#Caitlin Macy

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New York's Timeless Tales

Discover the enduring charm of New York City in literature. Dive into the pages of 'Mrs.' and 'The Personal Librarian' to unravel its timeless tales. 📚🏙️ #NYCStories

NYC as a Character in “Mrs.” and “The Personal Librarian” Few cities have the dynamic personality and narrative power of New York City. Its vibrant society, streets, history, and energy are more than just a setting or backdrop. A long-time muse for storytellers, New York City is a character in its own right. This was particularly evident in two books that I read this year: the contemporary…

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in August 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

[ Text list below ⤵ ]

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Failure to Comply - Sarah Cavar 🧡 I Spit On Your Celluloid - Heidi Honeycutt 💛 You're Embarrassing Yourself - Desiree Akhavan 💚 Death of the Hero - Briona Johnson 💙 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💜 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter ❤️ Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen 🧡 Oath of Fire - K. Arsenault Rivera 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 This Ravenous Fate - Hayley Dennings 💜 Mistress of Lies - K.M. Enright 🌈 Wolf Bite - T.J. Nichols

❤️ In the Valley, A Shadow - Samantha Tano 🧡 Follow My Lead - Adrian J. Smith 💛 The Last Woman I Kissed - Venetia Di Pierro 💚 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💙 Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer 💜 Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker ❤️ Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore 🧡 How to Leave the House - Nathan Newman 💛 Plot Twist - Carmen Sereno 💙 On the Far Side of a Crescendo - Kalyn Hazel 💜 Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions - Maxwell I. Gold 🌈 Daylan and the River of Secrets - Edd Tello

❤️ The Italy Letters - Vi Khi Nao 🧡 The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie - Lee Wind 💚 The House Where Death Lives - Alex Brown 💙 Ash's Cabin - Jen Wang 💜 The Avian Hourglass - Lindsey Drager ❤️ The Heart Wants - Krystina Rivers 🧡 A Grand Love - Janna Barkin 💛 You Can't Go Home Again - Jeanette Bears 💜 Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar 🌈 Her Golden Coast - Anat Deracine

❤️ Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💛 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 💚 Dying for You - L Flowers 💙 I'll Have What He's Having - Adib Khorram 💜 Changing Her Tune - Amanda Kabak ❤️ Monogamy? In this Economy? - Laura Boyle 🧡 The Rainbow Age of Television - Sayna Maci Warner 💛 Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki 💙 Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall 💜 Idol Lives - K.T. Salvo 🌈 Brother's Keeper - Quinn Cameron

❤️ Key Lime Sky - Al Hess 🧡 Crushing It - Erin Becker 💛 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 💙 Tasting Temptation - JJ Arias 💜 Ami - S. Jae-Jones ❤️ You're the Problem, It's You - Emma R. Alban 🧡 Cubs & Campfires - Dylan Drakes 💛 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💙 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💜 Riyati Rebirth - Kalani Shimizu 🌈 The Brujos of Borderland High - Gume Laurel III

❤️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen 🧡 Dance of the Starlit Sea - Kiana Krystle 💛 Scattered Snows, to the North - Carl Phillips 💚 Beyond a World Apart - Caitlin Myers 💙 Don't Let It Break Your Heart - Maggie Horne 💜 Nothing Heals Me Like You Do - Harper Bliss ❤️ How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger 🧡 How Do I Sexy? - Mx. Nillin Lore 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 Prince of the Palisades - Julian Winters 💜 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach 🌈 Back to Back - Jo Fletcher

❤️ DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] - Tommy Wyatt 🧡 The Love Archives: Bonus Scenes & Excerpts for Palestine - Various 💛 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Ying Priest 💚 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💙 Queering Reproductive Justice - Candace Bond-Theriault 💜 Gender Explained - Diane Ehrensaft & Michelle Jurkiewicz ❤️ The Unlikely Pair - Jax Calder 🧡 In Universes - Emet North 💛 We Love the Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft 💙 Lessons from Cruising - Martin Goodman 💜 Wild Ginger in the Rhubarb - Eule Grey 🌈 Not My Circus - Delicia Niami

