#evan and emma broke up also?? omg

[birlwrites]

concept: a modern-no-magic au of ttdl. i imagine emma and barty having chats where they talk about how stupid reg and evan are. also, reg keeping contact in a group chat? literally everyone in on the official plan and stuff is in the group chat. the study group also has a group chat. both reg and sirius think the other blocked them, but no one actually blocked anyone. the slytherin group chat is almost permanently silenced for everyone for reasons.

AHFLSGHSJGHKSJLGSJK

emma and barty make a group chat (feat. maeve and lucinda) for the aforementioned purpose of talking about how stupid reg and evan are and over the course of the story just. more and more people keep being added

regulus doesn't have a lot of stuff on his phone (like games or whatever) so when sirius sees him from afar being basically attached to his phone both thumbs typing at all times, he's like 'what Happened' and what happened is that regulus Needs To Stay On Top Of What's Happening And Coordinate His Dark Lord War Plans Via Texting His Friends And Allies Without A Single Abbreviation

the dark arts study group chat keeps getting re-named to things that are plausibly above-board (e.g. 'history extra credit group'), and the reason it has to keep getting re-named is because one day during a very boring math class, barty changed the name to 'regulus's most devoted fans' and then all hell broke loose

i don't know what the study group would actually do in a no magic au but i have faith in them to come up with something shady

probably one time margaret named it 'nepotism babies and their favored leeches'

regulus is one of the few people who doesn't have the slytherin group chat muted and he manages to stage an extremely public fight with the junior death eaters simply by picking a fight with mulciber or someone in the group chat and telling his friends to start texting other slytherins like 'OMG DID YOU SEE THE GC'

lily gave regulus a fake name in her contacts, at first for the purpose of preventing any of the marauders from seeing who she was texting all the time, now just because it's funny

regulus is a single-essay-length-text person rather than a many-short-texts-in-a-row person but if he gets impatient he can and will blow someone's phone up with notifications

also:

regulus's phone: *buzzing facedown on the table*

barty: are you not going to check that

regulus, who absolutely needs to be Composed in the present moment: oh it's evan i'll read them later

barty:

barty:

barty: okay so FIRST OF ALL. HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S EVAN YOU HAVEN'T EVEN LOOKED. SECOND OF ALL - 'I'LL READ THEM LATER'????? WHO EVEN ARE YOU

regulus, who gave evan's contact a custom vibrate pattern and it's definitely not because he's pining and texts from evan make him feel very special and also once he DID read a long-ass string of texts from evan in front of emma who called him out for smiling at his phone so now he needs to take Preventative Measures:

regulus: anyway moving on--

[elijahs-wife]

🌙 hey y'all! february is almost over, so this is just a little recommendation list of all the fics i read and thoroughly enjoyed this month, to show some appreciation to all the incredible writers on this site. seriously, you're all absolute angels!

🌙 remember to show your support too and reblog and leave comments on the fics that you love!

☁️ the vampire diaries/the originals

↠ don't draw suspicion by @mikaelson-emma 

[kol mikaelson x reader, series] a mob au where the criminal is dating the detective? what could possibly go wrong?? haha i love this series already, its definitely worth checking out!!💖💗

↠ all in the family by @dumble-daddy 

[kai parker, one shot, angst] al you already know that i adore your writing, you are insanely talented and i teared up reading this the first time, you always know just how to break me 💔💔

↠ come over by @dizzydancingdreamer 

[elijah mikaelson x reader, one shot, angst with happy ending/smut] oh my gOD dizzy the first half of this made me wanna die but you gave me the ending i wanted and i love you for that!! i’ve always admired your writing, you’re incredible!!💘💓

↠ tale as old as time @hellotvshowtrash 

[bonnie bennett x enzo st. john, one shot, fluff] ugh my bonenzo heartttt i love this!! the pining at the start, *chef’s kiss* and the ending just had me smiling all wistfully :,) love love love💗💗

↠ i like when tales end with a kiss by @alwaysfangirlingish 

[kol mikaelson x reader, one shot, angst] okay who gave you the right to break my heart like that 😭😭 such a sad ending and ugh it just broke me 💔💔

↠ so close by @xxwritemeastoryxx 

[jackson kenner x reader, one shot, angst] LISTEN DOM i forbid you from writing any more angst for jackson bc he’s the sweetest and just doesn’t deserve it 😭😭 #letjacksonbehappy2021 

