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ladymarycrawley · 6 months

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Like father, like daughter - John Stones

Not requested but I've been woking on this piece for a while so there you go 💕 and dad! John is a weakness of mine so yeah (and it's quite long). Feel like dedicating this to queen herself @footballffbarbiex 🤍

Warning: pregnancy

Tag list: @prideofpd, @johnstonesfc, @chelsealover, @masonxomount, @kathb59 (cause she was eager to read it)

Pregnancy is seen in the collective consciousness as a blessed time, where a new life is growing inside of a woman’s body and everything seems good but most people only see the pleasurable side of it, ignoring all the cons these nine long months carry with them.

Of course there’s physical pain (back pain, swollen feet, morning sickness just to mention a few), that’s something concrete everybody can see. What’s more painful it’s the hidden part of this journey, the one that takes place in women’s head: embarking on such a massive change might be scary and sometimes fear overlaps with the joy of welcoming a new human being, overcoming it most of the time.

The most common worry is about not being ready enough to become a parent (as it’s the hardest job a person can do) followed by the difficulty of giving birth: how is it going to be? What will I do if something wrong happens? Will it be as painful as they make it seem in films?

All of this has an impact on mental health and stability, as all these fears may take a toll on a person’s mind and rely on the most disparate stimuli to give life to the most random scenarios…

"John I'm so scared"

"Of what?"

"There's people who like pregnant women but not in a good sense…"

"In what sense?"

"Like they find them hot and have a fetish for them, that's scary"

That what can be defined as one of the random scenarios mentioned above: that afternoon you were aimlessly scrolling through your phone to stumble upon an article about the most unusual fetishes and you happened to read about people who had the pregnancy kink.

"So what?"

"That's gross and what if these people steal my pics and do vile things with them?"

Your head started spiralling in panic as your hormones and your unstable state of mind was totally controlling you. Too many thoughts in that overworking brain of yours culminated in desperate tears rolling down your face.

"Your pics are safe and you look so sexy"

"I don't, this thing is insanely big and…and the other day you called me whale" You confessed to him as sobs were making you shake.

"Affectionately though, I'd never call you a whale to insult you…" He wrapped his arms around your waist "You're the sexiest, most beautiful whale ever" John whispered with a husky voice right into your neck

"You're fake, you're just mean"

"I'm not mean!"

The sobs were getting harder and your boyfriend knew the breakdown was getting serious.

"You'll leave me for some beautiful, hotter woman that'll give you no problems and you'll be cheating on me and I'll end up as a single mother and -"

"Hold on, hold on. Calm down and take a deep breath" John tried to calm you, stressing those encouraging words and trying to take deep breaths with you as to show you the priorities you should have considered.

"You're overthinking"

"What if something goes wrong? What if the birth doesn't go as planned? What if our baby -"

"Calm down"

"I've read a lot of stories of mums that had horrible experiences while giving birth to their babies and what if one of us dies?"

John blurted out his eyes in shock as fear and worry covered his perfect face as well.

"Don't even think about it. We're following literally what the doctor told us, I'm sure they'll do whatever it's in their power for your safety"

Your baby kicked in that moment, as if your worry suddenly became her own and she felt the urge to calm you down, coming to the aid of her dad.

You gulped and brought your hand to your belly as John’s eyes never lost sight of you.

He’d never lost sight of you, not even when you went through labour and you were holding his hand so tightly while following the midwife’s instructions, trying to coordinate your pushes with the deep breaths she was asking you to take.

You were trying not to think about all the fears that piled up during those months but it was so hard when all the contractions trampled over you so violently. He stayed there even when you were squeezing his hand so hard your nails dug into his skin, almost piercing it.

He was the antidote to all your nightmares: someone who stayed there with you, holding your hand through thick and thin.

John only left at nightfall and only after you insisted for him to go back home to sleep on a proper bed.

You were feeling like a done and dusted whale, all bloated and tired while he was there looking so fine, surely fresh out of the shower as the unmistakable scent of his aftershave tickled your nostrils.

The sight of him entering what had been your room for the last two days made your heart swell and the butterflies in your stomach soar.

The tiredness painted across your face as well as your swollen eyes made your freshly woken up expression evident and John couldn’t help but smile as your tired smile welcomed him.

"Hi"

"Good morning"

He closed the door behind him, approaching your bed and looking at the small crib where your tiny baby girl was sleeping.

"How are you? Did you get some sleep?"

"Yep…slept a couple more hours"

"Good" He muttered while pressing his lips to your forehead.

"And how is she?"

Both your glances fell on the product of your love that was so small she could easily fit in one of John's large hands and looked so cute in her blush pink bodysuit, stretching her little legs as she was probably busy dreaming something.

"She seems fine, we can't wait to go back home"

"I know…they said you would be good to go today"

"Yeah but they want to check in on us for a final check and then we can go"

"Okay" John was a bit disappointed he couldn't take his ladies with him and leave the hospital right away so he reluctantly nodded and got up to take you something to eat for breakfast.

"I want a giant chocolate croissant"

"And a giant cappuccino as well?" He asked with a smirk, knowing full well your taste when it came to what to have for the most important meal of the day.

"You know me so well" You exclaimed, happy with those small things that weren't small at all in your eyes; they meant the world to you as him and your baby were now your whole world too.

John smiled, a blush pink tint colouring his cheeks and lowered himself over your seated figure, balancing himself on the mattress with his hands, his lips busy pressing a kiss on your forehead.

"See? Everything went well, you're both doing great" He whispered, referring to your fear of something potentially going wrong during the birth, your biggest fear.

You smiled back at him, watery eyes full of weariness and emotions looked up at him as you moved your head to the side to press a tender kiss to his hand that was soothingly caressing your cheek.

“I love you so much. Both of you”

“I love you more”

That sweet moment was interrupted by a nurse who knocked on your room’s door to check in on you and Iris, as it was time for the last visit before discharging you officially.

John waited outside for it to be over, using that time to buy you the delicious breakfast you have been longing for.

He really hoped they could give you the green light to go back home because that would have meant everything was okay and you were perfectly healthy. So he prayed to hear the good news he was waiting for, to see your baby in that white wooden cot you spent a whole day choosing at the store, paired with that flowery pink bedding set his sister gave you as a gift and that had you crying as soon as you opened the box.

After fifteen minutes or so the nurse opened the door followed by the medical staff who welcomed your boyfriend with a smile, the doctor holding your file in her hands. She complimented John on your newborn and told him what he was dying to hear: you and Iris’s health status was good and you were ready to leave the hospital.

He thanked her and nodded when she gave him some quick advice on how to take care of them during the delicate moments following the baby’s birth.

After saying their goodbyes quickly John rushed back to your room with a big grin plastered on his lips.

"We're going home babies" He cooed, taking the duffle bag with all your personal belongings.

“Not so fast, Stonesy” You chuckled “Help me get out of this bed so we can get ready”

The City player giggled and helped you step out of the bed so you could stand up properly. The standing posture made you feel pain in places in didn't even know they existed and the grimace on your face told it all.

“I’ll take the baby and all her things while you put all your stuff in here” He said, directing his tall body towards the crib where his princess was looking at him with her blue eyes. “Yes baby, you’ll come with dada”

The moment you dreamt of a lot, that is to say John making his silly little voice to speak to your daughter, finally happened and it brought genuine tears to your eyes: funny how a small, tiny creature that you met for the first time no more than 72 hours earlier, that shared every single second of the last nine months of your life with you suddenly became the most important, priceless treasure you ever put your hands on.

You thought there were some feelings it was impossible to give form to and love was one of them, but you had to change your mind the moment you took her in your arms because you realised the human being you were holding was the embodiment of all the love you had for her dad. So some feelings, even the strongest one, had a shape and it was astonishingly beautiful.

“Oh I see you’re already taking the baby and leaving me with the heavy things” You mumbled, feigning being angry at him.

