Brand New Zodiac

Rachel Ann Bovier is a Pittsburgh legend who has been publishing her poems in city newspapers for decades. In more recent years, she started putting up these bill boards along major roads. For what reason? I have no clue. But I would often pass them on my way to Oakland for therapy. They never failed to cheer me up.

As a young trans writer, they gave me this precious little spark of joy. There was someone like me, a writer, a Pittsburgher, a trans person, who was confident enough to put their face on a bill board! I would always smile as we passed by and my mom took note.

Fast forward a few years and it’s my 21st birthday. My mom has been super excited about my gift and teased me about it over and over again. She said it was the best gift she’d ever gotten me and in many ways she was right. It was a custom poem she commissioned from Miss Bouvier! It congratulated me on my birthday, my academic success, lots of little stuff. It was simple and sweet and perfect.

Series: Ghosts in the Nursery

Chosen- The Honmoon chooses Rumi

Growth- How the patterns start to spread

Assumptions- Sometimes you don't hear how something is gonna sound until you've already said it

Interview- Rumi has some interesting ideas for what she wants to be when she grows up

Lonely - Rumi thinks Celine should just date already

Slice- Celine sometimes wonders if she did the right thing, but Rumi consistently proves she did

Eomma- Post Namsan Tower, Rumi wants her mom

Truth- Post Eomma, the girls and Celine talk about Rumi's patterns, her heritage, the Honmoon, and trying to heal.

Urgent- Talking about sex with your mom is the worst

Series: leave what's heavy behind

tuck a knife (with my heart) up my sleeve- a decade of Mira realizing who she is

spilling my feelings just to please the crowd- pre-debut trauma dumping. Kinda funny, kinda sweet, kinda sad. But they all love each other so it's gonna be okay.

Bit by Bit- Now that Rumi is accepting her patterns, new changes in her body are happening

sink your teeth in, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

what if the way you hold me is actually what's holy?- waking up together three times

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

The Unwarranted Torture of Mira by Ryu Rumi, Half-Demon Menace- Rumi is driving Mira insane

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Zoey lost at the airport- what it says on the tin, not on Ao3

New Follower- A high school bully follows Zoey on Insta

Sex Fiend- Mira and Zoey have turned Rumi into a monster, not on Ao3

put me together, thread and needle- Mira is feeling dysphoric, Rumi and Zoey say "not on our watch"

tastes like she could be the one- Rumi doesn't know the names of kinks and Mira is nowhere near as nonchalant as she pretends (cock warming)

just a taste- Rumi offers Mira a taste of her ice cream. Mira wants to taste something else.

blood and water- Mira's brother reaches out. She might not be able to forgive him, but she can get some closure.

Momo Ayase ✨

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