it's a historical anniversary!

[tsuki_no_bara]

today is the 95th anniversary of the nineteenth amendment, which gave american women the right to vote. which means all the american ladies reading this better exercise their constitutional right to cast a ballot when the time comes. your female forebears didn't suffer jail and beatings and forced feedings for nothing

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[desertport]

The tree thing is amazing. Also, women having the vote. :D

Title: Bananas at Dawn

Feedback: I really enjoyed the witty banter and the depth of the characters' clearly complicated relationship.

[tsuki_no_bara]

isn't the tree thing cool? long-frozen plants sprouting again! it's like mother nature's totally random surprise. and yes, women being able to vote is pretty fantastic. there's a movie called suffragette coming out sometime this year that i'm super interested in, altho it's about suffragettes in the uk and not the us.

oh man, that made me want a banana cream pie SO BADLY. especially after i decided i really needed to google recipes and couldn't just wing it. (and seriously, how hard is a banana cream pie? banana pudding, nilla wafers, whipped cream. it didn't have to be gourmet.) and i love writing banter, so i'm pleased you enjoyed it. :D

(now of course i'm curious what kind of story that would be.... and whether or not it would include two people pretending to sword fight using bananas. a banana duel.)

[wendy]

i will never tell you who to vote for. but i will tell you to vote.

YES! Exactly. ♥

[wendy]

i will never tell you who to vote for. but i will tell you to vote.

YES! Exactly. ♥

[tsuki_no_bara]

i feel strongly about voting. if you're able to vote - like, you're not a convicted felon - you should. but who you vote for is between you and your conscience, and is no one else's business. altho there are some people that if i learn you voted for them, i will at the very least side-eye you really hard.

[ashbet]

Kira enjoys fluffy historical romances as brain-candy, and she shared a series with me (while she was home for summer break) that I wound up binge-reading

[ashbet]

And, yes -- VOTE!! Everybody vote!!

This is why I always make sure that Kira and I have our absentee ballots ordered well in advance (she's out of state for college, and it's hard for me to get to the polls with my wheelchair), because we don't want to miss out on the chance to make some positive change in the world :)

-- A <3

[tsuki_no_bara]

this is why i don't have any patience with people who whine that it's hard to vote. it's not hard, you're just lazy. for the last presidential election, people stood in line for five or seven hours so they could cast their ballots. years and years ago i volunteered with hrc at the boston pride parade, and for two hours i mostly asked people if they were registered to vote, and if they weren't, i handed out voter registration cards they could mail in. and this one older guy told me that years ago he'd had surgery (i think heart surgery - it was a fairly serious procedure, anyway), and because he'd be under the knife on election day, he'd gotten an absentee ballot so he could vote. and if he can do it? and if you and kira can do it? no one else has an excuse. it's the one acceptable, legal, constitutionally-guaranteed thing americans can do to try and change things - for good or ill - and there's no reason to not take advantage of it.

[tsuki_no_bara]

hey, if you find a romance writer you like, more power to you. nothing wrong with reading outside your chosen genres. :D i think it was tough to be a suffragette on both sides of the pond, but sometimes i wonder if there was a difference in the way american suffragettes were treated vs the way british suffragettes were.

isn't the plant thing great? if there's one tiny silver lining to all the retreating ice, it's SCIENCE.