#haylee likes my theme!

[brenninthetaylorverse]

BESTIE I LOVE YOUR NEW THEME OMG!! IM OBSESSED!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

I'll probably change it again to be ttpd themed but for right now, I'm in my midnights era 💙

LOVE YOU SO MUCH BESTIE HAPPY EASTER 🐰🐇

[sublimecatgalaxy]

Pairing: Din Djarin x Female!Reader

Warnings: Awkwardness, sort of answer if you blink, swearing.

A/n: This is a request from @what-muses for my theme night! "Prompt #9 9. 'I can’t help it.’ With the mandalorian with female reader please."

"Are you sure you're going to be safe out there? You can leave Grogu with me here, I'm sure we'll be fine." I follow Din around the Razor Crest as he gathers his gear, ready to go out to capture another bounty, Grogu and I on his heels.

"If anything I'm worried about leaving you behind." He sighs through his modulator and I begin to notice the tension in his shoulders as he turns to me with a simple tilt of his head, the simple motion saying a lot about his state of anxiety. "Why do you worry so much?"

"What do you mean?" I ask, taken back by his sudden question.

"The kid, me- you're always on edge about us whenever we leave." I ignore the heat that's rising to my cheeks, knowing that if I was honest about my feelings for him, why I care for him so much, it would leave us in an extremely awkward place of this limbo between friends and more than friends.

A place we've already been bobbing in and out of.

"Is it a crime to worry about the safety of my friends?" I tease, gulping at the word friend and he appears to do the same, awkwardly shifting his weight from foot to foot before leaning against the wall, sighing loudly. "I can't help it."

"I was just wondering why."

"Because I care about you." The words escape me faster than I'd like them to but there's no going back, no saving face after I dropped that obvious bomb as Din's head turns to look at me slowly as a sudden softness takes over his usually tense and stressed stance. "And the kid." I add, Grogu chirping quietly at my feet and I reach out to scoop him into my arms. "It's dangerous out there. He's important to a lot of people but to us, it's personal- he's family." Din nods, reaching up to reach under his helmet to rub the back of his neck and I pause, seeing the brown curls at the base of his neck. "You both are my family."

"I haven't had family in a long time." There's no awkward pause this time, just words of appreciate from him and I can hear the smile in his voice. "It's nice."

"Having me nag you and worry about you all the time is nice?" I giggle, reaching out to shove him playfully and he takes it, shrugging simply.

"I would be lonely if you were not here to nag me." There's a sense of stern honesty to his voice and the reassurance that I'm not an extra, unnecessary load on his ship is extremely needed after dropping the 'I care about you' bomb right before he's scheduled to go on a run for supplies and to hopefully bring in a deadly bounty.

"That's kind of cute." I coo but he just scoffs, scooping up his bag before reaching out to ruffle both mine and Grogu's hair, making his way past us with a quiet laugh.

"Shut up, watch the kid." He orders and I give him a stern nod and a vivid smile, Grogu's small hand rising in a wave. "I'll be back."

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[scorchedthesnake]

December 7, 2011

This is when Chapter 2 begins. Gossip Girl had aired; the Halloween parties and the Vanity Fair shoot had let the world know this was a scene. Neil Patrick Harris had raved on Regis and Kelly. The run was no longer extending in short fits and spurts. And original cast began to move on and new residents arrived. Some had trickled in: William Popp and Tony Bordonaro had come in in the late summer and fall. But tonight, I would learn, was the debut of many, many new faces.

As it happened, I was celebrating my 32nd birthday (my original blog said 31st, but come on, do the math). Friends gathered at Manderley with elaborate and themed gifts; a bottle of absinthe I wouldn’t finish until 2022; a journal crafted from my show notes. Banquo had been my first infatuation in the show, but I had pretty quickly moved on the Malcolm, and the journal told the tale of that new fascination.

But the new cast that night included a triumvirate of extraordinary women: Lily Ockwell (Sexy Witch), Haylee Nichele (Lady Macduff), and Chelsea Bonosky (Agnes). 

As I wrote at the time… Chelsea immediately took my breath away. And somehow I didn’t put together that when she picked me for the 1:1, it was her first one ever. We would revisit this moment numerous times over the years. Once, she pulled me in and said: people are being awful tonight, can we just sit for a minute? And most poignantly on her final night as a regular resident, when she would insist on an elliptical structure for our journey together in the building. 

Other highlights of the night: Haylee’s Lady Macduff, whose 1:1 I saw on her final pick. I had been with her at the start of the show and watched as her very first pick *declined her hand,* and she later told me the audience member she picked after that had to be ejected. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to learn these scenes, harbor the confidence to pick someone, and have two mishaps like that one after the other. 

Ben Thys as Malcolm. It was a golden age of handsome Malcolms with Ben and Will sharing the role. Many years later I’d have the good fortune to see Ben’s final Malcolm loop and be part of an audience that all choked up when he chose Will for his last 1:1. 

Tony Bordonaro as Banquo! It was not his premiere night, but it was my first time seeing him. In the very small universe we inhabit, I’d been told to look forward to this performance. Matt, in his final acting gig ever, had managed to land a small role on One Life to Live as a high schooler going to the prom (he was 30 already I think?) - and the other two boys in the posse were So You Think You Can Dance’s Neil Haskell (a fellow Western New Yorker)… and Tony.

Later, in Manderley, came John’s component of my birthday gift: an introduction to Maxine Doyle. He indicated I’d seen the show a fair few times, and she said, so what do you think of the new cast? I replied they were all wonderful and brilliant! And then she said, don’t patronize me, tell me what you really thought. So I tried my best to give some even notes on things that had felt off (but truly, the people I had followed closely, were in fact wonderful and brilliant!). I was moderately terrified but also in awe of her seriousness.

This was the final normal show of 2011 for me. The New Year’s Eve that followed was a massive, massive party and full of dramatic hijinks to kick off 2012, the year we all lost our minds. (sorry, work blew up and I am behind, I had hoped to reach Remixed 1 by today in honor of Remixed 2 but it will not happen. Enjoy Remixed 2!)

[phawareglobal]

Jessica York - phaware® interview 402

In this episode, pediatric PH care partner, Jessica York, discusses the legacy of her daughter Haylee on the 3rd anniversary of her passing. You can participate in Hay's 3rd Heaven Day Saturday Feb 11, 2021. Details here. You can also follow the Legacy of Hay page on facebook.

My name is Jessica York. I have a daughter, Haylee, who was diagnosed with PH at three-and-a-half years old on, that and a heart defect. She passed away at seven and a half from PH. We are continuing to work with Team Phenomenal Hope and PH to bring awareness and keep Haylee's memory alive through that. Today, I just want to talk about what has happened with me and my family since the loss of Haylee three years ago in February.

Everything is just clouded by sadness now because there should always be Haylee there. I think a lot of people don't talk about the ripple effects of loss. Everybody's ripple effects are different depending on who you lost or what age they were. But for us, Haylee was only seven. Her sister, Jordayn's nine years older than her, but her and Jordayn were super close. We missed all those little kid things. Jordayn graduated I guess the year after Haylee passed, so it's like we miss out on the field trips, the parties at school, the trick-or-treats, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, all those things. I wasn't really prepared for that I guess, because we only have two kids and Haylee was the youngest. I definitely feel robbed of that part of life.

