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still-searching47:

The monthly rumbelling prompts just went up, it’s like Christmas! You know maybe this is why my productivity was zero yesterday. I never can concentrate when I’m waiting for something, it’s a really big character flaw of mine.

Anyway, April is going to be mega crazy, I have so many ideas already. Nothing yet for March, a couple of the words are throwing me off. Which leaves this month! I have a premise for the smut prompt, I just need to decide on what variation of rumbelle/anyelle I want to do, which would then determine the tone e.g. soft and loving, or more comedy etc.

Non-smut is more problematic because I have issues with the dagger, and what’s gone down with it on the show. This could get very angsty, very fast and to be honest I don’t really enjoy angst. I like fixing things, not breaking them. I’ll have to think about it. The phrasing and the word ‘takes’ conjures up a divisive scenario but I could ignore the meaning and just go with the ‘letter’ of the prompt. It could be a challenge to turn something with so much angst potential, into something fluffy, or I could just skip the non-smut prompt this month. Like I said, I’ll have to think about it 🙂

I’m in the same boat, but I’ve managed to get away with skirting the prompts in the past (case in point – the Cave of Wonders series… which I am very pleased to be able to continue in forthcoming prompts!)

I think the whole point of @a-monthly-rumbelling is for everyone to interpret the prompts in their own way, and if for some of us that means skirting them and just going by the letter, then that’s the way we have interpreted the prompt. It’s not a competition and it’s not a gift exchange, this is just something we do for fun and for a challenge.

Yup! That’s very true and yay more Cave of Wonders! That is a great verse 🙂 I have some ideas percolating now I’ve sort of “freed” myself from canon/angst. Actually I have two ideas now (dammit brain). One is a continuation of Full Circle from last month, set a few years down the line and probably very fluffy. The other is set in the wish!verse from 6×10, well actually I have two ideas for the wish!verse. Ok stop it brain! This is getting more out of control by the second. Sheesh.

#enough with the multiplying plot bunnies

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I have such a love/hate thing going on with tumblr’s ‘insert gif’ feature. On one hand I love it because it means I can easily give credit when I use a gif. I don’t think I would use gifs very much at all if I couldn’t do that. On the other hand finding what I want is an exercise in frustration!

I put in search terms and what I want doesn’t appear. So I use tumblrs main search or sometimes google, to find a gifset that has what I want and then I search via the tags. I just did that now for a gifset I can see on my dash. It was a reblog so I went to the original post and looked at the tags, I then searched in the gif searcher thing, using those tags and nothing!

Half a dozen results came up, so it wasn’t like the search had reached it’s capacity or anything. I know only the first gif of a gifset appears in that searcher thing, I found a way round that ages ago. Those gifs jut weren’t in the gif searcher. Talk about frustrating! Why is it like that?

February Status Update

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A summary post of what happened last month fic-wise, and my plans for the forthcoming month, because I can’t hit a target, if I can’t see it.

Previous Status: July, August, September, October, November, December, January

Works posted in January:

– Counting Stars (AU family fluff, WIP)
    – Chapter Two
– Enter Sandman (flash fic, prompt fill)

– All I Needed (Swanfire/Rumbelle, Prompt verse)
    – Three Prompts (Through the Glass / Not Alone / Their Own Space)
    – Two Prompts (Bonding Moment / Nothing Left to Say)

– Once Upon a Lifetime (A Monthly Rumbelling fic, nsfw)

– Painting Layers of Love (AU romance, WIP)
    – Chapter Eight

– Fall All Over Again (Season Two canon-divergence, WIP, nsfw)
    – Chapter Four
– Full Circle (A Monthly Rumbelling fic)

– Under My Skin (Lachbelle, WIP)
    – Hands All Over (Future ficlet, nsfw)

– Random Ficlets (from this prompt post)
   – How can anyone not be afraid of love
   – I didn’t intend to kiss you
   – If you want we could go together (attached ask)
   – Please don’t make me socialize
– Whispering verse (knight!Rumple and Princess Belle, Prompt verse)
    – Why are we whispering?

    – Wishing Well

Coming up definitely in February:
– WIP Updates!

