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Oh sweet merlin. I’m writing the final chapter of Fall All Over Again so I have the transcript of 2.15 The Queen is Dead open and wow, seeing this in black and white really hits home.

Emma: Here’s the thing. You’re dying. And right now, we are your best hope. Time’s come for you to start trusting someone. And, if I were you, I’d start with family.

So Rumple tells her where he’s hidden the dagger. I’m doing something different in the fic because I always thought that was stupid. Cora would never have found it, if they hadn’t led her to it, and Rumple is smart enough to know that Snow and David would fold if Cora threatened people’s lives. However, that’s beside the point. The point is that Rumple trusted Emma exactly how she asked. She said that they were family, which they were through the newly discovered relationship with Henry. So Rumple took a chance and trusted her with his very soul.

David: It’s here! A clever hiding place for a very clever man.

Snow: We did it.

David: The Dark One finally can be controlled.

What really hurts me actually is that it’s David that says it. I’ve always thought better of him, and perhaps my memories are skewed because black and white doesn’t lie. The very first thought they have upon laying hands on the dagger, isn’t that they have saved the dagger from Cora. It’s not that they have the dagger now, and they can give it to Rumple when he gets back because it belongs to him.

No, their very first thought is that they can now control him, like he’s not even human. They’ve just learned he’s their co-grandparent for crying out loud. They accept Regina as family and she tried to kill them countless times (and I say that as a Regina fan). Really what has Rumple done to them at this point? Helped them at least a dozen times, but had the audacity not to do it for free? Honestly I’m sickened. Well I was driven to write this post. My jaw dropped reading that in the transcript. I guess I’d forgotten, I haven’t seen the episode in getting on for two years probably.

Rumple reached out, he trusted them and look what they did! I’m appalled.

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Does anyone else get scared when you really love an idea, but you can’t write it for a while because reasons, that when you finally sit down to write it that it won’t be shiny anymore and the love will be gone? I think this is a “too many ideas” problem heh, it takes too long to do anything.

I have a prompt for you for the AO3 “sensual bowling” tag. Perhaps young Bae/Neal wants to have a bowling party for this birthday and so he doesn’t embarrass his son by not knowing how to bowl, Rumple goes to the lanes after hours (perhaps he owns the building) so he can practice. Maybe Belle is there because she is part of bowling league or she works there part time to help her father with the bills. Belle teaches Rum to bowl and …. ;) You can take it from there!

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thatravenclawbitch:

Who wants to take one for the team and write the Rumbelle bowling smut???

Considering I just wrote three paragraphs exploring how this might work *raises hand reluctantly* I’ll add it to the list. Hopefully American bowling alleys and British ones aren’t that different. Anyone object if I make it GoldenLace?

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@leni-ba replied to your post “A Little Insurance”

I LOVED IT!!!
I mean, teen!Gideon is one of my fav new things in this fandom, and him entertaining a much younger sister made me grin so much. Honestly, it reminded me of myself and my older cousin, with the ten year difference.

Yes. One-sided tickling wars were a thing. /for the record, he’ll still tickle me thirty years later. lol)

Curious Rumple made me smile. I do love to think that his imprisonment was a farce, and I especially love the thought that this – your story – is a real world. with real people whose consciousness is just not in the driver’s seat.

I was happy to hear that he and Bae had reconciled at last, and I thought it made sense that Rumple (subconsciously?) had waited to have more children until he’d made peace with the first.

And awww, of course he’d wish for a world where Bae was happy. Aw.

Beautiful story! 

Yay! I’m so glad you liked it 🙂 I’m relieved that you felt that Gideon and Nadia were realistic – and thank you for the anecdote – my experience with kids is limited so I’m never sure if I’m getting it right. Yeah well Rumple once promised to not love anything or anyone until he found Bae. He broke that by loving Belle but his life was still very much on hold.

Well if it isn’t a real world then there are no stakes. Fake people don’t matter, plus I liked the idea that genie magic had limitations. Heh I think I wrote both of these wish!world oneshots out of spite. I like to think of ways to twist it to make for a Rumbelle happy ending 🙂 Thank for your lovely comment!

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Question – does anyone else bribe themselves to write fic, with the bribe being writing a different fic? Just wondering if that’s as weird as it sounds.

I have my list you see, because I have to do things in the order they are due whether I like it or not. Right now I’m working on my fourth (and last) Monthly Rumbelling fic for this month, and after that I have outstanding prompts for The Price We Pay, and then I should write updates for Fall All Over Again and Under My Skin. Painting Layers of Love Chapter Nine is with my beta 🙂

The reward I’m offering myself for doing these things is writing the Rushbelle fic I am desperate to write for Rumbelle Order in the Court. It is a literal bribe. I’m coaxing myself to keep on writing rather than go and relax and watch TV, by saying the sooner I finish my list, the sooner I can get to the Rushbelle fic. Please tell me I’m not the only one that does this /cringes.

whitesheepcbd replied to your post “Question – does anyone else bribe themselves to write fic, with the…”

I don’t bribe myself that way, but with other things, yes. But I say, do whatever works for you!

You see this is what I mean. Bribing yourself with something else is very normal. I used to bribe myself with TV, or video games, or sometimes the nicest icecream in the world. I didn’t do the last one that often because icecreams not a healthy thing to eat, but yeah I bribed myself with other stuff.

It just struck me earlier when I was coaxing myself to keep writing, that I’ve gone pretty far down the rabbit hole if I’m using writing to bribe myself to write.