The thing that has really kept us going is keeping Haylee present in our todays. We've really made it a priority. We say that Haylee wrote a legacy of love, so we've made it a priority to continue her legacy by honoring her, just making sure to keep her present in our days because we couldn't go on if Haylee wasn't in our life. It's not an option just to put her to the side, stop thinking about her and just move on with life. We're just going to continue to carry her through with us. That's what's really helped in making new traditions and just make sure every day she's included.

We go to visit her quite often, once a month we'll go visit her. We call her resting plays her fairyland. We really try to make it a fun place to go, rather than a place to mourn her, a place to love her. We've had Santa Claus come there to visit. We do Easter egg hunts with her cousins there. For her birthday, we had a snowball fight last year. Her birthday's in July, but we got snowballs from the snow shop and we did a snowball fight. That's really helped. The place where she passed away, on the street, I make a cross every month with a different theme and we put that out there every month.

Last year we did, and we're going to do it again this year, Seven Runs for Hay. We chose to do seven different charities that touched our lives personally and we do those runs to bring awareness to those charities as well as bring awareness and raise funds for Team Phenomenal Hope. We've been doing that.

We have a cutout of Haylee, a life size cutout, and we've taken that everywhere with us, even to the beach, and we get pictures with her with that. We've really enjoyed doing that. We've had people write her name in the sand across the world. Every time someone sends a picture that just brightens our day because we know that Haylee's being remembered and not forgotten, and that's huge for us.

February 11th, we're coming up on her third angel anniversary. On that day, we've done it the past couple years, but we'll do a balloon release at her fairyland, as we call it. Then everybody goes to one of her favorite places, which is Chuck E. Cheese. We eat pizza and play games. Then at the time that she passed away, the initial time that my husband Joe made the 911 call, which was 7:00, we walk to her cross, which is right up the street from our parents' house. We do a glow walk, where we have glow sticks and different flashing lights and stuff like that. We just like to put a little bit of Haylee's spunk to everything.

For me, every day is horrible, but I have noticed that these last couple weeks and the weeks leading up to the day she passed away, I feel more anxious. I can feel it because I will start falling asleep, I can't stay awake. I can feel the anxiety building to that day. Of course, we think about that day all the time and we talk about it all the time, even when it's not nearing, but in the weeks coming, it definitely is a buildup of reliving the anxiety that I felt those weeks too. Back when this was happening, when she was going to have her heart catheterization, I just didn't feel right that time. I felt so much more scared and anxious. I just felt like something bad was going to happen. You have those thoughts even though logically you know there's nothing you could have done, but you still feel like you let them down and maybe I should have done something different and maybe she would still be here. Those thoughts come up too, I think, more than throughout the year, but it's definitely always there.

I know for Joe, he actually was set to start a new job the week after she passed, so they pushed back his start date for him. His job was a fresh start in a way because he hadn't worked there previously from Haylee passing. For him now, he pretty much just works himself to death. He works there, he works on the weekends, he's just constantly working because it helps him keep his mind off of it.

For me, going back to work, I worked at a pediatrician office, it was very hard for me because I was seeing kids all day. I was seeing her date of birth all day at work. I initially went back, and she passed away February of 2020, so right after pretty much the pandemic hit, which really intensified a lot of things for us. I actually ended up taking a couple more weeks off and just my mom came over and we did some painting and stuff in the house. But for us, I think COVID happening right after was fairly difficult because you couldn't have the same outlets you normally have. Hockey, watching Blues games and going to Blues games was a huge outlet for us, but that got taken away for a period of time because of COVID. That what made it very difficult as well.

I think for us it's just been making those traditions, but keeping her in those traditions. If we go to the beach, that was Haylee's favorite place. Ironically, that's where we feel most at peace, I know I say that for myself, Joe and Jordayn. It's just something about being there puts us at such peace and makes us feel more connected with her. We can write her name in the sand and we can take the cutout and we can get family pictures so she can still be a part of it.

But for me too, and I think Jordayn as well, it's having my niece and nephew. They're nine and 12 and they were really close to Haylee and we did a lot of things, having them for me has been a huge help. I don't know how I would have honestly been able to do it without still having them to do things with, because we did craft days with Haylee. Once a month they would stay the night and we would do our craft days. The first few times we did that, it was really hard on especially Jordayn and Leo, who was her youngest cousin. They would have outbursts and cry, but each time we've done it's gotten better and better. We usually make something for Haylee while we're doing the crafts and just still try to incorporate her. She always comes up, of course, the whole time we're doing it.

For myself, and I think for our family, we were stuck with hearing the prognosis that the doctor gave us when she was first diagnosed. I kept having it stuck in my head, a decade, a decade, a decade, she's going to live a decade. She would've been 10 this past birthday, so I really thought we wouldn't lose her until at least 10. I could feel more anxious and more anxiety coming up the closer she got to 10. But also, with the encouragement of our doctor, we really tried to make the most of her life because we always knew and felt like she was not going to have a full life. He was pretty honest with telling us that. We tried to make the best of every day and just do as much with her as possible.

She was so joyful. Haylee was just the sweetest, kindest person. She always wanted everybody to be happy. Haylee was always trying to make sure you weren't sad, so it was hard to be sad around her because she was just so joyful. But I definitely always had fear, fear of losing her, when it was going to happen, how it was going to happen, but I definitely wasn't expecting it to happen as soon as it did because I was stuck on just feeling like those 10 years, well, we have to figure out something that's going to help her before that 10 years gets up. That was constantly the timeline, I guess, was the most fearful for me, the closer we got to that point.

For me, it was like when she first was diagnosed the losses happened from afar. It was like somebody that you were friends with on Facebook, but they were friends with them so you didn't even know them. Then it just kept moving closer and closer in. Then we lost Candy when she was here for the PH walk, that we were really close to. Then when Madison passed away it was devastating to me. That's when my fear really grew, because Haylee's heart death was just a few weeks after hers. I just had a horrible feeling. Then after Haylee passed, Hazel passed and she was only two-and-a-half years old, I think. It's just continuing to watch all these people that you've come to build a friendship with, even if it's been over Facebook. It's just like you have to watch them one by one just pass away from this horrible disease. You can keep trying to find a cure, but you just know that that's going to be the end result.

My advice is just keep them present. That's the biggest advice I can give. Make traditions, those help so much for us. Any way you can include them in current traditions or make new traditions. You don't want them to be forgotten. There's ways to carry them forward each and every day and years to come. You just have to find what will work best for your family. We've done a lot of them, we have a lot of them, we're continuing to grow new ones, but I just think that that's personally what's helped us best, is making sure she's not forgotten and left in our past so we can keep continuing forward with her.

My name is Jessica York and I'm aware that my daughter, Haylee, was rare.

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[theskyeandsea]

Snappy Birthday! || Group Chatzy

Timing: May 2nd, 2020

Location: Nicodemus and Skylar’s House

Description: Skylar and Nell threw an unfor-gator-able surprise party for Nic. No hunters, humans, or supernaturals were hurt in the making of this chatzy!

Tagging: @carbrakes-and-stakes​. @walker-journal​. @harlowhaunted​. @nelllraiser​. @theskyeandsea​. @corpse–diem​. @bountybossier​. @3starsquinn​. @chasseurdeloup​. @hunter-haywood​. @deepintheredwood​. @fairyjeff​.  