❤️ Asunder - Kerstin Hall 🧡 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A. MacLean 💛 Encounters with James Baldwin - Various 💚 Verity's Game - Jennifer Giacalone 💙 Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase - Fae Quin 💜 The Audacity Omnibus - Carmen Loup ❤️ Haunted to Death - Frank Anthony Polito 🧡 Blood Orange - Paige Grunewald 💛 The Bad Things We Did - Chris Archeske 💙 Dark Restraint - Katee Robert 💜 Worth the Wait - Kenna White 🌈 The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifueko

❤️ Loving Corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown 🧡 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💛 The Duchess of Kokora - Nikhil Prabala 💚 The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray 💙 Survival Is a Promise - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 💜 Loka - S.B. Divya ❤️ The Every Body Book of Consent - Rachel E Simon 🧡 Southern Lights - Liz Arncliffe 💛 Then Things Went Dark - Bea Fitzgerald 💙 Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson 💜 The Last Doorbell - William Parker 🌈 The Pairing - Casey McQuiston

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Photo's of Caitlin from Macy Engel's VSCO

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Okay ive been rereading some of my favorite poems for the 50th time and i feel like Linguistics by Caitlin Conlon has a lot of Luci vibes ? Maybe I just have disenchanted on the brain

Yeah, it definitely has Luci vibes.

Luci, who smelled Vik’s favorite cologne and broke down sobbing in the bathroom of a Macy’s. Luci, who spends MC’s birthday drunk because they can’t bear the day alone in their mind. Luci, who still makes their coffee like Theo showed them.

(for anyone who hasn’t read it)

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Books That Interpret USAmerica

I'm trying to put together a list of books that interpret the USAmerican life at the individual and community levels. Please add to this list, including only books you have read and finished. I particularly need more books on this list by and about Black and indigenous peoples, but any book about the experience of life as a person living in the US will do. I look forward to expanding my to-read list!

Here is what I have so far:

Evicted, by Matthew Desmond- RE the housing crisis

Temp, by Louis Hyman- RE the staffing crisis

How the Other Half Eats, by Priya Fielding-Singh- RE how food, mother/daughter dynamics, and socioeconomics fit together

Shorting the Grid, by Meredith Angwin- RE the energy crisis and how grid electricity works in the USA

This is Your Mind on Plants, by Michael Pollan- RE the regulation of psychoactive plants

The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan- RE where food comes from

Savage Inequalities, by Jonathan Kozol- RE the severe inequality in the education system

Hyper Education, by Pawan Dhingra- RE pressures placed on children in and beyond the education system

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism, by Peter J Hotez- RE: the fight over vaccines

$2.00 Per Day, by Katheryn J Edin, H Luke Shaefer- RE the lives of people below the international poverty line living in the USA

The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan- RE the great depression

The Velvet Rope Economy, by Nelson D Schwartz- RE how different services and systems serve different levels of socioeconomic status

Janesville, by Amy Goldstein- RE a small town's struggle after losing it's main employer

Indebted, by Caitlin Zaloom- RE the student debt crisis

McMindfulness, by Ronald E Purser- RE how the lack of happiness was pushed on the individual instead of the system

Fat Talk, by Virginia Sole-Smith- RE questioning the source and outcomes of the obesity epidemic

Dopesick, by Beth Macy- RE the opioid crisis

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can I get some fem names that start with the letter C, J, or M? thanks!!

Sure thing!

Ciara

Cici/Ceci

Clementine/Clem

Carissa

Catherine/Cathy/Cat

Cameron/Cammy/Cam

Camilla/Milla

Callie

Carolina/Caroline

Cari/Cary

Chloe

Claire

Cora

Cadence

Caitlin/Caitlyn

Callista

Cara

Celeste

Jade

Jasmine/Jazzy/Jazz

Jocelyn

Josie

Julia/Jules

Jacqueline/Jackie

Josephine/Jo

Jayla

Jay/Jae

Jordan/Jordyn

Joy

June

Jamie/Jaime

Jory

Jennifer/Jenny/Jen

Jeanne

Joanna/Joan

Janie/Jane

Madison/Maddie/Mads

Melanie/Mel

Melody

Margot/Margo

Misty

Mia

May/Mae

Mabel

Martha

Maya

Macy

Molly

Melissa

Mindy

Millie

Madeline/Madalyn

Mila

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-⋆ What I think Gareth’s Backstory Was Like (Gare lore pt 1? 👀)

Ok, so I’ve seen a few people saying that his home life was pretty bad, especially when he was younger but tbh I can’t really see that in his life.

