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From the Writing Ask Meme: 5 and 7

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I have a lot of writing ask memes in that tag heh. I hope I picked the right one! I’m fairly certain I did because it was a title match but if I got it wrong, then feel free to ask again 🙂

5) Do you think stories can change lives? Is there a story that has changed yours?

Yes I do think stories can change lives. Sometimes in big ways because by identifying with characters or situations people can have revelations about themselves. They can finally understand something they’d been feeling for a while, they can realize that they aren’t alone etc. It can be in smaller ways as well, for instance letting people escape reality for a better world for a little while. Giving them hope by letting them see that the bad guys can be defeated, or that somebody in a bad situation can get into a better one.

Stories can change lives in a lot of ways. What I’ve just said is only a fraction of the ways I believe it’s possible. Has a particular story changed my life? Yeah I think so. Certain stories or fictional worlds have come into my life when I needed them. I’ve drawn comfort from them, I’ve drawn inspiration. Plus it’s a story – Once Upon a Time – that has led me to this fandom. I’ll always be grateful for that.

7) Do you listen to music while you write/read?
I listen to music all the time. Unless I’m watching TV or with other people, then music is playing. I need it because music is a consistent sound and it normalizes the background, taking away the unexpected. I wouldn’t say I’m strictly listening to music all the time. Sometimes I pay attention to the songs but mostly it just helps keep me calm. So yeah I listen to music when writing/reading, it helps with the focus. Otherwise I’m constantly jumping at every slight bump or sound of conversation. My bio is accurate! I never go anywhere without my iPod 🙂

Marina!Belle and Gold: Has Neal warmed up to your relationship yet?

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Gold: *coughs*

Belle: Given how … against our relationship Neal and Emma were, I wasn’t expecting acceptance any time soon. However, I spoke with Emma when we were at the cabin and …

Gold: *groans* did you get the ‘talk’ as well? I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve been that embarrassed.

Belle: The talk? Neal asked you about children?

Gold: He said it was clear that we were in love …

Belle: Yes Emma said the same.

Gold: He thought it was something we should discuss before we got married. *looks pained* apparently he’s just waiting on the date before arranging the bachelor party. He’s enjoying this way too much.

Belle: *sniggers* Sorry darling. You know strippers are often a feature of bachelor parties and hen nights. How about you tell Neal and I’ll tell Ruby that we’re arranging a private show of our own? That should put a stop to any of their more wilder ideas.

Gold: Excellent idea sweetheart. How about we … practice right now?

Fall All Over Again!Belle – do you still believe trading a life for a life was a fair deal?

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I really want to say no. The right answer is to say that it was wrong, that murder is always wrong, but if I say that then it’s like saying I think Rumple should have died and I just can’t. It was a horrible situation and what’s done is done, it can’t be changed.

Cora was dangerous, and she’d done terrible things and hurt a lot of people, but then I hate that argument because the same could be said for Rumple. It would have been a whole lot more convenient for everyone if Hook had made it back to Storybrooke. He’d tried to kill Rumple, he’d tried to kill me, so using him as the sacrifice for the candle would have been appropriate.

Truthfully my biggest regret is that I didn’t do it myself. What I find most horrifying is that Mary Margaret tricked Regina into killing her own mother. I know logically that it’s likely that neither myself or Mary Margaret could have got close enough to Cora to put her heart back in her chest. I know that Regina was called back to her vault, due to Mary Margaret’s intrusion, and would have stopped it if Mary Margaret hadn’t lied. None of that makes it right.

Rumple won’t tell me much, he says it’s not his story to tell, but Regina obviously had a complicated relationship with her mother. Now there’s no chance of it ever being resolved, and … I know Regina once tried to kill her mother but there’s a big difference between choosing to do something, and being tricked into it. I feel bad for her, and I feel guilty because I’m so relieved that Rumple’s still here with me. I can’t imagine life without him.

Hey! Great job on Fall All Over Again. I read the end today and it did not disappoint! What are you working on/thinking through?

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Awww thank you! *hugs you* that’s really kind. I’m so glad you liked it!

I have so many ideas it’s crazy. Right now I obviously have my three active projects. The two WIP’s – Painting Layers of Love and Under My Skin; and the prompt verse The Price We Pay which has 5 prompts still to be filled. However, you already know about those so that’s not that interesting.

So what is up next? Honestly even if I just talk about event fics for the next couple of months we’re getting into double digits. I have nearly another dozen ideas I’m itching to dive into on top of that and I haven’t picked my “next big project” out of that list yet. It’s hard to choose because I love all the ideas. Heh reading down the ideas list trying to pick just a couple to talk about is making it even harder.

Oooh I know, I’ll just write a list with the working titles I have which should get across the basic premise.

