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@lipstickthatbites asked:

|     “ Who said anything about being stuck? I’m not stuck! I’m just not going to jump like some raving lunatic, thank you very much. ” She gave a delicate little sniff and lifted her chin, eyeing the ground below with distrust, and some moderate discomfort, though she was endeavoring to disguise the latter. The branches beneath her rustled, and she drew her knees up more tightly, looking quite obstinate. “ So—go away. You’re distracting me. ” She made a shooing motion at him.

“ what, me? ”

he tried to grab one of her legs, but——well, ultimately he didn’t have very much success.

“ you know——you know, i really don’t know why you go on like this. there’s absolutely no shame in asking for——oof! ”

he recoiled very suddenly, grimacing——lifting a hand instinctively to cradle his cheek where her shoe had collided with it, and aiming a stormy look up the tree at her.

“ all right——all right, suit yourself, you silly girl! ”

he attempted to distance himself, glaring slightly——massaging the spot a bit irritably in an attempt to counter the mostly nonexistent sting.

“ you know, i may as well sit over here if that’s all the thanks i’m going to get. that way i can at least work on my double loops! ”

his voice was low, and sort of hotly incredulous——but actually it was his ego that was hurting him more than anything.

“ you can give me a shout when you’re ready to come down. ”

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me: *knows*

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anonymous asked:

|     “Sorry.” Adric paused, tilting his head to one side, and then he smiled. “May I?”

“ hm? well, how should i know? ” he glared somewhat noncommittally, sniffed, and swiped a hand underneath his nose.

then——after that, he stooped to tinker a bit more with the tardis’s controls.

“ i mean, how should i know what you might do——shouldn’t you know that? ”

he straightened up again——yanked his waistcoat back into place, then went on to give the console a solid sort of——well, a thumping on.

“ anyway, you’ve really got to stop asking me things like that. ”

his voice was very serious, and he shot a synonymously serious look at the boy when he got through with his thumping.

“ ‘may i this’ and ‘may i that’, i mean——i’m not your mother. ”

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@fordramaticeffect asked:

|     ❝ I’m the fun-loving one! ❞

“ shush, shush, shush. ”

he put a digit up to his lips in a sort of hushing gesture——tapped it there a couple of times, then started across the control room like he was making to do something else, only——he stopped right next to her.

“ i was talking to myself. ”

he leaned in very close, like they were conversing in confidence. his voice was low——sotto, and a tiny bit dubious.

“ you know, that’s the second time i’ve tried to call you something different. ”

he surveyed her, then looked away, like he was about to go back to what he’d been doing——then he turned on her very quickly, and more in earnest this time.

“ you know——i don’t like telling other people who they have to be, but i’m starting to think you’re not really rodan at all. ”

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I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Charles Bukowski, Post Office.

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@crimeswithoutnumber asked:

|     “ Ah, do crack a smile, my dear Doctor. Even you found my disguise a little amusing, surely? ”

“ what, that ridiculous getup you were in when sarah and i arrived? ”

his eyebrows shot up a ways, and he scowled, stepping in——then, sniffing slightly, he ducked his head into his scarf, and swiped one of his hands underneath his nose.

“ now, listen here, master——i don’t like to criticize other people’s passions, but your sense of humor’s getting terrible. ”

he surveyed the other man very seriously. his voice was low——sotto, and a tiny bit grim.

“ why don’t you just hand me that quantum accelerator and we can agree to disagree? ”

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anonymous asked:

|     Turlough appeared to be tampering with something on the TARDIS console.

“ you know——if i didn’t know any better, i’d say you were trying to tamper with that console. ”

his voice was low, sotto, and, as usual, almost impossible to interpret. he started across the console room, then stopped again once he’d made it over to the controls.

“ it’s a good thing i know better. ”

he threw a couple of switches, whisked a hand underneath his nose, then went on with what he was doing without so much as looking up.

“ or——maybe i mean it’s a good thing i don’t know anyone who’d try tampering with the tardis. ”

his eyes widened a bit, and——well, eventually, he shot a look across the console at the boy. his tone was noncommittal——and yet, there was something about it that was almost dubious.

“ unless this is your way of telling me you don’t know any better. ”

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It was ridiculous. But so was most of the galaxy.

The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth.

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@lipstickthatbites​ asked:

|     “ Oh, for Pete’s sake—lighten up. He’s just a kid, remember? ”

“ well, of course i remember! ”

he made his way around to the opposite side of the console a bit hotly, throwing various levers and the like as he went along.

“ i mean, it’s not as if there’s anything wrong with my memory! ” he scowled, then wrenched a couple more switches, and disengaged the time column while he was at it——whisking an hand very irritably underneath his nose.

“ seven hundred and thirty-six isn’t that old! ”

he stopped in his tracks after that, and——well, apparently, thought better of the last one he’d thrown.

“ anyway——you try telling him he is when he doesn’t think it’s convenient to be. ”

he sniffed a bit, then lifted a hand to massage his chin, and yanked it back into position——the lever he’d thought better of, that was.

then——seeming a tiny bit dismayed all of a sudden, he looked up at her——louring across the tardis’s controls.

“ have you noticed that? i mean, that he doesn’t like people telling him he is until he thinks it’ll help him to get away with something, and then he tells you? ”

his tone had turned very serious.

“ and in any case——in any case, what do you mean by ‘lighten up’? ”

he looked down at the console again——glowered, then went about inputting a series of coordinates.

“ i mean, it’s no use telling me to lighten up——i wasn’t being heavy! ”

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@crimeswithoutnumber asked:

|     He removed one of his gloves and smacked the other man across the chest with it.

his hand shot to where he’d been struck, and then he thrust out the other one, whipping the glove out of the other man’s grasp and smacking him across the shoulder with it.

“ now, look here, master——you’re getting violent. ”

he handed the glove back——then he sniffed a bit, and turned away, whisking that same hand underneath his nose as he went.

“ anyway, it’s no good, you know, i mean, going around pointing fingers——or gloves. ”

he stuck a digit out at the other man, but he didn’t look at him——then he moved around to the opposite side of the tardis’s controls.

“ i mean——it’s a group effort, isn’t it, operating a tardis? ”

he’d made his way over to where the recall circuit was, and was attempting to dismantle it, well——somewhat belatedly.

“ you could try taking a little responsibility——or we could do the sensible thing and lay the blame on the time lords.”

he looked up again.

“ that’s what they always do, after all, only they lay the blame on us. ”

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@lipstickthatbites asked:

|     “ Hey—you don't really expect me to stay here by myself, do you? ”

" hm? ” he shot a sidelong look at her——looked away, and then looked back again.

“ well——it should go without saying, shouldn’t it? ”

his eyebrows lifted themselves up a little.

“ i mean, it should go without saying that i wouldn’t expect you to wait here by yourself. ”

he’d averted his eyes again, making his way over to the wall opposite her where he attempted to look very busy with something.

“ adric——you stay here with sarah. ”

he lowered his voice as he motioned the boy over——unobtrusively, he imagined.

“ you heard her. she doesn’t want to wait by herself. ”

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You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Eckhart Tolle.