this evening, or wake up feeling iffy before going out to do the same tomorrow, I'll know why. I'll be warning the friends I'm with that iffiness might be possible.

Kudos and how to the Walgreen's pharmacists in my neighborhood, oh my goodness. They were fantastic. I do not give kudos to the CVS in my neighborhood, because setting up an appointment, then finding out via voicemail that they don't take your insurance, and getting stuck in a damnable doom tree when trying to call them back is an exhausting wall of avoidable horribleness. I wound up walking to the local Walgreen's, hoping they took walk-ins and, really, hoping they were even open on the Sunday before Labor Day, and I got so very lucky. So very lucky. I wished the pharmacist the blessing of baked goods of her choosing after she told me, without batting an eye, that she could absolutely take a walk-in vaccine appointment. WHEW! Any Madison local folks, the Walgreen's near Hilldale is great, people-wise. The CVS inside Target isn't honestly bad as far as actual staff go, it's just their corporate BS that's ridiculous.

I repeat, Whew!

Current Mood: relieved

The temperature has dropped, the wind is getting up, and the humidity is if not gone, then at least lower. I think heaven sent that breeze. Oh my good gosh, whew! I stepped out the door after work, aiming to make a combined dinner and grocery run, and I absolutely said, "Oh, thank frick!" out loud. :) I could stand in the path of that breeze for a while.

Current Mood: relieved

It is disgustingly, soupily humid, and oh my lord it's gross. :( It's not an issue an air conditioner can fix; that way you end up cold and wet instead of vaguely warm and wet. Yuck! :s

Current Mood: uncomfortable

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spring in Wisconsin

to the gentle, long-leaved, French taragon plant at this morning's DCFM

news worth celebrating from north of the border

Namesake catching namesake on recording

¡Quita tus manos¡

Off to a rally!

This post brought to you by W-H-E-W!

frak daylight savings time

A related means of kicking the current US administration in the pants

To those who'd like a means of kicking the current administration in the pants...

To certain complicit cowards at the National Park Service

yaaaawns

slogging toward the holidaze

you know it's November in Wisconsin when...

Today we mourn. Tomorrow we fight.

I voted!

The Yuleswaps mods are amazing people!

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