#౨ৎ — juniper

[taysdorothea13]

oh my gosh!! love love love the insta post!! could more of those be done?!

trav ❤️:

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trav ❤️: i turned my back for seven seconds… she says she’s building a no man

tay 🤍: is she quiet?

trav ❤️: as a mouse… it’s kind of eerie. she was just demanding more cheese and moana

tay 🤍: take the win. i hid the chocolate cookies in the pantry behind her goldfish last time ;)

tay 🤍:

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tay 🤍: bribed her with popcorn if she’d let me do her hair. we’re watching purple dress

tay 🤍:

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tay 🤍: It’s her popcorn now. we’re up to rep, and she hasn’t moved off this chair. i think you might have a swiftie in the making.

tay 🤍: spaghetti for dinner. i’ll leave you a plate. good luck at practice

trav ❤️:

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trav ❤️: she’s looking for you. she’s asked me where you are seven hundred times today

tay 🤍: i can fly in this weekend.

trav ❤️: akaksxjhahahajssj

trav ❤️: i think that means she agrees with the plan

tay 🤍: perfect <3

trav ❤️: break a leg, tonight. jj and i’ll be keeping an eye on the streams

tay 🤍: you’re a loser. i love you. tell jj purple dress is for her tonight!

[xoxochb]

Sweet girl diary entry!!!!!!! Pls pls pls. Just like, a lil ficlet as if Sweet Girl is writing in her diary. The whole

“dear diary. Today at camp…”

I just wanna find out more abt my baby’s life 🥺

I’ve never wrote something from first person but this is actually soooo criminally cute 🥹🥹

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dear diary journal,

diary sounds too girly.

well I am a girl. but it sounds too 2000s romcom starring anne hathaway where her love interest his chad michael murray the y2k it boy.

he’s pretty sexy though, I won’t lie. we’ll switch it back to diary tomorrow when I find the motivation to erase and rewrite it.

it’s monday, february third. I hate mondays. but not as much as I hate sundays I freaking HATE sundays with a passion. percy always makes fun of me when I talk about my deep loathing for sundays. so I pull his hair in retaliation. I won’t tell him I half do that just to touch his soft hair because then he’d just make fun of me even more.

this morning it took me 2 whole hours to get out of bed. and it wasn’t necessarily my fault because percy wanted to dilly-dally per usual. and he also bribed me with twenty dollars and the best half an hour long make out session so I think it might’ve been worth it.

but I finally managed to get him out of bed following this. I stayed at his cabin again because I think it’s my new home at this point. we showered— and after ten minutes of trying to keep his hand out from between my legs we dressed and went to lunch because we had skipped breakfast.

and I was sad because I like breakfast. but percy made up for it and made me french toast for lunch. he even put confectionery sugar on it!!!!!!

after I ate lunch I left him and found annabeth. we had an hour long debate over historical arguments it was kinda epic. percy doesn’t like when I say epic he says it makes me sound like a five year old boy. so I say it to make him angry. but I don’t think he could ever be angry with me so I guess I win either way.

I left cabin six around three o’clock and ran into grover and juniper. they were weaving stick bracelets for the younger campers so I helped them for a while. and when I finished I gave all my bracelets to little lucille she’s an angel. she gave me a kiss on the cheek.

after I dropped off the bracelet I went back to cabin three. but percy was fast asleep. and when he’s asleep I’m sure he could be out through an entire war. he doesn’t even have a blanket on— the blue blanket I had bought him specifically because it’s his favorite color.

I managed to retrieve the blanket from beneath him and put it above him. then I joined him in his nap and I think I was out for like two hours to be honest. he was still asleep when I woke up though.

so I laid with him until he woke up just before dinner. unsurprisingly, we skipped it like breakfast. we stayed in bed until eight. or I did at least. I forced percy to get up and get me ice cream, and bring the loving boyfriend he is, he brought me back my favorite peanut butter + oreo ice cream combo. I love him.

