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baronessblixen · 2 years

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Shall We Dance?

Summary: It's the middle of the night and neither Mulder nor Scully can sleep. Wc: 1,195

bingo square: "I wasn't sleeping."

Tagging @xfilesbingo and @today-in-fic

He’s lounging on his motel bed, cracking sunflower seeds while halfheartedly watching the TV when there’s a knock on his door. It’s so soft that at first he thinks he imagined it. After all, it’s way past 2 am. He opens the door to find Scully there, looking small and sheepish.

“Hi,” is all she says, staring at him and wringing her hands.

“Did I wake you?” He asks.

“I wasn’t sleeping. I, um, that’s- can I come inside?”

“Of course.” He ushers her into his room, his hand on her back. She’s still wearing the blouse she wore earlier tonight, but at least she traded her skirt for pajama pants. “Is everything all right?”

It’s a rhetorical question; he knows the answer is no. Nothing is okay. The case they’ve been investigating here in Vermont has been taxing from the start, making it difficult to relax at night, let alone sleep. Judging by Scully’s demeanor, she’s suffering the same fate.

“Couldn’t sleep either, huh?” He smiles at her, hoping it will make things better. Scully nods, her arms still slung around herself. Sometimes she’s like a scared kitten who needs to be lured out with patience and treats. He can provide that.

“I’m watching a movie,” he says. “Not that kind of movie, if you were wondering.” That at least makes her smile. “Want to watch with me?”

“I’d like that.” She stares at his bed, then turns to him.

“Make yourself comfortable. I can sit over there.”

“Don’t,” she says. “There’s enough space here for the both of us. Oh, it’s The King and I. I love that movie.”

“You do?” He’s hesitant joining her on the bed, but she’s not paying any attention to him, her face glued to the TV. There’s a soft smile playing around her lips as she watches Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner bicker and banter. He can’t take his own eyes off her.

When was the last time she’s smiled like this? Laughed? He doesn’t remember. What he does remember, however, is how much she used to smile. How he fell in love with making her smile, fell in love with seeing, and hearing, her cackle at his jokes.

“Shall we dance?” He asks, repeating the words the characters on screen keep singing repeatedly. Scully turns to him, her smile slipping away, until he dares to be even braver and gets up, extending his hand.

Her head is gently bobbing along to what’s happening on screen. He hasn’t been paying attention. There isn’t much on in the middle of the night and the movie with its colors and music drew him in. Now all he can focus on is Scully.

When her lips start mouthing the lyrics of the song playing in the background, he makes his decision. He wants to see her smile tonight. Make her forget the case and everything else that keeps her awake.

“You’re serious,” she says and there it is: her giggle. She takes his hand and it’s soft in his. There’s not much space here in his hotel room and his knee crashes into the bed, making her hide her smile in his shoulder.

“I don’t know how to dance the polka,” he says.

“Neither do I.”

“We won’t say goodnight and mean goodbye,” he says into her hair. Scully looks up at him, blinking slowly. “Just quoting the song,” he clarifies. “I’m taking my part seriously.”

“This will have to do then,” he murmurs, resting his chin on her head. She’s not wearing heels, feels impossibly tiny in his arms. Instinctively, he draws her closer. While the characters on screen hop and dance around the ballroom, Mulder and Scully merely sway.

The melody sticks in Mulder’s head and he hums along, turning them around so they can both see what the characters do. They almost stumble when Yul Brynner puts his hand on Deborah Kerr’s waist, halting the dance. Mulder doesn’t have to think about it and mirrors the movement.

“Which part?”

“As your dance partner.”

“Just dance partner?” She asks, pressing her cheek against his shoulder, and making him wonder if she can hear his heart beat fast. The movie has moved on, the characters no longer dancing. Mulder doesn’t care. He doesn’t want to let go of Scully yet, or ever. They’re still moving to a melody only they can hear.

“We work together,” he says, gathering courage. “We’re work partners. You’re my best friend. Does that count as partners? Hell, Scully, you’re my partner in every conceivable way.” Her whole body vibrates with her laughter and his heart soars.

“We can do this all night,” he adds. “If that’s what you want.”

“I want to go to bed.”

He waits a beat, remembers the steps from the song on screen, goes one, two, three, and one, two, three before Scully takes the initiative and his hand to lead him this time. Not to dance, no, but to bed.

“Can I be honest?” Scully asks, their bodies so close their arms are almost touching. He feels her warmth, wishes she’d come closer. He wasn’t kidding when he said they could do this all night. All he wants is to hold her, chase her demons away, and keep her safe.

“Yes,” he says, forcing himself not to look at her.

