#&. claire evans

[tveitertotwrites]

Bedtime

Series: Open Heart (Post Series)

Pairing: Ethan Ramsey X F!MC (Claire Evans)

Rating: General

Word Count: 771

Summary: One night, Claire is not able to get the kids down for bed and Ethan helps and comforts her

A/N: Little note, I mostly wrote this while recovering from eye surgery and decided to leave it as is (I could fix it but I'm good), so just letting you know, this was written post anesthesia, not really thinking 100% straight. Anyway, enjoy.

Ethan was just getting home from a long day at work. While he no longer had to deal with interns on a regular basis, he still dreaded the days where he had to meet them and answer their questions, most of which he thought were stupid.

He knew it was late so the kids, Oliver and Sienna should be asleep when he walked in the door. When he walked in, he heard cries from Sienna as well as some yells from Oliver. Ethan then quickly set his stuff down and ran upstairs to the kids rooms to see what was wrong.

He looked into Oliver’s room and saw the almost two year old running around in his room by himself. Ethan picked Oliver up into his arms.

“What are you doing running around instead of sleeping?” Ethan asked. 

“Si won’t go to bed and I’m not going to bed if she’s not.”

Ethan sighed and set Oliver down on the bed.

“Stay here.”

Oliver nodded and played with one of his toys as Ethan quickly walked over to Sienna’s room. As he walked into her room, Ethan saw Sienna in Claire’s arms crying. He also noticed Claire on the verge of tears. He walked over to the two of them and gently placed a hand on Claire’s arm.

“Sorry. I was trying to get them both in bed before you came home.” Claire said

Ethan looked at her before gently taking Sienna into his arms. He then kissed Claire’s forehead.

“I’ll take care of her. Can you try and put Ollie to bed?”

Claire nodded and went to Oliver’s room and put him to bed. After a minute or so, Sienna calmed down and he put her down in her crib for bed. Ethan then kissed her forehead and rubbed her cheek before turning off the light and exiting her room. He took a quick peek in Oliver’s room to see him sound asleep. 

Ethan walked into the living room to see Claire sitting on the couch with Miles on her left and Luna on her right. He walked around to sit next to her and noticed Jenner laying on the floor near Claire’s feet, waiting to be pet. Ethan quickly rubbed Jenner’s belly before moving Luna over a little and sitting next to Claire. 

“Is everything okay?” Ethan asked as he placed a hand on Claire’s shoulder.

Claire sniffles and leans into Ethan and he rubs her shoulder. 

“I don’t know what’s going on. Sienna didn’t want to go to bed and then I couldn’t get Oliver down for bed either until she was going to bed.”

Ethan continued to rub Claire’s shoulder. “It’s okay. She’s still a baby and you’ve been with her all day, every day for the past month.”

“I know but I hate that I couldn’t get her to sleep.”

Claire and Ethan just sat on the couch together and he rubbed her shoulder.

“I get that but sometimes you both need a break from each other and that is okay. You don’t need to be hard on yourself.”

“I guess.”

Ethan sighed and then scooped Claire up into his arms. Claire looked up at him as he started carrying her to bed.

“What are you doing?”

“Taking you to bed. Since I think it is almost time for you to sleep too.”

Claire laid her head onto Ethan’s chest as he continued walking upstairs and down the hall towards their bedroom. Ethan carefully opened the door to their bedroom and pulled back the covers to the bed. 

He then laid Claire down on her side of the bed and pulled the covers back over her and kissed her on the forehead and then the lips. Ethan then walked off to their shared closet and got changed for bed.

After changing and brushing his teeth, Ethan finally got into bed next to Claire, who rolled over towards Ethan’s side of the bed. Ethan then pulled Claire onto his chest and started playing with her hair as they both took deep breaths.

“You’re still a great mom you know. That one moment doesn’t define your abilities.”

“I know. I just think about if there’s a night when you’re working overnight and she won’t go to bed unless you put her to bed.”

“While I doubt that will actually happen, you should be able to reach me. And if you can’t, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”

Claire sighs and closes her eyes. Ethan then looks at her and kisses the top of her head. He adjusts in bed and then closes his eyes as well. 

