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If anyone’s seen Leverage in season four I think there are two episodes – The Boys Night Out/The Girls Night Out. In which as you might guess the first focuses on the male characters, the second on the female characters. Events happen on the same night and there’s a tiny bit of crossover when one character calls another, but apart from that they are separate adventures.

I was just randomly thinking what if they did that with the marvel movies? Like packed off all the male heroes to Asgard or somewhere else out of the way, maybe Tony and Pepper are getting married and it’s a stag/hen night situation (I know that sucks but the setup isn’t what matters).

So we have all the cool amazing ladies on Earth (or maybe they go somewhere but setting is immaterial) – basically it’s a team-up thing. All the ladies are together. I’m talking Pepper, Lady Sif, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, Wanda Maximoff, Jane Foster, Hope van Dyne, characters from Black Panther that I don’t know the names of yet, Darcy Lewis, hey could even invite Gamora. Basically any significant female characters from the movies (this is me hoping I haven’t forgotten anyone important).

Then something happens – duh duh duh – and the ladies have to save the world. Pepper could don the Rescue armor, Hope is obviously the Wasp. Jane and Darcy could help run back-end/science saves the day and everyone else is badass in a fight. Actually Darcy is badass in a fight, give that girl a taser. Anyway, what I’m saying is all-female team-up.

Yes this is just because I want more of all these amazing women. You’ve seen my tags, I’m constantly lamenting that I want more Maria Hill, Lady Sif etc. Well Marvel make it happen! I can’t be the only one that would watch the hell out of this. I mean I just rewatched The Avengers, Cap: Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron purely for Maria Hill. Give me more Marvel!

I know this will never happen but it’s a fun dream 🙂

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@rumbelleluv I just read your tags on that gifset about why the portal looks different? A ring of fire rather than a green swirl that destroys the road. I have a theory about that!

Henry isn’t going to a realm within our reality – he’s going to another realm where the same stories play out differently. So the portal looks different because he’s not just travelling to another realm, he’s crossing reality.

Why do I think this? Well the portal reminded me of a Doctor Strange portal (also seen used by Ghost Rider in Agents of Shield) which crosses dimensions. Disney has the rights to Marvel which is why we’ve had the comic books shown on the show, they are never going to have the Avengers show up but that could be a nice little nod. Hello reality portal.

Also this ties into my theory as to how Henry got to be 28 but Regina and Hook haven’t aged – time isn’t consistent between realities. I mean that kinda makes sense with time being relative because of the storybook thing anyway. I mean the versions they’ve used on the show were “written down by the author Walt Disney” long before the events technically happened.

I mean the first Dark Curse created Storybrooke in 1983. Walt Disney died (and Isaac was recruited) in 1966. So if the Enchanted Forest and the Land Without Magic had time operating concurrently, that wouldn’t be possible. I mean the tale of Snow White was written long before Snow was actually born.

I know time was acting concurrently once the curse happened but maybe that’s why it was such a dark curse. It connected the realms in a way that wasn’t usual. Perhaps that’s why Isaac never aged from 1966 to present day, but Henry has got older while he’s been gone.

Just a couple of thoughts 🙂

Your RCIJ is on my to-read list; can’t wait to get started on it. So, I’m going to have to wait until next week to ask about it. Anyway, I’m going to have to ask you something else for TMI. Is there a movie, TV show, or novel that reminds you of Rumbelle? (other than Beauty and the Beast). :~)

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Sorry I know I shouldn’t laugh. It’s just that’s a really awesome question and it’s also incredibly funny. I see Rumbelle everywhere, in everything! I swear sometimes I could probably Rumbelle anything. I try not to think on it too hard because the plot bunnies wind up multiplying exponentially but oops happens quite often anyway 🙂

Anyway, the amazingly talented and wonderful @worryinglyinnocent was my RCIJ Santa. The prompt I gave them was for a movie AU – No Reservations. That movie just screamed Rumbelle to me and while I’m still only three chapters into their fic (damn obligations, I want to read and not be busy!) it’s an absolutely incredible adaptation. Go, read, enjoy! It’ll be great I know it!

I’d be here all day if I listed off everything that ever reminded me of Rumbelle. Unlike the example I gave above, which was absolutely perfect in pretty much every way, most things are only partly perfect. Which unfortunately makes the plot bunnies even worse. I can see the changes I’d make which would then be perfect Rumbelle and oops. Rumbelle, rumbelle, everywhere heh.

