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I had such good intentions about today. I was feeling a little better, and decided it was time to try and plot an intercept course between my current position, and my planned position. Then today actually happened and what is productivity? I’ve forgotten how to do anything, especially word. I think along with my ability to breathe, my willpower has done this …

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Honestly, does anyone else find this, that after a forced break it’s really hard to get back into it? My logical side says I should be chomping at the bit to dive back in, so I don’t quite get it. However, this is what happens every single time. I take a few days off for some reason. I massively struggle to restart.

First run of 2017

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theoneandonlylittlebird:

rumbellefitnessclub:

Also my first run in a month (stupid chest infection).  I still have a little pain left over from coughing so much, but it went much better than I thought it would. Managed just over 3.5 miles.  Okay, it was a slow 3.5 miles, but still more than I’ve managed since I came down with this virus last month, so it’s all good.  Felt good to get out again and run in the rain.

Because of the chest infection and subsequent lazing around feeling sorry for myself, and then Christmas/New Year, I was pretty much back where I started by the end of December.  Got on the scales and shouted for a bit before telling myself it was my own stupid fault.  Still, I’m almost completely better now, and I’ve signed up for two half marathon’s and two 10ks in 2017 so far, so I have to get fit or I won’t finish them.  Which would be embarrassing 🙂

As far as the rest of my fitness goals are going, I haven’t had a drink since New Year’s Eve, so I’m pleased about that.  Haven’t really missed it, except on Wednesday when I had a crappy day at work.  I haven’t changed my eating all that much, except for keeping a food diary and cutting way back on bread, but my diet was always pretty healthy anyway (*whispers* booze was always my downfall).  Aiming for more veggies, though.

Bring on week two!  How’s everyone else’s year going so far?

– Sprite –

I’ve been doing much better with my yoga over the past month or so. I can actually do about 3 pushups thanks to some planking and down-dog work. I can already see a difference in my chronic pain issues and mood. If anyone is interested, I hardily recommend the 30 day Yoga challenge with Adrienne on the youtubes. She’s great. 

Ooooh that sounds good, always nice to see a difference! I admire people that do yoga so much. My balance is far too appalling for that. Go you! 🙂

Sprite I got to say, I’m beyond impressed. 3.5 miles?!?!? after a month off, seriously hats off to you. Also, that’s some impressive commitment with those runs. I’m rooting for you!

As for me? Real life kinda kicked me in the teeth end of last year. I didn’t really go to the gym much at all, for various reasons from about mid-October. Thankfully real life seemed to be straightening out and then brand new year, my plans were to throw myself back in and try harder. I have the cold of doom though, so it’s going to be a week or two. I need to kick the cold, and then recover from the asthma flare-up I always get.

I’m definitely planning on going back once I stop feeling like I’m about to keel over, and I can breathe again. I’ll almost certainly be right back where I started fitness-wise yet again, but I’ll just have to try harder 🙂

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still-searching47:

beliza-fryler:

still-searching47:

Bit random but I was thinking about this earlier. Has anyone got an exhaustive list of Rumbelle permutations? I decided to try and write one but I’m a bit paranoid I’m going to forget something. So I’m going to post this and then if I have missed something, please chime in and add it 🙂

Actually, thinking about it, a table would make more sense than a list. Make it like a bingo card.

So what did I miss?

Dark One!Belle is the first that comes to my mind.

Thank you!

Added Dark One!Belle. I debated whether to add Dark One!Belle and Dark One!Lacey separately. I can still do that if people think I should 🙂

@worryinglyinnocent added canon cursed!Belle and AU cursed!Belle as suggested. Thank you 🙂

I’m writing a “we are both” Rumple Gold version for Disrupted right now. Dunno who else has done this, but I doubt I’m alone. This is a great idea, btw.

Great idea, but I’m a bit confused. Aren’t “Anyelle” and “Anyem” already combinations? Are you talking about pairing threeing them up with another Bobby character or another Em character? 

Some people do combinations. I’m not really familiar with anyem but I’ve heard about Hiero and Ives. I was just going to say that I didn’t blank out any boxes, even though some combinations wouldn’t work e.g. anyelle and cursed!Belle. However, then I remembered @emospritelet wonderful fic The Stranger. So I’m guessing almost anything is possible.

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Who was your NoTP on Enterprise? I watched it when it aired but haven’t re-watched since then, so I don’t remember the characters very well.

T’Pol and Trip are my NOtp. I really can’t stand the two of them together. Admittedly I did kinda ship Archer and T’Pol together but …

When I was writing up my ranting post yesterday. I went on about how the core of the show had been ruined, how the character destruction/propping was legendary etc. and then I laughed because yeah I was talking about Star Trek: Enterprise, but I could equally be talking about several other shows.