What I hope February might bring:
– Finish Counting Stars, I Love the Way, Fall All Over Again and Under My Skin

– A fic based on the A Monthly Rumbelling Event if I am inspired by any of the prompts.

I had big plans for January and basically epic failure. Thanks to a lot of random prompts I managed a last minute bump to get up to about ½ of my normal monthly word count. In fact I haven’t written this little in a month since June of last year and I’m not at all happy about it. January is the start of the year, so much for starting as I mean to go on. Anyway, I can’t change it so there’s no point in dwelling. The priority, for the upcoming month as always, is to finish my WIP’s. There’s so much more I want to write but I always finish what I start.

Endangered Slug posted a February Prompt Challenge which is a fantastic idea, but utterly terrible for me because I don’t know when to stop. Those random ficlets I did have spawned three new WIP’s. I really don’t need anymore ideas. I’m booked up and know what I’m writing practically for the next five years already. So I’m going to change the challenge a little bit. In the challenge post it said – “The goal is to write something – anything – every day for the month of February.” – and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to pretend like it’s November and I need to get my digital pixel badge.

Hopefully February can be the month of finishing things. That would be nice 🙂

Hands All Over – stillsearching47 – Once Upon a Time (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

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Hands All Over – stillsearching47 – Once Upon a Time (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

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Hands All Over

by @still-searching47 (TUMBLR WHY THOUGH WITH THE LACK OF TAGGING PEOPLE)

….YOU GUYS.
YOU GUYS!!!!!!!

THIS IS A HISTORIC DAY.

…..I GOT BIRTHDAY PORN.
*COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY SCREAMING*

I CAN’T EVEN RIGHT NOW
LIKE- *falls over* <3 <3 <3 <3
(which is also simultaneously SUUUUUPER convenient, cause i GROSSLY miscalculated how many fics to post per day to get to 25 fics posted by the end of today so i MIGHT have to make it overlap into February 1st a little bit XD)

I CANNOT GET OVER HOW AWESOME THIS FANDOM IS OMG *DIES*

….AND THIS FIC IS SMOKIN HOT.
DEAR LORD.

NO SRSLY GO READ MY BIRTHDAY PORN LIKE RIGHT NOW THOUGH.
DOOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIT (and hey, if you do, you’ll get to see me freaking out even MORE in the AO3 comments of this fic as a bonus! XD)

EXISTENTIAL-CRISIS-LEVEL-FREAKING-OUT-OVER-HOW-AWESOME-THIS-IS OUT OF TEN

Haha, I’m glad you liked it! Thank you very much for the wonderful comment and I hope you have a brilliant birthday! 🙂

For the WIP snippet: love.

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Yay! Thank you 🙂 It also appeared in Her Happy Ending but I think I’ve confused everyone enough by posting snippets of that already.

From upcoming WIP – Nightwalkers
Belle waited another ten minutes before sauntering over towards the bar. “JD and coke.”

“Wouldn’t you prefer a cosmo love?” the bartender asked, flashing her a grin which made her skin crawl. He had sleazebag written all over him.

“That depends, do you want to be wearing it?” Belle said sweetly.

“Killian get the … lady,” Regina sneered. “Her drink.”

Fic ask Meme: 8 and 18 :-)

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Yay! Thank you 🙂

8) Favorite quotes?
“I can fix a bad page, I can’t fix a blank page.” – Nora Roberts
“Be confident in your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I didn’t fail. I just found 2,000 ways not to make a lightbulb; I only needed to find one way to make it work.” – Thomas Edison

“You ended that sentence with a preposition. Bastard.” – Jack O’Neill (Stargate SG1) – I have a t-shirt with this printed on, it’s become something of a joke in my house. There’s this awareness, and it causes laughter and rephrasing when the sentence ends with a preposition. I don’t know why but it’s a thing.

18) Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer?
Depends on the project. I used to say that for novel length projects I needed to have a scene by scene outline, and that I could only fly by the seat of my pants for short stories. That isn’t exactly true these days. I’ve kinda let go of the outline process when it comes to fanfic, and I just write and see what happens. Sometimes I like this because it means no delay with the writing – I can just dive straight in. Also it makes it easier to include prompts because the development is more fluid.

