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she-karev · 15 days ago

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First Family Christmas (Jolex and Luna Season 18 Imagine)

Age Rating: 12+

Chapters: One of One

Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy

Ship: Alex Karev x Jo Karev/Jo Wilson featuring Andrew DeLuca x Amber Karev (Alex Karev’s Sister), Maya Bishop x Carina DeLuca.

Canon Episode: Season 18 Episode 8

AN: Merry Christmas! Here’s an all star chapter featuring all of your favorite ships celebrating the holidays. Enjoy and Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Summary: Alex Karev and Jo celebrate their daughter Luna’s first Christmas with their family and friends.

Words: 1864

December 25th, 2021

Jo finishes the last gift with a lavish curl against the dull side of her scissors. She exhales in joy at finishing wrapping the gifts for their family and friends who are on their way here to celebrate Christmas together.

For Jo it’s exciting to finally have a big group to celebrate this season of giving and stressful trying to find gifts for her chosen family members. Nevertheless, she smiles at her one-year-old daughter Luna who is watching her wrap gifts while she plays with her toy on the playmat.

“All done!” Jo puts the red gift under her armpit and Luna against her hip who grins happily as she’s being carried to the medium sized Christmas tree Alex helped pick while Jo decorated. Jo puts the small box on top of the pile of wrapped gifts she also prepared, “Can mommy plan the perfect first Christmas for you or what?”

“Don’t mention me I just helped picked out the tree.” Alex says sarcastically amused as he approaches his wife who grins at him, “And pick out the presents. And the games the kids would play. I mean I hardly did anything.”

“And this Luna used to be your daddy but on Christmas he is what we call a Grinch.” Jo tells her blonde daughter who reaches over for her dad with waving chubby arms melting the parent’s hearts.

Alex chuckles taking the baby from Jo, “One sight of you Little Moon makes my heart grow three sizes. It’s your first actual Christmas with us, are you excited? You get to spend time with your family, eat sweets, open presents, doesn’t that sound exciting?” Luna grins a wide nearly toothless smile causing Alex to kiss her cheek before the doorbell rings.

Jo gasps with a wide smile, “Who is at the door?”

Jo quickly walks to the door opening the door to find Meredith Grey on the other side with her kids, Zola, Bailey and Ellis in tow.

“Merry Christmas!” The Grey-Shepherd’s yell out together causing Jo to chuckle opening the door wide letting them in.

“Merry Christmas! You kids are just in time for Christmas bingo!” Bailey and Ellis yay rushing towards the table that is laid out with printable Christmas bingo cards with a deck of cards at the head of the table for the adult who is in charge, “Winner gets the first taste of Uncle Alex’s gingerbread cookies!”

Alex smiles at the kids smiling and getting ready to play, he sits at the head of the table shuffling the cards, “Okay guys rules of the game are I call out the picture on the cards, you mark it. You mark the pictures until you get four stamps up and down, right and left or across. First one to get one of those yells bingo and they win the first round.”

“We know how to play bingo Uncle Alex.” Zola points out with a grin, “Our teachers played them with us before break.”

“Yeah but there weren’t delicious cookies at stake.” Alex states with seriousness and a grin before pulling out the first card, “Okay first one is ugly Christmas sweater.”

Jo and Meredith watch the kids play the game with Alex using a funny voice every time he announces the card. Jo smiles at her husband who puts up a tough front with everyone except her and the kids. Luna is his sidekick on the highchair next to him grinning at the view of the table.

Jo looks at her family with so much love and tenderness, knowing how hard this last year has been for all three of them. Alex and Jo faced obstacles in their work and private life from the covid virus, burnout and Luna needing to stay at the NICU for her health problems. Despite the turmoil of 2020 Jo wouldn’t change it if it meant this moment right here and now was not happening.

Meredith grins as well proud of how far Alex has come from the arrogant, entitled man child into this kind and fun-loving father who welcomes people into his home with open arms. She is not only thankful to have him in her life but to also be a part of his life where their kids can hang out and be friends while she talks with him and his wife who is right next to her.

“He was so good with kids before he had one of his own.” Jo states with affection, “Now he’s even better which I did not think was possible.”

“If you had told me 18 years ago that the horny, sweaty intern who invaded my personal space and practically dry humped me would be my best friend and the best uncle to my kids I would think you were using dark humor.” Meredith chuckles nostalgic as another memory comes to her, “I used to think of him as dirty Uncle Sal.”

Jo narrows her eyes confused at her friend with an amused grin before asking, “What?”

“Dirty Uncle Sal.” Meredith repeats before elaborating, “You know the one who embarrasses you at family reunions and can’t be left alone with the teenage girls, but you invite him to the picnic anyway.”

Jo chuckles at that description, “You know a part of me is glad I didn’t know him back when his attitude earned him that horrifying title.”

“Back then I had a mother with dementia so I took what I could get with a chosen family.” Meredith explains before turning back to Alex who kisses the top of Luna’s head before calling out the next picture, “But now I wouldn’t choose anyone else to be in my life and my kids.”

“Same.” Jo shares with a grin before looking at Luna who is on her dad’s lap being held by her dad while he holds up the cards with his other hand, “Luna is lucky to have Auntie Meredith who has a lot of stories about her daddy that she’s not gonna hear until she leaves for college.”

“Make it till med school.” Meredith warns the new mom, “Trust me you’ll thank me for that. Christmas with you guys and our kids is gonna be a tradition from now on. I don’t care if I’m in Minnesota or Germany we are gonna do this every year no matter what. I know the kids would love it and so would I.”

“Me too.” Jo agrees surprised at how far her and Meredith’s friendship has come over the last decade. She looks at Luna in Alex’s arm as she holds up a candy cane in observation, “I want to give my little girl the childhood I never had, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween heck even Groundhog Day. I want to give her a family to celebrate with, blood or not.”

Just then the doorbell rings causing Jo to grin as she can guess who is already here, “And here comes the blood, excuse me.”

Jo opens the door and as she expected her sister-in-law, Amber DeLuca nee Karev and her husband Andrew DeLuca are here with gifts in their arms. Behind them is Andrew’s sister Carina and her wife Maya Bishop who are holding food trays.

“Merry Christmas.” Amber greets before coming in exhaling in relief at the warmth from the cold weather along with the others, “I hope you don’t mind but we brought Maya and Carina with us.”

“Oh no please come in the more the merrier.” Jo motions for the women to enter the house, “Merry Christmas you guys, how are the holidays at the station?”

The family enter the living room where Amber and Andrew greet Alex and the kids. Amber gasps at the bingo, joining them with her husband standing over her and observing.

Maya smiles at the sight of a family gathering she has been deprived of most of her life before answering Jo’s question, “We wrapped gifts for the kids, Pru got to spend the night with Ben and Bailey and Carina and I made our official announcement.”

Jo looks curious as Carina explains with a smile, “We’re gonna start trying to have a baby.”

