#the macleods are tanners

[shallowseeker]

Thinking about the concept of the punishment resurrection

And yes, I know Fergus was a tailor, but his mother was the tanner's daughter. And in a game of werewolf/mafia, the tanner only wins if he dies. There's something to Rowena and Crowley being unkillable, choosing their "real and permanent deaths" very carefully.

I do think the whole (cut line) “Even when I lose, I win!” is about this tanner role.

(The narrative "tanner" hates the job.)

By the end, Crowley has no family ties, not even Rowena. Liike Raphael, he "just wants it to be over" and has devolved to pure nihilism.

Contrast to AU Kevin Tran, who is Crowley-adjacent (ambition to be President, whip-smart, son of a single mom...and also GAVIN-coded)

13x20

"I just want it to be over."

"Even if you win, you still lose."

That's because for human beings (not just vampires, werewolves), losing family members is almost never worth the cost of war. (War indeed is the domain of the "village" mob's war, searching for scapegoats and trying to champion a Cause at all costs).

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EDIT: Crowley's threat is so interesting. This aspect of his story has been with us since very early.

5x20

#rowena #the macleod class entanglement #crowley #of course viewing the world as a game of mafia is reductive #it flattens people into roles and primitive closed social systems #folly of reddit bros trying to make the world simpler and naval gazing their own so-called cleverness #bc they've discovered subterfuge and tribalism and they're pikachu shocked #NEVERTHELESS #the macleods are tanners #hunters are bombs - jo harvelle dean cas jack

[hauntthumans]

DEAN WINCHESTER

44. closeted bisexual. he/him. one of the best hunters in the world. has been a hunter since his father started teaching him at age four. extremely overprotective of his younger brother, sam. very very self-deprecating. uses humor and sarcasm to cope with everything he’s been through. considers himself the brawn to sam’s brains. fc: jensen ackles. secondary.

ROWENA MACLEOD

physically 35. mentally 304. heterosexual. she/her. one of the most powerful witches in the world. mother of crowley and doesn’t really like him much. has died and come back to life at least twice. a little arrogant but for the most part means well. will do pretty much anything if she’s paid well. helps the winchesters out from to time because she thinks they’re funny. fc: ruth connell. secondary.

FERGUS “CROWLEY” MACLEOD

physically 45. mentally 115. pansexual. he/him. the king of hell. resents his mother for abandoning him. used to be a crossroads demon, but became king through assumedly nefarious means. extremely prideful. works for himself and does whatever is in his best interest at the time. helps the winchesters because he likes it when they owe him. fc: mark sheppard. secondary.

verses

DEAN WINCHESTER

take your brother outside as fast as you can ; verse - pre canon

dad’s on a hunting trip ; verse - canon

blaze of glory ; verse - post canon

fake woo-woo crap ; verse - crossovers

ROWENA MACLEOD

when i was nothing but the tanner’s daughter ; verse - pre canon

i will not apologize for being a career woman! ; verse - canon

i don’t know if i can be redeemed ; verse - post canon

here’s to evil skanks ; verse - crossovers

FERGUS “CROWLEY” MACLEOD

i’ve sold sin to saints for centuries ; verse - pre canon

this isn’t wall street. this is hell! ; verse - canon

let’s go take a howl at that moon ; verse - post canon

i do what i want, when i want ; verse - crossovers

#char : dean winchester #take your brother outside as fast as you can ; verse #dad’s on a hunting trip ; verse #blaze of glory ; verse #fake woo woo crap ; verse #char : rowena macleod #when i was nothing but the tanner’s daughter ; verse #i will not apologize for being a career woman! ; verse #i don’t know if i can be redeemed ; verse #here’s to evil skanks ; verse #char : crowley macleod #i’ve sold sin to saints for centuries ; verse #this isn’t wall street. this is hell! ; verse #let’s go take a howl at that moon ; verse #i do what i want‚ when i want ; verse

[belanor]

endless list of favorite characters - rowena macleod (supernatural)

"I hate you because, when I look into your eyes, I see the woman I used to be, before magic, before the coven, when I was nothing but Rowena, the tanner's daughter. A pale, scared little girl who smelled of filth and death. I hate you because, when you were born, your father said he loved me. Then he went back to his grand wife and his grand house, whilst I lay pathetic and half-dead on a straw mat - my thighs slick with blood. I hate you, because if I didn't, I'd love you. But love... love is weakness. And I'll never be weak again."

#supernatural #supernaturaledit #spn #spnedit #rowena macleod #rowenaedit #spndaily #spncentral #tv: supernatural #c: rowena macleod #*mine #*elofc

[angelique-of-the-volturi-guard]

I know we have a lot of content about trauma in the SPN fandom but something I’ve never seen talked about on here is the generational trauma between Rowena, Crowley, and Gavin and how it shaped them. So I’m going in depth analysis on this shit. Please join me for the ride.

We know Rowena was a tanner’s daughter and a witch. Very likely, she was abused and ostracized by her father for her powers considering the way she raised Fergus. Since her mother is never mentioned it can be assumed she passed before she was born or earlier in her life. The imprint she has on her love map is one of abuse. So when Crowley’s father comes along, it’s likely the first time she’s experiencing love in her life. The light at the end of the tunnel is someone who can accept her for who she is and love her just the same, at the end of all her suffering.

When he abandons her to go back to his wife, she’s understandably devastated. This was the only form of love she had received, and it ended terribly for her- so why would she be able to treat her son that way? You can’t give what you never had. And when she does have him, he’s a built in weak spot for her. She’s a witch, so that’s already a mark against her. But this child is a target that’s easily exploitable. She can’t have that. She’s angry at herself for believing in love, angry at his father for abandoning her, angry at him for making her a target. So the only good thing she can think to do is gain power so that her weakness can’t be exploited that way. She abuses him because that’s what she knows. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t feel love for him, but she has no way to adequately express it. So there’s sarcasm and teaching him bits of magic as a way to show it. And, likely in her mind, leaving him behind in the workhouse. Because he wouldn’t be a target if he was left behind. Because she’s free of the persecution afterward and the vulnerability of her son being a target, it gives her the emotional space to develop genuine love and affection for Oskar.

Crowley suffered because of her inability to show affection. In his own words, he built his kingdom on it. And he treated his son Gavin the same way. But Gavin had the strength to forgive his father’s abuse where Crowley did not because he felt genuine love with Fiona. He’s the MacLeod that broke the cycle in that regard. With an ability to forgive.

Crowley and Rowena continue to punish each other- it’s what they know. Oskar is killed for a spell. Gavin is sent back to his own time. They bicker like cats and dogs. But it’s in the suffering after Gavin is sent back, after Crowley is dead, that you see the depths of their emotions for their family. None of them were taught how to love, but it was felt. Rowena wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to get Crowley back from the dead if she hadn’t felt it. In her own words, those were her choices, but it wasn’t fair to him. And she was right.

I know we talk about the trauma in this fandom, mostly in relation to Sam and Dean. But the two of them understand how to show love to one another- albeit unconventionally. We don’t talk about the generational trauma within the MacLeod family and we really should, because it’s something that happens to a lot of families. The abuse is inexcusable but it is explainable. Should we tolerate it? Absolutely not. But they are a prime example about why people stay in abusive relationships. They haven’t known anything different, or they believe people can change. It’s only after the death of her son that Rowena changes. That fundamental sense of love for him is there, but it wasn’t shown. Gavin is the only one to have the strength to forgive his father, but we only hear about it after he’s a ghost. And it shows the way grief grows and changes us.

Generational trauma impacts every area of our lives. It can make people worse or better, depending on how we respond to it or choose to break it. But if there’s one thing we can learn from the MacLeod family it’s that you will regret what you pass onto your children. They are an under appreciated cautionary tale, and that should be realized more than it is.

#supernatural #outofguard #mun post #rowena macleod #fergus macleod #crowley #gavin macleod #generational abuse #generational trauma #long post #sorry for the long rant

[amethyst-noir]

Fandom Asks

I got tagged ages ago by @gravitywonagain - thank you so much! 💜

3 Ships You Like: Chris Larabee/Vin Tanner (The Magnificent Seven, TV Show), McShep, Nielan

First Ship Ever: In retrospect it was Spock/McCoy but I was too young, offline, and didn't really know what I was doing. The first "proper" one was Duncan MacLeod/Methos.

