#it's still too cold

[divinemissem13]

Time Stands Still 13

@flufftober Day 13: "It's still too cold!" - "No it's not" Fandom: Doctor Who (Donna Noble & Rose Temple Noble & Fourteen) 200 words, G Read all the chapters here

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“It’s still too cold,” Donna insisted.

“Oh, go on! It’s perfect!” the Doctor shot back.

“I don’t even like swimming. I’ll just sit here and enjoy the sun. You go.”

The Doctor pulled out his best sad puppy eyes, but Donna had long been immune to that particular tactic. What she wasn’t expecting was the sneak attack when she turned away from him.

“Pleeease, Mum?” Rose begged with her own puppy dog face.

Donna looked between two of the faces she loved most in the universe and knew she was losing. So she changed tactics.

“Last one in is a rotten egg!” she called, running towards the water, as Rose and the Doctor trailed behind. Right at the edge, though, she stopped short as the others rushed past her into the pool.

By the time their soaking wet heads bobbed above the water, Donna was already stretched out on her lounge chair in the sun. “How’s the water?” she smirked as she adjusted her sun hat.

“G-g-great!” Rose replied through chattering teeth.

“It’s p-p-perfect, the Doctor agreed.

“Mmhmm,” Donna hummed smugly as she opened her magazine. Surreptitiously, she watched the two shivering figures and wondered which would give in first.

#fluffspring2024 #flarch #doctor who #i wrote this #fanfic #ao3 link #fluff #double drabble #fourteenth doctor #rose temple noble #it's still too cold #donna noble

[zephyrchama]

(obey me!) moments where they fall in love with you all over again

---01

It’s dinner, and you’re talking about mundane things that happened during your day. You saw a cool bird, got some gum stuck on your shoe, and bought a new flavor of toothpaste to try. Everyone is listening intently. If only they would pay this much attention in class.

Lucifer knows the way his brothers look at you all too well. It’s a look full of respect, admiration, and fondness. It’s a look that’s often reflected on his own face when in your presence. At first he never really understood why you put up with his siblings, as the option to ignore them and be on your way was always there. Yet you continue to make time for them anyway. How unusual.

Moments like these where everyone is together and you don’t treat them as the Seven Rulers of Hell, you just treat them as your dear friends and family. That’s what makes Lucifer soft. He tries to imagine a long future of things staying just like this.

---02

Mammon’s hesitant to lend anybody money, even you. It takes a few minutes to butter him up and fluff his ego before he relents. At last, he hands you the crispest bill in his wallet. “Don’t spend it all in one place,” he kids, knowing full well he’d do just that if he was in your shoes.

He’s curious what you plan to buy. It never dawns on him that you have no intention of spending the cash. Half an hour later, he finds it on his desk. The exact same bill, now creased and folded neatly into an origami bird.

He picks it up to wiggle the little paper wings, entranced, then looks around frantically and catches your eye. A playful smile graces your face and tugs at his heartstrings.

---03

Leviathan is not typically one to make mistakes when it comes to anime. But even he’s not perfect.

He had it set in his mind that the new show premiered at 6:00pm, which left plenty of time to prepare the ultimate solo viewing party after school. He was humming quietly to himself when you walked over. “Isn’t your show starting soon?”

You specifically took an interest in his hobbies. You remembered that it started at 16:00 (four o’clock), not 6:00. Leviathan wondered, how could he make such a egregious mistake? You were the one who dashed back to the House of Lamentation at full speed by his side. When your human stamina started failing, he unconsciously picked you up so you’d both make it in time. You made it with two minutes to spare.

Sweaty and out of breath, still in uniform, you were able to watch the premiere together. It wasn’t until after credits rolled, you went elsewhere, and the live reactions on social media started calming down that Levi realized what a big deal this was to him. What a big deal you were to him.

---04

Satan wasn’t expecting you to be spacing out in his favorite armchair. He had plans to read in it that evening, and considered asking you politely to move. But the way the lamp light shines on your skin, the thoughtful expression on your face while pondering ideas unknown. The way your lips part ever so slightly and your eyes gaze off into nothing. It captivates him. You look like a painting. His breath gets caught in his throat, and in clearing it he manages to break your trance.

“Oh, hey. Welcome home, I didn’t realize you were there.”

You go to get out of the chair, but Satan insists you stay. It doesn’t look right without you anymore. He doesn’t feel right without you anymore.