I ate it within the next five minutes and then complained to him about being cold. percy is the only person who’ll listen to me complain so I take advantage of it.

he recommended having a ‘special way’ to make me warm. by his smirk alone I knew what he meant. but I would’ve known without seeing him at all, he’s predictable sometimes.

and not to anyone’s surprise, I let him show me his special way. and to say I was warmed up would be an understatement. but I won’t go into details because I’m not my boyfriend— who would, without a second thought go into graphic detail.

and then a half an hour later he crashed. and then that brings me to now. it’s not that I can’t sleep but I’d much rather prefer to have time to catch up on reading for a bit since my day had been busy. but then I saw my journal/diary and got sidetracked so I guess that didn’t really work out.

but overall my day was pretty good!! and… I should probably go to sleep soon because it’s…. I’ll be back in a second.

it’s one thirty two in the morning. off to bed I go!

until tomorrow, xoxo sweet girl.

[jadeshifting]

— CHRISTMAS FEAST AT HOGWARTS

(AKA. SHIFTMAS)

day 7. WHAT’S YOUR DR’S HOLIDAY DINNER LIKE? is it a grand feast with everything from turkey to trifle? a cosy, intimate dinner by candlelight? or something unique, like a themed dinner party or a picnic-style meal by the fire?

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the magnitude of the Christmas feast at Hogwarts can best be expressed by the fact that first-year students often throw up in their dorms afterwards, since the average witch or wizard is so unaccustomed to having so much food in front of them that they simply must overeat

the Great Hall itself is transformed into a winter wonderland, with floating enchanted snowflakes, towering Christmas trees adorned with golden fairy lights (meaning the actual magical glow of thousands of fairies), and warm hearths crackling with roaring fires, casting a golden glow over the feast:

౨ৎ STARTERS

— ROASTED CHESTNUT SOUP (with a drizzle of spiced cream)

— CRANBERRY and BRIE TARTELETS (with a thyme-infused crust)

— SMOKED SALMON BLINIS (with dill and lemon)

— TRUFFLE-STUFFED ARANCINI (with a garlic aioli dip)

— PUMPKIN PASTIES (with a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg)

— miniature BEEF EMPANADAS (with chimichurri sauce)

— assorted BREAD TOLLS (that steam with various savory scents)

౨ৎ MAIN COURSES

— ROAST TURKEY (with golden, crispy skin and a rich herb stuffing)

— HONEY-GLAZED HAM (with cloves and a maple-butter glaze)

— slow-cooked VENISON (with a red wine and juniper berry reduction)

— HERB-CRUSTED SALMON (with a lemon-butter sauce)

— vegetarian MUSHROOM & CHESTNUT WELLINGTON (wrapped in flaky pastry)

— GARLIC BUTTER LOBSTER TAILS (with a squeeze of enchanted lemon)

— CAULDRON-ROASTED POTATOES (with garlic and rosemary)

— buttered PARSNIPS, CARROTS, and SPROUTS (with chestnuts and bacon)

౨ৎ SIDE DISHES

— CRANBERRY & ORANGE COMPOTE (with enchanted sparkling sugar)

— spiced APPLE & PEAR CHUTNEY

— mediterranean ROASTED VEGETABLE MEDLEY (with balsamic glaze)

— mulled wine-infused RED CABBAGE

— fluffy MASHED POTATOES (an enchantment makes the butter swirl into patterns)

— treacle-glazed ROASTED ONIONS

౨ৎ DESSERTS

— enchanted CHRISTMAS PUDDING (glowing softly with a warming spell, served with flaming sauce)

— TREACLE TART (with a lattice of sugared holly leaves)

— CHOCOLATE YULE LOG (dusted with enchanted edible snowflakes)

— CHURROS (dusted with cinnamon sugar, served with a warm chocolate dipping sauce)

— PEPPERMINT BARK CHEESECAKE (with a chocolate biscuit base)

— glistening CRANBERRY SORBET (served in frosted crystal goblets)

౨ৎ DRINKS

— hot BUTTERBEER

— warm mulled PUMPKIN JUICE (with cinnamon sticks)

— SPARKLING ENCHANTED CIDER (it shifts colors with each sip)

— PEPPERMINT HOT CHOCOLATE (with whipped cream and sugar quills)

— a selection of TEAS (each with a unique seasonal charm)

[girlprincess]

My Favorite 𐙚Soft Girl𐙚 Perfumes!