Where do you think Gideon and Chin went on their first date? And as Gideon was growing up, was Rumple the more overprotective “I want to know where you are, where you’re going, who you’re with, what time you’ll be home” parent? Or was that Belle?

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Gideon: It’s hard to pin down our first date to be honest. I’d dated before, inviting the guys I liked out for hamburgers or to get a drink, but with Chin it just didn’t happen like that. We met in the library study hall, when he sat down opposite me, and we just clicked. He became my best friend, I invited him home for Christmas so he didn’t have to spend it in the dorms, and after we’d been there a couple of days mom asked how long we’d been together.

I told her that we weren’t! But the idea wouldn’t leave me alone and I started paying more attention. When we spent evenings watching movies we’d curl up together, when we cooked we worked in sync because we knew what the other needed. It’s like we’d become a couple and kinda skipped the dating part.

So would our first date be one of the hundreds of things we did together since we met? Or would it be what we did the night I screwed up my courage and kissed him? I was so terrified of losing his friendship. I called papa and he told me not to wait because I would regret it. That no matter what happened it would be the right thing. That the important thing was to be honest, a lesson he’d learned the hard way and tried never to forget.

Anyway we went out for dinner – hamburgers for good luck – and I kissed him. He kissed me back, I admitted I’d been nervous, he admitted that if I hadn’t made a move soon then he would have, and the rest as they say is history.

*****

Belle: *glances at Rumple with amusement* It was me, much to my surprise. I couldn’t understand why Rumple was so laid back, well until Gideon and Nadia started dating and then I had to have a stern word, but then …

Rumple: *winces* Sweetheart …

Belle: Not now darling, I think they should know don’t you? *Rumple shakes his head and Belle’s smile deepens* It’s really not all that bad. My husband the sorcerer just placed a couple of charms on them. They weren’t invasive. One was a health monitor which would detect if they were hurt or unwell. Another would detect if they were in danger. There was a locator charm but that only activated if either the health or danger monitor triggered. It wasn’t spying because he couldn’t check where they were at will; he was just making sure they were safe when they were on their own. The only mistake he made was … what was it Rumple?

Rumple: I didn’t talk with you about it first, and I didn’t explain it to Gideon and Nadia. Placing spells on anyone other than an enemy without asking permission isn’t allowed.

Belle: And what happened when we talked with them?

Rumple: *whispers* They agreed to the charms. Gideon’s condition was that we placed the same monitors on the two of us, and that both he and I were keyed into them. He has magic too and we all care for one another.

Belle: Exactly. *kisses him lovingly* See it all worked out. Your intention wasn’t wrong but …

Rumple: What we had was a failure to communicate.

TMI Tuesday

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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:
– True Love Ways (RCIJ)

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You could also ask me a question off any of these lists.

I actually posted something! I know don’t all faint in shock at once heh 🙂 It’s been a rollercoaster few months. I feel terrible about my WIP’s. Please rest assured I haven’t forgotten them. Nothing is going quite as planned at the moment. Anyway, please blow up my inbox if you feel like it. It’s fun 🙂

Hello my darling, I was your Summer Santa! It was SO HARD not to let on who I was, you have no idea! Did you already guess? As you know from both my anon messages and some of my own posts my mental health was very up and down during the writing process with seasonal depression, anxiety and general life stress kicking in at various points. But despite that, I have really loved writing your gift and I very much hope you enjoy it. [cont]

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[cont]I love writing movie AUs, I really enjoy the challenges they bring and this one was no different. You’ve been a wonderfully accommodating giftee and I just want to hug you so hard. Your fic is up on Tumblr in link form and on AO3 in its entirety. Happy Reading and Happy RCIJ! ~ Worry aka Santa

Whoop whoop! *runs to read* oh no wait! *runs back to reply to this* hehe. Oh man this is going to be so awesome!!!!

I have to admit I did kinda guess it was you but under no circumstances can you feel bad about that! Ok? Truthfully it was a relief to ‘know’ early because I had time to get over the shock factor that I had THE WorryinglyInnocent as my Santa. You know how I adore your fic generally, so to have you write a fic kinda for me is just like *flaps hands* well put it this way I would be even more inarticulate than this if it had been a shock. The amount of flailing might have reached the stratosphere.