Perma: @crazy-loca-blog @driverstveit @rookiemartin @zahrachoices

Open Heart Only: @coffeeheartaddict2 @jerzwriter @liaromancewriter @rafasgirl23415

Ethan Only: @cariantha @zealouscanonindeer

@choicesficwriterscreations @openheartfanfics

[thedigitalmuseum]

Process Change: Adapting & Adopting New Models | Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium 2023

Building on the two preceding talks, this session explores how arts organisations are seizing new technological opportunities and how they are changing their operational models to co-create and collaborate with others. Paula Bray (Head of Digital Engagement & Insight, Australian National Maritime Museum) draws on her work running creative R&D labs within museums and libraries; Back to Back Theatre's Executive Producer & Co-CEO Tim Stitz has helped create and lead multi-award winning cross-disciplinary theatre and screen productions, and Junior Major's Director Claire Evans brings decades of experience in creative production with media and technologies to the discussion.

[lanadelreyscokewhor3]

chris evans is looking too fine recently i’m physically ill

[yeahthatsinteresting]

H2O: Just Add Water: The girls.

[stellaltumi]

sorry not interested in a relationship I'm too obsessed with the little guys in my head

[idwsonicnews]

Sonic the Hedgehog #64 Preview Page

Misadventures (Part 2) Writer/Line Art: Evan Stanley Colors: Valentina Pinto Letters: Shawn Lee

also featured in the issue is the back-up strip Two of a Kind Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Mauro Fonseca Inks: Rik Mack Colors: Reggie Graham Letters: Shawn Lee

[mellodillo]

*dodging several curtain hooks trying to yank me off the stage as I throw more drawings of this tiny howler monkey that I cherish so dearly*

[morsesnotes]

Shaun Evans + kissing

A visualization of my post here.

[couldneverhurtusnow]

[chemistry] it's not a word that actors [use]. but you must endeavor a little bit to try and fall in love, in whatever that capacity is. and andrew is a very easy person to fall in love with. he's kind, generous, talented. we shot the film at the perfect junction in our friendship where there was a lot we didn't know about each other, but there was mutual admiration and respect. and a similar sense of humor. (...) yeah, it felt fizzy when we were acting. especially with that first scene at the door -- it's so well-written. you feel like you're dancing through the scene, you can go in loads of different ways, and if i went one way, andrew would go another. if that's what chemistry is, i was aware it was happening.

-- paul on chemistry and whether ‘they (andrew & paul) knew instantly that their onscreen relationship was working’ in all of us strangers, screendaily.com (1/31/24)

[yacht]

Hello friends!

A new way is coming. A reaction to a chain reaction. A new model. A New…Release.

Attention is precious and the ring-lit potion sellers on the billionaire platforms are vying for your ears and eyeballs. Meanwhile, we don’t ask for much: we just want to send you infrequent emails. Sign up for our mailing list to cut through the fluff. In return you’ll get early access to our new music and experience all the fun of following along, blow-by-blow, as we bravely attempt our first 100% independent album release this summer.

We love and appreciate you. Sign up for our Substack here: yacht.substack.com

xo Claire, Jona, and Rob

[tveitertotwrites]

Summer 2024 Taglist Cleanup

Since I have added a new MC since my last update and I have some new fics on the way (hopefully soon) it means it's time to update this list.

As of right now the lists I have are:

Perma (for any fics and possibly edits/art)

Open Heart (any fics and possibly edits/art that is related to OH)

Red Carpet Diaries (any fics and possibly edits/art that is related to RCD)

America's Most Eligible any fics and possibly edits/art that is related to AME)

Ethan Ramsey (anything related to Ethan)

Tobias Carrick (anything related to Tobias)

Thomas Hunt (anything related to Thomas)

Derek Taylor (anything related to Derek)

Random Question Time (any posts related to RQT, both for when it comes back and the actual posts)

As of right now these are where the lists stand (as of what I can see from my last update):

Perma: @crazy-loca-blog @driverstveit @rookiemartin @zahrachoices

Open Heart: @coffeeheartaddict2 @jerzwriter @liaromancewriter

Red Carpet Diaries: None

America's Most Eligible: None

Ethan Only: @cariantha @zealouscanonindeer

Tobias Only: None

Thomas Only: None

Derek Only: None

Random Question Time: @cariantha @delmissesryanandcassi @driverstveit @jerzwriter @liaromancewriter @peonierose @zealouscanonindeer

This cleanup will close on July 1st. Unless I hear otherwise, I will assume that people will stay where they are if I haven't heard anything before the deadline.

