#parke parkette

[roamingtigress]

"DUTCH BAD." Take some time for this solid reading, folks A solid analysis on the scene of Arthur's death w/ Dutch at the cliff, the complexity of his character and more. (now pinned !) “Dutch loved Arthur as much as he ever loved anyone.” -Ben Davis Yes, Dutch did cry for Arthur. And reminded again he was in love with a man. (Sorry, is in love with a man, all the bad stuff to them did not happen. Did not.)

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Okay again in the interest of getting through some of these larger, older asks, here is a bit less than 177 words, but more than 900 words:

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“If Chim is doing it, I’m doing it.”

Karen sighs. “I was worried you’d say that.”

Karen is used to this, in a way. That’s what it’s like, being married to a first responder. She’s had to watch Hen walk into danger countless times, with no guarantee she’d come home. That’s the deal they were always used to, even before the end of the world. 

It’s no different now. Chim is her partner, still. Bobby may not be their captain anymore in so many words, but she will still follow him as though he is. He has never stopped protecting them like a captain. So she will go. Walk with them into danger. That’s still her job. That’s still who she is. 

“I’m sure it’ll be okay,” Hen tells her. “It’ll be the three of us. Versus one flashlight.”

Hen doesn’t really have the confidence she’s saying she has. She just… Well, she doesn’t want Karen to worry. 

“Okay,” Karen says. She kisses Hen. A quick little peck, like it’s for good luck. “Then I’ll see you after.”

Hen smiles. “It’s probably nothing, right?”

Karen nods. “Probably.”

▪️▪️▪️

In the end, it’s four of them, not three. Athena joins them. Sits in the front seat with Bobby as they drive into town. Come to think of it, there are very few times over the past few days where Athena and Bobby haven’t done things together. Like they’ve fallen into each other’s orbits.

Interesting.

Hen and Chim give each other a look, both likely thinking the same thing. Neither of them comments, though. 

“The light was northeast of us,” Chim explains as they drive into town. “Could’ve been Polk Square?”

Polk Square is a little paved central area that used to be used for farmers’ markets and other community events. Live music. Festivals. It backs onto a little parkette. A few people tried setting up camp there during the beginning. It didn’t last long. 

“Let’s start there,” Bobby agrees. 

“Why would anyone go there?” Athena asks. “I imagine anything left in town has been raided.”

“By us mostly,” Hen agrees. 

“Maybe they’re like you?” Chim asks. “Returning to a place they used to live and looking for signs of life?”

“Hmm,” Athena nods. “True.

“There must be a reason why everything is happening at once,” Hen says. “Why is everyone able to make it here all within a week when we haven’t heard from a soul in months?”

“It’s easier to travel now,” Athena says. 

“Easier how?” Bobby asks. 

“The zombies are slower. Not all of them, but most.” Athena explains. “They’re fading a bit. Beginning to die off.”

Hen feels strange about that. It feels like a good thing and a bad thing. Like, thank god that threat is dwindling. But, what threat is next? Maybe that’s what they’re finding out today. 

▪️▪️▪️

There’s nothing in Polk Square or the nearby park to lead Hen, Bobby, Athena, or Chim to believe anyone is around. They scour the wreckage of the old encampments, but find no signs of recent life. 

“It was around this area though,” Chim says. “I’m certain of it.”

“What about about Pacific Armory?” Athena asks. “It’s just around the block from here.”

“The gun shop?” Bobby replies. “That was one of the first places raided. There’s nothing left.”

“Would someone new in town know that?” Athena challenges.

“And it’s more secure than a regular storefront,” Hen suggests. “If someone was nervous.”

“Fair enough,” Bobby replies. “Let’s check it out.”

They walk to Pacific Armory. A store Hen never had cause to visit before the end of the world. One that made her nervous just to walk by, honestly. She hates guns. Like, really hates them. Even now, while Chim, Bobby, and Athena all carry one, she’s holding onto an old ax from the old fire station. She knows how to shoot. They made sure she learned. But it’s a last resort for her. Hen was shot as a teenager. She knows what it’s like to be at the other end of what happens when someone pulls a trigger. She almost lost a kidney. And her life, obviously. It’s why she was drawn to being a paramedic in the first place, when she realized she wanted to be a first responder. 