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#i was hoping that it wasn’t just me but i think it might be ooops#i would have used a gif of eliot from leverage going there’s something very wrong with you but i couldn’t find one

*TACKLES WITH ZOOKEEPING HUGS* That’s brilliant, thanks! I was having a terrible time making a nice balance between both series’, but that’s perfect! Oh, and yes, Belle is totally shape-shifting. I had this book when I was younger that was all about dragons, (dragons were to me what other little girls saw in unicorns,) and most of the stories involved shape-shifting, so that was in the plan from the start. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to refine some plans! *swishes away*

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*tackles with Rumbelle hugs back*

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Dragons are very cool and I’m really pleased to hear that it’s a good creature for you. I’m glad I helped a bit 🙂 Hope you have a good day!

Your Zookeeper is in need of guidance. *restrains muse* So far all roads are leading to an Enchanted Forest AU, and so far I’m liking the idea that dragon!Belle is protecting some great treasure thingie from certain men in the King’s Navy that are “just following orders” to bring it back. This could mean Rush is their prickly astronomer-turned-navigator, who has no stake in treasure hunting so he just hangs around eyeing the sky and star-gazing. Thoughts?

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Heya *waves*

Nice to hear from you! I hope you are well and are having a good week.

I have to be honest I’m not that keen on an Enchanted Forest AU because where is the line drawn then between Rush and an AU Rumple? Does that make sense? I think the line could get real blurry there. However, if that is what your muse wishes to run with then I’m sure that would be fantastic. Like I said before I’d much rather you write something you want, than try and force something you aren’t interested in.

Also just checking dragon!Belle is a shapeshifter right? She’s going to be human at least some of the time yeah? Anyway, I think the basic plot is cool. How about set it in space? So the planet that Belle’s on, where she’s guarding the treasure, is just like the Enchanted Forest. The thing that makes it more Rush, is that the ship is a spaceship. If they are usually equipped with energy weapons, you could have an EM field rendering them useless so they had to break out swords.

If all the action takes place planet-side, it wouldn’t really change anything, it would just be an adjustment to the background details, maybe alter language used or attitudes a little, nothing major. It’s just a thought. It’s completely up to you of course. I want you to have fun with whatever you write!

What MCU pairing do you want to rumbelle? :D

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Well the pairing I had in my head was Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.

Tony is brilliant, the best at what he does, just like Rumple. Tony is dependant upon his tech, his suits, like Rumple depends on his magic. They are both the richest men in town. Tony struggles with the shrapnel injury and needs the arc reactor. Rumple struggles with his limp which his magic heals.

There are other similarities too like they both have trouble letting go of guilt, their responsibilities weigh heavily on them – “I have to protect the one thing I can’t live without.” and they both have self-destructive tendencies. Obviously there are many differences as well but I can see Rumple in Tony. The bitter sarcasm, the mask to keep people at a distance etc.

Pepper runs the company, she is brilliant and formidable in her own right and she’s not afraid to call Tony out on his shit. Sound familiar? When I think of Pepper trying to get Tony to eat and sleep when he’s been pulling all-nighters I think to myself “I bet Belle had to do that at the Dark Castle.” Pepper was never just an assistant, she was always Tony’s partner because she balances him – they are equals. It’s the same with Rumbelle.

So yeah if I was going to do an MCU AU I would make Rumple Iron Man heh 🙂

Another Second Chance!Belle — How did you know how to make a sleeping potion? Did Rumple teach you, or did you learn from a book? Were you afraid to do it? Afraid you might never wake up?

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Rumple never taught me the sleeping curse specifically but I had helped him with various potions before, so I knew my way around his workroom and what books to look in for the instructions.

Truthfully I was more afraid not to do it. Something had obviously gone dreadfully wrong and I had no idea how long I would be trapped in the Dark Castle alone. Rumple blames himself for that but it wasn’t his fault, we both agreed to the stronger wards. I was afraid of the isolation, I was afraid if I didn’t find a way to “stop time” then I wouldn’t be around when Rumple returned.

The one thing I wasn’t afraid of was never waking up. I knew that one day Rumple would return, and I knew that he would wake me. It could have been a thousand years but I knew it would happen because Rumple can only be killed by the dagger. He was always going to return one day.

*laughs* or were you really asking whether I doubted our true love? No I never doubted that, I could never doubt that.

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leni-ba replied to your post “Another Second Chance”

Aw, this is perfect! I love the bit of identity crisis wish!Rumple has, but he’s right. Just because other people say he isn’t real, doesn’t mean anything at all.

Now this is a scenario where I can believe Belle would choose a sleeping potion. Whee! Thanks for that. 🙂

Wonderful, wonderful, can’t wait to see what these two make of themselves in this world. 🙂

I read a fic once, it was actually a Harry Potter fic in which Harry had crossed realities and one line stuck with me. it’s from a Stranger in the Promised Land, which was never finished, a real shame because it was really good.

“The world is what you make of it. I could argue that you aren’t real and aren’t worth my time and help, or I could decide that you are a good person in very harsh circumstances who might need help.”

In this particular wish!world AU I kinda looked at it like that. From Regina and Emma’s perspective, nobody is real, so whether they are or not is immaterial to us because we see things through the lens of the main characters. They aren’t real to Emma and Regina so they aren’t real. However, to the actual wish!world inhabitants they have all the memories and thoughts and feelings of a real person. They are real, even if as I said in the fic “If
it was the blink of an eye of a wish, didn’t make their lives any less.”

I don’t know if that makes sense. It’s all about point of view I guess. Yup I liked the symmetry of Belle choosing a sleeping curse but for very different reasons. I’m so glad you enjoyed the fic! Thank you so much for such a wonderful comment 🙂