It’s not just that they made my NOtp canon. It’s what they did to the show (or what they did from my perspective at least) to make that happen. Obviously I am very biased, but well we all have something that draws us to a show – that hooks us and makes us care. Well, for me that was the friendship between Archer and T’Pol. I said I shipped them but it didn’t have to go romantic, it could have stayed platonic and I would have been more than happy.

In order to force the T’Pol/Trip pairing, they wrecked Archer and T’Pol’s characters and I still don’t think that pairing made sense. I’m sorry, like I said I’m probably biased, but I don’t think the “argue and insult one another until we makeout” trope is very romantic. I have never liked it. I much prefer mutual support, actual communication, them being friends/liking one another when they aren’t kissing.

Also, again hopelessly biased, but I believe that if a show has to put the characters in a lot of half-naked scenes, to convince us they are together, then they are doing it wrong. Having to continually force it down the viewers throats every few episodes lest we forget, and the amount of screen time it got, adds to my bitterness. It upset the balance of the show, plus it came out of nowhere in the third season to be front and center.

Sorry, I’m going on a bit. I know this show was cancelled over a decade ago but it’s new to me, and I did quite like it. Well I liked the first two seasons and then did they get new showrunners, or writers, or something? The change was sudden and huge and from my perspective completely unwelcome.

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You know what? I wrote and deleted so many posts yesterday because I felt awful and I kept ranting, and then deciding I didn’t need to spread the misery. So here, let today have some randomness.

– I still feel bloody awful. Worry posted the other day that they had the world’s worst cold. Judging by the people I know I think the whole of England is currently suffering with this and yeah it’s not nice.

– I am very bitter about Star Trek: Enterprise. I keep asking myself “why can’t I quit you?” because my NOtp has become canon, and everything I once loved about the show has been ruined (and not just because of the NOtp thing). I think it’s because it’s free (thank you netflix / curse you netflix) and I have less than 20 episodes left. I look forward to never having to watch it again.

– Due to feeling so bloody awful I don’t know what I’m going to be posting on Tuesday but it almost certainly won’t be what I’m supposed to be posting. Only a week into January and my carefully planned posting schedule has gone out the window. Why is it that the fic I want to do right by the most, the one that is my most popular fic, which people are so lovely about (and so lovely I feel like I should probably be writing nothing else), is the fic that always gets the short straw? It is completely unintentional and I feel so guilty about it. You know one day, I’m going to get this right. Unfortunately that isn’t going to be this week.

There, that about summarizes all of my rants in one reasonably sized post. I’m sick and feel like crap, I’m already behind on my writing and I’m bitter about Star Trek: Enterprise. I know that show was cancelled over a decade ago and it’s probably quite amusing that I’m reacting to it as if it was new.

You know I don’t get bitter about many shows. Usually I just cease to care, and one day stop watching and never give it another thought. Maybe it’s because I’ve binge watched it, so I’ve had less processing time. Usually if I’m bitter about a show it’s because it was cancelled before it’s time, and I want more of it and I have lingering questions.

I hope Star Trek: Discovery is good!

/end randomess

#but I feel better now

SOMEONE NEEDS TO RUMBELLE THIS.

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pinchtheprincess:

I saw this on another blog. Thanks to @minssery, who responded to this question:

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What’s the most ridiculous false rumor that has been spread about you?

I joined my wife’s workplace about 12 months after she joined. When we worked together (same department, same roles), we’d keep mostly away from each other so not to crowd each other. When we’d take breaks, we’d be hanging out together. You know, normal stuff. Thing is, no one picked up on the fact that we were husband and wife. They knew she was married, and that I was married – but not to each other. Someone saw us holding hands on the walk back to our car after work, someone else saw us kiss when I dropped her in to work when I had the day off, and rumours started flying around that we were cheating on our significant others. People took it upon themselves to ‘intervene’ and approached me to tell me she was married and that I should be ashamed of myself. Someone else made a comment to her that she should be more discreet if she was going to continue on her relationship with me. Truth be told, we both found it pretty fucking funny. Didn’t get a chance to run with it, because we were so taken aback by it when it was brought up to us individually, that we just blurted out the truth on the spot.

Only, you know Rumple. He doesn’t offer information he doesn’t feel people need to know. I want to see people try to fingerwag him while he keeps the punchline to himself!

And Belle is so sweet that no one can believe she’s doing something like this to her husband. People start to talk; she notices. She feels hurt and doesn’t know why everyone is treating her like a pariah. This “slut” (I only use that because I know how people are, and they would) might be after their husbands, next!

I guess it’d have to be AU and set in someplace larger than Storybrooke, because otherwise everyone would know he and Belle were married. NYC?