So she doesn’t like guns. She knows how easily they can hit the wrong person, destroy someone. And the thought that whoever they’re looking for might be searching for more of them? Concerning. 

Pacific Armory is empty when they arrive. It doesn’t look much different than it did the last time they were here, months ago. Broken door. Boarded up windows. Ransacked shelves and racks. By the time they reached it, most everything had been taken already. Their stock of weapons and ammunition largely came from raiding houses. People owned more guns than Hen liked to think about. And not all of them hunted in their spare time. 

There is something different, Hen notices. A smell. An odor, really. One that brings her right back to a crop they had the opportunity to grow, if they so chose, based on what plants they were able to salvage for the gardens. But, despite Buck’s exactly two attempts at persuading them - and a secret little pout from Karen - they decided as a group wasn’t a good idea. Or, frankly, a good use of garden space.

[writingsfromhome]

The Ex-Text

Prologue (the text)

A/N: warning that this fic does include cheating. I’m trying something new with this format, just a road trip story which is one of my favourite tropes everr. Plus a lot of drama. It was too short to split into parts but I liked the idea of some logues lol. Main should be out soon. Hope y’all like it too. <3

Prologue (text) / Main (ex) / Epilogue (what’s next)

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YN:

“He’s cheating on me,” I spit into the phone. My best friend gasps. “I saw him! He’s fucking cheating on me Taz what do I do? Do I confront him? Should I wait ‘til he gets home?”

“Where are you?” She asks.

I’m standing in front of the glass window to the bar that my boyfriend sits at. He’s facing a woman in black, with his hand on her knee, and a smile brightening his face. I blink, my focus going to the reflection in the glass. I look back at myself, dazed and heartbroken and disheveled.

“I’m-“ my voice cracks. I was not going to fucking cry here. I sniffle and move down the street to a parkette, a bench warmed by the sun invites me to sit down. “I’m at this patch of grass that’s a pathetic excuse for a park. Taz I don’t know what to do!”

“You don’t have to do anything right now. Where are you exactly? Let me come to you! Or come over. Don’t do anything rash-“

“I want to,” I sniffle. I wanted to, but all the energy had been drained from my body as soon as I sat down. “I was planning my future with this fucker. I…I thought he was going to propose soon! I caught him looking at rings the last time we were out remember? Do you…d’you think they were for her? Oh my god I’m such an idiot Ican’tbelieveIdidn’tseeit!”

It wasn’t British of me at all. At all. But I hang my head and sob. I couldn’t hold it in, my future crumbles before my eyes and all I can do is cry.

“Fuck’s sake,” I hear Taz say. “I’m coming to get you.”

I don’t remember much of what happened after that. How long I sat there until Taz found me—she’s tracked my phone. She called us a cab and taken me to her place where I crash on the couch for three days. Ethan had called and texted me, growing progressively worried. Until he showed up at Taz’s and her fiance had kept him out.

I always wanted to be one of those girls who was strong and tough, who could tell a guy who she’d been dating for nearly two years where he can shove it when he cheated on her.

Instead I was the girl who curled up even tighter when she heard his voice at the door. When he shouted her name over her best friend’s fiance’s body (that was built like a brick, I knew he wasn’t getting past).

I was the girl who snuck into the flat when I knew he was gone to work to get everything out with the help of friends.

It was two weeks before I could face him. He’d apologized, tried to give excuses but I was so numb by then I’d just let him ramble before giving an excuse about having to go and leaving him behind. I never quite got the closure I wanted but I was okay with stuffing it into the dark parts of my mind and never thinking about it again.

That is until 10 months later an invitation shows up in my inbox.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I say at the notification. My colleague in the next cubicle turns his head and I duck down. I didn’t mean to say that out loud.

I click the email subject * Ethan and Van Make it Forever *

If you’re reading this, you mean a lot to us!

Join us on October 17 for a small (medium) celebration of love and commitment. No gifts, just your sexy selves.

Glitter rains down on loop over the invitation while dreamy clouds move on loops from side to side in the back. My own thoughts loop: is this a fucking joke?

“Y/N?”

“Yes?” I look up over the cubicle to where my name’s being called. My manager points to the room he’s in.