“What?!” Jo exclaims in joy, “Oh my god congratulations you two!”

Alex claps happy for them as well, “All right! I recommend adopting if that’s on the table. And just to put it out there, Alex is a great name for a boy or a girl.”

“And Jo.” His wife puts out there as well, feeling giddy at the idea of another baby in their family tree.

Maya chuckles at this display finding it sweet her baby will have many uncles and aunts who will compete for baby time, “We will take both into consideration but for right now my wife and I are just gonna enjoy the holidays before taking a deep dive into the world of baby making.”

Carina wraps her arms around Maya’s torso pulling her towards her chest, “But hopefully sometime next year there’s gonna be another chubby cheeked baby to join us for the holiday parties with our extensive family.”

Jo claps at that with a wide smile, “I know I’m not technically related to either of you, but I claim favorite auntie status.”

“Over your husband’s dead body.”, Amber looks at her offended by that statement as the actual sister-in-law of the DeLuca-Bishop’s.

Andrew chuckles at her competitive spirit kissing the top of her head, “One thing is for sure I am definitely gonna be the favorite Zio, that’s uncle in Italian and I will be the best one.”

Alex chuckles shuffling the cards, “Yeah keep telling yourself that bro.”

Amber narrows her eyes at her brother, “You already have like three nieces and nephews who think the sun shines out your-”

“Read the table!” Alex warns stopping Amber from cursing in front of the kids.

Zola rolls her eyes a feeling like she is already grown up, “I’m 11 Uncle Alex, I know the word ass.”

Meredith widens her eyes horrified, “And how do you know that word?”

“Melissa and I binge watch Stranger Things over at her house all the time.” Zola explains causing Alex to snort at this funny obstacle of his friends.

“Remind me to call her parents and inform them of child locks.” Meredith tells Zola who shrugs turning back to the game.

“It’s fine Mer.” Alex comforts her, “My siblings and I cursed like sailors when we were younger than her and we turned out okay.”

Meredith glares at him causing him to realize how that sounded, “Relatively speaking. Okay kids Christmas Tree.”

“Bingo!” Bailey declares causing his sisters to groan as he holds up the proof on his bingo card, “Now can I have a cookie?”

Alex chuckles at his eagerness pulling out the holiday tin box that has the cookies before handing one to Bailey, “Go nuts kid.”

Bailey chomps on the cookie causing his mom to smile at her family before joining them on the dining table along with DeLuca, Carina, Maya and Jo who lifts Luna from Alex’s lap and hold her in her arms. Jo sits next to Alex kissing him on the cheek before joining him in hosting their Christmas family gathering.

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the-moon-devi · 2 years ago

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🍨What Flavor Cookie are you based on the BAKER ASTEROID? PT.2 🍡

🧁BAKER ASTEROID◇◇ 《2549》🧁

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DESCRIPTION: The baker asteroid is said to be the bakers asteroid for baked goods and even bakers themselves.

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Baker in Libra/7th house: I just get a loving vibe from this placement, either baker in libra likes to bake for their partner or your partner bakes for you( especially if it's in the 7th house) you could sell baked foods because libra does rule over merchandise and businesses. Venus influencing this y'all could have very beautiful techniques when baking especially if you decorate your cakes, cookies,etc. this placement has the ability to get very creative as well. I feel like y'all baking can be very good but kinda on the healthier side as well. Also y'all could actually have a bakery store

Cookie: canestrelli cookies// madeleine cookies

Baker in Scorpio//8th house: imma keep it real this could go 1 of 2 ways y'all might either be a good or bad baker that's just what I was called to say. Or you could be good but you guys might add some sort of knowledge that you have leared abou/ baking or edgy touch into your baking. This could be a hidden talent you have. Unless this is in a certain house or sign it could vary. In the 8th house, I would definitely say like a hidden talent. A gift you inherited from your ancestors this could get really spiritual or occultic. Also you could constantly be burning your baked goods. But don't get me wrong here y'all food definitely could be very good just a little over cooked . I have this placement in the 8th house and I like baked sweets soft but a tad burnt. Y'all cookie will be interesting to come up with.

Cookie: white chocolate red velvet cookies/ brown butter Carmel cookie

Baker in Sagittarius/9th house: its kinda giving foreign baking vibes like y'all take recipes from foreign cultures. Very adventurous with your baking style. Exspansive flavourrrrrr 🤤, y'all give me professional chef/ baker vibes here . Blessed in baking, might even go to school for baking or travel to learn about baking. I feel like y'all can become experts in baking. My little alchemists got the perrrrfect recipes to make your tastebuds explode!

Not really a cookie but they're good asf : Galab jamun/Big Blue Monster stuffed cookie (he he he he 😉)

Baker in Capricorn/10th house : now if baker is in the SIGN Capricorn I feel like y'all baking can be good but very old school if you look at your cookie you'll see what I mean. If it's in the 10th house this could be your career or just something your known for. Baker here it may have taken you some time to master baking. But I feel like Capricorn/10th house could make some good bakers. Depending on aspects,degrees,house,signs it will vary. But like I said very old fashion but good. If it's badly aspected, I feel like the baking might be a little dry or brittle. But all in all you could be a professional baker.

Cookie: oatmeal raisins/loornadoone/ snicker doodle

Baker in Aquarius/11th house: Eccentric, creative, different. Aquarius can blow some minds away or may be horrible. (depending on aspects don't beat me up😓) . I feel like y'all a little spicy/tangy it's giving lemon meringue or like y'all the type to mix pb&j into a cookie or sum like that. This placement as well could make you very popular for your cooking online. Friends may know how to bake. Baking may even be a dream. You guys as well could have a bakers blog or just be popular on social media for that.

Cookie: churro chocolate stuffed cookies/ pb& j cookies

Baker in Pisces/12th house: it's either lost or it's found here, y'all have it all or nothing. You either can bake your a$$ off or not. If you happen to be a good one then I feel like your really good you definitely could have the ability to heal others through your baking. But also since Neptune is here and Neptune rules 🍷🍺🥃💊🚬 there's a possibility of **cough cough** (edib----🌿🌿) im just being mindful if there's any kids reading this. These bakers could make comfort foods. Maybe even holistic,chemical free baked foods. I feel like this placements food could taste good and take your your taste buds to outerspace. 🤗😇

Cookies: raspberry swirl cream cheese cookie/ cosmic brownie cookies

#asteroid #astro notes #natal chart #astrology posts #occult #baker's #foodstrology #astro community #libra #capricorn #sagittarius #scorpio #aqaurius #pisces

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dukeofriven · 1 year ago

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So I haven't watched Spy Kids for probably 20 years? It came out in 2001, I never saw in theatres, but my stepbrother had it on VHS. I remember watching it several times when my step-mum and father first started dating but never after they moved into a house together, which I think cannot have been any later than 2003. The podcast How Did This Get Made just got me to watch 2004's Sleepover staring Spy Kids' Alex Vega, and it had me going 'man, I should rewatch Spy Kids, a film I used to love—hell I should watch all the Spy Kids movies because I've only ever seen the first and Robert Rodriguez is a director whose work I want to dive into' and since its 2023, with a little bit of effort I can easily do that. (Also, I always thought, based on a vague knowledge of their similar poster design, that Spy Kids 3D and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl were the same movie, but apparently not! Also, Sharkboy et al. had a 2021 sequel? That was popular? And is getting its own sequel? Will have to investigate.) Thoughts on the opening ten minutes of my Spy Kids rewatch:

This production logo is so ugly it causes me physical pain. I hate this boy with his Kate Moss arms (Miraculous Ladybug arms, for you youngsters out there), his ugly beanie, and unbearable smirk.