Ever since day one when I saw his character I always thought his home life was a bit tamer than the others, especially Eddie’s. (Don’t get me wrong though! I love myself a bit of angst and I find it very interesting to see that in Gareth’s life considering how he is such a warm, nice person and people wouldn’t expect him to have gone through those things. I also think it’s super cool how other people perceive him!)

🪐Warnings: Brief mention of alcohol and divorce, otherwise nothing

✭ Family

⭒ His parents were named Caitlin and Samuel Emerson. Samuel left after they had their youngest and honestly, it was for the best. He wasn’t totally abusive towards them, but he was self-centered, kind of a hypocrite, and started to get into alcohol, and it was a bit odd since he seemed like such a nice and caring person at first. They ended up arguing over literally everything, and it really didn’t look like he cared for her anymore. They soon divorced, but it didn’t hurt Gareth as much as he thought it would since his dad really wasn't a great person. Luckily it wasn’t too hard on Gareth’s sisters because they were very little at the time. They do wish that they had a father sometimes, but they are just used to not having one for pretty much their whole life so they don’t really care too much at the same time. Their mom means everything to them though. She’s super supportive and chill with whatever her children want to be and lets them embrace it. (unless they want to commit murder or arson or something then probably not)

⭒ Also, Caitlin knew Joyce (not really as a friend though, just more of an acquaintance) because they went to school together back in the day. They don’t talk that much now, but they’ll say hi to each other if they see each other in town and ask how life is going and stuff.

⭒ Gareth takes care of his little sisters a lot because his mom is at work for the majority of the day. He cleans and learned how to cook too so he's pretty independent. He also drives them to school, but there’s a cheer/dance class that they have after school and at that time Gareth goes to Hellfire and his mom is back from work so she picks them up afterwards.

⭒ When his youngest sister was born he cried while holding her and thought that she was beautiful and promised to always protect her, that he will always be there for her and take good care of her which made his mom emotional as well. She was so glad that he loved his sister because he was a bit upset at first that it wasn't a boy and that made her nervous that Gareth would still be a bit disappointed about it.

⭒ As I mentioned earlier his sisters do dance and cheer, but they also love to color and draw too. There’s a picture on the fridge that’s a drawing in markers that is a stick figure version of their family with the stereotypical sun in the corner thing and everything, it’s really cute.

⭒ Gareth’s a great brother to them. I mean he would do anything for them, but of course there have been moments where he’s teased them or chased them around with a dead bug he found or snake, made them cry, and got scolded by his mother.

⭒~Fun fact: Before Gareth was born his parents were deciding on the names Jesse, Blake, and Gareth. In the end Gareth won because they thought it was cooler and more fitting.

⭒~Another fun fact: not only did Caitlin know Joyce, but she heard of Eddie’s mom as well but never met her since she was from a different school.

⭒ (One more thing. I can totally see his younger sisters being named Macy and Claire... and I give credit to @spookyscarydemonbabe for naming them in their fics and stuff it's just too canon and my brain adopted that hc! :) )

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This prompt came from the top of MY OWN DOME and it’s part of a series.

9/21/24

Write about a house you remember visiting.

I was just recently thinking about my friend Carol’s house.

Carol and I went to the same school from 4th to 6th grade. It was a magnet school for high achievers, as the county puts it. Yep, a gifted school. (Don’t worry, you’re not about to get any former gifted kid discourse from me - I’ve long since gotten past that.) Carol and I also shared the same birthday.

The school we went to took students from all over the county we lived in, which is very large in size and is actually shaped like a tiny little scale model of the state of Georgia. That meant that my friends did not always live very close to me, although we were all clustered in the northern half of the county, which was probably somewhat more convenient for our parents when we wanted to go visit each other.

