#and tmrw is Chicago

[latibvles]

The fun part about this next prompt is the amount of unnecessary deepdiving I get to do into different parts of the US

[possum-tooth]

i know the answer is yes But should i attempt to buy mcr tickets tmrw

[xgoblim]

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[big-tees-and-short-skirts]

healthcare bullshit cw

HEY. LOCAL HOSPITAL. WHY DUD I HAVE TO FUCKING CALL TO FIND OUT WHICH PROCEDURE IM GETTING TOMORROW MORNING?!?!? NO INSTRUCTIONS SENT, JUST, "dont eat or drink for 4 hrs pls," AND NOTHING ELSE?!???

heres a baby snapper to apologize for the caps spam <3 thats about to follow

[finalgirlkateausten]

I was bored in the car today and @lesbiansayaishii was nice to me in the tags of my pinned moodboard, so elle, this is for you ❤️ this also marks the first thing I've properly written for the Ivy AU, and it's intentionally not the start of the story but more in the middle, because I wanted to make my brain think about other parts of the story. Thank you elle for giving me an excuse to flex my muse 🖤💞💗

Background/Context, Connor went to Mayo after s3, and Ava didn't ask him to stay, nor did she tell him when she realized she was pregnant from their one night stand. He comes back as head of the emergency department around four years later, and... you can probably fill in the blankssss

Connor is reviewing patient charts in his mercifully private office when the phone on his desk starts ringing. He eyes it for a moment, pretty sure it’s no one he wants to talk to. But he doesn’t get to foist it off now, now that he’s the one in charge, so he picks up the phone with a groan.

“Rhodes.”

“Dr. Rhodes, it’s Beth in the OR with Dr. Bekker,” says the surgery tech. “You’re on speaker.”

Not the most headache-inducing call he could’ve gotten, then. “Thanks, Beth. Ava?” It’s been a rocky few weeks since he’d suddenly learned that she had a daughter— that he had a daughter— but getting closer again, even just by arguing and pestering each other with every spare minute of their shifts, means he’s falling back into the familiar patterns from before his years at the Mayo Clinic, including using her first name.

“Connor, what’s the weather doing right now?”

He blinks. “Huh?”

“I know we’re supposed to be getting a winter storm,” she continues, “but last I heard it wasn’t getting bad until tonight. Only, now Ivy’s daycare is saying they’re closing early because the roads might be dangerous as early as this afternoon.”

Connor scrubs a hand over his face. “Oh, shit, the ER’s probably gonna get flooded.”

“Connor,” Ava says, exasperation audible even over the phone, “I’m currently elbow-deep in the chest cavity of a man in late-stage heart failure. I cannot leave this patient on the table for the half-hour minimum it would take for me to drive out to the daycare and check Ivy out. She can play quietly in the doctor’s lounge up here, she knows how to do that, but I need you to go pick her up.”

“Uh.” He pauses for a moment as his brain tries to catch up. “What?”

“I know you’re working too, but you’ve got a little more flexibility than I do at the moment,” Ava continues. “I’ll call ahead and tell them you’re cleared to sign her out, can you come get my car keys so you’ll have her car seat with you?”

“Hang on.” Connor’s hand flexes on the arm of his office chair. “A week ago you were saying you weren’t even ready for me to meet her yet, and now you want me to go pick her up from school? The hell do I know about entertaining children?”

“You don’t have to entertain anyone,” Ava huffs, “as long as you can buckle a seatbelt, you’ll be fine. I wouldn't ask if I wasn't desperate."

"That makes me feel so much better," he says drily.

"Look, if I spend any more time begging you right now my patient is going to end up with brain damage. Car keys are in my locker; the combination is Ivy's birthday. Beth, hang up on him, please."

Sure enough, the call ends abruptly, leaving Connor to stand there and wonder what he'd expected.

"I don't know her goddamn birthday," he says aloud to no one.

On a hunch he boots up his desktop to open the hospital's L&D records from 2018, and punching in Ava's surname he finds a file from late in the fall. 11-06-18. Got it.

Sure enough, that combination opens the locker, and Connor grabs the car keys from the magnet hook inside the door. He vaguely remembers the name of the daycare, so he punches that into google maps, and even with the snow starting to fall, the drive doesn't hit twenty minutes. When he enters the lobby of the place, the woman at the front desk nods when he awkwardly gives his name.

"Dr. Bekker gave us a call, you're on the approved guardian list," she says. "We appreciate you working with our unpredictable winter schedule; the kids are in the main playroom and their belongings are in the cubbies with their names."

"Got it," Connor says, finding the small cubby with Ivy's name on it. There's a purple coat on one hook and a blue, floral-patterned backpack on the other, and he crosses his fingers and hopes there's nothing else he needs to grab, because he's not exactly sure the three-year-old will tell him. He makes his way into the playroom, scanning the small crowd of children, and a familiar face stares back at him, blonde pigtails bouncing as she crosses the room.