“I heard what you were watching,”she admits. “I knew you weren’t sleeping and I… took a chance.”

“Scully, you can always come to my motel room. Any time of day – or night.”

“Hm, good to know. You know… they fell in love.”

“Who?”

“The King and Anna, the characters.”

“Of course they did. It’s that kind of movie, isn’t it?” Scully raises her eyebrows and he laughs. “I mean, they danced together. How could they not fall in love?” He waggles his eyebrows at her, reminding her that she’s not the only one with a strong eyebrow game in this partnership. For a moment she tries to remain serious, but she breaks, and he does, too. They both laugh, moving closer together as if pulled by an invisible string.

“They don’t end up together,” Scully says, her voice sounding thoughtful.

“They don’t?” Mulder asks.

Scully shakes her head. “Do you want to know the ending?” He nods at her. “The King dies.”

“Way to ruin the mood, Scully.”

“I didn’t write it,” she says softly. “Not everything has a happy ending.” She’s slipping away from him, her good mood evaporating into thin air. He refuses to let that happen.

“Hey,” he says, touching her chin. “There still are happy endings in the world.”

“Are there?” She asks. It could be the dim light, the reflection from the TV screen, or something else entirely, but her eyes seem to shimmer with tears. It’s the middle of the night and from the moment she sought him out, he was determined to make her smile, not cry. He’s not giving up that easily.

“Yes,” he says, testing their boundaries by moving in, his lips close to hers. “There are. At least if you want them to be.”

“I want a happy ending,” she whispers before she closes the distance and kisses him.

#xfilesbingo #another one done!#this is pure fluff #like fluffy fluff #i needed something sweet #hope you guys like #msr #xf fanfic

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crimniko · 2 years

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Kintsugi

"I will not let any harm come to my grove and my beloved. They are worth more than any gold in this world"

#crimnikoart #fr #flightrising #fr art #dragon #fr dragon #flightrising dragon #fr skydancer #skydancer #flight rising skydancer #kintsugi #digital art #another one done!#i wish to make one with a duo it could be fun

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roseytoesy · 1 year

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Disvord snippets 10

Some super silly things cause April fools!! Also super soft small stuff.

prey chilling in a pred's esophagus with their head in their throat looking out their mouth. sometimes a prey is feeling extra chaotic and pokes their head out of the pred's mouth and freaks out whoever is around the pred. the pred quickly swallows them back down and clutches their belly, telling the prey to knock it off. just chaotic prey causing shenanigans that the pred is tired of. The pred eventually tries to contain chaos in the belly, but it doesn't work.

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Oh to be held close to a giants face them carefully nuzzling their nose against you middle as you give their nose a big hug. Maybe even pushing on the tip of their nose and making a booping noise. The preds eyes crossing just to see you and all your adorable glory. Maybe moving to push you against their cheek and you hug the plushness as you both smile. You can feel the way their cheeks move as they smile and giggle at your little touches. Maybe lastly would be a gentle kiss from the pred. Their lips pushing against your front, light but still so very powerful and controlled. They can feel so much just through their lips and you can’t help but notice they need some chapstick. Then the tongue poke out of the mouth and they lick you a few times before using the soft muscle to guide you into their mouth careful to lead you past their dangerous teeth. Happily tasting you and humming thrift appreciation. Every action so careful and full of love and trust. Before they tilt their head back and swallow. Following you down their throat with a finger to ensure you’re ok. You slide into their stomach and it grumbles a pleasant greeting as the pred sighs above and you can feel them push down you you a bit more, hugging you even closer. Making sure you’re safe before relaxing and allowing you both to rest comfortably with one another.

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Just to be in my switch friend warm and cozy. Becoming a bit more warm and cozy as the switch is also eaten. They curl around me as they curl up in the preds stomach. The pred more full than usual but wouldn’t have it any other way. It would be amazing for the switch. Being full of their delicious little friend, then being able to curl up within another friend. Being warm and cradled so securely as their own belly makes happy grumbles along with the preds grumbles. The switch just so perfectly full of friend and surrounded by friend

And of course the pred. Having to have struggled a bit with the switches larger than normal belly full of friend. Happily sitting back now that both are safely tucked away. Feeling how warm and full the switch is and feeling so very full themseves. Filled to the brim with friends and love

#disvord snippets #soft vore #safe vore #my stuff #my writing #vore discord #writing stuff #writing practice #fluffy vore #shenanigans #discord shenanagins #Another one done!#that last one is so cute and soft please!!

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starr-finn · 1 year

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Tone it down a bit, yeah?

tone it down a bit yeah?