  • Divorce and Escorts
  • Lachacy Community Service
  • Cops and Prosecutors
  • Rushbelle Marriage of Convenience (already written this one)
  • May Day Menagerie fic (super secret due to anonymous rules)
  • GoldenLace Bonnie and Clyde
  • The Winning Bid
  • Secret Agent AU
  • Nightwalkers (There has been a murder in Storybrooke)
  • GoldenLace Enchanted Bowl (from the bowling prompt I just adopted)
  • Once Upon a Lifetime sequel
  • From the prompt ‘Please don’t make me socialize’ (Single mom Belle)
  • Rushacy University
  • Rule Number Three (Enchanted Forest AU)
  • Ripple Effect (Rushbelle AU)
  • + 5 April Monthly Rumbelling ideas

The top four are for Rumbelle Order in the Court so I have until the deadline of April 11th to work on the remaining three, and obviously it’s May 1st for the May Day Menagerie. As for everything else? I don’t know how to choose.

PLOL Belle: (sorry if this has been asked before) but would you consider having Nick sit for you and paint him? I think it would be perfect.

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*blushes furiously* I … I might … I might have sort of already … I could never show him! I know that he’s always been so nice about my paintings. When he showed me *shivers* well I now know that I’m painting what I intend. However, everything else that I’ve painted I saw before the accident. All I have is how Nick’s face felt, when he let me map his features with my hands. What if I got it horribly wrong? I don’t want to offend him …

(OOC: Don’t worry 🙂 Gold will see that painting one day)

PLL!Belle – Would you let Nick watch you paint now that you know he isn’t lying about your art?

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Oh Nick wouldn’t want to do that. I’m sure that would be really boring for him. I know I would only make a mess of whatever I was trying to paint, I’d be so self-conscious. Besides my art is private, especially the unfinished pieces.

(OOC: I’m going to have to make this happen now!)

OTP – Jefferson

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And back to Once 🙂 Heh. This has been fun! Thank you for all the asks 🙂

OTP: To be honest if it would have kept Jefferson as a character around on the show, I would have shipped him with his hat. In terms of an actual ship I’m not sure. We didn’t really see him interact with very many people. Ok this is weird because I am definitely 110% a Swanfire shipper, and I know drugging her tea/kidnapping her was a terrible beginning, but I think I would have to say Emma.

They could bond over their kids and making hard choices to give them their best chance. I think Jefferson would bring Emma out of herself a little and make her laugh, and she would bring him back to Earth when he got too flamboyant. Jefferson was wounded by his twenty-eight years in cursed!Storybrooke and Emma had her demons as well.

BrOTP: Such a fic answer but Rumple 🙂 Again they would bond over their kids, I always like reading them as friends.

OT3: Not sure but given what I said about Emma, and of course being a Swanfire shipper, I might be willing to see what Jefferson/Emma/Neal looked like.

NoTP: Regina. After what she did to him, absolutely no way.

OTP Ask Game

Chloe Armstrong

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OTP: To be honest I don’t think there was anyone on Destiny who was suitable. That could be because Chloe was so inconsistent as a character. Sometimes she was alright, but sometimes she was whiny and I can’t ship anyone with whiny. I know she was pretty settled with Scott on the show but I don’t think he was good enough for her. Oh, he’d charge blindly into danger to save her but I don’t think he was good at the whole supportive relationship thing. So yeah don’t have one.

BrOTP: Eli for sure. I know Eli wanted more but Chloe never saw him as anything more than a friend, so I could never ship the two of them, they only worked as friends.

OT3: Don’t have one.

NoTP: I think the problem with Chloe is I don’t feel strongly enough about her to really care. I guess if I would say anything then probably Chloe/Rush (even though I’ve read Worry’s fics. Worry’s a good writer and they had Rush in ok) because I like Rush, and I’m only ever lukewarm about Chloe on a good day.

OTP Ask Game

Colonel Young :p

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Urk you know I said Grissom wasn’t the best character? I said that because I didn’t ship him with anyone really so I thought my answers would be rubbish. Young I loathe. So I’m just going to be really sarcastic here, I’m sorry.

OTP: Young and his ego, there’s no room for anything else.

BrOTP: Young and any of the yes men that tell him he’s a good commander and a hero, when he’s actually an incompetent idiot, a disgrace to the uniform and a murderer.

OT3: Well I don’t know, I might enjoy watching Young take his ego for a little walk in the vacuum of space.

NoTP: Young and everyone else. Young and my television screen.

Honestly I don’t generally loathe characters because once I can understand them, and why they do things, I can’t hate them for it. Young is literally the only character that I out and out despise. I have never shouted so loud at the TV than I did when Young left Rush behind on the planet in Justice. I could rant about that, and how it went against everything the SGC stood for, all day. In fact I did, I was so mad I went and wrote a 5k blog post immediately afterwards because I had to scream at something.

I’m going to shut up now. Sorry for the ranting.

OTP Ask Game

Grissom :)

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Wow non-Once cool! 🙂 You know I was just thinking I should rewatch some CSI the other day. I haven’t seen it in ages. Got to be honest Grissom isn’t really the best character to pick for me, so I hope these answers don’t disappoint.

OTP: Grissom and Work. Oh I know, the proper answer is Sara and yeah I know they loved each other but I never shipped them.

BrOTP: Catherine or Brass, hard to choose between them. I think Catherine at the end of the day. She always had his back, from saving his life in the season one finale, to doing his paperwork.

OT3: Don’t have one.

NoTP: Catherine, it’s a bit of a theme with me I guess. If I like them as a BrOTP then they are a NoTP because I just can’t see it as romantic.

OTP Ask Game