↠ game of chance by @raemikaelson 

[katherine pierce x elijah mikaelson, series] i have the immense pleasure of being the beta for this series and let me tell you, it is so good, the plot is so original and cool, everyone needs to read this and leave all the kudos rn!!!!💝

↠ unnamed smutty one-shot by @idkhaylijah 

[elijah mikaelson x reader, one shot, smut] miss heather, i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again, the way you write elijah is unparalleled, and i love this piece to death!! everything about it is just perfect!!!💖💖

↠ reminiscing by @iliveiloveiwrite 

[elijah mikaelson x reader, one shot, fluff] i absolutely adored this, it’s so sweet and i love your writing style!! absolute must-read (ps—we’re all just fools for elijah tbh)💘

↠ flightless bird by @auroracalisto 

[elijah mikaelson x reader, one shot] okay this is an au where the reader is an angel and let me tell you, i adore aus like this and no one does them better than aurora, you absolutely have to read this!! it’s beautiful💓

↠ wedding bells by @xxwritemeastoryxx 

[elijah mikaelson x reader, one shot, fluff] THIS WAS SO GOSH DARN CUTE. it genuinely made me smile so much and just really put me in my feels :’) 💗💗

↠ pk outtakes #1 by @klarolineagainnaturally​

[caroline forbes x klaus mikaelson, one shot, smut] LISTEN i will never stop screaming about how much i loved psychedelic kicks!! and the fact that you’re doing these outtakes makes me so happy!! this first one was so incredible, and ugh you’re just an expert at writing both of these characters!!❤

↠ payback by @mayans-sauce​ 

[elijah mikaelson x reader, one shot, smut] omg hanna this was so insanely spicy!! everything about this was top-tier and ugh reading it just makes me want elijah to rail me even more😩😩💗

↠ as long as it's with you by @mrs-jackson-kenner 

[enzo st. john x reader, one shot, fluff] now this was such a sweet little thing to read!! y’all know that enzo is my fav (besides elijah ofc) and this made me smile so hard!! absolutely adorable💘💘

↠ the original original by @seraphictrash 

[klaus mikaelson x reader, one shot] a very very interesting read that everyone should check out rn!! 💗 its always nice to read about klaus meeting someone who can match up to him lol 

☁️ marvel cinematic universe

↠ dead girl by @hellotvshowtrash​ 

[bucky barnes x reader, one shot, angst] GOD ASHLEE i’ve read this like four times now and it still doesn’t hurt any less, i will never be the same 😭😭 i’m just only going to read the first part (my girl) from now on for the wholesome smutty goodness and forget that this one exists😫💔

↠ old man by @holacia2 

[steve rogers x reader, one shot, smut] omg what a treat this was to read, i just know that i would have made the same joke if i was stevie’s girlfriend and if he proved me wrong like that... i would absolutely not complain👀

↠ knives by @everyhowlmarksthedead​ 

[bucky barnes x reader, one shot, smut] THIS was so hot oh my god, grey sweatpants and bucky’s knives are a lethal combination and should be illegal!!🥴🥴

↠ need by @cloudystevie 

[bucky barnes x reader, headcanon, smut] i keep coming back to this one bc its so hot omg, all the dirty talk is so on point and ugh bucky destroying my 🐱 against the wall is just everything i need in life, y’know?

↠ cupid draw back your bow and let your arrow go by @chrisevansgoodgirl 

[steve rogers x reader, one shot, smut] ugh i love my idiot stevie, he might have the communication skills of an armchair but he did make up for it in the end 😌💓

↠ naturally by @nakedrogers 

[bucky barnes x reader, one shot, fluff] this was absolutely beautiful, your writing style is gorgeous and this made me so so soft and happy 🥺🥺💗

↠ that's not what i meant and you know it by @idkhaylijah 

[steve rogers x reader, one shot, angst with a happy ending] steve being an idiot again, we love that 😂 i’m absolutely in love with this, everything you write is just incredible!!❤

↠ rumour me this by @auroracalisto 

[bucky barnes x reader, one shot, fluff] sugar daddy au with actor!bucky? methinks YES. this was actually so so sweet and dreamy i adored it!! 💖💖

↠ birthday headcanon by @buckycuddlebuddy 

[bucky barnes x reader, headcanon, fluff] okay this one, i’ll be treasuring forever since it was written for me 🥺 but also bc its just so stinkin’ cute!! bucky would be such a cute and caring boyfriend and ugh i’m so in love with him😭💘

