#lt buckland

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us? nooooo.

[lurking-latinist]

Funny choice by The Longest Johns to make a song from the perspective of Lt. Buckland /j

[hms-lurking-latinist]

Finally stopped dithering over titles and now it’s on ao3:

(Like Lt Buckland, when I stop dithering it doesn’t mean I’ve come to a good decision.)

Fairly pointless Hornblower characters-rambling fic under the cut. Will probably go on AO3 in an edited state, which it is currently not in yet. This is what happens when I stop for the night in the middle of Mutiny.

“Remember poor old Clayton?” said Archie, propped in his usual careless fashion half in and half out of the door to Horatio’s berth.

Horatio muttered an oath. “How could I forget him?”

He still blamed himself. No doubt he always would. “I didn’t mean that,” said Archie.

“Then pray make your meaning clear, Mr Kennedy.”

They were alone; if Horatio had been truly angry it would have been Christian names. But Archie hadn’t meant to needle him at any rate. “I was remembering how he tried to look after us.”

“He did try,” said Horatio.

“We were scarcely older than Wellard when you came aboard,” Archie went on. “It doesn’t seem possible. I’m sure I never felt that young.”

“I did,” said Horatio surprisingly. He sat down on his bunk and Archie shifted his position, leaning on the bulkhead opposite him. “I felt like a week-old kitten.”

“You certainly looked like someone had drowned you in a sack,” said Archie. Horatio gave a slight, reluctant laugh, and a moment’s silence fell. “Clayton used to give me sips of gin,” he said eventually. “After—Jack had knocked me about.”

Horatio’s mouth narrowed disapprovingly.

“It’s not what I’d want for a boy under my command. But it was more than anyone else did for me. He was doing his best, Horatio.”

“I know he was.” He seemed uncomfortable with the conversation—of course he was—and Archie didn’t quite know why he was pursuing it. Perhaps talking about that other unhappy ship was the closest he could safely come to talking about the problems of the Renown.

“I thought I would end up rather like him. Hoped I would, really.”

Horatio’s eyebrows shot up. “Good God, why?”

“It was a hope to think I’d grow up at all. Sometimes I thought I’d be the junior midshipman forever; it was in my nature to be sixteen and smallish and sickly by spells.” It would be fair exchange if Horatio brought up his fits, seeing how many of Horatio’s sensitive spots he’d touched on just now, knowing he was doing it, but needing to talk. But this was the closest he would come if Horatio didn’t. “Sometimes I thought I’d go over the side, one way or another, before ever I was a man. But if I did make it that long I would certainly be a grown-up midshipman. I no more dreamt of passing for lieutenant than I dreamt of flying to the moon.”

A wicked glance told him that a very small Horatio had, in fact, dreamed of flying to the moon.

Archie carried on, trying to put into words what was haunting him. “And I was damned if I’d become a second Jack. So I thought I’d end up like Clayton.” He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a shorter strand from his untidy queue. “You remember what it was like: the captain too ill to tell good men from bad—Captain Keene”—he had to specify, it could mean his life to specify—“the lieutenants negligent at best. We were only midshipmen. Clayton was as helpless as the rest of us but he noticed.”

Horatio got up from the bunk, put a hand on Archie’s shoulder. They were both somber now, thoughtful, on the edge of reliving those days—on top of the troubles of the present. “You’re doing right by Wellard,” he said.

Archie sighed. “It’s not good for him to be seen as a lieutenant’s favorite.”

Horatio’s voice dropped to barely a murmur. “He’s already the captain’s whipping boy. You’re only evening the balance.”

“I’m afraid I’m making it worse.”

“Sometimes. But with the captain there’s no telling anyway.”

Horatio could be diplomatic when duty demanded, but when he spoke bluntly like that he meant it. Archie felt a little cheered, but still unhappy. But before he could say anything else there was a noise in the wardroom, and they sprang apart like guilty lovers, trying to look natural, trying not to look like conspirators.

