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of-princes-and-savages  asked:

U for the letter-based ask list?: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

OMG I love this question thank you!

*two seconds later*

OMG I hate this question! … but still thank you so much! 🙂

Haha, honestly talking about my faves is 🙂 🙂 but choosing between them??? I’m sure you know what I’m talking about heh.

Right erm wowzer ok.

Once Upon a Time seeing as that’s the fandom we share 🙂

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, sitting in one of the top 3 spots is this guy – Gold/Rumple. Why? Because I identify with his fear, his insecurity, his self-loathing. I understand the feeling. He’s relatable basically despite being very different from me in all other respects.

Regina, oh Regina, I love her so much. Why? Because of the depth and the layers and the complexity and the whole villain to anti-hero journey and the self-loathing that came when she stopped repressing her conscience. Like I said depth and layers. She did wrong, she knew it was wrong when she did it but she did it anyway and nothing will ever make that right. Fascinating character.

Nothing like a villain. I know, I know, you probably expected me to say Belle as my third choice and I nearly did but my feelings towards canon Belle are, let’s just say complicated to say the least. So anyway why Cora? Because she fascinates me. If I was still in the canon-divergence fanfic business I have several ideas I’d love to explore. It’s such a shame she got killed off so quickly. She was a schemer, I love those, reminded me of a Derevko (anyone else seen Alias?). Her motivations, her relationships – just fascinating.

Ok because of gifs this got long so cut time

Warehouse 13 because picking three is easy 🙂

Undisputed favourite, I could not love her more, I wish I could write all the fic. Another character who straddles the line between villain and anti-hero. She works with you, she works against you, always has her own agenda. She is utterly brilliant. HG Wells everyone.

I have to be honest I prefer Myka away from Pete as that’s when she really shines. She’s resourceful, she’s smart, she’s tough. I liked it in season 2 when she and Claudia went on a mission together and she was a confident agent, who gave Claudia good advice and just was very professional.

So last choice for Warehouse 13 has to be Claudia because I relate to her a lot. She is terrible with people, very awkward, babbles when she’s nervous. She’s also really smart, a total geek and extremely capable with stuff she’s good at – like computers.

So last fandom, what shall I pick? Stargate? No that’s like choosing which limb I want to keep. Erm *thinks hard*

Dark Matter because it’s slightly easier but I do still love most of them!

It’s the boss lady! She is badass, she is smart, she is the leader of the crew and that takes a toll, she has the burden of authority. She cares, and with the memory wipe their true selves came out, and then we got to learn about their history and that just hurt. Everything she went through made her the ruthless Portia Lin, underneath all that still was Two. Portia had the heart and had to live with everything. Once again I wish I could write all the fic ESPECIALLY AS THE SHOW GOT CANCELLED AND I’M STILL VERY BITTER!

OMG the android. Her journey is incredible. She doesn’t understand the social world, she has emotions that her programming can’t quantify. Then what is so so important is she gets an ‘upgrade’ that makes her instantly human and she rejects it. She chooses to be herself and what warms my heart/makes me cry is how her crew are happy about it. They accept her for who she is, even if they sometimes don’t know what to do when the android says awkward stuff.

Three. He pretends he doesn’t care but really does and he doesn’t hide it very well. There’s no artifice with him, he says what he thinks and he’s actually very loyal. He’s a good friend. Plus it’s super funny how his quarters are basically an armory. He’s a stereotype but it’s a good one.

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This flash fiction isn’t being very flash. I mean it’s supposed to be what max 500 words? Someone please tell my brain that starting on a scene that is at least a couple of scenes ahead of the prompted one … well it’s not flash fiction is it?

/facepalm

On the plus side I think I might have written a tiny bit of what could be called banter *gasp* I know right? I wonder if I can bottle that so I might be able to do it again sometime. Banter is hard.

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Watching CSI and man Catherine is always having to protect Grissom from himself isn’t she? The example in this episode:

“You’re not going in there without backup!”

Grissoms all “We can go back or we can go forward” (he’s going in)

So Catherine pulls her gun and follows him because Grissom sure as hell never has his.

(Full disclosure Catherine probably is my favourite character).

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jackabelle73

Have you ever looked at your all your OTPs from all your fandoms, and tried to figure out what they have in common? Do you have a type, when it comes to OTPs? Do you see a couple interact for five seconds and immediately think, oh yeah I’m gonna ship them hard? Or does it take a while for a couple to grow on you? Are your OTPs wildly different from each other, and you have to scratch your head and wonder, how can I ship them, but also them? WTH? 

Shipping is weird. 

galactic-pirates

Sometimes it takes a while because obviously the more we see of characters, the more we know about them – sometimes it even takes a rewatch and the perspective of later knowledge.

Other times it’s like a lightening bolt and immediate.

So how I get there can be varied but in terms of the ships … thinking how to phrase this um, everyone is different right, so why people like ships/characters are different. However, I reckon that if anyone looked deep down at their ships/favourite characters, there would be common factors.