Carol lived in a neighborhood of relatively newly-built homes near Northlake Mall, which is hardly much of a mall anymore. But back in the day, it was the Big Mall because it had two stories of shops whereas the mall closest to my house (North DeKalb Mall, which is being demolished right now - another end of an era; I should write about my memories of these malls too) was just one story. Northlake had a big Macy’s, Suncoast (the first place I bought anime tapes and DVDs), Old Navy and even a Disney store, among many other things. The parking lot hosted a carnival from time to time, too, setting up a Ferris wheel and other rides in a little cluster visible from a main road.

So, Carol’s neighborhood was really different from mine in that the houses were built in the 90s. We lived in a cute little ranch house that was built in 1960, according to Zillow, where I just discovered the pictures of my old house are blurred out for some reason. The pictures of my current house are not blurred out. Maybe the new owners went to the trouble to make a privacy request. Well, they’ve made some odd changes to the exterior of the home. I’ll get to that eventually when I write about my childhood home.

My house, like many ranches, had just one level. I considered it a mark of wealthiness if someone had two stories, kind of like how some kids thought Viennetta was the height of fancy desserts. Carol’s house had THREE levels. I’m not sure what her parents did for a living, but to me that meant they clearly had some dough. 

Because Carol’s family was Chinese (I remember her bemoaning having to go to Chinese lessons with her younger sister on Saturdays), visiting her was my first introduction to the custom of removing your shoes upon entering the house, a custom we now observe in our home. There was a shoe rack beside the door - I think I came in through the garage, not the front door, and the garage opened into the kitchen. But then right beside the door from the garage was the area we concerned ourselves with: the steps down to the basement.

Oh, the basement! It was like having another house! It had a big open living space with couches in it, I think maybe even a kitchenette, a bathroom and then a couple of rooms behind doors. I am sure the builder marketed this area as being a great in-law suite. Coincidentally, it was also a great place for a bunch of preteen girls to hang out watching TV and playing on the computer that was in one of those rooms with a door.

Yes, I’m old enough to remember the concept of a computer room! These days they’d just call them home offices, and back then computer rooms usually also did double duty as a bedroom unless you were real fancy. In our house, my bedroom had the computer. At my friend Caitlin’s house, which I will certainly be writing about as part of this series, the computer was in her parents’ bedroom, tucked inside a closet that they had removed the bifold doors to, opening it up. There were still clothes in there too.

Carol’s computer room also had some bookshelves in it and I remember her pulling out a copy of Airframe by Michael Crichton, telling me she read something crazy in it, and flipping to a page where a character said “Fuck a hairy duck, I don’t believe it!” What a great sentence! That is still all I know about the book Airframe.

We also read Gundam Wing fanfic on that computer. I should point out that there was a group of 5 of us anime-loving weirdos who gravitated towards each other, which meant there was the exact same amount of us as there were boys on Gundam Wing, so we each decided to pick one as our faves. Mine was Quatre, the blond boy who lived in the desert. Annie had Heero, Cameron (who at the time was known by their birth name, but even back then they hated the name and went by a shortened version of it; even then I knew they were going to legally change their name as soon as they could and I was right) had Duo, the name of the girl who had Trowa is escaping me right now (I am so sorry!! But then again it has been about 25 years now) and Carol had Wufei. 

We all thought Gundam Wing was the coolest show ever. I often stayed up on weekends to watch the Toonami Midnight Run version of it where they allowed the characters to say kill instead of destroy. When I went to summer camp for two weeks - another memory I should write about sometime - my dad recorded the show for me. Attempting a rewatch of Gundam Wing is on my to-do list, though I may check out the subtitled version this time.

And when we were having a sleepover there and it was finally time to get some sleep, I believe we all just sort of camped out wherever. Maybe on the couches, maybe on the floor. I don’t really recall spending much time upstairs at all, or in fact ever making it up to the top story to see Carol’s actual bedroom.