More than a ‘clean’ girl, an ‘it’ girl, or ‘that’ girl, I love feeling like a soft girl! Soft girls are sweet, giggly, friendly, and warm, and are passionate about their interests and embracing their own and others’ uniqueness!

I have a few perfumes that I adore and specifically love to wear when I want to embrace the side of me that is sweet, gentle, thoughtful, and warm :)

Here are my favorite (self-proclaimed) soft girl perfumes!

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1. Lake & Skye 11 11 — the warmest, softest, most comforting musk that smells like clean laundry or freshly showered skin.

2. Marc Jacobs Daisy Love — a beautiful blend of aromatic woods and musk with sweet, airy, and light cloudberry and daisy.

3. Bath & Body Works No. 3 Lavender — the girliest mix of aromatic lavender, sweet vanilla, and a hint of jasmine that leaves me feeling like a princess.

4. Oakcha The Beekeeper (dupe of Jo Malone Nectarine Blossom & Honey) — soft, fuzzy nectarine skin next to the blossoms and green leaves on the nectarine tree :)

5. Oil Perfumery’s Impression of Byredo Gypsy Water — the most incredible and unique blend of bright lemon, sweet vanilla, aromatic juniper and pine, and creamy sandalwood that makes me feel like a capital G Girly Girl.

6. Oil Perfumery’s Impression of Melanie Martinez Cry Baby Perfume Milk — an incredibly comforting mix of sweet berry, lactonic and powdery notes, caramel, and deep woods that come together to create so much depth and warmth in an otherwise sweet and powdery scent :)

✦ ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.• ✦

[mothmorality]

muse ↳ juniper eve wallace // early to mid 20s. gossip. mean girl, uncaring, lover of hook-ups and drama.

faceclaim/maddie phillips

open to ↳ anyone!

context ↳ based on this!

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juniper held herself back from rolling her eyes at the denial that immediately spewed from her ex’s mouth. “listen, it’s only for one day. can you just help me out one last time? it’s not going to kill you.” juniper begged the other, trying her absolute best to not speak to them with a negative tone, already pissed off. she was absolutely convinced they were blowing this whole thing out of proportion. yes, their break up was on bad terms. and yes, she had been incredibly mean to them afterwards. but, her family loved them so much. her connection to her ex somehow made her relatives respect her, ask her more questions, notice her, and she wasn’t going to just let that go because they broke up.

[taysdorothea13]

a while back you showed us wrens birthday party themes! what about jj’s?

jj’s first birthday didn’t exactly have a theme, but the theme kind of became fairy/whimsical the day of. travis’ main focus the week jj turned one was just appreciating that they had made it here at all. they’d been through a brutal custody battle between the third and sixth months of jj’s life, and after that travis was thrown straight into football season so surviving (practically) a year of single father life was truly an accomplishment, and he wanted to soak all of his tiny girl up. but, donna bought her fairy wings because junie’s obsessed with wyatt’s, and she wouldn’t take them off. in fact she cried every time she felt travis touch them

jj’s second birthday was basically tigger theme, but moreso winnie the pooh theme as a whole. at fourteen months jj woke up and decided she loved tigger. they watch this one winnie the pooh movie every day, jj has two tigger stuffed animals (because travis has learned they’re impossible to find), and all day long she stands on the couch and goes ‘bou bou bou’ as she bounces on her little baby legs that can barely even carry her from the coffee table to the couch yet. travis expected the phase to die out in a couple of weeks, but by the time april rolls around tigger is basically their safeword. jj’s having a meltdown? put tigger on. jj fell and scraped her knee? tell her she bounced like tigger and she’ll laugh. she’s fighting bedtime? remind her that she gets to cuddle with tigger. trav got her the cutest little overalls with little tiggers embroidered on the chest with other little decorations.

