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[dayflow]

StoryGraph Wrap-Up July 2026

omg 12 books this month yay! 🥳

i feel like i read a good mix this month, 3 nonfiction books, 3 comics/graphic novels, 2 books from my physical tbr, and a bunch of different romances! it’s good to try new books 👍

but i don’t feel like i’m getting as much done on the book bingos tho, mood reading is making it difficult to want to read gothic or fantasy or whatever else i haven’t filled on the board yet, like last year, all the easy ones are done, it’s getting harder to find books that are available on my library app that i want to read and fill the square, we’ll see how it goes, wish me luck 🍀

i hope you had a great reading month, no matter how much or little you read! 🥰❤️

[lgbtqiatext]

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (WEG) - Cynabar's Fantastic Technology - Droids Cover Art by Dave Dorman

[isabelopaque]

When someone likes the thing you made for them

[cowgirlarchive]

“i do not gaze at scully” bull fucking shit

[animentality]

[mandolinearts]

shared custody of a force sensitive toddler can be exhausting sometimes

[rylandsgrace]

Supergirl (2026) dir. Craig Gillespie

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone pro-queer and not hurting anyone from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[rhodeys]

I don't have that many close female friendships, and book clubs are the worst. So I just thought this could be something fun to share.

OCEAN'S 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross

[thelatestkate]

Shop , Patreon , Books and Cards , Mailing List

[jarenka]

There are some gems in YouTube comments

[important-cat-pics]

[disneygifsdaily]

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959)

[luulapants]

actually once you do vote by mail once, it feels STUPID that in-person voting is even a thing. getting to sit with your ballot in your house, easily see your options, have time to do research and consider your choice, talk with friends and neighbors about their vote. it's especially so for small local elections and primaries where you might not have heard about different candidates and really have to ask around, attend local events, or dig into local news stories to find out who they are and what they stand for. but, of course, not allowing voters to easily research and carefully consider their votes is why there is opposition to vote by mail in the first place.

[kedreeva]

I get the sentiment, but in person voting needs to remain a thing. Not an exclusive thing, absolutely not, but the choice needs to be there.

People that don't have a residence to send a mail in ballot to need to be able to go in person if they can. People in situations with abusive spouses or partners or families need to be able to go in person and be allowed to vote without influence, if they can. People who would feel pressured to vote one way or another, or feel pressured to show their ballot to someone else if doing it at home. People that can't read or write and don't have anyone they know or trust enough to help them with the ballot can get help at the in person places. They can ask questions of the volunteers there to assist. People that are nervous to do it alone can go in person together and make a little event of it. Sometimes the mail gets misplaced or stolen.

There are a lot of reasons that in person voting is a thing and should remain a thing, just not an exclusive thing. I want to receive my ballot in the mail to my house that I own, and spend time with my wonderful spouse looking up the candidates and reading each other their stances on stuff we care about, and I want to drive my car over to the township building at my leisure and pass my completed ballot to a human being so I know it was received. But I also understand not everyone is in that kind of position, and that having more than one option on how to vote is essential actually. Voting should be as easy and accessible to as many people as possible.

[vacuously-true]

Also... You can do all those things op listed while voting in person. You're allowed to sit down at a table and pull out your phone and look stuff up. It's not like an exam that you can't cheat on. You can look at a sample ballot online before you go. You can text your friends and neighbors and ask them their thoughts whether you're at home looking at your real ballot or at home looking at a sample ballot. My experience voting in person and voting by mail is extremely similar because if I plan to vote in person I'm still gonna look at a sample ballot a few days in advance and ask the same questions and do my research and talk to people, and then know what I'm gonna vote for when I go in person. So the difference between whether my trip is to go to the poll and mark a ballot there or to bring my ballot completed at home to the collection, is very minor. You can bring a piece of paper to the poll with you to remember the choices you made if you don't want to store that in your brain; again, it's not a test, you can't cheat.

I get that all these things psychologically become more obvious or something when you have your actual ballot at home with you but please do know that you can do them if you are going to vote in person as well.

I also disagree that the primary reason people oppose mail voting is because it allows people to do their research. People oppose it for the same reason they want shorter open hours for polls and fewer locations. Because that will disproportionally hurt people who work longer hours, people without reliable transportation, and so on. It's not that they want people to vote without doing their research, it's that they don't want people to vote.

[haverst]

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[the---hermit]

Just a dragon (me) and its hoard (my ever-growing pile of unread books).