“You had her with you for 9 months, don’t be selfish”

“Me selfish?? Oh I’d have really liked you to carry her in your belly for 9 f-”

“Oi don’t swear in front of the baby”

You laughed seeing him all concerned and covering Iris’ ears as he was glaring at you. You shook your head as you slowly started to collect all your things around the hospital room.

“Give me my breakfast, I’m starving”

“See? Your mum has already changed and uses me as her butler and credit card”

His joke caused you to roll your eyes as you were trying to get dressed while dealing with your yet aching body.

You were in some baggy pants and an oversized hoodie because it was the only outfit you were feeling like wearing as John was there looking as flawless as usual even though his fit was quite simple: a pair of jeans matched with a gray jumper and a baseball cap on made him look hotter than usual. The child seat he was carrying with your baby girl in was making him even look like a real hot daddy and your heart was bursting with love. The right word to describe how you were feeling was blessed.

When you finally stepped foot in your house you sighed in satisfaction as you just wanted to get in your bed and cuddle with your new family in peace, eating some good junk food if possible.

“Home sweet home”

John smirked and carefully put the child seat on the floor so he could take Iris out of it.

“Welcome home, baby” He lifted her up to place her against his shoulder so her head could rest against it, as they showed him in the hospital. “This is your home”

“I’ve missed it so much…I think I’m going to lay down for a while”

Lying down on your own bed, on the bed sheets you chose, in the room you shared with the man of your life gave you that much needed home feeling.

You closed your eyes in the attempt to relax but the level of weariness, of emotions you had experienced recently didn’t make it any easier for you to sleep a little.

"Ok so I'm gonna go"

"I don't wanna see anyone" You mumbled when John finally entered your room, cradling Iris in his arms. When he looked down at her to see she was asleep, he put her in the wooden cot right next to your bed.

He couldn’t help but smile: that sight was the closest to perfection he had ever seen, as that piece of furniture that had been empty for all those past weeks was now full as it should have been, hosting the most important treasure ever.

"Not you, idiot. I just wanna see you and our baby" You grumbled as your voice came out feebly due to your state of tiredness.

John smiled and was about to sit next to you on the bed as your phone started ringing, much to your dismay. You groaned in annoyance.

"Who the fuck is now?"

"Your mum"

"Tell her I can't talk, I'm sleeping"

He nodded and swiped on the screen to do as he was told. You knew your mum was dying to talk to you, to make sure you were doing okay but you just wanted to enjoy the peace of the moment and keep that special moment for you only.

When he finished talking, he finally climbed on the bed and you soon were all over him, wrapping your arms around his body and letting your head rest against his chest with your eyes closed breathing in his familiar scent, the best fragrance in the world to you.

"Are you comfortable? Maybe it's better if you lay on a pillow"

"Nope, you're my comfiest pillow"

John scoffed with a half smile and kissed your head.

"Wanna watch something on Netflix?"

"Nope, too tired" You muttered, cuddling closer to his chest.

John's lips curved in a smile as he brushed his thumb against your right cheekbone.

He then scrolled through his phone, answering all the text messages the people he knew sent him ahead of your baby girl's birth.

"What are you doing?" You really wanted and needed to crack some sleep but your mind wasn't agreeing as the level of adrenaline in your body was still too high, plus you wanted to stay awake to spend some time with John and checking on Iris.

"Answering all the texts they've sent for Iris"

"Read me some" You wanted nothing more than to bask in the sweet words of people congratulating you, saying how beautiful your baby was and how strong you've been through all the process. After all you deserved all those sweet words: bringing a child into the world is something so brave people tend to underestimate sometimes.

John pressed play on a voice note from Kyle that made you both laugh, then read you one from Jack and at that moment your own phone rang with a notification and you asked John to check who it was from.

"It's from Sasha, she answered the pic you posted with "congrats you gorgeous mama"

"Aww she's always the sweetest"

"Well, you're everything but gorgeous now…"

"HEY" You threw a fist against his bicep with the little strength that was left in you. "I just pushed your daughter out of my vagina, you should be a little more grateful"

John loved getting on your nerves, making your thin-skinned side come to surface. He giggled, tucking a lock of hair behind your ear.

"I know I look awful and I stink as I really need to take a shower but I can't, I'm so tired" The whiny tone you pronounced those last words with was about to turn into a desperate cry but John took action just in time.

"You know I was joking" He took your face in his hands to look right into your eyes "I'd get you pregnant again right now if I could"

"Liar"

He laughed and kissed your forehead.

"I'll help you with the shower later on"

When your baby whined a little in her sleep the little yelp caught your attention as you both turned your heads towards the crib.

"There's the blanket over there, put it over her" You gestured for him to take the pink honeycomb blanket to cover your baby girl's sleeping body.

She looked so cute with that tiny blanketyou fell in love with as soon as your eyes took sight of it on the shop’s shelf and you had no doubt it would have been perfect for your beautiful baby.

“Can you believe we made her?” You asked John in awe as he was lovingly tucking her in. You got up to join him, encircling his waist with your right arm and putting your head against his bicep. "We made her teeny tiny feet, those little hands..."

“Yeah…you know what they say?”

“What?”

“Daughters tend to be more similar to their dads in the looks”

“So?”

“So if she’s beautiful that’s all thanks to me... even Kyle said it”

Another thing the collective consciousness ignored was the post pregnancy period: the danger of post-pregnancy depression was real but you knew you had the most handsome dad in the world who would have helped you along the path, even when the downs would have outnumbered the ups.

“Yeah Stones…I think you and your friend need some sleep too…you’re hallucinating”

And no, you weren't upset at all: you only wished for your daughter to be the carbon copy of her amazing father. So you hoped deep down your heart the Kyle was right.

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muckyschmuck · 3 months

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Just sharing hardest pic I've ever seen

this is how i feel

#/pos

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moviesludge · 22 days

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I bought a digital picture frame for my family over xmas where people can add pics to it via email. my dad added a bunch of pics and one of them is the hardest picture I've ever seen of any person in my life and its my mom smoking a joint.

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hollywoodsargeant · 9 months

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Since you have more Logan pics in your camera roll than Logan himself probably has, can you share the most "rare" ones? (Idk how to properly word this, but like, one's that you don't see around as much)

Also, I wanted to share that the beach/volleyball photoshoot has a very special place in my heart

okay... i have tried my hardest to compile some of the pictures i feel like i don't see around much. i'm sure at least one of them Someone will see and go "i see that picture all the time you fucking idiot" to which i say I TRIED MY BEST!!! i have a lot of. images. and plenty of them are very much just off the official williams twitter account which is definitively not what you asked for BUT! i tried

and i agree the volleyball photoshoot is very important for reasons i have touched on (catalyst) and also it's the only reason i listen to that fucking onerepublic song so much AND it's my lock screen rn. i change my lock screen a lot but currenty: logan sargeant spiking a volleyball

anyways. images

this was the first thing i thought of when i initially read this ask. if you can't tell. that is logan and liam (lawson) standing on some weird platform pole thing. neither of them were very happy about it. you can tell who is who based on the length of their shorts (or their heights but that's LAME) (liam is the shorter one in shorter shorts)

here's more liam and logan bc it just amuses me. dude is OUT

ik i've seen this one Around before so who knows maybe it's just here bc kyle is also in it and i have ulterior motives. Uh. p sure the other guy is devlin defrancesco if anyone is dying to know. but logan is so cute

this is probably the least "rare" picture i put on here bc i think this is just from benny's instagram but i like it. so. get bent question mark. he looks good here and i want to bite him et cetera also the sunkist can makes his hand look big. thanks man

more logan and devlin i'm pretty sure. tiny little baby... carlin buzz i believe that's f3. but don't quote me on anything ever. either way so glad he has not changed his hairstyle in many years

see most of these just end up being pictures of logan when he was younger lmao this is f4. no product in his hair!