Last Song You Heard: Hello Sunshine - Bruce Springsteen

Favourite Children Book: I don't have one, actually.

Currently Reading: Big Man by Clarence Clemons & Don Reo, Remnants of Filth, Vol. 3

Currently Watching: Nothing! But I want to start War of Faith - eventually. Maybe. Someday.

Currently Consuming: Nothing, I need to go and shop for lunch.

Currently Craving: More Coffee. Or a Vanilla Coke. Plain water. (I need to get up and get myself something to drink.)

Tagging: @descaladumidera, @turtleoftheabyss, @inthegreyspaces, @myrxellabaratheon and @dancibayo.

#amy gets tagged

[castielmacleod]

A historical etymological perspective on “Rowena”

Hi I’m Ben and today I’ll be taking the realism of a soupy natural character’s name far too seriously!

Not that any other name would suit her because it truly is perfect, but from my esteemed position as an armchair cultural historian regarding medieval Scotland, I cannot help but be bothered (only mildly) that “Rowena” is not actually a Gaelic or medieval Scottish name. There’s no dramatic issue with “MacLeod” at least, as the MacLeods were a real historical Highland clan based in Skye, but “Rowena” is a frankly BIZARRE thing for a tanner’s daughter born in the 17th century to be called. It’s not technically an anachronism—the name was first recorded in the 12th century in Wales—but that still doesn’t draw a clear line between the name’s apparent origin and our friend Rowena herself.

People aren’t sure about the etymological origin of the name, either. Baby name websites will say all kinds of shite sourced from the lord knows where but from my research, at least, the actual peer-reviewed linguistic historians are saying “Rowena” is either a corruption of an originally Germanic name that is now lost to us, or that it’s related to Welsh rhawn which means…. horsehair. To me the Welsh origin would make sense given that the name was first recorded by a Welsh scholar, but that’s just from my armchair.

Apparently the name has no relation to the tree, which is what I had assumed for the longest time, but I suppose that’s rowan with an “a” as opposed to Rowena with an “e” after all—even little differences like that can be more etymologically significant than you’d think. It’s lightly disappointing, though, since rowans are also called witch-trees and the word “rowan” itself comes from a Germanic verb which means “to redden”. I was so sure the writers had considered one or both of those things when naming their redhead witch character but I guess not. Unless of course they just made the same assumption as me (VERY possible).

Though at this point I think that if Rowena’s name had ANY inspiration at all beyond “this sounds good” from the writers, then Queen Rowena of the Britons is actually a more likely namesake. This Rowena is first mentioned in the Historia Regum Britanniae which was written by the Welsh gentleman I mentioned earlier (the Historia being the aforementioned earliest known place where the name “Rowena” was recorded in the first place—Queen Rowena was the blueprint, as they say). Like most Matter of Britain fare we don’t actually know if Queen Rowena existed. But the Historia, at least, presents her as a femme fatale wicked stepmother type character who poisons people. It’s certainly not 1:1, but it does somewhat recall Rowena’s season 10 characterisation. Were any spn writers familiar with the details of 12th century medieval manuscript Historia Regum Britanniae? Not impossible I suppose. It’s not as though they come off as a particularly well-researched bunch though is it.

But anyway, tying this back into the in-universe explanation for our Rowena being called Rowena. After Historia in 1136, Queen Rowena of the Britons gradually entered English, Welsh, and Frisian traditions and became a recurring villainous figure in works of literature. In 1796 her story was adapted into an English play, and then in 1819 the name was used for the heroine of an English novel, and that popularised the name throughout the 1850s. Remember that Crowley was born in 1661 canonically, meaning the earliest Rowena could have been born would be 1640s—that is, WELL before Rowena was popularised as a given name.

Furthermore, there is a very particular historical context for medieval Europe, Scotland included, about literary namesakes. Put simply, naming your child after a heroic figure was a very common practise, but naming your child after a villainous figure, however, meant there was something deeply wrong with you and you must hate your kid or something because that is just an atrocious choice of name any way you slice it. The idea was that to name your child after somebody was to hope they’d take on their namesake’s characteristics, so people having villainous namesakes was outright unheard of. Thus, even though stories about Queen Rowena had disseminated throughout large areas of the British Isles by the time our Rowena MacLeod was born, and you could technically argue that her parents heard the name somewhere within the time period, for them to have actually named her that would have been just an absolutely bizarre move on their part, culturally.

So, in terms of how Rowena could have realistically come to be called Rowena, these I think are the most likely options:

Rowena’s parents were surprisingly familiar with the Matter of Britain for a tanner’s family, and were on top of that VERY culturally abnormal and weird probably to the point of being social pariahs (not out of the question and honestly a bit funny to think about)

“Rowena” is not her original name but an alias taken from, or she flat out renamed herself after, a contemporary villainous literary figure on purpose (also not out of the question even slightly because she very much would do that, plus another for the “like mother like son” jar)

Personally I think both of these options have a lot of merit. On the one hand you can imagine a young Rowena growing up in a historically accurate medieval Scottish version of the Addams Family where everyone else on the street gossips about how the devil has almost certainly taken the local tanner or something hysterical like that. On the other hand, the narrative suggested by Rowena inventing a new name (and maybe persona) for herself, possibly after becoming a witch or just to feel more powerful in general, is very compelling AND provides a delicious parallel to Crowley who also changed his name to befit a new and less weak version of himself. Of course the specific historicity of Rowena’s name can just as easily be ignored and you can just imagine her name is Rowena with zero caveats, I just tend to find this kind of thing fun.

In the end, though, Rowena is Rowena no matter how she got there! Thanks for coming to my Tedtalk.

#Rowena MacLeod #My posts #Lame ending bsgsjsgshs but whatever #Sorry to keep historically analysing Crowley and Rowena in the context of medieval Scotland. As if it’s my fault

[thel0re]

canon inspired characters

bobby john shifter. eighteen. agender. fc jordan fisher, hailee steinfeld, sabrina carpenter, rowoon

davina claire witch. daughter of lucifer. 21-34+. cisfemale. fc danielle campbell / heavily affiliated with @he11sprncss

characters connected to canon characters

areum jung human. bartender. 21-34+. cis female. connection to jody mills. fc kim jisoo / affiliated with @hcllchesters angelina sorenson

betty rosen human. nurse. 21-34+. cis female. connection to becky rosen. fc lily collines

fallon ketch human. british men of letters. twenty nine+. cis female. connection to arthur ketch. fc florence pugh

frankie winchester witch. eighteen. cis female. connection to rowen macleod and sam winchester. fc sadie sink / exclusive sams are @ruinedmyself and @stanfordprepped

paisley campbell human. hunter. twenty seven. cis female. connection to sam and dean winchester. fc kat mcnamara

su-jin min demon. immortal. male. connection to lucifer, crowley, winchesters. fc song kang

characters not connected to canon characters

catalina absulio human. hunter. 28-34+. cis female. hunter corp universe. fc sofia carson / affiliated with @hcllchesters tanner winchester

davika noi human. hunter. burlesque dancer. twenty seven. cis female. new york city. fc lalisa manoban

hae kim psychic. twenty eight. cis female. fc cho miyeon

nari seok demon. true form. immortal. cis female fc park chaeyoung

priya cardenas human. hunter. twenty two. cis female fc jenna ortega / connected with @hcllchesters ezra cardenas

#•┈┈⛧┈ ᴀᴄᴄᴏʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏʀᴇ ┈ muse list

[college-girl199328]

Some have speculated it's already "the power behind the throne" of the UCP, but a controversial right-wing group appears to be grabbing even more influence ahead of Alberta's May election. Conservative Lisa Sygutek says a mid-March Livingstone-Macleod meeting was "packed" with people who identified as Take Back Alberta (TBA) members.

It was an event she won't soon forget. "There was a sense of hostility in the building," she told CTV News. "I've never seen anything like it." The meetings, according to Sygutek, typically involve some light debate, conversation about issues in the riding, and then a vote for new board members. She says every other similar association event she's attended has had a handful of new candidates and some slight turnover.

