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When You Fell from Heaven — 20 — Homily (21.3k words) (Patreon)

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2025-02-18 18:01:09
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Took a while, but it’s here!

Edit: Fixed the errors hair/air, Gordo/Garrett and Danny/Nick

Edit: And the extra apostrophe in the final line smh

Edit: step, around, sat

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Comments

Dayna Reichert

"Even if they have to travel to whichever state is first to legalize it. She really hopes it’s not somewhere cold and miserable." As someone in MA rn, I'm sorry Taylor 😭

Ophelia Magos

Hit me with feelings right off the bat with the bit about affections towards a child vs towards a son. Bad week to ALREADY be going through some complex thoughts about the 'rents. And I feel like bringing up Dumb is such an of-the-era writing decision; the setting was already in tone but that sounds like something I'd have READ if I was reading something written in the early 00s. If that makes sense? Excellent work as always, this hits.

Lizzie

Damn it's happening. So much build up and now I gotta wait again.

SinsofSenna

Oof. That ending dug up a *number* of memories in an incisive, kinda-sorta-actually stabbing you sort of way. This story is phenomenal

Roz

noticed a couple errors: "Maxine throws a hand in the hair" should probably be "air". and after Nick offers to sell Dominique a keyboard, she thanks Danny. anyways, the ending completely broke my heart <3<3

Miriam Robern

Ha ha ha ha ha, _Vampire Queens_ on the GBA. Love it. :)

Cromalin

oh no, how the fuck are they going to explain *this*. this is so scary, i feel like at least clay is going to have to come out and that sucks outside the ending, the party was amazing. i'm always having gender feelings about nirvana and max singing dumb only adds to that ("i'm not like them but i can pretend", especially because she had to get stoned to make sure she could pass while doing it! that's what the song is about!), kennedy revealing more hidden depths every time she speaks is fun and it's good to have her support in keeping it secret, gordo should fuck off forever but at least he didn't cause any real issues today. love this story as always!

Lucy Severine

Noooo oof. How could you do your poor gay son and daughter like that Max's mom 🥺 Also was that a reference to Dragonriders of Pern lol

Roz Kaveney

I fear I've been seeing this coming for a while and getting a lot of Recovering Catholic feels...

Emory Ahlberg

"She really hopes it’s not somewhere cold and miserable." Shots fired at ME right now, miss. 😉 Amazing as ever. The ending of this chapter broke me.

Jade Diaz

Brilliant and full of complex feelings as usual.

Wren Roberts

“Wreck up the house” sounds odd - tear up the house or wreck the house sounds more American to me. The party was so lovely. I love that Clay was brave enough to just walk out.

Elsie Campbell

Everything about this chapter rocked! I loved how the tension built and lowered only to build again and finally crescendo with a finale that really makes me want to know what the hell is about to happen next, because it could probably be anything!

Jaye R.

So glad to hear the next chapter is forcing it's way out of your head already. What a spot to leave poor Maxine (and Avery!) Eep!

Danica Surman

Nirvana is a universal trans experience. Catholic guilt is also unfortunately way too common.

Maggie Heels

Ending of this chapter was heavy AF... and I am still waiting for sincere talk between Maxine and Avery...

emily

yayyyy

SingularCurve

Im so torn about this whole chapter. I mean the chapter is amazing. The ending with both Clay and Maxine walking out during the hateful sermon, the way Mom G tries to chase them but they both just dont stop. Walk out is the classic protest of hate. Walk out of that place, over to Clay's car and they both drive off together. It leaves me heartsore that Mom G is into that shit when BOTH of her children are queer. I feel for both Clay and Max as Im queer, and my mom is a lapsed Catholic and my dad is Born Again Tent revival style. (My parents turned out accepting but not understanding, a lot better than I expected when I came out to them, but... I came out in my thirties with my own place to live and my own income they couldnt touch.) I wish Clay and Max the best of luck and a good support system. wow this comment turned out long.