indoor snowboarding? idk man. what the fuck is he looking at

MORE OLD SHIT this is definitively f3 his first year in f3 yes that is felipe drugovich. teammates moment. he looks Thrilled

karting. zhou and fewtrell... and little tiny logan. HE'S SO SMALL?

and this one is from literally today i'm NINETY PERCENT SURE... the guy on the pineapple is logan. idk who else it would be... this is callum (bradshaw)'s story and i bee leave the other guy is his friend oliver so process of elimination and also i know generally what he looks like. i've stared at this for hours. if it's actually not logan i'll just kill myself ig

#ask #so many logan images #surely i do have more but. image limit #on mobile at least #and i'm being lazy #sorry man #i love logan sargeant so much #exclamation point #logan sargeant

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the-second-sage · 7 months

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your smau has me in a CHOKEHOLD.

i can't stop thinking about it

IM DECEASED 💀☠️

LOSER IN LOVE - PT.2

SUMMARY - Still a loser in love when it comes to him- but it's okay, he's the exact same

WARNINGS - None

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user WAIT WHAT???

og.prettyboy LMAO. wait. i thought you deleted that last pic 🤔

urusername idk why you believed i would delete it.

user 1 WHEN IS IT MY TURNNNNN

user 2 NO. KYLE YOU LITTLE SHIT IT SHOULDVE BEEN ME

dishdetergent see. this is proof not all of my accidents are bad!

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user just say ur dating at this point

dishdetergent stop asking me to hang out just to make me a third wheel

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gh0stt paid actor, ive never seen gaz get bitches

moustachemanno.2 @farahkarim me and you when

farahkarim stop @ mentioning me in these

user 1 hardest soft launch I've EVER seen

user 2 IT SHOULDVE BEEN ME. HOW MUCH MONEY DO I HAVE TO PAY TO SWITCH PLACES WITH KYLE

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og.prettyboy ❤️ 💗

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user when can I have what they have...

user 3 WAIT... KYLE'S MESSAGE WITH THE HEARTS AND THEIR RESPONSE?? DUDE THEYRE SO CUTE

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(lmao pt.3 coming soon if yall want it)

#call of duty #call of duty modern warfare 2 #codmw2 #modern warfare 2 #mw2 #call of duty x reader #cod x reader #cod #cod mwii #—��⁚ paika's posts!#—♪⁚ paika's smau!#gaz headcanons #kyle gaz garrick #gaz cod #gaz mw2 #gaz x reader #kyle garrick #cod smau #smau

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professional-termite · 5 months

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WHY IS THIS THE HARDEST PIC OF OWEN I'VE EVER FUCKING SEEN 😭

WHY IS IT IN BLACK AND WHITE I'M COMBUSTING 💥

im sorry thats like a really cool picture but he looks like hes on one of those 2000s reality dating shows and theyre driving him to set and its about to cut to a montage of him meeting all his love interests while he describes himself in a voiceover

#ask #👶#kurts silly updates #owen wilson

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carlyraejepsans · 2 years

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For Caturday, here's a collection of unflattering pictures I've taken of Terra (2, brown tabby) and Molly (12, white and orange)

instructions unclear, sunglasses pic is the hardest shit I've ever seen

#cool meter is off the fucking charts #answered asks #caturday madness

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cangrellesteponme · 2 years

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Hmm…maybe #7-12 for a fic of your choosing? 📚

i'm going to be answering these for Howl :)

7: Which character gave you the hardest time writing correctly?

I think no one's surprised to hear that it was, of course, Vanitas. Part of the process of writing Howl was about figuring out what major character flaw could/would/does negatively impact their desired/future/current relationships, so writing Vanitas was hard because I could very easily name over ten, each one as terrible as the next. I kind of had that problem with Domi too, but it all comes back to her being too giving (and her characteristic absence of self), so I easily focused on that aspect (and of course the fic was initially only her part, so i already had a lot of inspiration for her). With Vanitas though... the multifaceted bastard man doesn't ever show the same flaw twice. It was so hard I almost gave up on his part, but ended up just taking a break from it, writing Jeanne's part, and coming back to it. In the end I just went for the "bitter bitch who observes the misery of others and refuses to look at how to get his own shit together" angle, which is something I consider to be a major character trait and flaw Vanitas regularly exhibits, but you can disagree with me on that one.

12: What are some aesthetics/images you often associate with your fic?

Okay, I think anyone who has ever read anything I've written might notice the severe lack of background descriptions. The thing is I write about feelings a lot but I'm not actually fond of the Romanticism movement (think of me as Flaubert, if you will- I know how to do it but I'd rather make fun of it), so I see no point in talking about the environment unless I want to paint a very clear image for the reader- which I don't do a lot, as it would actually undermine my work because I write a lot about confusion, and hazes, and identity crises, and uncertainty... So no full backgrounds in text.

BUT I'm an artist still, of COURSE i have TONS of imagery in my head as I write. And the ones for Howl... delightful.

(This is going to be very long.)

Chapter one, aka dominoé and the bedroom of infinite sexual tension

I didn't take a look at Dominique's actual bedroom while I was writing, so I really just imagined Noé, with his monochrome look (though at this point he's barely dressed), on a red bed, in a red room, plunged in the obvious representation of Domi's feelings yet unaware and unaffected, which would be represented by the lighting which obviously clashes with the intended colour of the room. Basic symbolism aside, I often imagine dominoé interactions with warm, domestic, indoors aesthetics (and a whole lot of red for obvious reasons) so I really just want to give them all the soft beds in the world.

Chapter two, aka Vanitas trying real hard to out-stupid Dominique

The aesthetic is just that one "Mal D'Amour" episode (don't ask me why i remember that name, i don't even know. isn't the english name the incurable disease or something??). It's one of my favourites, of course it haunts me.

Imagine grumpy, frowning, bitchy Vanitas on a double date in the beautiful streets of Paris, just staring at Domi while Noé and Jeanne desperately try to get his attention. All of this with that episode's vibe. Peak comedy, and Vanitas is a whole clown.

(no pics because i cannot be bothered to get screenshots of this one. you've seen the episodes.)

Chapter three, aka Jeanne, haunted by love (and homophobia tbh)

So yeah the general vibe was "no thoughts only Jeanne".

No, seriously, since the whole point of that chapter was Jeanne going "if i think hard enough about how embarrassing vanitas's whole existence is, i can forget how i'm also hopelessly in love with dominique", the whole vision was Jeanne turning and tossing around in her bed in the middle of the night, red in the face, absolutely haunted by the horrors of love. There could've been more of an aesthetic, but I'm gay, and all I had was blushing maiden Jeanne.

Isn't she so pretty though?

Chapter four, aka Noé being very lovely and a little silly

Noé and Jeanne are having a coffee frienddate but by the end of the date the friend part is questionable ngl. Need I say more?

and yeah, that's it for my silly rambling, have a nice day

#my writing process is just chaos and this is further proof #ota's ask answers

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esyla-writes · 2 years

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Chapter 13: Princess of Whales

Author Commentary

Turns out that my cliffhanger from the last chapter only dropped you about 2 feet! Hahaha! This is a slow burn, of course the big drama will be saved for the end. This is all a warm up! But I'm enjoying torturing my readers along the way.

So it turns out that Hermione wasn't in danger from the portkey, but man was she ready for it! I was excited to write her as a little more aggressive and competent after all the emotional upheaval of the previous chapters, so it was super fun to write about how thoroughly she bests both Theo and Draco in a matter of seconds.

Joke about Diana, Princess of Whales brought to you courtesy of this children's book

I made up one of the spells that Hermione uses obviously using google translate for the latin (vine binding... probably not grammatically correct, but whatevs, this is fanfiction, baby!) and it was definitely inspired by Devil's Snare.