Skylar looked around at the small gathering of people, more than a little anxious. Nell had really outdone herself with the decorations-- the alligator inflatables she'd found shoved in a back closet were pumped up and scattered in different rooms, the large alligator cake was sitting on the table, there was a massive gator themed centerpiece on the gift table, and Dundee was walking around in his costume. Skye had helped set up most of the decorations, but she left putting Dundee in the costume to Nell, she was still a little skittish around the dog, even if he'd only ever barked at her once or twice. There were buckets full of ice and beers by the pool and in the kitchen, along with more than a few bottles of whiskey. Walking into the kitchen, she smiled nervously at some of the people who had gathered there. "Thanks so much for coming, I'm really glad you all could make it!"

Nell was anxiously watching her phone, wanting everything to be as perfect as possible when it came to this party. In honesty, she wasn't entirely sure when she'd become the type of person to help plan three parties withing a few months span, but she certainly wasn't mad about it when it was for friends and the people she cared about. Waiting for Erin's text, she readied herself to tell everyone to hide and quiet down, knowing that if they missed the crucial and initial 'surprise!' it would derail the biggest part of any surprise party. Already she'd sent numerous texts to Erin, checking in a possibly obnoxious amount to make sure everything was going to plan. "For sure," she echoed Skye's sentiment, glad she'd had such a good partner for this event. "I haven't heard from Erin yet, but they should be coming any moment so- everyone just get ready. Think about where you might want to hide." She'd also been sure to try and request that Erin make sure no weapons were on Nic, not wanting the surprise element of said party to result in injury when it came to his party guests.

Kaden didn't know Nic that well but he liked the guy well enough to go to his birthday party on the invite alone. Plus, it couldn't be worse than his own. No mimes in sight, a good sign already. His brow shot up at Nell's announcement. That sounded like a bad idea. "Are we really jumping out and yelling surprise at a hun--" He caught himself. "Guy. At the guy. That sounds like a bad fucking idea." He sighed and found a spot around the corner where he didn't have to crouch down or do anything ridiculous and could keep his beer on hand. Let someone else get knocked in the head for hiding in a hunter's house and jumping out and yelling surprise.

Adam arrived in thunder of whoops and hollering as he and several brawny fellows pilled out of pick up truck and began rolling up kegs to the door covered in various phallic puns incorporating Nic’s new age. When the truck eventually drove off, Adam burst in wheeling a keg will dressed in short sleeves and wearing a hideous bandanna in the shape of a well-endowed alligator.

Nell wasted no time in staring down each and every one of the assumed frat boys that approached the party, asserting dominance as quickly as she could to let them know that she would not hesitate to kick each one of their asses if they so much as ruined an inflatable alligator, or her and Skye's vision for the party. Of course...the beer was a welcome addition. One could never have too many kegs. "We'll just jump out not near him," she quickly supplied to Kaden. "And maybe Skye can be a little decoy when he walks in." Then she went to Adam, reaching out to prod the bandana on his face. "There are going to be children gators here," she joked, not actually planning on the young man taking it off.

Trying to be inconspicuous about keeping Nic out of the house was harder than Erin anticipated. That’d been her only real job for the day, and compared to the massive amount of work Nell and Skylar had put into it, she’d gotten off pretty easy. CHILL. Pulling up. Five minutes. She quickly texted Nell, giving what felt like the twelve status update that hour. “Thanks for, uh--carting me around all afternoon,” she glanced over at him, though she wasn’t able to entirely meet his eyes. Their last conversation hadn’t been entirely pleasant, and largely consisted of Erin telling him she should stay away while the murderous squid had a hold on him. And then here she was, out of the blue asking him to help her run menial little errands all day to keep him out of the house. Avoided any real conversations by popping in and out of the truck, and taking her good old time at each spot. Her eyes narrowed as they started to pull into the driveway. “Oh!” She piped up as she hopped out of the car, moving to the driver’s side and held out her hand. “Weapons. All of them,” she nodded at him, making a ‘gimme’ motion with her fingers. “You still owe me that tour of the pool, right?” She gave him a smile, trying to keep this light. This was a totally normal request. “We don’t need weapons to check out a pool.”

Golly, Hunter was so excited to be invited to Nic's birthday party! He hadn't gone to one since his daughter's Haylee's fifteenth and that had been awkward since his (ex) wife had been flirting with his best friend the whole time. He couldn't blame her he supposed, Frank was a really nice fellow and he was handsome to boot. He followed behind Adam, the younger man dressed strangely, but Hunter was sure it was just the popular fashion. Grinning he looked around the party,"Wowie, y'all. It looks great. Who decorated? I love the theme!"

Eventually Adam handed out monopoly money to his friends and sinewy friends departed, still sweaty from the keg rolling he took out yet more Caligula gator bandanas and offered some to Hunter and Nell "Don't pole him," he cautioned Nell regarding her prodding the bandana "You'll just make him more excited, here I have some for folks."

Skylar nodded at Kaden's advice. That was admittedly something she hadn't really thought about. The idea of jumping out at Nic was probably a bad idea, even if it was just for a party. Before she could respond, she blinked in surprise when a man burst through the door with... kegs? Face turning bright red as she realized what was on his bandana, Skylar turned to face Nell instead. "Mhm! I can do that!" She said, hurrying to take a seat on the couch next to one of the lamps. This was casual right? Just... sitting on the couch? Surrounded by inflatable alligators and beer? "I'm all set when everyone else is."

Why was Red going to another hunter birthday party? After Kaden's mess, they had almost sworn off going to anyone's birthday party. Still here they were, surrounded by a weirdly theme birthday party, but at least, Red supposed, it wasn't mimes. "Kaden's right. I don't want to be punched," or worse,"in the face today and I doubt anyone else does."

Orion stood awkwardly in the house. Skylar hadn’t been lying, this place was huge. He recognized a few people but felt weird approaching any of them at the moment. He had waved to a few people when he got in. This was supposed to be a surprise, but Rio wasn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of trying to surprise a hunter. He remembered trying to scare Athena as a kid and ended up flipped onto a coffee table. He hadn’t tried that ever again. So he tried picking a spot as far from the door as possible for when Nic got back. Out of the danger zone.

Jeff wasn't really in the mood for another party, especially since he hadn't even made it in the door for Kaden's. But considering there was no mime tomfoolery here, it was safe. Even if he still couldn't speak. He sulked over by Kaden, beer in one hand and a clumsily wrapped present with crocodile wrapping paper in the other. When the small child that babysat his dog ordered them to hide, he shuffled behind Kaden. But if Nic wanted to punch someone at his own birthday party, then that was his God Given Right. He drank his beer, opening his mouth to say something..... and then nothing came out. He drank more beer instead.

Nicodemus had stayed fairly quiet for the majority of the drive, unsure of what to say. He didn't mind running around mindlessly with Erin. Even if mindless was a bit of a tender term considering...everything. He frowned. Damn it. The hunter glanced overr at Erin and nodded, a slight furrow even as a slight smile showed. "Ain't a thing." He mumbled to himself as they pulled into the driveway and got out of the truck. At her sudden exclamation, his eyes darted over to her and he breathed easier when it was nothing. "My weapons?" He questioned but started anyway. Twenty minutes later, he was done pulling out every small knife, bullet, and even a fountain pen that he had kept on him. The unsharpened pencil was last. His eyes narrowed slightly as he started toward the door. "Y'wanna do that now?" He nodded to the door and started toward it. "Yeah, alright, guess I can do that now."

The silly little tripwire spell Nell had set up was triggered the moment Nic and Erin neared it, and soon enough she was shushing the rest of the crowd, trying to make sure no one was in punching distance of the door. "Okay, okay, they're here! Get ready!" she said in a hushed whisper, looking to Skye to give the girl a reassuring smile.

