Tumblr needs a *hugs* button, or a ‘I see this post, don’t feel ignored or unheard’, or a ‘I don’t know what to say but I support you 100%’ button for when a ‘like’ just doesn’t seem appropriate.
#i have thought this several times today#it just feels so weird to hit like on these things
I need another WIP like I need a hole in my head but I’m never going to finish this fic for Rumbelle Revolution tonight. I’m going to have to post it in parts and as my writing willpower has completely disappeared *laughs hysterically* I have absolutely no idea when I’ll finish it. I’ll be lucky at this rate if I finish part one for tonight. It might just be a short part one. I wrote the first scene yesterday, but I’ve written barely 300 words all afternoon.
However, plot bunny for somebody. I was parking the car earlier and saw two people painting a fence. One was painting one side, the other person was painting the other side. I quite sensibly said it was the couple that owned one of the houses, especially as they were painting it the same color, but then it occurred to me what if they were neighbors?
So Belle moves into the house next to Gold. He’s preparing for war, especially as she is big on home/garden improvement. However, all his zinging comments just evaporate when she smiles at him. He grumbles about her, but finds himself painting the fence anyway, or giving her a lift to the hardware store, or helping her measure up for new shelving etc.
#honestly i can’t even go outside now without rumbelling what i see
I admit I’m tempted.
I’m watching because this is Rumplestiltskins episode and Robert is excited about it
Yeah. Those are the reasons I’m tempted. RC is amazing.
This is the first True Rumple centric Since Lovely Thiughts
There was one last season, which was still a long time in coming. The one with the Milah/Bae flashback, Devil’s Due. So it’s still been 18 episodes since the last one.
I’d like to watch it, but I’m not sure I can bring myself to do it. I think it’s just going to come down to the wire on what I decide to do. If I’m not home when it comes on then my decision is made for me. We’ll see.
As upset as I am about the state of Rumbelle, I can’t miss this one. Probably some shouting at the TV will be involved.
If Rumple and the Evil Queen didn’t share scenes maybe I’d try. I’d still want to throw things if they weren’t there, but that is still unwatchable to me. I might try at some point, but I fear it’s going to upset me even more so… I don’t know.
I haven’t watched any of them live and I am debating whether to watch the others no matter how this episode works out.
I’m relying on @rowofstars to let me know whether to bother watching (if she can bring herself to watch, of course). I still haven’t watched the last ep, and I possibly won’t unless something seriously good happens in the rest of the season. I can’t handle the GQ stuff, it squicks me out so much 🙁 But I’ll swallow the shit they throw at me and cover my eyes for a bit if it means the bullshit Rumbelle have been put through finally has some sort of resolution in sight.
Sorry, Sprite. I’m not putting myself through it. I will rely on what spoilers I see to let me know if there’s any hope of a turn around, but as I said in my reply to an Anon last night, I doubt I will be watching until maybe after the hiatus. And that would only be if they make an effort to fix Rumbelle in a reasonable way. I can tolerate a little bit of “instant fix” if it’s combined with some degree of genuine effort to repair the issues in the relationship. Since I don’t believe the writers capable, I think this is probably it for me.
emospriteletCan’t say I blame you. I’m still waiting for my fun and hope, but I think it’s a lost cause 🙁
I loathe the direction the show is going in. I truly don’t like canon right now. I do my mental gymnastics to try and headcanon it but this isn’t the show I fell in love with. Despite that, I still can’t not watch. I have to know and I have to see it for myself. Maybe I’ve inherited my grandmother’s gene. She used to sometimes say “I’m watching this, just to see how bad it’s going to get.”
Anyway, I can’t watch live even though I would like to because I live in the wrong country. I suppose I should be grateful because Netflix puts the new episode up on Wednesday’s so that’s only 3 days to wait. For some shows I like I have to wait up to 18 months.
I know I’m supposed to be posting Chapter Seven of Painting Layers of Love tomorrow but it’s not done. I had to spend the day in A&E (I’m fine, it was my mother and her pride is hurt more than anything else) but it took forever as these things do and I am very tired. I will finish the chapter as soon as I can and post it.