After 6th grade, we all scattered. The middle school that our magnet school fed into was far away, which would have meant a very long bus ride for me. By comparison, my mom taught at the middle school in my home district, so I could simply get to school with her, making it an easy decision. I think Carol went on to the magnet middle school and then the magnet high school after that. Her Facebook profile includes no information about schools and hasn’t been updated since 2016. Of the Gundam Wing gang of five I mentioned, Cameron stayed in the home district and so went to middle and high school with me, meaning it was easier to stay friends until we graduated and then scattered - until Facebook allowed me to rediscover these school friends and get back in touch, which has been one good thing about Facebook.

At this point I can’t remember exactly where Carol’s house was, which will not be the case for many of the other houses I plan to write about. I hope she’s doing well out there, wherever she is!

[ljaesch]

English Cast Announced for the Show By Rock!! Stars!! Anime

The English cast has been announced for the Show By Rock!! Stars!! anime: Macy Anne Johnson is Howan Giovannie Cruz is Himeko Emi Lo is Delmin Lindsay Sheppard is Ruhuyu Bryn Apprill is Cyan Alexis Tipton is Chuchu Caitlin Glass is Retoree Monica Rial is Moa Ben Phillips is Master Rachel Robinson is Angelica Frank Todaro is Ziipe Jim Foronda is Police Officer Christopher Wehkamp is Rikao Megan…

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Bart Allen and His Very Weird Amazingly Perfect Day

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/krj5K1v

by Gruvia2006

Bart gets trapped in the speedforce. Jaime goes in to get him.

Words: 2582, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of My Main DC Timeline (DC Earth M-06), Part 7 of My Original DC Universe

Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Blue Beetle (Comics), Impulse (Comics), The Flash - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Bart Allen, Jaime Reyes, Cisco Ramon, Barry Allen, Wally West, Caitlin Snow, Mentioned Dick Grayson - Character, Mentioned Jay Garrick, mentioned Joan Garrick, Mentioned Hal Jordan - Character, Khaji Da, Original Female Character(s), Macie Lance-Queen | Voltage-Electra | OC

Relationships: Bart Allen/Jaime Reyes, Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Jay Garrick/Joan Garrick, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Wally West/Dick Grayson/Macie Lance-Queen, Wally West/Macie Lance-Queen | Voltage-Electra | OC

Additional Tags: Wally West is The Flash, Bart Allen is Kid Flash, Khaji Da doesn’t care and calls Bart Impulse, Bart Allen has specific amnesia thanks to the speedforce, speedforce is a bitch, cisco and macie do not know bart and jaime are dating, in the beginning anyway, Bart and Jaime get completely soaked in a storm, wally/dick/macie is only mentioned as a speedforce ship, they technically will be canon at some point in my universe, still figuring out how - Freeform, DC Earth M-06, welcome to another fic set in my original universe, Khaji Da really wants Jaime to take care of himself, jaime just wants his boyfriend back, Cisco Ramon is Vibe

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/krj5K1v

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Bart Allen and His Very Weird Amazingly Perfect Day

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/wmToQvE

by Gruvia2006

Bart gets trapped in the speedforce. Jaime goes in to get him.

Words: 2582, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of My Main DC Timeline (DC Earth M-06), Part 7 of My Original DC Universe

Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Blue Beetle (Comics), Impulse (Comics), The Flash - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Bart Allen, Jaime Reyes, Cisco Ramon, Barry Allen, Wally West, Caitlin Snow, Mentioned Dick Grayson - Character, Mentioned Jay Garrick, mentioned Joan Garrick, Mentioned Hal Jordan - Character, Khaji Da, Original Female Character(s), Macie Lance-Queen | Voltage-Electra | OC

Relationships: Bart Allen/Jaime Reyes, Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Jay Garrick/Joan Garrick, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Wally West/Dick Grayson/Macie Lance-Queen, Wally West/Macie Lance-Queen | Voltage-Electra | OC

Additional Tags: Wally West is The Flash, Bart Allen is Kid Flash, Khaji Da doesn’t care and calls Bart Impulse, Bart Allen has specific amnesia thanks to the speedforce, speedforce is a bitch, cisco and macie do not know bart and jaime are dating, in the beginning anyway, Bart and Jaime get completely soaked in a storm, wally/dick/macie is only mentioned as a speedforce ship, they technically will be canon at some point in my universe, still figuring out how - Freeform, DC Earth M-06, welcome to another fic set in my original universe, Khaji Da really wants Jaime to take care of himself, jaime just wants his boyfriend back

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/wmToQvE

[shionnes-imeris]

HACYWEEK DAY 5: ‘MUCH MORE’

prompt is: what if? 

summary: what if, when marisol vera enlisted harry greenwood's help, she found out more than she bargained for?

read on ao3, or under the read more.