It was only Buckland. “Good afternoon, gentlemen,” he said as they emerged unconspiratorially into the wardroom. “You were about—” his voice dropped—“important matters?”

Archie and Horatio glanced at each other. “Not at all,” said Horatio. “Just reminiscing about our first ship.”

“Ah, the carefree days of boyhood,” said Buckland with a nod.

It was all Archie could do to nod back straight-faced.

[atiredwitchx]

Color Correspondences A Master Post

I know I said that I was going to post this yesterday, but real life happened and I wasn’t able to get it together.

The biggest reason it's important to understand how correspondences have been gotten is that they are highly personal from individual to individual. For example. If you use green for a wealth spell because you read in a Buckland book that's what it is but you personally don't associate green with money because money in your country is blue, the spell will fail. So you have to understand why and how someone came to a correspondence conclusion in order to agree and resonate with it...or choose something else for yourself.

So here are a few lists of colors and their meanings. 

Phyllis Curott's Colors 

White:  Peace, purification, protection, the Moon, healing

Pink: The Goddess, women's mysteries, friendship, beauty

Red: Power, courage, passion, love

Orange: Success, healing, power

Yellow: Success, beginnings, inspiration, the Sun

Green: Prosperity, growth, fertility, creativity, money, Earth

Blue: Peace, healing, emotional healing, water

Lavender: Spirituality, meditation, psychic gifts and dreams

Brown: Justice, Earth

Black: Banishing, rest

Gold: The Sun, success, prosperity, the God, insight

Silver: The Moon, inspiration, transformation, intuition, the Goddess

Traditional Celtic Colour Meanings

Amber: develop Witchery skills

Black: ward negativity, remove hexes, protection, spirit contact, night, truth, remove discord or confusion, clearing the mind, meditation

Blue (dark): the Goddess, Water Elemental, truth, dreams, protection, change, meditation, impulse

Blue (light): psychic awareness, intuition, opportunity, understanding, quests, safe journey, patience, tranquility, ward depression, peace, rest

Blue (any shade): health

Brown: Earth Elemental, endurance, animal health, steadiness, houses and homes, physical objects, uncertainties

Gold: the God, solar energy, power, physical strength, success, achievement, mental growth, a skill sought, healing energy, intuition, divination, fortune, warding

Grey: non-nature-type faerie magic (such as communication with the faerie realms), travel to the otherworld, vision quests, veiling, cancellation, hesitation, neutrality

Green: Earth Elemental, Lord, and Lady of Greenwood, herb magicks, nature-type faerie magic (such as blessing a garden), luck, fertility, healing, balance, employment, prosperity, financial growth, courage, agriculture, changing direction or attitudes

Greenish-Yellow: to negate discord, sickness, anger, jealousy

Indigo: meditation, spirit communication, karma workings, learn the ancient wisdom, neutralize another's magick, ward slander

Lavender: spiritual development, psychic growth, divination, sensitivity to the Otherworld, blessings

Orange: the God, strength, healing, pulling/attracting things (not people) to you, adaptability, luck, vitality, encouragement, clearing the mind, dominance

Pink: honor, morality, friendships, emotional love

Purple: power, spiritual development, intuition, ambition, healing, progress, business, spiritual communication, protection, occult wisdom

Red: Fire Elemental, strength, power, energy, health, vigor, enthusiasm, courage, passion, sexuality

Silver: the Goddess, lunar magick, meditation, psychic development, success, balance, wards negativity

Violet: self-improvement, intuition, success in searches

White: the Lady and Lord together, full moon magick, purity, protection, truth, meditation, peace, sincerity, justice, warding of doubts and fears

Yellow: Air Elemental, divination, clairvoyance, mental alertness, intellectual growth, prosperity, learning, changes, harmony, creativity, concentration