“We need minutes?”

“Oh…” I glance at my growing inbox. I didn’t actually have the time to lend a hand but I didn’t know how to say no. “Be there in a minute.”

My colleague beside me glances over and shakes his head. I shrug my shoulders and take my laptop in to spend the next hour in excruciating pain as I take pointless notes on a meeting I have no clue about. By the end of it my fingers are cramping and my inbox had doubled.

I had forwarded the email to my best friend by then and when I get back to my desk, collapsed in my seat, I read all of her 13 texts. They weren’t family friendly and they definitely make me feel better. I wasn’t crazy. My ex who cheated on me had invited me to his wedding.

My phone vibrates, Taz. But instead it’s a number I’d only ever gotten bad news from. One-time bad news I’d dubbed the ex-text. I open it:

Did you get the invite too?

•••••

Harry:

The invitation wakes me up, and I untangle myself from the warm body beside me to get my phone. Apparently I’d missed a phone call too.

I open the email and can’t help the laugh that comes out. Obviously nothing is funny, it’s unbelievable.

“Hm?” The woman beside me stirs, but my eyes are glued to the invitation. What a bitch, I can’t believe she had the audacity to invite me to her wedding!

I remember it so vividly, my girlfriend of years telling me she wasn’t in love with me anymore. That she met someone new. I’d asked how long, I had to ask again before she told me. Since the spring. So I had been walking around and living my life for over three months thinking my girlfriend loved me, that we were soulmates and all the other bullshit.

I couldn’t be depressed, I lived that next month with a drink attached to my lips at any given moment. It ruined me. It ruined my whole life. And then I got angry, that was when the drunk phone calls and late night messages began. I found out the person who replaced me. I stalked him on the internet and when I found out he had a girlfriend, it was my lucky day.

I’d texted my ex then, hoping this piece of news would be the end of that relationship. She’d come crawling back to me. Instead she had said, I know. He’s breaking up with her he just needs some time. Harry nothing’s changed, we’re not going to get back together.

I put on my detective hat, somehow through some intense stalking and help from a friend I’d gotten this stranger’s number. Then I’d texted her the screenshot, the photos on my ex’s private page of her and him. I was dropping a bomb on this random stranger but she needed to know. That’s how I justified it.

It was over a year since this all came about and everyone in my life expected me to be over it. Including my ex. I text her, hoping her number was still the same.

Are you really inviting me to your wedding with him?

She responds immediately, I thought we were at a place where I could. That you could be happy for me? It’s been so long.

She was delusional. How could I ever be happy for me after she left me like that, blindsided and broken hearted. The only conversations between us since then were when she wished me happy birthday. We never spoke.

Did he invite the girl he left behind too? I go with snarky, my favourite tone.

No ofc not. But are you coming? You can bring a + one.

I’ll see

Hope to see you there. xx

She really was delusional. A part of me wanted to show up, prove to her or me or the universe I could get on with my life. But I also didn’t want to be in this alone. I put my skills to work and an hour or so later, after the girl I woke up with had gone home and I put my empty coffee mug in the sink I text her. The stranger whose life I had imploded.

Did you get the invite too?

[respectcyclists]

Ghost Bike Ride for Navjot

On Saturday evening, 24 August 2024, the driver of a compact car struck a Navjot Kaur, a married 26-year-old female student, was riding her bicycle on Burnhamthorpe Road, east of Kipling Avenue, in central Etobicoke. She succumbed to her injuries in hospital a week later on 31 August.

MEET at 12:00 p.m., Saturday 7 SEPT 2024, at Matt Cohen Parkette at Spadina and Bloor. We DEPART at 12:30 p.m. A meet-up along the route will occur at the Bloor parking lot of Tom Riley Park (roughly 1:30 p.m.). RAIN or SHINE.

