#frozen water

[awearyelf]

Frozen over

January 23 2024

[tofreezetime]

winter carries the brightest and the darkest

[adam-trademark]

Frozen Water

(January 4, 2022)

[crimsonaireal]

[beautiful-things-things]

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

[neutralvibe]

Frozen waters

Subnautica Below Zero small story

It was a very calm evening, no storm in the distance, the strong and cold wind had calmed into a soft breeze, and the temperature wasn't as cold as it was during the day.

It was a once in a while situation. It didn't happen all that often to have such a peaceful moment in this secteur.

But it was alright, you always cherished those moments of calm and stillness. It's always a welcome change of pace in your everyday life of research.

The rays of the sun were the only source of warmth you had for the moment, as you sat at the edge of one of the massif icebergs located towards the cracker edge of the secteur. Yes, it was a restricted area for many reasons, mainly because of all the dangerous creatures below but, you manage to found a way to go through undetected by those creatures (that tends to stay on ground level) AND your superiors by swimming side by side with glow whales.

It's a very unique experience to swim side by side with one of them. It's like swimming with creatures holding the secrets of the univers and the cosmos. They know so much and express so much with their eyes, your heart became heavy with emotions the first time you've experience it, it was beautiful.

You tug your equipment closer to yourself as a shivers run downs your spine. Even if the wind has calm down, the temperature was not forgiving. It was easily -39 celsius out, a rather warm day but still cold.

Atleast you had a cold suit on and some fevered pepper. You also believed you saw some growing in a small opening of the icebergs, the ice must've had melted and created this space that sheltered them from the wind and the storms and so, giving the chance for grow.

It always fascinated you how life always found a way to grow despite all the harsh conditions of the environment. For example the thermal lillies, they grow straight from the cliffs of ice and stay alive by consuming the minerals within the ice and absorbing the sunlight as a heat source to store it within its body.

It's mind blowing!

Sometimes, you believe you should've studied biology than robotics. There's so much to discover and to understand in this univers. Of course, robotics is also very helpful in discovering new things and helping with research but, there's just this special feeling in your heart everytime you meet a new plant or creature. Intrigued and curiosity takes over. To try and understand the world around you. After all, it's also the one you live in.

Maybe in another life.

The sun was beginning to set as it cast a golden hue on the neverending ocean before you. The few clouds were slowly painted with a deep orange fading to bright yellow. The clouds behind you were also slowly chosing their color as deep pink. It was like looking at a vintage painting from the late 1400. It was a magnificent sight. One you quickly took a picture of to keep in your pda but, noticed it wasn't as pretty as the actual sight.

As the sun set further into the horizon, the first moon was beginning to do it's fourth rotation of the day. It's soon going to block the last few sunlight and the freezing night is going to start.

As much as you don't want to leave this magical moment. It's not for no reason why there's a curfew at sunset. The temperature drop so much that it's deadly for anyone during the night.

With a heavy heart, you start packing your equipment to go back to the headquarters.

The sound of the quiet waves crashing on the iceberg's edge takes your focus almost instantly. Making you really wish you could stay longer as the sound brought peace to your mind. Stars, you really don't want to go. To stay here and live this moment a little longer than to go back to the loud environment of the robotics headquarters.

A small cloud of steam leaves your mouth as you sigh deeply before looking one last time at the sun that was now half block by the moon.

It's getting dark and you notice the small layer of ice slowly forming on top the freezing waters.

Yeah, it's best to go back.

Standing at the edge of the icebergs, you look towards the horizon. Your last thought that passed through your mind before jumping in the frozen waters was that it would be nice to have a cup of hot chocolate before calling it night.

[bevanne46]

The formation of ‘ice flowers’ is a beautiful natural phenomenon in the Great Lakes region of North America!! When the temperature drops under freezing temperatures, the non-frozen water under the ice layer is pushed upward, creating small cracks. Then, as very little water flows through these cracks and almost immediately freezes, very thin ice layers of irregular shapes are formed. As they accumulate, they create fantastic geometric shapes. Mother Nature’s art is amazing!

[jm-photos]

Frozen.

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03.21.23 Norway

[savebatsfromscratch]

No.14 Dragonbreath

Ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50826493

Words: 1,059

Cws: Threat of drowning, frozen water, torture

Notes: The part before the “I’ll Never Give Up Fighting, You Witch,” scene, I guess, never leaves my head. This isn’t fully accurate to it, of course, I was just making stuff up on vague memories. I highly recommend the original book over this fic, this is just a pale imitation of an incredible series.

Prompt: No. 14: “Feed me poison, fill me ‘till I drown.” Flare | Water Inhalation | “Just hold on.”

Hiccup didn’t even try to wriggle in his bonds. He didn’t need to try to get out to know that he couldn’t, especially not with half his body too sore to move. And, as a cruel bonus, the only unchained people in the room were Alvin’s Men who would gladly kill him if he got a chance to escape. Based on the hatred glowing in their eyes, if the dragon rebellion was not about to come to a close, it could have been all they had been training to do these past months.