However, that probably means Chapter Five of I Love the Way is going to get bumped to next month. Which is where I start regretting having written thanksgiving into the story – oops. I also don’t know if I’m going to be able to do what I planned for Rumbelle Revolution/A Monthly Rumbelling non-smut (I was combining the two) as my free time has taken a nose-dive.
Tomorrow, I will post the first chapter of Fall All Over Again (GoldenLace). I’ve been sitting on this story for a while. I started it for the Monthly Rumbelling smut prompt, but it then exploded. The actual prompt appears in Chapter Four or at least I hope it does. I’ve written that scene but I have several scenes to fill in between the last part of Chapter Three and that scene. Hopefully it won’t bump it to Chapter Five.
This is a legitimate question – how does the end of the month sneak up on me every single time? I mean, it’s not like it moves or anything. I have 7 more fics/fic updates I want to post this month. That’s like one a day, this was not very well planned out.
Remember, the revolution begins on Sunday, November 27. Tag your fics, updates and artwork as #rumbelle revolution so I can find and reblog everything.
Also someone wondered if we want to post everything during the episode. Would you guys prefer that or just posting all throughout Sunday?
Please let me know.
I want to post something (of course I need to write it first) but it’ll be before the episode because of timezones. I really don’t want to have to stay up until the early hours. So that’s a vote for all day Sunday, if that’s ok 🙂
leni-ba replied to your post “Setting Up The Nursery!Belle & Gold – so how did take the news of…”
Awww, this was the best! I loved the first scene so much, with Neal so sure that Emma was breaking up with him and willing to let her go. Awwwwww!
And then we find out that Belle has been working her calming influence on the Gold household for years already. Nice!
Gold’s reaction was the best ever. Of course he’d soften at the thought of the coming baby as his grandson. *hugs* SO SWEET AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WRITING IT!
Heh, it was my pleasure. I would like to write more Swanfire anyway 🙂 I’m really glad you liked it! Yeah it’s probably disgustingly sweet but I have a fondness for fluff, and the Gold family. Although, I’m prompting myself now. I want to write a conversation between Belle and Gold that night, when Gold’s panic sets in. He went from angry to family first, without thinking through the implications and then suddenly – grandfather! Heh 🙂
#I should name this verse#and then tag everything properly
I’ve had to lower my goal for NaNo. I’m really disappointed with myself but stressing about how far behind I was, was resulting in me doing absolutely nothing and getting even further behind. Why does that happen? Anyway, hopefully if I take the pressure off then words will happen again.
Dont be disappointed in yourself. From what I hear NaNo is really really hard. Enjoying your writing experiences should always come first. Quality before quantity and quality of life before quality of work. You write so well and frequently as it is.
What @beastlycheese said. @still-searching47 I give you so much credit for even giving it a go! You’re awesome, friend!
Thank you so much guys. I’ve done NaNo for the past 10 years, and every year brings new challenges. It’s all a learning experience and I have more words now, than I did in October. The month isn’t over yet, so I can still write more, and I’ve already broken my personal best for words written in a month.
Plus I write year-round so while I might not have achieved everything I wanted this month, there’s always next month and the month after etc. 🙂
rowofstars replied to your post “I’ve had to lower my goal for NaNo. I’m really disappointed with…”
I just want to say as someone who isn’t doing NaNo, I have so much respect for those who do and who even come close to half the goal. You’ve been amazingly prolific lately and not just that but it’s all so well written with a quality story. Be proud of yourself. <3
Well yeah that’s because … confession time, I wound up writing fanfic for NaNo. I had a really rough October and I didn’t manage to complete my prep for my original novel. I thought I could catch up but that never happened. I decided to write Nightwalkers instead (which I’ve been promising since July), but I’ve only written the first three chapters, and I think it sucks so I might just throw it out and start again.
So basically my word count is split across over half a dozen different projects, which isn’t what I wanted. Basically, I failed my own goals, and that’s why I’m disappointed. I confess I have reached 50k for the month, that’s probably obvious from my AO3. However, while I might have written a lot of words, and I should be happy about that, I failed myself so I’m not. I hope that makes sense. I probably shouldn’t have made a post about it, but by making it official it somehow took the weight off my shoulders, which really helped me.
