Winter Wonderland

[marie_onette]

Whether there’s just a dusting of white on the ground, powdery flakes in the air and on the tongue, wet slush that seeps into your shoes, or an avalanche of frozen doom, winter is generally an interesting time. Love it or hate it, it’s seasonal, and there’s no avoiding it.

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1. Do You Wanna Build A Snowman?: Whether there’s enough powdery white stuff to build your frozen army or just enough to scrape-together a snow-cat, snow-beings are a joy for all. Unless you’re one of those dicks that punches their heads off.

2. Drink Away The Chill: Warm cider, mulled wine, hot toddys, peppermint schnapps hot chocolate, coffee with kahlua, hot buttery rum… alcohol + hot beverage = warmer faster. Don’t argue with science.

3. Licking Lampposts: A stupid winter dare has gone horribly awry. Tongue on frozen metal, rolling naked in the snow, or that-definitely-wasn’t-meant-to-be-used-as-a-sled--whatever it is, it’s a bad idea and someone probably going to get hurt.

4. Turn Up The Heat: Whether wood-burning, gas, or just the endless loop of a crackling hearth on YouTube, there is something to be said about enjoying the simple comfort of relaxing in front of a fire.

5. Black Ice: When water containing dirt and exhaust smog freezes on the ground it becomes nigh impossible to see. Too bad the car is already out of control.

6. Winter Sports: Skating, skiing, sledding, boarding, hunting, snowball fights--even ice fishing! Winter is no reason to keep indoors.

7. Snowed In: The snow is actually peeking above the level of the windows, and it does not look to be stopping anytime soon. Is the power still on? WILL it be on for much longer? Are there candles, or food you can consume without the stove or having to open the fridge? How many bars do you have? You might be sitting tight for a while.

8. Any Port In A Storm: The winter storm is raging, and a sanctuary from the cold has been found; abandoned cabin, stranger’s home, church, cave, or some other refuge--but it it possible to survive each other?

9. Mid-Seasonal Hell:The endless barrage of Christmas carols has finally ended and everyone important is still alive despite New Year’s Eve--but now there is at least a month before Valentine’s Day and the chocolate and pink bears are already out in stores. Is there no peace?

10. Hypothermia: Cause: Body core temperatures below 95F/35C. Mild symptoms include shivering and mental confusion; Medium symptoms confusion increases and appendages may be bluish in color; and Severe symptoms sees decrease in heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate as well as sluggishness, stumbling, and amnesia-like symptoms.

11. Hope Your Insurance Is Good: So many things can go so very wrong in winter--slipping on the ice and cracking your head, iced up branches that fall and crash into things, golf-ball sized hail, tennis ball sized hail... Auto-damage, home-damage, personal-damage, and you have the weather to thank.

12. Seasonal Displacement: Winter holiday songs and “traditional activities” are so unusual when you live somewhere that's warm in winter. Tomorrow looks like it’s going to be 90F/32C.

13. The Polar Bear Plunge: Is it for charity? Is it for physical wellness? Local tradition, or a dare? Whatever the reason, that water is freezing and someone is taking the plunge.

14. Have Fun Storming The Castle: Elaborate home-made igloo for outdoor survival practice? Snow-fort made at the bottom of a hill/near a road for epic snowball fight? Pillow fort made to escape the very sight of winter? Ice-fishing tent? It’s either yours or you want inside.

15. Wildcard: Any winter activity valid. Go!

Comments

Onodera Ritsu | Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi

[terriblecook]

[m/m for anything shippy.]

Davy Jones ♆ OC ♆ OTA

[dweomer]

( Basic info is here. )

warden cousland ; dragon age origins

[heroica]

( licking lampposts, huh.......... )

[story_and_teller]

"I wouldn't, if I were you."

Loki can see the young woman clearly contemplating the admittedly delicious-looking rime on the metal lamppost, and something like amused maternal instinct kicks in, okay? She has a lot of children, and while none of them would have been harmed by that sort of thing, well.

Wes Collins | Time Force

[defiesdestiny]

Illya Kuryakin | Man from UNCLE | OTA

[perilicious]

[OTA for gen, previous CR for shipping someone pick 12 do it]

#12, because that's so easy with Rey

[reytheforcebewithyou]

A petite teenage girl sat huddled and shivering in a jacket that was too large for her.

rey | star wars: the force awakens

[sensitively]

Rey || Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[talentedscavenger]

[F/M for anything shippy, but she doesn't have much experience in the snow aside from fighting in it. ]

Sans (baby bones) | Undertale

[bigbrother_babybones]

Yu Narukami | Persona 4

[proswagonism]

RNG gives 2!

[truedetective]

[Inaba is nice in the snow, Naoto thinks. A far cry from the big cities where she'd always dreamed of being a detective, but there's something to be said for the peaceful quiet of a small town blanketed in snow at dusk.

It is, however, cold as hell, and she's trying not to let her teeth chatter. She'd clearly underestimated how cold it was going to be today; she hadn't even worn gloves. A rookie mistake.

The cold doesn't stop her from recognizing a familiar figure up ahead, though.] Ah-- Senpai. Enjoying the weather?

Sans | Undertale | OTA

[puneleton]

aoba seragaki || dramatical murder || m/m for anything shippy

[dramaticalblue]

Kylo Ren | Star Wars

[firstorderknight]

[No shipping, please.]