This is possibly the funniest look I've ever seen on Emma Watson's face

I also really enjoyed all the speculation from my reviewers about Marc. Honestly, the hardest part about wrapping up the Marc arc of the story was deciding who would get the honors of punching him in the face (it was never a question of whether he would get punched in the face, only by whose fist). Harry was out because he's already had the honor of punching someone to avenge Hermione (poor Theo, less deserving, so less satisfying for Harry). I hemmed and hawed between Theo and Draco for a while, and almost even rewrote the entire chapter when I had the wild thought that maybe Hermione should get the punch. But at the end of the day Draco won out and I'm happy with the flow of things.

A quick clarification on the hex Draco uses at the end: Hermione originally used a similar hex on a sleezy guy named Anderson at Pansy's party (Chapter 6). Her version was set to activate the caterwauling charm whenever he touched a woman without express, verbal permission. Draco's version is a literal more liberal though. He intended it to be set off even if Marc has a willing partner since Marc is manipulative enough to get consent and still have the relationship be sketchy (like with Hermione). Marc thought it didn't work because he didn't feel anything and there were no flashy lights, but I can assure you it very much did work.

Bonus pic of how I envisioned Theo's study at Nott Hall

Bonus meme of Theo to Draco while they're arguing with Hermione

Lastly, it may interest you to know that based on the events of this chapter I've added a 'Protective Draco Malfoy' tag to this fic on AO3!

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Read on AO3: here

#draco malfoy #draco malfoy x hermione granger #draco x hermione #dramione #hermione granger #dramione wip #fic: unforgivable #author commentary #theodore nott #harry potter

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raubacam · 1 year

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Singapore kicked our ass.

It took me awhile to be ready for this post because Singapore truly did kick our ass. I'm glad we did it, we went and did all the things we wanted to do, and at one point I even cried from joy, but by the end of our 4 days there we were VERY ready to leave. The best way I can describe it is it was like being at Vegas for a week, but with no partying, just a LOT of walking, long hours trying to get things done, and little to no down time. I knew planning this trip that the first week was going to be the hardest - a lot of go, go go. It was most definitely that. In hindsight, I would've spent less time in Singapore and more time in the islands of Southern Thailand (where we are now). But hindsight is 20/20.

Okay, so Singapore....

Time to fly to the next country! We are so so excited to go to Singapore and see the crazy beautiful architecture. The airport there, Changi airport, is said to be one of the most beautiful in the world, with tons of activities and things to do, so that's our plan for the day! Hop on a quick 2.5 hr flight and spend the day checking out Changi. We leave our Bangkok hotel and taxi over to a different airport than we arrived in, called Don Mueang. This airport is much smaller, less busy, and simpler to navigate. We do the thing where we walk all the way tour gate, make sure it exists (it does) and then walk to grab some breakfast. The options are limited, but we are hungry and don't want rice, so unfortunately we have to go with Subway and McDonald's. I said, "zero percent chance we are getting McDonald's for breakfast," when we walked in... Then we had to eat McDonald's lol... Both taste different here, less greasy, even the ketchup is different, so it wasn't terrible, but I vow to try my absolute best to not eat that crap again while we are here.

We are flying Air Asia for the first time, and I paid extra for the good seats. I was worried I'd be so sick of being on an airplane after the travel to Bangkok from the US that I wanted to make the first flight (two days into our trip) as seamless as possible. Our boarding begins and we hop onto a bus to head over to the tarmac. We see lots of large planes and lots of small ones, today - we go small! Being on a tarmac is pretty cool, I think we've only ever done it once in our lives. We board and are ready to go! No naps, cuz excitement, just can't wait to be there!

Made it! We're in SINGAPORE!! Being in the international terminal, we gotta make it all the way over to the Jewel area aka the shopping/exploring area. Customs was interesting. Not nearly as bad as Japan, that we terrible, but SG had sent me an online version of an immigration card to fill out, which took me about 45 mins to complete, but it was so worth it! It is a very tech savvy country, most things are automated, lots of robots all around, so with the pre filled SG card, we were able to just scan our passport, look at a camera at different angles, and we were free! No lines! Fuck yea!! Hop on the train to Terminal 1/Jewel and we are ready to see the world's tallest indoor waterfall!!! Yes, INSIDE the airport!!!! I've seen it on instagram but I'm dying to see it for myself, its one of the reasons we came here! It's not hard to spot once we arrive. It's front and center right as you walk in.

Soooo cool.. and sooo beautiful!! We have a lot of exploring to do so we decide to store our bags in luggage storage (a godsend!! cuz those bitches are heavyyy). Walking down to the lower level we get a much better view of the waterfall, take some pics and keep walking! First, we walk through an area with tons of restaurants, smelling all the yummy smells. One of which, we couldn't pass up. It looked like weird little slabs of meat sitting in a display keeping it warm, but it smelled like HEAVEN. Better than the smell of bacon. Like if bacon and candy fucked - that was the smell. Scott is persistent, so we buy a slice.. MMMMMMMMMMMM. That shit is SO good. We nom that down in 2 seconds flat. No regrets there. Then I want some fruity tea, so we stop at a nice cafe and get a "mixed fruit tea" and a strawberry cocktail. The mixed fruit tea had things in there we had never even heard of. Both amazing and refreshing. Scott wants a snack before activities so we stop at Don Don Donki (yes you read that right) and get him some yakitori (octopus balls) and some wagya steak skewers. Both were great. Now time to do some activities!!

Scott's yakitori ->

Side note - I've never seen so. much. shopping... Ever... The amount of store in there is overwhelming. It's similar to ICONSIAM, except way less cool and more "mall" feeling. People from Singapore must LOVE shopping, because we felt like no matter where we went we couldn't escape it. You'll hear about more later in the post.

We head to the top floor of the airport (there's like 7 floors) and buy our tickets to do the things. First up, is a hedge maze - actually pretty big and kind of confusing haha. The coolest part was there was one hedge wall that had disappearing flowers. As you walked past, the flowers popped out and would disappear right after - pretty neat feature! Kind of scared me at first lol.

Next was the flower path and the walking rope net! The view up there is super cool, it goes all the way around the waterfall, which is in the center, so you get a full 360 view. Lots of floral arrangements and pretty things. Then we see the rope net! I'm excited! We go in, Scott has to change his shoes cuz you need closed toe shoes and we start the climb. This thing is actually soooo trippy. It's like million tightropes all woven together, and you have to walk across it and not die, or fall, cuz that shit hurts. It's all curved and tilted, making it difficult and fun to walk across. Walking up an incline is sort of easy but then walking down is so hard!! I had to hold onto the sides to get down! lol.. When you look down, which you had to, so you don't trip and die, you are literally looking down like 4-6 stories into the mall/shopping area. This shit is wild. Scott finishes first and I finally finish. Both of us feel weirdddd. Our equilibrium is totally off, we feel like we just got off a crazy ride and we feel kind of woozy. Super fun, crazy thing to do in an airport haha.

Next is the Mirror Maze! We walk in, pick up our foam sticks (so we don't walk into a mirror and hurt ourselves) and walk in. Again.. its soo trippy!! At first I thought the foam stick was stupid but I actually needed it! The mirrors were so clean you really couldn't tell what was real and what was a reflection. At one point I called, "Scott?!??" and he said, "Over here, baby!" and I kid you not, I turned around and there were like 14 of him and I had NO idea which one was him. They all looked exactly the same. I've never been tricked so hard in a mirror maze. There's one more little room at the end with the trippy lights, and then we're out free. Now we're really feeling woozy lol. What even just happened? Very cool experience for an airport. If you ever find your self in Changi, go experience the top floor, it's absolutely worth it.

