#WIPSnips | addition
The pet store Nancy had found had fish, turtles, rodents, & a bunch of different lizards, in addition to the cats & dogs the local shelter had brought over for an adoption drive. Carinen found it all fascinating, having grown up without any pets in the house.
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#WIPSnips | marathon
Carinen had heard snippets of Judith practicing, but it was much more interesting learning about all the different types of communes as one coherent speech. Carinen had no idea how she’d found the energy to do so much research after the end of semester marathon.
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#WIPSnips | green
They giggle, Carinen nudging Jessie to look at the pond's edge, where the plants are growing. There are plenty of sedges & rushes & pickerelweed, & oooh cardinal flowers! to investigate, green leaves reaching for the sun & roots for the water.
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#WIPSnips | repeat
Carinen hummed a couple bars of the music Judith had been listening to on repeat most recently. She’d heard it so much that it was surrounding them in their gestalts now, just the two of them.
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#WIPSnips | beam->glow
With Ayana, a few of Charles’ wisps twined with Ayana’s silver brook of magic, but not all of them. What did connect didn’t glow brighter and when they tried, Ayana and Charles couldn’t do the simplest spell they’d all figured out.
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#WIPSnips | massive
We wouldn’t be keeping up with our yearly departmental goals while undertaking this massive project if magic wasn’t making everything easier. We’ve certainly decreased our usage of heavy machinery, which the maintenance department and the environment like. A lot.
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#WIPSnips | pursue->chase
It wasn’t like Carinen could keep it under wraps forever. Especially with how the interview had given her three different magical rabbits she wanted to chase. Better to risk losing the job now rather than later when people figured it out.
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#WIPSnips | media
Oct. 20th, 1983
Earlier this year, an environmental activist group broke into a state branch office of ExxonMobil & leaked internal research papers to the media showing that the company had developed climate models predicting catastrophic warming.
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#WIPSnips | most
They had gotten right into the pond two days ago and stayed until lunch and trekking back home. And the day before that. Annnnnd three days before that. They came to the pond a lot. It really is the only interesting thing to do most days.
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We take a look at what the $142 billion investment firm’s cofounders Cliff Asness, John Liew and David Kabiller are supporting.
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#WIPSnips | never
Oh. This was what Jessie meant about boys, wasn’t it?
Oh dear.
Rebecca was not a boy.
Definitely not a boy.
She liked girls.
Well.
Yet another thing to never mention to her parents.
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#WIPSnips | sweetheart
[Maya's parents recently died in a car accident.]
“Don’t wanna go to school,” Maya whispered into Carinen’s neck, followed by several sniffles.
Carinen wiggled a tissue in to wipe Maya’s nose. “Okay sweetheart, you can stay with me today.”
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#WIPSnips | serious
Tiffany was looking at her like Carinen had proposed flying to the Moon. “You can’t be serious. We should risk our children to the witches just because there’s a labor shortage?”
“What risk?” Judith said, evenly and calmly. Too calmly. Oh dear.
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#WIPSnips | defense
The University has issued a statement that the study is in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Accenture Federal Services.
The President has stated his opposition to the government funding what he terms magic.
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#WIPSnips | vibe
If ever Carinen needed to remind herself that clothing was costuming, she figured recalling this interview would do it. While these folks had been stunning in drag, they were presenting an entirely different vibe in their Marine dress uniforms.
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#WIPSnips | liquid->water
“Everyone’s used the toilet?”
“Yes, Momma,” came the chorus of preteen and younger voices.
“Everyone have their snacks, water, and books?” Judith asked as she slid into the driver’s seat.
“Yes, Imā!”
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#WIPSnips | select->prefer
“I’d prefer to be the adult I needed growing up. Plenty of kids with worse parents than mine or who get beat or kicked out for being like us.”
Judith cocked an eyebrow. “For the gay thing or the magic thing?”
“Phfft. Either. Both.”
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#WIPSnips | airport
Carinen desperately breathed through her nose as she shuffled off the gangway & into the airport terminal. She & Judith had been stuck on that flight for way too long. The connections across country had been worse than the actual flight time.
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#WIPSnips | redeem->reclaim
The interviewer interjected, trying to regain control. It was obvious he was doing so, which Carinen identified as a problem, for him. Looking like he need to regain control made him look unsure.
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#WIPSnips | sixth
Since we had a rat in tow, the only touristy thing we did was go to Central Park. Given how absolutely enormous it is, I do not feel shortchanged of a New York experience—that park is so big I think we saw maybe a sixth of the place, if that much!
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#WIPSnips | except
Knowing he could do magic meant he wanted to do it a lot, bc he was three. Which would be fine since he couldn’t cast on his own, except there was Senka. She was often quite happy to help Jonah cast. Bc she thought it was funny.
Cats.
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#WIPSnips | position
Their magic twines together, a well-practiced twisting at this point. There’s no instinctual jockeying for position or control any more—they found how they like to be together a while ago.
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#WIPSnips | confident
I’m making the cake this year and am glad that if it’s not great, well, enough frosting and the kids won’t care. I’ve been practicing though, so I’m at about 80 percent confident it’ll turn out tasty.
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#WIPSnips | zeal->determination
The gestalt of them, the five of them, Carinen-and-Judith-and-Eric-and-Ayana-and-Charles, they can see more, sense more, smell the anger and the determination and the magic.
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#WIPSnips | academy
I heard that the Academy is debating splitting the best special effects category into non-magically and magically assisted categories. I was wondering how you felt about it. There aren’t that many special effects covens out there, are there?
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#WIPSnips | suggest
Plus the two of them could look like a couple on first impressions. And if no one asked past that, well then there couldn’t be any unfortunate price jumps to try and discourage them, now could there? Ayana had been the one to suggest that plan.
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#WIPSnips | formation
Today, President Reagan, in a speech on the White House lawn, again acknowledged the existence of magic and announced an executive order for the formation of a national registry of magic users in the country.
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#WIPSnips | procrastinate->delay
Carinen stuck her head back out the door when the censor didn’t quite manage to hit the delay quick enough.
“—k sake, do you really think those boys, together through life or death situations, aren’t fucking each other?!”
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#WIPSnips | storm
The butterflies in her stomach decided to mass migrate to Mexico or something with the storm that kicked up.
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