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silly mini comic thing with tim & kate
For our Lioness, The Princess of Wales, and anyone else who needs a healing touch. 👑
StEx Ship Appreciation Month Day Thirty-One: Rusty x Brexit
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it's less than 3 hours til @selfcontrol-idkher turns a year older and I just wanna write a speech here about how much I love you, Kate. I feel like we've been friends for longer than a year, and I know it'll be longer than that too. There's a red string connecting our pinkies to each others even across the world, I swear. I love you, and I'm always here for you always. Happy birthday!! I'm so proud of you for coming so far and I love you just for existing 💜💖❤💜💖❤💜❤💖❤
this is us, we both know it 😌
HAPPY BFSN/BFGD! <3
I rarely do a BFSN post (I really needa work on posting more), but to everyone who still tags me every week, just know I love and appreciate all of you and thank you for thinking of me<33
I just got home from camping and have to unpack everything so I don’t have time to do clown makeup like we all planned in the discord so here’s a throwback to when I tried to do a Harley Quinn inspired makeup look😭 And here’s a picture of me without the makeup because even without it, I’m STILL a proud citizen of clown town.
I’m grateful for everyone in thebellarkes discord, it’s been lovely talking and getting to know all of you! Special shout-out to @swainlake for BEING THE ABSOLUTE BEST HUMAN BEING! thank you mama sarah for what you created and for making everyone feel welcome and for taking care of all of us when we need help. ILY BITCH. Also s/o to devon @ladyoldstones who’s been KILLING IT with her gifs and blessing this fandom with so much good content<3
Lastly, 6x11 IS HERE BITCHES. I feel like we’ve all been anxiously waiting for this day, and I can’t believe it’s finally here. Whatever happens in the episode, I’m so incredibly proud of Bob, and I can’t wait to see his vision played out on screen. BE WELL, BE KIND.
Nora and Lily as friends
Nora opened the door to Jitters and immediately felt at ease upon seeing the bright smile of her friend. This was their time. Their time to be kid free, be two women who were in the same season of life, so despite physically being kid free, they knew each other’s priorities and could give advice accordingly. Ever since Lily had tutored Nora and helped her get her GED they met up weekly. Once Nora completed her GED, they continued meeting up weekly, for coffee, to have some time just to be Lily and just to be Nora. No other expectation than to be themselves.
Nora loved being a wife and mom, don’t get her wrong. She knew Lily that life too. But there was something about being able to order coffee without making sure your kid who was allergic to gluten wasn’t demanding treats they couldn’t have, or drinking cold hot cocoa because your kids had to eat and drink first.
Ray was there to quell some of that, for sure, he was such a huge help but Ray also deserved to have his own life. That was either by having a D&D night with Gary or a movie night with Nate or anything else that hit his fancy.
This time with Lily or any of her other friends (Ava, Mona, Gary) was hers though. And she was glad she could sit and relax with another mom. It leveled the playing field a bit.
Lily stood to hug her friend and they held on for a long time. Life had been busy and this was the first time in almost a month they’d be able to do this. They were used to weekly coffee meet ups, so this month felt like an eternity.
“Oh how tempting it was to use my dad’s time stone and just jump a month ahead.” Nora rubbed her friend’s back affectionately.
“But you would’ve missed the first half of the new season of Star Trek: Picard!”
Nora laughed and pulled back. “Good point.”
“Wasn’t it good?”
“Amazing!”
The pair sat across from each other and Nora smiled seeing not one but two cups between them.
“Lily you have got to stop getting here so early and buying both of our drinks!”
“It just expedites things. That way we can jump right into conversation. Sue me.” Lily took a swig of her chai tea.
Nora smirked and raised the cup to her lips. “So how is Ronnie adjusting to the rest of second grade?”
“Good! He really likes his teacher but still loves to argue that mommy is so smart she could just teach him everything. If she could teacher Aunt Nora, why can’t mommy teacher him?”
Nora laughed. “Because Ronnie needs to go to school and make friends. You never know when that’ll end.” There was no bitterness in her tone despite the reference to her abrupt halt in schooling. Nora now was working on a college degree and when Lily tutored her, she never once made her feel stupid. Everything worked out the way it was meant to.
“I’ll drink to that. The 6 hours without him going ‘mommy mommy’ while I’m trying to solve an old theorem of my dad’s is definitely nice.”
“When is Winter Break?”
“Two weeks. And then it lasts for two weeks. I remember loving that as a kid, as a mom? I’m ready for it to be over.”
“Ah yes but then your babies won’t be babies anymore and you’ll be begging for them to come home on winter break from whatever fancy Ivy League school your no doubt genius kids will get into.”
“If they want that I’ll make sure they get their asses home.”
“I’ll hold you to that and you owe me wine if it doesn’t pan out.”
“If we buy it now it’ll be aged 18 years. Sounds like a plan.”
“A perfect celebration.”
The comment made a lightbulb go off in Lily’s mind. She snapped her fingers and reached under the table and presented a fancy gift bag to Nora.
“What’s this?”
“Well I know it’s not until Tuesday but I wasn’t sure when we’d hang out next so, happy birthday!”
Nora froze. Ray had always celebrated her birthday with her, had been the first person to celebrate her birthday. Now that they had kids the kids celebrated to but she never had a friend just out of the blue get her a birthday gift. Sure the Legends always wished her happy birthday but there were just so many of them and so many birthdays to keep up with so getting each other presents just wasn’t really a thing.
“What?” Lily asked. She paled. “Oh god did I miss it? Did I get the date wrong? It’s Tuesday right?”
Nora nodded and sucked in a breath. Lily had really done this? “You got me a birthday present?”
“Yeah but if I got it wrong I’m so sorry!”
Nora shook her head. “No. My birthday is Tuesday. Ray’s always done stuff and now Ray and the kids but... no one’s, not friends anyways, has ever just gotten me a birthday present.”
“Well you definitely deserve to be celebrated and this is way more fun! Please! Open it!”
Nora grinned shyly and peeked at the tissue paper. “I can really open it?”
“Yeah it’s your birthday! Or will be on Tuesday, go to town! You’re one of my closest friends and I wanted to get you something special.”
“Should I be scared?”
“No!” Lily took out her phone, ready to record. “Okay open it!”
Nora pulled away the first layers of tissue paper and pulled out a book. The latest book from a romance author (other than Rebecca Silver) that she adored. “The new Charleston Heat book how did you know?”
“You’ve only been talking about it at book club for months!” Lily laughed. “And look inside!” She pointed to the cover.
Nora flipped through the book to the title page, and there it was signed and personalized to her.
“You got it signed?” Nora’s throat tightened.
“They were doing free personalization with pre-order, I couldn’t not!”
Nora wiped away her tears and sat the book down. “Thank you so much I love it.”
“That’s not all!”
Nora continued to search in the bag and found a birthday card, a monogrammed bookmark to use in her new book, a box of her favorite candy, and a framed photo of the two of them that Ray took at the end of summer picnic she and Ray hosted every year.
“You did all of this? For me?”
Lily nodded. “You’re my friend, putting this together was no trouble. Happy birthday, Nora!” She stopped recording and sat her phone down.
Nora stood to hug her friend. “Thanks, Lily, for everything.”