Color Correspondences from Buckland

White: Purity, truth, sincerity

Red: Strength, health, vigor, sexual love

Lt Blue: Tranquility, understanding, patience, health

Dk Blue: Impulsiveness, depression, changeability

Green: Finance, fertility, luck, friendship

Yellow: Attraction, charm, persuasion, confidence

Brown: Hesitation, uncertainty, neutrality

Pink: Honor, love, morality

Black: Evil, loss, discord, confusion

Purple: Tension, ambition, power, business progress

Gray: Cancellation, neutrality, stalemate

Orange: Encouragement, attraction, stimulation

Gr Yellow: Sickness, cowardice, anger, jealousy, discord

Now, this isn’t the extent of all color correspondences. This is just some regularly noted, and common color correspondences. For example, notable Wiccans like Gerard Gardner and Doreen Valiente, likely have color correspondence charts out there, but as I myself am not a Wiccan, I don’t have the information on this. The internet is a wild place, and I can only source as much information as I have time for, (I get my information from books, not from google) but this should be a great start for everyone. 

Now go out there and make some magick kids.

[amalthea9]

The first one especially is so clear! Where do you find these awesome stills if I may ask!☺️

And there's Styles in the second one EEEEE!! he looks so handsome in his boatswain's mate attire 🥰🥰🥰

@ariel-seagull-wings

A couple of Captain Sawyer focussed stills. I’ve had the first one for years due to a lurking Mr Bush, but the second I’d not seen before I came across it the other day.

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[westernmanews]

BUCKLAND, Mass. (WWLP)- There are some parts of Franklin County where it’s almost impossible to find an internet connection.

Lt. Governor Karyn Polito met with town officials in Buckland to check on the progress being made in getting more people access to broadband internet. 96 percent of Buckland residents are now connected.

“This has been a long haul for a lot of these small communities in western Massachusetts, but a major priority for Governor Baker and me and our team is to make sure that these Last Mile communities are now seeing these plans come reality,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito.

Polito is working with nearby Ashfield and Charlemont on their broadband internet projects.

“We’ve had to get really creative in finding even the little bit of funding we need, said Zach Turner, Member of the Buckland SelectBoard. “For some towns that have less residents than Buckland, its next to impossible for them to find it.”

Today we can access the internet right on our cell phones, but in these Franklin County hilltowns finding a connection is hard to come by. Residents view it as both an inconvenience and a public safety concern.

“If we don’t get connected our towns are going to die,” said Casey Pease of Worthington. “Its why I’m here, its why I’m really advocating for this issue because its so crucial to our small towns.” Lt. Governor Polito said the state will pay 40 percent of the cost for communities to build broadband networks.

There are still more than 40 Massachusetts communities with partial or no broadband internet access.

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[spockvarietyhour]

The most delicate way to broach the subject of your captain being cruel and incompetent.

[lurking-latinist]

dr clive, surprised: he's awake!!

lt buckland: I'll work in the wardroom

what were you expecting to happen, buckland. what were you expecting

I have to say, re Hornblower: Retribution, if I were Buckland I would simply do my paperwork in the gunroom or somewhere. They keep on going in there where Sawyer can yell at them. No one is making them do this!

[spockvarietyhour]

You've killed him, sir.

[westernmanews]

GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – More than 900 pounds of prescription drugs were collected in the Greenfield Police Department’s drug drop-off box last year.

Greenfield Police Lt. William Gordon told 22News the 908 pounds of old and unwanted drugs collected was triple the amount collected in any other Franklin County police department’s drop-off box and twice as much collected in any Hampshire County drop-off box.

According to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, the drug-drop off boxes help take unwanted or out-of-date drugs out of homes and away from children or potential drug abusers. Once collected, they are disposed in an environmentally-friendly manner.

All prescription and non-prescription drugs, vitamins, and veterinary medicines are accepted in drug drop-off boxes.

Other police departments in western Massachusetts with drug drop-off boxes include: 

Amherst

Ashfield

Athol

Belchertown

Bernardston

Buckland

Cummington

Erving

Easthampton

Deerfield

Goshen

Granby

Greenfield

Hadley

Hatfield

Leverett

Northampton

Orange

South Hadley

Southampton

Sunderland

Williamsburg

Ware

Whately