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:
– A Little Insurance (A Monthly Rumbelling fic)
– Another Second Chance (A Monthly Rumbelling fic)
You could also ask me a question off any of these lists.
I’m currently watching Agent Carter season 2 and I have realised three things:
1. I didn’t think it was possible for me to hate Thompson more than I already did, but apparently I was wrong. He’s just… Every time he’s on screen I want to scream.
2. I now have an OT3 which popped into my head completely out of the blue.
3. All I need in life is an Agent Carter spin-off in which Peggy and Rose Get Shit Done.
I finished watching this the other week. I got it for Christmas, it’s very good 🙂
1) I loathe Thompson as well and I’m very glad it’s not just me.
2) What’s the OT3? Inquiring minds want to know 🙂
3) I know! I loved that. I didn’t know Rose was so badass. She didn’t only take out the bad guys but she kept everyone else in line and on task.
Question, how do you feel about Daniel Souza?
I’m behind on absolutely everything. It’s terrible and I hate it. There’s a week left of February and I’ve decided to make a real concerted effort. Anyway, that’s not why I’m posting. I’m posting because I just wrote a line where Belle says she has “eyes in the back of her head” since having kids, and it reminded me of an anecdote my mother likes to embarrass me with.
This is something that needs to be worked into a fic one day. When I was little we went to the hairdresser. Mum was getting her haircut and apparently I suddenly screamed “mummy’s eyes, mummy’s eyes!” and the hairdresser turned round and said something like “sweetie I’m nowhere near your mummy’s eyes” and I then said “no, no, the ones in the back of her head” because apparently when I was little I thought that she literally had eyes in the back of her head.
If anyone wants a fluffy Gold family prompt then have at it! 🙂
Heya
I used to be very paranoid about “did I have anon flipped?” but then I learned a trick. I don’t know what browser you use but google chrome has incognito mode and I think all browsers have something similar. If you open tumblr in that then you aren’t logged in and then it has to be sent on anon. No accidents can happen that way 🙂
I’m guessing you mean a shape shifting dragon so she’ll be human some of the time, so sure dragon!Belle, why not? Sounds good to me! Basically I’m easy, so long as there’s a happy ending then I’m good with almost anything. So go with whatever inspires you.
Feel free to message anytime 🙂 have fun fooling around with your ideas!
I did this once before, nearly six months ago. Back then I only had 6 published fics, and I wound up cheating a little and choosing some I hadn’t posted yet. This time I have 31 published fics, so no need for cheating 🙂
1) Painting Layers of Love – Belle French lives alone and she likes it that way. She’s lived alone ever since the terrible car accident which killed her mother and claimed her eyesight. Belle spends her days painting, in complete solitude, until one day she wakes up and hears movement outside. Somebody has moved into the cottage next door. She had grown comfortable in her solitary existence until Mr Gold crashes into her life. Now her future is uncertain, like a blank canvas, waiting for her to apply the paint and decide what kind of story she is creating. [Tumblr, AO3] – This was on the list last time and it means a lot to me personally. I would probably bill it as a slow-burn romance but really the romance is secondary to the journey the characters are taking. They are learning a lot about themselves and attempting to do something incredibly scary – make a change. That takes time and it’s an ongoing process; very much one step forward, two steps back.
2) Between Two Fires – Captain Julian Gold, a decorated hero of the Frontlands Defense Force was once married to Lacey Beaumont. They had been happy but then she had died. Shortly after her death Gold discovered the truth. She wasn’t really Lacey Beaumont, she was Belle French and she was from Avonlea. Five years later there is a twitch on the border line. Gold follows the trail, stunned to find himself face to face with his supposedly dead wife – Belle. [Tumblr, AO3] – I love this fic so much. It’s a sci-fi/espionage mashup which combines a lot of my favorite things. I really enjoyed writing it and there’s so much more that I could explore with this verse. Honestly if I didn’t have so many more ideas to write, I would totally do that. I’d love to write prequels, sequels (remix sequels). This is a verse I could do a lot with if I had you know a way to freeze time.
3) The Beauty and the Tragedy – When Mr. Gold calls in Lord French’s marker, bankrupting his estate, it leaves Lady Belle with nowhere to go until Mr. Gold offers her a deal. She enters his service as a maid and true love blossoms between them. Belle dreams of forever but there is a room, which is permanently locked, that stands in the way. [NSFW] [Tumblr, AO3] – I wrote this in a day as an emergency writer for Rumbelle Revelry and I just love it. The way the fic came out, the imagery and how it flows, I just feel it works really well and I don’t often say that about anything I’ve written.
