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hey, it’s woodelf’s nervous rcij anon. i just wanted to say that i read your reblog and 1) cried happy tears and also 2) signed up for the event. (i’m super excited right now and i can’t wait to see my prompt *nervously happy flailing*) thank you for your encouragment and offer of help. i’ll probably take you up on that ^^”

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Yay I’m so pleased to hear that you signed up! I’m excited too! Gift exchanges have a peculiar magic. It’s better than christmas waiting to see what prompt I get, but it’s also incredibly nerve wracking at the same time. Scary but fun! I sent in my sign-up this morning. It’s all happening heh 🙂

You are so very welcome *hugs you* my askbox is always open, feel free to message anytime should you need. I’m usually pretty good about responding quickly unless I’m sleeping. General rule is if I haven’t responded within 24 hours tumblr ate it, I don’t know why tumblr likes to eat things but it does.

Here’s to a good event! 🙂

you seem generally helpful, so i hope you don’t mind my asking this: assuming there were a person who loved the concept of the rcij event and was really enthusiastic about participating, but ALSO severely doubted their ability to produce anything another human being would want to look at… what advice would you give that person? asking for a friend.

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woodelf68:

I would remember that there’s no word length required (if you’re a writer), and it doesn’t have to be some epic fic. If you’re an artist, silly little doodles are just as much fun as polished drawings. If you think your imagination can come up with something based on whatever prompt you get, then I say go for it!  The only way to get better at anything is with practice, after all. Plus you can always ask for brainstorming help from the mod of the event, if you need it, or someone else. Whatever you come up with, I’m sure your giftee will appreciate the effort you put into it. Fandom’s about enthusiasm, and sharing things, and that matters more than how good of an artist or a writer you are. Jump in, do your best, and have fun!

@woodelf68 I hope you don’t mind me chiming in on this.

Anon if you are enthusiastic about participating then please do! Personally I think enthusiasm, love for rumbelle and this community, is the most important thing. Everything else can be helped with but the enthusiasm has to come from you, that’s what it’s all about.

I assure you that your giftee for RCIJ will love anything you make because you made it for them and you put effort in.

I know it’s still scary though, I have a crisis of confidence on a regular basis. It’s because of that, that I can guarantee you that if you are nervous and you need support, then this fandom will step up. That’s why I joined this fandom because the people are lovely.

That being said I can understand being scared. I find it really intimidating to approach other people, especially if I’m asking for something like help. Now, I’m sure that you’ll get a lot of other offers but have a blanket one from me. If you need a support buddy for RCIJ then my askbox is always open.

24: Redemption (Review)

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(Warning this review contains spoilers)

Years ago, probably eight years ago, I found 24 for sale on eBay really cheap. I was quite enamored with getting TV boxsets for under £1 so I bought the first six seasons before I ever watched the show. I mean 24 was such a huge thing and it was definitely my genre, I was mystified back then as to why I had never seen it. I figured I would love it!

Fast forward to present day and I have just about managed to force myself to watch most of the first two seasons. I can’t quite bring myself to watch the rest of season two. I think I have 4 episodes left but I just really don’t care. It is unbelievably boring and ridiculous and I seriously hate Bauer’s daughter, but I digress I’m talking about the movie. I’m only saying about the TV show because when I put this movie on tonight, I was anticipating it being awful. I literally groaned out loud when it did the “the following takes place between … events occur in real time.”

Oh boy was I wrong. Oh was I wrong.

There was shouting at the TV. I have been known to do that before *cough* but it’s not something I do all the time – I have to be driven to it. I knew before I watched that Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle’s character) was going to die but I didn’t know how or when. So I was constantly jumping every time he was in danger, and I was practically chewing on my fingers because I was scared for those kids.

The anxiety was real. I think 24 would be much improved if they condensed each season into a movie. Although I don’t know if I would survive watching it. Anyway, leaving aside the incredible suspense how was it? Well there was obviously some setup being done for season seven, and as I don’t watch 24 I really didn’t care about anything except for the kids. So all the stuff in Washington was lost on me. I also found the ending kinda bittersweet because the kids made it – phew – but all those other desperate people were left behind, and all the kids already brainwashed into the army were suffering. So it didn’t exactly feel like much of a victory, especially because Carl was dead.

