Ask me about the show. 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:
Nothing because I world build too much but word is open and I definitely will have posted at least one thing before next Tuesday. I’m aiming for two things but one is a definite. So there’s that 🙂 Please ask me things!
Well this oneshot I’m supposed to post tomorrow just exploded *sigh* I always do too much world building. Did I really need to go into that much detail?
I really don’t want to fail my plan straight away because that’s just too pathetic for words. So can we maybe pretend like a little bit that as I only made the plan yesterday, that I didn’t mean this Tuesday? *whistles* I mean that would be reasonable right? *guilt* *guilt* Speaking of guilt, I got a review on Painting Layers of Love today. *dies of shame* soon I promise!
I haven’t done one of these in a while because I hit a real writing slump. It was embarrassing only listing one fic in a month so I stopped. Doing it mid-month seems a bit odd but I really admire @worryinglyinnocent for their schedule and how organized and dedicated they are (hope you don’t mind the tag, you are brilliant!). I used to be a little bit like that and now my real life is starting to settle again, I’m hoping to regain my oomph and get back to at least writing semi-regularly. Therefore mid-month or not I’m not waiting until a more auspicious date 🙂
Under the cut is a list of what I’ve posted since the last time I did one of these. However first I’m going to talk about my plans. I know that probably means they’ll fall apart in an instant (plans are like that) but having some kind of path to follow, is much easier than being all at sea.
If there’s one thing I’m good at it’s lists. I have:
– 3 WIP’s
– 5 non-posted WIP’s
– 5 started fics
– 8 continuation ideas
– 17 new ideas
Total = 38
I was all at sea. It’s been so long not even my WIP’s seemed particularly pressing. I really needed a deadline or some kind of schedule. I talked with a friend who said to ease back into it with a oneshot. I looked through my list and … *drum roll* I only had 1 idea out of 38 that didn’t look like a multi-chapter. Is that ooops or good? Who knows.
Anyway THE PLAN is to write that oneshot and post it on Tuesday (yay for posting something heh). Then the Tuesday after post a chapter of a WIP (*falls over* I know right?), then the Tuesday after that a chapter of another WIP. So all I’m demanding is a chapter a week to begin with. Once I’ve got started it might well ramp up to more but I’m trying to be reasonable.
PLUS I’ve got so unfocused even with reading. There’s authors I absolutely adore who have posted fics I haven’t read. I’ve got behind on everything (psst I’m even behind on gifsets) it’s getting a bit silly. I mean I know my focus is bad when I can’t even sit and read a fic without my mind wandering. It used to be more like I’d be trying to write and my mind would wander to read a fic.
So yes now it’s in black and white, so I kinda have to do it or face eternal shame. You hear that self? Go word!
Thanks for the ask! 🙂 🙂 Wow these questions are hard! *puts on thinking cap*
6. Favorite fic (or one of them)? *cries* how can I possibly choose? Shall I do “eeny meeny miny mo”? Pick a random number? I mean this fandom is so damn talented! So definitely, definitely only one of the many, many fics that I love. Please no mistake about that! I think I have to go with Friendships and Fandoms by @worryinglyinnocent purely because it gave us Star Force!
I think Worry is a magician or something because she’s made me a huge fan of a show that technically doesn’t exist. I want at least 10 seasons of it. It would definitely rank up among my favorite shows ever. Can we get this made somehow? I mean seriously, it should be real!
10. Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic? Hmm I find this really hard to answer. It’s like the second I read this question my mind goes blank and I can’t think of any. I should make a list of all the possibilities to help my brain at times like this. Anyway I think I’m going to go with best friends to lovers. I just adore mutual support and friendship and communication and working together. I love established relationship fic. I mean bizarrely given how much I read/write “getting together” fics my definite favorite is when an established couple faces a problem and tackles it as a team.
42. Least favorite fluffy tropes? Erm oh crumbs I don’t know. Like I said my brains gone blank. Probably when everything is fluffy when I know it can’t be really. I like things to be justified, and to make sense, and for there to be reasons behind things. I suppose it’s a bit like on the actual show when instant-forgiveness happens. These things take time and problems can’t be solved with one conversation. People might know in their heads something, but their hearts take a while to process. I’m not sure I’m explaining this right. I guess I like the fluff to be quasi-realistic. If it’s perfect then how do they know they are happy?
45. Favorite fluff fic? Same trouble as no. 6 how to choose??? However … I admit a certain fic did pop into my head the second I read the question. I remember fangirling exceptionally hard in the comments. It just hit all the buttons for brilliance. I was smiling so hard and waving my hands in the air. I just couldn’t stop gushing. So yeah the Passing Inspection verse by well you @mariequitecontrarie 🙂
The Tok’ra really were as arrogant as the Goa’uld in many respects. I found them fascinating, and actually calling them arrogant is probably arrogant in itself because I can see it from their point of view. I think it would have been interesting if they had done an episode or even a mini-series from the point of view of a race like the Tok’ra. We are always the heroes in our own stories but what do the other aliens think of the Tau’ri?
