#will rose

[whibleysims]

"Come on, Li-luh! I wanna dance!"

"Keep your damn skirt on, alright?! I'm comin'!"

"Okay! What'd'yah think? Too much?"

Of course I couldn't say how I really felt, and I prayed my blushing cheeks were hidden well enough in my dimly lit bedroom for her not to notice. Maybe I matched the walls, maybe that's why she could look right past me most of the time.

"I've never seen you like this before," I said, which was true.

"Tryin' something new," she shrugged with a grin.

"No kidding."

"So it's too much?"

"No!" I protested. If she changed a single thing I was sure my heart would stop beating. "You look great."

"Great, 'cause I think we're crazy late to meet the boys."

"Grab your purse and I'll call the cab."

"We could probably walk there," I suggested. Anything to lengthen our time alone together.

"We're late enough as it is, C. I'm pretty sure if we stall any longer Will and Geoff won't be there to meet us."

"So?"

"I'm calling a cab. Just meet me downstairs, 'kay?"

"Okay. Right behind you."

I want to say that I knew better. I want to tell you that I didn't spend my whole life following Lila Rose anywhere she went, or Lila Roberts as I knew her then.

"They aren't comin'," Geoff probably said.

"Oh my god," Will would've groaned, because who wouldn't.

"Why would any nice girl wanna be with an old loser like me?" He used to play this dumb "poor me" act a lot back then.

"Geoff, pull yourself together, man. Lila wouldn't do that. They're comin', don't be an idiot."

Lila fell into Will's arms immediately jumping out of the taxi. As he said something sleazy, like, "Hey, babe," I was looking at my date: your father. He was anything but my type, but what he did offer me was a night out with my best friend, so you can understand why I gave him a polite chance.

We got to the bar, and I could tell you what happened there, but I'd only be repeating myself.

We were in college. We were young. She was a senior with her eyes on a sunny suburban dream, and I was a sophomore just trying to keep up. She didn't know, how could she? I was only just finding out then myself.

But I always wondered...

"Did you like him?" she asked me.

It took me a long minute to remember who "he" even was, but I nodded believing that's what she wanted me to do.

"Will likes him a lot, those two are pretty tight, like us," she explained. "And wouldn't it be great if the four of us could like, all get together and live together and be together? We could even raise our kids together!"

The things she said to me! She must have known how our doomed future gutted me, even then.

I knew there was no competing with Will Rowe -- that was his name back then, you see. Will was a farmer boy, sweet as pie and loyal as a dog. Lila told him to change his name to "Rose" because she wanted to be known as "Lila Rose" when they got married and moved to Whibley. I guess, looking back, this was when I also decided to marry Geoff and change my name too. Anything for Lila.

Later, or never at all, I remember thinking. I would tell her later when the time was right, or if the time was never right then I would learn to be content with whatever she wanted us to be: friends, neighbours, it didn't matter as long as I could orbit her world.

Can you imagine a more torturous way to live?

Part-way through the life I told myself I would be okay with, I needed a release, so I turned to writing, but one day Geoff had enough, he kicked me out, rightfully so!, because of course I went to Lila, and I told her, we kissed, but she looked so horrified after that I knew it was--

"The end. I never spoke to her again," Caroline Murphy finished.

"So that's the Lila story," her son Allan puzzled.

"That's the Lila story," she nodded.

[shamebats]

OP's pronouns are she/they.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

On this day twenty years ago, Rose Tyler tried to find out more about the mysterious man known as the Doctor by googling "doctor". Iconic shit.

[welli-moon]

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself.

[auroblaze]

Everybody always so bold when dunking from the other parallel dimension 😔

"Redraw tumblr post" time of the year again, based on this one specifically that i found weeks ago but I needed to do something with it hfgjdh (with the original post being on tiktok). I just love canon Blaze being absolutely ass at cooking💜

[cannibalcaprine]

big fan of rose quartz. i think we should have more rocks with just a bit of iron in them that makes them bright pink

[miametropolis]

and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[discount-supervillain]

[mercurio-shadowz]

as promised, Shadow wears a cutesy dress: the comic :3

(Don't pay too much attention to the dialogue or story here, this comic was just an excuse to draw Shadow in a dress LOL)

up next is. uhhh... what did Sonic do now? who knows!

[skulkingfoxes]

"Good Morning, Rose"

My short story for the wlw anthology GLIMM*R!

[whibleysims]

He's okay, he's okay, he's--

The moment the elevator doors opened, Kathy Rose burst through and ran as fast as she could.

"You're okay!"

"Sorry to scare you, honey."

"I'm just glad you're alright," she said out of breath, smiling and sniffling.

"Eh, well," Will sighed and shrugged at the same time.

"Those are nice." Kathy nodded towards the flowers at her father's bedside.

"Reney put 'em there. You just missed her, she went off to see another patient. Running off her feet tonight, apparently! Poor thing."

"Never stops, huh?"

"So, what happened?" Kathy asked.

"A minor heart attack."

"What!"

"Minor," he repeated. "Just had a couple x-rays done, we'll know more in a bit. Why don't you get something from the cafeteria in the meantime, hm?" Kathy shook her head, but her father insisted. "Then go get me something."

"Okay, sure. What do you want?"

"Doesn't matter. Whatever you find, you'll do fine."

"Okay. I'll be right back."

The cafeteria was barren and quiet, so Kathy wandered into the equally unhelpful hospital gift shop for a while.

She decided a candy bar from the vending machines downstairs was the best choice in the end. Nothing fancy but still fun. She stuffed it in her tight jean pocket and headed back upstairs.

But by the time she walked back to his room--

--her father was long gone.

[cloverstellar]

thinking (-1) about characters is so fun gu(-1)ys trust

[popadoot]

reposting old su art i like..

[muchlovefleursblog]