March's meeting was different. "A couple people were saying, 'I'm a member of Take Back Alberta,'" she said, "and that's when it started to tweak on me that things were getting a little bit too aggressive and extremist for my liking."

Livingstone-Macleod's vote ended with a massive overhaul, and Sygutek estimates 80 percent of the new leadership has TBA connections. "It actually felt like a coup," she said. "It was a charged meeting."

Registered third-party advertiser Take Back Alberta has allegedly inserted members into at least two other conservative constituency associations in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake and Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. Nine of the UCP board member candidates the group endorsed now hold leadership positions in the party, and many believe two other ridings have TBA-backed candidates. 

Recently-removed Lethbridge West candidate Torry Tanner is also alleged to have been involved with TBA, according to political scientist Lori Williams. Tanner left her post this week after a blowback from her claims that "kids, even those attending kindergarten, are being exposed to pornographic materials or, worse yet, having teachers help them change their gender identity with absolutely no parental consent or knowledge whatsoever."

Williams believes there are similar "extreme" views in the group. "These are the people that Jason Kenney said were the inmates taking over the asylum." Williams believes TBA is pushing the conservatives towards private health care and education, and eventually towards Alberta police, pensions, and separation.

"It's not one-person, one-vote equal representation in a democracy," she said. "Here are a few people who are very well organized and motivated to try to move the party and the government in the direction that they want it to move."

CTV News reached out to TBA for comment on this story and another on Friday. We haven't received a response. Sygutek believes the lack of information isn't attractive to a voter.

"You can't get anything off their website," she said. "You can't really tell what their policies and procedures are, and that should be apparent." We do know Take Back Alberta is a registered third-party advertiser created last year. 

Right-wing activist David Parker is the executive director, and Marco Van Huigenbos is the CFO. The latter is the Fort Macleod town councilor who was charged for participating in the Coutts border blockade.

Parker began the group as a way to push back against COVID-19 measures, but it now has a wider scope. TBA takes credit for removing Jason Kenney from his post as premier and electing Danielle Smith.

Parker wouldn't tell CTV News last week how many members TBA has, but when asked about the group Friday, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Devin Dreeshen said "there's a lot of them across the province." Dreeshen didn't deny that some of those members now hold the majority of positions within his constituency association.

[fiercefray]

@ocmultiverse challenge: katherine mcnamara (one/???)

joy tanner for mtv’s scream
 ryan chase for macgyver 
sarah macleod for supernatural
 grace queen for titans 
lizzie keller for teen wolf
 emily bishop for constantine 
felicity grant for legacies
 jules whittaker for the punisher
 audrey cromwell for the order
 sophie walsh for prodigal son

i’ll develop these ladies more in a new directory on my main. enjoy these amazing ladies!

#ocmultiverse #ocappreciation #multiversechallenge #joy tanner #ryan chase #sarah macleod #grace queen #lizzie keller #emily bishop #felicity grant #jules whittaker #audrey cromwell #sophie walsh

[ericrickman]

Tanner MacLeod - Dragon

#tanner macleod #art #contemporary art #painting #Contemporary Painting

[hifructosemag]

Tanner MacLeod’s acrylic paintings create unexpected characters out of geometric forms, taking influence from primitive computer art. See more on HiFructose.com.

#Tanner MacLeod #painting #acrylics #Hi-Fructose Magazine #Hi-Fructose

[ninja-muse]

SUPPORT INDIE BOOKSTORES!!

Hi all! Your friendly neighbourhood book-slinger here! As you know, the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the economy hard, small businesses especially. As you may not know, bookstores have one of the largest overheads and one of the smallest profit margins of any business ever. Many rely on foot traffic and neighbourhood support, which means if they haven’t already shut their doors due to public health measures, they’re still seeing a major drop in the number of customers and books sold—often while still needing to buy new stock and pay rent. It’s not completely dire, we’re not looking at a world without bookshops, but a lot of booksellers are genuinely worried all the same.

This is where you guys come in! If you need books right now (and I’m talking to Booklr here so there are decent odds you do), and you’ve got the money to spend, please consider hitting up an indie for them rather than a chain or exclusively online bookstore. A lot of them took online and phone orders before this year, and many are now offering curbside pick-up, lower shipping costs, and local delivery, and all of them could use your support right now. (They’re also, by and large, some of the most delightfully bookish people you’ll ever meet.)

Don’t know who your indies are? That’s what this post is for! It’s kind of skewed to my area right now because that’s what I know, but it will be updated as I get more recommendations. So please, rec your local indies to me! Add them to this post, slide into my asks, whatever’s most comfortable.

And please note that even if a store is closed and in lockdown, that does not mean you can’t place an order for when the crisis is over.

Let’s share the bookstore love!

There is now also Bookshop.org and the Save Your Bookstore app, for anyone who is interested.

Last edit: May 15, 8:50 am PST.

AUSTRALIA

Abbey’s Bookstore - Sydney. Closing on March 30. Taking online, phone, and email orders, delivering.

Crow Books - Perth. Taking phone orders, shipping.

Q’s Books - Newcastle. Window display where you can request by pointing.

Secret Bookstuff - Newcastle. Closed, taking online orders and offering phone recommendations. 15% off until end of March.

White Dwarf Books - Perth. Open to the public, Paywave preferred, taking orders for shipping

Melbourne

Alice’s Bookshop - Closed. No info about orders or shipping.

Books For Cooks - Open to public. Free next day delivery for people in isolation in local area

City Basement Books - No information.

Coventry Bookstore - No information.

Hill of Content Bookshop - Open online. Free delivery to the CBD, and shipping.

Metropolis Books - Open to the public. Offering free freight via Australia Post for online orders over $50

North Melbourne Books - Open but limited to 3 customers, offering free home delivery to North and West Melbourne.

Paperback Books - Open but closing early, taking phone, email, and online orders and shipping.

Readings - No longer accepting cash payments. Free delivery on online orders $150 and over — anywhere in Australia. 

Robinson’s Bookshop - Some stores may close early, taking online orders.

Syber’s Books - No information.

AUSTRIA

Shakespeare and Company - Vienna. Taking email orders.

CANADA

A Google Map of all indies who deliver

Alberta

The Edmonton Bookstore - Edmonton. Closed. Taking phone, online, and email orders. Updating webstore daily. Accepts Paypal.

Fair's Fair - Calgary. Closed,  taking email orders and doing curbside pick-up, credit and debit only

The Next Page - Calgary. Closed, taking online orders and delivering for free within Calgary

Pages On Kensington - Calgary. Taking phone and online orders, doing deliveries and curbside pick-up

The Wee Book Inn - Edmonton. No information.                       

British Columbia

Lower Mainland

Black Bond Books/Book Warehouse - Services and openness vary depending on location, but currently offering $5 shipping within the Lower Mainland

The Book Man - Chilliwack and Abbotsford. Closed. 

Carson Books - Vancouver. No information.

Golden Age Collectables - Vancouver. Open.

Hager Books - Vancouver. Closed. Has a webstore.

Kidsbooks - Vancouver. Closed to browsing. Online and phone orders. Curbside pickup, shipping, delivery.

Lucky’s Comics - Vancouver. No information.

MacLeod’s Books - Vancouver. No web presence

Massy Books - Vancouver. Currently open online with free delivery within Metro Vancouver and discounted rates across Canada

The Paper Hound - Vancouver. Open to the public, taking phone and email orders, offering free bike delivery

Pulp Fiction Books - Vancouver. Open to the public, taking orders online, by phone, and by Twitter, shipping daily (more details)

Tanglewood Books - Vancouver. No information.

White Dwarf Books/Dead Write Books - Vancouver. Open to the public, offers some free delivery

Y’s Books - - Vancouver. No information.

Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands

Beacon Books - Sidney. Closed, taking orders via AbeBooks, ships.

Bolen Books - Victoria. Taking phone and online orders, small window for in-store pickups, $5 shipping within BC for orders for $40

The Children’s Bookshop - Sidney. No web presence.

Coho Books - Campbell River. Taking phone, email, and online orders. Will deliver locally once a week

Galiano Island Books - Galiano Island. Closed but taking online orders. Delivery on the island free, BC shipping $5.

