The case is still ongoing dearie. These things take months, especially with all the delays the defense is petitioning for every five minutes. Dragging it out is a tactic because the jury gets tired, they just want to go home, and then they are more likely to find in favor of the defendant due to the benefit of the doubt.
*cough* as for Belle and I we aren’t seeing as much of each other. The loss of the tape seems to have made the defense decide to keep quiet about their knowledge of our relationship, but there is no sense tempting fate. It’s best not to give them any ammunition.
The moment the jury comes back and this case is over, I’m taking a week of my accumulated leave and taking Belle away from the city. There’s a small box burning a hole in my desk drawer…
Ask me about the show. Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.
This week I posted: Nothing but I did post an awful lot last week. Also I have a lot of Monthly Rumbelling fics in the pipeline, and I’ve also been working on my menagerie fic, so next week there will definitely be new fic!
*kicks tumblr* honestly I think it’s time this place was serviced and had an oil change you know? Oh no! Rush got left behind! Haha, oh man this fic is going to be great. I hope you enjoy flailing in the comments because I’m probably going to get long.
I’m glad you are almost done. That’s a good feeling isn’t it? I’m looking at the clock and hoping I might be able to knock out the ending to mine this morning before I have to go out. If not then it’ll be tomorrow I should think, so very close, getting there 🙂
I seriously can’t wait to your fic! This is going to be epic!
That wonderful parallel gifset where Rumple says about Doctor Hopper’s office being down the street just came up on my dash again.
What if because people in the Enchanted Forest always turned to Rumple to solve their problems, they kept doing that under the curse? I mean a quick deal with the Dark One seemed to be what everyone did when the slightest problem cropped up. So it would be like a subconscious thing, and cursed!Gold wouldn’t have any idea why. Hence why he got into the reflex habit of directing everyone to Doctor Hopper’s office.
I honestly thought when I saw the promo it was going to be time travel. I’m so relieved that it was just a flashback because time travel is a headache. Anyway, there were some not so great moments in this episode but as I try and be positive, I’m just going to ignore those and celebrate the good.
I honestly thought when I saw the promo it was going to be time travel. I’m so relieved that it was just a flashback because time travel is a headache. Anyway, I’m going to be needing all the Snow and Charming gifsets from the cursed!flashbacks because that was good for them. There were some not so great moments as well but as I try and be positive, I’m just going to ignore those and celebrate the good.
I’m sorry tumblr gave your problems. That seems to be going around. Yay for almost being done! Posting day is two weeks tomorrow and I can’t wait! I’m really looking forward to reading this 🙂
Oh wow thank you! I’m glad you liked them. I know I kinda went a little overboard with the Order in the Court event, I just had so many ideas heh. This fandom is great for events though. There’s usually something going on and it’s always good fun.
I have a little bit well alright a fair bit left to do on my menagerie fic. It’s a bank holiday tomorrow and I’m going to *crack knuckles* get down and see if I can get it finished. Good luck with finishing yours! I can’t wait! 🙂
Synopsis: Boston PD is in dire financial straits so the Police Foundation decide to hold an auction – win a date with one of Boston’s Finest. Resigned to her fate Detective Belle French goes under the hammer. The winning bid belongs to the notorious defense attorney Carl Gold, but he never had any intention of using the date, and tells her to just enjoy her night off. Instead Belle decides to honor their deal, surprising him at his office at the designated time of their contracted date.
Gold’s lip
curled as he looked around the packed ballroom. This was obscene, and
degrading, and the fact that it had become the ‘must attend’ event of the year
was appalling. The who’s who of Boston’s
elite was here tonight, ostensibly to support the Boston Police Foundation, but
really here to rub elbows with each other and network for personal gain. It was
a world he’d bought a place in, with his very lucrative and very successful law
practice, but it wasn’t a world he liked.
The police were
feeling the financial squeeze, the same as the rest of the world, the same as
everyone apart from those in this room and others like them. Boston PD was in
dire financial straits; with pay and hiring freezes for another consecutive
year, layoffs, no money to replace equipment or for additional training. Gold
knew a lot of police couldn’t be trusted, he’d seen the worst of law
enforcement as a young child growing up poor, but he had seen them occasionally
do good things since.
That was why he
was here tonight. The cities elite had got tired of benefit dinners, so the
Police Foundation were trying something different to get them to put their
hands in their pockets, they were trying an auction. ‘Win a date with Boston’s
Finest’– and they had turned out in droves because of the novelty. His
reputation demanded his attendance at events like this, but only one person
could have made him attend this travesty of human decency – Detective Belle
French.
I’m such a sucker for bachelor/ette auctions and this was great and so in character for both of them! I love the image of tiny Belle all grit and fire in a cop uniform and Gold was perfectly put out by his duties as an attorney. I really enjoyed it!