I really liked Jacob/Selmak and cheered everytime he was on screen. The other Tok’ra not so much, I wasn’t fond of Martouf but I did actually have respect for Malek. They are extremely interesting regardless and their outfits definitely improved in later seasons.
You guys are the absolute best! Thank you all so much! 🙂 I’m so excited eeeek heh, this is going to make such a huge difference to my life. It’s a massive step for me and even though it’s corny (and I’m sorry for that) I’m going to borrow from Once and say I’m viewing this as the start of a happy beginning 🙂
I really couldn’t be more pleased. Induction events start on September 25th. That’s just shy of 7 weeks or 48 days and counting (if I’ve done my math right – good job I haven’t applied for a math course heh). Not that I’m counting … oh who am I kidding I’m counting! I can’t wait to start!
Anyway now my anxiety isn’t at eleven hopefully I’ll be able to crack on and write some things! *hugs all of you guys* Thank you!!!
Aw, you’re welcome! I remember when I went back after a good few years away from academia. I was like you, so anxious until I got the news, and then I was so excited and couldn’t wait to start. It felt right :)I hope it’s a wonderful experience for you 🙂
Thank you so much! Yeah I’m 27. I dropped out of uni six years ago so it has been a while. I definitely can’t wait to start! It does feel very right 🙂
It took me awhile and a lot of soul searching on deciding what career I wanted to pursue but when I went back, I was as excited as you are! Congratulations!
Thank you! 🙂 Yeah I really feel like I’ve got it right this time. With hindsight I know I took the wrong course last time. I mean the right course wouldn’t have helped back then, too much other life stuff going on, but it’s different now. It’s a second chance!
WOOOOOOOOOOOO! We’ll be in school at the same time. That’s super great. If you don’t mind telling us, what are you going to study?
*HUGS YOU TIGHT*
Yay! *hugs you back just as tightly* I saw your post briefly when I was on mobile but then it disappeared, and I’m sorry I have a brain like a sieve and the next time I was on the PC I’d forgotten *hides in box of shame* Massive, massive congrats! I will super miss you if you do leave, or go incognito. I know we don’t talk often but it’s always a pleasure. However, I completely understand and I wish you all the luck in the world! I hope it works out fabulously for you!
No I don’t mind saying in the slightest 🙂 I applied for “English Literature with Creative Writing” but because I haven’t previously studied English Literature I didn’t qualify. However, they offer a foundation level, so an extra year of study making it a 4 year course. So I’ll be doing the “Bridge to Humanities” this year and then progressing to my dream course next year.
I’m not disappointed by this because it’s right. I would much rather gain solid footing than be floundering in the deep end, all at sea and not understanding. Plus I’ve been out of education a while, out of the world generally, and an easier introduction can only be a good thing. It’ll give me an extra year to get on my feet and really be able to make the most of the course.
I think part of me is still a bit stunned. I wanted this so badly and now it’s happening I’m dazed going “for me? really?” because wow, I can’t believe it! I’m nervous obviously, a little bit petrified to be honest that it’s not going to work out, but I’m very hopeful and I’m certainly going to do my absolute best.
I completely feel you on the “for me? really???” I feel just like that. I giggle randomly and have little capers around my house, or down the sidewalk if I’m not careful. I will miss you very much if I have to disappear. I think there may be some people I reach out to after the death of this blog because we’re close enough that I feel safe to do so. I do so enjoy our little exchanges and I would dearly love to meet you some day.
I think taking your time and doing the in depth study is the way to go because you get the chance to dig into the material and into yourself in a way that a rushed program just cant’ offer. This accelerated, or intensive crap is, to me, just that. I think going too fast robs you of the chance to do your very best work.
That sound perfect for you, I can just see you loving the hell out of your program.
I’m so, very, very happy for you. *hugs*
For myself, thank you very much. I hardly know what to do with myself these days because things are so amazingly awesome. I feel like I have the chance to do the thing I have always dreamed about. Well, you understand. I know you do.
I’m so very happy for you! 🙂
Yeah I do understand. I feel the same about my course. So *happy dance* all around I think! If you are ever in England feel free to let me know. It’s a small enough country we could probably meet up somewhere 🙂 There’s a few of us on this side of the Atlantic, if there’s enough notice we might be able to Rumbelle shippers unite or whatever people call these meet-ups.
