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simone ashley via instagram

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closed starter to @donovanpaak

Now that I'm not in danger anymore, will you let me buy you a drink? Wait... you're not working, are you?

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closed starter for @capthayes

Hi! I know you... I'm having the most boring time with my co-workers, so I'm kind of hiding from them... mind if I stick around for a bit?

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closed starter to @henryknight

Hi! I'm having a wardrobe malfunction here. Think you can help me? Pretty please? I really don't want to follow the parade with my boobs all out.... not that anyone would care but... anyway... can you?

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♡ SIMONE ASHLEY via instagram ( simoneashley )

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SETTING: UNCW labs ; morning AVALABILITY: closed starter for donovan paak | ( @donovanpaak )

Of course Abhilasha had smelled the fire, but she was waiting on results that were really important for her research, so it wouldn't hurt if she waited for the centrifugal machine to stop, right? Even if the fire fighters were already coming in and she was already coughing too much from inhaling too much smoke. "No, no, I know! But you don't understand! This is really important!" She told one of the men who tried to escort her out of the lab. "I'll leave, I just..." With that, she escaped from the firefighter's grasp and rushed back into the lab to try and salvage her notes, only to feel someone grabbing her by the waist and dragging her outside. "My notes! Please!"

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SETTING: their place in masonboro ; thursday evening AVALABILITY: closed starter for nikhil kohli | ( @nikhilxkohli )

After spending half of her week in New England, Asha had also spent most of her day finishing up the last touches at her new bedroom in this massive new house in the suburbs, the young woman was standing in their kitchen, biting her nails, hoping to God she didn't mess up the recipe she'd seen online. Nik had done so much for them already, with the house and the decoration and their things being organized there and...

The smell of something burning wasn't enough to pull Asha out of her daydream, only when the fire alarm went off was that she was brought back to the present... just as she saw Nik entering the kitchen. "I... tried making us dinner?" She said from over the blaring sound, as she pulled out the burned lasagna from the oven and then placed on the stove top, rushing to open the windows so that the smoke would clear. "You can't tell your mother about this!" The younger woman laughed nervously as she pointed at her husband, almost threatening him. "At least dessert will be good? Do you want to order something? I'm so sorry..."

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𝐀𝐁𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀 '𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀' 𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐈 — ​🇸​​🇮​​🇲​​🇴​​🇳​​🇪​ ​🇦​​🇸​​🇭​​🇱​​🇪​​🇾​

THIRTY-ONE YEARS OLD; CIS WOMAN ; GENETIC ENGINEERING RESEARCHER; has lived in MASONBORO since june 2024 (prev. lived in Wrightsville Beach)

But whose heart would not take flight, betray the moon as acolyte on first and fierce affirming sight of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?

Asha was brought into this world as an attempt to save her brother's life, who had been diagnosed with an aggressive and rare type of cancer. Although the transplant was successful, Santosh's illness came back and he didn't make it the second time around. Growing up, she did everything she could to be the perfect daughter and not bring more trouble to her family that had already been broken by so much disappointment. She learned how to bake in order to make her mother happy during her lowest states of depression, she went up and beyond herself to get good grades in school and when a science project earned her a scholarship in MIT, Asha saw it as her chance to leave all the sadness behind. It worked for the most time, but her parents were always finding excuses to make her come back and take care of them from time to time, which made her resent them and her brother Vedant a little. Alas, she's very a nerd's nerd: science nerd, pop culture nerd, anime nerd… She's the sweetest soul, sunshine in the form of a human being and will talk your ear off if you let her. Has recently married her best friend Nikhil to help him with his green card papers!

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triggers for — infant death, mentions of alcoholism & mentions of depression

To be your brother’s only hope to keep on living and your family’s answer to their prayers seems far too much responsibility to be placed in a newborn’s shoulders, and yet, that was exactly what Asha represented to this family who had already gone through so much even before her arrival. Maybe, she would have been better knowing that her parents weren’t the closest before her arrival, or that if it weren’t for her, the chances of her older brother not making it would have been completely null, but still, that were far too much responsibility to a child.

Her mother Kiran, a young and childless Tamil woman, had been set up in an arranged marriage to an older man who already had children of his own: the oldest, a little boy named Santosh and a baby boy named Vedant, who had lost his biological mother mere minutes after his birth. Kiran doted on the little boys as if they were her own, because, as far as she knew, those would be the only children she would end up having, since her husband did not seem keen on adding more children to their family. Not too long after the marriage, the couple and their children moved to the United States and settled in Iowa, where yet another chapter of their lives began. One, that wasn’t the happiest, but it was the one that made it all possible for Asha to come to life.

