#hello21

[fierceandbravewritings]

Celebrating my last day being 20 🥳✨ I have loved every last minute of being 20 and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned that you have to put you first and that’s hard, but once you start putting yourself first, you’ll find out whose there and who isn’t. I’ve learned that if you want something, go for it. Who cares if you fail? If you’re scared of failing then you’re already failing by not at least trying. I’ve also learned more about myself and who I am and what I like. I’ve met new people, seen new places, and are closer to the places and people I already know because they’re the base for my metaphorical home. They’re my roots, but as I build this little home of mine, I’ve learned to branch out, challenge myself, and be who I am even if the bad days are really bad. I have learned to love myself on the inside and I’ve learned that there are always two sides to every person. I’ve learned to be careful because you never truly know anyone but I’ve also found out that even with that being said, don’t be scared of people. Stand your ground and be the bad, beautiful, kind, bitch you know you are. I’m going to miss being 20, but I’m also super excited to embrace being 21 and all the changes and memories I’ll make along with it. 🖤🌙🌻 #Goodbye20 #Hello21 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LFXzbgyDq/?igshid=nya5pgzxl2xt

[vintagechic86]

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[charisirene]

2020 was wild, but this is actually pretty awesome. . 🌠 #1 Our Current Home. Moving to Wisconsin has already been such a healthy choice for us, and while there still a lot left to do this year, I'm grateful for all the support and the community we have here ♡ 🌠 #2 Pre-Covid, @anajoy00 and I went to NYC to see the second to last showing of Waitress the Musical. It's the only vacation I took last year, and it was a BLAST. 🌠 #3 My birthday! 30 is weird and I don't know how I feel about it yet. 🌠 #4 Reminding myself that I am a skilled professional and a creative being. 🌠 #5 I dyed my hair and looked good, whatchu want ♡ 🌠#6 Practice! Last year was such a surprise for me creatively. 2020 gave me so much inspiration to cultivate my creative skills. 🌠 #7 My absolute favorite painting from the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. 🌠 #8 Honestly, 3 out of 9 are from the last couple months, and that's wild. Apparently people really support my need for socks and sweaters ♡ 🌠 #9 One of the besthighlight highlights of this year was getting to be there to welcome my nephew Max into the world :) . What a year of growth and change . . . . . #2020 #topnine #ididntwanttopaytwodollarstoremovethewatermark #bye2020 #hello21 https://www.instagram.com/p/CJhVSLZjV0R/?igshid=1v361qweqfvbn

[bankruptrocks]

Hello 21 - new song out on Spotify, Bandcamp, Youtube, Apple Music etc. #punkrock #punkmusic #punksong #punkrocksong #bankruptpunk #hello21 #punxnotdead #punkrecords #newpunk https://www.instagram.com/p/CI82csSD3kA/?igshid=znvf5ky8j3k0

[a-rain-nako]

Birthday ko na bukas tas di ako maghahanda hahahaha wala e ganun talaga. Minsan kelangan mo tanggapin na walang wala ka 😂 Okay lang! Thankful pa rin ako kasi binigyan ako ni God ng chance na magextend pa ang existence ko dito sa mundo ❤️❤️❤️

[jaxgoes]

twenty one laps around the sun 💫☀️ this time a year ago i had everything i thought i wanted and i was so unhappy. this year, i have one bag of stuff and a handful of people that i met a few weeks ago, and i am the happiest i have ever been. at twenty, i learnt more about myself than i ever thought was possible. i am not where i want to be in most aspects of my life, but for once, i know for sure i am on the right path and i am so grateful for every person i have shared the past 365 days with because whether it was good or bad, you got me here. huge shoutout to all the generous people i've met on this journey so far. thank you for being patient, kind and good hearted people. thank you to my few friends back home who have been so supportive and understanding of this crazy adventure i've launched into. i miss you like crazy and wish i could have you here with me. today especially. finally thanks to my parents because without them teaching me to welcome change, i would never have made it this far. twenty one is going to be so amazing, and this is just the beginning. watch this space. #cliche #21 #birthday #celebration #greece #sunset #photography @canon #sponsorme #goals #jaxgoes #livingthedream #peace #vegan #love #allthatgoodstuff #paros #canon #appreciation #hello21 #deep #thoughts #longcaptions #tbt #speechless #bigthingscoming (at Páros)

[bumblebutterbeer]

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[lady-griffin]

Prince Geordo looked at Katarina as she stopped to smell some Ice Roses, smiling softly to herself.

It was just the two of them walking through the palace gardens and Geordo couldn’t have been more pleased.

Keith had to meet some daughters of several noble families, Alan and Mary were whisked away by Marquess Hunt, and Prime Minister Ascart had taken his family for a trip down south. Oh and of course Maria had gone home to her small village.

It was perfection.