Prompt: Houston with a chaotic S/O

Authors note: mom helped me with this one cuz I had absolutely idea on what prompt to do, thank you so much to my mother for helping me with this. I don't know if this will be long but hey, maybe this will be long asf maybe not lol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The heist was supposed to be a quick in and out at the jewelry store, get in, steal all you can by the time the getaway shows up, get out, it did not end up like that, it ended up with you having more than a little blood on your hands because you happened to bring a flame thrower and m1 Garand. the heist was only you, jimmy, jacket, and Hoxton, normally Houston wouldn't let you bring either of the weapons you brought, but today he had no control over it, he wasn't with you guys. what started as a quick in and out ended with 10 civilian casualties, over 100 police casualties, and jacket's tape recorder getting busted.

standing on the desk in the office lighting cops on fire seemed to be your favorite thing today, there were like 4-5 dozers laying, dead, in front of you. until of course, you got shot in the shoulder, falling back, you quickly stood up, running back up to the office to fix your shoulder until of course, the getaway showed up, which forced you all to grab all you had and run. on the way out at least 8, more cops died at your hand. when you got back to the safe house, Houston immediately runs over

"what the hell happened? why are you bleeding babe?" he says, concerned obviously he was, you had been shot.

you smiled softly "got a little too crazy today" was all you had said before he dragged you off to fix your arm up.

you sat there, watching him while he fixed your shoulder and any other small wounds you may have gotten from the heist, he was quiet, a bit too quiet for you to be comfortable, so you did the only thing you felt you could, crack a few dumb jokes. Even with your jokes you still felt uncomfortable, so you eventually stopped talking, silently looking away. he sighs softly

"hey...listen, ya gotta be careful, what happened out there could have gone so much worse than it did, and I don't want you coming back in a body bag, ya got it?"

you chuckle softly and roll your eyes "yeah sure"

Houston sighs softly, finishing patching up your arm "I'm serious, tone it down a bit, yeah? if not for you then do it for me"

You smile softly and kiss his cheek "alright, but only for you"

#payday 2 houston #payday 2 x reader #PAYDAY 2 #another one done!

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groovyinsects · 2 years

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his number 1 trait: his ability to always be as judgmental as possible

#gif #animation #tscoph #the strange case of pine hollow #preston #1930s style #1930s toon #1930s #Rubberhose #insect #Insecta #insect OC #another one done!#the smoke animation looks off but whatever #potl #Phantom of the Lighthouse

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polarsirens · 1 year

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This is death itself. This is the biggest and baddest thing in all of fairy tale, and you want to set it free.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #neverafter #neverafter spoilers #ylfa snorgelsson #little red #big bad wolf #from one wolf to another!#heavily referencing moro from mononoke hime in the first page #i think i pulled a muscle in my shoulder #from drawing those god damn chains lol #fanart #my art #okay i'm really done! is it wednesday yet #(technically it's thursdays for me because of timezones but anyway)

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wu-does-art · 3 months

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#this has probably been done a million times and im doing it another time #i found it funny okay #solangelo #this is my first. pjo post hi #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #love that we're keeping the misspelled one #nico di angelo #will solace #how many of the books do you guys tag #the sun and the star #tower of nero #IDK?????#pjo

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rendevok · 1 year

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Thoughts of you

#phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #narumitsu #wrightworth #ace attorney #fan art #aa #pressed to say this is ship art because its really just im obsessed with them art #HOWEVER. the idea WAS that these are a series of instances where they were thinking of each other and/or depictions of those memories #also if you look at it they’re supposed to sort of surround one another #leftmost phoenix is surrounded by miles and likewise the rightmost miles is surrounded by phoenix #not perfectly exectuted but not terribly done either #surprising no one i love the yawny phoenix bc 1 i relate but 2 i love him with morning shadow like HOMF #when i say they make me insane i mean i did this in less than 48 hours #no brain head full of narumitsu #rendevok

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yrsonpurpose · 6 months

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“C’mere,” he says, surging up to kiss Alex, and he’s putting his whole body into it now, sliding his hands down to palm at Alex’s ass as he kisses him. Alex feels a sound tear itself from his throat, and he’s following Henry’s lead blindly now, kissing him deep into the mattress, riding a continuous wave of Henry’s body.

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ladyofthecreeddraws · 4 months

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The cuntiest of outfits for the cuntiest of men <3

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #fanart #sketch #m'art #cuntiest to me at least #if astarion in a fur coat has been done b4 then well #have another one cuz it rules #and he deserves nice things lmao

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ventresses · 5 months

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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (4/?)