Galleon Books & Antiques - Sidney. No web presence.

The Haunted Bookshop - Sidney. No web presence.

Laughing Oyster Books - Courtney. Taking phone and online orders and will deliver within the Comox Valley.

The Military and History Bookshop - Sidney. No web presence.

Munro’s Books - Victoria. Closed till end of March, taking phone and online orders, $5 shipping within BC

Russell Books - Victoria. Closed, has pick-up window, offers free North American shipping with $50+ purchase with some limitations

Tanner’s Books - Sidney. Closed, taking phone and online orders, storefront pickup, $5 shipping within Capital regional district, free delivery to locals in a senior’s residence or self-isolating.

Interior

Mosaic Books - Kelowna. Closed, taking phone, email, Facebook, and online orders, free local shipping over $75, curbside pickup.

Nuthatch Books - 100 Mile House. No information.

The Open Book - Williams Lake. Phone and online orders. In-store and curbside pickup, free local delivery.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Bison Books - Winnepeg. Taking phone, online, email, and DM orders. Free local delivery or curbside pickup, with delivery available at cost everywhere else in the world. Accepts Paypal and e-transfer.

McNally Robinson - Winnepeg and Saskatoon. Closed but open by appointment. Taking phone and online orders, offering curbside pickup, next day Winnipeg delivery as low as $5, shipping across Canada

Ontario

Attic Books - London. Closed to at least April 13. Taking phone, email, DM, and online orders. Processing phone payments. Curbside pickup.

Bakka-Phoenix Books - Toronto. Closed to public until April 5. Online orders.

Brown and Dickson - London. Closed. Taking online and social media orders, considering free delivery within London. Seels gift cards.

Quebec

Argo Bookshop - Montreal. Open. Phone and online orders, curbside pickup, shipping. Selling gift certificates. Events have moved online and are starting a discussion series. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Babar Books - Montreal. Closed, taking online orders. Free shipping for West Island. $7.00 flat rate for Greater Montreal.

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly - Montreal. Closed, taking online orders, shipping, curbside pickup. Partnered with Libro.fm. Has launched an online storytime, runs an online book club.

Northwest Territories

Yellowknife Books - Currently taking online and phone orders with curb-side drop-off, also ships

FRANCE

Shakespeare and Company - Paris. Closed. Taking online orders but shipping later. Sells vouches and subscriptions.

IRELAND

Gutter Bookshop - Dublin. Closed at least to March 31. Online and email orders, shipping worldwide. Free postage within Ireland over €30. Sells vouchers.

ISRAEL

Holzer Books - Jerusalem. Appears to have updates in Hebrew.

Danny Books - Jerusalem. No information.

THE NETHERLANDS

The American Book Center - Amsterdam and the Hague. Closed for browsing today. Still taking web orders, handling emails and answering the phone. Free shipping in Netherlands over €20.

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Blackwells - Chain, but a good one.

Book-Ish - Crickhowell, Wales. Closed. Taking online orders. Has an outside donation box for toiletries for NHS staff. Recommending books on Twitter.

Ryde Bookshop - Isle of Wight. No information.

Topping & Company - Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders, and shipping.

England

Chicken and Frog - Brentwood, Essex. Closed. Email orders. Online events. Home deliveries.

Daunt Books - London. Closed. Not currently taking orders.

Five Leaves Bookshop - Nottingham. Closed. Onlne and email orders, free postage and direct delivery from suppliers. Building a webstore and planning online events. Accepts PayPal and National Book Tokens.

Foyles - London. Closed. Online orders. Free UK standard delivery. Has subscription packages. Events cancelled until the end of May.

Gay’s The Word - London. Closed. Not currently taking orders.

Mostly Books - Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Closed.Taking phone, email, online, and social media orders. £3 postage except for large orders. Accepts PayPal and BACS.

Mr B’s Emporium - Bath. “Non-contact open.” Email and phone orders. Has sections on their website for recommendations and suggestions. Has gift vouches and reading subscriptions. Until March 31, £2 postage for 1st class, £1.50 for 2nd class. After that, free shipping over £30. Launching a Youtube channel.

Persephone Books - London. Closed. Online orders, but cannot ship due to lockdown.

Sevenoaks Bookshop - Sevenoaks, Kent. Closed. Online and email orders. Very limited hand-delivery. Shipping from suppliers.

Tales on Moon Lane - London. Closed. Email orders. Delivering. Giving recommendations.

Warwick Books - Warwick. Closed. Phone, email, and social media orders. Shipping from warehouse. Accepts bank transfer and PayPal. Has gift subscriptions and vouchers.

Scotland

Edinburgh Bookshop - Edinburgh. Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders. Deliveries paused, but still shipping.

Golden Hare Books- Edinburgh. Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders. Free local delivery, UK shipping for £2.50.

Lighthouse Bookshop - Edinburgh. Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders, shipping as low as £2. Starting an online newsletter for bookstore vibes. Setting up a system where people in danger from domestic violence can ‘order a book’ and they will then alert the relevant local services to provide help.

Transreal Fiction - Closed. Not currently taking orders.

THE UNITED STATES

California

Alley Cat Bookshop and Gallery - San Francisco. Closed. Taking orders on Bookshop.org for direct home shipping. Sells gift certificates. Has a Patreon and a GoFundMe.

Books Inc./Compass Books - Bay Area. Closed. Online orders, free shipping.

Booksmart - Morgan Hill. Open, taking orders, curbside pickup. Home delivery within 3 miles, shipping $3.99 or free over $25. Providing gloves to browsers.

Borderlands Books - San Francisco. Closed, filling mail orders.

City Lights - San Francisco. Closed. Unable to directly fill online orders but lists with Bookshop.org.

Dog Eared Books - San Francisco. Valencia location in store to take your calls between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every weekday. Taking orders on Bookshop.org for direct home shipping, and online orders in store. Sells gift certificates. Has a GoFundMe.

Green Apple Books - San Francisco. Closed. Taking online orders. Free shipping on orders over $25. Partnered with Libro.fm. Is selling “Stay Home Read Books” shirts and gift cards.

The Last Bookstore - Los Angeles. Open by appointment, taking online and emails orders, offering curated gift bags, still accepting donations and buying used books

Leigh’s Favorite Books - Sunnyvale. Closed. Online reservations. Contactless local delivery. Accepting direct donations.

Omnivore Books - San Francisco. Closed. Phone and online orders. Limited pick-up hours. Shipping.

Recycle Bookstore - Campbell and San Jose. No information.

A Shop Called Quest - Phone orders, curbside pick up, shipping options. Also selling gift cards

Skylight Books - Los Angeles. Taking online orders and shipping with limitations.

Vroman's Bookstore - Pasadena. Online orders under $75 for shipping only. Partnered with Libro.fm, MyMustRead, and Corkcicle. Selling gift cards and taking financial donations.

Connecticut

That Book Store - Wethersfield. Open. Curbside pickup, free delivery available. Partnered with Libro.fm. Has a GoFundMe.

Florida

Vero Beach Book Center - Vero Beach. Open for curbside pickup. Still giving recommendations and retrieving in-store stock.

Georgia

Book Nook - Decatur. Open.

Eagle Eye Books - Decatur. Closed to browsing. Taking online and phone orders, curbside pickup.

Little Shop Of Stories - Decatur. Closed to customers until April 8, but allowing store pickup. Online and phone orders. Free home delivery in 30030 and neighboring zip codes. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Tall Tales - Decatur. Open.

Illinois

57th Street Books - Closed. Taking online orders.

Anderson’s Bookshop - Naperville, Downers Grove, and LaGrange. Online orders temporarily suspected due to volume. Downers Grove taking phone orders and has curbside pickup. Sells gift cards. Has a GoFundMe and is partnered with Libro.fm.

The Book Table - Oak Park. Closed. Direct shipping from distributor. Selling gift cards. Answering emails.

Bookie's New and Used Books - Chicago. Closed for in-store browsing. Taking online orders. Delivery within five-mile radius, curbside pickup. Also sells through Bookshop.org and is partnered with Libro.fm. Sells gift cards and ebooks.

Myopic Bookstore - Chicago. Closed.