“Be careful with her. She can’t remember any of this.”

“Of course, ma’am.”

Confident that her instructions had been relayed clearly, and with a heavy weight in her heart, Marisol opened the pocket watch that functioned as a portal. On the other side of the curtain, the make-shift barrier that kept her daughter shielded from her eyes, and most importantly, alive, Marisol could hear the beginnings of conversation.

Now was her chance to make an exit, before Harry wiped Macy’s memories, and she forgot this entire evening had even happened. Marisol paused, and looked back – one last fleeting look at the silhouette of her eldest daughter, before she activated the portal, and walked through.

With her feet safely planted in the attic, Marisol let herself process what had just happened. The enormity of the evening hit her all of a sudden, the regret and guilt she felt threatened to bubble up to the surface. Giving Macy up, all those years ago, was the most difficult thing she’d ever had to do.

Or it had been until tonight. Tonight, she wanted nothing more than to take her baby girl into her arms and soothe her, take her pain and terror and confusion away. Tonight was one of the best, and worst, of her entire life.

Marisol closed her eyes tightly, at the thought, trying desperately to keep the tears at bay. She held a hand up to her mouth, and shook her head.

It was late, now, and she couldn’t cry out, not unless she wanted to risk alerting a still-sleeping Mel and Maggie that something was wrong.

They couldn’t know. At least not yet.

After a few moments, and some deep breaths, Marisol resolved that she had done the right thing. The right thing in hiding herself behind a thin sheet, only able to hold her daughter’s hand, if only it kept the fire away for that little bit longer.

It wasn’t time yet.

And so wiping Macy’s memories was the least Marisol thought she could do for her. A mercy, she rationalised. Though she couldn’t do it herself, she was confident she’d left Macy in capable hands, nonetheless.

One of the few whitelighter’s without a charge, Harry Greenwood was the best candidate, in Marisol’s mind. The Elders, apart from Charity – and even that was few and far between since the incident with Fiona – didn’t keep tabs on him, inactive as he was. The Elders wouldn’t think to question it.

As if he could sense her thinking about him, Harry orbed into the attic, just a few moments later. Marisol, relieved, rushed over.

“It’s done, ma’am,” Harry said, hands folded behind his back, and regarding her with a respectful nod. “Macy is none the wiser of what she’s discovered, though the assurances you’ve left her will linger on.”

Marisol closed her eyes, in silent relief, glad that her daughter would have a chance to live the life she was meant to; before it would inevitably be thrown into flux when she and her sisters discovered their birth right.

“Thank you, Harry,” Marisol said, with a nod of her own. “Now, I know this whole evening has been unorthodox, and you’ll have questions, but I’m afraid I’ll have to wipe your memories too.”

She cringed a little, but Harry was a whitelighter to the last, and didn’t look phased at all by what she said. Though he was by the book, he also knew discretion. It was another reason that she’d trusted him with this.

“Of course, Elder Vera,” he said, with a small, almost resigned, smile.

It only served to make Marisol feel even worse. But it was necessary.

“You’ll never know how grateful I am, Harry,” Marisol said, quietly, placing a hand on his forearm, ghosting the other over his temple, as he closed his eyes.

She muttered the words of the spell; not as precise as a whitelighter’s memory-erasing abilities, but good enough to get the job done.

With the last casting of the memory spell complete, Marisol went to remove her hands, but found herself being pulled into a familiar trance, instead. She knew, immediately, it was her power of foresight; a premonition.

But why now? Why-

The backyard of the manor was strung up with lights and flowers. An arch stood at the end of the garden, and the sun shone blazingly overhead. At the top of the steps a giggling Maggie, and smiling Mel, walked forward, together. They wore matching dresses, a liliac that complimented the sunshine, and flower crowns on their heads.

