I wish there was a ‘like’ button for privately answered asks. I want them to know I saw it, but I don’t have anything else to say but thank you. Now I face the eternal dilemma of “do I send a second ask just saying thank you or just leave it?” honestly tumblr etiquette is hard.
I treat it like email and always send that last “Thanks!” perfunctory message and fully expect that they will see it and delete it. But it lets them know that yes I got the message and I’m appreciative.
Yeah I’ve been doing that. I just had a “I don’t want to be annoying” moment. Anyway, now I know it’s not just me that does that, I will go and say thanks! Thank you 🙂
Fixed my timeline problems! Fixed my POV problems! Fixed ALL the problems! I still have a metric ton to write but now I’m on the right track, I feel so much better. I’m feeling a bit like RSS is a boss fight, and I just got into phase two 🙂
#i love it when it starts to come together#i still have a scary amount to write but i fixed the problems#that makes me feel so much better
Nobody panic but there’s only 10 DAYS LEFT FOR RSS!!!!
Oh who am I kidding, I am so panicking. I have maybe 1/3rd of it written, possibly more like 25%, I’m rubbish at guesstimating length. I have timeline problems, POV problems, I’m only 6.5k in and Gold and Belle have only spoken once. Actually 25% might be being generous, it’s probably less and I need to rework some of that because hello I got problems!
You know there are times when I have to make a choice. I always hate these moments because I want it all, I want to do it all, I don’t want to have to choose. Why not everything? Because I managed my time poorly in November, and I wrote too much fix-it fic and not enough WIP’s basically. I keep telling myself “oh you can catch-up later” but I’ve got to the point now where I’m scared that I won’t be able to do that.
I have almost finished Chapter Three of Fall All Over Again. Writing anything other than RSS at this point seems crazy but I don’t want to break my Tuesday streak if I can help it. Writing the 1k I need for that chapter, is more sensible though than writing the almost 4k I need for Painting Layers of Love. However, I will have to see what my RSS progress is by Monday. If I’m still this panicked then I might have to break my streak. In that case I will reblog my Rumbelle Christmas fanfic that I wrote in the summer. It is at least Christmas time now 🙂
#freaking out here a little bit#i didn’t panic this much for rcij#but then that fic didn’t balloon into an epic
Haha maybe! That is a stunning picture. Perhaps it’s more at the other end, where the tree line is, because they walked between the field and the trees once. *hugs* thank you so much for thinking of my fic! 🙂
Yay Santa! *waves* It’s great to hear from you, how are you doing?
I have to admit to not liking Christmas much either. There’s so much emphasis on ‘forced togetherness’ and it’s all so fake. I’ve often joked that NaNoWriMo in November is my favorite holiday and much better than Christmas 🙂 I will be going to see Rogue One on the 30th I believe. I saw The Force Awakens on the 27th last year, it’s sort of become a Christmas tradition of it’s own.
It’s actually warmed up a bit. On Monday when I got up because I went to the gym. It was just before dawn (7am) and it was -3 and the ice was thick on the car. That was not much fun. However, yesterday it was 12 degrees I think, so no idea what the weather is doing really. I often find that it’s colder in January than it is in December, for the past few years it’s felt quite mild going up to Christmas and than whump new year hits and it’s freezing.
You said you are “plugging away at the gift” and so I hope you are enjoying it and that it’s not giving you too much trouble 🙂 I have fully planned out my RSS and made a start now, got about 3.5k in and yikes this is going to be long, I really need to put fingers on the keys and get going! As usual I have two things that remain to be decided – Gold’s name and the title – those two things always give me trouble 🙂
Anyway, I’m glad you are doing ok Santa and it was really great to hear from you again!
When your NOtp has scenes and suddenly it all makes a sick sense.
I’ve googled for Archer/T’Pol stuff and haven’t found much, but I have found T’Pol and Trip stuff. At the time I thought “why? why would anybody put those two together?” and now I know.
Season Three is getting off to a very bad start. The theme tune I ranted about earlier was bad enough but what is T’Pol wearing? What did she do to her hair? Then Phlox pushing Archer and Trip together – I don’t approve! Ugh not happy, not happy at all.
I mean seriously though, how could the show have all the incredible subtext of Archer and T’Pol for two seasons, and then just chuck it all out the window with nakedness for T’Pol and Trip? So unnecessary! It’s like the show is saying “ship them” and I won’t! No way, can’t make me! They can try and force it down my damn throat, but nope, not having it.