Blanche wasn't surprised that Nell had outdone herself again. She was, however, at the amount of Frat boys with Beer and gators that showed up. Once Nell gave the signal to get ready, she made a beeline for Rio. "Hide!" she said, excitedly.

Adam immediately fell into a commando-like sprawl, Hunter surprises perhaps having been more militaristic operations back home.

Hunter crouched down next to Adam, though his knees creaked as he did. He supposed it was probably time to go back to the doctor like his (ex) wife had wanted him to years ago. "You look like you're on a stakeout there, kiddo. Trying to make sure Nic doesn't see ya?" He hoped Nic wouldn't be able to see him like this. He wasn't sure he'd be able to get up anytime soon, much less hide.

Orion could have hugged Blanche, he was so excited to see her. “Oh thank god you’re here.” He was still a bit nervous about hiding but decided to go along with Blanche, just making sure to move them away from the door when they did.

“Jesus, are you like the Mary Poppins bag of deadly weapons?” Erin mumbled, unable to hold onto everything he’d just painstakingly pulled from every pocket and hiding spot on his body. She heaved them with some effort into the back of his truck, then ran back to cut him off at the door. “Ladies first!” She nearly chirped, hoping to God Skylar left the door unlocked. When it opened, she took a quick glance inside, could hear people shuffling and paused just in the doorway. “Wow!” She bellowed, not letting him step in immediately. “This place is amazing!” It was, and she’d get into that later, but that was probably enough of a warning, right? Still, she took long, careful steps and reached for his hand to keep him from moving too quickly into the doorway or past her, sharing the same thought the rest of the partygoers had. For the love of God, don’t spook the fucking hunter.

When the door swung open, Skylar smiled and waved from the couch as the two of them stepped into the room. "Surprise, Nic! Happy Birthday!" She said brightly. She really, really hoped that Erin had confiscated all of Nic's weapons, getting something thrown at her might put a damper on the whole... birthday celebration.

Being late was not something Alain had ever been comfortable with and yet this was exactly his situation right now. From the other side of the road he had waited for twenty minutes for Nic to be done with his fucking collection of weaponry. Well, at least, he was now the least likely to get shot by birthday boy. Watching Erin lead the way to the place, Alain sighed heavily and got out of the car, present under his arm. "About fucking time." Following behind, he arrived just in time to hear a familiar voice exclaim "Surprise!"

In tandem, everyone seemed to rise up at once, some more cautious than others as the exclamation of, "Surprise!" went up around the room. Hopefully, Nic would be pacified by the inflatable gators before punching anyone.

Nicodemus had never heard Erin so animated before. He followed behind her, heavily scrutinizing her moments, he listened. With her voice as loud as it was, he couldn't hear much over it. But something seemed off. What was that smell? Was it...gator? No way in fucking hell was it gator. Then, Skylar was shouting and he reflexively reached to grab a weapon. An inflatable gator. It popped and squeaked under his grip, whistling its way to a sad death. Wait, what had she said? He blinked. Squinted. Looked around. It wasn't just Skylar there. It was...a lot of people. More than he expected. She had said Happy Birthday. He looked over all of them and stood there. Like a dumbass. There were gators. Baby ones? Was that discount Steve Irwin? "...Howdy." Was all he could manage.

"Howdy, birthday boy!" Hunter said loudly as he pushed himself up (making dad grunts the entire way up). Seeing a lady next to Nic, Hunter grinned,"Who is this, bud? She's pretty," He said with a little wiggle of his eyebrows.

Skylar was startled when he grabbed an inflatable alligator, she flinched when it popped loudly, the sound making her hearing aids ring a bit. But, that was a lot better than him doing that to one of the people here! Walking up, she held out a pointy party hat and held it out to Nic. "I thought it'd be nice to have a little party for you-- Nell did a lot of the work, honestly. Happy Birthday!" She said, beaming.

Nell could handle the the casualty of one inflatable gator, seeing that as a success even as air continued to whine out of it. "Happy Birthday!" she echoed brightly stepping towards the man that this party was all about. "You're definitely old now." She waited somewhat anxiously, hoping to see some sign that he didn't completely hate the party Skylar and her had put together. "There's lots of food! And alcohol! And baby gators. Other animals, too."

Kaden shook his head as Nic killed the very dangerous inflatable gator. Better it than anyone else here. He'd go wish him a happy birthday later, he had plenty of people to talk to. And Kaden didn't really need to have another great run in with Erin just yet. He turned to Jeff and nodded. "How's it going?" His brow furrowed when it was clear the other guy couldn't talk. "You should get a dry erase board, man." He gave Alain a small wave as he saw him come in behind the birthday boy. "Want to go see the animals?" he asked the couple of hunters around him. He didn't really give a shit what they said, he was going to see those fucking baby gators before he left so help him.

Red could tell that there was a fae here, just not where. They tried to shake it off for the sake of Nic and the party, they didn't want to ruin it by causing a scene. At least there were animals here. Maybe he'd have to ask the bossy girl where she got these for Violet's next birthday. They bet that her birthday party would be the best if there were animals like this there. "You know what, yeah I do. Just let me grab a beer." They went grabbed their own beer and then moved over to the baby gators with Kaden. "Violet would have liked these," They said nodding to the small animals.

Orion couldn’t help but laugh when he heard the popping noise. Of course Nic stabbed the inflatable gator. But at least that was better than stabbing one of the party attendees. At least if he had stabbed a fellow hunter it would have healed pretty quickly. “That’s why I didn’t want to hide” Orion giggled, looking back at Blanche, “I didn't want to end up on the wrong side of his surprise.” Looking around, he recognized quite a few. It put him a little on edge, but the ones that he did recognize were alright, as far as hunters went. And was that… Erin with Nic? So his new boss knew Nic? Hmm, small town.

Nicodemus looked between Skylar and Nell. A party. He didn't remember ever having one before. The back of his neck felt warm. "It's nice," he finally said with a firm nod. "Just, uh, real fuckin' surprised." When had he started to know so many people? And they were all in his and Skylar's house. Holy fuck, he had a house and he had friends. Jumping Jesus Christ. He had even heard Alain sneaking up the door behind him. Nic offered Hunter a small but friendly smile. Right up until he blanched at the question. "Erin, that's her," he said quickly as he glanced over to the booze in the distance. Then to the baby gators. "Gonna get a drink there, bud. Enjoy yourself, huh?" Stepping carefully over Dundee, who looked just as perplexed as he did if not more so due to the lack of noticeable blinking, he power-walked to the watering station and cracked open a cold one as he turned around to survey the area. Goddamn, they had committed and committed hard.

“Wow,” was the only word that kept flashing in Erin’s mind when she saw the full scale of the party for the first time. They hadn’t been kidding even a little bit when they said there’d be gators. “Surprise?” Erin finally said when she turned to Nic, who seemed without a doubt surprised. “Holy crap, you guys. This is seriously amazing,” she smiled over at Skylar and Nell, stepping aside so the small crowd could fawn over him. As they should be, even if it was making him visibly uncomfortable. “That’s--yeah, that’s me. Erin. Nice to meet you…?” she chuckled at the older man who’d come up to greet them. Most of the faces she could pinpoint, some more of a surprise than others, but this was a new one to her. Wasted no time in plucking up one of the party hats and sat it squarely on her head. “Shut the front door--are those real gators?” She asked the second her eyes laid on them.

