#c: Rachel

[beaumont-ague]

Despite his worries, Toulouse had a very nice time at the wedding. Perhaps… a little too nice. He’d overestimated how many drinks would be fine, and was a bit tipsy for a good chunk of the party. At least he was a happy drunk; parading around with Rachel by his side and complimenting her to everyone they interacted with. His anxieties were slowly being forgotten as he danced with friends, mingled with strangers, and kissed the love of his life. But soon, it all had to come to an end. Not wanting to drive home while still under the influence, Toulouse had suggested that they call Rachel’s dad, and ask for a ride back to the Beaumont estate.

Toulouse had asked that Rachel come stay a few days, to bring him comfort, and also to make up for time they’d missed when he was in the hospital. As much as he wanted to be the one to take her home, it was a much safer and responsible choice to come back for his car later. “You’re dad’s not gonna be mad, is he?” Toulouse hummed, wrapping his arms around her from behind, and kissing her softly on the neck.

@adropofgoldenrachelx

[vonblyssen]

I'm not a big photographer but she's just so cute :') got 3rd in our first champ and might I say, she looks ADORABLE in my go-to tack

[callme-abby]

Abby walked over to the table with two drinks in hand, sliding into the booth and passing one to Rachel. So much had happened in the last few months that it was difficult to process it all. The accident with Toulouse had been rather tragic. Abby had gotten to know him through Charlie, and even though Charlie had separated from the town for a while, she was keeping him updated about the situation. She'd known that Toulouse was a kind and funny person, but now she could add brave and selfless to the list.

She'd brought him flowers, when she'd learned where he was staying, and a magazine, for when he woke up, though it didn't feel right to linger around when other people who surely knew him better wanted to visit too. So instead, she focused on reaching out and spending time with perhaps the one person who felt the worst about this situation. "Hot chocolate, with a splash of milk, and extra whipped cream," she said, as she took the lid off of her own. "Always cheers me up when I'm feeling down. How are you holding up?"

@adropofgoldenrachelx

[wmu-cedes]

@smythewmu @wmurachel @wmuquinnfabray

Alright you three, I don't really care about where I sleep, but I do not want to have the key. I'm usually real responsibable, but I don't want that kinda responsibility on my shoulders this week. So i'll happily give up my chance at the bed in order to give the key-holder that privilege.

[wmustaceevans]

@stardomiscalling

That sounds delicious. Minus the chicken of course.

I could make it for you sometime if you'd like? Sans the chicken, but maybe with a bottle of wine on the side?

[beaumont-ague]

Maybe it was the stress of the situation, or just his nerves being in large places with a lot of people again, but Toulouse couldn't help the spiraling. He was trying to hard to reel it in, but there was a lot on his mind. "There's no one else I would want you to dance with and eat wedding chicken nuggets with," he laughed, "And no one I would want to do that with, either. I'm just realizing how out of touch I've been with things... and I'm sorry that it's caused you a lot of problems." There was a long pause, before Toulouse continued. "I just love you so much, and I know this has not been easy, so I wanted to apologize."

Rachel shuffled a few more nuggets onto a plate in front of them so they could share. Mid-nugget she paused, her pounding. Toulouse was good at being sincere but it felt different this time. She looked him in the eye. "I'm thankful you're here too. Who else am I supposed to dance with and eat wedding chicken nuggets with? And even if— well, we would have figured it out if we had to but thankfully we didn't!"

[hasthecityrearranged]

You could use a little pick-me-up

Melanie La Barrie as Hermes, Rachel Tucker as Persephone, West End 2025: @callmelasagna’s master

[writtenwcrdbcbes]

Rachel exited Castle Cafe looking rather distressed. Her eyebrows were knit together as if she had just come to some deep, terrible realization that something wasn’t right.

She held two take-away cups in her hands, each filled with a different syrupy sweet, piping hot coffee.

“Why did I do that?” Rachel muttered to herself with a shake of her head. Sighing pointedly at the two cups, she slumped back against the wall by the door. Her day had been stressful; her parents, loving as they were, were having a hard time with a particular part of Rachel’s trauma (as was Rachel). The poor girl was agitated beyond belief, and had tried to rid the feeling of being trapped with a walk. It wasn’t working so far, and it all culminated in the current coffee shop incident.

Rachel had stood near the back of the queue for ten minutes, fighting with herself over which coffee to buy. Vanilla? Or Caramel? Vanilla or Caramel? People were looking at her funny, and she had already sent three people to go in front of. The barista wasn’t much help in the decision making process either.

So now she was stuck with two cups of coffee.