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

#I genuinely thought i was done w/ AOTC ones but then I got an idea for another and it snowballed and now I have this and one more post lol #padme amidala #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #mace windu #anidala #count dooku #battle of geonosis #star wars #attack of the clones #sw aotc #AOTC #star wars attack of the clones #star wars memes #star wars prequels #prequels memes #AOTC text post #star wars text post #mine

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golyadkin · 9 months

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I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr

not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work

believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody

#not art #listen #for real #this is not about any one person because i've seen posts about it from a bunch of people #you think i post everything here? buddy i dont even post half my stuff here #every drawing you see is preceded by five more just like it #that never see my cursor close to the save button #i have a sketchbook i draw in regularly that i do'nt show to a single goddam person #i make cutout art from gels i steal from work and stick them to my windows and do paintings in my living room just for me #because that it the only way you are ever going to be able to retain your original love of art #is by doing it for the sake of doing it #not for the sake of seeing how many people stop and stare #anyways i'm sorry if this sounds terse #but i'm so sick of seeing artists put all their self-esteem and happiness in the hands of a blogging website #stop selling yourself short by measuring your self worth by how many reblogs you get and what people say in the tags #your artistry and your happiness are worth more than that #if you're an artist for a living that's another story #but even then #even then #anyways sorry i'm done ranting

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ghostedbunnie · 4 months

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bff! simon who is a perfect scary dog privilege when you go out with your friends. he doesn't really want to talk to anyone unless spoken to but he watches eeeverything that goes down. you can always feel his eyes on you wherever you are, be it the dancing crowd or chatting at the bar. it should make you uncomfortable to feel his eyes gliding over your body but it does the opposite, you feel safe and comfortable knowing he is there with a smile tugging at his lips at your antics under his balaclava.

when you come back to the table sweaty but giddy he pushes water that he prepared for you into your hand and pins you with a stare that's enough to force you to down the entire thing. "good girl," he says and you almost choke.

grabs your face with his big big hands to pull you closer and check how wasted you are and if you try to avoid his touch he definitely pulls your chair to him like you weight absolutely nothing. Makes you feel both annoyed and turned on.

Wouldn’t take advantage of you ever but when you come home all spent from dancing and drinking and crawl close to him where he lies down on the sofa he doesn’t let you go and you usually wake up on his chest with his heavy arms resting around you. And his morning wood pressing into your stomach. Friendship lines are never as blurry as when you consider crawling under the covers to wake him up the right way.

#one of my exams is done so i offer you yet another simon brainrot 🫶#cod x reader #cod mw2 #x reader insert #ghost x reader #simon ghost riley x reader #ghost x you #simon riley x reader #simon riley x you #bff! ghost #bunnie writes #simon ghost riley

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mobius-m-mobius · 7 months

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#tfw no one stops talking about you losing all your skin ✌️😭

#mobius #owen wilson #lokiedit #mcuedit #marveledit #loki #loki spoilers #he was so DONE lmaooooooo #not even sorry that him writing skin? in that dust then being completely resigned to a flaying is THE funniest thing anyone's ever done 😭😭#istg owen's choices are on another level #and mobius going through all this for no benefit to himself other than keeping loki safe is peak romance like no one's beating that 💖#marvel #owenwilsonedit #loki s2 spoilers #dianagifs

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seaquestions · 7 months

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making pokemikus based on ur fav pokemon: pachimiku & kuromiku! ⚡🐿️☠️🦇

[ID: image 1: a drawing of hatsune miku as a pachirisu-themed pokemon trainer. her hair is based on pachirisu's squirrel tail. she's wearing an athletic outfit, a blue and yellow racer jumpsuit with the legs cut short, a patterned belt, yellow socks of different length and white shoes. she's holding a quick ball. there's pachirisu official art next to her. image 2: a drawing of miku as a crobat-themed pokemon trainer. her hair is purple and her twintails look like bat wings. she's wearing a variation of her regular sleeveless shirt with a purple checkered jacket, flared pants with a floral pattern accenting the bottom, platform boots & fingerless gloves. there's crobat official art next to her. End ID]

#hatsune miku #pokemon #project voltage #niksartstuffs #i have a garchomp miku sketch too but i might draw another one and post those two when theyre done #i woulda done rotom but. that one's official already haha. i'll do quagsire maybe

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juls-art · 4 months

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A Nat 1 is a Nat 1, but it's the thought that counts~

[expend a thieves tools] give him a lil kiss and roll again bbu

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#bg3 #astarion #anotos storm-touched #tav #astaritav #fanart #doodles #ive prolly seen this comic done one way or another #(Astarion failing a check after boasting his skills)#but I wanted to do one #Also it was more about how Anotos would deliver his Guidance/Bless to Astarion; a la likkle kiss

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