4) Conspiracy Afloat – When Mr. Gold buys Storybrooke marina, one of the marina’s few permanent residents, Belle French, swears he won’t get away with it. She sets sail and anchors in a remote cove and that night Belle witnesses a murder. At first light she returns to the marina to report it … but nobody believes her. Gold’s purchase of the marina now takes on even more sinister implications, and her growing attraction towards him only complicates matters. Vowing to investigate herself, if the sheriffs won’t, Belle soon starts to unravel a town-wide conspiracy. [Tumblr, AO3] – I wrote this for RSS and it’s quite long, the verse came to just over 30k in the end, but it could well have been novel length if I’d let it. I have a ridiculous amount of headcanon. It starts off quite slow but then it’s gets full of the usual fun tropes like bedsharing.
5) In Your Arms – Retired soldier and single father Gold works at a coffee shop library. Plagued by nightmares of the war he’s quiet, only interacting with customers when necessary. His favorite customer is Belle, who comes in a couple of times a week. Her smile is as bright as the sun. One day she comes in upset and for a moment he is brave enough to ask her what is wrong. [Tumblr, AO3] – This was on the list last time as well. I love this verse. The Gold in this is more like an AU version of spinner!Rumple and there’s a kind of a blanket fort going on. Gold is really sweet and this is another verse I could write so much more with. I might be adding a oneshot in April if I have time as it works for one of the Monthly Rumbelling prompts. I hope so because I would love to revisit these characters!
Picking the last one was hard because I would have loved to put The War Within on the list. I know it’s cheating to mention it at the end but I worked really hard on that, the verse is over 100k. It’s an alternate season six that has a Rumbelle true loves kiss and a happy ending. Anyway thank you so much for the tag! and for letting me ramble 🙂
(Warning this review contains spoilers)
In my on going quest to work my way through Robert Carlyle’s filmography, I just watched this movie. It was alright, a semi-decent fantasy movie. It kinda follows the usual script of young kid is the ‘chosen one’, makes a stupid mistake, his mentor dies in front of his eyes, he embraces his destiny etc. Quite formulaic really.
Still the special effects weren’t bad, the setting/backstory was interesting enough. I think the movie was intended to start up a franchise, but then according to wiki the movie bombed so obviously that didn’t happen. There are quite a few unanswered questions like why did Eragon’s mother abandon him? What happened to his cousin? Also the ending was a clear set up for another movie. They’d won a battle but the war was just beginning.
Right, so how about Durza? Well, his appearance was very Rumple-esque. Honestly he was kinda like Rumple-lite to be honest. I have questions about him too, I mean for someone with Durza’s power, why was he afraid of and serving the King? I know the King obviously had magic because of his dragon but Durza had some pretty mad skills. To be honest I’m glad there weren’t more movies because *spoiler alert* Durza gets killed off, which was a waste of a good villain. He really wasn’t in this movie enough.
So basically watching it for Robert Carlyle is a bit of a waste. He’s really not in it that much, and his performance is like I said Rumple-lite. Watching it as a fantasy movie, it’s ok but nothing to write home about. It was enjoyable enough, and it’s certainly more my kind of thing than some other RC projects I’ve seen. I didn’t finish this one and think “what did I just watch?” which is always a good thing.
Actually thinking about it, the movie was better than I’m giving it credit for. I love the fantasy genre but I can find their movies a bit boring. I watched Snow White and the Huntsman the other day and I paused it and literally groaned because I couldn’t believe I was only halfway through, it felt interminable. I didn’t do that with this one, it passed and the ending happened and I wasn’t really checking the clock.
I guess I’m kinda luke-warm on it. It was alright, nothing more and nothing less.
This is a paranoid Zookeeper wondering if Tumblr ate my first greeting. Anything you want have in mind for your Rushbelle?
Hey *waves*
Eeek I’m sorry. As you can see I did get both messages but I think perhaps we are on opposite time zones. They came through at 1am and 4am my time so I didn’t see them until I got up this morning. I know the paranoid feeling of “did tumblr eat it?” I’m wondering that about my giftee at the moment. So I promise you that I can see no reason why I wouldn’t respond within 24 hours. If it’s been more than a day then tumblr ate it. Hope that helps! 🙂
Right ok *rubs hands together* first things first, what I want more than anything is for you to have fun. I always say that when I do these gift exchanges. Don’t feel obligated to include anything I say if you don’t want. I would rather this was an enjoyable experience for you, than you feel miserable trying to work something in that just isn’t doing it for you.