Hunter grinned at Erin. “Nice to meet ya, Miss. I’m Hunter. I meet Nic at a bar a while ago. He’s a real sweetheart, aint he?” He grinned wider, “I bet he’d make a great boyfriend. You know, if that interested you.”

Alain walked over to the pile of gifts to put down the box in which he had stuffed one crocodile plush, and a Laguiole knife with a handle that ressembled the skin of an alligator. This is when he heard someone speaking with Erin about Nic. Turning on his heels with the most neutral expression on his face, he raised his eyebrows at his friend and crossed his arms. "Well Erin, I think Hunter here might make a pretty good point."

Skylar beamed at the two of them, before nodding. "I'm glad that you like it! Have fun looking at the gators, I'm going to make sure Dundee doesn't poke his way over there." She said before walking off to find the little dog. It was huddled in a corner, a little overwhelmed by all the people who were in the home. Which was honestly fair, she kind of related. Reaching out gingerly to fix the dog's hood, she glanced up and saw Rio and Blanche, the two of them sporting matching pink hair. "Hi! I'm really glad you both could make it. Thanks so much for coming."

Nell beamed under Nic's simple, but approving words, and couldn't help but also enjoy Erin's. "Good, good. You deserve it," was all she managed to say. She was glad she had Skye had managed to pull this off. Nic needed good things in his life, and now this could be one of them. Sticking with the funeral director for a moment, she nodded, paying no mind to Alain. She didn't like the man, but she wouldn't start anything when she wanted this party to go perfectly. Turning to Erin she said with renewed excitement, "Yeah! Real gators! Reptile Rick brought along his brood. They're cute, aren't they?"

Orion smiled brightly when Skylar made her way over to say hi to them. He eagerly waved back and perked up. “Hey! Of course, thanks for the invite.” It had a good turnout, with quite a few people showing up for it. “You weren’t joking about this house. It’s ginormous.” He glanced at the crowd around Nic, talking to him and Erin. He would make his way over there eventually to say happy birthday, once things had calmed down. “You and Nell did really good. This party is really cool.”

Adam took a tray of vials from among the kegs. Some of the folks at the Bullet had responded to his blood drive, allowing for enough Slayer Blood for vampire poison. Liquid silver in pressured regulated contains for werewolves. A poison that'd disrupt the air regulation within aquatic creatures like Selkie, causing them to burst from the inside. There was very fine cold iron grains to poison the ventilation systems of Fae communes, Adam carefully set these and other vials of deadly alchemy with the other gifts before returning to the kegs to get drinks really started.

The only sound that came out of Erin’s mouth was a nervous laugh, eyes wide. “He’s--uh, he’s--yeah. He’s great.” She cleared her throat, glaring daggers at Alain through the smile forced onto her lips when he needlessly chirped in. “Helpful as always, aren’t you? Why don’t you go say hi to Nic, yeah?” she said, patting Alain’s back extra hard, thankful Nell was there. “They’re adorable!” she answered eagerly. “I’m gonna go see them like--now. I can’t wait. You totally understand, right?” Even if they didn’t, she was already shuffling away. “Excuse me!” She bounced off towards the refreshment table first for some of what she hoped was alcoholic “Gator”-ade. A little surprised at the crowd that had gathered around the baby animals, but she supposed not even a big group of guys like this could resist. “Is this the designating hiding spot?” She teased and watched them scurry around, taking large sips of the mysterious green drink.

Skylar laughed a little at Rio's statement, rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly. "Mhm, it's a really big place. I have no idea places like this even existed in White Crest, but I'm really lucky to have a place to stay." She said. "Thanks, it was mostly Nell. She really outdid herself. I like the hair, by the way. It looks really cool." She said with a thumbs up. With his pink hair, Rio almost looked like he'd stepped out of an anime or something. It honestly suited him-- and Blanche as well.

Lord, there were even presents. Cold beer in hand, Nicodemus grunted a greeting to those he passed by as he wandered over to the baby gators. He took a moment to raise his beer at Adam with a slight grin. Gingerly, Reptile Rick placed one in the palm of his hand, its small head resting on the hunter's wrist. Large reptilian eyes stared at him and he stared back. A true, blue genuine smile brightened his face for a hot second before he glanced over at the others. "They're, uh, real fuckin' gentle and shit," he said. Reptile Rick looked on in approval, the string of his fishing hat bobbing slightly. "...Thanks for comin', I 'spose. Didn't really know all this shit was happenin'."

Adam sees Rio being all pink with Blanche and Skylar and gives him a knowing wink and encouraging thumps up and highly evocative penetrative pantomime with his hands. Fellow Hunter dude thus no doubt encouraged and full of manly vitality, Adam return to drinks and watching Nic be Crocodile Dundee.

Nell nodded enthusiastically as Erin made her exit, not blaming her in the least for wanting to check out the little gators. She'd already spent some time with them before the party had started, and was letting everyone else get their fill, now. "I completely understand she offered with a chuckle before watching the other women head over. Adam's motion catching her eye, she wasted no time in heading his way to make herself a drink as well, glad that the party seemed to be going well enough. "You're going to make them match their pink hair," she said to the man with a little smirk, always amused by his antics.”

Alain forced a smile at Nell. It was not that he disliked her, but... Ok, it was exactly that, but it appeared that she had at last decided to be an adult. It would have been a shame if he ruined all her efforts. "Wait, Erin, you can't just..." He protested, and rather than sticking with Hunter, who would probably whine about his ex wife again, he followed after Erin to have a look at the baby alligators. If the question of how those things got here crossed his mind, he figured that the answer probably would be too shady for his liking. And... there was too much people here for his liking. Obviously. Who could blame them. Alright, then maybe he wouldn't bother Erin some more. Taking a deep breath, the hunter contemplated leaving. He had dropped the present, said Happy birthday. His job here was done, right? This was about then that he noticed Skylar on the other side of the room, with Orion, with... pink hair? Waving politely at them, he walked away from the alligator loving crowd to join them.

"Hey you know whatever gets that three-way rocking," Adam affirmed to Nell before drowning a drink like as if were a raindrop in a desert. "Maybe they like cotton-candy everywhere?" He blinked his way after the next drink slammed his brain. "So how do you know Bad Santa?"

Kaden was definitely not telling the baby alligator what a good boy it was in French when he realized Erin and Nic had joined them in the reptile corner. "Must be. Sorry, I said surprise once, that's all you get," he told Erin. "Happy birthday," he said as he watched the baby gator scuttle in Nic's hand. "I'd say you got a better theme than my party." It was nice, seeing a weirdly functioning just nice party for a hunter of all people in this hell hole town. Weird as hell, but nice.

"Thanks for inviting us, really. This place is great! I love Nic and he deserves a really good party," Blanche said brightly, brushing a piece of hair out of her face. She still couldn't believe the two of them dyed it pink. Wild. "And thanks. I think we mastered the art of impulsive twenty year old." If only it didn't end with the both of them killing something. She had caught Adam doing something out of the corner of her eye and made a face. "Anyway, I totally want to pet a gator and the dog at some point. Also, Skylar, you don't have an aversion to Little Debbie's Muffin's, do you?"