---05

Asmodeus does not have wardrobe malfunctions often. His outfits are of the highest quality and a lot of care goes into putting them on. Still, things happen.

When his fans rush forward out of nowhere, sometimes they are successful in tearing his clothes. A fistful of shirt here, a mouthful of pants-leg there. Being in the center of a lust-fueled stampede can make even the most collected people lose their minds, but you are steadfast. You shout at the rabid demons, shaming them for their disrespect. You believe you can chase them off all on your own, not knowing that the Avatar of Lust behind you is exuding a killer aura and warning his fans to back off with a powerful glare.

As you sloppily stitch up what remains of his shirt so he can walk home without the incident repeating, Asmodeus is smiling from ear to ear. You’re so focused on genuinely helping that you don’t even notice the bedroom eyes he’s flashing. The scene of you waving your arms and trying to chase off a pack of demons as if they were stray pigeons is permanently ingrained in his memory. Just as your existence is ingrained in his soul.

---06

Beelzebub knows what he likes. He knows what will catch his interest and is pleasantly surprised when a new one crops up.

One thing he likes is you. Another is food. Both are in the cafeteria. He piles a tray high with carbs and goes looking for you at lunch time, finding you seated in the middle of a long table at the edge of the room. He calls your name.

It’s unexpected, the way you quickly swing your head up mid-bite. Your cheeks are full and noodles dangle from your mouth, sauce dripping back onto your plate. Your eyes light up as you look at him from below. It makes him stop in his tracks, causing several shorter demons to walk into him. Such a simple action, yet so profound. You hurriedly chew and offer him a seat while Beelzebub powers through his emotions. He takes a seat across from you to offer a napkin, wondering when he’ll see that face again.

---07

It’s late, far past everyone’s bedtime. Yet Belphegor forgot to tell you something during the day and decided now would be a great time. When you don’t respond to the quiet knocks at your door, he lets himself inside. Your sleeping figure looks too comforting to resist and he gets the brilliant idea to crawl into bed with you to whisper in your ear.

The problem is, as soon as he lifts the covers, you fart. It’s loud. You don’t move an inch, remaining fast asleep and ignorant of what just happened.

Belphegor freezes in his tracks to process it, but is soon doubled over on the futon laughing. The vibrations wake you. You sleepily open your eyes to see who is in hysterics and ask the obvious: “what?”

Belphegor is laughing too hard to tell you. He doesn’t want to tell you. It’s too priceless. You groggily smack him with a spare pillow and it makes him laugh harder. While he loves to look at you, that week it becomes difficult for him to meet your eyes without erupting into a fit of giggles.

#mc in satan's part is thinking about something weird like “friendpilled visitmaxxer” while satan's undergoing his own mental renaissance #i came up with ideas for all the side characters too. that sounded cute. maybe i'll write it. I didn't because... #i have a bad cold! achoo! should've written this in past tense for my sanity but my head is all blehh. i hope this stuff makes sense. woooo #you know it's a bad cold when i write in [shivers] /present tense/ (jk but it's difficult for me to keep the tense consistent) #note to self: tumblr's html color designation for yellow is phoebe #colds suck. i wear a mask daily and still got really sick so take care y'all. #obey me! #obey me #obey me brothers #obey me shall we date #omswd #obey me x mc #obey me x reader #obey me fanfic #obey me imagines #obey me scenarios #obey me mammon #obey me lucifer #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me fluff

[petrajuliet]

see you at the beach! 🏝️

#🕊️ #haha sike not yet. still too cold

[attyattlaw]