I’ll still watch the rest of the show anyway I’m sure, but unless it improves I’m not going to be happy about it and it’s too bad, I was liking the show before this “retooling” 🙁
#don’t mind me#i watch old stuff and react like it’s new
Just started watching episode one, season three of Star Trek: Enterprise and was forced to scream at the TV. My exact words – “What the hell! Get off my theme tune!”
Seriously? What the hell did they do to it? Why? Just why? I’m so annoyed. I loved that theme tune and adding the ‘backing beat’ to ‘jazz it up’ is just irritating and unnecessary. I know this has been cancelled for years and I don’t care, I’m cross. This is why I have paused it and come on tumblr to rant. Actually, with that in mind it’s a really good job I didn’t have tumblr when I discovered they’d recast Elizabeth Weir … stupid TV people!
Dashing Knight by All Caps AU!WishWorld Emma and Baelfire Song…
Born the daughter of noble birthright She’s wrapped in pearls and dressed in white Seventeen, soon to be married to her knight Whose wrapped in armor and dressed to fight
Does anyone else do ridiculous fan-casting sometimes and not even really know why? I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on here before. I seem to recall typing up a post but I think I deleted it as I was embarrassed. However, then they cast 6ft tall Giles to play Gideon and maybe my fan-casting for a potential Rumple and Belle son wasn’t quite so ridiculous. So I’m just going to admit to something now.
For some reason best known to my subconscious, when I was plotting a fic that had a grown-up Rumbelle son (it was my first Once fanfic idea actually) I was trying to picture him in my head and I wound up casting Jason Momoa. Why? Well I’ve only seen him in Stargate: Atlantis and he wasn’t so beefed up back then, he was kinda lean and lanky which reminded me of Rumple’s build, but he was still solid more like Neal.
Then I saw this picture and that just reminded me even more of Neal with the overcoat and scarf and everything. Plus he has a really warm smile which is just so Rumple and Belle, and I don’t know, it just felt right to me and you are all probably reading this and thinking I’m utterly crazy.
Then pretty soon after I first joined tumblr, this picture was reblogged onto my dash and I nearly fell off my chair.
That looked like two brothers just messing around. I was actually a little creeped out by that because I’d had no idea up until then that the actors even knew one another.
Anyway, I just saw Raven’s post about John Cena and I thought I might admit to a little fancasting of my own 🙂
I need to enlist somebody to beat me over the head.
Self I don’t care how much the AU wish world is making you want to write “Rule Number Three” your Enchanted Forest Rumbelle/Swanfire AU, you are not allowed! Right now the priority is RSS and Painting Layers of Love. Then you need to finish all your other WIP’s before starting anything new.
Repeat after me self *dangerous tone* “before starting anything new.”
I’m actually really pleased the hiatus is as long as normal. I need the three months to get some fics finished.
Mr. Gold can be a strong motivator… in many ways.
Indeed he can.
@still-searching47, I feel your pain, my dear. *gets out cheerleading pom poms* You can do it!
@rowofstars I’m jealous of your gif finding skills, that is awesome!
Also, thank you both. Gold is definitely a good motivator heh and yeah most things will get written eventually. It’s just a matter of butt in chair, hands on keys and focusing. It’s the last part, the focusing that I struggle with sometimes but I’m loads better than I used to be, so practice, practice 🙂
Do you have a prompt doc or folder? Just file it away. #Focus
Ah the elusive focus heh 🙂 Yeah I do have a doc and it has … I’ve lost count of how many ideas on it. Probably more than I’ll ever manage to write because I generate new ideas quicker than I can write them. Actually this idea has been on my list for a very long time. It was the second idea I ever had for Once fanfic.
What’s happened is that in the six months I’ve been writing fanfic for Once, it’s slid down the priority list as new ideas came in that took precedence. This wishworld Enchanted Forest AU, has just sparked the idea again and made it zoom to the top of the pile.
I did think that after I finished my WIP’s my next fanfic would be GoldenLace Bonnie and Clyde (I was going to do that for this months Monthly Rumbelling smut prompt but I don’t think I’ll have time), or the Hustle/Leverage AU (just because I do love this idea), but now I’m pretty certain it’s going to be the Enchanted Forest Rumbelle/Swanfire AU.
This is why I’m thankful for the hiatus. A good chunk of my words last month went on Fix-it fics because I’d watch episodes and then need to fix them.