it’s the age of princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarfs. jj went to bed singing moana songs the night before, in a tiana nightgown, with cinderella gloves on her hands and a princess sofia amulet on. everything she does has to be partnered with princesses. going to dinner with daddy and tay? light up princess shoes must be on her feet. going to aunt ky’s? must bring her moana doll so she can show uncle jay. going to taylor’s mommy’s house? gotta wear her ariel dress. every car ride is princess songs. every movie night is a princess movie. jj didn’t have a big party. she honestly couldn’t have cared less about a party at all. she was happier than ever singing princess songs with tay and ‘coach ky’ and wy and ellie and bennie.

[taysdorothea13]

does travis post jj on instagram?

every year on her birthday he makes a post for her 🥹

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killatrav: Juniper Joel Kelce

6lbs. 2oz. and 14inches long. #girldad

April 29, 2021

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killatrav: You’re funny, cuddly, and a bit of a leach. Happy 1, JJ. Dad loves you.

April 29, 2022

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killatrav: You turned two yesterday, and we spent the night exploring. Happy 2, Joel girl. Dad luh’s you.

April 30, 2023

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killatrav: Your smile is my favorite thing. Happy 3, June. Dad loves you.

April 29, 2024

[taysdorothea13]

i really really want your take on what taylor would be like as a step parent if the roles were reversed and travis had a daughter like wren , i’m just really curious and i feel that you’re the only writer who actually goes about things realistically. lots of love 🤍

this is perfect because i just started planning a fic where travis has a daughter and taylor’s the step-parent !!

it would be a different dynamic from the very start simply because travis’ daughter doesn’t have the trauma that wren does. but, taylor would be a nervous wreck to meet travis’ daughter for the first time (her name is jj), but it was all for nothing because travis and jj are basically the same person and before taylor could even fully get into the house, little juniper joel kelce was babbling up a storm and trying to climb her father so that she could see taylor. she loves to pretend to be shy, but she’s not in the slightest, and about seven minutes into taylor being with them both, she’s climbing all over taylor and pointing out every minuscule detail about her outfit. it starts with little toddler fingers pointing to her bracelets, and then her rings, and then her necklaces, and then her lipgloss. and it’s so obvious that this little girl craves female attention. travis does what he can. he paints his nails with her, he lets her destroy makeup kits that are really just wax and glitter. there’s about seventeen different costumes scattered around the house from dress up, but he’s not a girl, and he never will be. the very first time taylor meets jj, she asks if it’s okay if she shares some of her lipgloss, and travis is like ‘please, she loves it’ and that was basically the end of it, taylor is now jj’s best friend and she keeps coming over to travis to say ‘my has pretty lips’ but only half of that sentence is coherent bc well… she’s only two and a half and toddler baby is still very real.

jj and taylor meet a couple more times before anything serious happens, and when jj does throw the very first fit that taylor ever witnesses, she attempts to just sit back and watch travis handle it because it’s really not her position to be stepping in between them, especially not so early on when they’re only just entering a real relationship, but then jj runs into her embrace and tries to hide and taylor can’t just ignore her, so she shakes her head and she talks real quite, and jj listens to her every word. the task at hand was getting jj to the table for dinner, but she was apparently in the middle of a very important game of ‘knock everything off of daddy’s desk’ and did not like the suggestion of eating chicken and rice instead of causing destruction. “why don’t you you me where you see? i bet you have a pretty princess chair!” is all that taylor needed to say for the little girl to nod her head excitedly and bolt into the kitchen like a madwoman. she apologizes profusely, but travis just shakes his head and laugh. he tells her that it doesn’t matter to him if she’s known jj a week or her entire life, if she knows something that can make the meltdowns easier, if she thinks she can handle a situation, he gives her the all clear to at least try. but taylor’s still apprehensive, and travis understands that and appreciates that. it means a lot to him that taylor’s so cautious of his parenting methods and the fact that before she came around, he was handling this all by himself.