Marisol couldn't be sure, but somehow she was. This was the perfect day for a wedding.

Shortly after her sisters, Macy emerged from the patio doors, looking calm and serene. She wore a white dress, with a crown of flowers set atop her beautiful curls, similar to those her sisters wore.

She walked carefully, but with excitement in her steps. Yes, the sun was bright, but her smile was even brighter. In fact, Marisol thought that it put the sun to shame.

Mel and Maggie reached the end of the makeshift altar; where a man waited. The groom. His back was turned, and so Marisol had no idea of his identity, though Mel and Maggie smiled at him, warmly.

Maggie did a thumbs up in his direction, while Mel laughed, swatting her sister’s hands to her sides.

The man finally turned around, showing his face, his eyes full of adoration for Macy, who walked towards him, until she finally joined him at the end of the aisle.

It was-

“Elder Vera, are you alright?”

Marisol almost jumped out of her skin. The premonition was so clear, so vivid, and in front of her was the man she’d just seen.

Harry Greenwood; a whitelighter.

A very confused whitelighter, Marisol quickly recalled; her memory spell had already taken effect. To him, he was in front of her, in the manor’s attic, with no clear idea of how or why he’d arrived there.

Marisol smiled placidly; even though he looked confused, he also looked concerned. She waved a dismissive hand away, hoping that the spell had done its job right.

“I thought I would need a whitelighter, and the Elders sent you, don’t you remember?” she lied, the memory she’d implanted, hopefully taking effect.

For a moment, she wondered if her premonition had somehow tampered with the spell, but was quickly relieved, when Harry sighed in recognition.

“Of course,” he said, nodding his head. “It’s just, you were in some sort of trance. Did you have a premonition? Do you still need me to be here?”

Marisol shook her head, and smiled softly.

“No, no,” she said. “I'm simply tired. You’re free to go. Thank you, Harry.”

Harry gave a customary nod of his head, and turned, to orb away from the attic.

Once he was gone, Marisol wandered over to the couch and sat down. She put her head in her hands, and bleary-eyed, tried to work through the events of this whole night. From the moment Dexter called her, the night had taken surreal turn after surreal turn. After twenty years of not seeing her daughter, she’d held her hand, reassured her in how to restrain the powers that might burn her.

To make things even stranger, she'd foreseen Macy's wedding day.

Her wedding day, to a whitelighter no less.

Marisol sighed; it was a lot to take in in one night.

Witch-whitelighter relationships weren’t exactly unheard of, but they were forbidden, and so marriages most certainly were. Marisol wondered how so much could change, in whatever time had passed in her vision, to make that day possible.

It certainly didn’t look like an elopement, done away from the Elders’ reproachful gaze. It was joyous, and open; not secretive, and hurried - as others had attempted before.

There was so much to think about, but time marched on, and she had an early start the next morning at the university. Not to mention, making sure Maggie got to school on time, and helping Mel with her undergrad work.

Marisol stood from the couch, and wandered to the alcove where she kept the Book of Shadows hidden, just in case the girls found themselves in the attic for some reason. She traced the spine of the book, contemplatively.

One day, her daughters would come into their powers. On that day, she wasn’t sure if she would still be walking in the land of the living. In any case, they’d need a whitelighter, to guide them.

Marisol wondered if, perhaps, a force more powerful than even her, an Elder, guided her decision tonight to involve a whitelighter; this whitelighter. It could be a coincidence, but in magic those were few and far in-between. Everything happened for a reason. Marisol knew that.

After all, there was one thing that her vision told her, it was that Harry Greenwood seemed destined to be that whitelighter.

And to Macy...

Well, he would be so much more.