Santosh was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of cancer and it was required a bone marrow transplant. When Vedant turned out not to be a perfect match for his brother, their parents then found themselves trying for another child, thus Abhilasha being born on a scalding hot summer day, kicking and screaming her lungs out. Yet, despite being the one to bring, as her name itself said it, hope to the Dasari family, they still lost their precious Santosh to the aggressive cancer he’d been diagnosed with years prior to her arrival, and so, even though she had bought him some extra time to spend with his family and say his proper goodbyes, Asha still wasn’t enough to keep him around for good. Again, it took a toll on the family. Asha, being only three years old, was far too young to understand the sadness that had fallen upon her family, especially on her mother, who had always loved and doted on Santosh as if he’d been her biological son.

Their move to Wilmington, North Carolina gave the family a second chance of happiness as it had always been Santosh’s biggest wish to live by the ocean, and so, after placing on work transfers they were in Wilmington just in time for Asha’s fourth birthday, and this beautiful coastal city became the little girl’s only memory of a home. Despite her early childhood being coated with tragedy and dispair, Abhilasha had always been a blissful child. Some even dared saying she’d inherited Santosh’s bright spirit and Ved’s sense of responsibility the more she grew up. However, with Vedant leaving for college, her mother falling into a state of depression and her father beginning to drink more than he should, Asha also found herself realizing that not even the amount of love and joy she brought into the family would be able to heal some grief-inflicted wounds. She learned how to bake in order to fill the house with sweetness, she was the most dedicated student in her class, thus not leaving room to be a nuisance to her parents, she dated in secrecy not to worry anyone and she did everything and so much more so that the pain her family felt wouldn’t increase because of her.

None of what she did would bring Santosh back, that much was a fact, so maybe, she could become so good in her future field of work that other families wouldn’t have to go through the trouble that hers did. When college years came around Abhilasha and flew herself to Boston to start studying Biochemistry at MIT, she realized that she had been needing that break from home and from her family, that they had been sucking all of her light while she’d be bending over backwards to try and make them happy. Thus, being away from home, for her parents and from everything else, she could be herself again, and she could focus on her own happiness.

That, however, didn’t last long, for she was always being summoned back home either due to her mother’s deep state of pression or her father’s alcohol abuse, and with Vedant being away playing hero and not being around for the ugly parts of it, of course it was up to her to patch her family back over and over again, but that didn’t keep her from being accepted in a MS for Molecular and Celular Biology, and then immediately follow up with a MSc in research for Molecular Genetics. With the help of her best friend, she was also able to keep her spirits up most days, with the constant love and support Nikhil offered.

That same love and support was the reason why she offered to marry him on a whim. Since he was struggling with his papers process, the young researcher figured that it would be easier and faster if they were married. So, an announcement was made to their families, which, oddly enough came as no surprise since they were already so close as it was. The Dasaris doted on their little girl, making her the most beautiful bride the world had ever seen, the Kohlis could not seem happier for the union and, despite the news hitting them from one day to another, the duo got married on Spring Break of 2024, looking like they couldn’t have been happier, despite have never harbored romantic feelings towards one another.

Recently, Asha was accepted in a PhD program in Genetic Engineering in Harvard, and, since her supervisor at Harvard was going to be relocated to Wilmington to implant the department of Microbiology and Genetic Engineering at the University of North Carolina, they’ve agreed on Asha using the labs at UNCW for her research, while also taking classes at the Ivy League University, so she spent the first few months of her married life splitting her time between New England and North Carolina.

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19. have you ever been to New York?, 22. description of crush, 12. what is something you want right now?

19. have you ever been to New York?

I have! Nik took me there on a Summer for NY Comic Con while I was still in MIT. I obviously had a blast, but I think it took a toll on my too-serious-for-his-own-good, cricket-superstar bestie. I love him though. Can't wait to take him there again and have him cosplay as someone and pair up with me. I'm sure his fans are going to love it!

22. description of crush

Do I have to describe my current crush? Or what do I think a crush is? Either way, of course my crush is my husband? I mean, I married the guy, didn't I? It would be really weird if he wasn't my eternal crush. I've even posted a reels with Birds of a Feather as the background song, it doesn't get any more crushy than that! So, he's tall, handsome, super sweet to the point of having me worried about cavities, he scrunches his nose when he doesn't like something, he scratches the back of his head when he's trying to deflect talking to me about something, and he doesn't know that I know, but he has a tell. It's the cutest tell ever.

12. what is something you want right now?

I really do want for Gege Akutami to stop killing my faves and bring back my baby boy, the best babygirl in the world, most powerful jujutsu sorcerer Gojo Satoru (also, Nanami, but ): ). I'd also really love for the cinnamon rolls I just loaded into the oven to be baked already.