Also, the telecine weave on the production logos is very noticeable, they're bouncing all over the place and it got me idly musing as to when more modern image stabilization techniques simply took that away. Not that we really noticed in 2001 because even with auto-tracking, gate-weave and other playback artifacts were just accepted as a given on your eight hundred pound convex CRT TV with 480 Ps of resolution that output enough radiation to kill grandma with a Jeopardy marathon. Do young people know about VHS tracking, auto or otherwise? Does the above paragraph make any sense to them at all? Do they know the pleasures of laying your hand on a still-warm television screen and having your whole body shiver as the static discharge runs through your unresistant flesh? Kids today with their big pants and their blue-tooth hula-hoops and their fancy PSPs just can't understand.

The opening shot of the movie is so under-exposed (or, more likely, over-exposed and then over-corrected in post) that Rodiguez's 'written and directed' credit is unreadable. You can see its blur to the right of the red 'FILM' there. It's so bad I thought there was something wrong with my copy so I... uh... found a new copy with a larger file size and it turns out that, nope, it actually just looks like that. Even in fancy 1080p this is just a terrible ærial shot. There's some fantastic shots and cuts in this film so to open with such a stinker is bizarre. Was it bad coverage that day, only one good shot in the can, did somebody fuck-up the film in the lab? I am curious.

Carla Gugino is so cute in this movie it's criminal. Not to be a lesbian but oh my god oh my fucking god. 12 year-old me was all about Carmen but adult me just wants 90 straight minutes of Carla Gugino in casualwear wandering around her lovely home smiling coyly. I would buy a BluRay player to own that movie on BluRay. I'd not picked-up that she played the mom on The Haunting of Hill House because she had long styled hair instead of this absolutely flawless textured pixie cut. 10/10, no notes.

I would like to spend an hour talking about the incredible tilework in that bathroom and nothing but the incredible tilework in that bathroom. I will update you if the film has any further shots of the incredible tilework in that bathroom but I fear it does not. As as an aside, kind of furious that this film was not more influential in the field of home decor. Two decades of effing shiplap and cold grey suburban blandness—what if we'd given up on bloated cookie cutter micro-mcmansion shitboxes and instead gone all-in on brightly coloured Andalusian rough plaster and stonework? What if we all had great tilework in our bathrooms, like the kitchen sink in Howl's Moving Castle?

You know what I mean, you depraved tile nerds.

I don't want you to think Antonio Banderas is not also a total smokeshow in this movie. Because boy howdy. He's a goddamn hunk.

There's a four-second long shot of Banderas flicking this ring box along the coping of the Eiffel Tower balustrade, and all I can think of how hard it was to get to get that box to stay in a straight line, how completely frictionless the box must be (did he shellac it?), and if his marriage prospects would have been ruined had it—in all rational likelihood—gone flying off the railing and smashed into the Champs de Mars.

You know you're in for a rollicking good time when the helicopter perfectly slices-off the stone heads of the two statues, but it's the padre giving the benediction while attack choppers go roaring over head that gives you chills.

A particular shout-out to this lovely unnamed bridesmaid on the left here who not only takes 'putting a parachute on the bride' in stride but looks gleeful and fabulous doing it. Where's her movie?

In 2001 we really thought computers were going to be cool and fun instead of machines that sold our personal lives to corporations and gave children crippling anxiety disorders.

Carla Gugino has a track built into the floor so that her vanity-computer chair can slide backwards across the room so she can have face-to-face chats with her husband. From this we learn two things: 1) she does this so often she's automated it for maximum efficiency, and 2) Banderos, in an ordinary desk chair, never attempts (or knows better than to attempt?) the reverse. To be continued?

#spy kids #spy kids rewatch #antonio banderas #carla gugino #robert rodriguez #alexa vega #shiplap #interior design #andalusia #tile work #howl's moving castle #miraculous ladybug #telecine #films #weddings #spies #kate moss

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scarlet-fantasies · 2 years ago

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Winter hcs w Eren plz

Hi anon,

This is a good idea, the spring weather hasn't been able to come for us at all so I think it will be relevant to do this because we still have a very cool winter going on.

-Scarlet

Winter w Eren Hcs

::𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬::

sfw & nsfw

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𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡

𝐼𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛

𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛 --> 𝑇𝑎𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡

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❄️Eren doesn’t like the winter too much, he prefers the summer. ❄️But after being with you, he’s grown to like winter, especially if you get cold easily. ❄️He'll make it his job to warm you up. ❄️So he loves wrapping you up in blankets where only your face sticks out. ❄️You’ll just be laying on his bed and then he just walks over to you just to roll you in the blanket. ❄️But you literally don’t complain you just sit there. ❄️He laughs once he sees your face before giving you a kiss. "You look so cute, babe." ❄️Sometimes if he doesn’t place you upright you end up leaning or sliding a little on the bed. ❄️Other times he usually pulls you in to cuddle you. ❄️And he wraps his arms around you. ❄️So you usually rest your head on his shoulder or chest. ❄️Which gets him to smile at you and give you a kiss. ❄️Another reason why he likes winter is if you bake stuff since the place is warmer. (If you can bake) ❄️He really likes making cookies or sweets with you. ❄️And especially the cookies because he can decorate them with you. ❄️So gingerbreads are a must even if you don’t like them. ❄️He usually tries to make his gingerbread look like you, so yes his is a girl. ❄️Even though it looks nothing like you he will put things that remind him of you.

❄️And he's not super clean with his design which makes you laugh.

❄️"Is that your attempt at being Picasso?" You'd tease, making him grin.

❄️"I'm not good with art." He'd admit.

