Literally Crying Rn I Never Want To Forget All That This Series Has Done For Me In Every Way! Everything

Hello @lordoftheflowers , this is your secret Santa gift! I tried to write it the best I could so I hope you enjoy it! Also Merry Christmas!

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(Takes place between chapters 3 and 4.)

Ralph awoke with somewhat of a startle as he felt cold wind blow through a crack in the poorly built hut. It was the first cold breeze in a while; he was beginning to think the island would be eternally warm with forever lasting summer. But as he got up and became more aware of his surroundings, he noticed something from beyond the crack.

It was white.

Ralph gently reached out to it like it was something foreign to him despite being so sure of what it was.

It was snow. White, fluffy, cold snow. It sent a shiver up his spine and struck him with an idea. He carefully stuck his hand through the crack, grabbed a bit of it (and taking delight in how it crunched together - he could make so many snowballs and snowmen with this snow) and threw it at the person closest to him in the cabin: Piggy.

It took a second or two for Piggy to wake up, with a sort of shocked sound that seemed to wake up a couple of littuns.

Piggy wiped the stuff off his specs and face before looking at Ralph. His face showed that he was a mixture between confused and angry, maybe a tiny of disappointment?

“Hey, what was ‘at for?” Piggy asked.

“Look Piggy, snow!” Ralph pointed towards the crack.

“Well yeah, I can see that. I’m wondering why you threw ‘it in my face!” Piggy asked. Ralph shrugged, having no real answer for the boy.

The other boys around them slowly woke up from their slumbering, looking around to find where the sudden chill was coming from.

“Snow!” One of them, a littleun who was most likely five or six called out. The small hut was empty within seconds, with boys running around in the snow in nothing but loose fitting, ripped pants.

Jack came stumbling out of the hunters cabin (something he had insisted on) and gave a quick shiver before walking to Ralph.

“It’s cold.” He said.

“Well yeah, it is snowing.” Piggy said with an annoyed huff, pushing up his glasses more.

Suddenly Jack focused on the snow again. “Hey, are those pig tracks..? HUNTERS!” Jack called out, drawing the attention of the boys in the other hut.

“There are pigs out here, let’s go!” Jack said with a grin, picking up a newly created spear and raising it.

“Yeah, go get a pig. Me an’ Simon will start a fire so the littluns don’t freeze.” Ralph said, anger slipping into his voice a little bit.

“You can shut it with the sarcasm, you’ll be thanking me when I get a pig.” Jack said stubbornly before yelling at the other hunters to follow the tracks.

“How’re we s’posed to make a fire in snow?” Piggy asked, his specs gleaming.

“It’s too cold to be waiting out here all day for the fire to light, I don’t want to wait.”

Ralph sighed. “Well someone has to light the fire, and we need your specs to do that.”

The two were silent for a bit, content with watching the littleuns playing in the snow as if it were the first time they had ever seen it.

Simon came out of a third hut which mainly hosted littleuns.

“Good morning..oh, did it snow?” Simon asked, looking at the ground with a smile.

“Yeah, it snowed and it’s still cold. We need a fire now more then ever!” Ralph said.

“Where are Samneric? Aren’t they supposed to keep watch over the fire and light it?” Simon asked.

“Jack took ‘em to go hunting with him.”

“The selfish jerks. Couldn’t they wait until the fire was lit? It’s like they don’t even care anymore.” Piggy complained.

“We need to focus on the littuns. Piggy, you go light the fire, I am the chief so you need to listen to me.” Ralph said, distracting himself and the two others from thoughts of Jack disobeying him.

Piggy grumbled, but ultimately left towards where the fire should be.

Ralph grabbed some snow, turned it into a snowball, and threw it at a tree trunk.

“Real good snow for making snowmen and snow forts, right Simon?” Ralph asked with a smile. Simon nodded.

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When Jack and the boys returned, they were empty handed.

“No pig in sight…what a-“ Jack was cut off by a snowball to the face. His face went a bright red as he looked around angrily.

“Who just threw that?” Jack yelled.

Instead he just heard laughing from a newly built snow structure.

“Ralph, was that you?” Jack asked. When he got no reply he turned back to his hunters.

“Well don’t just stand there, fight back!” He said.

One of the boys picked one up and hit a littlun collecting snow. Jack smiled.

“Looks like it’s time for a snowball fight.”

——-

As the sun set, all the boys were covered in snow. Even Piggy, who had since come from down the mountain.

Only a few of the biguns had retreated up to the fire, and they were all part of the hunters. Walter, Simon, Wilford, Maurice were the ones who went up to the fire, where they cared for the cold littleuns who cried for hot chocolate or something warmer like a blanket.

“Give up yet?” Jack asked, his pride still standing strong despite how he violently shivered as he spoke.

“Not yet! We still can beat him Ralph!” Piggy encouraged.

“No Piggy, it’s over. I’m too cold, you go ahead if you want.” Ralph said, shaking his head and making his way to the mountain with the fire.

Piggy followed him, unwilling to face off against the whole choir since he had been hit the most by them. Soon followed the rest of the tribe.

As they all lay and sit around the fire, shivering as melted cold snow ran down their almost naked bodies, the choir began to lightly hum or sing Christmas songs that the Littleuns belted out to. Ralph smiled lightly as he slowly drifted off to sleep, fears and worries of the Beast (which hadn’t plagued their thoughts all day) left behind in the back of his mind.

My school has a new website, and there’s a subsection is called ‘Quests’. Quests? You mean I put my day on pause and do a side quest? For what, a new ability? Can I learn how to focus if I collect all the pencils on the ground in my school?

yes

They are here.

Tamari is here!! <3

Sibling fun times!

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so something about me is i never ever ever ever EVER get to have dreams about the characters in whatever media I’m currently hyperfixating on. Literally never. I’ll have dreams about rhe media itself, like I sometimes have dreams about a video game in which I’m just me, playing the videogame. But that’s it.

So last night my brain said you know what? I’m going to give you a dream for the first time ever where you get to interact with characters from your current hyperfixation!

So I dreamed that I was going to grad school in Chicago, where I met the most in-character, compelling, our-world rendition of Astarion imaginable. Truly top-of-the-line modern au fanfic material. I might not have been able to write him better had I been conscious.

So as you might IMAGINE, I then proceeded to have one of the most stressful dreams I’ve ever had in my entire life. For absolutely no reason. Why would I do that to me?

Based on their infographic that I saw around the school, I think they believe it’s either too “boring” or too violent. I don’t know what books they suggested to replace it, but I do know that there was an emphasis on switching out classics with more modern YA novels. (Which isn’t to say I hate YA novels!)

There is a movement in my school that is focusing on banning Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, and Where The Red Fern Grows (as well as a few others) and unfortunately it’s gaining some traction. The teachers all had to attend an assembly about it where the kids presented their ideas, and my English teacher (who knows me as the local Lord of the Flies girl) told me that she was so close to pulling me out of class to debate them on it.

Anyways, just super annoyed that those books may be removed from the curriculum.

Me, 4,000+ fanfics deep, a million rambles, and five years into my attachment to Bolin: Oh no, what if people think I’m being a bit obsessive?

Hey guys I just realized that Eda and Lilith are (probably) related to Belos. I don’t know why it took me so long to realize that but that would make for some..interesting family dinners. Honestly though that entire family tree would be interesting if they all had some sort of unavoidable family dinner.