Quimby’s - Closed at least to end of March. March and April events cancelled. Taking online, email, and phone orders, shipping, curbside pickup. Offering recommendations on Zoom.

Powell’s Books - Chicago. No information but takes online orders.

Sandmeyer’s - Chicago. Closed. Taking phone and email orders.

The Scarlet Page - Oregon. Closed. Doing curbside delivery. Selling book bundles at flat prices. Has a GoFundMe.

Unabridged Bookstore - Chicago. Closed to the public. Taking online orders, shipping. Sells gift cards.

Women & Children First - Chicago. Closed until May 1. Taking online orders and shipping. Preorders available. Partnered with Libro.fm. Doing poetry events on Instagram and other virtual events elsewhere.    

Iowa

Prairie Lights - Iowa City. Closed to the public. Taking phone and online orders. Free local delivery, curbside pickup, shipping free over $50 within the continental US.

Kansas

Book-a-Holic Bookstore - Wichita. Open, offering curbside pickup.

Eighth Day Books - Wichita. Taking orders and shipping.

Rainy Day Books - Fairway. Open. Taking phone and online orders. $5 priority mail under $75, free shipping over $75. Offering phone recommendations.

Raven Book Store - Lawrence. Taking email and online orders. Free local delivery. $1 shipping across the US. Has book subscriptions.

Watermark Books and Cafe - Wichita. Open. Taking online orders, $3 shipping within continental US, curbside delivery of books and food. Sells eBooks and audiobooks.

Kentucky

Nanny Goat Books - Louisville. No information.

Maryland

The Book Escape - Baltimore. Closed. Taking orders, shipping daily, offering free delivery.

 The Book Thing of Baltimore - Baltimore. Closed. Soliciting ideas for safely giving away books during social distancing and looking for satellite bookshelves. Accepting financial donations.

The Ivy Bookshop - Towson. Closed. Taking phone and online orders, shipping, offering phone recommendations.

Massachusetts

Brookline Booksmith - Boston. Closed. Taking phone and online orders, shipping. Recommendations on social media.

Harvard Book Store - Boston. Closed until April 7. Online orders. Shipping. Offers print-on-demand services. Events cancelled.

More Than Words - Boston and Waltham. Stores and events currently closed. Still accepting book donations.

Trident Booksellers and Cafe - Boston. Store and cafe closed to public. Events cancelled. Shipping within US. Food delivery and pick-up. Sells gift cards and partnered with Libro.fm.

Wellesley Books - Wellesley. Taking online orders, direct shipping from distributor. Partnered with Libro.fm. Sells gift cards.

Michegan

Bookbug and This Is A Bookstore - Kalamazoo. Closed, taking orders, providing reading lists. Has launched a book subscription service and is accepting donations.

Kazoo Books - Kalamazoo. No information.

Literati Bookstore - Ann Arbor. Closed until April 13. Processing current orders and sending incoming orders through a distributor that ships. Has a GoFundMe.

Minnesota

Dreamhaven Books - Minneapolis. Open, taking phone and email orders, $10 care package within the US.

Excelsior Bay Books - Twin Cities. Closed for browsing. Taking online and phone orders, giving phone recommendations, curb-side pickup, shipping. Selling audiobooks and gift certificates.

Red Balloon Bookstore - Twin Cities. Closed. Giving recommendations by phone. Parking lot pick-up, free shipping, orders $20 free delivery in neighbourhood.

Wild Rumpus Bookstore - Twin Cities. Closed. Taking online orders, offering curbside pickup, free shipping or delivery on orders over $10.

Mississippi

Lemuria Books - Jackson. Taking online and phone orders, offering curbside pick-up and shipping. 

Montana

Vargo’s Jazz City and Books - Bozeman. No information.

Country Bookshelf - Bozeman. Closed to browsing. Open for pick-up orders, prefers curb delivery, local delivery, or shipping. $1 shipping nationwide. Taking online and phone orders, acting as personal shoppers.

Isle of Books AKA Used Book Emporium - Bozeman. Open. Taking phone and online orders. Curbside pickup and shipping. Doing short readings on Facebook.

New Jersey

Words Bookstore - Maplewood. Events postponed to April 25. No other information. Has webstore.

The Book House - Millburn. Online orders. Selling subscriptions, gift cards, and gift baskets. Offering email recommendations. Partnered with Libro.fm.

New York

Bluestockings - NYC. No information, has webstore.

The Book House of Stuyvestant Plaza/Market Block Books - Albany. Closed. Events to be rescheduled. Online orders, direct shipping from distributors. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Book Culture - NYC. Some locations closed, all closed to browsing. Taking online orders, shipping. Pickups uncertain. International shipping. Buyback suspecting but accepting book donations.

Books of Wonder - NYC. Offering digital storytime.

The Corner Bookstore - NYC. Events cancelled through April. Phone and email orders, free local delivery. Customizes gift baskets. Allows customers to open an account. Sells gift certificates.

Dashwood Books - NYC. No information

Greenlight Bookstore - Brooklyn. Closed to the public. Online orders shipping from supplier, free over $100.

Housing Works - NYC. Bookstore and cafe closed. Clinics still open. Taking financial donations for the organization as a whole. Sells gift cards.

Kitchen Arts and Letters - NYC. Closed. Filling phone and mail orders.

The Lit Bar - NYC. Online orders, shipping, curbside pickup by appointment. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Midtown Comics - NYC - Open, taking online orders, currently running a 20% off everything sale until March 31st

The Mysterious Bookshop - NYC. Closed. Shipping all orders when business ban lifted.

Revolution Books - NYC. Closed to public. Still providing information and analysis, and online programming.

Shakespeare & Co. - NYC. No information, but webstore and free shipping.

Spoonbill and Sugartown - NYC. Taking email orders and shipping.

The Strand - NYC. Closed, taking online orders.

Three Lives and Company - NYC. Closed and not currently processing orders.

North Carolina

The Book Lady - Munroe. No information.

Bookmarks - Winston-Salem. Taking phone and online orders including preorders, curbside pickup, free shipping over $25. Offers memberships, gift cards, and subscriptions. Partnered with Libro.fm, sells ebooks. Taking donations.

The Captain’s Bookshelf - Asheville. No information.

Epilogue Book Cafe - Chapel Hill. Closed. Online orders, $3 shipping. Partnered with Libro.fm

Firestorm Co-op - Asheville. Open. Taking online orders. Events cancelled till end of March. $1 shipping.

Flyleaf Books - Chapel Hill. Closed. Online and phone orders, curbside pickup and $1 shipping through April.

Island Books - Kitty Hawk. No specific information but does online orders.

Malaprops Bookstore/Cafe - Asheville. Online and phone orders. Events and book clubs suspended to May 15. Home delivery throughout Buncombe Country with two book minimum, free shipping over $50 and free delivery downtown, curbside pickup. Exploring subscription services and digital content. Directing donations to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC)

Quail Ridge Books - Raleigh. Closed to the public Weds and Thurs. Taking online orders. All March events cancelled. Free media mail shipping to continental US.

The Regulator - Durham. Closed to customers. Phone and online orders. Curbside pickup, reduced shipping nationwide. Sells gift certificates.

Ohio

The Book Loft - Columbus. Closed till April 6. Taking online orders, shipping for $4.99.  

Oregon

Black Sun Books - Eugene. No information but putting their stock online.   

The Book Bin - Corvallis and Albany. Open. Phone orders. Free home delivery and curbside pickup.

Browser’s Books - Corvallis and Albany. Closed to public, open by appointment. Taking phone, email, and messaging orders, and posting shelfies for online browsing. Free shipping in Oregon over $15. Curbside pick-up.

Dudley's Bookshop Cafe - Bend. Closed. Taking email and Facebook orders, doing deliveries. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Grass Roots Books - Corvallis. Faking phone and online orders. Free shipping, curbside pickup. Launching an “Irregular” newsletter.

J Micheal's Books - Eugene. Closed, curbside and local home delivery.

Powell’s Books - Portland. Closed through April. Free shipping for over $25

Smith Family Bookstore - Eugene. Closed. Taking phone and online orders, allows pickup, also shipping.

Tsunami Books - Eugene. Taking phone, email, website, online, and Facebook orders. Curbside pickup. Accepts checks and cash. Free shipping anywhere in the US.              