For me my favourite characters are either scientists or just really smart – intelligence is obviously something I like. All my OTP’s are clever people.

With some of my OTP’s there are obvious power dynamics, and others not so much, but ALL OF THEM are equals in the relationship. I only ship mutual respect, that is absolutely key and unfortunately not something I see a lot. I’ve seen dozens of shows and I only have a handful of OTP’s.

I guess what I’m trying to say is traits like intelligence or mutual respect are more like concepts and therefore apply to all the many and varied different situations. Those are just two examples of course, and they are specific to me, but I reckon that if people looked they might find some equally broad criteria which all of their OTP’s fit into. I could be wrong obviously but I do think that there is a trigger for us, for why we like what we like, and we might not realise what that trigger is but it’s always there.

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I’m thinking In Your Arms is not the best verse in the world to play “lets get back on the horse” with. Equally Painting Layers of Love as they both have far too much of me in them.

I want something lighter to write. To that end.

PLEASE PROMPT ME STUFF

See the above bingo card.

Pick a square and add some kind of prompt to it: a word, a phrase, a quote, several words – be a cat, if it fits in the askbox you can have it.

I have a ton and a half of prompt lists if that helps.

Finally specify your show and/or pairing:
– Once Upon a Time (Rumbelle, Swanfire, BraveWarrior)
– Agents of Shield (Fitzsimmons, Philinda)
– Warehouse 13 (Bering and Wells)
– The Librarians (Eve and Flynn)
– Castle (Haylexis)
or you know, it could be character-based and not shippy in which case the field is wide open. Go for the above shows or Killjoys, Dark Matter, Stargate, Leverage, that kind of thing.

I’m sure that if I do get any prompts, they’ll be Rumbelle as that’s where my friends are (love you guys!) but I’m just saying you can have other stuff too. I’m going to shut up now.

Please, if you are bored, blow up my askbox as I want to play with tropes and do some flash fiction and feel good about writing again. Thanks! 🙂

#look I made a bingo card#that’s not even all the tropes as the list was a lot longer#this is probably not how a bingo card works but I’ve not done it before I’m making it up as I go along

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I just wrote this in my planning doc

I don’t care that’s diabetic sweet, gimme the fluff. 

I’m not sure what I’m commenting on here, my planning style? the fact that the end of this fic is going to be sickly sweet fluff?

(whispers: you have to write it first)

SHHHH!

Honestly I started planning this intending to write it for *cough* August’s *cough* AMR, still have nothing more than a plan /facepalm

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winterswanderlust  asked:

For the fanfiction ask meme: 9, 34, 47

9. What are the best things about your current fandom?
That I understand it? Seriously fandoms are kinda an elusive beast to me. I don’t know how to find fellow fans – what tags do they use? what event blogs are there? I want to join in dammit and I don’t know how! But I don’t know entirely how I worked it out but I’m here in Rumbelle land and it’s comfortable. I still don’t know everyone that I should and 99% of the time drama passes me by (my nickname is Captain Oblivious), so obviously I’m still kinda on the periphery somehow.

All I want from fandom is to be able to flail and chat to people who love it as much as I do. So what is best about the Rumbelle fandom is that I have made friends whom I can talk to about my passions 🙂

34. What’s the word count on your longest fic?
Longest individual fic is The War Within at 71,905. Longest verse (multiple fics, same universe) is also War Within standing at 115,721.

47. Archive Of Our Own, Fanfiction.net or Tumblr – where do you prefer to post and why?
I’m old. I remember the days of posting in private archives/forums. Does anyone else remember proboards forums? I still technically have an account at ff.net but I haven’t posted there in years, not since before I quit fandom the first time over a decade ago. You know that tumblr post that goes around which says what internet generation are you? I’m the “I was there Gandalf!” hehe 🙂

I got to say AO3. It’s neater because it’s designed for fic posting, whereas tumblr’s more all about the reblogs and the conversation. It’s also much easier to upload than ff.net, unless ff.net has had an overhaul in the last 10 years? Anyway I find it easier to post and I just like the general look. So yeah AO3!

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I’m watching Ocean’s 8 again. Such a good movie. I seriously want a sequel. The men got three movies – WE NEED THREE MOVIES TOO!

Like come on they don’t just do it for the money. Daphne said she joined for the company – better than a book club – Debbie is a lifelong con and she and Lou are totally married.

I need this like air.

Yesterday was a bad day

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I wrote a couple of “I don’t know what to do” posts because I’m not being productive how I would like.

Then it got worse.

You know how sometimes it’s not what happens, so much as what it triggers? Well what happened yesterday shouldn’t have been that big a deal but it felt like the final nail in the coffin. I have been feeling very hopeless and despairing and what happened felt like validation of those feelings. I haven’t got even close to halfway with NaNo, I’m writing less in a year than I used to do in a month – I feel like I’m losing myself.

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