Now that’s clear the creature I had in mind was a dragon. I want you to write whatever you wish of course, but if I’m allowed to say, I would prefer if either Rush and Belle just interact with the dragon, or they only transform into the dragon temporarily and are still human otherwise. I confess I was kinda imagining it set on an alien world, but the choice is obviously yours. What I will say is I don’t really like many of the SGU characters, so don’t feel you have to set it on Destiny. Let your imagination run wild. I’m sure I’ll love whatever you come up with 🙂
Of course if you share my loathing of Colonel Young, feel free to have him roasted by the dragon, or perhaps chewed on a little and then roasted (I really don’t like him).
Feel free to message me whenever you would like and not just if you have questions. I’m not adverse to chatting 🙂 I’m going to tag my replies to you “Sam’s Zookeeper Replies” so hopefully you can find them easily. I hope you have a good day!
Just got my May Day Menagerie assignment and I’m super stoked! It wasn’t what I was expecting because I’d said I’d basically write anything, in an effort to help with the matching. I was preparing myself to write out of my comfort zone, and instead I wound up with my first choice. I don’t quite know how that happened, lucky me I guess 🙂
Someone reblogged that crossover ask game thing from me. I went to ask them a question, and realized I didn’t know their fandoms, and it seems like the kind of game where it would be helpful to have a working knowledge of both. Then that made me realize that you guys probably don’t know what shows I’m familiar with, aside from what I sometimes reblog.
Now obviously I like some of these a lot more than others, and I’m not in any fandom apart from Rumbelle 🙂 However, I have a working knowledge of all of these shows/movies …
leni-ba replied to your post “Someone reblogged that crossover ask game thing from me. I went to ask…”
Of these, we have in common Almost Human (well, I watched and loved the first two seasons anyway, lol), Firefly (talk shiny to me!), and House M.D.
Almost Human only had one season. I’m guessing you are thinking of something different? Almost Human was my Firefly. I will be forever bitter that Almost Human didn’t get picked up after the initial 13 episode order. The characters were great, the setting was interesting, there were a ton of unanswered questions. It was a brilliant show and they messed it about by screwing with the episode order and then cancelled it. That was a few years ago now and I’m still annoyed.
Wow that was instant. Thank you! *happy dance*
A crossover ship I’d dig: Well the obvious answer is Rushbelle. Except in a crossover Rumple would still be around, in which case no way because true love! Rumple and Belle just belong together. Hmm I’m actually giving this serious thought. The problem is so many people are already paired up. Alright, I think actually I’d go for Regina and Varro because Varro is like a cross between Robin and Graham, so I can see how that would work.
A crossover BroTP I’d dig: Has to be David and Lt. Scott I think, they are very much cut from the same cloth. Although I think TJ and Snow would get on well. Eli and Henry would definitely be friends. I think if Belle made friends with anyone on Destiny, I would hope it would be Volker. He’s a good guy.
A crossover Frenemies I think would be inevitable: Rush and Rumple. They are far too similar to be friends but I think they would sometimes work together, sometimes against one another, depending on whether they wanted something that was mutually beneficial or not.
A crossover badass duo I think would be inevitable: The humorous answer would be pairing Brody with Hook because Brody was the maker of alcohol on Destiny, and we know how Hook loves his rum. I doubt anybody’s liver would survive. However, the serious answer, well Greer was the best fighter on Destiny, it’s hard to pick the best fighter among the Once crew and Greer has serious trust issues. I would say in a fight, pair Greer with one of the magic wielders (Rumple, Zelena or Regina) and no enemy would survive.
A crossover animosity I think would be inevitable: Rush and everybody? No, not a good answer. Greer and everybody? No, alright I’ll try and be serious. I think Camille and Regina would snipe a lot to be honest. Camille was never the leader she should have been, she was rather ineffectual to be honest and I always hoped for better from her. I think Camille would probably bluster and try and take charge, and then Regina would just do it effortlessly because she was the Queen and Regina would do her sarcasm thing, and Camille would be offended, and then it would degenerate from there.
This was actually a harder thought experiment than I thought it would be, but definitely interesting! Thank you very much 🙂