"You're Doctor Rhodes," she says a picture book clutched in one hand. "You work with Mummy." There's a pause, and then she adds, "hi," as if just remembering how to use greetings.

"Yep, that's me," he agrees. It feels insanely weird to have this small child referring to him with his full title, but everything about interacting with her feels insanely weird-- he's going to let Ava tell her what to call him, and all that. "Hey, Ivy, your mom is really busy right now, but because of the snow the nice people here are worried it might not be safe for you to stay all afternoon like usual. So I have your normal car, with your car seat, and we're gonna go back to the hospital. Sound alright?"

"Mhm," Ivy agrees. "I have my coloring books." And then she instantly reaches up for his hand, and he takes hers reflexively, but it brings him a moment's pause when he looks down at her and realizes this is effectively the first time he's held his daughter's hand. But he doesn't really have the time to pause and sit with that, especially with an inquisitive toddler staring up at him, so instead he leads her out of the room and to the car.

"Coloring books sound great."

In the car, Ivy talks a little about friends from her Pre-K, but mostly she looks out the window and dances to the random radio station Connor had turned on. They park in the hospital parking lot, and when Connor lifts Ivy out of her car seat, she wraps her arms around his neck. "It's cold!"

"We'll be inside soon," he tells her, picking her backpack up from the floor of the car. But after he shuts the door and locks the car, he hesitates, looking from Ivy's sneakers to the slushy puddles on the sidewalk. "Um... do you want me to carry you like this?"

"Yeah!" She rests her head on his shoulder. "Your beard is funny."

He chuckles as he begins to walk toward the hospital. "Funny?"

"It's soft. Soft like a fuzzy bear."

"Oh, yeah?" He grins at her. "I thought you weren't supposed to pet bears. Do bears like people?"

"No!" Ivy giggles, leaning back to give him a toothy smile. Connor adjusts his grip to account for the change in her center of gravity. "Bears don't live with people, silly. I got stuffed animals."

"Oh, I see," he says, adopting an air of seriousness. "You're the expert, then."

Ivy certainly agrees with that assessment, and she tells him all about her stuffed animals and their names as they make their way through the hospital. Really, Connor could put her down now that they're out of the weather, but he feels happily warm with her clinging to him so tightly. Yeah, it's a little freaky to meet a tiny alien of a human who's half made of him when she's already her own tiny person, but Ivy is so immediately trusting and bubbly that he can't help but love her. He can lose his shit on his own time; if a toddler wants to hug him, he's gonna hug her back.

"Here we go." Connor sets Ivy on the couch in the CT doctor's lounge, and she eagerly opens up her backpack and pulls out coloring books and crayons. "Your mom will come see you when she's done with surgery."

"Thanks." Ivy quickly opens the coloring book and holds out a crayon to him. "Here. Color."

He takes the crayon, a little surprised. Technically, he really should get back to the trauma floor, but... surely Ava will be out of the OR sooner rather than later. He can stay with Ivy for a little while later.

"Okay," he agrees, sitting on the floor to reach where she has the coloring book on the couch. "What... what color do we start with?"

[yrbutchgf]

admittedly the cure for loneliness is vulnerability but sometimes im really just not sure how much more i got left in the tank

[starswallowingsea]

almost done. less than a page left

[discworldwitches]

ten people i’d like to get to know better

tagged by @koheletgirl thank u!! <3

last song: blue by joni mitchell

favorite color: green! 💚🥬🍃

last book: caliban's war (the expanse #2) james s.a. corey

last movie: ..........................ex-mas

last tv show: star trek: the animated series. just finished TOS :(

sweet/spicy/savory: savory!!

relationship status: common law marriage technically

last thing i googled: emojis (bc i am on my laptop and wanted green emojis)

current obsession: ilona maher & alan bersten on dwts

looking forward to: seeing wicked, turning 27 tmrw, reading a lot during my month off!!

i tag @chicago-geniza @ziemiawypalona @dekarios @swampsorcerer @punkkwix @kiteinthedesert @haniawritesthings @naewitchcraftinvolved @interlibraryloan @kallistoi

[mister3127]

please please please god let fall out boy play Chicago is so two years ago tmrw I will tweak out (good way)

[littlemissangelic]

here’s everything i ate today !! a little higher in calories than i would’ve liked, but lower than the past few days !

