Got a long list of notifs I can't bring myself to open and reply to bc my life is just too full of growing a kid who's not yet big enough to reliably let me know she's ok on a daily basis and a funeral to attend next week and a flat to pack up because we're moving next week and a full time job and.

Lungs is in the process of turning two, and seven point three miles turns three in a few weeks time, and I want to believe I have the capacity to write something to celebrate ONE of these two, considering they feel like my keystone fics, but ALAS. I continue to wish my writing back 😭

For those keeping track, em jr will be assigned female at birth! And she kept her chin tucked to her chest for her entire scan regardless of how much we harassed her so we have to go back for a rescan 🙃 I'm growing a stubborn, shy, wiggly kid.

Cannot recommend grieving a close family member while pregnant. It gets to 6.30 in the evening and I am emotionally and physically DONE with the day but nowhere near tired enough to go to sleep so I'm just idk, drifting through the last few hours before bed 🫠

Seems excessive but I'll take it

My nana passed last night. And I don't know how to measure sadness but I know this is the most I've felt in my entire life.

Mum last Friday: nanny is very unwell and won't get better, go visit her this weekend while she still recognises you. Monday: nanny has brightened up and is looking much better today! Today: nanny is on palliative care and all treatment has been withdrawn. So. There we go.

Some things are evergreen and by some things I mean alexis in schitt's creek 3x04 driving test. People aren't thinking about you the way you're thinking about you. Nobody cares. (/pos)

GENUINELY DEVASTATED 😭 a soup I loved and have been craving for WEEKS has had the recipe changed and now it is full of spring onion 😭 I didn't check before buying 2 tubs, opened one just now for lunch and I am ASSAULTED by the smell I could genuinely cry

I want to knit myself a baby blanket but the issue is if it's not knit or purl I am wildly out of my depth and I have NO PATIENCE to try and learn anything new right now 😤

On a train to London half full of people going to MCM (including a guy in a full Mando costume) but because life comes at you fast we are instead on our way to BABYCON 👶(not a joke. We're gonna try out so many buggies on the buggy obstacle course)

I personally think I am god's strongest soldier for surviving this entire 8 week term whilst in the depths of the first trimester/early second trimester trenches with only ONE SINGLE SICK DAY. god's strongest fucking soldier.

I don't wish to alarm anyone but

I am running out of plausible bump deniability and will soon have to tell the kids that no, it's not a result of mcds opening 10 mins from the school, it is, in fact, a baby. And the issue with that is that there isn't a single child in my school (secondary) that doesn't know how babies are made 🙃

Great news on the writing front! I've upgraded from considering wiping my WIP from the face of the earth (ao3) to reading everything I have that's currently unpublished, and writing the rest of the chapter in my head?? Great success! (Still need to get something down on paper, but baby steps!)

It's 6.45 in the morning and I'm just laying in bed thinking I could absolutely demolish a roast dinner right about now. No energy to cook one, I just want to eat it.

Well now I absolutely need a rock/popstar ed fic in which he writes an entirely unnecessary, cringe, and very much not asked for song about how his new boyfriend's massive dick changed his life.

Karaoke sex chicken sequel except it's 5 times ed and stede managed to toe the line of public sex offences at jackie'z and the one time they broke an all time record for both Jackie penalty points and the length of their resulting ban ✌️

How's pregnancy going you ask? Well, I just spent 10 minutes sitting on the kitchen floor uncontrollably sobbing because I accidentally broke the little bowl I made in my first proper ceramics class that my cat eats her treats from 😔

Mr em has covid 🙃✌️

My "growing a new human is very tiring" afternoon lay downs have become such a staple of my day that I am now the proud owner of a special sofa duvet set and memory foam pillow I can have "actual rest, not just sad lay downs" - direct quote from Mr Em

Hello I am pleased to announce that despite Dr Doom's empathy lacking not-diagnosis back in August, we have now confirmed, with the help of the most lovely sonographer, a kiwifruit sized em jr with all the right parts a baby should have at this stage of growing 😌

Perhaps this is quite niche but I have caught up with the sewing bee and to say I am shocked, appalled, and deeply upset would be an understatement

My limited internet time truly RUINED by being blocked from all the nsfw channels in every discord under the sun because I refuse to verify my age 😔 I just wanna look at rude things in peace 😔

Some positive news re: this hell. Saw my community midwife for the first time today and she's SO MAD about this, apologised so much for our experience, and has directed us to the feedback and complaints 😌 best believe I've got my typing fingers ready.