“What is wrong with me? I can’t drink this much coffee, this could kill me! And I can’t just… give it back, because that lovely man worked so hard to make it. And then if I did, how would I choose which one to give back? Would he be mad? Oh! He would be so upset that I didn’t like his coffee!”

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“Are you alright?” Ella asked with the greatest concern. The girl looked like she was in quite an ordeal. She didn’t hear what she was saying, but it was clear to her that she wasn’t feeling too well.

“Is there anything I can do for you?” Was she perhaps suffering a panic attack? It was then she heard her say something about the cups of coffee in her hands.

“Hmm? Is something wrong with your order?

[bethccassidy]

RACHEL GREEN in FRIENDS 7.03 | The One with Phoebe's Cookies

[mateoreyesss]

in my defense it was a lot to read and i dont really like to read. i think im cute and charming enough tho that i get away with it

well your a teacher so maybe you can teach me some class

..... did you just blatantly admit to not reading a singular thing I typed, but still try to flirt with me? I suppose your heart is in the right place, but... everything else is probably not the way to win a woman's heart.

It's lovely, I suppose, in theory to have met you, Mateo. Even with the absolute lack of class.

[beaumont-ague]

Halloween was one of, no, it was Toulouse's favorite Holiday. The one day a year where anyone could dress up and pretend to be anything they wanted, mixed with the general spookiness made it the far superior celebration, in his eyes. Plus, this year the festivities were being combined with one of the biggest accomplishments in Redwood Hollow: Ray Bug had finally opened up his restaurant, Evangeline's.

The celebration was in full swing, and people certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves. Toulouse had been making more of an effort to spend time with his sister and Fig, as well as other friends, but wanted to make sure he was paying attention to Rachel as well. "Here you are," he smiled, as he brought over two drinks for them to try. "So, what do you think of the newest addition to town?"

@adropofgoldenrachelx

[wmu-cedes]

@stardomiscalling

I love how everyone wants to kiss me. I am quite skilled

It's all in the lips, babe. They look pretty kissable.

[rachelsquill]

HAHGH C!CRIMEBOYS 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

they put so much crime in these boys

[magicalsantanalopez]

That they are, cannot deny that, you are one of a hell of a mastermind at times.

yeah, I guess so.

My plans often are.

And you can tell me more about what's going on with you and Brittany once you're here.

[bethccassidy]

FRIENDS 5.03 | The One Hundredth

Rachel: Honey, you know, I just got to tell you, I think this is such a terrific thing that you're having these babies for Frank and Alice. Phoebe: I know, it is. Rachel: Yeah.

[terapsina]

Let's talk books. Sorted in threes by vibes.

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I Support Women's Wrongs (murder, slaughter and body horror galore).

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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Django Wexler - A woman from Earth is dropped into a magical realm, meant to save the Kingdom from the FoRCes of DaRKneSSss... except, unfortunately that might have been a thousand years worth of time loops ago, so it's rather time to lose one's temper and decide to become the Dark Lord herself.

Main character -> basically Deadpool (measured in sanity, humor and levels of bisexual horniness)).

Someone You Can Build a Nest In ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by John Wiswell - Shesheshen, a shapechanging monster who's rudely interrupted during her hibernation by hunters. Manages to to eat one of them, unfortunately she also gets shot by an arrow and falls off a cliff. On the bright side she meets a lovely human woman she might end up falling in love with so much... she'll want to build a nest in her (it's possible there's some Cultural Differences that need to be worked through).

Hench ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Natalie Zina Walschots - Anna's latest temp job for a villain (because even supervillains need office help) ends with her carelessly injured by a superhero, laid off and with injured mobility for the foreseeable future (because human bodies don't see much difference between getting hit by a truck and getting moved out of way by someone able to pick up a truck). Angry, disillusioned, and looking for some vengeful payback she starts compiling the statistics of exactly how much suffering gets left behind the heroes and in quick order finds a new job working for one of the worst supervillains in the neighborhood.

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Extremely Competent Women Show Up to Fix Everyone's Shit (with a whallop of romance which was actually sweet instead of irritating)

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The Witchwood Knot ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Olivia Atwater - Winifred Hall was invited to the Witchwood Manor under the pretense of being the governess for a very bratty kid, but when said boy suddenly turns into a very quiet and perfectly bland boy overnight it's very obvious her charge has been stolen by faeries (and it might have something to do with the actual reason she's there). Rescue however is complicated by some factors, one, there being something terribly dark and wrong about the house (normal houses don't have screaming faces in the walls), another, the faerie man posing as the manor's butler who would very much like to make her run screaming the way so many servants had before her (unfortunately for him, she's not even half as scared of him as she is the eyes of the father of her charge).

