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I take back that better half comment. What a stupid saying, right? You're both awesome and I hate the implications of that saying now that I think about it. 🩵🩵🩵

Hahah no worries, she is the better half of me!!

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Happy birthday to your better half! Hope you're both doing well and also having an amazing day🥳✨🎉

Kaylee said “that’s very nice, thank you”!! 🥰🥰

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Shouting into the void that is the tumblr blog I never use because I don’t have anywhere else to do so—pregnancy is the most isolating, lonely thing I have ever gone through. You truly find out who your friends (and the family worth having around) are when you’re going through this and it’s honestly so eye opening. I have had every possible complication and then some from the very start, but people irl would never know because they don’t bother to ask. Thank god for my incredible wife, my two wonderful cousins and their partners, the three friends who have shown how amazingly attentive friends should be and the four girls I met in my due date group because without them I don’t think I’d have survived this chapter. Like I truly truly don’t, there have been times I’ve thought about how I can’t keep doing this, and honestly that story about the poor woman who lost her life due to not being able to keep going with HG could’ve been me on multiple occasions over the past 27 weeks—and honestly further back than that given how torturous those two years of fertility treatments were. But pregnancy has just been something else. I love our boys, I am so honoured and thankful to be their mama and to be growing them, but doing so has shown me a lot about other people, and especially who will and won’t have access to us and to them.

(Again, posting this here because it’s a void, it is about irls, I just have nowhere else to shout it.)

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How are you? I hope things are going smoothly💚

Hello! I’m good thank you :) pregnancy isn’t fun for me but our babies (boys!!) are doing well so we are very happy, and we get to meet them in 11 weeks so we are in nesting mode. I hope you’re good as well!

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Good things come in small packages… great things come in two ✨ thank you, 2024, you took all of our strength, but you gave us it back double. Our two most precious miracles, coming June 2025 🤍🤍

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You’re Yorkshire, correct? If so have you ever heard of Purple Aki?

Correct! But no, I have never heard of them. I did just google though and omg??

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wait please what's your ao3??

Hey! It’s tmylm :) I’m mobile otherwise I’d link it

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will it throw people off if i go through and update older fics to the writing format i'm now most comfortable with (past tense)? not that i think people are reading through my old fics, but i'll get a comment every now and then (i got one the other day on TWWM for example) that people are reading them and each time i'm like ok i also want to reread but i can't stand my old writing djfhdbf

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ELLIE AND KAYLEEEEEEEE 🎉🎉🎉

😍😍 thank you love!!

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ELLIE HAPPY BIRTH!!!!!!!

It’s not my birthday, it’s mine and Kaylee’s first wedding anniversary, but ily and appreciate this anyway!! 💕

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Happy anniversary!

Thank you!! 🥰

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The gay experience is checking into a hotel on your anniversary and being asked “it’s just one double bed, is that okay?”

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my wife and i had dentist appointments today, and i came out of mine to my wife in the waiting room with my fic open on her phone like "what is this cliffhanger!!!!"

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CHLOE AND AUBREY NEED WEDDING DATES (7/?)

RATING: T. PAIRINGS: Bechloe, Staubrey. WORDS: 3.5K. SUMMARY: The group realize they haven't yet discussed their sleeping arrangements... the reality of which isn't quite as terrifying as a Posen-filled meet and greet. NOTES: Two years later and here we are! If you've been waiting for this update, I truly apologise for the delay. I hope you enjoy, though!

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Soon, the four were making their way to their cabins, where their luggage already awaited their arrival. The two rooms, positioned across the narrow corridor from one another, seemed to be much bigger than anything Stacie had expected if the space between each door was anything to go by. “So, which one’s ours?” Stacie asked, eyeing the suitcases. They stood in two neat stacks; Stacie’s and Beca’s outside of one door, Aubrey and Chloe’s outside of the other. It made the answer to her question pretty obvious. “Ours?” Aubrey quirked a brow. Stacie looked from the suitcases to Aubrey, as if the former weren’t even there. “Mine and yours.” “Oh, no.” Aubrey shook her head. “That won’t be—” “What?” Stacie questioned. She gestured with her head to Aubrey. “We are girlfriends, aren’t we?” “She does have a point,” Chloe offered before Aubrey got the chance to protest further. “It’ll look weird if people see us going into separate rooms.” Aubrey pursed her lips. “Weird or not, Chloe, these are—” She paused, eyes shifting away from Chloe and towards Stacie and Beca, before she lowered her voice, addressing only Chloe despite the three of them standing right there within the same vicinity. “Not twin rooms.”

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CHLOE AND AUBREY NEED WEDDING DATES (1/?)

RATING: T. PAIRINGS: Bechloe, Staubrey. WORDS: 2K. SUMMARY: With Aubrey’s sister’s wedding rapidly approaching, and nobody to take as their plus-ones, Chloe takes matters into her own hands. NOTES: As is obvious by the title, heavily influenced by Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Check ao3 for more notes!

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As much as she adores Aubrey—and she does, she really, truly does—she can be a hard pill to swallow for even Chloe sometimes, something it seems Aubrey registers with her next, much softer sigh.

“Look,” Aubrey begins, the defeat heavy in her more somber tone. “I know I’ve been…a little crazy lately, and unfortunately you have taken the brunt of that. I’m just…” she sucks back a slow, centering breath, shadowed lids closing while she evidently attempts to gather herself. “I’m just very stressed, but I know that’s not your fault and that you’re just trying to help, so I really am sorry, Chloe.”

Gaze drifting from the laptop screen to instead meet Aubrey’s sorrow-filled eyes, Chloe responds with a small, sympathetic smile. “It’s okay,” she promises in a softer, more sincere tone of voice. “I get it, I know you’re going through a lot right now.” Her lips pull inward for a short moment as Chloe considers her options. “You’ve had a long day and I’m sure that’s not helping, so why don’t you go lie down for a little while. We can order something super gross and greasy for dinner and watch a movie afterwards. How does that sound?”

Like Chloe, Aubrey takes a second or two to consider, before eventually relenting with a short nod of her head, hands bracing against the arms of the chair. “Okay,” she agrees, steadily pushing herself to her feet. “You’re right. I think a nap would be wise.”

“Totes,” Chloe nods enthusiastically, offering Aubrey more of an encouraging smile this time. “And if you need anything, I’ll just be right out here.”

While still small and somewhat tired looking, a kinder smile precedes Aubrey making a quick departure from their shared living space.

Left alone, the cogs in Chloe’s overly active imagination begin to slowly turn.

The silence to then fall upon the apartment, Chloe will shortly learn, is very much the calm before the storm.

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hi tumblr! my wife is at work, the sun is shining......and i'm super sunburnt so i can't even sit out in it. for the first time in a while, i'm sitting down to work on some writing. feel free to send me asks to keep me company :)