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[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 18 🧸

Summary: Hailey struggles with getting Macie to breastfeed and she faces a difficult decision. A part of life pre-pregnancy makes an unwelcome return and leaves Jay keeping a careful eye on Hailey. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :) 

[selenaurrr]

hey, i know i’m very late to your upstead appreciation week, but i’ve actually only just seen the post and am hoping to participate! i was just wondering if there were any specific tags the posts need? just being thorough cause i do tend to overthink. have a great rest of your day/night :)

Actually it hasn't started yet, we will be starting tomorrow as of July 19th! Just tag it under #Upsteadweek and you should be good. If you have anymore questions you would like me to answer, just hit me up! :)

[anniesardors]

What are your favorite fanfic accounts for Upstead/One Chicago stories??? I’m always trying to find my way to more OC content especially during a hiatus!!! (tumblr and/or FF.net too)✨✨

Hey anon! We are so lucky to have so many INCREDIBLY talented writers in our fandom! When I am not writing for Upstead, I am reading it and here are some of the writers/stories I love:

On Tumblr I highly recommend @mashleighh @anna-justice @5021zain @onechicago-upsteadrhekker @upsteadhq @ilithiyarys @lissethsrojas and @cpd5021   (there are countless others but some of my favorites I have on my feed!) 

On Fanfiction, I am currently digging the stories “Through the Years” by chicagogirl2 and “Butterfly Effect” by Heellen. These are both AUs by wonderful writers who also have several others stories you should check out! 

These are all pretty Upstead centric fics! If anyone has any other upstead and/or One Chicago fic recommendations, let me know! Always looking for more OC content!! 

Thanks Anon for the question!! 

[carissalizz]

The Tagged Game :)

Tagged by @mashleighh @anniesardors @agent-bash (thank you!! 💕)

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

Last Song: A Drop In The Ocean - Ron Pope

Last Movie: To All The Boys: Always & Forever

Currently Watching: Brooklyn Nine Nine

Currently Reading: The Art of Holding On & Letting Go - Kristin Bartley Lenz (I finished it and haven't started a new one yet)

Currently Craving: Thai Food, Broccoli & Pasta

Tagging: @onechicago-upsteadrhekker @upsteadheart @upsteadhq @upsteadaddict @ilithiyarys @incorrecthalsteads @5021zain @haileyhalsteadd @anna-justice and anyone else who wants to do this 🤗

[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 17 🧸

Summary: Jay and Hailey head back to the hospital after receiving a phone call from the NICU regarding their daughter. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :)

[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 15 🧸

Summary: Hailey makes a decision on what to do about her parents and Jay gives her a surprise for her birthday. Macie gets another one of her tubes removed. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :)

[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 14 🧸

Summary: Jay and Hailey celebrate Valentine’s Day, the last holiday before their daughter is set to come home, and Macie hits two big milestones. They recieve an unexpected visitor. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :)

[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 12 🧸

Summary: Hailey and Jay rush to the hospital after recieving a phone call from the NICU telling them something was wrong. They wait for news regarding their daughter. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :)

[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 11 🧸

Summary: Jay and Hailey begin setting up their daughter’s nursery impending her arrival home and they start narrowing down on a name for her. Jay returns back to work for the first time since the shooting. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :)

[upsteadhq]

macie’s story - 10 🧸

Summary: Hailey and Jay get to hold their daughter for the first time after her blood work comes back normal. 

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Read now on Wattpad and AO3 :)

[upsteadhq]

Ok I just have to get something off my chest quick, and yes, it is another message directed to those linstead shippers that, if I’m being honest, are pissing me off.