↠ my best girl by @constantwriter85​ 

[bucky barnes x reader, one shot, fluff] y’alll shy cat dad bucky has my entire heart and this just put a giant smile on my face!! so fluffy and cute i die!! 🥺🥺💖

↠ canvas to skin by @kleohoneyao3 

[steve rogers x reader, one shot, smut] absolutely beautiful, and so intimate it almost felt like i shouldn't be reading it 😂 loved it though!!💗

↠ dating peter parker by @belladonnabarnes 

[peter parker x reader, headcanon, fluff] i already thought that peter was adorable and this just made me fall in love with him a little more, he’s so cute and dorky i can’ttt🥺💘

☁️ chris evans & his characters

↠ soft andy by @worksby-d 

[andy barber x reader, headcanon, fluff] omg i thought i could burst reading this bc it's so soft and late nights with andy is just an absolute dream 🥺🥺

↠ rule breaker by @nony-bear 

[andy barber x reader, headcanon, smut] daddy andy is so hot and everything about this was absolutely delicious!! you're so talented!!! 💗💗

↠ red, white, blue’s in the sky, summer’s in the air, baby heaven’s in your eyes by @cloudystevie 

[chris evans x reader, one shot, smut] LISTEN lol i read a lot of smut but this?? this was on another level entirely, i think i actually whimpered out loud 😂 all i want is a mean dom chris and you delivered so hard!!💗

lastly, thank you to everyone here for sharing your stories! the world is so much better with wonderful fanfiction authors like yourselves in it 💖 i am immensely grateful to all of you! xx tay

[ouraidengray4]

The Things You Do and Don’t Miss Out on by Marrying Your First Love

My husband and I are pretty stereotypical Brooklyn creatives. We live in a Bushwick apartment filled with comic books and art supplies; he and his two partners run the ad agency GrandArmy, and I started the geeky clothing brand Jordandené. We spend our time working, creating, and partying, and at first glance, seem like roll-your-eyes cliches.

So when I was in my early 20s, the fact that I had married young was pretty shocking to practically everyone I met. Responses ranged wildly, from "OMG that’s adorable," to "Really? Why?"

When someone thinks my relationship status is unexpected, my favorite thing is to let them in on all the other details that are even more surprising. I got married when I was 21 to my first boyfriend, whom I met in high school… which we attended with fewer than 80 other people only one day a week.

We were semi-homeschooled in the age just before online classes were a norm. Our parents weren’t thrilled with the public school options available, so we attended a co-op high school in Delaware. Our friend groups overlapped, mostly because he had an unrequited crush on one of my best friends, which conveniently let us slowly get to know one another.

When we got engaged!

He was adorably genuine and sweet, in that Chris Evans Captain America sort of way. We spent many long nights chatting away online and officially started dating the week after my 16th birthday, because my parents wouldn’t let me have a boyfriend when I was 15. We stayed together through high school, our separate college experiences, and into our adult lives.

We never broke up, but we did create our own lives apart from each other. His college was an hour away from mine, which was far enough to create a bit of a long-distance relationship, especially since I didn’t drive. He had an internship in Oregon and spent a summer in London; I studied for a semester in Spain. He spent the last of his college kid savings to come visit me in Sevilla. Between meeting all of my new friends and touring around the city that had become my temporary home, he asked if we could take a trip to the neighboring beach town. While taking a midnight stroll down the sandy shore, he asked me to marry him. I was 20, and we’d been together for five years. It wasn’t even a question.

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I think one of the biggest concerns about marrying someone you meet so young is that you might miss out on more experiences and opportunities to find someone who’s an even better fit. You don’t want to just meet one person, decide they’re it, and stop looking for anything else. What if there’s something better out there? What if you let yourself blithely slide through the steps of dating, engagement, marriage, starting a family, without stopping to consider what you really want?

I decided early on that I wasn’t going to do that. Every day that we were dating, I asked myself if I still wanted to be with him, and promised myself if that answer ever changed, I would do something about it.

This is funny to admit, but a moment from Jane Austen’s novel Emma stuck with me. In an effort to convince her friend not to accept a proposal from a man she deems unworthy, Emma asks, "If you prefer [Mr. Martin] to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?" This question was meant to dissuade a friend from pursuing a relationship, but for me, it became a way to confirm that I was intentionally choosing what I really wanted.

At New York Comic Con.