cling on for dear life

timelapse even if it barely shows process

#i did one (1) work sketch and proceeded to draw law #anyway #trafalgar law #one piece #am i suppose to tag corazon too #still recovering from yesterday's 39C fever im cold sweating buckets i hate it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good morning, Sleepyhead.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #'WWX was asleep for 4 days' is an incorrect factoid. #The average WWX sleeps for 8 hours. The PD-MDZS WWX who was asleep for 40 comics and 4 months is an outlier. #We are back to present day! I have missed drawing them! #Ah...the contrast between how the flashback ended (cold and distrustful) to how wwx wakes up (warm and watched over)... #The gap between the past and present is very important. Not just in this story but in our lives too. #The past can still hurt and it doesn't just go away with time as some say. It is the power of realizing that things have changed. #We can't get the good back. The bad memories have concluded. Those live somewhere else now. #It is hard to realize that you have to live for today and tomorrow. The past is so loud. #For WWX it is realizing that despite the mistrust in the past - He really does have faith that LWJ will be there for him. #It is the reflection of knowing that you changed and will keep changing and that change is good and kind sometimes. #But more importantly...and this I really do mean with all my heart: #It will all end up okay in the end. Even after the worst day. The most painful losses. You will get through it. #What feels like a breaking point is truthfully just another step you have to take. You'll get through it even though it feels like the end. #There are wonderful things you have yet to see. Friends you have yet to meet. #Even if it hurts so badly...one day it just aches. Someday you'll go a few weeks not remembering that it ever hurt. #Oh and because my izutsumi comic revealed many people were in need of hearing this: #You are loved. Right now. You are so loved right now. We just forget to tell each other that. #Go tell the people you love that they matter to you. I'm assigning you homework!!! You are graded on completion.

[rubikor]

📖.

#genshin impact #al haitham #putting these two together so i don’t post too much #i’m still so proud of the second one #these are so old 😭 #cold vs warm vibes

[sfaira]

Look at me, doing a second fanart of the same character! DBH brainrot really got me. This time I tried to not fuss over likeness and just go into more stylisation and capturing the vibe. I'm quite satisified

#sketch #my art #connor rk800 #detroit become human #fanart #dbh fanart #android #I feel fandom forgets he's still a capable killer as a deviant #cute puppy connor is cool but badass cold blooded connor is great too #balance is key

[myuminji]

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #myuminjiart #just imagining they're too sleep deprived to think twice of their actions #didn't draw it but vash biting his nose getting mad saying ''bet u didn't sleep at all'' #and ww being like ''ur INSANE if u can sleep in that coldness wtf'' #but still cuddling to get warmth. they get weird looks. doesn't really care they're too tired to care #vash actually concerned bcs ww IS cold so he doesn't move about and continue his discussion while he holds sleeping ww

[lonicera-edulis]

Based on LOTRO, but I drew movies' versions of the characters. Also Hall of Fire was updated, but I finished this year old wip only now, so don't mind the incorrect color palette asdfghjkl

#love how chatty Bilbo is #great grandpa vibes #and I still can't draw Lindir sorry to the elves' fans #today's arts I made kinda suck :( #don't like them #should've been doing something else instead of drawing #or at least not sharing them #the day is also terrible and stressful #and it's too cold

[blizzardsuplex]

Yet each man kills the thing he loves; by each let this be heard: some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word; the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword. - Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Adam Cole, mask on versus mask off from AEW's World's End 2023, 12/30/2023

#aew #aewedit #aew spoilers #adam cole #just wanted to highlight the stark difference in body language pre and post reveal #when he's on MJF's side he's animated as hell #all wide eyes and loud words of encouragement #but when it's time for him to deal the fatal blow? he's controlled #TOO controlled and too still and too quiet #even when he's reveling in Max's pain it's so...cold. #the real Adam Cole ladies and gents: believes himself so untouchable that at his best he might actually be

[ruporas]

only human

[ID: Two page comic in color of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. The first page has a black background and the upper half, behind the panels, is splattered with stylized red blood, scattered bullets, and lifeless hands. In the first panel, it focuses on Vash's boots, showing him stepping through the panel and into the bloody scene. The second panel shows his bloody footprints and the third panel shows his face, his down-turned eyes looking downwards. It's a neutral, vague expression with confliction. At the bottom of the page, the back of Wolfwood's head and shoulder is seen, blood dirtying the white color of his shirt and side of his face. Vash's hand reaches out to him from the right side of the page.

The second page shows the entire scene in full, half the page in light and the other in solid black. At the center, Vash leans down onto his knees as he wraps his arms around Wolfwood's shoulders into a hug. Wolfwood's back is turned away from the viewer, his left arm holds onto his bloodied punisher and his right hand sits on his lap. Light casts from the left side of the page, showing the bloodied surrounding, but the held up punisher casts a shadow on the both of them, shielding them from the light. END ID]