This one's about dealing with past trauma, and otherworldly terrors paling in comparison to mundane monsters, set in a very beautiful and dark and shiver-inducing Victorian time world where the Fair Folk are very real.

(Same world as her Regency Faerie Tales trilogy that Started with Half a Soul but it's not necessary to read that one first to enjoy this one)

Keeper of Enchanted Rooms ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Charlie N. Holmberg - Merritt Fernsby inherits a house only to be immediately taken hostage by what turns out to be a very stubborn and opinionated magical house. Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms goes there to facilitate the relationship between the house and its new owner.

It's supposed to be a very simple job. Unfortunately there's a third POV character in this book (no, not the Whimbrel House, though I adore that house and *insert here the Rosa Diaz gif about her new puppy and how she would kill everyone in this room and then herself if anything were to happen to that dog*). Anyway, they're a bit... uhhh... let's go with Bad News.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Heather Fawcett - As one might expect from the title, Emily (a Cambridge scholar) wants to write the first ever encyclopedia of faeries. And she's brilliant enough to do it, what she's terrible at is people (*insert autistic character alert here*).

Someone else might then say it's lucky that a fellow scholar with a far easier time at charming people has stuck his toes in her reaserch trip into the Hidden Ones... that person however doesn't understand how irritating, frustrating and maddening her academic rival Wendell Bambleby actually is.

What follows is a story filled with winter snows, some terrible fae, some adorable fae, some not-very-secret fae, the goodest of good dogs, and lots and lots of squabbling. It's the best.

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Dark and Impactful Stories about Children Who Decide on Their Own Paths

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A Skinful of Shadows ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Frances Hardinge - Kate, an orphan and the illegitimate daughter of some stuffy (and evil) aristocrats runs away because being a bastard doesn't mean she didn't inherit the family magic that allows her to get possessed by the dead.

A dead bear ghost is one thing, a Get Out situation is something else entirely.

A Sorceress Comes to Call ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by T. Kingfisher - Cordelia isn't allowed friends or the privacy of closed doors, and whenever she's done something she shouldn't - a category too unpredictable to guard against - she's not allowed power over her own body.

Because her mother is an evil sorceress (think Regina and Cora... except somehow even worse). An evil sorceress that has found herself a Squire to lure into a marriage.

Hester is an old maid living with her brother, a Squire (well look at them coincidences), when said brother acquires a woman clearly set on his fortune. The plan is only to save her brother, except Hester can't help noticing how the woman's daughter keeps flinching in her mother's presence.

In The Lives of Puppets ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by TJ Klune - A family can be an android inventor, his human son (*homoromantic asexual alert*), a sadistic nurse droid, and a very emotional roomba.

And it can be a very happy family. Until one uncovers and wakes up an android that shares a very Skynet past with one's father, said father gets kidnapped, and one has to go on a journey to get him back.

(A book I like to call Sci-fi Reverse Pinocchio)

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Unraveling an Unjust System (and a hero that - on a scale from occasionally to constantly - hears a disembodied voice directly in their heads okay the connection between these three is a bit of a stretch but they're all great books so shut up)

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Hell for Hire ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Rachel Aaron - 5000 years ago Gilgamesh conquered the heavens, enslaved the demons and made it so that the only road to magic humanity had access, was through him.

Now, however a mercenary team made up of free demons gets hired by a Blackwood witch to protect him (and his familiar, the talking cat named Boston) while he puts down roots (literally) inside the new forest grove he's about to start so that he can stand up against the warlocks after him.

The witch quickly becomes the best client Bex and her crew have ever had (after all, warlocks under the rule of the Eternal King Gilgamesh are slavers of their kind, they are delighted at the chance to kill some).

Vespertine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Margaret Rogerson - In a world where the veil between the living and the dead has been kinda broken Artemisia (*another autistic character alert*) is training to be a Gray Sister (magic nun).

Until her convent gets attacked by possessed soldiers and she has no choice but to pick up a Saint's Relic containing a malevolent revenant to protect it.

Problem. Only a Vespertine is supposed to do it. Another problem. The only one "alive" who can teach her to be a Vespertine is the revenant. Another another problem. The revenant cannot be trusted and if she loses control to it, the death toll will be counted in cities.

Terminal Alliance ⭐⭐⭐⭐¾ by Jim C. Hines - Post Zombie Apocalypse, where some aliens showed up, sort of cured the zombies and took the (mostly) cured zombies into their military.

Which leads us to Marion Adamopoulos, also known as Mops, the Leutenant in charge of Shipboard Hygene and Sanitation of the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish.

Right up until a bioweapon turns the entire crew except her crew back into zombies. Congratulations, she's the captain now.

(Space Janitors save the universe story).

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