❄️"I know. . . ." You'd trail before grinning at him playfully, "but I still like it." You'd admit, kissing his cheek. ❄️Sometimes he messes up your cookie when you’re trying to make it perfect. ❄️“Stop, I want it to look nice!” You’d giggle as he kept poking your sides while you tried to decorate the cookies. ❄️And you can best bet he will put the sugar on your cheek. ❄️“Eren!” You’d yelp, feeling the cool frosting hit your cheek from his finger. ❄️“Alright, alright.” He’d smile, leaning in with a napkin in his hand by your cheek only to lick off the sugar instead as he tricked you. ❄️“Hey!” You’d blush, his hand holding your cheek afterward as he smirked only to crash his lips onto yours. ❄️He likes to have his hands around your waist when you cook. ❄️In fact, his hands sometimes trail to your hips and they sorta stay there. And then when he cannot help himself he of course grabs your ass even though you’re busy. ❄️Sometimes his hand will just graze over it just to see what you’ll say. ❄️"Eren." You'd say biting your lip while trying to push his hand away. ❄️He'd grab your hand gently, preventing you from pushing his hand away, "No, no, don't quit working." He'd grin standing behind you still teasingly saying this in your ear. ❄️You'd giggle, trying to pry him off, "I can't cook like this." ❄️When you two are waiting for the cookies to bake or just in general he puts on a show or movie for you two to watch. ❄️And he of course cuddles with you. ❄️If you’re extra cold he gets you a blanket. But you always, sit in his lap. ❄️He won’t have it any other way. ❄️Teases you about how you two could warm up. ❄️“Sex makes you hot you know?” ❄️“Shut up!” You’d say playfully hitting his arm. ❄️“You’ll feel much warmer, Y/n, trust me.” He’d grin. ❄️“Stop, the cookies are gonna burn if we focus on that.” You’d mention. ❄️Before you knew it your back hit the couch as your arms were pinned above your head by your bf. ❄️“We can always make them again.” He’d smirk. ❄️“Eren, I’m not wasting my hard work for that!” ❄️He’d laugh, “Relax, I was kidding babe.” ❄️When you two decorate he has you sit on his lap. ❄️Sometimes he puts the frosting and you put the gumdrops on, and vice versa. ❄️He sometimes gets the urge to tickle you when you’re trying to decorate. ❄️He likes making a gingerbread house with you too. ❄️I swear he’s used to snow because he’s been to Germany and you might not be so you’re excited to see snow if it happens but he isn’t. ❄️So you have to drag him out to look at the snowfall. ❄️“Please, I really want to see it.” You’d ask, pulling on his sleeve to get to move from the couch while giving him a pout which you knew he wouldn’t say no to. ❄️He’d laugh, ruffling your hair, “Alright, I’ll go with go you.” ❄️He wraps the scarf around you and holds your mitten hand as you two walk outside. ❄️Snowball fight, you started it, not him. ❄️You had been so busy admiring everything and he was completely bored. ❄️So you saw this and got the idea to throw a snowball at him. ❄️When he turned around you saw a very annoyed Eren, so you threw another snowball at him. ❄️"C'mon, don't be grumpy. You look like your dad right now." You'd laugh making him surprised. ❄️"Hey, watch what you say." He'd grin mischievously as you laughed. ❄️"Well, you're acting old and grumpy right now." You'd tease. ❄️"Alright, that's it!" He'd smirk, joining in the snowball fight. ❄️So he instantly took this as an opportunity to get playful. And so the battle began. ❄️I mean, he was so mean he literally shoved the snow down your sweater and made your chest get so cold. ❄️“What are you doing—Ah, stop!” You’d laugh while trying to shield yourself from him as he had some snow in his hand. ❄️“Come here.” He'd grin, pulling you close with his free hand. ❄️“No!” You'd yelp as you felt your chest get cold in an instant with snow. ❄️Your mouth agape as he just kept laughing, "You're so unfair!" You'd smile while getting the snow out of your sweater.

❄️Meanwhile he'd just be laughing his ass off. ❄️Oh boy was his mom mad. It was that she was there but rather she got home, and she didn't think he was being very wise by getting you sick. ❄️"I cannot believe you'd shove snow down your girlfriend's sweater!" ❄️"Mom, we were just playing." He’d laugh. ❄️She'd sigh, "Here, give her this shirt, it will keep her warm." ❄️He’d take the shirt and give to you. “Do you want help?” He’d whisper wiggling his eyebrows. ❄️“Shut up, you’re mom is right there!” You’d whisper making him laugh. ❄️And thanks to your obnoxious bf making you get so cold you actually got a cold later in the day. ❄️Afterwards you two got hot chocolate. Well he made it for you because he felt bad 😂 ❄️Even though you were still annoyed, “c’mon talk to me. Look I promise this stays between us two.” ❄️“Not really, you're mom knows now. It’s not funny, that was literally unfair.” ❄️“What? A little snow?” ❄️“You shoved a handful down my sweater, that’s not a little.” ❄️“Aww, is your bra wet then?” ❄️“Shut up you perv.” ❄️“I’m kidding.” He’d laugh having you smile. “But we could dry it.” ❄️“It’s fine.” You’d say, shaking your head no, “I’m much warmer than before.” ❄️To make up for making you get a cold for a few days he woke you up one night since it was snowing. ❄️“Eren what are we doing?” You’d question seeing he dragged you out into the snow by the frozen lake. ❄️“Shh, just be quiet and put these on.” He’d say handing you ice skates. ❄️“Ice skates? Do you even know how to skate?” ❄️“I have some experience.” He’d say shrugging his shoulders before helping you put on your shoes. ❄️If you do you’re probably going to have to help him since he’s not that good. 😂 ❄️If you don’t know how to skate he will do his best to help you skate. ❄️In fact he catches almost all of your falls. ❄️“I think you got it just try.” He’d reassure you. ❄️“I don’t think so, I think I’m just going to-ah!” You’d scream as you lost balance again before he caught you. ❄️“Okay, maybe I was wrong about you getting it.” He’d laugh causing you laugh as well. ❄️As you two got ready to go inside for the night you felt a bit of cold hitting you. You’d flinch feeling flake of cold hit your lashes. ❄️“It’s snowing.” You’d smile realizing that the cold that hit you was snow fall. ❄️“Yeah it is,” He’d smile, backing hugging you with his hands around your waist. ❄️You’d look over your shoulder to smile at him, “thank you.” ❄️“For what?” He’d ask. ❄️You’d shake your head, “it’s nothing.” You’d trail with his face close to yours. ❄️“Yeah.” He’d grin before leaning in to kiss you.

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londonfoginacup · 1 year ago

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With A Bow On Top | teaandme28 Harry/Louis | 14k

After the unexpected snowstorm in New York City, all flights were cancelled, which meant Louis couldn’t visit his family for Christmas. All the while, he heard some concerning sounds coming from the other side of the wall, hence, he decided to distract himself by asking if everything was okay in the other flat. Little did Louis know, his neighbor was alone for the holidays, too. What happens when two lonely souls come together just before Christmas? One can only guess.

It’s Christmastime! It’s time to read about boys being snowed in and making friends and decorating and having GOOD CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAY FUN!

☕️ Pairing Suggestion: This is the perfect length for a lunch break! It would go well with some good sugar cookies with red and green icing because that makes it CHRISTMASSY.