Nell snorted into her drink, not exactly discouraging Adam from his conception of the three-way. After all, what kind of best friend would she be if she didn't let Blanche get teased about sex? And she also wouldn't mind poking a small bit of good-natured fun at Skylar and Rio. In true mature fashion, she tucked her drink under her arm for a moment to bring her hands together in the shaped of a heart, capturing the three of them in the center of it. "I can smell it brewing now. If they don't serve cotton candy at the wedding...I'm not going." It took her a moment to figure out who Bad Santa might be, but it had to be the birthday boy...right? "Do you mean Nic? Because I'm here for that nickname, even without explanation."

Skylar nodded at Blanche, "For sure! He really does. I wanted to do something fun for him, you know? I feel like everyone could use a little fun right now." She said, not noticing the way her expression changed. She also didn't notice Adam's gesture, which was probably for the best. "Dundee should be around here somewhere-- I'm trying to keep him away from the baby gators. Hm? I mean... I'm allergic to gluten, so I'm kinda averse to most baked goods." She said with a little shrug before noticing that Alain had walked over. "Oh! Hi! Thanks for coming! I'm glad you were able to make it." Skylar said with a grin. "We've got games, there's plenty of beer, whiskey, and lots of food in the kitchen."

Adam sighed with a feigned dramatic wistfulness, "Well, Nic's Hunter powers activated when he was just a mall santa, down on his luck and scaring kids. But then vampires attacked some of the other Santas, and after a long investigation of Snow globes the kids watched in horror as Santa tore apart one of the elves, thus the Hunter known as Nicodemus was born." Adam nodded solemnly as before quaffing a drink.

Orion saw Adam wink at him and his cheeks immediately burst into flames. His face must be all sorts of shades of red at the moment, but he tried to ignore it and focus on the conversation instead. “Thanks! Blanche gets all the credit for the idea, but I’m surprised by how much I like the pink hair.” It was weird and fun and crazier than anything he had ever done, which was a welcome change. He waved at Alain and glanced over at the snacks and drinks that Skylar had mentioned, “Turns out, the Gatorade is in fact not gatorade and is alcoholic. I found out the hard way.” By that, he meant that he had taken a drink of it and immediately spit it back into the cup from the surprise. “But it tastes good.” Ish.

By now, Nell felt fairly adept at judging when Adam was going to launch into his ever-famous renditions of obviously very true and perfectly accurate stories, and a grin split over her lips as this one met her ears. "Please tell me there are pictures of this. I could put it on next year's cake. Does he still have the costume?" Against possibly all expectation, the thing that made her almost choke on her drink was the revelation of Nic's full name. She'd simply assumed it was...Nicholas or...something normal. "Nicodemus?? As in a wannabe Roman emperor?" She couldn't wait to hold that one over Nic's head.

Adam affirmed that he was sure Nic still had the costume, just in case it fell to him to defend Christmas from Dracula. "Was more goin for Pharisee from the Bible, or the leader of the Rats of Nim, but yup"

Alain smiled at the three of them, his eyes lingered on Blanche and Orion's hair color. "...That's... cheerful." He shook his head with amusement. Oh well, if it made them happy. "Did you name one of the alligators after Nick Dundee?" His eyebrows raised. Oh well, he knew people who had named their dog Orion. Looking in the direction of the drinks and food he grimaced. "Oh no, I'm fine I don't really drink alcohol anymore," apparently embarrassed, the hunter rubbed at the back of his head and shrugged. "Gatorade and taste good in the same sentence, I don't know," memories of a terrible night with Blanche and Nic was brought back to him and he laughed a little as he glanced at Blanche.

Erin didn’t know what he was saying, but Kaden was saying it soft enough that it seemed close enough to a ‘coo’ as a grown man could get. She didn’t interrupt, him or Nic as he held one and grinned like a kid. Just admired the way the baby gators had managed to melt the hearts of everyone almost instantly. She’d be lying if she wasn’t right there with them. “It’s gonna be a hard theme to beat, that’s for sure,” she nodded at Kaden. “I’ll leave you guys alone with your new friends,” she said with a grin, like she was in on their secret. A blast of pink was the first thing she spotted when she grabbed another drink. “Whoa. You’re going to wake the dead with that hair,” Erin smirked over at Rio. Boss-brain would’ve been scorning him right about now but she looked past it. It was a party and she was drinking green mystery juice. She didn’t have a lot of room to judge. After listening in a moment, she pointed towards Blanche mid-drink. “Wait, is this the infamous Blanche?”

Adam murmured to Nell, "Looks like word's gotten around about B.H."

Red took a few pictures of the animals to send to Artie, hoping their wife would show Violet. If they had known, maybe they would have brought the kid with them, but then again she was the perfect excuse to leave if Red needed a quick excuse. “Gotta day this birthday is a lot easier to handle than the last.”

Shaking her head, Nell quickly said, "I don't know what the hell a rat of Nimh is but— the Bible thing makes sense. I just feel like with a name like that, he could have definitely stabbed Caesar. She watched as Erin seemed to recognize Blanche, not exactly surprised. "What can we say she's a popular gal who with the hair of a a troll doll. Who wouldn't have heard about her? A very pretty troll doll."

Adam shook his head. "They make dolls of trolls? But they're too fucking hideous for kids. ...and Blanche is waaay hotter then a troll."

Skylar chewed the inside of her cheek when she realized that Alain didn't drink-- oh no. "Um, we also have water and soda in the fridge. And the food turned out great, I was out grilling earlier and the steak turned out really nice, if you ask me." She said hoping that the offering of non-alcoholic beverages and food would gloss over her little misstep there. Tilting her head, at the Dundee comment, she blinked. "Oh, no. Dundee is the name of Nic's dog. There he is right now." She said, pointing to the little chihuahua who had plonked down onto the couch and had curled up into a little ball for a nap.

Blanche almost snorted when Alain complained about the gatorade, biting back a comment about how if he didn't want to drink gatorade maybe he shouldn't have gotten so drunk that she and Nic had to baby him. "I'll take some of the jungle juice. Or beer." She said brightly. She was just about to go get some when someone pointed her out. WHat - "Infamous - wait. Oh! Erin!" Blanche recognized her from Regan's facetime. "Hey! You act like I'm a walking tornado." Blanche thought for a second and them sheepishly shrugged. ".... You got me."

Nell wasn't entirely surprised that Adam hadn't heard of troll dolls. Most likely his toys growing up had all been outfitted with flamethrowers or something. The only flamethrowers she'd had growing up were her sisters. "No it's like- they're little pudgy baby dolls with funny colored hair. Blanche is definitely hotter than either though. Can confirm that." Nell took the opportunity to wave over at the other pink-haired person...Rio. "Hey! What'd you guys use to dye your hair anyway?"

Adam nodded, "Heya guys, digging the K-pop look."

Orion picked up on Blanche’s name and laughed when he heard what Adam and Nell said. “This just in, Blanche is hotter than a troll” Rio leaned close to Blanche and repeated, smiling as he said it. It was nice hearing with Blanche knowing about him being a hunter. He didn’t have to shy away from explaining his super hearing to her. But he immediately slunk away when he realized that Nell and Adam were joining the group. His boss and now Adam too? Oh boy. “I uh- we uh- I” Rio stammered, trying to form a coherent sentence, “Hey there.” He settled on, greeting his boss and Nell and Adam that had joined the group. “Uh thank you! I don’t know actually, Blanche bought the dye.”