We decide we are tired and ready to leave to head to the hotel. We go to the passenger pick up spot, call a Grab (their version of Uber) and wait. And wait.. and wait.. and wait. No grabs. It's a Saturday night at 7 and we are in the THICK of rush hour. I look around and see so many people doing the exact same thing as me, phones opened, searching for drivers, hoping to be the next lucky one to be picked. We wait almost 30 mins and give up. We've been up since 5 a.m., have been moving and traveling ALL day, and we wanna go. So we decide to go over to the taxi pick up instead. We go down the escalator and THE LINE....... Ughhhhh.. this is gonna take forever. We have no choice, it's this or keep sitting over in passenger pick up purgatory. We get in line, this time (having learned from traveling so much now) we have a luggage trolly, and it is incredible. If you're traveling and see a little luggage cart, just get it. Use it while you can. It's a lifesaver, and a back saver. We wait probably another 45 mins and then we finally get a taxi!!! Our hotel is only a 25 min ride, but Scott is so pooped he naps along the way. I am incapable of napping properly, so I admire the night time lights of Singapore as we drive along. Ok we made it! This hotel was the priciest of our whole trip, costing almost half, for 4 nights of accommodations, of our hotel budget for the whole 3 week trip. So I had high expectations. The taxi dropped us in a loop, so we grab our backpacks and walk into the doors. It's another shopping mall. With shit, EVERYWHERE. We are exhausted, getting a little testy, and just wanna lay down. We look and look and read all the signs looking for our hotel. We see one sign that says it's on the 10th floor.. okay.. so we head to the elevators, which are also far away and hard to find (just because we aren't used to the photos and symbols for things.. we're figuring it out!). Head up to 10 - walk out - definitely not a hotel, we're like at a club of some sort. We ask the lady at the desk where the hotel is and she just looks confused. She tells us to find 'information' downstairs and ask them. Okay so back down we go, except we didn't see an 'information' desk of any kind.. Soooo.... cool. I'm annoyed, I call the hotel, and in a nice way, as how the fuck do we get there. He's very nice and informs us we went in the wrong door. Of course we did. The door to our hotel is right next to the door we went in lol. Ok now we know, and we see it. Check in was smooth, they give us a coupon for free ice cream (dope) and we head up our room, having to take 2 different elevators. The room was underwhelming at first but the beds were sooooo comfy and it actually was a nice space, with an amazing view.

It's about 9 pm and we are ready for some dinner. I look at the hotel restaurant menu. The rooftop pool bar is open till 10 with last call for food at 9:30. Perfect. We rush up there, and the VIEW.... hollyyyyy... It's OUT OF THIS WORLD. It's an infinity pool with amazing views of the Singapore skyline, including Marina Bay Sands, one of the most iconic buildings there because it looks like a giant boat on top of three pillars. So cool.. We get there at 9:10 and then they inform us they closed their kitchen..... Awesome. We are dead ass tired, Scott can't even think, he's totally tapped out, and now we have to go all the way back down, over to that crazy mall thing again, and hope something is open. We reluctantly do so and are walking around, literally watching people close right in front of us. Apparently Singapore is not a late night place. We saw a Mexican food place right in front that was still serving so we settle on that, order to go and zombie walk up to our rooms. Scott eats like a couple of bites and passes out. I eat my quesadilla, which was actually super fantastic, and sleep time it is.

The next day was originally going to be an exciting day of doing touristy things, but Scott made me agree the night before to have an easier day. Which meant postponing some things. I was okay with it, I was tired too. So we schedule all those things for the following day. Instead, we make a plan to rest and eat. The most important thing on my list to eat in Singapore is their famous Chili Crab 🦀 so we make plans to have that for dinner. For breakfast, we decide to get some truffle ramen... we are both suckers for anythinggg truffle and shit yeah was it good. So much truffle, it was all over my teeth 😂. I didn't care.. worth it. We walk around the shopping mall (the one we were very confused in the night before) and it's insanity in here. It's called Orchard Gateway, and I remember reading about it being a great place to shop, but it's too much lol.. I don't even know how many levels there were, over 10.. but it also crossed over to the other shopping mall across the street, underground, yes another shopping mall. On and off the escalators, up and down and around.. we almost didn't know how to find our way back. We stopped and grabbed some Malaysian buns even though we weren't hungry because there was a massive line there and no where else, so we figured we had to.. Sooo yummy.. 10/10. We make it out to the street to get our bearings and happen to see a street of super cute & colorful houses. Let's go! It's an adorable, historic street, with flower trees and pretty decor all around, so we take a relaxing stroll down it and back. We find a plaque telling us we had stumbled on a place called Emerald Hill. It was rightt next to giant skyscrapers and malls but had such a quaintness to it, it was a nice change of pace for a minute.

Alrighty, back through the mall to go to the hotel pool. First, lets claim our free ice cream! 🍦 This ice cream place actually sells boozy ice cream and it's included! When in Rome, right?? And it's delicious. We change into bathing suits and head to the roof, grab a cocktail and get in the water. The weather the entire time we are in Singapore is rainy and crappy, which kind of sucks.. so the pool feels pretty chilly. It was a nice break from being hot, but it was still very humid and warm the whole time we were there. Luckily the breeze from the changing weather helped a ton with cooling off.

Pool is nice, I float for a bit, Scott naps (are you seeing a theme yet?) and keep the afternoon light with not much going on till dinner. It's time for chiliiiiii crabbbbb. 😻 We decide on a pretty popular place we had seen bouncing around social media called Jumbo seafood. It's a short walk, so we decide to save money and take the scenic route, then we get there and guess what! It's in ANOTHER massive shopping mall. This place is crazy.. how are there so many malls here?? We've never seen so much shopping available. If you like shopping, go to Singapore, you will NOT be disappointed.

Here we areeeeee at JUMBO! I've been waiting for this. I'm so excited. We sit, we grab a bottle of wine (half off for Chinese New Year) and browse the menu. We decide on some fried rice, scallops, the famous CHILI CRAB and some lobster. Our waitress was a funny old lady who totally conned us into getting way too much lobster. She said it was half off, also for CNY, so we were excited and said yes to it, seeing a price tag of like $21 or something like that. Then when she added it to her iPad and asked if that was okay, my eyes got HUGE because that was a per ounce or something price. The lobster alone totaled to something like $200! 😳 Ummmm... that's too much, we ask for a small portion, she is insistent.. she's gonna see us the lobster whether we want it our not. We give in and settle on a price slightly less than that 😂 I swear this lady could run the cartel. She wasn't taking no for an answer. But you know what?? That lobster arrived and DAMMNNN... It was beautiful.. and SOOOOOOO good.. soooo sooo good.. best lobster I've ever had in my life, by far.. I liked it more than the chili crab actually.

Let me show you how good it was by showing you a Before and After of Scott. This is before:

And this is after:

Couldn't breathe, couldn't move, and couldn't be happier. There was no way we were finishing all that so we picked whatever we coldn't fit in our stomachs, threw it in the rice and took it home. Lobster crab fried rice for leftover? Hell yeah. Nothing left to do now but digest and sleep.

Day 3 of Singapore! Today we had to Gardens by the Bay - one of the other main reasons why we came to Singapore in the first place. We buy a tourist pass we have used before and really liked, called the GoCity Pass, because it gives you major discounts on a lot of things by paying upfront. Gardens by the Bay is included, and we are excited! We decided to take the train system because its way cheaper than the expensive taxis and it's not a long trip, so we head down to figure out how to navigate. Singapore's train system is actually quite nice. The trains are air conditioned.. a much needed break from the humidity, the signs are clear, it's extremely clean (its very clean everywhere actually) and very large, so you never feel crowded. At first, we were grateful for the ease of the train. To pay, you don't even need to buy tickets, you can simply swipe any tap to pay card and it just charges it when you tap out. So smart and convenient, everywhere should operate like this. We commute to the gardens and head to the ticket counter. Most attractions are included but the OCBC skyway and Observation Deck aren't, so we purchase these additional tickets.