I’m really sorry it’s been a rough couple of months for you *hugs* I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed writing the fic. I hope it brought you nothing but fun and wasn’t an additional stress. Anyway, now I’m going to go read. Eeeeek I’m so excited!

Wait, wait, wait a minute. 27k! 12 CHAPTERS!!!! I’m the luckiest damn person in the entire world. Holy smokes. Just wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! Ok comment spam incoming. Best day ever!

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I just resubbed to Warcraft for a month because I’m weak. I know, I know, I kinda hate myself already. It’s just it’s been over two years since I last played and I got nostalgic.

Oh and in case anyone was wondering – this was the bribe I mentioned. I finished my RCIJ and rewarded myself. Tomorrow I’ll do the same with a mixture of fics and chores. Work first, play for an hour in the evening. Seems like a good bribe for as long as I’m enjoying it.

Anyway …

1) Where did all my buttons go? Seriously so many abilities have vanished. All my buffs, all my heals, so many of my cooldowns. I literally have 5 ability buttons – 5! I mean I have more with cooldowns but seriously this is insane. There’s no holy power! I’m stunned. I’m missing the sprint talent something fierce and it turns out muscle memory doesn’t disappear even with a two year gap. I’m trying to hit buttons that no longer exist. My hands remember the rotation. I have no idea yet what the gutting of my self-heals will have done to my soloing ability. There may be a rant incoming.

2) I started on my druid as I was nostalgic for playing cat form, and I have totally forgotten how to play which makes sense. Anyway so I died and then – corpse run. I was moaning bitterly the entire time because I’ve been playing Swtor and I can instant-res in that. Honestly having to find my corpse feels so antiquated. Oh and the fall damage in Warcraft is so much worse. I went to bound down this mountain and nearly died.

3) Seriously Swtor wins all the awards for convenience. I miss automatically knowing flight points, I miss the one click vendor all trash items, I miss Quick Travel because no cooldown and it goes everywhere. I miss the out of combat free regen ability because it makes recovery faster. It also feels like I’m moving faster on my speeder in Swtor, it feels like it takes forever to get anywhere in Warcraft. I could go on.

4) *incoherent screaming* THEY HAVE ADDED A WARDROBE SYSTEM!!! That wasn’t there when I last played and I am in love. I’m a collector at heart, and a completionist and oh dear. Same goes for all the new achievements. I have things to chase! Although it’s slightly annoying that I have to visit the transmog person to hide my head slot.

They may be more points later. I haven’t got Legion, I’m not even tempted by it as there’s more than enough game to play without it. Plus what turned me off the game last time was gearing up – it was too dependent on RNG and it was basically raid or nothing. So if I’m not max level, I just avoid the gearing treadmill completely, I can putter around playing solo and won’t get annoyed.

Plus it means I can play it like Swtor, dive in for a month every now and then, very casual, no commitments, no concerns. I can play when I feel like it and not when I don’t. Sounds reasonable to me.

rumbelleluv:

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rumbelleluv:

It is always pretty disorienting when you don’t play for awhile and then come back, that’s for sure.  And they have pruned a lot of abilities.  It was supposed to make it simpler and I suppose it has some benefits but I liked having more buttons to click.  And yes transmog is wonderful 😀  I think that was one of the best things they’ve added.  It is pretty fun 😀

Gearing up is kind of a turn off for me too.  I do it on my main but I’m not a raider so it’ll never be as high as it could be.  I really like to level alts so that sometimes takes away the focus on my main ( draenei shaman).

I have a druid as an alt but it’s not max level and I haven’t played it in a long time.  I do remember them always being fun though 🙂

Heya *waves* I didn’t know you played. That’s really cool! Thanks for responding to my random post! 🙂

Yeah I like having buttons to click. I have a razor naga mouse with 12 buttons on the side which I bind my cooldowns to, leaving the main bar for abilities. I have videos of boss kills so I’ll never forget how it used to be. Still I don’t raid anymore so it’s just soloing. I’ll have to test when I next zone in whether my soloing is affected with the lack of self heals. I haven’t really played since I last raided at the end of Mists and I know it was probably overpowered, but it was fun. My protection paladin was unstoppable /sigh.

Heh my bank is full of transmog pieces. It’ll be nice to clear it out and have some space! In the past I had transmog addons, and I farmed for pieces and made up my own sets etc. I’ve always been a collector. Back when I was playing before I had a farming schedule to clear certain raids on as many alts as could manage it each week before reset, so I could maximize my chances at the rare mounts and pets.