breakfast: protein yogurt w/ protein powder (197) 🍨

snack: an orange (42) 🍊

lunch: 1/2 a frozen chicago style pizza, one breadstick, marinara sauce, and a mini lemon lime olipop (508) 🍕🍋🍋‍🟩

dinner: frozen shrimp alfredo with a breadstick, and a pineapple protein milkshake (624) 🍤 🍝

unpictured snacks: one fish stick, a square of chocolate, a small bowl of potato & beef soup, two pretzel stick with homemade ranch, and three pickle slices (284) 🥒 🍫

daily total: 1,655 ⭐️ 185 C ⭐️ 119 P ⭐️ 55 F

burned: 30 ; net: 1,625

tmrw the goal is <1,500 🧸

[renaithri]

trying to speedrun learning the whole hungarian monologue from chicago bc auditions part 2 are tmrw and i only just decided thats the role i want

[oldgoats]

This is a lyrics post lol I'll try to post some more songs tmrw

"The Curse Of Gallaraga" "Well, I was out in LEFT field, When I got that RIGHT chill. He didn't call him out, We better sit on down, cause the worst is starting now. And I woke up in Toledo; Man my Mud Hens were pissed. Then Cleveland sang out:

Well good, now They'll be, the last to lead. Cause we have seen the Course of Modern History Now They'll be, the first to leave. Cuz we have lived in this constant state of misery like Soon, you'll see...

Once I was in Chicago; Yeah Everyone was bummed though. So I called 'em out; Said 'you can't sit and pout, cause your Curse is over now.' Then I went down to Florida, In my (old) English D shirt... And they kicked me out, Man of this country club where some rich fucks were all dressed up And I WAS hittin' baseballs from the Women's tee when This old Gator, walked his green ass up to me and he said 'Son, You tryna' die and never leave this place?' And all I say man I just seen a better day Yeah all I say is I just wanna celebrate Then ALL I said was I just found a better way to Come on down and lasso me a Devil Ray 'Get out of here! You're poisoning our atmosphere' But I think I'll stay and I'll become the Cardinal's Saint of Eighteen carat diamond plates and Triple Plays 'Man you're out of here, now you're foggin' up our atmosphere' So I think I'll Pray that I'll become the Patron Saint of ALL Padres who stay... And They can blame it on that shirt we wear and the pride we bleed But we WON'T bleed out til we're in the ground and still it's stained It LIVES forever in the heart of all our seeds like SON, soon you're gonna see; WHAT this could be.

The Curse of Gallaraga, The Curse of Gallaraga, The Curse of Gallaraga, Man it killed Mario and Rod...... The Curse of Gallarage, The Curse of Gallaraga, The Curse of Gallaraga, Man fuck you Jim Joyce; All you did was kill a poor man's boyhood dreams. IF they ever see you walkin' down a Detroit street, well..." This song is dedicated to all Detroit Sports fans

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[thriftdyke]

going to attempt a chicagoan accent for my acting class tmrw and I just wanna say advanced apologies to chicagoans everywhere (in chicago) who will probably feel the resonance of my horrific butchering somewhere deep in their chicago hearts and pussies. their chicagussies, if you will

[danepopfrippery]

We’ve raised over $4000 and we almpst have as many streamers as in audience members. I love u muppets so much. (Stream tickets available until the show starts tmrw)

[chappellarchive]

CHICAGO ♡‧₊ we just started our leg of the @findingxfletcher tour 🌟 i really appreciate the love even though I sounded like a frog because of my throat infection (◡_◡✿) Minneapolis is tmrw night 🦋

November 3, 2022

[starjxsung]

OMG okay so I landed in Copenhagen less than 7 hours ago and was walking around and found a freaking kpop store!!! My city doesn’t have one so I like freaked ahhhh I’m gonna go check it out tmrw im dragging the rest of my fam idc I’m so excited even if I don’t buy anything I’m gonna be living the best life visiting a kpop store for the first time fr

Anyways the jet lag is hitting me and I’m so tired lol the two flights combined to get here was like 11+ hours .

ILY Star 💕

Probably be back with updates in a couple weeks when I’m back from my trip 💖

🌱anon

NO WAYYYYYY RAHHHHHH you have to tell me what you get !!!!!! I’m actually going to the kpop store tomorrow bc I ordered the bbokari & wolf chan magic school mini skzoos and I need to pick them up but I’ve had to wait all week bc they’re closed mon-wed ���� I might pick up more skz albums while I’m there but I may have already??? Purchased 8 of them??????? Bc I keep going insane and thinking I’m gonna pull kitty lix and then I just don’t ☹️ somebody put me out of my misery ANYWAYS TELL ME HOW IT GOESSSS 🫶💕

11+ hours of flying is TOUGHHH I think my flights to Chicago will be around the same amount of travel and I’m dreading it 😭 it also doesn’t help that I’m one of the strange gen z passengers who completely raw dogs flights like I don’t watch movies listen to music literally nothing. I either sleep or stare catatonically at the seat in front of me which makes the time move ten times slower 😍

I can’t wait to hear all your updates ahhhh I love you bby have so so so much fun !!!!!!! 💖💓💕🫶🙂‍↕️ go ham at the kpop store on my behalf pls