The sun is shining, I'm listening to jack's mannequin, and I am making unsupervised trips to both dunelm and hobbycraft so ripppppppp my bank account today 😎

Growth scans might not be the most reliable at measuring babies at this gestation but today's measurements have got me starting daily pep talks with my vagina about how we can get through this if we work together as a team 🫠🫠🫠

A very sneezy congested cold at 37 weeks preg is my new definition of hell. My pelvic floor is well and truly on its last legs rn

Turns out some little shit's parting mat leave gift to me was a raging cold so if anyone needs me I will just be lounging in excessive misery surrounded by tissues for the next few days 😭

"sleep while u can before baby is here" would love to be doing that unfortunately I cannot seem to shake the persistent 2am-5am wide awake periods every single night rn 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Finished with work until April 2027 ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

I am down to SINGLE DIGITS of teaching hours left before I go on leave. SINGLE. DIGITS. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Sunday scaries turned into Monday scaries lmaoooooo 🫠

I re-read this masterpiece by @slightestwind.bsky.social this morning and you should too! ☀️ archiveofourown.org/works/63990991

This is my final week of work before my year of mat leave and it is prompting the worst Sunday scaries I have experienced in YEARS. Idk what that's about but I am Not. A. Fan.

Fun fact: I always love fic comment emails but I especially love fic comment emails when they're for seven point three miles my beloved

CAN THE CHILDREN I HAVE DIRECT TEACHING CONTACT WITH PLEASE STOP GETTING SHINGLES LOL 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

Does anybody have any good links for artists that do illustration-y nature themed prints? Birds, plants etc. trying to get more art for the nursery now it's finally being put together 😅 (no YOU'VE only got 5 weeks til due date shut up)

We bought leafgreen not realising I wouldn't be able to get oddish 😭 if anyone is playing/planning on firered pls keep me in your thoughts for a future trade PLS

Eating cereal at 4.25 in the morning because I've had 3 hours sleep, I've been awake since 1.30, and I am sloooooooowwwlllyyy losing my grip on reality lmaooooo

BANDOM, BABEYYYY! Primarily though livejournal, and I must've been around 14? 15 or so?

ok hi everypony after much stressing i decided that it would probably b ok and even a good idea to gofundme fr top surgery related costs. so this is that. any shares/donations would mean a lot to me/help me feel a lot more secure about something i am actually so scared about <3 gofund.me/b46ced9d6

Procrastination except it's me stalling on buying the last few things on the baby list because they're the big expensive ones and even though we need them I'm just uuuugjfjghghfh at how much money it all costs 😭😭😭

I know this is a weird thing to be smug about, but every time I get a good grade in being pregnant (blood pressure, urine dip, fundal height etc) it feels like a very satisfying middle finger to every statistic that says I can't possibly have a low risk pregnancy as a fat person.

An hour later and in classic cat behaviour we have the evergreen "I will sit near you but I'm not going to make it look like I'm actually ENJOYING it. Just coincidental that I'm laying here. Pure chance. Tbh I didn't even know you were also here."

There is no greater joy in life than the happy chirps and tail wibbles of your cat when you get home after a day at work. Like, yes! I am home! And I am so pleased to see you too!!

I have been laying awake for 2 hours for absolutely no reason (it is now 5am) and I'm not mad at all about mr em gently snuffling away next to me the whole time but also I am absolutely irrationally enraged that he gets to do that all carefree and whatever

I love modern medicine I love vaccines I love that modern medicine means I can have vaccines now that will protect my still in utero kiddo when she eventually makes her way earthside and I love trusting actual medical professionals with things!!!

Genuinely sad about my brain just completely switching off the capability to write for recreation because I keep remembering absolutely banger ideas for fics I had that will never see the light of day and visualising them in a little fic graveyard in my head is like 😭😭😭

The guy doing my maternity cover started today which is making this whole thing feel VERY REAL and VERY SOON but tbh I am very much looking forward to 57 entire weeks away from this place 🫠

I am 5'11 and loooong in the torso, so you'd be forgiven for thinking this kid would have plenty of space to dick around in there but fuck me if there's only so many more weeks of getting munted right in the ribcage I can take 🫠

The worst thing I have learnt whilst being pregnant is the new knowledge that experiencing a process society deems the absolute height of femininity brings out the worst in young men's misogyny. I have never experienced more degrading behaviour from teenage boys than I have the last 5-6 months.

