#but i gotta walk to the medical arts complex first thing tomorrow and i need to finish doing laundry

[pulchriate]

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Current time: 6:45PM

Currently thinking about: the bloodwork i'm getting done tomorrow, worrying about rent, adult responsibilities i've let pile up due 2 my ongoing mental health crisis (i'm doing a little better now)

Current favorite song: Deep by Nine Inch Nails

Currently reading: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen & Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Currently watching: the last thing i watched was Candyman (the og movie) which was... a few months ago i think. i definitely recommend it if you're a horror fan

Current favorite character: i don't knowwwwwww. i don't think i'm really Fixated on anyone atm. maybe i should pick Phèdre nó Delaunay, god's specialest little masochist <3

Current wips: i'm mostly just Thinking about projects instead of... actually working on projects. hopefully it is the type of Thinking that will blossom into Actually Writing

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[tenroseforeverandever]

Dear Father Christmas... Chapter 16: December 24, 2031

MASTERPOST

Characters:  Tentoo; Rose Tyler; Jackie Tyler; Pete Tyler; Tony Tyler; OC Hope Tyler-Noble; OC Charlotte Tyler-Noble; OC Wilfred Tyler-Noble

Rated: Teen

Tags: Family!Fic; Kid!Fic; Pete’s World; Letters to Santa; Christmas Fic; Family; Fluff; Hurt/Comfort; Angst; Romance; Love; gun violence; violence resulting in death; life-threatening injury; life threatening situations

Summary: When Rose Tyler was little, she always wrote a Christmas wish list to Father Christmas. As she grew older, the wish list became more of a letter to someone she could confide in once a year, but she fell out of the habit somewhere along the way. Now, as a new mum, celebrating her daughter’s first Christmas, Rose takes up writing her Christmas letter to Father Christmas once again.

Rose’s Christmas letters are excerpts from her life with her beloved Tentoo and their children in Pete’s World, written once a year, for each of 31 years.

Chapter Summary: Rose reflects on the growth of Hand in Hand, and the changes for her family in the coming year.

Notes:  A short, newsy chapter… enjoy!

I would be lost without my betas, the wonderful @rose–nebula and mrsbertucci  <3 They've helped me so much to get to this halfway point without falling behind!  (((((hugs)))))

Thanks to @doctorroseprompts for their 31 Days of Ficmas prompts. The prompt I used today was Holiday Music.

Also read at: AO3; FF.net; Teaspoon

December 24th, 2031

Dear Father Christmas,

As a family, we’ve always loved music. We’re not especially talented (except for Hope, she’s actually quite gifted; it seems no matter what instrument she picks up it sounds beautiful in her hands.) But the rest of us are only fair to middling. But we’ve always had so much fun with it. And when the Christmas season rolls around, just try and stop us belting out our favourite tunes!

And nowhere is Christmas music more fun to sing than at the Hand in Hand Festive Feast. I dunno, it just seems like the combination of great music and good food bring people together like nothing else. The music scene at the Feast has taken on a life of its own over the years. People show up with instruments in hand and just get together in little groups and sing and play! Ordinary people; celebrities; the people we’re supporting. Everyone! Jamming together. No one unimportant. It is such a brilliant experience, and something we all look forward to every year.

After the Hand in Hand’s second Festive Feast, a few years back, a rather star-struck Charlie approached some of the celebrities, and discussions got going about holding a massive concert, a music festival, where loads of artists would come together to do a live show as another major fundraiser for the charity.

By this time, local and federal politicians had been convinced to review the mothballed plans for the refurbishment of the neglected areas, and as it turned out, one of the biggest plans for Peckham was the creation of a huge multi-media auditorium and sports complex, right on the site of the former Powell Estate. With a lot of coaxing from the right people (including Charlie, the tireless little shit-disturber herself), resettlement of the residents and construction were quickly underway.

Charlie was desperate for the first Hand in Hand Music Festival to take place in the new facility and was crushed when she realized how long it would take to build such a structure. Not only would the current residents need to be safely rehoused, but the sheer scope of the construction was massive, taking in not only the construction of the auditorium, but the surrounding community as well. As a result, the concert has had to be held every summer at another site in the city.

It took a few years, but this past summer, Charlie officially opened the Charlotte Tyler-Noble Arts and Sports Coliseum, officially owned by Vitex, and the inaugural event was the Hand in Hand Music Festival. She was so proud. And we were all so proud of her. It was her initiative and persistence that had made all of this possible.

With all the redevelopment taking place in the area, we’ve had to be flexible about the site of the Festive Feast from year to year. This year, with most of the construction complete, and the fledgling community starting to thrive, we’re holding it in the massive green space and park, that was set aside right in the middle of the area. Central Peckham Park! I’ve gotta say, I laughed with pure joy at the sight! A huge park, right smack in the middle of Peckham! What I wouldn’t have given to have had that when I was growing up!

Of course, the question arose, now with the underprivileged areas redeveloped and flourishing, what was the point of Hand in Hand? Charlie’s answer was that London was not the only city in Britain that had homeless and destitute residents, and Britain was not the only country in the world. Proceeds from Hand in Hand would continue to support the needs of people in London and across the globe.

We are all so looking forward to putting all the politics aside for a day, though, and just enjoying the Feast tomorrow: singing and dancing with friends and family; a community of people from all walks of life, sitting down together and sharing a meal. What could be better than that?

And I’m going to hold on to the memories we make tomorrow, because it might be the last Christmas our family all spends together for some time. Come the New Year, my Hope is off to the stars. She has been enrolled at the Bontane Medical Academy on Edifinol Beta, a human colony, far in the future, in the 51th Century. The university is renowned for producing some of the top medical minds in all of human history… the Doctor checked.

My baby girl… Santa, I don’t know what I’m going to do. She’s still so young. Fifteen. I reckon me and the Doctor will be visiting in the TARDIS… a lot! But, I suppose, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from Charlie and her venture, it’s to never underestimate my kids and their ability to cope with a wide variety of situations. Hope is mature and collected, and completely brilliant. She’s out to make the world a better place in her own understated way, a very different way from Charlie, but no less significant.

I’m going to say Happy Christmas, for now, Santa.  I’m going to call my family together, turn on the Christmas tunes, and dance around the living room! A warm-up for tomorrow!

I hope you and Mrs. Claus and the elves and reindeer all get to enjoy time spent together, singing and dancing.

love, Rose