Hey Santa *waves*

I will try and answer your questions. Hopefully the answers will be ok. I want to help you if I can but I don’t want to box you in, so please like I said last time take what you like from my ramblings, ignore what you don’t. What I want most is for you to have fun 🙂

I would up writing probably far more than I should and I am sorry for that. I was trying to answer your questions and I rambled on.

What I love on the show, what characters I love
Regina is my second favorite character, after Rumple. I know she isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, although I suppose in an AU her crimes against Belle wouldn’t be a factor. I like her snark and the half friends/half enemies thing she has with Rumple. They can verbally spar with one another and still be friends. In my headcanon they understand one another and respect each other and that doesn’t change whether for the moment they are working together, or against one another.

I don’t really dislike any character on the show. I have my clear favorites (Rumple and Regina) but I think everyone has their place. One of my frequent comments when I discovered the show was that each episode should be 3 hours long so everyone had enough screentime. I don’t begrudge screentime to anyone, I just want more of it to go around.

I don’t root for all the characters, there is some ‘love to hate’ because some characters are watchable but I despise their actions e.g. Zelena. She really should have stayed dead at the end of season three because there is no way to keep her around as a villain, it makes the heroes look inept, so they have wrecked her with this instant-redemption and now she isn’t the same character. It’s a bit like why bother? Some things are good but aren’t supposed to last. Zelena was a very watchable villain, genre savvy, fun lines etc. but she should have faced justice for killing Neal and for what she did to Rumple etc.

Generally I think season five didn’t do any of the characters any favors and actually to a slightly lesser extent season four. I don’t think I will ever forgive the show for the author plotline, I hate that concept more than anything else that the writers have concocted.

I like Neal and the estranged son angle, well I don’t like it because it’s sad but I like the motivation and layers it gives Rumples character. His death on the show has to be one of the most tragic TV deaths ever. I really wish he hadn’t died, or that they could have brought him back. It seems Rumple was more prophetic than he knew with his chilling “no more happy endings” because the right ending would have been a reconciliation, as time-consuming and difficult as it would have been with so many years of pain to overcome. No father should outlive their son, especially if their son died for them. I suppose that is what made it so tragic but quite how Rumple managed to go on afterwards, well him going a bit nuts with the mat seems quite restrained really.

I also like the idea of the Rumple and Henry grandfather and grandson relationship. We haven’t got to see that on the show really but they are family and family is what matters most to Rumple in my opinion, it’s his reason for everything. Although this would be a bit of a trick to include in an AU because of the age issue.

I have always thought that Rumple was probably early-forties when he became the dark one and got ‘frozen’. So if he’s early-forties then having a 10 year old grandson (Henry’s season 1 age) would be technically possible I suppose but not likely. I head canon Belle to be in her mid-twenties, so there’s about 15 years between them (no more than that) but you can do what you want of course.

Maybe Henry could be no blood relation, just Regina’s adopted son and Rumple is very fond of him? I do like the Regina and Henry relationship too. I’ve kind of left the Charmings out of this list, I don’t dislike them, they just aren’t as important to me I guess. Especially lately their hypocrisy, and their prejudices and their unwillingness to take responsibility for their own actions have really irritated me. They aren’t heroes, they just take care of their own, which I don’t blame them for but I wish they wouldn’t claim it was a more noble purpose than that.

What do I love most about Rumbelle?
“No one, no one, could ever, ever love me”
“You’re not a monster.”
“You were lonely, any man would be lonely”

He thinks he’s unlovable. He has put up walls and pushed everyone away. He believes that everyone will leave him, he think’s it is his fault. He has really low self esteem, he has bad self-loathing and then Belle is like a dream. She gives him faith in himself because she can see him for who he is, she can see his actions for what they are and not the negative light he casts on everything. She knows he’s not perfect, she knew him before she jumped in and loves him anyway.