All I’ve been seeing day after day from literally the moment I joined the PD fandom over a year ago is them taking digs at upstead, and I understand why, you’re protective over your ship, like a lot of shippers are, but if I’m being honest what you are saying is disgusting, hurtful, and false. And I’m gonna come out and say this directly: I’m not one to get pissed off easily. Yes while throughout lockdown I have become a little more short-tempered but that’s a consequence of living in a house full of only younger siblings, one of them younger by a lot, and I have seemed to lose my patience, and I’ve held off saying this until now, when all of you have decided to come out of hiding simulateously and just start your rapid fire of incorrect statements and rude comments.

Now to put this into perspective for your tiny brains, I watch all three shows and have ships for all of them, as I’m sure many people do. My ships however do not include the ever-increasing in popularity Brettsey and Mancel - in fact I’m still a hardcore shipper of Dawsey and Manstead - and if I’m being honest, I can’t stand brettsey and mancel and don’t see why people ship them, but you don’t hear me complaining about it every fucking day. I learn to just move on, skip over the tweets or gifs or fics or mentions of those ships and I carry on with my life, move on to the next one and carry on looking through Upstead (or whatever oc ship I’m looking at). I block those hashtags and avoid the YouTube videos and I actually forget about it pretty quickly. WHY DONT YOU DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND DO THAT? It’s really not that hard. I do this because I know there are people out there that are as passionate about those ships as I am with upstead, burzek, stellaride just to name a few, and that they are protective over it, and I’d rather not get on anyone’s bad side, because I do think of myself as a friendly person.

Now, I do performing arts at college, and while I am planning on dropping the course because it’s just not for me, I have picked up on one certain thing doing this course. This things is: actors spend a lot of time, put in a lot of effort, blood, sweat and tears into their performance, especially when they’re so passionate about it and have been doing it for a long time, and it FUCKING SUCKS to have someone chip away at that effort bit by bit. Back in December I spent a total of 10 hours travelling to and from venue three days in a row, did two full rehearsals of it on stage on the Wed, and two full shows on both Thurs and Fri. I was at the venue from 12pm till 11pm every day for those three days and it took me an hour to get home, so I got home just after midnight. I’d then have to be awake by 6am to do the whole thing again. To top it all off I then had stagecoach (which is a drama school) on the Sat from 2-5:30pm. When I got home from that I didn’t move until Sun afternoon, and then I had to do it all over again on Mon. It was exhausting, and to have been told it sucked after all that, I would have been heartbroken. This is the exact same situation for the PD actors, or any other actor that you may rip apart against, including Tracy. They work like 15 hours a day for 10 days and all they get out of all that time is one episode, and they do that ~20 times for every season. To be told what I’ve been reading after all that (about 3000 hours of work/season) I can’t even imagine how upset that would make me, and it probably would to them as well.

So please just do yourself a favour and stfu, block the tags, avoid the videos, and for the love of god don’t take it to Twitter, because there will always be somebody there that’s gonna fight against you, and I know from experience fighting with you lot gives me more of a headache than helping my seven-year-old sister with her home learning - and that’s usually like a fucking migraine by the end of the day.

Kind regards, Holly, a.k.a @/upsteadhq :)

[carissalizz]

The Tagged Game :D

Tagged by: @anniesardors (thanks girl! 🙆‍♀️)

Rules: Tag 10 people who you want to get to know better

Relationship Status: Very Single

Favourite Colour: Purple

Three Favourite Foods: Sushi, Pasta & Japchae (this one is tough goshh)

Song Stuck In My Head: Speechless - Naomi Scott

Last Song I Listened To: Train Wreck - James Arthur

Last Thing I Googled: Song Lyrics for a worship song by Hillsong

Time: 10.22am

Dream Trip: New Zealand/Europe

Anything I Really Want Right Now: To make some food cuz I'm hungry but it's a little too late for breakfast so I'm gonna make some early lunch HAHAHA

Tagging: @anna-justice @ilithiyarys @upsteadheart @upsteadhq @onechicago-upsteadrhekker @mashleighh @chilly7188 @incorrecthalsteads @upsteadaddict @haileyhalsteadd @agent-bash and anyone else who wants to do this! 😁