Thank you! I seem to have quite a few “Belle is a cop” stories because I think it really suits her. She’s passionate about helping people, she’s strong and brave and often underestimated and I think she’d be clever about solving crimes, because she could read through lots of files and draw connections. Anyway, I’m really glad you liked this fic! Thank you so much for commenting 🙂
“How do I even know if I can do the job?” “By simply, simply trying.”
NaNo is my favourite time of year. I have likened it to a holiday, the eager anticipation mixed with nerves on NaNo-eve is certainly familiar. NaNo is special and a good part of what makes it so special is the community. Camp NaNo even more than regular November NaNo has community at it’s heart with the cabin system. May I just say we have the best cabin this session? Rocking it Rumbelle style heh 🙂
We’re now halfway through and there have been ups and downs. Sometimes it can seem like it’s all doom and gloom, especially because we are now so far from the start but also so far from the end. However, it’s been heartwarming to read in the chat about the successes we’ve had. There have been some truly mind blowing word counts reached but success is more than volume. We’ve reached word counts that are a stretch for us personally and that really is what NaNo is about. It’s not about beating
some high set number, it’s about beating what before seemed impossible for the
individual.
It’s day fourteen and our word counts are very different. However, whether you have zero words, 3k, 10k, 20k, 50k or more you are one of us. We are all writers and we all love to write, it’s what we have in common even though we originate from all over the globe. Writing isn’t always easy. There are days when we are tired, when we are ill, when we plain don’t feel like it or we sit there and no words come to mind.
We all come from different places, with different factors at play conspiring to keep us from making our goals. The secret is simple. Perseverance, determination, dedication, focus, effort, concentration etc. So easy to say and yet so very hard to do. It’s about butt in chair (or wherever you write) and putting one word after another. That’s what we do, whatever speed we type at, whatever our end goal is, we just keep on trucking.
We’re going to have bad days, it happens. What’s important is to move on and try again. New goals, new challenges and of course that overarching one at the end of the month. No matter what stage we’re at now, it’s still possible, there’s time. We’re also going to have amazing days. Days where we type so much our joints ache, because the energy is so incredible all we want to do is write.
Whatever the challenges Camp NaNo throws at us, we are going to climb our own personal mountain. Whatever goal we have set ourselves we’ve got this. We have so got this!
Ok I have to know. Am I the only that is vehemently against Gideon getting deaged into a baby?
I have to be honest I find the entire concept quite horrifying because it basically kills him. It resets him, erasing his personality and everything he went through that made him who he is. It’s like saying there’s no consequences. Yes, what he went through was horrible but it happened and in my opinion it should be dealt with, not just magic handwaved away.
I know it sucks for everyone involved but then Emma didn’t get deaged back into a baby so she’d have a happier childhood, and Snow and Charming got to raise her. Instead they managed to find a way to make it work as they are now and I really strongly believe that Rumple, Belle and Gideon need to do the same. They can still be a family, it’ll just be unconventional, but then in Storybrooke what else is new right?
Discussion is seriously welcome here 🙂
I don’t want it to happen to THIS version of Gideon, no. What I want is somehow Rumbelle going to the Dark Realm and since times moves weirdly in that realm, they end up there while Gideon is still a baby or still a very young boy. And then once they save him from the Dark Realm and come back, the older Gideon who was being controlled by the BF, just sort of disappears. It’s like a timeline reset for him.
I do not want an August/Pinocchio bullshit situation where they de-age a grown ass adult. That’s creepy and gross.
I agree with @rowofstars. Yes to rescuing Gideon before everything happened to him, no to de-aging the adult Gideon.
Wow ok, yeah I remember this theory now because of the filming spoilers. I have to be honest though I really hate the idea.
First because while it loses some of the creepy factor of the deaging, it still basically kills the Gideon we know because it erases him from existence. Secondly (and far more importantly to me) time travel doesn’t work like that and I would scream so loudly. I have a feeling based on next weeks promo I’m going to be ranting a lot about time travel anyway.
The way I understand it. If they did manage to slip between the time stream and rescue Gideon when he was a boy, he wouldn’t just disappear from Storybrooke in that instant – he never would have been to Storybrooke in the first place. Nothing would have happened with him after he got rescued. So it’s impossible, it’s a paradox. History can’t be changed. I don’t believe in ripples through time because well paradox. History can’t be changed because people wouldn’t know they had to do anything to change it.
If history is changed, then it causes a break in the timeline and a new reality is created. So if Rumple and Belle did rescue Gideon as a child, it would change nothing in our Storybrooke. Adult Gideon would still be around, only now he would have lost his parents because Rumple and Belle would be in the new reality they created and probably unable to ever return.
If they did manage to bridge the two realities and bring kid!Gideon back with them, then there would be two Gideon’s. The one we know, and the child from the alternate reality they created. No matter what adult Gideon can’t be wiped from existence and just disappear. At least as I understand the logic of time travel. Now I could be wrong I mean time travel is fictional and it works however the creators say it works I guess. I probably shouldn’t be so judgmental and opinionated about it. It just bugs me when it doesn’t make sense. I’m sorry.