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in August 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

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❤️ Failure to Comply - Sarah Cavar 🧡 I Spit On Your Celluloid - Heidi Honeycutt 💛 You're Embarrassing Yourself - Desiree Akhavan 💚 Death of the Hero - Briona Johnson 💙 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💜 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter ❤️ Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen 🧡 Oath of Fire - K. Arsenault Rivera 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 This Ravenous Fate - Hayley Dennings 💜 Mistress of Lies - K.M. Enright 🌈 Wolf Bite - T.J. Nichols

❤️ In the Valley, A Shadow - Samantha Tano 🧡 Follow My Lead - Adrian J. Smith 💛 The Last Woman I Kissed - Venetia Di Pierro 💚 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💙 Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer 💜 Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker ❤️ Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore 🧡 How to Leave the House - Nathan Newman 💛 Plot Twist - Carmen Sereno 💙 On the Far Side of a Crescendo - Kalyn Hazel 💜 Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions - Maxwell I. Gold 🌈 Daylan and the River of Secrets - Edd Tello

❤️ The Italy Letters - Vi Khi Nao 🧡 The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie - Lee Wind 💚 The House Where Death Lives - Alex Brown 💙 Ash's Cabin - Jen Wang 💜 The Avian Hourglass - Lindsey Drager ❤️ The Heart Wants - Krystina Rivers 🧡 A Grand Love - Janna Barkin 💛 You Can't Go Home Again - Jeanette Bears 💜 Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar 🌈 Her Golden Coast - Anat Deracine

❤️ Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💛 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 💚 Dying for You - L Flowers 💙 I'll Have What He's Having - Adib Khorram 💜 Changing Her Tune - Amanda Kabak ❤️ Monogamy? In this Economy? - Laura Boyle 🧡 The Rainbow Age of Television - Sayna Maci Warner 💛 Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki 💙 Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall 💜 Idol Lives - K.T. Salvo 🌈 Brother's Keeper - Quinn Cameron

❤️ Key Lime Sky - Al Hess 🧡 Crushing It - Erin Becker 💛 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 💙 Tasting Temptation - JJ Arias 💜 Ami - S. Jae-Jones ❤️ You're the Problem, It's You - Emma R. Alban 🧡 Cubs & Campfires - Dylan Drakes 💛 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💙 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💜 Riyati Rebirth - Kalani Shimizu 🌈 The Brujos of Borderland High - Gume Laurel III

❤️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen 🧡 Dance of the Starlit Sea - Kiana Krystle 💛 Scattered Snows, to the North - Carl Phillips 💚 Beyond a World Apart - Caitlin Myers 💙 Don't Let It Break Your Heart - Maggie Horne 💜 Nothing Heals Me Like You Do - Harper Bliss ❤️ How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger 🧡 How Do I Sexy? - Mx. Nillin Lore �� The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 Prince of the Palisades - Julian Winters 💜 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach 🌈 Back to Back - Jo Fletcher

❤️ DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] - Tommy Wyatt 🧡 The Love Archives: Bonus Scenes & Excerpts for Palestine - Various 💛 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Ying Priest 💚 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💙 Queering Reproductive Justice - Candace Bond-Theriault 💜 Gender Explained - Diane Ehrensaft & Michelle Jurkiewicz ❤️ The Unlikely Pair - Jax Calder 🧡 In Universes - Emet North 💛 We Love the Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft 💙 Lessons from Cruising - Martin Goodman 💜 Wild Ginger in the Rhubarb - Eule Grey 🌈 Not My Circus - Delicia Niami

❤️ Asunder - Kerstin Hall 🧡 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A. MacLean 💛 Encounters with James Baldwin - Various 💚 Verity's Game - Jennifer Giacalone 💙 Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase - Fae Quin 💜 The Audacity Omnibus - Carmen Loup ❤️ Haunted to Death - Frank Anthony Polito 🧡 Blood Orange - Paige Grunewald 💛 The Bad Things We Did - Chris Archeske 💙 Dark Restraint - Katee Robert 💜 Worth the Wait - Kenna White 🌈 The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifueko

❤️ Loving Corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown 🧡 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💛 The Duchess of Kokora - Nikhil Prabala 💚 The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray 💙 Survival Is a Promise - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 💜 Loka - S.B. Divya ❤️ The Every Body Book of Consent - Rachel E Simon 🧡 Southern Lights - Liz Arncliffe 💛 Then Things Went Dark - Bea Fitzgerald 💙 Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson 💜 The Last Doorbell - William Parker 🌈 The Pairing - Casey McQuiston

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Broadway Cast of The Prom live at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

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