It’s not one sided either because he gives Belle what she needs. He gives her respect, he lets make her own choices, “no one decides my fate but me”. He values her mind, her intelligence, her bravery, all aspects of her that everyone else wished she didn’t have because that didn’t fit the role that she was supposed to play. He lets Belle be herself and he loves her for it.

True their relationship on the show isn’t perfect because Belle has a bad habit of emotionally blackmailing him. I don’t think she realizes that she is doing it, saying that if he does what she wants then they “can be together.” and don’t think I’m blaming Belle because it’s not one-sided. Rumple does things he knows is wrong because he isn’t used to having to please anyone but him. He thinks he can have it all and has forgotten how to compromise.

Partly could blame the curse because having that darkness chewing on you has to have an effect but I am a big believer that people should take responsibility for their own actions. Rumple might be more prone to “being a man who makes wrong choices” because of the dark one but he is capable of making the choice. At least he can now, I think maybe at first when he took the curse it had more hold of him but I think he learned over the years to control it. It might give him a slight impulse control issue but he still knows right from wrong.

Also, Rumple is terrified of being anything less than perfect and doesn’t realize that Belle doesn’t need him to be perfect, she just needs him to be honest. He always thinks that he isn’t enough, perhaps because he struggles to understand what she sees in him. In his mind she is easy to love but who would love him? He doesn’t want to confide in her because he doesn’t want her to think him weak. Belle walks out to get space and that feeds his fear that she will leave him if he’s not perfect (abandonment issues) and the cycle just continues. Those two really need to learn to communicate.

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Again, I’m sorry if I wrote too much. I hope I answered your questions. Just use what you would like and ignore the rest. I know I keep saying that but I really mean it.

You haven’t said but if I am allowed to specify, considering it’s an AU and his name will be Gold not Rumple .. could Rumple be Nicholas Gold? That’s just what I headcanon for him (likely because I love Rush off SGU) and yeah. You can use a different name if you want. Please, do whatever you wish. I just thought I would drop this in here and then you can choose. I really don’t want to annoy you.

Anyway, again I hope this is all ok and please just have fun. I know I keep saying that too but I really do mean it. Fun is the priority.

mrgoldsdearie:

dr-rushs-glasses:

whitesheepcbd:

Belle fans….need opinions. For science. Actually, for a fic. For fic science.

Belle & Ariel are having a sleepover, trying to imitate what little Belle knows about the kind of slumber party that teenage girls are likely to have, including watching some sort of chick flick. Which movie should they watch? Preferably something with a sex scene (doesn’t have to be explicit, can be making out on bed & lights out) because the movie leads to the reveal that Ariel doesn’t know much about how humans have sex. 

Which movie should they watch?

Boost

Jawbreaker.

How about a classic? Something super old like ‘What Women Want’. It’s on netflix or it could even be on VHS in the library if the curse updated the catalog. There’s also Pretty Woman, another classic.

The Wedding Date, that’s another that has the kind of sex scene you are talking about.

Can you tell I don’t really watch romantic comedies? I know very little about them.

How are they watching anyway? That would probably change what they watched. Did Belle order dvds off Amazon? Did she borrow it from Ruby? Have they got netflix? Am I now overthinking this? Probably. I just like to help, your fic sounds good!

ETA: Bridget Jones Diary, how could I forget that one?

Ooooh yay, hello *waves*

I’m glad you like the prompt 🙂 Now I don’t want to box you in, I want you to write whatever you feel inspired to write and above all have as much fun as possible. So please, feel free to ignore anything I say.

With that being said. I was imagining a complete AU. I had in mind that movie Fools Gold. Not for the plot really, just the visuals because sweet merlin that yacht was amazing looking. It was huge, it had staff quarters for crying out loud and jacuzzi’s and those jet ski things. It was the best looking boat ever and I have two copies of this movie, one for at home and one for when I lived away because it is just so shiny.