but then they started getting more serious, and jj starts attaching herself to taylor and it just kind of becomes impossible to fully back out of the parenting responsibilities. the very first game that jj attends with taylor also in the audience, travis tells her a million times that he can have donna come out to help with june, but taylor just shrugs him off and picks the toddler up and brings her into the bathroom where ‘girl things are happening. no dads allowed’. and she does jj’s hair in the cutest little toddler hairstyle and puts in his sweet red bows that travis forgot he even had shoved deep into the drawer of hair supplies in his daughters bathroom.

it’s little things at first. if june is already in the middle of a fit and travis looks to be stressed, she steps in. if she’s around before june gets ready for the day, she’ll do her hair. sometimes june will fall asleep on her for naps/bedtime and she’ll take her up to her room. but about a year into the relationship, that’s when things change again. she knows jj like the back of her hand now, and she can see behaviors brewing before they happen. she scolds the toddler for little things before travis even has the chance to realize, and she soothes meltdowns without even having to glance at travis for consent to handle the situation. she doesn’t overstep, doesn’t overshadow his authority and his rules, she just makes herself apart of it to an extent. when jj starts calling taylor mommy, that’s when travis steps in and tells taylor that she’s it for him. he’s known for a while that she was the only one meant for him, but with jj’s blessing — because that’s basically what it was — he tells her that he loves her, that jj loves her, that for a year and a half she’s basically been mom to his kid and he wants that to never change. it doesn’t matter to him if they break up, taylor is jj’s mom and he wants her to be comfortable in that position.

that’s basically the end of the step-mom arc. jj’s biological mom isn’t in the picture, nor will she ever be, so taylor really just says ‘alright my turn to tap in’ and travis couldn’t be more thrilled to have her on his team

[taysdorothea13]

what does travis do when jj gets in trouble? is he strict cause i’ve heard him talk abt how he grew up a couple times in the podcast and i’m wondering if u think he’d be similar as a parent hahahaha?

because travis was doing it on his own the first two/three-ish years of jj's life, it didn't feel necessary to take the 'strict' approach. i feel like a lot of times parents play the strict punishment approach because their kids gravitate toward the 'weaker' parent so they fell like they have to combat the behaviors more effectively so theyre not getting played all the time if you get what im saying. if what jj's getting into 'trouble' for something harmless, like when she randomly decides to come into travis' office and knock everything off his desk (her favorite game is redecorating and apparently destruction is the quickest way to go about that) he'll just sigh and go 'really?'. but if its something more serious like say she was being mean to wyatt or having an absolute tantrum over not getting something she wanted, he'd first just try and understand what it is she's feeling. he can't get anywhere with her if he tries to comfort her like she's upset when really she's frustrated. thats always his first step no matter what. after that depends on jj's mood. if she's calm enough to listen to him, usually he just smooths things over with a 'if you do that again we're gonna have to go home, we can't hang out with wyatt if youre going to use not nice words' or something along those lines; laying out explicit expectations. if she's not willing to listen to him or she's too worked up to really hear him, he'll either take her to her bedroom and give her a book to read to calm down first, or he'll just pick her up and go about his business until she calms down. he also believes in natural consequences though, so sometimes its just a situation where jj fucks around and finds out. if travis takes her to the park and they get ice cream at the ice cream truck but she won't sit at the bench with him to eat it and it falls, he'll let her be upset, he'll tell her its okay to be upset, but he won't get her another one (she'll steal his and then complain that its not pink like she wanted but theres definitely still a lesson being learned in there... maybe)

[taysdorothea13]

travis might not be the best at doing jj’s hair, but oh does he dress that little girl like everyday is fashion week. we’ve got dresses coordinated to shoes, custom boutique sets for every season, jj has an entire drawer of t-shirts that’s only purpose is to be worn under overalls and rompers. he thinks so specifically of the details of these things, and he has so much fun going through her clothes trying to decide which ruffled sleeve looks better under her overalls or which of her shoes will look better with whatever top she has on. and better yet? give him the freedom to pick out matching/coordinated outfits. sometimes it’s easy enough to dress jj in a mini replica of what he’s wearing, but other times he does not skimp on the girlie/feminine details. he’ll run so far with a coordinated outfit and it’ll look good which is probably the most infuriating thing to kylie. not that she and jason care that much about how they dress the girls, but there’s just something about knowing your brother-in-law dresses his daughter better than she dresses hers and never once has he experienced being a little girl or a woman. truly insane. taylor loves it. the first time she came over to travis’ apartment, one of the first details she noticed was how it looked like a girl lived there.