For more Christmas fic recs: 2022; 2021; 2020;2019;2018;2017

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loveroftoomanyfandoms · 1 year ago

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Make My Wish Come True -- TASM!Peter Parker x Reader

Pairing: TASM!Peter Parker x F!Reader

Rating: Teen

Summary: Reader and Peter have been friends for about 2 years, ever since they met at a grief support group.

One night while Peter is at the Reader's apartment, their relationship changes for the better.

Warning/Tags: Post- Spiderman: NWH, so spoilers for that & TASM 1 & 2, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, Reader is a nurse

Word Count: ~2,500

A/N: This is a Christmastime-set TASM!Peter fic I wrote after watching Tick... Tick... Boom back in 2021 and have just now decided to transfer over to Tumblr.

"I don't want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need, I don't care about the presents, underneath the Christmas tree…" Y/N sang to herself as she decorated a batch of cookies for the Christmas party at the clinic where she worked as a nurse. "I just want you for my own, more than you can ever know, make my wish come true…"

She poked her head out of the kitchen as she heard a knock on her wall, smiling as Spiderman, aka Peter Parker, her best friend (and the man she was secretly in love with), peeked in through her open window.

She and Peter had known each other for about two years, having met through a grief support group. Y/N's fiancé, Aiden, had recently been killed in a car accident, while Peter had lost his girlfriend, Gwen, several years prior to that but obviously hadn't been ready to work through his grief until then.

Not long after Peter had joined the group he and Y/N had run into each other in the café next door to the community center where their meetings were held. Peter had offered to share his table in the crowded café with Y/N and they had gotten to talking. The next thing they knew three hours had passed and the café was closing.

They exchanged numbers at that point and began having coffee together every week after their grief support meetings but still hadn't hung out outside of that bubble until Peter had called Y/N on the anniversary of Aiden's death to ask if she had wanted to go for a walk with him in Central Park.

She had agreed and met Peter in front of the Bethesda Fountain, where he had handed her a cup of coffee procured from a nearby coffee cart.

They had walked through the park together in comfortable silence, then had eaten dinner at a restaurant near Y/N's apartment.

Thank you for today, Y/N had said once Peter had walked her back to her apartment later that evening. I really appreciate it.

Peter had shrugged. It's nothing. Just figured you could use some company.

Y/N had shaken her head. It's not nothing to me. It's nice to have someone to talk to, someone who understands what it's like to lose someone you love.

Peter had sighed. Yeah, the group has been helpful but it is nice to have one specific person you can talk to who really gets it, someone who's more like a… like a friend.

Y/N had smiled. Yeah. A friend.

They began hanging out a lot more after that and about 6 months into their friendship Y/N had been sitting in her apartment after a shift at the clinic when suddenly she heard a noise at her window. She had looked up, and to her surprise, Spiderman was hanging out outside her apartment.

She had let him inside (because she wasn't about to leave Spiderman out in the cold) where he had explained that he had had a run-in with a particularly nasty villain and that his friend Peter had told him that he could go to Y/N if he ever needed medical attention since he couldn't exactly go to a hospital, then had muttered something about wondering 'if Peter 1 had ever been stabbed'.

She had patched up his side, no questions asked, and told him that fixing up Spiderman was the least she could do to thank him for all he had done for New York City and to tell Peter thanks for trusting her enough to help.

Things went on like that for several weeks until one night Spiderman came by with cuts on his lip and chin and above his eye.

None of those cuts look too deep or like they'll need stitches, Y/N had said, but I still can't clean them with your mask on. So if you want to wait until you get home to clean them it should be fine, I can give you some antiseptic and a couple of butterfly bandages.

Spiderman had hesitated, then slowly reached up and pulled his mask off, nervous brown eyes connecting with hers.

Y/N had smiled gently. There you are. Hi, Peter.

Peter had seemed genuinely surprised to see that Y/N wasn't surprised, and even more surprised to hear that Y/N had figured out Spiderman's identity that first night.

Y/N had shrugged. Honestly it wasn't that difficult. You and Spiderman have the same height, same build, same mannerisms, same voice even. It wasn't a stretch for someone who knows you really well to figure it out. I wasn't going to press though, I figured you'd tell me in your own time... or that you had your reasons if you didn't ever want to tell me.

Peter had wound up telling her the entire story as she cleaned the cuts on his face -- how he had been bitten by a radioactive spider as a teenager, about his Uncle Ben, how Gwen had really died (turns out that it wasn't exactly an accidental fall as he had said in group), and how it had taken getting sent to an alternate universe and saving another Spiderman's Gwen (whose name was actually MJ) in order to be able to get over his guilt of not being able to save his own.

Y/N's heart had broken for Peter. Thank you for trusting me with your secret, she had said, giving Peter's hand a gentle squeeze and pulling him into a hug.

Since there were no more secrets between them they had grown even closer, and eventually Y/N had found herself falling in love with Peter.

(Well, she supposed that was still one secret between them since she had no plans of ever actually telling Peter.)

Y/N sighed and shook herself out of her reverie. "Hey, Peter. Come on in."

Peter climbed through the window and pulled his mask off, then grinned. "Please, don't stop singing on my account."

Y/N chuckled. "I actually hate that song, it's just been stuck in my head because it was on repeat all day at the clinic." And it's ironic that you of all people caught me singing it considering the lyrics.

"Yikes. That's rough."

Y/N's eyes flicked over the cuts on Peter's shoulder, forehead and cheek as he set his bag down and joined her in the kitchen. She knew that Peter healed from minor cuts and scratches much faster than the average person, but she still insisted on patching him up whenever possible. It makes me feel like I'm not completely useless, you know? she had said at the time. Like I can still make a difference.

Peter had nodded. Yeah, I totally understand.

Y/N gestured to the cookies. "Give me 1 second to finish with these and I'll clean those cuts for you."

"Thanks." Peter reached for one.

Y/N playfully swatted his hand away. "Hey, those aren't for you!"

She pointed to a plate of cookies that were either misshapen or that she had messed the decoration up on (and if one or two were messed up because she had been distracted by thoughts of Peter and wasn't paying attention, shut up, no they weren't). " Those are yours."

"Ooh, thanks."

"You're welcome."

Peter bit into one and let out an appreciative moan. "Wow, these are amazing."

Y/N's face heated. "Thanks."

Peter went into the bathroom to change out of his Spiderman suit while Y/N decorated the last of the cookies.

Right as she was finishing up her bathroom door opened and Peter walked out, clad only in sweatpants that rode low on his hips and looking like a whole snack.

Y/N's mouth went dry as she trailed her eyes from his bare feet up to his wet hair. Holy thirst trap, Batman.

Peter ran a hand through his hair in what Y/N had come to recognize over the years as a nervous gesture. "I, uh, I took a quick shower. Hope you don't mind."

Y/N blinked. Shit, he caught me staring. "Oh, uh, no, that's fine."

She gestured over to her bed. "I still have to clean those cuts though. Have a seat and I'll be right there."