I was sort of picturing Gold as the rich guy who owns the yacht and Belle as someone working on his boat, who loves books and history and reads about this treasure and he has a crush on her and so they go treasure hunting. Obviously because it’s a treasure hunt, there’s some competition for it and they fall in love because it’s Rumbelle and I don’t know, something like that.

Basically, though honestly do whatever you would like. You said you have ideas and I love that. I want you to have fun. Fun is definitely the main goal here.

I hope that this is an acceptable response. I’ve not done any event like this ever before. RCIJ and prompts and everything is all new to me so I don’t want to do it wrong.

Have a great day! 🙂

P.S. I will be tagging my replies to you – RCIJ Santa Reply.

witchnova221:

Just sent in my sign up for my first @rumbellechristmasinjuly and I am soooooo excited!!

Me too! You are not alone 🙂

I sent mine in yesterday and it is mega exciting. Kinda scary too, it’s my first official fanfic event ever. I did Rumbelle is Hope but that was kinda more casual. Have you done other events?

emospritelet:

wizzygold:

emospritelet:

witchnova221:

Just sent in my sign up for my first @rumbellechristmasinjuly and I am soooooo excited!!

Yes, I signed up too!

I wanna but I don’t have a prompt 🙁 I suck at these x’D

I just went with something really general that could be interpreted in a number of ways

@wizzygold Didn’t it say in the FAQ – or signup post – or some post I’ve seen – that if you had trouble thinking of a prompt then the mods would help you? I think if you want to join in then it would be a shame not to, for lack of prompt.

evilsnowswan:

still-searching47:

evilsnowswan:

Rewatching one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. For some reason we never owned it, so I really only saw it a couple of times when it was on TV. It’s even cuter than what I remembered and my muse is running rampant. I can’t write the thing, but with RCIJ upon us, I might just go prompt it. It would work so well! (So well in fact, that I’m wondering if it has been done already and I just missed it??)

Anyway, I wouldn’t want a retelling of the movie blow-by-blow, obviously … just, you know, a rumbelled retelling of the gist/feel of it … but still… is prompting movie AUs a bad thing to do? Do people hate prompts like that? Like, I never know how specific to make my prompts… but then they often end up being super vague instead and that can be hard, too.

*takes deep breath* *stops rambling*

So, what I wanted to know is: 

Say you got prompted a Movie AU for RCIJ (or RSS), would that be good with you or more on the meh :/ side of things?

(I really want this AU, but I don’t want to be the one to write it – then it never gets done – however, I also don’t want to annoy anyone by backing them into a corner & making them write it for me, so … ???) 

I think it would be fine, though I know nothing because I’ve never participated in one of these events before and I’m new to the fandom. I’m basically just replying because a) I do personally think it’s ok and b) you have me really curious as to what the movie is now, like seriously curious. If you decide not to prompt it can you please share because I want to know.

Anyway, personally I wouldn’t hate a prompt like that. Well actually that depends on how exact it had to be but you said the general gist/feel, so I think that’s cool.

*waves* Hi there 🙂 And welcome. Love seeing new faces round here. So, you’re gonna participate this time round then? Or was that more of a general statement? 

I’d never prompt/write/read an exact retelling of an existing story/movie … how lame would that be? Just, the movie’s themes *would* go extremely well with Rumbelle … or Golden Lace. 

And should I decide not to prompt it after all, my muse will make me write it myself, so you are going find out one way or another, sooner or later (if I’m writing it, it will be *later* … much, much later…)

Hi and thanks *waves back*

Yes I am planning on participating. I’m a bit nervous. I joined tumblr just in time for Rumbelle is Hope but that was more freeform than this.

I’ve never really written to a prompt before. Still it should be be fun and a really good creative challenge. I’m looking forward to it 🙂

@rumbelleishope I’m looking for Rumbelle fluff prompts for the Rumbelle is hope event. I don’t write smut, even if I confess to reading it, so no smut prompts please.

Thanks to woodelf68 for explaining how to do this.