all of her friends that have kids are all in healthy relationships or they’re divorced so it’s never been something she’s harped on, but travis is a single dad so taylor thought the state of the apartment just reflected his dedication to being a girl dad and raising a little girl. there were hair ties on every table, in every room, hidden behind the most random things. she’d just figured that he would keep her hair supplies in one place, but she hadn’t even been there for an hour before he was pulling jj between his knees and tying her hair up when she pulled a puzzle out of the toy box. it was such a little thing to notice, the simplicity of it holds no weight really, but beneath that is something that had taylor’s stomach filling with butterflies. she’d seen ryan not bat an eye at james digging into a bow of ice cream with blonde hair falling into it, she’d seen aaron laugh at how ingrid’s hair flew into her face when she ran into the room, her little hands desperately trying to keep it away. there was something so tender and genuine about travis not only recognizing that jj’s hair was going to get in her way, but being attentive and prepared enough to make sure it didn’t happen. taylor was definitely on her period for this interaction… she should not have teared up over this but she did and if travis noticed (he did) he didn’t question it, but he took it as a sign that maybe he really did stand a chance of making this work with taylor.

anyways, jj kelce absolutely eats. travis is already elite at the little girl fashion game, but taylor is unmatched and once she got the first taste of getting jj little outfits and accessories, she was hooked. it’s fun to get accessories and clothes for friends, that had always calmed her baby fever just having a reason to buy them at all, but oh is there something addictive about getting to match everything together and find different combinations.

[taysdorothea13]

does travis remain daddy as jj grows up or does she call him dad. because im p shre that wld make him sad

it’s pretty split. even as a toddler jj doesn’t always call him daddy. she signs every birthday card ‘i love you daddy’, and his contact in her phone is always going to be daddy, but it just depends on the vibes on what she calls him

[taysdorothea13]

how would snuggles w wren & trav compare to snuggles w jj and trav

wren is very still, she nuzzles her little head right up under travis’s chin and practically melts into him. jj is just deadweight in travis’ arms, and she’s constantly moving around. wren also plays with travis’ necklaces, where jj gravitates towards things around her.

[taysdorothea13]

travis often wakes up with toddler jj in his bed, especially the night before he has to travel and sometimes she'll start crying because she will miss him lots... and that breaks his heart

if there’s one thing about toddler jj, she loves her bed. anytime they go visit taylor, or jason and kylie, or jut travel in general, she asks if they can bring her bed. travis does not wake up to jj in his bed, he wakes up in her bed wondering how he lost this fight again. jj also hardly ever cries while travis is in the process of leaving. she waves and smiles and grins the brightest grin, and the second the door clothes she melts down. which, lowkey stings a little. travis cannot understand why she only cries once he’s out of sight. jj’s usually extra cute before he leaves. like wants to do everything with daddy, wants to be just like daddy, will walk around in travis’ clothes that didn’t make the cut for his suitcase telling anyone that’ll listen to her that she’s daddy. she makes it so hard to leave every damn time, travis is pretty sure it’s a manipulation tactic