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #tw blood #<-- should i add that to the original post... if it's effective? #anyway this was a direct sequel to the previous post... i had a lot of thoughts when i drew it but my brain is failing me rn #something something about being granted that bit of mundanity and then running into some situation that whiplashes u back into the identity #u were built and trained to be. that at the end of the day its not possible to just be without dirtying your hands again #he's used to it but ww will forever be someone too kind too tender hearted to really be eased out of the cold lifestyle he's forced to live #and i personally dont think trimax vash could look at wolfwood with disdain or disappointment when catching him after the fact #he knows where wolfwood's heart lies he's seen the way wolfwood killed to protect and he thanked him for it too. i think him understanding #ww deeper in that way would just make his heart wretch so all he can offer is a comfort and arms to return to. #to reassure that he can still be loved even with the blood on his hands #i also think i drew an illustration when i first got into trigun depicting this same ish message.... #i'm just very particular about this Subject. i need ww to be loved i need him to be reassured even if he'll still refuse to believe he's #worthy of it like AUGHHH. ok. #ruporas art

[divinemissem13]

What You're Willing To Overlook 13

@flufftober Day 13: "It's still too cold" - "No it's not" Fandom: The Closer/ Major Crimes (Brenda/Sharon) 300 words, T Read all chapters here

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“It’s still too cold!” Brenda whined from the doorway, pulling her bulky cardigan more tightly around her against the bitterly cold Park City air. The coldest place she’d ever lived was DC and that had certainly not prepared for winter weather in the mountains of Utah. At least it hadn’t snowed. Yet.

“Not in here,” Sharon insisted from the steaming hot tub. She rested her elbows on the ledge and leaned forward enticingly, as her long fingers idly toyed with the stem of her wine glass. When Brenda still showed no sign of moving, Sharon raised an eyebrow at her and taunted, "Chicken.”

Brenda wasn’t stupid. She knew that Sharon was baiting her. But she also was not a chicken.

“Ooooh!” she cried in frustration, even as she threw off the cardigan and ran for the hot tub.

Sharon’s eyes widened. “Oh my God, Brenda, no wonder you’re cold!” Sharon exclaimed, shielding herself from the splash of Brenda entering the tub.

"Yes, I'm sure this makes all the difference,” Brenda said, rolling her eyes and playfully snapping the strap of Sharon’s bathing suit.

“It’s too bad there’s no way to find out,” she claimed, batting her eyelashes innocently.

Brenda glided in the water until she was kneeling over Sharon on the bench, goosebumps rising on her bare skin as her upper body temporarily left the water again. Her hands tangled into Sharon’s hair and she leaned back down to savor the warmth of the water and of her partner’s lips. “I’m sure if we put our heads together, we can think of something,” she murmured, her hands sliding down to tug again at the straps of Sharon’s suit.

The research on the relative warmth of a bathing suit was inconclusive, but neither woman was worried any more about the cold.

#fluffspring2024 #the closer #major crimes #brenda.sharon #brenda leigh johnson #sharon raydor #femslash #triple drabble #flarch #fluff #i wrote this #fanfic #it's still too cold #hot tub

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[plutolovesyou]

super famous rock band au...enemies to lovers....fake dating....love triangle?....guitarist ellie....drummer abby....singer reader?.....tensionnnn....manager dina....bassist jesse(or we kick him out make a girls only team)..............THE PARASITES IN ME

walk with me WALK WITH ME. any other ideas i can add into this are veeeeeery much welcome THANK UUUUUU bye

#dw spiderels is still priority but this has taken seat in my brain #you will have to pry that trope out og my cold dead hands #maybe some daisy jones and the six influence too......? #ellie williams #ellie williams x reader #ellie x reader #ellie williams smut #ellie williams angst #ellie williams fluff #ellie williams concept #ellie williams imagine #abby anderson fluff #abby anderson #abby anderson x reader #abby anderson smut #abby anderson angst #dina nolastname #dina woodward

[queerautism]

Also sorry this is petty but James Somerton is soooo bad at cinematography. Does he not understand the framing of your shot affects the mood of it? There's a reason why super close up shots of someone's face like this are often used in movies for brief tense moments, or in extended shots, to unsettle the viewer and make them uncomfortable. It's genuinely an awful shot to maintain for the entire 40 minute video.

#james somerton #If you're going for an intimate close mood you still have to pull back a bit #Of course there's a bunch of comments saying it makes them uncomfortable #You're too close bitch #The light is too cold and your focal length is dogshit

[efingcod]

It needed to be done.

#frank woods #call of duty #black ops cold war #black ops #cod black ops #ok but if it's true is it still funny #i wish i was kidding #he has plagued me for nearly 3 years now #i also have way too much to do so of course I'm goofing off and making a dumb meme