Someone entertain me and DO THE THING. 

This needs to be done

SOMEBODY DO THE THING!

I’m tempted but if I wrote this it would probably be as Rushbelle. I have a similar scenario plotted already for my main Rushbelle WIP. Which goes along the lines of “Rush is married? Who the hell would marry him?!?” and then a deadpan blank face – “I would actually.” and then *jaw drops* because Belle + Rush does not compute for people that have never seen them together.

Although straight Rumbelle would be quite amusing as well. Oooh, oooh suggestion! Somebody should submit this as a prompt to @a-monthly-rumbelling because think of all the different versions we’d get to read then! Somebody go do that!

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I made a lot of writing resolutions for 2017, along with some general life ones e.g. the stereotypical “go back to the gym on a regular basis” but I didn’t make any resolutions as a reader.

Today probably isn’t a good day for it, as real life is all over the place and I think I’ve caught my families cold of doom. My brain feels broken, which isn’t exactly conducive to thinking of good comments. However, that being said, it’s a resolution not a “you’ll be beaten to death if you fail” so there’s no harm in setting it as a target.

Anyway, my resolution is to read a fic at least 3x a week which DOESN’T cross my dash. If a fic comes up on my dash, then unless it’s really long I tend to read it then and there. So current WIP’s/short fics aren’t the problem. It’s all the long fics people have on their masterlists which I’ve never read, or fics I’ve got behind on. I want to make more of an effort. Just lately I’ve fallen into a trap of following a couple of authors/handful of WIP’s and not really reading much else. I should do better.

So yeah, that’s my resolution for 2017. At least 3x a week set aside half an hour to read some older fics/fics I didn’t have time for when they were posted. Those fics deserve love as well 🙂

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Seriously since I accidentally stumbled on the idea I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m now wondering if it’s less an idea and more an actual possible theory. I haven’t seen this cross my dash, but I’m sure someone else has already thought of it so it’s not new, just new to me.

-The Black Fairy resides in a realm where time works differently.
– On Neverland time is frozen.

– The Black Fairy steals children.
– On Neverland children visited the realm in their dreams long before Pan. This is how Malcolm knew of that realm, he’d dreamed about it as a child. Pan obviously then went on to abduct children properly.

– The Black Fairy and Malcolm are Rumple’s parents.
– The shadow was present on Neverland before Pan, it is what gave Pan his power. I think it was Hook that said Pan had merged with a demon?
– In all the time Bae was on Neverland Rumple couldn’t locate him there.
– Rumple’s power couldn’t locate Gideon because he was in the Black Fairy’s dark realms and beyond his reach.

What if Neverland is one of The Black Fairy’s realms? What if Pan was working for his former lover the entire time? Something obviously drew The Black Fairy and Malcolm together. The similarities between them subsequently might not be coincidence, not if they were working together.

I’m extremely tired and I feel like there is a revelation just hovering at the edge of my mind. I just can’t quite get to it. Anyway, what do people think?

Enter Sandman!Rumple – any idea why your subconscious is sure that Pan is still at large?

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Ok there are two answers to this. Sensible answer and not sensible answer. I’m extremely tired and so my resistance is low, so you get both answers!

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Sensible:
My mother manipulated events to steal my son. I lost him before I ever had a chance to hold him, before I even knew his name. My father – Pan, had Bae in his clutches for over a century after I lost him. I suppose the comparison is rather inevitable. Pan isn’t at large, I sent whatever was left of him into the river of lost souls. However, dreams know no logic. Even after nearly three centuries, I still feel like a lost boy when it comes to my father.

You must have caught me on a bad night dearie, far too much personal melodrama at work. I can barely close my eyes without imagining some enemy from my past, dead or not, trying to destroy my family. Gideon is so little and it’s my duty to protect him. I failed Bae so many times. The fact that I have him back now is a miracle. I won’t fail Gideon as well.

Not-Sensible:
“Magic can do much but not that. Dead is dead.” – this used to be true, an inviolate rule of magic. However, like all rules, once it’s broken it becomes useless. I sometimes blame myself because I was ‘resurrected’ first. However, that at least still carried a price – a life for a life. It was the pirate’s resurrection, and the portals opened to the underworld to save him, which broke down the barrier and allowed those with enough power and will to do what was previously impossible – bring back the dead.

I can’t regret this, it saved my beloved boy – Baelfire. However, once a door is opened, it’s like Pandora’s box and it’s a door which can be opened from both sides. I have no proof that Pan has returned but the shadow only took orders from him. Either way, it matters not who is responsible. The second star to the right, and the lingering traces of magic, all point to where we must go to save Gideon – back to Neverland.

#I have a bad feeling about this#new fic which I am so not writing#or at least that’s what I keep telling myself