Alain scratched at his cheek. The last thing he wanted was to make Skylar uncomfortable over something she couldn't have known. "Hey, it's fine. It's okay. I look forward to that," he reassured her, carefully patting her shoulder. Glancing over his shoulder to have a look at the dog, he froze when he realized what it was she was referring to. He wrinkled his nose and searched for Nic in the crowd. What the fuck kind of dog was that ? "Well now I have something to roast him about. Thanks Skylar, I will be right back." You bet that he was now making his way to birthday boy. "You didn't tell me you had a ..." Rat? "Dog."

Nicodemus parted from the gators, as hard as it was, and started to head toward the pool. How the hell they got the ambiance going the way it did, he didn't understand. He looked over at Alain and raised a brow. Looked at Dundee who didn't seem at all bothered. "Yeah, came with the fuckin' apartment. Believe that shit," he said, a lot less bothered by it than he had been a week ago. "Wouldn't leave, so fuck it, why not, right?" The last conversation he had with Alain hadn't been pleasant. What he asked hadn't been pleasant, but still, Alain showed. "Thanks for comin'. You knew about this?"

Blanche had definitely been blonde the last time Erin had seen her--brief as it was--but here she was. In the flesh. “No! You’re just--you’re here. I wasn’t sure this day was going to come,” Erin laughed, recalling their almost exclusive online interactions. It suddenly dawned on Erin she was surrounded by almost all of the youths of the crowd, especially when Nell and the other younger kid joined. This felt weird. Time to retreat. She nodded at Rio, “Hair looks good,” she said simply. Nodding at Blanche again as she backpedaled. “Glad to finally meet you, too,” she smiled, then turned to go back and adore the baby gators again with what seemed like the rest of the older party attendees.

Noticing Rio's stammering, Skylar blinked in confusion as the other three approached. Why was he so nervous about them? Was it because the awful bandana? In that case, she couldn't really blame him, it was pretty bad. But, the guy who walked up didn't seem all that strange. With a smile, she waved at him. "I'm Skylar, by the way. Nic's roommate. Nice to meet you." She said. There was quite a bit of conversation going on, so she didn't totally register Alain's words, but the small pat on her shoulder caught her attention. "Oh, bye!" She said with a nod in his direction, and offering a wave when Erin also turned away. People coming and going, all the talking... parties were exhausting.

Adam gave Skylar a once over, and then another look over, neither of which were granted any subtly by the drinks in his system. "I'm Adam, looking good, Skylar," he said walking up. "Heya Oreo, how’s it hanging?"

Skylar didn't like the way that Adam looked at her, nope, nope, no. With a slightly panicked smile, she tilted her head towards the pool of baby alligators. "Mhm... I need to go." She said, adding quickly, "Check on the alligators. Yup. They... need to be watched." They were just little alligators, they wouldn't eat her, right? Walking quickly away, she let out a sigh. All things considered, that had gone well. And Nic seemed like he liked it too, which was all that mattered in her book.

Nicodemus's ears weren't ringing from wolf howls or vampire screaming or some other kinda nonsense. No, it was just people talking. Enjoying themselves. It wasn't...terrible and that was a terrifying thought on its own. There'd be time for the rest of the shit later, unless it came sooner. Town like White Crest, it just might. Being the center of attention was the last thing he wanted but he swallowed it down to try and find a decent place to stand. Idling picking at the soggy label on his beer, he cleared his throat some. A banjo played quietly in the background and he shook his head with a snort. "Uh, thanks for comin'...and shit," he started as he looked around the room. All relatively new faces in his life, but now, familiar. Like Dundee, that didn’t seem to bother him as much anymore. His brow furrowed some. "...Appreciate it. It's, uh--Yeah. Stay as long as you want or at least 'till Dundee or Skye kicks your ass out." A dry laugh sneaked out of him. He glanced at the cutout of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. They glanced back. The shooting gallery lay beyond. He raised his beer and headed over. “Meanwhile, my ass'll be out on the open range.”

[shanascarlett]

Songs from Jem and the Holograms playlist

Performed by Jem and the Holograms

Haylee Steinfeld - I love myself

K/Da - Pop Stars

Ellie Goulding - Burn

Yall feat. Gabriela Richardson - Hundred Miles

Sia - Don’t give up, go-go

Sia - Cheap Thrills

Vanic X KFlay - Make Me Fade

Pink - Just Like Fire

Zella Day - East of Eden

Ellie Goulding - Your song

Halsey - Haunting

League of Legends - Phoenix

Natasha Bedingfield - Pocket of Sunshine

Us Baby Bear Bones - You

League of Legends - Light and Shadows

League of Legends - Awaken

League of Legends - Legends Never DIe (Main theme of Hasbro Universe)

Performed by Misfits

Riot Games - Get Jinxed

Porcelain and the Tramps - Gasoline

Mia - Live Fast, Die Young

In This Moment - Blood

K.Flay - Hate Everyone

In THis Moment - Heavy Metal Barbie

Performed by Kimber and Stormer

Carly Rae Johnson - Run Away With Me

Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter

Casual stuff

Marian Hill - I got it

Eminem ft. Rihanna - Monster

Oh Honey - Get it right

Kesha - Die Young

Sir Sly - High

Alexey Romeo & Pikalov - Get down

Lady Gaga - Applause

Studio Killers - Eros and Apollo

The Pierces - Stick and Stones

Shawn Mendes - Mercy

Shawn Hook - Sound of your heart

Descendasts cast - Rotten to the core

Regina Spector - You’ve got time

Natalia Kills - That girl is a problem

Major Lazer - Lean On

M83 - Midnight City

L.B. One feat Laenz - Across The Water (Radio Edit)

K.Flay - Fuck my life

Maroon 5 - Feelings

Katy Perry - Hey Hey Hey

Ladyhawke - Golden Girl

Brithney Spears - Work

Family Force - Drama Queen

Imagine Dragons - Summer

Katy Perry - This is how we do

Katy Perry - Birthday

Kesha - We R Who We R

k?d - Lose myself

Soulcast - Someone Like Me

Diamonde - Bon Voyage

Mansionair - Easier

IAMX - I come with knives

Lemaitre - Day Two

Rae Garvey - Kiss Me

Superorganism - Everybody wants to be famous

Halsey - 11 minutes

Meg Myers - Done

Meg Myers - Numb

[deplatform-predators]

pigeons-against-onision —> deplatform-predators

As recent events have highlighted the severity of this situation, I found it necessary to change my url and general theme of my blog to reflect my thoughts on this situation. To be clear, I have always believed the situation surrounding Onision to be very severe. But recently, as victims have begin sharing such detailed accounts of their stories, I wanted to make some changes to my blog. Instead of a blog just making fun of and bashing Greg, I wanted to primarily focus on the stories of his victims and lifting them up and supporting them! I also want to focus some on my perspective on this situation as a survivor of an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship. There will still things like memes making fun of Greg, but I want to make sure that the survivors’ stories are being highlighted. This blog stands with Skye, Alicia, Shiloh, Adrienne, Billie, Ayalla, Regina, Lane, Haylee, Sarah and any and all of the other survivors of abuse at the hands of Onision / Gregory / James and CoolGuyKai / Kai / Eli / Lainey / Laineybot / Taylor.

[hayleemiller]

Readerly Exploration 2

Haylee Miller

Due: September 19th, 2022 

Wessel - Powell: Teachers should use multimodal storytelling in their classrooms because it allows students to have other opportunities besides writing to show what they’ve learned.

Why Children Need Play: Varying versions of play is beneficial to children’s learning of literacy.