I think a lot about an ed who gets up at 3am every morning to do all the prep work for his tiny side alley bakery, with only the unnecessarily chirpy witching hour radio host for company. And a stede who stops by the bakery closest to his house every morning for a pastry before bed (1/3)

"NeWbORn tIrEd iS wOrSe tHaN pReGnAnCy TiReD JUST U WAIT!!!" thanks for your input Sharon but at least with a newborn I won't be driving into work every single day to deal with other people's children for 6 straight hours will I. Or have meetings. Or emails to answer.

All the people the universe could take from us right now and it chooses Catherine O'Hara 😥

It just does not seem reasonable for me to be expected to perform my job like normal while a small human does her best to escape my body via my abdominal wall for 20 min bursts at a time.

Life is a disaster but I did at least come out of a meeting today with my headteacher fully encouraging me to game the shared parental leave system to get an extra 9 weeks of full pay mat leave. AND it means Mr Em can take as many of those 9 weeks as he can as extra paternity leave. Small wins.

So barely 2 months after my lovely nana passed, my grandpa joined her after a very quick and unexpected illness. From both maternal grandparents in October, to no living grandparents whatsoever now. Doing about as well as you'd expect rn.

Just doesn't feel like the safe space ship everyone wants it to be anymore, does it.

Do I want to watch the hockey show? Yes. Do I know anything about hockey? No. Am I fearful it will take over my already full brain? Very yes.

Ended up going to maternity triage last night bc babygirl decided that new year's day was a great time to play a 12 hour round of sleeping lions and she is MAKING UP FOR IT TODAY by playing constant karate with my internal organs. Girl pls. Can we have some kind of consistency here.

Slightly hypothetical question: what do you do with a partially published fic that you're sadly slowly realising (accepting) you'll probably never finish? (life comes at u fast huh) leave what's there up? Chuck it in a private collection? Lay down and cry?

Listen I know the whole point of the glucose test is to stress test your body's reaction to sugar but fuck me that's one hell of a brutal sugar crash when it drops off 😭

Shout out to whoever made the glucose drink taste like burnt plastic with a hint of citrus 👍 makes it really easy to get down on an empty stomach 👍👍👍

I have my glucose tolerance test tomorrow morning (shout out to the crime of being fat and pregnant) and I have 2 choices: do I take my work laptop and do a bunch of planning for the new year, or do I take my Chromebook and attempt to write for the first time in forever

MIL showing concern the only way she knows how, by declaring that I look like I've lost weight, then despairing that I SHOULDN'T be losing weight in my ~condition~. Like girl idk what to tell you I'm eating like a horse and the baby appears to be growing appropriately????

A deliciously filthy snapshot of a sex scene just dropped fully formed into my head and now I'm just laying here on the sofa trying to figure out how I build the rest of the scene around it

Good morning merry Christmas if you celebrate, happy Thursday if you don't! Mr Em has decided to start the day by having the existential crisis of "this is our last Christmas where we won't be someone's parents" and now I am 🫠

Pining while fucking got canonised as a tag and I STILL haven't finished writing the 3rd chapter of old res 😭

Girl this is NOT helpful

ANDREW MCMAHON IS DEVELOPING A TV SERIES SET IN THE EARLY 00S BASED ON KONSTANTINE? oh my god.

I cannot emphasise enough how much of a deliberate choice it was for this to be a T rated fic, for the story to be purely about emotional connection. There will always be naysayers to non-explicit fics in fandom. Always. But T rated fics will always have an audience. Tell your story, regardless 💛

Rhubarb is laying on my belly and she and the baby seem to have got themselves into a cycle of: cat purrs, baby kicks. Cat purrs harder from surprise, baby goes mental. Cat keeps purring, rinse and repeat etc etc etc. I'm just laying here taking it all like a sucker while they commune.

Had an unexpectedly good night's sleep last night for the first time in weeks and I'm utilising the brain power to happily daydream about all the seasonal fic I'm not writing right now 😌

Ed and Steve sitting around a winter solstice bonfire, just a small one, no chance of getting out of hand. Burning little paper notes that they've written all their regrets and sadnesses on for the year. Ushering in the longer, brighter days and saying goodbye to the darkness (cont..)