As Peter went to sit she busied herself with boxing up the cookies, putting Peter's into a container for him to take home.

When she had finished she moved to the sink and washed her hands, then retrieved her first aid kit.

She sat next to Peter at the foot of her bed, rummaging around in her first aid kit and pulling out a tube of antibiotic ointment, some alcohol wipes, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, some gauze and medical tape, and a couple of bandages. "Okay, let me see."

She eyed the jagged cut on Peter's shoulder. "What happened here?"

"Ran into a garbage can dodging a bullet," Peter explained. "Piece of metal plating was sticking out and I didn't notice."

"Oof. Ok, I definitely want to disinfect this one first then."

She placed some cotton pads under Peter's wound.

Peter hissed and flinched. "Ah!"

Y/N jumped back, raising her hands. "Shit, I'm so sorry, are you okay?"

Peter relaxed and grinned. "Ah, I'm just messing with you."

Y/N punched Peter in his uninjured shoulder. "You ass, I seriously thought I had hurt you!"

Peter laughed. "I'm sorry, Y/N. I couldn't resist."

Y/N shook her head and placed the cotton pads under his wound again. "Hold these for me, you dork."

She poured a bit of peroxide on Peter's shoulder, biting her lip as Peter hissed at the burn. "Yeah, I know, I'm sorry."

Peter shook his head. "It's okay."

Y/N patted the area around the wound dry and dressed it with a gauze pad and medical tape, letting her hands linger for a few seconds longer than necessary under the guise of smoothing the tape out. "There."

She then opened one of the alcohol wipes and began to clean the cut on Peter's cheek.

Peter grinned. "Will I live, nurse?"

Y/N huffed out a laugh. "Don't worry, you'll be good as new in no time."

She put a dot of ointment on a bandage and affixed it to the spot. "Ok, now the other one."

She stood and moved in front of Peter so she could see his forehead better. "Here, turn this way for me."

She opened another wipe and began to dab at Peter's forehead, willing herself to stay focused on the task at hand and not at just how damn good Peter looked and smelled.

Peter must've brought his body wash with him, because he smelled like mahogany, coconut, and an undercurrent of something Y/N couldn't quite place her finger on but was uniquely Peter .

"You know, Gwen patched me up once," Peter suddenly said.

"Mmm?" Y/N hummed. "Oh really?"

Peter nodded. "After my first big fight with Dr. Conners. I had gotten scratched up pretty badly and didn’t know where else to go, so I went to her place. She had to make an excuse to her dad as to why she didn’t want to come downstairs for ice cream.”

Y/N chuckled as she picked up her ointment and another bandage. "I'm sure that was an interesting conversation."

"It was." Peter paused for so long that Y/N thought he was done with the conversation, but then he added, "When Gwen was patching me up she was so gentle, so caring, that despite the pain, despite the worry, all I wanted to do in that moment was kiss her.”

He sighed. "See, Y/N, the thing is, I -- well, I…"

Y/N knew where this was going. He doesn’t want you to patch him up anymore. The memories of Gwen doing it are too painful. She took a deep breath as she placed the bandage on his forehead. “Peter --”

“I also feel that way with you.”

Y/N froze, still staring at Peter's forehead. "What?"

Peter chuckled. "At first I thought maybe I had some sort of weird medical kink or something, but considering the fact that I want to kiss you all the time and not just when you're patching me up, I--"

"What?"

"I'm-- I'm sorry if I've made this weird," Peter added. "We can just forget about it if you want."

Y/N finally looked down at Peter, who was nervously looking everywhere but at Y/N. She shook her head. "The only thing that would be weird now is if you didn't kiss me, considering the fact that I also happen to want to kiss you all the time."

A slow grin spread across Peter's face as he looked back at her. "Really?"

Y/N nodded with a smile of her own. "Yeah."

Peter reached up and cupped Y/N cheek, then tilted his face up.

Y/N's eyes fluttered closed as warm lips brushed against her own.

Holy shit, I'm actually kissing Peter.

She linked her arms around Peter's neck as he wrapped his free arm around her waist to pull her closer and kiss her more firmly.

They broke apart and Y/N blinked down at Peter, who was looking at her in the dim lighting like she was something precious, something to be desired.

"Come to Aunt May's with me for Christmas," he said.

Y/N nodded. "Yeah, that'd be great, thanks."

Peter grinned. "Yeah?"

"Yeah. I'd love to."

"Good. Aunt May's been wanting to meet you."

"Same here." Y/N had never met Peter's aunt, but Peter spoke extremely fondly of her and mentioned her often. "I'll have to bring her a gift, of course. What does she like?"

"You don't need to bring her anything."

"Well I don't want to bring yours and not have anything for her."

Peter huffed out a laugh. "Trust me, your presence will be enough of a gift."

Y/N shook her head. "I at least need to bring a hostess gift."

"Then how about dessert?"

"That sounds fine."

"Okay. I'll let Aunt May know you're coming."

"Okay."

Peter bit his lip. "Also, uh, I know we already have plans to go ice skating in the park tomorrow, but what do you say to making it an official first date?"

Y/N's heart fluttered and she ran her hands through Peter's hair. "I'd love to."

Peter tilted his face up towards hers again. "Just for the record, I really want to kiss you when you do that."

Y/N grinned and ran her fingers through Peter's hair again.

She huffed out a laugh as Peter grabbed her and pulled her down onto the bed, pressing his lips to hers once again.

(All I want for Christmas is you.)

#lotmf writes #tasm peter parker #peter parker x reader #tasm peter parker x reader

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southeastasianists · 11 months ago

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BookXcess stores can be found all across the southern Malay Peninsula, from Penang to Singapore, but it’s no cookie-cutter chain all of whose branches look the same. On the contrary, it aims to make each of the locations feel different and unique—a fantastic destination for all book lovers.

The RexKL location that opened in late November 2021 particularly stands out among these. More of a creative art center than a shopping mall, RexKL is housed in a repurposed movie theater originally built in 1947. Once an icon of Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, the single-screen cinema with a capacity of 1000 went through numerous fires, first in 1972 and then in 2002, after which the theater went defunct.

A few years later, the former Rex Cinema building was used as a backpackers’ hostel and a karaoke joint until another fire broke out in 2007. It stood all but abandoned for a while, but it was not long before a new project was formed to bring the old Rex Cinema back to life. Reincarnated as a cultural hub, RexKL is home to numerous stores, restaurants, a music venue, and the BookXcess on the second floor, right where the old cinema's seating area once was.

Shelf after shelf of books cover the concrete walls. Graffiti murals decorate what walls aren't stacked with books. As you delve deeper into this bibliophilic labyrinth, you will find a staircase leading to the upper level, which used to be the first-class seating area. From there, you can take a peek at the concert stage below, often delivering vibrant live music through rehearsals, an unusual but stimulating bonus to the book haven.