[taysdorothea13]

how would travis deal with things as jj got older? assuming taylor wasnt in the picture etc her first period, her first heartbreak, her teenage mood swings: because i feel dads always picture their daughters as daddy's little girl and the mood swings cut em deep

travis is more prepared than anyone anticipated for teenage jj. he knows she’ll always be his little girl, the same way he’s still his moms little boy. that’s the one thing travis has over jason. jason had never realized how much of an asshole he was to his parents until he had his own kids and grew up enough to realize they were always looking out for him. travis, however, has probably apologized to donna seven hundred times since he turned twenty three and grew up. jj has tampons and pads in her bathroom at eleven. does she need them? no. but travis knows that one day she’s going to and neither one of them will be prepared for it if they don’t start getting things in order now. he asked kylie about everything. when did you start your period? did you prefer tampons or pads? should i get her tampons at all to start, or should i just show her how to use a pad. how do i show her? do i have to show her? jj’s not an idiot, i don’t want to make her feel like she’s incapable. big guy is stressed out, but he refuses to fail his daughter and for that, kylie sits through his questions because she knows that she’s all travis has.

when jj did get her period at fourteen, she and travis were home for the night after a late night practice. she’d been saying her stomach hurt all day, so travis had assumed she was coming down with something or it was just one of those days where you didn’t feel quite right, but then she came out of her bedroom with shaking hands looking pale, and she cuddled up into his chest and he could just tell she was trying to find the confidence to say something to him. he sat and waited. kylie hadn’t been able to give him much advice about this part. all she’d said is don’t do anything that you think might be embarassing for an emotional teenage girl… which it’s probably good he didn’t say anything because jj was a wreck of emotions. when she finally did tell him she got her period, she followed up by saying, that she doesn’t think it’s supposed to burn which immediately had travis’ red flags raising. jj was allergic to certain chemicals in diapers as a baby, she broke out into a rash every time they touched her skin even if it were only for a handful of minutes. travis felt like the biggest idiot. hed tried to hard to make sure that this wasn’t anything scary or pivotal. he tried so hard to make it normal because it is, but he’d entirely forgotten about how sensitive jj’s skin could be, and he feels like the worlds worst dad. he can’t even imagine being jj. getting your period for the first time, being uncomfortable and in pain all day, and now being burnt by chemicals. he goes out to get her another kind of pad, calling kylie once again to ask if there’s a specific brand that advertises clean skin or rash free, and he picks up ice cream and legos.

jj didn’t want to come. she’d already gone to practice with him thinking her stomach would stop hurting, and he was entirely spent. he came home to find her passed out on the couch, cuddling up to a teddy bear he hadn’t seen in years. he woke her up to change, because he did not want to see her get a rash the same way she had as a baby, and then they sat on the couch and ate ice cream and built her lego which now takes up a permanent place on the mantel. and he explained that it might take sometime for her to get used to this. he told her that sometimes kylie’s period comes early or late, that it’s absolutely okay if she gets blood on her clothes or her sheets. jj wants to roll her eyes at him, she really does because he sounds ridiculous telling her things she already knows, but then he looks at her with this smile and she feels her heart swell with warmth. she knows this is hard for him. that he has no idea what any of this means or how it feels, but he’s trying to hard for her she can only nod her head in acceptance of his efforts. and she does need the motivational speech because the first time she does leak onto her bed, she starts freaking out, but travis comes in the second he hears her frantically throwing things on the floor and his heart breaks as he sees his baby pulling at her bedsheets with tears on her face and blood on her favorite pink pajamas. he washes everything right then and there. it’s two in the morning, but he’s going to prove to his daughter that he can handle anything. he can handle periods and blood, he can handle glitter and pop stars, he can handle crushes and boy talk. he can handle every single part of being a teenage girl. jj doesn’t know how lucky she is, and travis is glad. he doesn’t want her to ever experience being unknown, invisible, etc.

he treats her first heartbreak like it’s the end of the world, and jj has never felt so validated in her entire life. he definitely pissed her off when he said he’d beat the kid up, but then he calmed down and just laid with her in bed watching stupid movies that make her cry even when she’s happy and eating sour candy that isn’t even good but she loves it regardless. and when she decides that she’s not sad anymore, she’s angry, travis tells her that’s good. he tells her not to harp on anyone who isn’t worthy of her love, and then he takes her to a rage room and makes her laugh after he smashes a lamp with a hammer.