I hoped to see Carl being a badass because he was ex-special forces. However, his first encounter with bad guys was just the sound of gunshots – we didn’t see anything. The next ‘action’ scene for him, was him shooting rather uselessly at a helicopter. After that was his death scene. So unfortunately no cool scenes with him taking out bad guys, that honor was of course left for the hero – Jack Bauer. Couldn’t you have shared the limelight just once Jack? I wanted to see Carl being a hero.

So yeah the lack of Carl being a badass was disappointing. His screentime also wasn’t fantastic but then it wasn’t that bad either, and it was only an 80 minute movie. I think for Robert Carlyle fans I would recommend it (see opening gif for exhibit A) and yeah it’s a good suspense movie, so recommended on that basis as well. It was definitely a million times better than I thought it was going to be, it had to overcome a fair bit of negative expectations, so yeah not bad at all.

Ship rating: Fitzsimmons!

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vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell

My newest OTP! I think Rumbelle is #1 which is why I’ve striked out the top thing, because Rumbelle has to be in a league of it’s own, but man I really ship Fitzsimmons. Best friends to lovers, equal partners, science buddies – they both dove through holes in the universe for one another.

What’s actually incredible is that they are the main ship on Agents of Shield, which means all the characters ship them and there are so many amazing moments. This ship is an absolute gift. I just wish that a) I wasn’t 5 episodes behind the US and b) stop tearing Fitzsimmons apart! Honestly just let them be happy together for once!

Ask Me? Send me a ship and I’ll rate it

Ship rating: rumbelle (of course XD)

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vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell

OTP to end all OTP’s. Every variation, every combination, they are an OTP that keeps on giving. All the canon AU’s alone are incredible, and then there’s all the AU’s in the world that can be imagined. – “In a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”

Ask Me? Send me a ship and I’ll rate it

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Just rewatched The Bear King. Couldn’t resist, all the talk of BraveWarrior and RedWarrior made me want to and man it was just as brilliant as the first time.

Only problem is I now have 10x the urge to fic it!

Like what if there was no stupid third dark curse, and Ruby and Mulan went with Merida on her quest for justice against Arthur?

How about a modern day AU with Mulan and Ruby as bodyguards for the CEO of Dunbroch International? Or how about Mulan teaches a self-defense class and Merida takes it, then maybe there’s a tournament where they are going to fight as a duo, that takes coordination so they take Ruby’s dance class. I don’t know, my brain is just like fic these three! Doesn’t have to be OT3.

Could go back to when Mulan was teaching Merida to fight. A oneshot from those days, perhaps of that cliche ‘I knocked you over and now you’re on top of me and oh man your lips are so close and I accidentally kissed you’. Or AU with Mulan and Ruby, perhaps backpacking and they go travelling together, and then perhaps there’s a hotel with only one room – brain stop it!

RedWarrior, BraveWarrior … BraveRedWarrior.

Now I want to watch the episode again heh. They needed to be in more episodes! I need more source material! Can we have like a BraveRedWarrior spin-off or something? That would be cool!

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still-searching47:

Just throwing this out there because writing is hard.

I have a fic that I desperately need to finish. I AM going to finish it today. No ifs, no buts, no excuses. Maybe if it’s in black and white for the whole world to see, then it will actually happen.

Yeah I know 🙁 So much for NaNo giving me a boost that I could ride the tail of for a couple of months afterwards.

I need to be less wordy. I guesstimated I had maybe 3k left and yeah – nope, it’s probably more like twice that. Good news I made substantial progress. Bad news this fic still isn’t done. Shout-out to @little-inkstone and @worryinglyinnocent for helping me so much today. You guys are amazing!

#i’m really struggling and i don’t know why#where did my words go?#i need to learn to pick shorter projects i think

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jumpingpuddles:

Stargate Atlantis: Michael

Stargate asking the tough questions. I do ponder the moral implications sometimes, like is eradicating the wraith right because they are a species? They feed on humans because they have to, and saying they can’t is putting humans above them. There is no obvious solution because to change their nature would be to change them and that doesn’t seem right either. It’s an interesting dilemma and I’m not sure what the right answer is.

How did Between!Rumbelle meet? I know she was sent to marry him, but what was the set up? Did they meet at a party or a bar or someplace else? Did Belle ask him on their first date, or did she “trick” him into it?

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This was in the fic actually.

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~Flashback~
Twelve Years Ago

Gold grimaced at the loud music and the flashing lights. He hated visiting The Rabbit Hole, it wasn’t his kind of place at all. If he was going to a bar, he preferred somewhere quieter, where the pace wasn’t quite so frenetic. However, occasionally Jefferson liked Gold to deliver his credit payment in person and unfortunately Jefferson found it amusing to keep him waiting.