Building Language and Literacy Through Play: Teachers must provide necessary assistance at the preparatory stages of children learning to play and use their imagination. 

Nugget for Wessel - Powell: Kindergarten literacy school readiness screening is often too narrow to capture the strengths of all students.

Nugget for Why Children Need Play: Play is linked to growth in memory, self – regulation, oral language, and recognizing symbols. 

Nugget for Building Language and Literacy Through Play: Children tend to act out familiar themes even when they start to expand on a theme that you expect is familiar to them, they often revert to playing something that they have often played before. 

Reflection: The activity I chose for this Readerly Exploration was to skim through the “why children need play” scholastic article, pull out words that were not familiar to me and find the definitions of those words. While some words from the article were familiar, others I have heard of, but I wanted a greater definition in my mind for myself. For example, I’m sure a billion people have heard of the word play but when you stop and think about it, what is play? I found out that play gives children opportunities to develop physical competence and enjoyment of the outdoors, understand and make sense of their world, interact with others, express and control emotions, develop their symbolic and problem – solving abilities, and practice emerging skills. It’s important to understand that while some people look at it as “oh that child is just outside “playing” in the dirt” there are learning opportunities and opportunities of cognitive and maybe even social development within that one experience of playing in dirt. The child may come across a bug, this will then fill their mind with many questions, children are curious and adventurous and learning is a big part of that. While I have heard of the word play before many times, through searching the definition I am now able to understand the concept of play on a bigger and greater level. In order to find words that I wanted to learn more about for the activity, I skimmed through the article and pulled words that I had never heard of, words that were intriguing to me, or words that I wanted to learn more about like the word play. After finding the words, I searched them on the internet to find definitions of each term I chose. 

Activity: I skimmed through the article, pulled out words that were not familiar to me. I then searched for the terms online to find definitions of those words. 

self-regulation – the self-directive process through which learners transform their mental abilities into task related skills.

oral development – developing the skills and knowledge that go into listening and speaking.

social development – the process through which children learn to build relationships.

academic competence – reflects the skills, attitudes, and behaviors that contribute to students’ academic success. 

play – play gives children opportunities to develop physical competence and enjoyment of the outdoors, understand and make sense of their world, interact with others, express and control emotions, develop their symbolic and problem – solving abilities, and practice emerging skills. 

imaginative play - children are role playing and acting out various experiences they may have had or something that is of some interest to them. They are experimenting with decision making on how to behave and also practicing their social skills. 

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Hey babes, Sheridan (rookhi) and I (haylstorme) decided to start up an awards based around our love for the Netflix series Riverdale! So if you love Riverdale too or just love awards continue reading:

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[brenninthetaylorverse]

LOVE your theme bestie!

AWWW BESTIE THANK YOU although I'm probably gonna change it to a diff theme in like 2 days lol 😭 but still thank you haylee!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 🩷🩷🩷

[sublimecatgalaxy]

Pairing: Elliot (Euphoria) x Reader

Warnings: Swearing, minor angst, no resolved happy ending.

A/n: Request made by @visiondaddy for my totally random theme night! "Elliot with enemies to lovers?? And with the prompt 14?"

I didn't know that Elliot and Jules were so close until Rue dumped Jules right before she got clean and rushed over to tell me all the drama.

She spent hours crying on my shoulder before she actually got the words out that she was done with drugs and that Elliot was getting close to Jules in a way that got right in the middle of their relationship.

She pretty much implied they had been fucking.

It was a hit to the heart, especially because Rue and Jules both knew how much I was in love with Elliot and, after years of pining for him and chasing after him, I was finally ready to tell him.

So to find out that my best friend was hanging out and getting close to the man I was in love with- it hurt more than anything.

"Why haven't we talked?" Elliot asks from across the room, guitar propped up in his lap as he looks up at me with curious eyes and furrowed brows.

"We talk. Sometimes." I shrug, taking a bite of my sandwich before averting my gaze from his as he continues to stare at me from across the room.

"Bullshit. Ever since Jules and Rue broke up, I feel like we broke up." He laughs but there's a twinge of seriousness to his voice, concern almost.

"First of all, there is no we. Second of all, we stopped talking because you started fucking Jules." His eyes widen at my sudden turn to anger, my heart racing and blood boiling at his god-awful lying skills, his tan cheeks reddening as much as they can as his chest rises and falls in frustrated breaths.

"Woah, fucking?" He asks, leaning towards me and he sets his guitar aside, going to crawl on the bed but I hold my hand up to him, stopping him in his tracks.

"Are you kidding?" I seethe, eyes turning to slits as he scoffs, shaking his head at me in disbelief and he begins to panic, I can see it across his face- he's worried that he would lose our sort of fucked up relationship, lose me, over this 'slip up'. "You're lying flat out right now."

"I'm not." He shakes his head with a stern look but it wavers a bit when I grin furiously.

"If you do this- if you lie- be prepared to lose me." He pauses at my ultimatum, gulping momentarily and his lips part in a questionable look, as if he wants to say something but us unable to.

"We fucked once. We kissed a lot- she was hurting with Rue and I don't know. It distracted me." He explains in a rush and I feel my heart crack in my chest, my whole body drooping at the realization that I was right and that Rue wasn't being dramatic when she came to me that one day all upset.

"From who?" I ask, expecting the answer already but he just smiles sadly, his lips tug up into a confessing smile.

"From you."

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[zuretha-metal]

Daisy's Theme

Alternatively Titled (It's Really Just Me In My Feelings, Sorry).

This is my new composition and just lemme take you on a walk through the "Table of Contents" if you will, of the different section/feels of the piece. Ahem:

1. Legato

2. Play like you're a superhero and all your friends are dead, but you still gotta fight Thanos

3. Okay, hurry up and cry you only have 10 measures

4. STOP CRYING!!!

5. You are now: kicking Space Grape's ass

6. You lost (P.S. Your friends are still dead)

7. You're crying on your space ship...

8. ...as one does

9. And here's the main theme again, but sadder, because when you close your eyes, your past haunts you

And that ends 5 pages worth of music. Five pages worth of piano music based around Am/E, Em (sometimes C/G), Dm/F, F (sometimes F7), and EM.

Oh and it ends with an imperfect cadence bc I'm just plain evil.

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Confused? Like pretty pictures instead? I have an art tag full of drawings that are much less...music theroy-y? ----> #zmetalart

Wanna read more of this and just general "here's my day and what I leanred?" There's a tag for that too! -----> #haylee talks too much

[brenninthetaylorverse]

LOVE THE THEME

THANK YOU BESTIE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AHHH 🩷🫂

[brenninthetaylorverse]

BESTIE!! HI! how have you been doing? ALSO I LOVE THE THEME!! LOVE YOUUUU🫂🫂🩷

HEY BESTIE!! I've been okay just SO. MUCH. SCHOOL. WORK. I literally have like 2+ hours of homework every night + cheer practice so I have no time to be on tumblr and I feel so bad because I've been so inactive but life happens! how have you been? I LOVE YOUR THEME SM TOO AND I LOVE YOU MORE <3333 🩷🩷🫂

[brenninthetaylorverse]

THE THEME! IM IN LOVE OMGGGGG ITS SO PRETTY!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH HAYLEE AHHH YOU ARE SO KIND I LOVE YOUUUUUUU 🩷🫂🩷

[brenninthetaylorverse]

I AM OBSESSED WITH YOUR THEME

THANK YOU SO MUCH BESTIE I LOVE YOU!<333

🩷