**One thing we def fucked up on was we left the house too early. We purchased those two extra tickets because we wanted to be on them during the light show of the Supertrees (a famous attraction of Singapore.) The light show is at 7:30 pm and we left the house at 10 am. 😂 That was a big mistake. Being out and about that long, on our feet the ENTIRE time, was difficult. We were just so excited to get going in the morning, and we are on an early schedule waking up around in 6 or 7, we couldn't help it.**

First attraction is the Cloud Forest. They have an Avatar themed exhibit going on right now so we the sounds are very cool, there is "bioluminescence" in different places, you get to create yourself as an Avatar and even fly your own banshee! Cute and touristy, but the flowers and waterfalls and architecture is the real star. We travel through 5+ stories of lush greenery taking escalator after escalator. It was so nice walking around just slowly, taking pics of flowers we've never seen and enjoying the exhibit. Second exhibit was the Floral Dome. It was slightly underwhelming compared to the Cloud Forest, but still nice to explore.

*Side note - there was large fans on the ceilings for circulation and I kid you not, the brand was called "Big Ass Fans." 😂 😂 *

Next was Floral Fantasy, so we follow along the map to go find it. We walk.. and we walk.. and we walk.. and then it rained so we sit for a moment, plus we have lotsss of time to kill lol, and then we walk some more, think we may have past it, are confused and then figure out nope.. its just more walking to get there. If you're ever confused or lost in Singapore, just keep walking. You'll find it.. It's just spread out as fuck so just keep walking lol (and wear comfortable shoes.) Floral Fantasy was cool, a much smaller building with brightly colored flowers all decorated and displayed in different ways. We sit for awhile in there, enjoying the soothing music and break for our little tired feetsies. We still have tons of time to kill, like 4 hours at least, till the light show, and nothing left to do here, so we decide to leave and cross another thing off our bucket list while we wait. We decide to head to the Raffles hotel and get a true, OG Singapore Sling! Royals and celebs alike have gone through here to experience one of the oldest bars and try one of the country's name sakes delicious cocktails. We take the train there and find the Long Bar. We head up the stairs and womp womp, there's a line. That's alright I guess.. time to kill right? We wind up meeting this adorable group of mother, father and son, who are from Newfoundland, Canada, so they are super nice. We tell a little about our stories and they share a little of theirs, as they are finishing a 2 month long trip around Asia. The older couple said they used to go have Singapore slings together when they were 19 years old and "maybe have too many." 😂 You can feel their love and they give us a tiny little pin of the Canadian flag, she gives them out to all the people she connects with while she travels the world. So cute. We immediately put it on our bag and are so grateful for this little moment. Next, its our turn for a spot in Raffles! The hostess asks if bar seating is okay an we say absolutely. She sit us RIGHT next to the famous green cocktail shaker and says it's the best seats in the house. Love it. We've seen it on TV and now we are right there next to it!!! We crunch peanut shells under our feet as we sit down, as the tradition is to pick peanuts right there and throw them right on the floor. Don't mind if we do...It's a stunning bar with all the old charm and extremely expensive, rare liquors. We of course, as you do at Raffles, order the famous Singapore Sling. We watch the bartender make like 20 of them at once and then he delivers ours... mmmmmmmm soooo good!!!

This is normally a $38 cocktail but it's included with our GoCity Pass, luckily lol cuz damn that's expensive. It might be one of the best cocktails I've ever had though, and that's saying something coming from an ex-bartender. We decided to try one more each, and are not disappointed. I get the Rosella Sour and Scott gets the Straits Cup. We both don't know which one we like more. Fantastic drinks. They better be for the price lol. A hundred tiny little peanuts later, (the smallest peanuts I've ever seen) we decide to leave there, grab lunch and then head back for the light show.

Another thing Singapore is famous for is their Hawker centers. Singapore is a relatively expensive country, but one way the locals have combat the high prices is by bringing cheap street food into places called hawkers, which is like a covered street food hall. I google the best ones around, and find one in Chinatown, so we decide to check it out. We take another train, up down escalators, changing lines and all that, and make it to Chinatown. At every train station there is multiple exits, and because we have no idea what we're doing, its always a gamble picking one. We head out and wind up in a place called "people's market," or something like that. There is a smell here... not a good smell.. like if dirty, sweaty ass and old trash combined, that would be it. I say "WTF is that?!?" Scott doesn't know for a moment, then realizes... its durian. The stinkiest fruit there is. I'm telling you that shit STANKS. And it's everywhere. Now I see why they don't let you bring it in airports or hotels, you can literally be fined for it. It's awful. I'm super turned off, we walk a bit longer to the hawker center but I'm not feeling the vibe. This isn't a tourist friendly area of Chinatown. I feel super out of place, and it stinks, not exactly where I wanna get lunch. We find the hawker center and walk around for a second but it looks like I'm going to get a disease if I eat here so I confirm with Scott, vibes not right, we gotta get going, and he agrees. We keep walking (and walking and walking) and find a more suitable place to eat, but it's HOTTT.. and there's no AC.. we also tried to avoid getting Singapore dollars out cuz we didn't wanna pay the ATM fees, so we had to find a place that accepted Visa. We're getting really hungry at this point, it's rainy, we are hot, I'm annoyed and we are both short.. we need to get off our aching feet, and we need to eat something. All the walking really takes it out of you. We find a place that looks good enough, we can't walk anymore, and we sit at a table under a fan for some humidity relief. Problem is.. it's SOOO loud. Between the table next to us, a bunch of drunk dudes, and the speaker BLASTING right above our heads, I'm about to get a headache in like a 60 seconds. We decide to move tables, and move over where it's more bearable. I think the bartender caught the vibe, and changed the music to something not so brain piercing. They actually started playing old American music videos like Bon Jovi and Michael Jackson, so the vibe changed to be pretty good. Scott gets too much fried shit, and feels like of sick after, but I share a part of my curry quesadilla with him and that helps his belly a little, and then we are out of time and need to head back to make it to the light show. (Now we know exactly how much walking we are gonna have to do so we know how to time it.)

We take another train, or two or three, taking what feels like our 40th escalator of the day. We have been turned around so many times taking these trains and navigating the day that I feel like I don't even know which direction is up anymore. We get back to the Gardens and head to the Observation deck. Of course it's still raining, so they have the outdoor parts, including the OCBC skyway (the coolest part) closed for inclement weather. I ask if they will reopen it if the rain calms down and they said yes, but no guarantees. I still have hope!! We paid an extra $50 for this so I really don't want it to go to waste, plus I've been dreaming about doing it!! We go to the top, indoor part of the Observatory and wait patiently, luckily getting to sit. We are so tired, and barely hanging on, but I know it'll be worth it. About 20 mins before the light show, the rain sort of subsides, and the girl walks around and unlocks the door!! YESS!! She says the skyway is unlocked too, but we have to hurry!!! So we run up to the top deck, take in the 360 views for a moment, ask. couple to take our pic and run down to get to the skyway. We run over, head up the elevator, and walk around it, now it's getting darker and they are turning on all the lights of the Supertree Grove, which is beautiful by itself, even without the light show. I'm soo happy. 😊 The skyway is sturdy on the sides and very thin and swings as you walk from one end to the other, freaky feeling in the wind!! We see the terrible dark cloud coming directly our way and just keep our fingers crossed it lasts another 10 minutes without dumping! We see the employees start to shuffle people off the thin part, over to the sturdy parts, and they are waving their lights, trying to get us all to go back down. The light show is literally 6 minutes away from starting, and they keep pushing, but we keep waiting, hoping to be the last ones left up there to see it, but the rain gets worse, and they call it, forcing everyone down to the ground level. Honestly, the skybridge was so cool, and I got tons of pics of the trees, so I'm not really that disappointed. We can still see the light show, just from the ground level rather than being up in the trees themselves as they light up. We pick a spot to stand, and the show begins!! It's called a 'tour through Asia,' and had many types of music, with the tree lights dancing in crazy patterns and lit up all kinds of beautiful ways. It was a once in a lifetime moment. I couldn't help but think that there are so many people in the world who will never be able to see this, and how spectacular it was. I felt so lucky, I got teary eyed and so in the moment. It really was magical. If you can, go see it, it will blow your mind.