Geordo smiled smugly to himself. The Ascart family’s vacation and Maria staying home were just good fortune on his part, but the other two. Well he was quite proud of himself to say the least.

A few mild comments about Keith’s lack of engagement had been enough to send Duchess Claes into action. As for his own brother and Lady Mary, well it was fortunate he had run into Marquess Hunt and expressed his sincerest disbelief that his own bother hadn’t performed for his fiancé’s family. 

“Why are you smiling like that, Prince Geordo?” 

“Are you saying there is something wrong with my smile?” He responded with his best charming smile. 

But Katarina wasn’t thrown by his act. In fact, her eyes narrowed and he felt goosebumps gather on the back of his neck. 

For as oblivious as his beloved fiancé could be, she seemed to have the uncanny ability to see right through him. 

“I get to spend a lovely afternoon with my beautiful fiancé picking flowers, of course I’m smiling.” He said, feeling a bit sheepish for his half-lie. It wasn’t like he was unhappy to be spending the afternoon with her. 

Katarina looked at him like she didn’t quite trust his answer, but nonetheless she returned back to the flowers. 

“Do you like these ones?” He asked, pointing to the Ice Roses, hoping to move the conversation along. 

Katarina nodded enthusiastically at him and Geordo held up the basket filled with flowers that he’d been holding for her. She carefully placed the newly cut roses among the others. 

Katarina was planning on making several bouquets. She’d told him all about how she wanted to give one to Keith’s fiancée when she returned back to Claes Manor.

Geordo doubted that even the fearsome Duchess could get Keith to pick a girl to be his bride, but he didn’t tell Katarina that. He was glad that Katarina had cheered up and he didn’t want to ruin her good mood. 

She’d been slightly put out when she’d been told it would be better for her to not be at the tea party. 

While he was always going to suggest that to Duchess Claes, before he could even say anything, Katarina had already been told to stay away. 

Geordo wasn’t sure if the Duke and Duchess were aware that Keith’s fondness for Katarina went beyond sibling affection. Though, at least, the two were aware enough to know that Keith would never give his full attention to other noble ladies if Katarina was around. 

For that, Geordo could not fault the younger Claes sibling. All noble ladies fell to the background for him when Katarina was around. In fact, everyone did. How could they not? 

“Are you sure it’s alright for me to take these?” Katarina asked unsure, carefully admiring some more flowers. Katarina’s questioning of her position in society was still something that fascinated him. It was endearing, but odd. 

“Of course.” He answered simply.

She beamed at him and his heart stuttered. Katarina bent down, softly touching the petals of some Sword Lilies before cutting a few to add to her growing collection. Katarina moved forward. 

“What flower do you like best, Prince Geordo?” 

What kind of flowers do you like Miss Katarina?

Geordo blinked at the memory he had nearly forgotten.

It was from the day when he had first met Katarina.

He hadn’t actually forgotten about that day. How could he? The memory of Katarina falling and him being unable to do anything as the blood gushed out dominated his memories of that fateful day.

Though, the rest of his memories of that day had faded over the years. Geordo barely remembered the madness of servants and doctors rushing to Katarina’s aid, but the fear on their faces and his own feeling of uselessness had made their marks. He didn’t even recall who finally pulled him away from the bloody scene and walked him back to the palace.

It was no wonder he had forgotten the first part of the day, before Katarina fell. Or as it seemed, he had nearly forgotten.

Now those memories were rushing back to him.

Geordo remembered his selfish fears the following week, when Katarina was bedridden with a raging fever.

He was so concerned of what going to happen to him if Katarina didn’t recover. It wasn’t like he could explain to his parents that Katarina was to blame, not him. Because what would they even say to that? What would society say about the Third Prince refusing to take responsibility?

All of that fuss for some dull, spoiled, and vapid little girl.

“I don’t think I have a favorite flower.” He answered, trying to keep his smile as his stomach twisted in on itself. “I’m haven’t really given it much thought before. Do you think a certain flower would suit me best?”

Katarina turned away for him, listing off all kinds of different flowers that she could think of.

He had once thought Katarina was colorless and boring, that she was just like everyone else.

No.

He had once thought she was worse than everyone else. Even more boring than all other noble girls he’d been force to meet.

Panic seized Geordo as he watched Katarina walk further and further away for him as he stood there motionless, stuck in the garden of their childhood. The colors slowly fading away as she left him behind.

It was almost funny how he had forgotten what the first hour of their first meeting had actually been like. Almost, being the word.

Geordo had been so annoyed at being force to give her a tour. No one had bothered to even ask him if he wanted to do it. It was just presumed he would. But of course, they presumed that.

Geordo had been going along with the meetings and making pleasantries and smiling as every stupid girl he’d been force to meet. The idea that one of them would be his future wife hovered above all their interactions. A depressing cloud to remind him of all the boring years he had to look forward to.