[quillkiller]

a regulily fleabag au would go so hard

[thecrackshipdiaries]

Danielle Campbell and Evan Peters

[d-criss-news]

Via Claire DeJean's Instagram Story (February 6th, 2024)

[poindexters-labratory]

Hurricane William Afton Lore Dump Part 3 (aka I Tell You the Afton Family Drama)

CW: discussion of mental illness, trauma, divorce, violent thoughts, abuse, self-worth issues, cheating, and abandonment

Let's start this part out by making one thing clear: William is not great at taking care of himself. Not great at taking care of himself is the sense that, while he can survive, he doesn't thrive. At least when he was younger. This directly contributed to William as an adult being a highly immature and childish individual.

He was no longer put in a directly dangerous environment (although he remains in a chronic state of unease and paranoia), but the constant stressors throughout his development resulted in emotional instability. This emotional instability impairs his ability to form and keep relationships, make premeditated decisions, and have a solid self image. Therefore, the people that interact with him often (employees, Henry, Claire, associates, and frequent acquaintances) view him as immature, childish, neurotic, and kind of a bitch.

This was soon swept under the rug labeled as, "just how he was".

As the situation for William got increasingly more stressful after Fredbear's opened, this instability became more apparent. He started to have fights with his wife and Henry very, very often. Especially after Henry met Rosa (eventually Mrs. Emily), who he was now including in the creative business of Fredbear's. This caused William's first mental breakdown that wasn't nearly as bad as his second.

Now, let's talk about those notebooks. Those stacks upon stacks of notebooks mentioned in The Silver Eyes. William's most common self-therapeutic exercise was using these notebooks to rant, rave, vent, and everything in between. Henry and Claire both knew of these journals and respected his privacy to not ask what was in them.

After Fredbear's Family Diner opened, these books started to curb from venting about his feelings concerning his childhood, personal inadequacy, the political environment, and into these more violent entries toward people. Toward Rosa specifically. Well, it started as just Rosa, then it slowly trickled into various people he felt slighted by during the day.

Getting his feelings out on paper helped but he had been disposed to violence, opposition, and confrontation throughout his life before now. Safe to say he was a fighter when it came to fight-or-flight stress responses. Most of the altercations he's had with others weren't physical, but he did know how to bruise an ego to the point where a swing was taken. He's never ever laid a hand on his children.

He didn't want his kids to live in the same kind of fear he did, they didn't deserve that kind of life. Despite what his father would say, William wasn't stronger for the cruel punishments he got. If anything, he was just angry and afraid.

Claire and William would get into very loud arguments over the stupidest things he would roll his eyes at, whisper under his breath, and laugh at her about. William wasn't the only one going through a tough time.

Claire was in a practically loveless marriage with a gay man, in the middle of a nowhere place thousands of miles away from home, feeling useless and unappreciated. To her, Michael and Evan were William's kids, not hers. She was deathly homesick and couldn't deal or compromise with William's temperament, because William always thought of himself as the right one in every situation. She felt like a guest in her own house.

She couldn't have a public relationship with anyone else than William because of their marriage status they didn't want to get pestered about. Claire felt like she didn't have a life here and she wanted to go back home. William and Claire got divorced in 1973 and she was going to leave the country that same year, but of course, something came up.

Henry may or not have been having an affair with Claire. His wife, Rosa had no idea and their daughter, Charlotte, was on the way. William laughed in both of Henry and Claire's faces when they explained what happened. Elizabeth was born early 1974 with Henry's red hair and green eyes.

There was an odd tension between the three of them (Henry, Claire, and William) at this time. Almost apologetic, but all of them much too proud as people to verbalize it. Henry and Rosa get divorced after she finds out what happened, Henry and her sharing custody of Charlie, which causes another shift in Henry's personality.

Michael was especially affected by the environment, attaching to his father's style of stress management (internalize it and throw fits of rage). He was starting into altercations with school peers at this point, William always taking his side of the argument whenever he had to get involved.

After a few years to allow Elizabeth to grow, Claire then left with the toddler for London in 1977, leaving Michael and Evan behind for William to raise. William wonders to himself, "how hard could this possibly be?"

This marks the end of the the AU's first installation, "Wild Cat".

[an-over-educated-woman]

tv casts that basically raised me (pt.7)

H2O- Just Add Water (2006-2010)

I'm an adult woman and I still come back to this show when I need an escape. Playing mermaids is something you never outgrow.