I do actually have an alt of every class (aside from demon hunter as I don’t have Legion) but only my paladin is level 100. My druid is level 95. Everything else except my shaman and my mage is level 90. My mage is level 86 I think and shaman maybe 82. I started leveling them so I could max all the professions, and then I got into playing alts during Cata because Cata made it easy and fun. I could login to an alt, run a dungeon, get some valor/justice points and know I made some progress. Then every few sessions I could get a piece of gear and then get more powerful. I liked that but they did away with that a long time ago.

Can you tell I used to be a completionist? Wanting to do all the things. I don’t feel that urge anymore. I mean I still like to have goals on login but I don’t feel the need to max my chances anymore. Just do what I feel like, and if I get the achievement or the drop then yay, if not then just enjoy the act of playing. I mean like with Swtor. I login and usually do a planet per session of the class quests of whatever I’m playing (currently Sith Inquisitor). If I get bored I login out in an inn and come back to it another day. No mess, no fuss, no worries.

Sorry I didn’t mean to go on.

😀 You’re fine! 🙂

That’s pretty awesome you have a gaming mouse.  My dad has something similar and I’ve been thinking about getting one.  I’m bad with keyboard binds for whatever reason.

The cool thing about clearing raids for mounts is it is so easy to do the old ones now since we’re so above the level range.  I was going after Ashes of A’lar in Tempest Keep every week on all my higher level characters for quite awhile before it finally dropped for me.  I know there are probably cool things to drop from Legion raids right now too, but since I can’t solo it, and I don’t always have the time to go into LFR and all that, might have to wait awhile on those ;).

I have a ton of alts too.  I would say the only classes I don’t have are rogue and monk.  If you ever decide to get Legion, I definitely recommend Demon Hunter.  I love doing melee and they are one of the funnest melee classes I’ve used so far.

I used to be the exact same way, wanting to do everything.  The reason I have so many alts is because I know I’ll get too consumed on everything I technically need to do on my main in a day to keep up with everyone else.  So I usually set a couple of goals for that character first and then I move onto my others so it feels more like I’m doing  what I want to be doing :).  Enjoying the game you play is important so I’ve tried to be more relaxed about it lol.

I’ve also never played SWTOR, but I’ve heard a lot of people say great things about it!!

If you like story/roleplay then definitely check out Swtor! I play it solo just for the story, it’s so immersive I wind up creating headcanons about my characters. All the quests are voice acted so it does slow everything down in that respect and the graphics/animations for the attacks are really cool. The games not perfect but it’s definitely enjoyable. Plus you can play for free. For convenience sake I like to sub but it’s not necessary. I would definitely recommend Swtor 🙂

Haha yup I used to farm Tempest Keep every week. You have the mount? Whoop, whoop, that’s awesome. Massive congrats! That’s a very pretty mount. It hasn’t dropped for me yet. Maybe one day! 🙂 It was funny when I logged out two years ago (I thought perhaps for the last time) I sunsetted my main but I left the alts wherever they were. So I still had 3 parked outside Oynxia’s Lair from farming attempts.

Heh regarding Legion that’s another bonus to Swtor – all the expansions are included in the subscription. I’m not sure whether I’m back just for a visit, or if I might stay a while so to speak, and getting Legion is a commitment I’m not willing to make anytime soon. Besides there’s more than enough content to play for months without it should I stick around. Maybe I’ll wait until the next expansion and get my account auto-upgraded for free when Legion gets rolled into the battlechest. That’s a thought heh.

TMI Tuesday

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still-searching47:

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. In fact I can’t remember the last time I posted something but there will be at least a couple of things posted in the next couple of weeks so yay for that. I actually forgot to do TMI Tuesday last week for the first time in about a year, I was too stressed. Anyway, I still have one question from a couple of weeks ago in my inbox but please send more if you feel like it! 🙂

Ask Box

Masterlist

You could also ask me a question off any of these lists.

I have to work on my RCIJ today but I’m procrastinating like a boss. I can’t decide if that’s because I haven’t had the time to write in anything in over a month and I’ve forgotten how to focus, or if it’s just me being rubbish today. I’m going to try bribery and see how that works 🙂

Anyway, if you want to kick me in the butt and make me write, or distract me with questions, or just generally say hi then I’m here all day.