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Being in bars without her friends wasn't exactly the type of place where people would usually find Asha, alas, here she was, trying to wind down after a tiring day from being around her parents. It was so easy for her to resent Vedant for not being around, but she figured she needed to accept that just like her, her brother dealt with things a little differently. She knew that alcohol didn't fix anything... her father being the living proof of that, but she still sat by the bar and ordered the sweetest drink of the house. When someone spoke to her, the brunette looked over, noticing the... exhausted? woman. "Just mixing sugar and alcohol to get me going about the night." She chuckled. "You look like you're got things to get off your chest, though. I'm a good listener if you want to vent?" / @capthayes

The last couple of weeks had been a handful that's for sure. Sierra, prompted by the meeting with her brother, that gone to her parents' home after years to talk to her mother about the situation and to stop meddling in her life and, of course, being among her family never really helped. Not Harry, of course. Seeing him had broken her heart but for different reasons. The distance that had grown between them, but not for the pain he brought to her soul. Her brother never brought her that, but her father did. And seeing her mother didn't help either. So she had to get away for a while, take a few weeks off to herself and be out of town—out of her troublesome life. She didn't go far, visiting some friends in California, and she was back just as quick as she went. Because she was a workaholic (and deep down she was scared to be replaced at the station).

Returning wasn't easy either, so much to get to, so much paperwork to review, too much to catch up on. She needed a fucking drink at the end of her day, so there she was, downing a whiskey as if there was no tomorrow. With a deep sigh, she ordered a second dose and looked to her side. "So, what's gotten you here tonight? I know what brought me."

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get to know me, pick some numbers.

1. selfie 2. what would you name your future kids? 3. do you miss anyone? 4. what are you looking forward to? 5. is there anyone who can always make you smile? 6. is it hard for you to get over someone? 7. what was your life like last year? 8. have you ever cried because you were so annoyed? 9. who did you last see in person? 10. are you good at hiding your feelings? 11. are you listening to music right now? 12. what is something you want right now? 13. how do you feel right now? 14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you? 15. personality description 16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn’t? 17. opinion on insecurities. 18. do you miss how things were a year ago? 19. have you ever been to New York? 20. what is your favourite song at the moment? 21. age and birthday? 22. description of crush. 23. fear(s) 24. height 25. role model 26. idol(s) 27. things i hate 28. i’ll love you if… 29. favourite film(s) 30. favourite tv show(s) 31. 3 random facts 32. are your friends mainly girls or guys? 33. something you want to learn 34. most embarrassing moment 35. favourite subject 36. 3 dreams you want to fulfill? 37. favourite actor/actress 38. favourite comedian(s) 39. favourite sport(s) 40. favourite memory 41. relationship status 42. favourite book(s) 43. favourite song ever 44. age you get mistaken for 45. how you found out about your idol 46. what my last text message says 47. turn ons 48. turn offs 49. where i want to be right now 50. favourite picture of your idol 51. starsign 52. something i’m talented at 53. 5 things that make me happy 54. something thats worrying me at the moment 55. tumblr friends 56. favourite food(s) 57. favourite animal(s) 58. description of my best friend 59. why i joined tumblr 60. ask me anything you want

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Ashita had been looking at her computer screen for far too long, trying to put her notes into decent words as she was surrounded by her favorite scents in the world: coffee and baked goods. She hadn't been meaning to stare as the other ate her croissant so hungrily, alas, that was the impression she gave the other. "Gosh, no! I'm so sorry..." She chuckled nervously, brushing a strand of her wavy hair behind her ear and sat up on her chair. "I didn't mean to stare, I promise! But the way you're munching on it it's making me want to buy one for myself." And, as she got up to get herself a refill of her coffee and match it with the something sweet, Asha also brought the woman something else to much on. "Here." Asha said with a smile as she placed the plate on the other's table. "It's never good to go on about your day on an empty stomach." / @laylcsaxena

OPEN STARTER

Location: Tasty Treats (2/4)

Layla hurried into Tasty Treats, her stomach grumbling loudly. She'd been so focused on negotiating a new endorsement deal for her client that she'd forgotten to eat lunch. Thankfully, the bakery was just a block away from her office. She ordered a chocolate croissant and a large iced latte, her go-to pick-me-up. As soon as the barista handed over her order, she plopped down at a nearby table and took a huge bite of the flaky pastry, sighing in bliss as the rich chocolate hit her tongue.

Mid-bite, she noticed someone watching her with an amused expression. Layla smiled sheepishly—quickly swallowing. "Sorry, I skipped lunch today and I'm starving. This croissant is a lifesaver right now," she explained with a little laugh before taking another bite.

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SIMONE ASHLEY. "Bridgerton" Premiere.

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SIMONE ASHLEY as KATE SHARMA BRIDGERTON | S03E05, Tick Tock