It didn’t matter if it was Lady Catley, Lady Thorne, Lady Bennet or any of the others, because there weren’t any real differences between them. They were all as boring and uninteresting as the last one.

In an odd way, Katarina had stood out amongst the others. It had only been a few minutes of meeting her that he knew he absolutely did not want her to be his wife. Ever.

During their first walk through the gardens, Katarina had clung to his arm. Her fingernails felt like claws digging into his skin, trapping him in place.

All he could do was smile and be the charming prince they all thought he was as he suppressed the urge to push her away. He had wanted her to leave him alone, he didn’t want to spend another second with Katarina Claes.

How blind was he as a kid?

How stuck in his own spoiled thoughts that he had mischaracterized his beautiful Katarina to such a degree that all he saw was some stupid, vain girl with nothing of note about her?

A week after Katarina had fell, young Geordo was told about the scar that marred her once beautiful face. Though according to others, the scar was a few centimeters at most, if even that.

Still, the question of who would want to marry her now had been whispered throughout the palace halls.

At the time, Geordo thought it was ridiculous and beyond infuriating.

But it had given him an idea.

Maybe being engaged to Katarina could help him out in the following years to come. A shield to all the so-called important Lords and Ladies who shoved their daughters at him. If he was engaged, he wouldn’t have to deal with them anymore.

And if the reason for his engagement was just the matter of a silly scar, well surely, he could break it off for another silly matter. It wouldn’t be difficult to manipulate someone like Katarina.

True he would be stuck with an insufferable girl for the years to come, but it also meant freedom from the countless others.

With his plan set to go, Geordo arrived at the Claes Manor to officially check on Katarina’s progress.

Visiting her was the first step into his new future. He wasn’t going to propose to her right then and there, no that would be improper and unseemly for the Third Prince. Still he had to visit her once, so he could propose to her during his second visit. There couldn’t be a second visit, without a first. 

But he had been wrong. That Geordo remembered clearly.

He had never really been wrong before and it almost seemed impossible, but yet…

Katarina had apologized to him of all things. She too thought all the fuss around her had been ridiculous and…and he was confused.

Smiling brightly at Geordo, Katarina showed him the scar on her forehead, assuring him that she was just fine. That she could just cover it up with her bangs and that there was no need for him to feel bad.

His eight-year-old self couldn’t even begin to wrap his small mind around Katarina throwing his carefully laid out plan out the window, like it was nothing. So, he quickly proposed to her right then and there.

Formality and properness followed his plan out the very same window. 

At the time he hadn’t realize why he had even done that. Why he hadn’t stop to think of another plan, why he had been so impulsive.

But now Geordo did. It was clear that his younger self, with his set plan, had been desperate to enforce it. To ensure to all, no to himself, that he’d been right. That he couldn’t have been wrong about Katarina.

Geordo wanted to laugh at his younger self, but couldn’t find it in himself.

He remembered being confused when he returned to his room after visiting Katarina. Geordo had been able to see through almost everybody his entire life and even with the people he couldn’t, at least he knew he couldn’t.

But Katarina…

He had been so sure of exactly what kind of person she was.

Young Geordo shook his head. It didn’t matter that he was slightly off about Katarina. He had been right in the end, in a way…if one thought about it long enough.

He was still going to properly propose to her the second time he visited. 

Everything was still going according to his plan. It had to.

Though it wouldn’t hurt to reconsider what he knew about one Katarina Claes, just so he’d be prepare for their next meeting.

And yet, even with his expectations of Katarina carefully modified for when he returned to properly propose to her, she had thrown him off once more.

Katarina smiled brightly without a care as she stood in the early beginnings of a field in dirty work-clothes, hoe in hand.

Creating a vegetable field to improve her earth magic was one of the most ridiculous and nonsensical things he had ever heard. He almost broke right there as he tried to contain his laughter.

But it was creative and wonderfully Katarina, to think of something no one else had and to go at it with so much determination and enthusiasm. Not caring if she was wrong or right. It was so different from how he approached everything. So wonderfully different.

That day Geordo remembered clearly.

Years of reflecting back on that day had solidify it in his memory. The dull, colorless world he had lived in for so long was marred by the bright and colorful Katarina in the most beautiful way.

That day was when he finally admitted to himself that he’d been wrong; he didn’t know the answer to the confusing puzzle that was Katarina.

That day spurred on Geordo’s countless efforts to figure Katarina out and understand everything about her. Because for the first time in his long eight years of life, he was finally interested in something, no, someone else.

That’s the day he met Katarina Claes.

The days and years that followed had led to him falling hard for her. His beautiful, lovely, and odd fiancé.

That’s what mattered. Who cares if he had misjudged Katarina in the beginning? It didn’t matter. Not now.