Next we head up to the veryyyy top of Marina Bay Sands where they have their famous infinity swimming pool and multiple bars. Included with our GoCity Pass is a free drink at Ce La Vie, one of the bars. We walk over there and try to figure out where it is and how to get there. I am still like cry laughing from joy from the Supertrees, and I'm so excited to watch the second show (there's two every night, an hour apart) from the rooftop. We go up to the 57th floor of Tower 2, body feeling like its buzzing from serotonin, and find it was the wrong tower, we need to be in Tower 3.. okay.. we shoot down to floor one again and walk over to the other tower. The elevator is so fast you kind of feel sick going up and down that fast. Up the third tower we go. Up 57 floors in 15 seconds again. We see Ce La Vie, get really excited cuz its perfect timing and the second light show is about to start, only to be SUPER let down, because they "have a very strict dress code" and men must be wearing closed two shoes. Scott was wearing sandals, so we weren't allowed in. SO disappointing and such a let down after such a high. Would've been nice to know before hand so we didn't waste this time getting here. We reschedule for the following day, even though we weren't planning on coming to this area again, because if you cancel or no show they charge you $50. Are you fucking kidding me??? What kind of bullshit is this. I was so pissed. Whatever.. now we have to come back tomorrow to get our money's worth out of the GoCity pass. Maybe it'll be worth it. We head down, take another few trains and a million more escalators and walk a billion more steps, and we make it back to the hotel. What a fucking long ass day. I'm hungry but both of us are too tired to do anything or try and find any food, so we don't, and we just pass out. We really can't take too much more of Singapore, and the trains and the walking, but we have a couple things to do tomorrow to finish out the pass. Sleep and this comfy bed are very, very needed.

Day 4 of Singapore, the final day. All we have planned today are the rest of the things on the GoCity pass we haven't had time to get done, including an authentic tea drinking experience and the Night Safari. But first, breakfast.

So I mentioned how Singapore doesn't have much partying. Everything closes around 9 or 10 at the latest. No alcohol is allowed to be sold after 10:30 pm, unless you are in a club that has special permission, which aren't common. Well apparently they don't have an early morning crowd either, because nothing opens until 11. We looked and looked and looked for places to get some breakfast and there was no options. We both couldn't take another train, they were driving us nuts. And our FEET 🤕. The day before we had gotten the hotel buffet breakfast and it was super disappointing, and so expensive. It was $90 for crap that didn't taste good and hurt our stomachs, it was a huge fail. I was surprised with how nice the hotel was that that was their breakfast standard. We weren't gonna make that mistake again, so we had to find something elsewhere. In all the freakin shopping malls there was NOTHING open.. I couldn't believe it. Everywhere we tried to order from (cuz google said it was open) wasn't for one reason or another. This day isn't starting well. We finally find a cafe that's a short walk away and head there. The workers were sassy, and we weren't sure at first if they actually were serving breakfast or not because no one else in the cafe had anything but pastries. Luckily they were, so we ordered. It was expensive but at least it was good. A salad, two breakfast Sammies, a pastry and two coffees later, we were satisfied. We still haven't recovered from the past couple of days, our bodies were really sore, and our brains were really tired. Our reservations for tea were originally at 12 pm, but we needed a nap.. REALLY badly.. Scott calls and changes the reservation to 3 pm, thank god. We head back and I am actually super ready for a nap too, for once. Scott's snoring was excessively disruptive the night before, so I had little to no sleep, and to say I needed it was an understatement. I practically fell asleep before my head hit the pillow.

Alrighty, time for tea! We go to catch (another) train (and escalator and train and escalator) back to Chinatown. We are back in the same train stop as yesterday but this time we take a different exit. Man I wish we had taken this one yesterday... its SO much nicer, it looks like a place to find some great authentic food. This time we are just passing through - oh well, on to tea. We find the tea house, called "Tea Chapter." It is one of the oldest tea houses in Singapore. Queen Elizabeth II and Price Charles actually had tea there as well. Photo below for proof 😝 The lady gives us cute, short tour of the building, asks what room we would like, we pick a Japanese style tea room, and we sit down. She says she is going to run to get our tea set. Cute!

She comes back with a small tray of tea things and a pot, turns on the hot water, and shows us how to properly taste tea. First, you rinse all of the tea drinking vessels with hot water to make them warm. Next, you use the bamboo tweezers to grab the cups and pour out the hot water. Next you use the bamboo scoop to put the tea in the small pot. Fill with hot kettle water, wipe off the bubbles on the top, and close the lid. Wait 20 seconds, then pour from the small pot into the large, ceramic pot. to cool. Pour into your tea cup and drink it in three sips. Ladies, pinkies and ring fingers out! Men, pinkies and ring fingers curled in. and that's tea! Do this several times over and over, adding 5 seconds for steep time with every pot. The tea was their signature oolong, the same the queen was served! Very yummy. We decide to get one more kind and enjoy the experience a bit longer. A bunch of school children show up for their tea learning experience, some bowing their heads to us and they pass us, some giggling uncontrollably. You can tell they are excited, its pretty cute to watch. The tea is served with nuts and little tea cookies to nibble on. All in all, a very cute, good experience. 🙂

Time to head home again, we have a bit of time before the night safari, so we choose to not stay out and go back home. Catch another few trains, no big deal. We need to change before the night safari, because right after we are heading to Ce La Vie for a second attempt at claiming our free drinks, so closed toe shoes required for Scott! The Night Safari is the worlds first nocturnal zoo. So you get to see a lot of animals out and about that you normally wouldn't. There is a tram you can hop on and it gives you a 40 minute tour, up close and personal of the animals. So we hop on that! With making our Ce La Vie reservation, that's pretty much all we have time for here. But I'm okay with it because its mosquito hour and they LOVE me, so I'm not trying to walk around and get eaten alive. The unfortunate thing is the commute to the Night Safari was an hour including... you guessed it, TRAINS! and a bus as well. So an hour there, 40 min tram, hour commute back.. lol whatever. It was cool experience, but I was ready to leave Singapore. The busy-ness, the constant train taking and walking, it was all getting to be too much. I wasn't really enjoying myself anymore. I missed Thailand, and I just wanted to go back. Before I can, we have to make one more stop - fucking Ce La Vie. We train back and head right back up to Tower 3, 57th floor. We are right on time for our reservation but they take 15 mins to seat us, at 9:15 at night. It's so pretentious there we barely even wanna be there. We just want to get our moneys worth. We are seated at a bar table, totally fine, and order some Aperol Spritz's to start. They weren't nearly as good as mine. 😋 Then we decide to get some small food items including mashed potatoes, ravioli, and broccolini.

The food was actually great. Elevated, not even disappointing for the amount of money we were spending on it, flavors were good and unique. We were happy. We get our "free" glass of wine, down it all, and are ready for the check. The check takes awhile as they have to do the GoCity Pass discount, and the bartender doesn't have much going on, but he notices us looking at his techniques. He did a really cool trick I've actually never seen before, where he spun a soda water can on his palm, it suctioned to it somehow, and he could pour it as a topper in a drink open faced and upside down. Hard to describe, but a very cool trick, so we clapped and said neat! This peaked his interest in us. He asked if we were on holiday, we said we were on our honeymoon and he perked up even more, saying "ohh congratulations!!" Then to our surprise, he sent over two chilled lemony shots and another round of wine, on him. So nice!! We finally got something for free for our honeymoon!!! Shots were yummy, wine was tasty. It was a nice, poetic way to say "Ce La Vie" to Singapore. Back to get on one more set of trains, and we can finally be done with them. We are READY for island life. Ready for our days to slow down. Ready to get back to Thailand. Ready to leave Singapore, just ready. Tomorrow - we leave early in the morning! We wake up, sore as fuck. Pack, and decide to opt OUT of taking the train and take a taxi instead, well worth the money. Good bye Singapore, hellooooo Thai islands. 😎🌴

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🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ - Happy pride Month!!!!