Ellen Mellor

For some reason this whole chapter had me on edge waiting for something bad to happen. It just felt like everything was going too well for our heroines but it just kept getting better and better - being accepted for being a lesbian by the scariest girl in school (who seems like she may have one or two secrets of her own to reveal at some point) to everyone coming together to stop Gordo from doing whatever it was he was planning (in the loosest sense of the word) to do. That being said, I was somewhat blind-sided by the hideous sermon. I probably shouldn't have been, I mean the Catholic church isn't exactly renowned for it's open and accepting stance towards queer people, but even so, I didn't expect it to happen. And then for Clay and Max's mum to appear to agree with it... that was like a stab to the heart. I guess this whole volume of the story has been building up to this. I can't see Clay being quiet about it nor can I see Maxine hiding herself anymore - at least partly in solidarity with her big bro (although the writer part of me says that it would be a bigger twist for Clay to accidentally out her while coming out himself.) I am so looking forward to seeing how this resolves.

Cromalin

i just reread this (reread the whole story but my thoughts are about this chapter) and am convinced avery knows and is just not saying anything. she's looking for max among the girls in the pyramid, unless that's a typo A-Very-Nice-Person: And you’re not any of the girls in the pyramid so I guess you’re either flying through the air or you’re doing cartwheels on the grass A-Very-Nice-Person: You’re probably not flying actually A-Very-Nice-Person: So you’re just a grassy blur A-Very-Nice-Person: A GRASSY BLUR MAX

Zenmadster
>>165330187

Opposite side of this? I saw "homily" and started freaking out.

Zenmadster

You keep making it more difficult to wait for the next chapter. Like "I need my heart rate to go down" levels at this point.

Zenmadster
>>165535047

I'm *really* worried for Clay, though. Max has support, but I haven't seen Clay with support who wasn't Max.

Cromalin
>>165535047

my guess/hope is he has some friends through the bar, we haven't seen him at work outside the time max was there

wry.Sxda

Clay and Maxine 😔😔😔. Kind of get how Maxine feels in the end, where she knows her mother cosigns a lot of abhorrent shit but is still heartbroken after her mother kinda breaks down. Although, I also relate a lot to Clay because I'm also kind of the one who is more visibly angered and annoyed whenever my mother talks about trans stuff when we are at home (my sister and I are both trans and not out to her 💀). Also, I kinda pictured the chapter's ending with Change (In the House of Flies) playing in the car and having as much tension as the opening scene of 28 Weeks Later lmao

CoyoteGospel

God, I love Clay so much. He's the kind of older brother I wanted to be before I realized that he's actually the kind of older sister I wanted to be...

Ashley Bonnell

I made the mistake of starting the book yesterday after work at 5pm yesterday. That was 16 hours ago and now I'm here on the cliff hanger anxious for more!

Sarah Mackenzie

I just read this finally, and dang - so looking forward to how the this second book ends.

Krista Brynn

I am here for the trans sapphic joy, but... LHC reference? Physics-nerd squee! (Had to get that in now while I'm still mid-chapter.)

Endera

Wow. Lots of nice and sweet bits. But like a few others, I was hit with melancholy at the affection between Max and her mom at the beginning. My mom died before I realized I’m her daughter, and she was devout Catholic, too. As much as I wish I could have had an active mom-daughter connection, revel in growing out my hair that she bemoaned I preferred cut short (I had the curls she had to get perms for), there’s a likelihood I would have been conversion tortured to conform. I knew it wasn’t safe, so all the gender feels got locked away so securely, I did not connect with them until over a decade after it could have been safe. So that ending, where love is displaced by bigotry fueled by warped religious zeal? Heartrendingly powerful. Edit: just noticed the chapter was titled “Homily”, as if that wouldn’t have been a pall cast on the entire chapter, had I saw it beforehand.

Aymeric Beringer

That last scene hit me hard. As a teen my catholic parents took me and my siblings to a march against gay marriage (I didn't quite know better at the time). I haven't come out to them yet, and neither has my bi sister. Dreading it, but at least I'm not dependent on them. Great chapter yet again