Heh I’m re-reading this response to make sure I’ve responded to everything, and I’m just re-reading the “I hardly know what to do with myself these days” line and oh yeah! That is the exact feeling. It’s like woah, I’m dizzy with disbelief at the awesomeness and how can it still be seven weeks away? I just want to dive in and get started and enjoy this new stage of my life.
*hugs you* It’s just all so great. Hopefully these positive vibes will flow around the fandom and more people will have great things happen! I would love that, I really like it when people are happy! 🙂
Oh the fanfic I wrote. I was deep into this fandom. It was my first fandom. I ran a fansite, I made up music lists (complete with art for CD covers), I did fanart generally with wallpapers and icons and stuff(it was early 2000′s it’s what people did). I wrote countless metas. I screencapped episodes and uploaded galleries as a resource. Oh I made fanmixes where I interspersed dialogue with music, I also made actual fan videos. If it was a fan thing, you name it then I did it. Ah can’t forget the fanlistings! I never was lucky enough to run the actual relationship one but I grabbed whatever I could get e.g. key episodes.
So yeah I really was very deep into this. Then I fell out of love with the show. I don’t know if they had a change in writers, showrunners, or just a change in direction. I adored the first two seasons and season three was ok but season four? It was like watching people pretending they were playing the characters I’d come to know and love. It just didn’t feel right.
Basically I quit the show. I stayed on the edges of the fandom for a long time afterwards, finishing up fanfics etc. but I closed down a lot of what I was doing. That was less to do with the show/pairing and more to do with where my life was at. I was 16, I was graduating high school, I wanted to write more original fiction. That was basically the start of when I got out of fandom. I was out for about ten years before Rumbelle pulled me back in.
In answer to your question, no they aren’t my favorite anymore. Rumbelle has that honor! Do I still ship them? Well it’s been a very long time since I’ve even watched the show (I’m getting nostalgic now, I might have to pull out my DVD’s) but I can’t see why I wouldn’t still ship them. I’m not active but I haven’t forgotten why I fell hard and fast for this pairing.
Ask me about the show. 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:
Nothing BUT I am aiming to write today … I know famous last words and all 🙂 I’m having trouble focusing as I’m so worried about my uni application (I still haven’t heard) and being in limbo is just ugh. I need to know what’s happening! I know I need to be patient but that’s hard. Anyway, swords aloft, onward and charge in the war of words!
Saw this Wednesday night and dsjfgsdfjsdlkfjkldsfjklsd
I somehow managed to avoid spoilers and that meant that the surprises were 100% a surprise which led to me punching the air in the movie theater and just generally it made it a better experience!! Yes that was a very long sentence but asdjalskdjalskdjals I mean it was a keyboard smash kinda movie!
So spoilers spoilers, avoid if you haven’t seen it, do not click ok?
Synopsis: Miracles happen … when you believe. A few years ago Rumplestiltskin and Belle grabbed their happy beginning with both hands. Neither of them ever forgot Belle’s desire to see the world; or the desire they share to show it to their son. Once Gideon is old enough they start making trips including a grand summer tour of England. They visit the North York Moors Railway and Gideon is entranced by the trains resulting in a rather sooty incident.
Rumplestiltskin
took a deep breath as he climbed out of the drivers seat of the rental car. The
distinctive scent of smoke was heavy on the air, the twisting grey and black
plume rising from the steam train that was currently at the station. It had
been over four years since they had grasped their ‘happy beginning’ with both
hands. They hadn’t ventured far from Storybrooke when Gideon was a baby but
Rumplestiltskin had never forgotten Belle’s dream to see the world.
Now Gideon was
older they had started to take regular trips. Belle had a long list which
spanned all seven continents, including a lot of places in England, so
they’d embarked on a ‘grand summer tour’. For the next few days they would be
exploring the North Yorkshire Moors, starting today with the heritage steam
railway.
“Papa! Papa!
Look!” Gideon bounced impatiently on the spot, excitedly pointing at the train.
For all the holidays I spent in Yorkshire I don’t think I ever went on the railway. I loved this, so sweet and so typically rumbelle. I liked the little touch of Belle viewing her make-up in the same way as Rumpel viewing his suits, and the fact they both let go of that armour.
This has made me so nostalgic for my own family holidays from when I was a kid!
Awww thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the fic 🙂
Now excuse me while I fall over in horror that you never went to the railway! Hehe 🙂 I made the banner with my own vacation snaps, I went looking in my folder and I think I’ve been 4 or 5 times. Pretty much every time I go to Yorkshire I spend a day at the NYMR. It’s one of the longest steam railways in the country so it really feels like it’s worth it. You go on some heritage railways and you are on the train for all of five minutes.
Anyway, if you go to Yorkshire again heh, I’d highly recommend 🙂