#Southeast Asia #Malaysia #Kuala Lumpur

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balanchine-ballet-master · 1 year ago

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Nutcracker Kids Grow Up

Terry Trucco has a lovely article in Playbill about three current NYCB dancers who performed in The Nutcracker as children.

The Polichinelles in 1985. Photo: Martha Swope --------------------------------------------------------------------------

A hallmark of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is its roster of 126 children, aged 7 to 13, in two alternating casts, who all study in the Children’s Division at the School of American Ballet (SAB), New York City Ballet’s official school. A small percentage of those students will eventually move up to the Advanced Division at SAB, and at the end of their studies, a few will be invited to join NYCB, achieving the total Nutcracker experience—returning to Balanchine’s quintessential holiday ballet to perform as adults.

That storied third group includes former NYCB Principal Dancers Peter Boal, Jennie Somogyi, Gelsey Kirkland, and Judith Fugate, among others, as well as current corps de ballet members Shelby Mann, Mckenzie Bernardino Soares, and Rommie Tomasini, who each enrolled in SAB at the age of 6. Now coming back to the production as members of the corps de ballet, which they joined in 2022, they shared their fond memories of those formative years performing in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.

Shelby Mann’s earliest recollections of being in The Nutcracker are of playing jacks, a favored pre-show ritual for young cast members, and of her trailing hairpiece in the Party Scene. “My memories of The Nutcracker are so heightened,” she says. “Every time I smell hairspray, it’s like I’m back in the lower concourse of the theatre during The Nutcracker.”

From her debut at age 7 in the Party Scene, Mann sprinted up the Nutcracker ladder, appearing as an Angel, a Polichinelle, a Mouse, and then, at the ripe age of 11, a Candy Cane. “We would all look forward to The Nutcracker each year. It was what defined our childhood and our winter,” she says.

Born into a dance-world family in Harlem—her grandfather Jacques d’Amboise, grandmother Carolyn George, and uncle Christopher d’Amboise all danced with NYCB, and her parents are acclaimed Broadway performers Charlotte d’Amboise and Terrence Mann—Mann discovered her passion for dance through the iconic holiday ballet. “I loved that in rehearsals, because you were playing a character, you got to build your performance. Being in The Nutcracker made me realize that this is what I wanted to do.”

Since joining NYCB, Mann has danced Dolls, Snow, Hot Chocolate, and Flowers, and her affection for Balanchine’s two-act masterpiece—and the camaraderie that develops naturally among the cast, no matter what age—remains undiminished. “I love how The Nutcracker connects to the holidays,” she says. “We all decorate our dressing rooms, have Secret Santas, and bring cookies.”

Left: Shelby Mann as a Polichinelle in 2013. Photo: Paul Kolnik Right: Mann in Waltz of the Flowers, 2022. Photo: Erin Baiano

During his childhood performances in The Nutcracker, Mckenzie Bernardino Soares made a point of watching the effervescent Hot Chocolate. “The music, the spice—I just loved it,” he says. “And I remember thinking, dancing this is all I want to do in my life.”

Fast forward to 2021. As a freshly minted NYCB apprentice, Soares landed his dream role and repeated it last year as a member of the corps de ballet. The verdict? “It’s always a fun time on stage, and you get to show your personality,” he says. “And if it gets a little repetitive sometimes, I just think, well, little Mckenzie would have loved to do this.”

Growing up in Danbury, Connecticut, Soares’ Nutcracker experience was punctuated by long hours in the family car, driving 65 miles each way to rehearsals and performances. “Being on stage made it all worth it,” he says. He also enjoyed supervising the younger dancers backstage during “the gap” when SAB students are too old for children’s parts, and he relished hearing advice from Company members backstage and in the wings. This season, Soares, who added Mouse King to his Nutcracker repertory last year, looks forward to using the roles he dances to expand his artistry. “It’s actually nice that the choreography is the same every day, so it becomes about what you bring to each performance,” he says.

Left: Mckenzie Bernardino Soares as a Soldier in 2012. Photo: Paul Kolnik Right: Soares with Shelby Mann in Hot Chocolate, 2022. Photo: Erin Baiano

Rommie Tomasini remembers begging her mother to let her audition for SAB, where her older sister was a student, and quickly discovering a love of dance. At age 7, she was cast as the Bunny in The Nutcracker. A season as a Mouse and a Polichinelle followed, and for two years, she was Marie. When the time came to begin pointe work, she decided that ballet was her future. “I didn’t want to do anything else after school, and I thought, This is a done deal,” she says.

Her earliest Nutcracker memory dates from her first dress rehearsal. “I was the Bunny, and I remember looking at all the mouse heads on the Mouse King’s crown and being too terrified to pull his tail,” she recalls.

Yet looking back, Tomasini, who grew up on the Upper East Side, marvels at how confident she felt on stage as a child. “I was never nervous. I was just so happy to be out there. I’m amazed at how much we learned about acting and artistry so young.”

Dolls, Snow, Hot Chocolate, and Tea are among the Nutcracker parts Tomasini has performed since she became an apprentice in 2021. But her recollections of being in a swarm of Nutcracker kids, scrutinizing the steps and making up versions of Hot Chocolate, Marzipan, and Coffee, remain vivid. “It’s mind-blowing that we’re now dancing the roles that we once pretended to do backstage,” she says.

Left: Rommie Tomasini as the Bunny in 2011. Photo: Paul Kolnik Right: Tomasini in Waltz of the Snowflakes in 2021. Photo: Erin Baiano

#The Nutcracker #Nutcracker ballet #Balanchine #New York City Ballet #NYCB #dancing children #Shelby Mann #Mckenzie Bernardino Soares #Rommie Tomasini #professional children #child dancers #then & now #10 years later

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ohem1111 · 3 months ago

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If you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog!

ooo this is my first time having one of these sent to me 🥹 hi this is exciting lol if anyone is interested in participating, totally feel free to say i tagged you 💚

1. originally i am from a really reeeally small town, like around 500 people total. i’ve lived there my entire life, literally in the same house, up until i moved in with my boyfriend almost 2 years ago exactly. (i don’t really count going to college as moving because i came home like every other weekend until like junior year 😂)

2. professionally, i work as a graphic designer and have been (at the same design agency) for 3 years now. i also went to college for it and graduated with highest honors in 2021 😎

3. i love cooking and baking, it’s definitely one of my favorite hobbies outside of playing the sims. ive had more than one person take a bite of my sugar cookies and asked to pay me for some lol also, if anyone knows who claire saffitz is, she is a youtube chef person and i made the dinner rolls from her cook book for christmas at my boyfriends family dinner once and every holiday since people will ask if i made those rolls (even if im not there lol) it’s really fun and therapeutic for me i think. when i was younger my mom used to be a freelance wedding cake maker so i learned a lot from her. i’m actually supposed to be making a birthday cake for a friend this weekend so wish me luck haha, i’m not the most practiced at cake decorating.