Anyway, thank you so much for your kind words about my writing. Coming from such a fantastic writer as yourself, that really means a lot.
Synopsis: Following on from the events of 6.07 – Heartless. Hope can be found in even the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Storybrooke has faced many challenges, with good always beating evil but they did that together, and now they are split apart. The story must play out but the ending might not be what anyone expects.
Note: This story is now complete and the ending is what I would describe as “not unhappy”. If you want to read Rumbelle talking through their issues and actually getting their happy ending my story Faith of the Heart, follows on from my other alternate season six fic The War Within. It deals with most of the same issues Rumple and Belle are wrestling with here. Enjoy!
Warning: Spoilers up to and including 6.07 – Heartless, also the promo for 6.08 and what few filming spoilers we have.
On Tumblr: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five
After Hook’s
disgusted accusation, there was a ringing silence. Rumplestiltskin didn’t
bother to defend himself, no matter what he said the pirate would never hear
it. Hook had made up his mind already, and he would never be convinced that
Rumplestiltskin had any motives that weren’t utterly selfish. The only one
Rumplestiltskin was prepared to defend himself against was Belle, because after
everything, her opinion was the only one that mattered. The entire town could
hate him, even his grandson, so long as Belle understood. She had been so angry
lately, but perhaps now it was all over they could talk.Finally it was
David who broke the increasingly awkward silence. “How can you be the savior? I
understand the shears severing people from their fate, but how can you take it
from them?”That was a
surprisingly neutral question, but then out of everyone it had always been the
shepherd who was most prepared to listen. Regina
knew him far too well, and was far too impulsive not to jump to conclusions.
Rumplestiltskin’s lips quirked in twisted humor, when it came to jumping to
conclusions not even Regina
had anything on Snow White. Considering Snow had been raised to rule, and David
raised a shepherd, David had a much more level head which befitted a king.“Miss Swan and
I are connected,” Rumplestiltskin began. Hook made a noise of disgust, but he
ignored the pirate with practiced ease. “Miss Swan was the savior because of
the first dark curse, which I helped craft. She was my successor and my
predecessor as the dark one. I know she can still hear the whispers of the
dagger.”Bleah. Well, I have faith in Archie to help them sort things out. At least they’re finally on the right path. This isn’t a happy ending, not yet, but it is a beginning.
Yeah I tried to end it on a hopeful note. They are talking again, and they have a plan in place to see Archie, and they both want to make it work so hopefully heh 🙂 I have had a request to write at least one session with Archie from Archie’s POV. To be honest I don’t think I could do that prompt justice so it’s looking for a good home if anyone is interested?
Anyway, my headcanon is that they work it out and while it’s no happy ending, there are more than enough happy moments for a good life. Thank you so much for commenting! 🙂
I hope Belle realizes that loving someone even at times wanting to strangle them is love and anything less is not worth it. I am glad they are seeing Archie. I wish Rumple would confide in her but she does not make it easy. I wouldn’t want to confide in her if I knew I get a lecture and a walk out. Belle and Rumple have to find what works for them, not others and stop comparing their love and marriage to others who don’t have their backgrounds or issues.
Well Rumple has a couple of hundred years of trust issues to overcome, and Belle has a short temper. Neither of them are perfect but I believe love will out in the end. Thank you so much for commenting! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
That’s what David keeps saying but I don’t know. The man seems to have relished his reputation up until now, and standing up for him is an unpopular position. Think about what the rest of our friends would say. *sigh* I know it’s the right thing to do but doing the right thing isn’t always easy. I don’t want my car to be spray painted next, this town can be vicious when it wants.
Everything is crazy with thanksgiving and Christmas at the moment. However, David has suggested we all go out for dinner together. The moment we can find a date everyone can agree on, we’ll go. I know that’s an excuse. Maybe it would be easier if the kids came the first time. I’ll have to talk to David.