Pennsylvania

Towne Book Center & Wine Bar - Collegeville.  Closed. Online orders. Free standard shipping in the US. Sells gift cards. Partnered with Libro.fm and MyMustReads. Some book clubs meeting digitally.

Tennessee

Parnassus Books - Nashville. Closed to public. Taking and shipping orders. Events cancelled until April 10.

Vermont

Star Cat Books - Bradford. No information. Takes donations.

Washington

Brick and Mortar Books - Redmond. Closed. Taking online orders.

The Elliott Bay Book Company - Seattle. Closed until March 31, taking phone and online orders, taking curbside pickup, limited home delivery, free delivery for over $50, free shipping within US.

Imprint Books - Port Townsend. Closed to browsers until March 31. Taking phone and email orders. Direct-to-home shipping for $2, free over $30. Giving recommendations. Partnered with Libro.fm. April writing workshops now on Zoom.

Left Bank Books - Seattle. Closed to the public. Taking phone and online orders (including for store credit), shipping daily.

Lion Heart Books  - Seattle. No information.

Magus Books - Seattle. Closed as of March 26. Taking phone and email orders, shipping

Main Street Books - Monroe. Closed to browsing. Stock listed on spreadsheet, Amazon. and Bookshop.org. Free shipping. 20% off gift cards.

Mercer Street Books - Seattle. No information.

Ophelia's Books - Seattle. Closed to the public. Available for phone or email orders that can be shipped or picked up during limited hours.

Secret Garden Books - Seattle. Closed until at least April 7 and not processing orders until then.

Third Place Books - Seattle. Taking orders, free shipping to March 31.

Twice Sold Tales - Seattle. Open weekends, selling gift certificates, has a GoFundMe

Uppercase Bookshop - Snohomish. Closed to browsing. Taking online orders. Shipping and delivery. Sells gift cards. Partnered with Libro.fm and MyMustReads.

William James Bookseller  - Port Townsend. Closed.         

ONLINE-ONLY

Absinthe Books

#bookstores #bookstore #indie bookstores #booklr #covid crisis #covid-19 #support your indies #social distancing #currently events #signal boost #masterposts

[queenwitchrowena]

☽〇☾ — ROWENA MACLEOD

❝ she wore her scars as her best attire, a stunning dress made of hellfire.❞ ☽〇☾  —  AESTHETICS

BELIEFE IN PROPHECY AND MAGIC OLD AS TIME  — WINTER SOLSTICE ORGIES  — BACKLESS FLOOR LENGTH GOWNS AS CASUAL WEAR —  WINGED EYELINER SHARP ENOUGH TO CUT YOU  — FINDING REDEMPTION AND MEANING IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

☽〇☾  — CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Rowena MacLeod Nickname: Ro (To a few people.) Age: 378 appears mid to late 30’s  (spent an additional 190 years in Hell) D.O.B.:  1643 Place of birth: Isle of Skye, Scotland Gender: Cis Female Species: Human/Witch (Natural) Height: 5’2” / 157 cm Weight: 110lbs / 50kg Eye color: Green Hair color: Vivid red copper Relationship Status: It’s always complicated and often fake. Sexuality: Sexually Progressive Powers: Innate magic, learned spell work, ability to create spell work. Weaknesses: Overestimating herself, pride, volatile anger, recklessness Occupation: Witch / Con Artist / Hunter Consultant / Queen of Hell Weapons: Hex Bags, spells, natural magic, Voodoo dolls, crystals, potions, alchemy, manipulation. She is capable of using traditional weapons such as knives and guns when necessary.

Personality: Rowena is intelligent, ambitious, proud, manipulative, Machiavellian, petty, sarcastic, reckless, often self serving, hateful, seductive. She resents anyone who dares to have authority over her. She flirts like mad with people, often for fun, often for her own gain. When she is on someone’s side she can be sweet, calm, warm, and courteous. When she has labeled someone as completely useless, unfortunately in her way, or an enemy, she can be ruthlessly vicious and violent. People that cross her may find themselves in various precarious situations up to and including violent deaths.

Rowena is hard to get to know deeply, she builds walls to keep people from hurting her, not just physically, but emotionally. She is never quite able to be rid of the parts of her that fear and loathe her past. She has always been a dreamer. She is slowly learning to trust and value people and loyalty, even if she might deny it.

Likes: People who can do something for her, knowledge, power, money, magic, Winchesters and their pet angels (though she will not state that out loud), creating her own spells, her son (not that she wants to, she hates him because it’s easier for her), flirting, elegant states of dress, stability, freedom.

Dislikes: Authority over her, being used, baring her feelings, feelings, weakness, abandonment, her own desperation, her past, swallowing her pride, not controlling a situation, being underestimated, being undervalued, people denying their own abilities with magic, most hunters, most other witches, her son lol, most demons, anything that makes her appear unsophisticated, limits.

Appearance: Rowena is a slim petite woman. Pale skin that burns and freckles if she doesn’t stay out of the sun or apply some sort of charm. She keeps her fiery red hair long, with fringe, and alternates between letting it curl naturally or straightening it. She wears it both up and down.

Her clothing choices tend to learn towards the impractical and formal. Long sleeve floor length gowns, dresses, heels, and assorted jewelry. She wears bold winged eyeliner and often bright and shimmery eyeshadow looks, bold red and coral lipsticks. Rowena may occasionally wear something that makes her blend in a bit better, stylish slacks and blouses, sometimes a suit jacket. She never appears not put together if it’s within her control.

Rowena has a number of scars on her body made by the insertion of spell work in the form of hex bags. There is a scar on her outer right thigh, one on the left side above her breast, and one on her left hip above the bone. She also has very faint stretch marks on her belly from pregnancy.

☽〇☾  —  BACKSTORY

Rowena MacLeod was born the daughter of a Tanner in 17th century Scotland. She was one of several children born to her parents.

Her mother did not follow witchcraft, her father forbid it, he was a strict man. But she knew that she was born a witch and that magic ran innately through her. She was forced to not speak of it, though she couldn’t always control it. Even without training or knowing the right words, Rowena could speak things into happening given enough passion.

She was different from most of her siblings, the only other one who was capable of magic was an older brother, Fergus, though he too was made to tamp it down. He died when they were still young. A fever took three more of her siblings in childhood, and her mother was often absent or in her own head after that.

When Rowena was 15 she fell in love with a charming wealthy married man. He promised her that he’d take her away and that they would be together. When she was 16 she found herself unwed and pregnant. Her father threw her out in shame, and though her lover housed her in the village after, he did not visit nearly as often after. She knew later his promises were all lies.

He came to see her only once more, on the eve of their son’s birth. It was a long and hard birth and it was said that she wouldn’t make it. Her lover kissed her on the forehead and told her that he loved her. It was his last kindness. He left her there, dying, penniless, and went back to his wife and other children, expecting her death. Though Rowena managed to make it through, weak as she was, with a healthy son to show for it. She named him after the brother that she had been closest to.

Afterwards, baby Fergus’ father denied ever knowing Rowena at all. She was alone, with a child she couldn’t help but desperately love, cast out of her family for her sin of bearing a child outside of marriage, and labeled a whore by everyone else.

She sought to use her magic, thinking it would be what would save them. But what little she could do only earned her a worse reputation. Rowena was forced to take her baby and leave, she thought elsewhere she might be able to tell people that she had been widowed, but it hardly mattered. She had nothing and no one, and a baby to care for. Life was hard for them. Rowena was often unable to provide even the most basic things for her child. With her reputation she couldn’t find any reputable work. Instead, she sold her body to pay for what meager little she could to keep a roof over their heads. And she learned what she could of magic from wherever she could.

She did her best for her son, taught him what she could, and tried to shield him from what she was. Until he grew to look more and more like his father, the man who had broken her heart.

She could barely look at him, the boy she loved, that only served to remind her of what she hated about her life. She wasn’t a good enough mother, he was the reason she was forced to scrape to get by. She couldn’t help but tell herself those things. And she couldn’t help but tell him in fits of anger.