So why was he still standing frozen to the ground? Why couldn’t he let go of what he had first thought of Katarina? He was wrong and he had misjudged her, there was nothing more to it. Why couldn’t he let it go?

“Prince Geordo!” Katarina shouted, rushing back to his side and relief filled his body as he finally breathed out. “I’m so sorry. I got lost in talking about Mary’s lesson in proper flower arranging that I didn’t even realize that I had…”

Her face was flushed with a beautiful red and her bright aqua-blue eyes looked wild. His heart pounded at the sight, at the idea of her rushing back to him.

“Geordo?” Katarina asked. His eyes widened as he realized he hadn’t heard anything else she had said. “Are you feeling alright?”

Before he could respond, a cool hand was on his forehead, while the other held his cheek. He was so overwhelmed, that instead of doing the sane thing of assuring Katarina that he was fine, he hugged her tightly.

Because what if Katarina hadn’t hit her head? What if there had been no scar? What if…what if she had never been part of his life at all?

Geordo held Katarina tighter. Afraid that if he let her go, she would be gone.

At eight-years-old he was already bored and annoyed with everything. He couldn’t even begin to imagine what eight more years of that would’ve been like.

Katarina pulled away and he just stood there, embarrassed by his sudden rush of emotions and losing control like that. He tried not to blush as she stared back at him, her mouth agape.

She shook herself out of her daze and then quickly and very loudly began to call for one of the servants to take a look at him.

She grabbed his arm tightly and began dragging him back the palace. She was determined to have someone take a proper look at him, since clearly the sun had gotten to him.

Geordo went along happily, with no desire to escape the forceful grip on his arm.

As the two got closer to the palace, neither one took notice to a certain spot where a young nobly lady had hit her head all those years ago. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Archive of Our Own 

I’m intrigued by the fact that Geordo is the only one of the main characters who met Katarina before she hit her head. He’s the only one who knew her before, even if very briefly.

So, I got to wondering if he thought Katarina had a major shift in personality or would he just presume the more logical (but not true) answer, that his opinion of Katarina before she hit her head was wrong.

And then my mind took off with that idea.

[annadunn5782-redbubble-art]

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[theewealthiestwife]

Today a goddess was born 💋💅🏾happy 21st birthday to me 🥂🥳

Everyday I sparkle ✨but today I rule👸🏾 #hello21

[missressat]

When the sun know you a queen too 😏 #birthdaybehavior #hello21 #queen (at Charlotte, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqyK80KFBDP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r39wkchatfjk

[bellarkewrites]

Not The Way It's Suppose To Be

by Hello21

Madi stared as Clarke left her side to go to Bellamy. To say goodbye, for the last time.

A very quick piece of Madi's thought process, right before she tells Octavia the truth.

Words: 688, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The 100 (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Madi (The 100), Clarke Griffin, Bellamy Blake, Octavia Blake, Echo (The 100)

Relationships: Clarke Griffin & Madi, Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin, Bellamy Blake & Clarke Griffin, Octavia Blake & Madi

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant

Read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2LrUx10

[vintagechic86]

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[ao3feed-bellarke]

Not The Way It's Suppose To Be

by Hello21

Madi stared as Clarke left her side to go to Bellamy. To say goodbye, for the last time.

A very quick piece of Madi's thought process, right before she tells Octavia the truth.

Words: 688, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The 100 (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Madi (The 100), Clarke Griffin, Bellamy Blake, Octavia Blake, Echo (The 100)

Relationships: Clarke Griffin & Madi, Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin, Bellamy Blake & Clarke Griffin, Octavia Blake & Madi

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/14863340

[bankruptrocks]

New video, this Tuesday! #punkrockvideo #punkrockers #punkmusic #beerpunks #bankruptpunk #fuck2020 #hello21 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIdPXiej5Gi/?igshid=57e2a4tku12x

[tysonrossignol]

🎂💚💙🍾🎂As of today, I'm officially 21 years old! You know, the age that you're officially legal everywhere around the world! I can know drink alcohol in the United-States! Eventhough, I rarely drink alcohol. I pretty much drink it for "special occasions" . Even if there was a special occasion, I would probably still not drink alcohol! Anyway, I'm happy that I'm 21 because there were moments in life that I thought that I would not make it to 21 because of everything that happened to me during my life. So, I'm grateful for everything! I know that 21 will be great for me and this age will open many opportunities and with that age, many of my dreams that I have dreamt since I was a kid will be becoming true this year! Cheers to the age of 21! The age of everything that can be possible and to never give up on my dreams. Also, most importantly, to always be myself in every way! 🎂💚💙🍾🎂

#21savage #21 #hello21 #21yearsold #legaleverywhere #legal21 #21stbirthday #21st #2021 #march2021 #piscesmen