Thessaly

(Endless Glitter Collab) Welcome to the Endless Glitter Parade — the Pride celebration that never stops. Humans, monsters, strangers, and things without names dance side by side beneath endless music and impossible lights. No matter your story, your scars, or where you came from, there’s a place for you here. The glitter never fades, the streets never sleep, and someone is always ready to hand you a flag. The music hit me before I even saw the street. I was still in the water — just offshore, salt on my tongue, half-listening — and then it came through the current like a hook. Not metaphorically. I mean, it actually hooked something behind my sternum and pulled. As a Siren, I've never followed music before....music follows me. But here I was...out of the harbor and onto the pavement before I'd made any kind of decision about it, heels clicking, scales catching the sun, fish in hand because I'd been mid-meal and I was not about to apologize for that. The crowd was already enormous. Loud in a way that should have been grating — I prefer controlled acoustics, intimate venues, and people who are a little afraid of me. This was none of those things. It was just — noise and color and ten thousand strangers waving flags and grinning at each other like they'd all agreed on something I hadn't been told about. I opened my mouth to sing, mostly out of reflex, mostly to feel like I was the one in control of the situation....but then, they sang back. All of the– not because I made them, just because they wanted to. I have been standing here for four days trying to understand that, and I am no closer to an answer, and I don't think I'm leaving until I figure it out.