bonus for taylor dealing with jj on her period: jj gets some of the worst cramps ever, and taylor can sympathize with that. jj comes home from school and seeks out taylor. like travis could he in the kitchen making her a snack, and she just huffs, throws her backpack on the floor, and stomps up the stairs until she finds taylor and then she cuddles up into her and just moans and whines about her belly and her head and “i have three new pimples and it’s only been three hours since i got my stupid period”. travis tries his best to make things normal, and he succeeds, but taylor’s better at actually combatting the emotions and hormones. she drags jj to her bathroom, she sifts through pimple patches and creams that reduce redness and scarring. she gives jj midol, forces her to wash her face and then put on a serum, and then they get into taylor’s bed and watch stupid movies and music videos while taylor rubs her stomach. travis comes upstairs with her after school snack and just backs away with his hands raised because somehow jj on her period always means taylor’s going to act like she’s on her period and he’s a brave little soldier but never brave enough to handle two women on their periods looking for blood and revenge

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what were jj's firsts? walking, word, time at the beach etc and how did travis react to each

besides baby babbling dada all the time. travis considers jj to have two first words. her actual first word and the word she said first but got basically none of the pronunciation right. besides dada, the next thing jj ever said clearly was ball. which, nobody’s surprised she was six months old when football season started and a year old a couple of months after it ended, so practically her entire life was devoted to football. the second word, which is probably jj’s favorite, is bo which sounds a lot like ball when travis isn’t given any context. she’s trying to say rambo, but that’s admittedly rather hard for a baby. the first time he realized she was saying ball, he grinned with pride and then tried to track down a football in the house which is surprisingly difficult. they ended up on the couch watching highlight reels, and jj was so happy that travis understood what she was saying. she tried to eat her feet seven seconds later, but you know, points are given where due

jj took her first steps the night before her first birthday, which couldn’t have been any more perfect in travis’ opinion. they were playing before bedtime, as they usually do, and he was holding a pink block out for jj to take. she’d been crawling to him. zipping around the room like a little lightning bolt, but then she stood up, and she screamed at travis with both of her little arms extended and he just smiled and told her to come get it. she took a wobbly step forward, and then another, and then she collapsed on the groin and proceeded to crawl to him. she tried to eat the block the second she had it in her hands, and travis reached for his phone and another block, and he held it out just like he had before and just like before, jj took a handful of steps but this time, she made it to him and she grinned so cheekily like she knew exactly what she was doing before she collapsed onto her padded bottom and very happily gnawed at the block. the pictures of jj’s first steps aren’t the best. they’re blurry and unfocused, but they’re travis’ favorite pictures. he has one on his nightstand, one in his wallet, and he keeps one in his locker at arrowhead.

jj’s first time at the beach was a horrible experience and travis is an idiot for ever bringing a teething baby to the beach. she wanted to eat all the sand. every time travis put her down, she was actively trying to shove handfuls of sand into her mouth. she was terrified of the water, not that travis could blame her, the waves were rough and high, and he kept pissing her off by putting a sunhat on her head and sunscreen on her body. he thought he was going to die before they made it back to the beach house. but then travis got to experience the first night after the beach with her. travis had forgotten sunscreen for himself in the chaos of making sure jj was protected, so he’s basically as red as a lobster with a tired baby on his chest sucking down a bottle and pulling at his ear. she’s warm still. he can feel the sun on her skin, can feel how soft her hands are because of the sand, he gets to enjoy the quiet an hour early because she was so exhausted she passed out. that’s travis’ favorite part. he remembers how tried he was as a kid after going to the beach or the pool. he remembers how good it felt to take a shower and put pajamas on. jj can’t tell him how she feels, but travis knows, and that’s enough for him to do it all over again the next day because he’s an idiot and booked a tropical vacation for two without bringing any backup

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what does jj call Taylor?

purple princess is taylor’s designated code name basically. before jj really understand that daddy went to see taylor swift, she knows that daddy showed her videos of a pretty lady in a purple dress. so, up until trav and tay really start talking, she’s referred to as purple princess. 

tay and taytay are pretty much standard. jj doesn’t start calling taylor mommy until probably around this time.