Photo credit: Kevin Rupasinghe ©2024

[saubermann1]

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[marvinjob]

Beaty Boulevard Parkette

Beaty Boulevard Parkette is a long, finger-like patch of grassy, manicured land situated near the intersection of Queen Street West, King Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue: There’s plenty to see and do in this historic neighbourhood; if one crosses the Pedestrian Bridge over busy Lakeshore Boulevard West, you will find the Palais Royale, the Boulevard Club, Budapest Park, Marilyn Bell Park and…

[preconstruction-info]

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[lonita]

That’s what I want

This list is not exhaustive nor fully compiled, and will change.

universal healthcare (without privatisation), including dental, medications, mental health, and therapies

fully subsidised education from pre-k to the end of university, college, or trades training

a strong social safety net that may include things like a basic income (not sure which format though), small business startup costs/supports, robust EI

nationalised basic phone service, internet service, transit

fully subsidised school meal programs from pre-k through the end of university, college, or trades training

housing first policies

that all members of municipal government should be involved in community supports of some kind prior to their stint in office or they can't run, and required also to perform a certain amount of hours of such work that is not directly tied to work-related activities. If you don't know the people, should you be serving them? Can you?

the eradication of FPTP voting at the federal and provincial level, and the implementation of something proportional

the reproductive rights of all women, girls, and transpersons

reparations to all the indigenous peoples of Canada

low to no-cost childcare

folding of any religion-based school system into the public one, or the removal of public funding from such schools

the building of free third spaces, including parks, parkettes, community and meeting spaces, sports and recreation, media and maker spaces, and youth-friendly spaces

the implementation of a system similar to what other countries have where kids are required to participate in extracurriculars, but they are fully funded. This should concentrate on the inclusion of more casual sports participation (not everyone wants or needs to be a pro, and kids shouldn't be made to feel that participation has to lead to that), and non-sport activities

decriminalisation of drugs for amounts consistent with personal use

that if you're faced with the inability to choose for whom to vote, think of the most vulnerable person you know and vote based on what's best for them

government-built, funded, and supported housing

churches need to pay taxes, particularly if they're going to involve themselves in widespread social issues and politics

the planting of freely accessible fruit trees

a wealth tax on corporate and personal wealth

companies compensating people for the time they spend getting to and from work

walkable neighbourhoods

no-fee public transit

[foxmarin]

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[akeyphoto]

There is a little parkette called McKee Park just west of Ambassador Bridge with a great view of the bridge. Instead of taking the usual shot of the bridge and river, I decided to focus on the two little islands during a placid moment. The reflection was spectacular! 📷 #landscape #landscapephotography #reflection #nature #trees #placid #island #islands #beach #rocks #park #windsorontario #ctvwindsor #cbcwindsor #windsoritedotca #windsorcanada🍁 #akeyphoto #earth #ice #detroitriver (at Windsor, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnBGFbUsqfP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[5reisende]

Welterbe (auf)gespürt und (er)fahren - F - Schloss und Park von Fontainebleau

Auf meinem Weg aus der Champagne Richtung Paris komme ich durch ländliche und Waldgebiete. An jedem Waldweg stehen Autos, es ist Pilzsaison und unsere Nachbarn widmen dem Einkauf bzw. der Beschaffung ihrer Speisezutaten viel Aufmerksamkeit und Zeit. In Fontainbleau kann ich den Sonnenuntergang im Park erleben und damit schon vor meinem Schlossbesuch am nächsten Morgen die Athmosphäre des Ensembles und die besten Blicke auf die Schlösser genießen.

Schloss und Park von Fontainbleau stehen seit 1981 auf der UNESCO-Welterbeliste. Das von Louis VI. im 12. Jahrhundert erbaute und von insgesamt 29 französischen Königen über 600 Jahre genutzte Jagdschloss von Fontainebleau liegt in einem ausgedehnten Wald auf der Ile-de-France. Ab dem 16. Jahrhundert und der Herrschaft von François I. und bis ins 19. Jahrhundert hinein wurde das Schlossensemble, das heute aus fünf unregelmäßig angeordneten Innenhöfen und umgebenden Gebäuden besteht, umgebaut, erweitert und verschönert. François I. berief namhafte italienische Künstler an den Hof und schuf ideale Bedingungen für ein aktives künstlerisches Milieu, das Renaissance- und französische Kunsttraditionen verband und internationalen Ruf und Einfluss erlangte. In den folgenden Jahrhunderten wurden Schloss und Gärten mit künstlerischen Ergänzungen bereichert und waren immer wieder mit wichtigen historischen Ereignissen verbunden, die sich hier ereigneten. Einen Überblick über die Geschichte des Schlossensembles gibt dieses Video. Am Morgen kämpft sich die Sonne verhalten durch die Wolken und ich mache einen einsamen Spaziergang durch den noch stillen Schlosspark. Es ist herbstlich kühl, doch die Fontänen laufen bereits und die Gärtner haben wahre Kunstwerke an Herbstblumenfarbenpracht geschaffen. Die Enten und die großen Karpfen freuen sich über mein altes Knäckebrot, das ich ihnen gerne gebe, denn ich bin ja jetzt im Baguette-Wunderland. Die Gärten sind bestimmten Themen gewidmet, alle frei zugänglich und laden mit Bänken unter den imposanten alten Bäumen zum Betrachten und Verweilen ein.