Man, I miss the person I was three years ago when I was in the depths of plotting and writing seven point three miles. I was a Storytelling Machine back then 😭

the real answer, i know, is both. both is good. but authors: would you rather nail the opening line of a story, or the closing line?

Life continues to Life with a capital L but the one nice thing I have managed this summer is the completion of my OG 151 cross stitch after 3 years and god knows how many stitches of work 🙌

A little bit overwhelmed by everyone's love and support rn. As you can imagine mr em and I have absolutely negative spoons for anything and I cannot possibly reply to everyone individually but we are feeling your love and thank you all 💛

Cw: pregnancy. Not really the way I saw myself sharing this news, but I need somewhere to Feel about the abject cruelty of a male Dr *laughing* through his explanation of "bleeding at this stage of pregnancy goes one of two ways and we'll find out at your 12 week scan which one it is!"

It is done.

old res ed, enter stage left 🌲 chapter two of old reservoir is waiting for you here: archiveofourown.org/works/667105... 💛 #ofmdfic

It is the final Monday of the school year. 4.5 days, 11 lessons, 2 break duties, and 3 meetings stand between me and the summer break. I ate jellybeans for breakfast. I have my timetable for next year and it is Not Bad 🙏

Something about the 8pm hour every single day that has me thinking "I should post another chapter of reservoir" when I'm already too tired to go through the rigmarole of putting it on ao3. I will never, ever learn.

just call me the outlier em georg because we just accepted an offer of full asking price for our flat 3 (three) days after it was listed for sale 😂

Do u ever feel like adulthood is coming at you at a faster pace than you are willing to deal with? Brought to you by our flat being listed for sale YESTERDAY and now we are having viewings tomorrow and Saturday. Feeling very Lucius this is far too fast this is far too fast this is far too fast.gif

The sale listing for our flat went up today, including a virtual tour of every single room. The software they use clearly has an automatic facial recognition blur for people's personal photos, and poor Lionel fell victim to the ai 😂

Estate agent paperwork signed, photographs taken, house DIY 98% complete. I am just desperate to get my brain back for things that are fun like writing fanfiction, and bullying friends into drawing things to accompany fanfiction, and thinking about fanfiction 😭

Ohhhh, I’m on fire. Please enjoy this Sunday scribble as my offering to the bonfire. I read the early draft of That Scene once, two days ago. Apologies that they’re not horizontal, but have a little lip tracing as a treat (it’s all speculative fantasy at this point). #OFMD #OFMDfanart

sunday morning bowl of barb

Reading the little script excerpt then looking at the reservoir fic outline. Then back at the script. Then back at the fic outline...

playing with light - #ofmdart #edteach

it's a win for me in the category of "I'm on Fire being the song that finally gets ed and stede in bed together" 😌

God I hope I have time to write this weekend 😭

I don't even care if it's not real lol

Because I am a sillybitch™️ with no regard for my own wellbeing I have in fact signed up for the big bang to write an entirely different fic 😌

Genuine question how do you stay focused working from home??? All my stuff is here! My CAT is here. I don't want to do work I want to do my cross stitch or play world of warcraft or go for a walk. Work is for work. Not for home.

#wipwednesday reservoir boys: ed pov edition 😌

This surprise WFH is serendipitous because the estate agent is coming round this afternoon to write his report and measure our flat ready to put it up for sale and I am NERVOUS.

No sweeter words to see in an email subject than "emergency school closure", closely followed by the phrase "please work from home for the remainder of today and tomorrow"