When he was 8 and devoid of all the pretty baby fat of youth, Rowena was caught and about to be tried for her crimes as a witch. Before that could happen, she left her son in the care of a workhouse, unable to keep him with her. She told herself she would be back, but she had nothing to offer him, and he was a painful thing to look at. The personification of a wound never closed. At a certain point she knew that she had been gone too long and made up every reason she could to justify it.

She found the opportunity to study under the great Milanese witch Leticia D’Albioni, and soon after that she finally joined the ranks of the Grand Coven. The Grand Coven were critical of Rowena having a child with a “non-magic”, but they were willing to overlook this because of the great talent she possessed. However, her immense raw skill and recklessness with extreme witchcraft made them wary of her. This eventually led to her being hexed by the coven with a binding spell that restrained her magic, as well as being banned from performing magic, taking on students, or forming her own coven.

Rowena didn’t stop using her then limited powers when possible, still stronger than many witches, but she did fear the Grand Coven and their worldwide reach for centuries. She stayed off their radar as much as possible, learning where she could, and managing to take care of herself in other ways when necessary. She’d dodge the occasional run in with other witches, demons, hunters, The British Men of Letters.

300 years later, Rowena resurfaced, recently run out of the UK by a member of the British men of Letters. And with a goal in mind, intending to reclaim her lost power and start a coven of her own to do so.

It wasn’t until she learned that her son, who should have long been gone and forgotten, was reborn as the demon Crowley and King of Hell, that she was set on a new vicious path.

She reinserted herself into Fergus’ life. (Refusing to call him by his newer chosen name, though she would never explain to him what the name meant to her.) Rowena attempted to use her son for his position of power to help her with the Grand Coven. Aware of her manipulations, her son assisted anyway and captured the head of the Grand Coven, Olivette, for her. Tortured by Rowena, Olivette revealed the Grand Coven was much-diminished in its power because of a concerted campaign against witches by the Men of Letters. After learning this Rowena sought again to put together her own coven, something far greater than what the Grand Coven was, though she was met with either disinterest or thwarted plans. Still, she remained by her sons side in hopes that his power would be useful to her.

This led to frequently recurring encounters with the Winchester brothers and those that surround them. Sometimes on opposite sides, sometimes as allies.

See here for further detailed information.

☽〇☾  —  POST SEASON 15 EPISODE 3

Rowena expected to die and have her body eventually deteriorate and release the souls that she carried with her, back to hell where they belonged. Instead she found herself dead, but with an incredible amount of power stored within her from the souls that she absorbed. As she arrived in Hell by her own choice, Rowena is able to take control of Hell’s throne through the use of her still in tact magical abilities, and fear.

She is a powerful soul inhabiting her own body, though technically still dead, and has never become a demon.

As ruler, she immediately shut down all demon deals and overhauled hell to work the way that she wanted it to. Her opinion is that humans do plenty of things to put themselves in Hell, no need to assist the process. People will end up where the ought to.

☽〇☾  —  CURRENT

Since her arrival in Lebanon, Kansas, and once again a member of the living, Rowena has returned to reside in the Men of Letters bunker with the Winchester brothers.

#☽〇☾ — Rowena MacLeod #☽〇☾ — character bio #long post cw

[marril96]

Puppy Eyes

Characters: Rowena, Sam, Castiel, Dean

Summary: Rowena refuses to be manipulated. Sam is confused.

Editor: @miss-moon-guardian​

*****

"Samuel, that's enough!" Rowena demanded.

Sam frowned, confused. "What did I do?"

"You know bloody well what you did!"

He'd been doing it for months, and she'd been rewarding him by letting him get away with it, generous as she was. She hadn't minded it at first — had actually found it rather cute, endearing — but even the sweetest of things lost their appeal after a while.

Especially when those things happened to entail manipulation.

Sam looked at her as if she'd suddenly grown a pair of horns. Which she would have preferred to being treated like an adversary — still, after all this time. "I don't know what you're talking about."

She sighed. Irritated. Purposely loud to get her point across, seeing as her words obviously weren't able to. "Stop it!" It was a command. An order she demanded he follow, accompanied by a forefinger raised to point directly at him. A threat they both knew she had no intention on making good on (goodness, how soft she'd gotten, not that she'd admit it out loud), but if felt good to let it out, to get it out of her system.

Sam was none the wiser. "Stop what? Rowena, what's going on? What did I do?"

He knew damn well. Rowena wasn't born yesterday; this certainly wasn't her first time being manipulated.

She had to admit, though, his confusion seemed almost genuine. As if he truly didn't know. A crafty wee boy, he was. She expected nothing less from a hunter.

She glared.

Sam flinched as if struck.

The corner of her mouth curled into a smile, a tad too smug to flash at a friend, but what else was she supposed to do?

He was the one who started this game.

"Rowena…" His voice was soft, caring. So bloody friendly a pang of guilt shot through her at her behavior.

Maybe he truly meant nothing by it. Maybe she was looking into things too hard, trying, once again, to find excuses as to why she didn't need a friend, why she was fine all on her own, the same as she'd been for centuries.

Then he did it again.

His lips trembled, brows lowered, expression softened.

He gave her the puppy eyes in all their innocent, adorable glory.

A cunning boy, he was. He didn't deceive her or threaten her — there was no need for such unpleasantries.

All he had to do was look at her like a hurt puppy and she would do whatever he wanted.

Like that time he'd needed help on a particularly difficult wraith hunt. Or when Dean got struck with a curse — again, because of bloody course he had — and Sam, the wannabe witch protege, couldn't break it on his own. Or all those times he'd texted her, and his words, every second one a please, reeked of complete and utter desperation to the point where she could picture the puppy eyes, big and hurt and teary, in her mind and she couldn't get herself to say no.

No more.

Rowena MacLeod was nobody's fool.

Today he was doing the same. She was at the Bunker for a visit, a friendly get-together they engaged in from time to time just to keep in touch. A wee reunion — a family one, though she would never say the word aloud, the connotations still stabbing daggers through her heart. Then Sam's phone rang, and in an instant he was on his feet, frantically explaining the new emergency.

The kind that, apparently, required a witch to resolve it, and wouldn't you know it, there was one right here.

Dean and Castiel were instantly on board, ready for the fight.

Rowena, on the other hand, was not.

She was here on a vacation, if one might call it that. A visit to a friend she'd grown quite fond of (another thing she kept to herself, preferring to let actions speak in place of words).

Besides, every time she lent a hand, it ended badly for her.

Rowena was a lot of things, but she was no masochist.

So, to convince her otherwise, Sam had given her the puppy eyes.

And now he was giving them to her again.

"Samuel," she warned, all bark, no bite. Another useless threat for their days of animosity were long gone. Sometimes she missed them.

"What? What is it?" Now he was a concerned hurt puppy, far from a good combination when she was trying to stand her ground.

She pushed through it; through the ache in her heart, the fluttering in her belly. She was a grown woman. She would not be swayed by a look, no matter how adorable it was.

Clearing her throat, she said, loud and firm, "I'll not be manipulated."

Sam was flabbergasted. "I'm not manipulating you!"

She scoffed. "Right."

"I'm not! I swear."

He swallowed. Breathed in and out. The puppy stare intensified.

Rowena's lip trembled. She would not give in. She could resist. She would resist. "Don't!"

"I'm not doing anything!" Sam insisted.

"You're giving me the bloody puppy eyes!"

He was taken aback by the outburst. "What? I—"

"Don't play dumb with me, boy," she said. "I've been around for a while. I can tell when I'm being manipulated."

Hell, she had manipulated using that same tactic. Granted, her puppy eyes weren't all that sweet, but she had utilized them to accomplish certain goals. They were a useful tool, if one knew how to use them.

Like, for example, Sam Winchester.

"Rowena," he said, "I swear, I'm not manipulating you."

"Really? Then what's with the eyes?"

"I-they're my eyes! I can't change the way I look!"

"Och, that's bollocks and you know it!"

"Sam does have pretty vulnerable eyes," Castiel cut in matter-of-factly.

Sam shot him what Rowena came to refer to as his signature bitchface, which shut the angel up instantly.

"Rowena," he said, voice silk and honey, everything soft and sweet and lovely. His eyes locked with hers; still alike that of a puppy, but there was a rawness in them, an honesty in its purest form, "I promise I'm not trying to manipulate you."