I posted that on my others socials but strangely not this one even though tumbler has all my gay wrasslin' buddy's lol.

My journey started when I came out as non binary at ten years old, I was always a tomboy but never thought it was possible to be a man so I insisted on having no gender because I've never felt right being a female. Nobody took me seriously and still called me by she/her pronouns.

Even for the people whom called me an "it" (upon my request) I didn't feel right. It wasn't till I matured and started exploring myself and researched my feelings that I found out I'm a man. It's still hard being constantly dead named and misgendered but I feel better now then ever. I never really had to come out about my sexuality but coming out about my gender is and was one of the hardest things I've done.

Usually I'm self conscious about my body and dysphoria makes it difficult to share pics like this but it's pride Month and I'm a man so im proud of my identity even if my body doesn't match for now and representation matters so I hope anyone looking can relate to my body and my story and realize they're not alone.

CW: Binder.

(Ps, this filter really helps highlight the parts I want seen makes the parts I don't want seen too bright to see. )

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i went to a hockey game yesterday, and ofc the entire time i couldn’t stop thinking ab mattfoggy.

like imagine an au where foggy is a famous hockey player (like celeb level) and matt is his supportive lawyer bf. matt comes to every single game he can and they’re not exactly hiding their relationship, it’s just that it never really comes up in sports interviews. but one day the paparazzi catch a pic of them kissing on a beach somewhere and it BLOWS UP. like everyone is freaking out everywhere about this mystery man.

matt legit lives under a societal rock so he has no idea ab any of this until suddenly he’s at a game and he gets SWARMED bc superfans recognize him.

after the game, foggy gets asked ab who he was with and who inspires him to get through hard games and almost all of his answers are ab matt and he’s just the cheesiest fella ever.

ok i know jack shit about any sports, least of all hockey so i just,, skipped over the actually hockey parts alskfaslfk. also yes i did name foggy's team the ducks just because elden henson was in the mighty ducks, a movie i have not seen (and the other team is the coyotes cause i'm from az lol go team)

hope you like it!

1.1k, T, no warnings

Foggy's used to the sound of Matt puttering around in the kitchen while he watches TV. Tonight is movie night, and Matt insisted that popcorn was absolutely, 100% necessary in order for him to truly enjoy This is Spinal Tap. Foggy's already got the movie loaded up on the screen, and he checks his phone while the smell of popcorn gradually starts to permeate the whole apartment.

It's all normal, for the most part. Family email chain that he won't read, reminders in the team group chat about when to be at the stadium for tomorrow's game, all pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. Against his better judgement, he decides to check Twitter, too.

Foggy's always got tons of Twitter notifications. It's part of being famous, probably, as much as it still feels weird to call himself "famous". But tonight, he's got, like, tons of Twitter notifications. Clicking over to the Trending page, he finally sees it.

Almost the entire screen is taken up by a picture of him and Matt at lunch earlier today. Foggy had gone out of the way to dress discretely, keeping his hair in a low bun and wearing the full hat-sunglasses-baggy clothes ensemble to try and blend in. Apparently, though, that wasn't enough for the paparazzi, as they had apparently seen through his disguise well enough to know that it was him kissing Matt on the patio of that cafe.

Hockey Star Foggy Nelson Caught Kissing Mystery Man, the headline reads. Foggy Nelson, who has tried his hardest to keep his private life private. Foggy Nelson, who's always gone out of his way to avoid paparazzi.

Foggy Nelson, who is still in the closet.

Foggy shoots up on the couch as his heart starts pounding in his chest. Matt, having surely heard his skyrocketing pulse, rushes over from where he was pouring popcorn into a large bowl for them to share. "Fogs, what's wrong?"

"The--" Foggy clears his throat and tries to keep his voice even, "The tabloids saw us today. They saw us kissing."

Matt lowers himself tentatively onto the couch beside Foggy and rests a hand on his shoulder. "I, um, I'm guessing it's pretty out-there by now?"

"Top of the Trending page on Twitter," Foggy quietly confirms.

"Hey, Foggy, baby," Matt says as he takes Foggy's face in both of his hands, "it's okay. We knew this would happen eventually, right? Jenny and the rest of the PR team already had a plan for damage control when we got together, you know that."

Foggy couldn't find a good enough rebuttal for that, but he still needed to panic a little bit. "Matty, you-- they'll know who you are now. They're not gonna leave you alone, they're gonna be coming after you for interviews, and-- and digging into your past, and--"

"Foggy!" Matt shook Foggy's head slightly to shut him up. "I knew that all of that was a possibility when we started going out, and I've made my peace with it. They can do all the digging they like, I don't have anything to hide from them." Foggy raised a skeptical eyebrow and Matt conceded, "Okay, I don't have anything to hide from them that can be found on any sort of public record."

Foggy closed his eyes and took a deep breath, leaning his head into Matt's hands. "I know, I know, just... I hoped we'd get a little longer to just be us."

Matt kissed Foggy's forehead and smiled gently. "I think, all things considered, two years of 'just us' is a pretty good run, right? Besides, now I can finally be the arm candy I was always meant to be."

Foggy scoffed and lifted his head out of Matt's hold. "Oh, you just wanna be my trophy boyfriend, is that it?"

"Damn it, you've seen through my plan," Matt said dryly as he retrieved the popcorn bowl from the kitchen island. He kissed Foggy's hair, plopped down onto the couch beside him, and pointedly tore Foggy's phone out of his hand before placing it out of reach on the coffee table. "No more Twitter and paparazzi, I wanna listen to a fake hair band fight with each other."

The game the next day went as well as it could've. Sure, Foggy got a few odd looks in the locker room from the few teammates he hadn't come out to yet, but he brought everything he had onto the ice and it paid off. Everyone and their mother came to see the Ducks face off against the Coyotes, and Foggy could see Matt cheering him on from his usual rink-side seat.

Foggy scored the winning point with a move that felt like it was ripped straight out of some cheesy Disney Channel movie, and he's sure that the pictures of him making it would be the top of his Wikipedia page for years to come. Maybe it's the adrenaline, maybe some sort of post-outing rush of freedom, but after the game is over, Foggy finds himself immediately skating over to Matt.

Foggy calls out his name so he will have an excuse for knowing where he is. Matt stands up and leans slightly over the railing before Foggy places a gloved hand onto his cheek and pulls him down into a deep kiss. The roaring crowd around them fades into the background, and Foggy allows himself to have one single moment of loving his boyfriend in public before the press close in on them.

Foggy pulls away to see Matt grinning wider than he ever has before, and pats his face one last time before skating away toward the locker room.

Foggy takes his time changing out of all his gear, he knows that Matt is waiting for him just outside the locker room door like he always does. Once he finally can't find any more ways to stall, he steps out of the locker room, greets Matt with a gentle, nervous kiss, and they make their way out of the stadium, hand-in-hand.

They're immediately hit by a wall of sound and flashing lights the moment they open the door, and Foggy squeezes Matt's hand as tight as he can. He takes a deep breath and steps forward, chin held high.

"Foggy, Foggy!" One reporter shouts above the rest of the crowd. "Is this the same man you were seen kissing yesterday?"

Foggy takes one more look at Matt's reassuring smile and squares his shoulders. "Yeah. This is Matt Murdock, he's my boyfriend."

Despite the anxiety about the shitstorm of homophobic tweets he's about to get tagged in, despite the knowledge that he's probably gonna be known as "that one gay hockey player" for the rest of his career, Foggy feels his heart fill up with warmth because he knows, he knows, that Matt will be there. For all of it.

#this is also your sign to watch this is spinal tap #my fic #anon #request #daredevil #mattfoggy #matt murdock #foggy nelson #nmcu #netflix daredevil #daredevil fanfiction

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