All he could do was hope that Plan B was going to work. This hope, however, was pretty weak given how little time had gone into planning this mission, let ALONE Plan B.

That, at least, was evident in the position he found himself in.

It was clear that he had not thought about what he was getting himself into for nearly long enough, let alone a way out if something like this happened. 

But he was here, and she was here, and none of the promised King's Lost Things were here, and Hiccup was wrapped like a little present in thick metal chains that he doubted even Alivn himself could have broken out of. 

Hiccup was totally trapped, and his only hope at escape lay in the messily put together Plan B. He couldn't talk his way out of this, Alvin was already trying to argue why they should kill him immediately. He couldn't fight his way out, even if he wasn't chained up, his fighting arm was limp as crushed Nanodragon at his side. ...and Hiccup wasn't very good at much else, was he.

“Alvin my dear,“ the witch's awful whisper barely held back excitement as she scuttled around the room, ”Aren't you excited to see him drown?“

”I am, mother,“ muttered Alvin, nervously fiddling with his sword attachment, ”I just think we should kill him now to get it over with, you know how he is...“

”Pish posh,“ the witch cackled, ”he's just a BOY, and a very young one at that...“ she made a face at Hiccup, “it shouldn't take very long to break him,”

She galloped towards Hiccup, and he had to try very hard not to squirm away from her metal fingernails, even though he knew he could not be poisoned by them. 

“We're going to dunk you in that cold water there,” the witch purred, gesturing to a trapdoor that opened into the frigid winter ocean, “and when we pull you out, you're going to tell us the location of your mother's base, right?”

Hiccup could already imagine the pain of the frozen ocean, having fallen in once as a young child, but he tried not to let his terror show on his face as he shook his head no.

The witch's expression soured, and she scuttled backwards back to Alvin. Clearly, she thought that Hiccup was going to break, and, to be completely honest, Hiccup wasn't so sure he could disagree with her.

The chain began to pull him towards the hatch, slowly and painfully as Hiccup tried to fight his rising panic. So long as Plan B was getting followed through on, this whole thing should be survivable. (But, as he had realized before, the likelihood of that happening was one to zero, even with the months that he had spent perfecting his team's communication and collaboration skills.)

He wanted nothing more than to dig his fingers into the wooden floor of the boat, but the chains kept his arms in place. 

He looked up at the rows and rows of Dragonmarkers in the cages, each holding a solemn dull to their eyes, as if they had all already decided that he would break. The witch was right after all, he was just a BOY, and a particularly young one at that, what could he possibly do against the freezing, Winterflesher filled, waters of the archipelago?

He wasn't really all that impressive to look at, after all.

Hiccup was only a couple of feet away from the edge now, but his mind stretched milliseconds into minutes as he tried to look brave. If Plan B didn't work...

He glanced back at the opening and watched as a Winterflesher leaped a few inches out of the water, its shining white teeth glowing like little daggers in its mouth. 

Hiccup swallowed and did his best to square his shoulders.

If Plan B didn't work, he was going to have more to worry about than drowning or freezing to death. He'd seen Winterfleshers tear apart a fully grown deer in seconds before, and, as far as anyone in that room could tell, Hiccup was more comparable to a baby deer than an adult. There was no way he could stand a chance against those things.

One more foot.

One more inch.

Just a little more...

Hiccup felt himself tipping over into the hatch, and he only just managed to swallow in a breath before he hit the water.

The shock of it took a beat to hit him, and for that brief moment, all he could process was the incredible darkness of the water that surrounded him. 

And then the cold hit.

It took all of the strength he had not to let out his meager supply of air right then. (And even with his efforts, he managed to inhale a little through his nose anyway.)

It hurt so bad.

The ocean was so cold it almost felt like swimming in a pool of molten lava, and trust him, he'd gotten pretty close to that experience a couple of times.

He squeezed his eyes shut as salt began to burn them. (Or maybe it was so he didn't see the Winterfleshers that were getting over their surprise that someone had been thrown into the middle of them.)

He braced for the feeling of their teeth on his unprotected skin, but so far, nothing was happening.

He braced a little harder, but nothing happened.

Hiccup felt the brush of a familiar dragon on his side, and his frozen body seemed to warm up in relief. Plan B was a go. So, as Hiccup hung limp in the water, he opened his mouth to that dragonbreath that was filling his lungs. So long as he survived the cold, he could do this.

[colorsoutofearth]

Portuguese oak tree leaf and Blackberry leaf in ice

Photo by Andres M Dominguez

[awearyelf]

The creek froze over on the top but there was these little bubble looking things. I'm not really sure what they are but they look interesting!

[monilucy-marymaus]

[adam-trademark]

Pictorial Serenity

(January 29, 2024)

[crimsonaireal]

Frozen Gemstones Cave