The rest of the time I hate it because I stare at the blinking cursor, and I have no idea what comes next, but by this point I’m usually committed to the story because I’ve started posting it. Also, outlines are a serious advantage on low motivation days because it means less thinking is required. I know exactly what I’m doing, so it’s just a matter of beating myself around the head until I do it. That doesn’t always work of course. Sometimes I know exactly what I’m writing and the focus just isn’t there anyway, a little bit like right now.

Under My Skin Belle: How goes the writing? I bet your cute Scottish neighbor could give you some inspiration if you need any. Especially if you’re writing a steamy love scene. ::wink, wink::

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Oh I don’t write erotica, well I do but I don’t publish it, and I definitely don’t write anyone I know in real life into my books. You do have a point though, maybe that’s why I’ve suddenly found Lachlan so fascinating, I can tell he has a story. As for the writing *snorts* Lachlan is more of a distraction than an inspiration there. Not that I can bring myself to mind…

Made-up fic title: Like The Desert In Spring

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From this post.

Hmm my first thought was what is the climate like. Hot deserts are warm in spring and getting increasingly hot heading towards summer; cold deserts are barely warm enough for a bit of moss and grass to grow. My second thought was the song Honest Questions popped into my head.

I will pour my water down
Upon a thirsty barren land
And streams will flow from the dust of
Your bruised and broken soul

Either way it’s about coming to life, or life managing to flourish in a hostile environment. Then as it’s quite a long title, it would be cool if there were layers to the meaning. So a story set in the desert, or with a character returning from the desert, and likening the events of the story to their experiences. Plus in the context of desert, spring has other connotations like an oasis – water for the desperate dehydrated man.

So with that background I’m sure there are several possibilities but my first thought is an anyelle with David Russell because I’ve only recently watched The Last Enemy. He was a Middle Eastern specialist and I headcanon he was military, probably special forces, before that. So a short oneshot, homecoming type deal, when he returns to Belle from a tour overseas.

TMI Tuesday

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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:
– Full Circle (A Monthly Rumbelling fic)
– Hands All Over (Lachbelle, nsfw)
– Random Ficlets (from this prompt post)
    – How can anyone not be afraid of love
    – Why are we whispering?
    – I didn’t intend to kiss you
    – If you want we could go together (attached ask)
    – Please don’t make me socialize
– Wishing Well (follows on from Why are we whispering?)

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leni-ba replied to your post:
Rumplestiltskin & Belle: “Why are you/we…

Aww, I love it when these two are friends, and they sound so comfortable around each other! *hugs ficlets* Love it when Princess Belle teases him about being ‘her hero’… though I suspect there’s more truth in that than what either can admit. Heh.

I love it when they are friends as well. I haven’t got the timeline properly ironed out so I’m not sure how long they’ve been friends but I’m definitely thinking a few years. He was assigned to Belle’s protection when she went travelling (and they got in some adventures along the way) so yeah I think he’s saved her, and she’s also saved him. Then after her father died, things changed. She was now the heir to the throne and had to return home.

leni-ba replied to your post:Whispering!verse prompt: Belle and Rumplestiltskin…

*glares* WHY ARE YOU PUTTING ME THROUGH THIS? Not that I don’t love every word and second, but my poor heart can’t take much more of these two babies in denial. (Give me more, please!) I love it. Love it!

Haha I did say after I posted the first ficlet that the mutual pining would be legendary, and that’s why this fic screamed to be written. Rumple rose to be a senior knight because of his ability, unlike someone like Gaston who was born to that position. In the eyes of the kingdom he’ll forever be a lowly knight and therefore not a worthy consort for the queen and he knows it – they both do.

Duty before love has stopped them from admitting their feelings. I think Belle knows Rumple loves her, but Rumple doesn’t believe that Belle could love him. He’s convinced himself that Belle just thinks of him as a good friend, and her protector, and that she’s Belle and nice to everyone.

I’m so happy that you liked it so much. Seriously that makes my day 🙂 Anyway, if you want more, hit up my ask box with a prompt or six and I’ll see what I can do 🙂

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leni-ba replied to your post:
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In my defense, you did say six.

I did indeed haha 🙂 Seriously, if you could see the big grin on my face right now you’d know this is not a problem. It’s funny and helpful, though it might take me a couple of days to do all six. Thank you!