Pünktlich zur Schlossöffnung trete ich durch das goldene Tor und stehe ich im Innenhof. Eine Schlossanlage wie im Bilderbuch, überall Details, die man erst beim zweiten Blick erkennt, Verzierungen, Gold, Skulpturen. Einige Schulklassen sind zur Besichtigung gekommen und posieren auf der Freitreppe für ein Klassenfoto.

Der erste Teil des Rundgangs durch das Schloss führt durch das Napoleonmuseum und ich erfahre auf Bildern und Tafeln viel Interessantes nicht nur über Feldzüge und Besitztümer, sondern auch über seine Familie.

Die königlichen Räume präsentieren sich hinter dunklen Vorhängen zum Schutz der schönen Einrichtung, Gemälde, Wandteppiche und Goldverzierungen gegen die Sonne.

Wirklich beeindruckend sind die mit Stuck, Gemälden und Holzschnitzereien geschmückte Galerie von François I. mit Blick auf den Schlossgarten und der Ballsaal. Die Schüler sitzen auf dem Parkett und lauschen den Erläuterungen ihrer Lehrer. 

Ich bin jetzt schon lange unterwegs und immer noch nicht am Ende. Den Abschluss bilden die Bibliothek und die Schlosskapelle und ich verlasse, den Kopf wirklich randvoll mit Bildern und Details, das Schloss.

Resümee Fontainbleau besuchen - auf jeden Fall! Die gesamte Schlossanlage in ihren Parks ist eine Augenweide. Schon alleine die Stimmung in den Parks zu genießen, die Spiegelseen, die Skulpturen und die Fontänen anzuschauen oder einfach nur auf den Bänken zu sitzen und die Wasservögel zu beobachen, das alleine ist einen Ausflug nach Fontainbleau wert. Im Schloss selbst könnte man den ganzen Tag unterwegs sein, schauen, staunen, lesen und den Geschichten lauschen, ohne danach wirklich alles gesehen zu haben.

Ich trinke einen Kaffee und begebe mich relativ zügig auf die Fahrt durch Paris, um wenigstens den größten Stau zu vermeiden. Dobbys Einrichtung und der Ausstattung hat sich auch im Novemberwetter bewährt. Alle Details zum Ausbau meines Minicampers findet ihr hier: https://5-reisende.de/2022/07/29/55-000-km-on-the-road-vom-nordkapp-bis-sizilien-dobby-insights/. Meine Übernachtungsplätze habe ich wieder auf park4night gesucht und unter 5Reisende bewertet. Die App Toiletten Scout hat sich größtenteils nicht als hilfreich erwiesen. Read the full article

[134340am]

my beloved 🌸🌸🌸 anon!!! you’re back T^T i hope it’s okay if i answer your ask in the morning, i’m kinda sleepy from writing the samu drabble and i want to write a reply that does your kindness justice ; n ; 

[muirneach]

french class tomorrow is gonna be sick we’re going to a park and thats it

[demparparquet]

En büyük mutluluğumuz, uygulama sonrası bizimle bu güzel mekanlarını paylaşan parke dostlarımızın yüzündeki o gülümseme... Where the stars touch... #flooring #parquet #parke #parket #parkett #parquetfloor #parquetry #engineeredflooring #lamineparke #ahşapparke #landhausdiele #landhausdielen #demparparke #dempar #doğalparke (at Kırkpınar/Sapanca) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBUhnvHria/?igshid=16gv4lxhbm3rn