[averagehero]

[Saitama's homeplanet is not the coldest one you could end up crash landed into, after a super cool space battle. It's certainly far flung from the charted areas of the Republic or Empire or whatever you guys go by out there. This planet really doesn't have much contact with aliens, not that aren't immediately hostile.

B Ranked Super hero Saitama ended up out to inspect the crashed ship. B Ranks sure get weird assignments, sometimes. He kicks around in the snow to see if anybody survived. Kylo's getting a bright red boot nudged to his helmet, a bald weirdo in a yellow costume staring down.]

Huh, you alive--? [seems like this person is breathing, should he pick him up out of the snow?]

[[hope this set up is okay?]]

leon | kingdom hearts | ota

[ungrieve]

6, in some reality where this makes sense and seph isn't cloud's evil half. hope it's okay!

[vehementi]

[Snow hasn't been commonplace in Radiant Garden for a long time, and despite the restoration efforts, it's still much of a shadow of its former self. For this reason, there's a great deal of enthusiasm bustling through the streets from Radiant Garden's current residents when snow suddenly begins to fall. It's a promise of healing and life, that things will not remain stagnant. It's even got Sephiroth's spirits up... in his own mellow, reserved sort of way. He's on patrol - quietly taking in the white landscape - when Leon passes into view, and it seems he hasn't been noticed yet.

His eyes lock onto a nearby fort of snow, built by Yuffie and Aerith earlier. It sparks an idea that only this good mood of his would allow, exacerbated by a friendly rivalry he and the other swordsman share...

And in a moment, Leon will feel a resounding whoff! against the back of his head. Yes, indeed: you have been pelted with a snowball, Leon. Should he turn around, he'll see others meandering by, but really... that throw was too precise to be anyone else but the silver-haired figure in the distance, staring at him with altogether too much smugness.]

Jack Frost | Rise of the Guardians | OTA

[nippinatyournose]

Asami Sato | Legend of Korra

[uptowngirl]

[fantasticfireferret]

[RNG says 12. Anything you wanted to hash out before I kick us off?]

Ral Zarek | Magic: The Gathering

[electricchair]

12

[duelistknownasprince]

[Utena is dressed up for a day of snowball fights and sledding, in warm, bulky clothing that makes her look round despite her wiry frame. But when she makes it outside it's...warm?!]

Aww, what did the Izzet do now?!

[Little does she know that someone who probably knows the answer is nearby...]

Gammon Octo | The Evillious Chronicles

[purpledream]

10

[enchantressing]

[ She had found him face down in the snow before her, seeing the ice literally form upon his lighter clothes in this temperature. The first thing she does is admonishes him about it. "Maa," she had breathed, crouching next to him. "That's one way to catch hypothermia."

But an attempt to conjure up a flame had proven to not work in the slightest, setting off alarms for the sorceress.

Which brings them to now. ] Come quickly--

[ A wrinkle in time, quite literally has unfolded before the young swordsman, at first appearing like hazy, holographic image before it solidifying before him. A young, blonde woman rushes through the snow, pulling him along. The hem of her gown-- too ornate to be something casual, too dreary in design to be something festive-- is completely soaked up to her knees with mud and slush. ] There should be shelter just up ahead. An old cabin in these woods.

[ She explains, her breath forming clouds with each word she speaks. ]

Tenpou | Saiyuki Gaiden

[artemisia]

Rogue | X-Men/Marvel | OTA

[theycalledmeacurse]

[Prose pref. Someone play in the snow with this southern girl!]

Some variant on 6?

[perilicious]

These winters that upstate New York had to offer were...decent. A good amount of snow. Some cold. Illya had seen worse. Absently he scooped snow into his ungloved palms and shaped it into a ball, then tossed it from hand to hand.

UNCLE took its allies where it found them. Waverly had vouched for Xavier and his...his associates, and so Illya would work with them readily, but some of these people, these mutants, could do things that were difficult for him to believe even after seeing them with his own eyes. Still, out here, looking over this fresh blanket of white coating the grounds of the mansion, it was easier to put that out of his mind. He took aim at a distant tree, calculated, and let the snowball fly to knock snow off the very top.

Conner Kent | Smallville/DC comics

[cnrkent]

poe dameron / sw

[fanfaron]

[ just rey or finn (or both) for shipping. ota, x-canon welcome. ]

1 | iiiiiii don't know what i'm doiiiiiiiiiing

[battleprod]

[ she's never seen snow before, or at least she can't remember it if she has. most of her pre-jakku memories are vague impressions of her family - what they looked like, how they smelled, the sound of their voices - but whenever she tries to think of a place, all she can remember is heat and sand. she at least knows how to properly bundle up, so the cold isn't nearly as bitter as it could be, but everything the people surrounding them are doing with it is foreign to her.

and so is what dameron had just asked her about. ]

A snowman?

Kara Danvers | Supergirl | OTA

[mostlysunny]

[She may or may not remember to dress appropriately for the weather]

6

[stands_for_hope]

That was a snowball, Kara. That was a snowball hitting the back of your head.

jessica jones ✘ mcu

[notyoursuperhero]

Dexter || Dexter books || OTA

[darkly_dreaming]

munakata reisi | k | ota

[4th]