Despite my firm commitment to actively make a daily choice that would make me truly happy, it can be strange to have missed out on an experience that so many of my peers have had. I technically understand how online dating and apps work, but I don’t really get how to make a connection with someone through a profile. I have absolutely no game; my flirting skills cap out at about a 15-year-old level. I got pretty good at crafting a cute response to an AIM away message, but that doesn’t exactly transfer to the adult version of sending a sexy reply on Tinder or to a late-night text. The only romantic experience I’ve ever had started as a teenage friendship, developed into love, and ended in our staying together forever… which isn’t exactly helpful when a friend is trying to figure out what a guy means when he texts her nothing but the strawberry emoji.

Someone joked at my college graduation that I was an old married lady, but by 'settling down' so young, I’ve actually learned the importance of not settling down at all.

In our early 20s, almost all of my close friends were single. I never wanted to stop being in my relationship, but the young, single life did look like a lot of fun. Going out, meeting someone new and interesting, and hooking up with them is just one of those exciting things I never got to do; I haven’t had a first date since I was 16. So when a group of friends is chatting about hook-up stories, I’m not exactly able to participate.

Of course, I also don’t find myself nostalgically comparing the relationship I’m in or the sex I’m having with other—perhaps fonder—memories, simply because there aren’t any. I don’t have to miss the fun aspects of adult single life because I never experienced them. Someone joked at my college graduation that I was an old married lady, but by "settling down" so young, I’ve actually learned the importance of not settling down at all.

So young!

It’s easy to fall into a routine when you’ve been with someone for years, which is a very unattractive position to be in at the ripe old age of 23. Staying with the same person for over a decade can make your world seem very small, but I don’t want to let myself stop being interesting or interested in what’s happening outside of the two-person world I live in; I want to keep meeting new people, having new experiences, and learning. For every trip we take together, we take five with other people. Instead of coupling off in social settings, we make sure to catch up with everyone around us. We’re active participants in separate circles: he in the New York design world, me in the growing community of nerdy women. Our honeymoon phase should have ended years ago, but I’m not interested in letting that happen.

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The most important thing I’ve learned by being in one relationship for my entire adult life is that adapting to change is vital. We both went through so many changes in the decade between ages 18 and 28, and we got to go through them together. Some of those changes have been easy and great, and some have been a nightmare. On a day-to-day level, we traded in washing machines and driving for the headaches of laundromats and public transportation. Ideologically, we’ve both shifted politically from being pretty conservative to very liberal, although not at the same time—and there was some serious awkwardness and frustration in-between. We’ve had part-time jobs, freelanced, worked 80 hours per week, and started two businesses, each taking different tolls on our finances, free time, and happiness. And we don’t even have kids yet.

Hiking!

In a dating relationship, you can decide which issues are worth fighting for. In a marriage, there’s no option; seemingly unsolvable problems need to be solved, which can teach you a lot about being creative while working through issues. I’ve learned to compromise and adapt every day. Not only has this increased flexibility been very healthy for all of my relationships, it also allows me to enjoy things in life I otherwise never would have. I never wanted to live in a city, and I spent my first few years here planning my escape. I made myself miserable until I realized that this situation wasn’t changing, we weren’t moving, and I could resent that fact forever, or start looking for things to love about New York. I found them.

We’ve been there for each other through nearly all of life’s ups and downs. We’ve celebrated high-school and college graduations, new jobs, personal victories, and every exciting thing that’s happened to our friends and families. We’ve suffered through national tragedies, deaths, failures, and the struggles of making really hard choices. We’ve changed political parties and religious beliefs. We know how the other person makes decisions and how to work through problems together. We’ve learned which issues we simply don’t agree on and which we may never change our minds about.

Love.

I absolutely understand why what we have is rare. For all the beautiful moments we enjoyed, there were so many hard ones. We’ve made a lot of huge changes that the other person had to be OK with, and we didn’t have the freedom that comes with being single. And if you asked me 10 years ago to describe the life I pictured for my future self, what I have definitely isn't that. It’s not four kids and a house in the suburbs, baking cookies at home while my partner works a normal 9-to-5. It’s not being able to plan out exactly what my future looks like. For me, what I have is so much better.

Jordan Ellis founded Jordandené, a geek chic clothing brand for kids and kids at heart. She’s a proud Hufflepuff who loves dressing up and throwing extravagant theme parties. Follow her on Instagram at @jordandenenyc and Twitter at @jordandene.

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