“Hit me again!” A young woman slammed her empty shot glass down onto the bar and stumbled heavily against Gold. “Oh sorry,” she mumbled. Her eyes raked him up and down, and she smirked. “Or perhaps not.”

“This one’s on me,” Gold instructed the barman, allowing his eyes to do some roving of their own.

The young woman was beautiful, scantily clad in a tight sequined blue dress which barely reached past the top of her thighs. Her chestnut hair was messily tied back, curls coming loose and tickling her neck. The dress matched her brilliant blue eyes and then there was that accent, Gold felt his mouth go dry.

“Lacey Beaumont,” Lacey offered, knocking back the shot he had just bought her. She winked at him. “Thanks for the drink.”

“Julian Gold, the pleasures all mine,” Gold murmured.

Lacey leaned against him, her hand tracing down his side until it reached his arse. She squeezed and laughed throatily. Gold swallowed hard, the air felt heavy, supercharged with all the sparks that were flying. Lacey’s eyes were bright and looking at him with obvious interest. This sort of thing didn’t usually happen to him, and for once Gold decided to just enjoy it.

Her hot breath ghosted over his neck, up to his ear, which she tugged on playfully with her teeth. Gold groaned and Lacey laughed again, pressing against him completely now. His arm wrapped round her loosely, so she could still pull back if she wished, his fingers falling tantalizingly close to her left breast.

“What do you say we get out of here?” Lacey whispered.

Gold’s eyes caught Jefferson’s to the back of the bar. Jefferson smirked and gave him a thumbs up, gesturing with his hand for him to leave.

“Why not indeed?” Gold smiled.

Lacey’s hand grabbed his and he allowed her to pull him out of the bar.

~Flashback~

That night at the bar, he had thought that she would just be a one-night stand. However, they kept falling into bed together. Without him really even noticing, they transitioned from ‘just sex’ to a real relationship. Lacey had changed too, her outfits became more demure and she shed her brash barfly personality.

Gold sipped his coffee, taking a deep breath and inhaling the reassuring smell. He remembered the day he had caught her reading on the e-Tab. She had been startled and tried to play it off as her being bored. However, he hadn’t bought it and they had wound up having a rousing discussion about books. Her previously hidden intelligence had completely entranced him.

If he was honest, he thought that was when he had truly fallen in love with her. He had been able to tell that she was hiding a lot but he had thought that she was just afraid. She had mentioned an ex-boyfriend once. Gold snorted, he had wanted to protect her, hold her close and keep her safe. He had showed her acceptance, waiting until she was ready. In turn, she showed him her warmth and her kindness.

He had fallen deeply in love. They had been happy. It had all been a lie.

Re-sending this ask since tumblr ate it. *side eyes tumblr* When did Between Two Fires!Belle fall in love with her husband? What were her feelings when she realized it?

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I’m sorry I have the attention span of a goldfish. When questions require thought I think that fatal thing of “I’ll have to do that later” and then oops.

The cardinal rule is “don’t fall for the mark” so Belle had no intention of falling in love with Julian Gold. She focused on all the disagreeable facts in his profile but it was difficult. She had to make him fall in love with her. So she couldn’t stoke the fires of negativity too much because on the surface she had to appear to like him, and unfortunately it was far too easy to like him.

He made her laugh, he listened to her, they could discuss anything; he didn’t dwarf her physically, she felt like she fit into his arms and what was scary is that she felt safe with him. When Belle realized that she wanted to run a mile because Gold was the enemy, she shouldn’t feel at home in his arms, but she had her assignment and she didn’t want to fail.

Was there a specific moment that made her fall in love? I don’t think so, I think it was a gradual thing until they were doing something perfectly innocuous one day, like a lazy Sunday watching movies or something, and it hit her like a thunderbolt. Belle panicked, ran to the bathroom, breathing like she’d run a marathon because she couldn’t love him, that broke the rule and it would complicate everything.

Then the little voice in the back of her head suggested it wasn’t such a bad thing, it would be easier to keep cover if it wasn’t a lie. However, Belle could never really relax and enjoy her life because she always had a ticking clock in her head. She knew that their happiness – being together, couldn’t last and that one day she would lose him. Sometimes she kissed him a bit too desperately, or hugged him too tightly. Belle told him that she loved him every day because she wanted him to know, and to maybe believe deep down, even though she knew she was going to break his heart.

Always remember that I love you…