His gaze was too intense, too real to be anything other than the truth. Was it possible that was simply how he was? That he wasn't trying to manipulate her — not on purpose, anyway?

She wanted to argue, to press on the issue further, but how could she when he was looking at her like that? When he was speaking so gently, so kindly? When he was being so bloody lovely?

He'd never looked at her like that when they were enemies, she remembered. Had never shown her kindness, tenderness — not until she'd changed and allowed him to see there was more to her than the stone-heartedness that met the eye.

Sam was a good man. He wouldn't take advantage of her. Not after everything they'd been through. After they'd bonded over shared trauma and had learned their fate. He was the first person who was able to look past her cold exterior and get to know the person — the woman, vulnerable, frightened — hiding behind it.

He was the first person to offer her redemption.

He wouldn't jeopardize their friendship (the word still tasted weird on Rowena's tongue) over something as petty as manipulation.

Rowena's cheeks flushed the ripe red of cherries. She huffed.

Sam laid a hand on her shoulder, a warm, peace-offering gesture. "I'm not." If the puppy eyes swore on it, who was she to say otherwise? "Will you help us? Please?"

"Fine."

What other choice did she have? Besides, it wasn't like she had anything else to do.

Before she did anything, though, there were some ground rules. "But, for goodness' sake, stop looking at me like that." Because it was messing with her emotions. Because it made her heart do things it hadn't done in centuries, not since she was that bright-eyed, filthy tanner's daughter with stars in her eyes and dreams of a future that would never be. "You're a grown man, Samuel. Start acting like it."

Stop making me feel things. I don't do feelings.

Without waiting for a response, she started gathering her things.

Sam stood still as a statue, looking at her as if she'd slapped him. At the very least the puppy eyes were gone.

"I told you, man," Dean said with a snicker, earning him a bitchface of his own.

Rowena sighed.

These boys would be the death of her.

*****

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It was raining and cold and muddy and the stocks were not comfortable in the least, which Rowena supposed was rather the point. At least this town didn’t go for the usual rotten vegetable-tossing. She hadn’t even done anything all that awful, in her opinion. Of course, there was the priest she’d seduced--and she’d transfigured the mayor’s awful priss of a daughter into a white mare and sacrificed her in the woods under the moon--and there was the lightning storm that struck the fields after and caused that fire in the wheat stores--but it’s not as though she’d caused a plague, or anything. It really was overreacting. They hadn’t even caught the full force of what proper witching could do.

Still, provincial as they were, they’d decided it was all her fault, and so it was five days in the stocks to starve before they burned her. She’d tried to explain that it wasn’t the 17th century anymore--and really, if anyone was going to burn she hoped it was Roger Nowell, that snake--but of course they didn’t listen. People never did, to women.

She was composing a new spell in her head that’d dissolve wood into sawdust when there was a far too familiar pat on her bottom. “Stole a sheep, did you?” someone said.

A man. Ugh. “I am innocent of any charge, good sir!” she said. Made sure her voice was sweet and piping as a shepherd’s flute. “I have done no crime, I swear it.”

“Swearing’s a sin,” the man said, and she rolled her eyes. Still raining, still dark, still cold as a swiving pig in a mud bog, and he made a joke. She was probably expected to laugh. There was a squelch in the mud, and he walked around to the front of the stocks. She blinked, craning her neck.

Handsome. In a way. His hat kept his face dry but made it hard to see his eyes in the guttering torchlight. Slight, but clearly moneyed, and she cleared her throat and poured all the honey should could into her pleading. “Oh, sir,” she said. Meek and faint, that was her. “Please. It is so cold. In your Christian charity, could you not see clear to--to aiding me, in my time of hardship?”

“Hardship, huh,” he said, and grinned. She frowned, hoping he couldn’t see it through the vile wet mat her hair had become, but--then there was a click, and a faint spark in the air, and her mouth immediately tasted of lightning-strikes and burnt sugar, and the stocks fell apart around her.

She stumbled, and a hand caught her before she could fall in the mud. “I got a soft spot for trouble-makers,” the man said, grinning still as he helped her upright. “What can I say.”

“Witch,” she breathed, something pinging in her like a plucked lute string.

He smiled more deeply. She could see better now; his eyes were dark gold and tilted as a cat’s. He tweaked her chin. “Takes one to know one, Red,” he said, and in the next second he was gone.

*

She met him again on a ship to America. That it was a hundred years later didn’t seem to phase him. She’d bewitched the ship captain into letting her board, but the rest of the crew were being difficult. Restive and superstitious, and malodorous to boot. Her tiny quarters just beside the captain’s cabin were safe enough, but stifling and dark, and she’d gotten into the habit of walking the deck at night. Sea air and moonlight, and the ship’s lanterns picking little brightnesses out of the dark. She could see how merwitches would want to live like this.

“Velvet suits you better than mud,” she heard.

That strange voice. She turned her head and--yes. There he was. “I’ve often said so,” she replied, cool. He grinned at her, because of course he did, and she folded her hands on the rail, calm. “Good sir, I’m afraid we haven’t been properly introduced.”

“Oh, well,” he said, “if we’re going to be proper.” He effected a reasonable bow, though a rather old-fashioned one. He wore a suit of dark blue silk, comfort and ease in his slight plumpness, in his soft hand when he captured hers to kiss her knuckles. His breath puffed over her skin, warm, and he smiled up at her. “They’ve called me Loki.”

She curled her fingers in his. Her center clenched. “Loki,” she said. “I am called Rowena.”

“Rowena,” he said, and stood from his bow, and stepped close enough that his boots brushed aside her skirts. “Rowena the witch, from Canisbay. Daughter of the tanner, MacLeod. Student of d’Albioni.” He ran his thumb over her knuckles. “Am I close?”

“Very,” she breathed. “My lord.”

“Lord, huh,” Loki said, and wrapped his arm around her lower back. “I like that.”

She smiled back, giddy. A god. This was so much better than a ship captain. “I thought you might.”

*

They had a falling out in Philadelphia. They came back together in Paris, in 1842, and had a torrential affair that got them both chased out of the palace. In 1914 she holed up in Morocco and Loki visited her three times, three midnights, and she wasn’t fond of him but he did bring her whisky from home, each time, and she let him inside because he smiled, and after all, it could’ve been worse. In 1970 they danced in Glasgow and he glassed a drunk for her; in November 1983, he rose up from her bed in the middle of the night and stared up through the ceiling and said, very distinctly, “Oh, you fuckers,” and flicked away without another word, and she didn’t see him after that until apocalypses came and went, and she’d met two boys who’d been the cause of most of them, and then one day she was standing a bunker putting together a ridiculously simple spell, and he walked in wearing a leather jacket with his hair as tousled as it had always been, and he was Gabriel, then, an archangel, and when the boys were gone she said, “You lied to me, my lord,” in the soft voice she’d used back then, and he grinned at her, not at all ashamed, and he said, “I’m tricky like that, Red,” and she let him take her hand, and grinned back.

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I got tagged by @fandom-trashtm, @turtleoftheabyss and by @capochinootea for a very similar one so I’m going to smush them together. Thank you all for thinking of me! 🤍

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better Not gonna do that since I made a hybrid.

Ships: Ironstrange, McShep, Chris Larabee/Vin Tanner, Hannigram, Rinch and many, many others. The original one for me is Duncan MacLeod/Methos.

Last song: Nightwish - Wish I Had an Angel

Last movie: Still Captain America: Civil War

Currently reading: Not enough!

What food are you craving: Cheeseburger, since I saw that post of Tony snacking a couple of days ago. Sadly, I can’t get one these days.

Then the other thing (I deleted the things I already answered up there).

Currently: Ironstrange. (Drpepperony and Wongrange and Tony/Stephen/Wong but those are phases that come and go. A close friendship goes always.)

Previously: Too many to list here. Really. I can probably not even remember all. *points to the list above* Gonna throw in Olicity because that was cute as hell.

Last song: Bon Jovi - In These Arms (the playlist keeps on playing while I type!)

Currently reading: Next question, please! I can’t see this one anymore. I already feel bad enough for not reading and commenting. 🥺

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