4. also i share a little bonus fact because i can’t not include that i am a huge cat person. i have 3 back home. molly since 2007, gizmo since 2014, and layla, since 2017 (she was my replacement lol my parents got her when i started college) molly was seen more as my sister’s cat and she didn’t really like me so she wasn’t included 😂 but when ts4 cats and dogs came out i made gizmo and layla and it took hours lol now i live with my boyfriend and he has a black cat named freya who i believe is only about 3 years old now but she is the cutest little demon baby lol she is literally a sour patch kid in cat form and only loves my boyfriend, she tolerates me and sometimes loves me.

#simblr #ts4 simblr #the sims 4 #get to know me #simmer

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productofnfld · 22 days ago

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Home for Christmas by Gregg Bolger

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Looking to add some extra holiday cheer to your playlist? Gregg Bolger’s 2021 track ‘Home For Christmas’ is exactly what you need. With its upbeat vibe and country flair, this song is perfect for getting into the festive spirit.

Originally from Newfoundland and now based in Alberta since 2012, Bolger knows how to bring the holidays to life. The song is packed with joy and feels perfect for Christmas celebration. By the time you hit the chorus—“Let that Christmas sound, fill you up with cheer”—you’ll be singing along like it’s your new favorite holiday anthem.

Whether you’re decorating the tree, baking cookies, or just kicking back with some slush on Tibb’s Eve, ‘Home For Christmas’ brings all the good vibes you need — it’s catchy, it’s cheerful, and it feels like a big warm hug from the holidays.

So add it to your playlists, crank it up and let Gregg Bolger’s feel-good energy bring the Christmas spirit straight to you.

Oh, and be sure to check out Bolger’s new collection “The Singles”

#Christmas #Gregg Bolger

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klaineccfanficlibrary · 2 years ago

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OK . . I think I did this right? For the 2023 Klaine Bingo

1.) Debut Fanfic:

Trick or Treat by bitbybit (puttingittogether)

2.)Page-turning Fanfic that made you stay up past your bedtime:

Soulsongs and Seastars by GleefulPoppet

3.)Fanfic that made you reach for a box of tissues:

The Edge of the Light by gemjam

4.)Fanfic where one has an unusual occupation.:

Bicycle Patrol Unit by CoffeeAddict80

5.)Wild Card - any fanfic you wish to highlight.:

Yule Be Mine by scatterthestars

6.) Fanfic set during the summer:

Miles To Go by hundredindecisions

7.) Fanfic is written for a challenge.

Myosotis series by maanorchidee ( Written for Klaine Advent Challenge 2019)

8.) Fanfic that made you laugh out loud.

Skylight by DivineLady91

9.) Fanfic that you enjoyed using a genre/trope that you don't normally read.

Until My Dying Breath by EmilianaDarling

Thank you Anon - for your contribution to the 2023 Klaine bingo event! ~Jen The Bingo Collection now on Ao3!

1. Debut Fanfic

Trick or Treat by bitbybit (puttingittogether) @bitbybitwrites

Summary: It’s Halloween and Blaine’s favorite time of year. Little does he know that his husband has a bit of a trick and treat waiting for him when he gets home.

Based off of the Klaine Creative Challenge #1/ Halloween/Costume Klaine from the Klaine 40 FB group.

Prompt: where Kurt is in costume and ready to go out, and Blaine walks in and sees him like that. Inspired by Chris Colfer's 2021 Halloween video from Instagram and his outfit.

2. Page-turning Fanfic that made you stay up past your bedtime:

Soulsongs and Seastars by @GleefulPoppet

In a world where Doms and subs depend on the symbiotic relationship their pheromones provide, it can be a matter of life and death to go too long without a claim. When one of the most powerful Doms in New York comes home for some much-needed family time, he stumbles upon a scene that throws his instincts into high alert as he witnesses a sub do something he’s never seen before. Will the bravery of one man change his life forever? Kurt Hummel knows there’s only a one-in-a-million chance of finding his Soulsong, but what are the odds it could happen in a run-down mall in Lima, Ohio?

3. Fanfic that made you reach for a box of tissues:

The Edge of the Light by gemjam

After Kurt calls off their wedding, Blaine spirals into a bad place that he never manages to get out of. He accepts his life, working the streets at night and sleeping his days away, until a chance encounter two years later leads Kurt back into his life, and Blaine has to re-evaluate everything to see if he can really earn a happy ending.

4. Fic where one has an unusual occupation.:

Bicycle Patrol Unit by CoffeeAddict80 @caramelcoffeeaddict

When NYPD bicycle cop, Blaine Anderson, begins to fall for Kurt Hummel - the gorgeous man that he first notices while Kurt is jogging through the park during Blaine’s patrol there - it causes a rift between him and his patrol partner, Sebastian Smythe

5. Wild Card - any fanfic you wish to highlight.:

Yule Be Mine by @scatterthestars

Crashing weddings is nothing new for Kurt. Being caught, however, is. When a handsome stranger comes to his rescue, he has no problem going along with Blaine's plan of pretending to be his boyfriend for the night. But one thing leads to another and Kurt soon finds himself agreeing to spending a week with Blaine and his family for Christmas. What can go wrong? He'll play pretend. Hang ornaments on the tree, decorate some cookies, and have fun in the snow. He won't fall for Blaine's family. And definitely won't fall for the handsome, great guy he's pretending to date. Right?

6. Fanfic set during the summer:

Miles To Go by hundredindecisions

In the wake of Finn’s death, Kurt struggles to keep up with schoolwork at NYADA or engage with his life in general. He finally finds purpose again when he decides to spend the summer venturing west, to scatter Finn’s ashes in the Pacific Ocean. The road trip is long and lonely and challenging, but Kurt’s luck starts to turn around when he meets a handsome man named Blaine, who’s heading to California for his own reasons. After crossing paths in Colorado, they decide to travel together. As they get closer to the west coast they start to let down their walls, learning more about each other and revealing what they’re really seeking on this trip.

7. Fanfic is written for a challenge.

Myosotis series by maanorchidee ( Written for Klaine Advent Challenge 2019)

Kurt remembers meeting Blaine very vividly. After all, they only just met. Blaine also remembers meeting Kurt very vividly, but to him, it's been years since they met. Now, the two of them have to find ways to (re)connect and see where their relationship goes.

8. Fanfic that made you laugh out loud.

Skylight by DivineLady91

When Blaine's mom calls from the airport to inform her son that she's shown up early for Christmas, he and Kurt are forced to scramble and clean before she arrives. Seeing as they were indulging in morning-long sex-capades, they'll need all the time they have. But their cleaning efforts get called on account of something inappropriate stuck in an unexpected place.

9. Fanfic that you enjoyed using a genre/trope that you don't normally read.

Until My Dying Breath by EmilianaDarling

*Sorry written 2012 - doesn't qualify for this bingo which is 2018-23!

#2023 klaine bingo #klaine fanfic #klaine fanfiction #glee fanfiction

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