You know I said in that TV ask meme thing that Rumbelle changed my life. I don’t know whether I’ve ever talked about this so just excuse me while I muse for a minute.

Without Rumbelle I wouldn’t be on tumblr. I found tumblr through looking at Rumbelle fanfiction (well actual I found Rushbelle first as I was a Stargate fan before Once). Without Rumbelle and tumblr I would never have signed up to the Rumbelle Secret Santa. Without the RSS I would never have met and talked to @little-inkstone.

You know I read posts sometimes that cross my dash which say not to underestimate internet friendships and I feel like I’m proof that somebody in another country, whom I’ve never physically met, can and has actually had a profound impact on my life.

If it wasn’t for talking with @little-inkstone I would never have thought about university. I’d failed out the first time and spent years wishing for a redo. Talking with them inspired me and made me realise that I didn’t have to wish for a genie to grant me a redo, I could redo just a decade later. In September I start my second year of my degree. It’s hard and a lot of days I hate it but I’m in a much better place in my life because of it.

There’s more. I wrote over 500k of Rumbelle fanfic. Now a fair bit of it is truly awful but I wrote it. I had ideas and for the most part I finished them. Without Rumbelle I wouldn’t have discovered A Monthly Rumbelling and I wouldn’t have learned to write on command and to a prompt. I’ve always struggled with the question “am I a real writer?” because for the most part I know where my ideas come from. The Rumbelle prompts gave me faith in my own imagination. I don’t have faith in my own writing abilities but hey one step at a time right 🙂

I actually changed the names and then submitted extracts from my Rumbelle fanfics for my portfolio. Rumbelle fanfic got me into my university course.

I haven’t written Rumbelle fanfic in a couple of years. I never intended to stop but life happened. Once Upon a Time as a show frustrated the hell out of me. It is not my favourite show BUT it is the show which changed my life.

So yeah that’s the story of how Rumbelle changed my life…