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I’ve finished my Rumbelle is Hope drawing, well finished it to the best of my ability anyway. That’s a relief because I’m getting sick. Why can’t I get more than a few hours notice about when I’m going to be ill? Honestly my to do list is crazy long and I’m already feeling grotty. It’s likely just going to be a cold and so I shouldn’t grumble but it still sucks, it just saps all my energy.

Earlier I was writing some Rushbelle, I hoped to have it posted on Friday but that might not be happening. It’s going to be a long oneshot and I still have a lot to write. You know what the hardest part about writing Rushbelle is – the science babble. This is from what I was working on earlier:

“One last question Doctor Rush,” the
assistant organizer said soothingly, eyeing him warily.

“INSERT INTELLIGENT SOUNDING MATHS
QUESTION.”


“Well
… you see erm … the INSERT INTELLIGENT RESPONSE,” Rush stammered.

I did alright at maths in school but I only took it to GCSE, that would be probably junior high for the Americans? I was 16 anyway and that was a decade ago, so I’ve forgotten a lot and I never knew advanced stuff. Actually I take it back, the other really hard thing about writing Rushbelle is how snarky/insulting Rush is because I don’t know how to insult people’s intelligence, it’s not like I’ve ever had to do that.

I have five upcoming Rushbelle fics I think, that are in various stages of progress. So I hope that I find a way round these problems, or I’m going to have a lot of *insert something sensible* littered throughout the fic 🙂

anneelliotscat replied to your post:I’ve finished my Rumbelle is Hope drawing, well…

I can supply your math needs… What kind of science is he working on? The maths might even make a little sense!

Erm *cringes* deciding that would probably be a good start wouldn’t it?

Heh I just found the advanced applied mathematics journal and yikes, I think I need a dictionary and that’s just for the titles. I have no idea what any of that means. You know I watched every episode of Numb3rs, I really liked that show but Charlie always did cute little analogies, rather than explaining what the squiggles on the board meant.

Basically I just want it to sound good. It’s not an attack on his work either, it’s just an intelligent question that shows she was paying attention. Although I do have another fic where she points out an error, I think I just made some vague statement about reversing the conditions there.

Anyway, sorry I’m not being helpful and you are being wonderful. I really don’t know what he would be working on. This is pre-stargate program, but it makes him look like a good recruit (spoiler alert, he gets recruited at the end of the fic) so something space related maybe?

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anneelliotscat replied to your post:I’ve finished…

Okay. Do you need actual equations or just technobabble? I’m sure they used lots of “Monte Carlo Method” while solving the gate puzzles. Also “frequency analysis”. “Polynomial methods” would not be helpful; but “Galois theory”, and “abstract algebra” would. You could have them argue about whether “field theory” or “group theory” would apply. I don’t think the Riemann Theorem would be helpful, but Wiles’ Proof of Fermat’s Theorem would be. And, of course, everyone is always talking about algorithms (usually about which one is better / more efficient / more elegant) and transformations.Particularly when things are getting laid across multiple dimensions. Hope this helps.

Technobabble and *jaw drops* wowzer – wow, I’m speechless. That is just wow, so impressive. You are my hero! I’m going to tag this post so I can find it repeatedly, no scratch that I’m going to copy it out into a notepad file and keep it in my Rushbelle folder. Thank you so much! Seriously you are a superstar 🙂

Painting Layers Belle: A sort of odd question, but how do you read your books? Do you prefer braille or audio books? Also, what is your favorite book?

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I prefer braille if I can get it. There’s something about the feel of paper beneath my fingers, and the reassuring weight of the book. However, audio is more widely available, especially with digital books because even if an audio version isn’t available, there are programs that can read the text.

Asking a book lover what is their favorite book, is like asking someone to choose between dozens of things they love equally. All books are different, and they suit different moods. When I’m sad I like to re-read happy books, where nothing really bad happens and it all ends well.

The rest of the time my taste is fairly eclectic, I adore the classics of course, but all books are valid. I’ve just finished a sci-fi series where a group of people were stuck onboard a very old alien spaceship. Next on my ‘to read’ list is a fairytale adaptation crossing between their world, and modern day. It sounds fascinating.

#so it was hard to know what to say because no book titles really came to mind sorry#this was a hard question because I’m not Belle and I love to write but I’m not much of a reader these days (I know that’s bad)

Transposing Digits (Chapter Five)

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Synopsis: The phone in the library had always been silent, until one day it started ringing. Belle French answers it and discovers that life really can turn on a dime – or in this case a wrong number.

Note: I’m not very good at sitting on fic and this is fluffy. I was going to post it tomorrow and sit on the last chapter of Faith of the Heart in case I couldn’t finish my Rumbelle is Hope thing. However, it looks like I will finish it so enjoy all the fluff! 🙂

On Tumblr: Chapters One, Two (Part One), Two (Part Two), Three, Four

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David Nolan
whistled softly to himself as he slammed the door to his truck. He jogged up
the path to the pink Victorian that his daughters best friend called home. He
rang the bell and checked his watch, he was slightly late, due to
procrastinating on his paperwork at the station. David liked being sheriff, he
just didn’t like all the forms that went with it. A moment later the door was
opened by a young woman, the town librarian if he remembered correctly.

“I’m Emma’s
father, here to pick her up,” David said, giving the woman a curious look. “I
was expecting Mr. Gold.”

“Oh, Alistair’s
with the children.” the woman laughed, causing David’s eyebrows to raise at her
use of what must be Gold’s first name. She frowned at his obvious confusion.
“I’m Belle French, Alistair’s girlfriend, your
wife didn’t tell you to expect me?”

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Thank you for this! We needed something positive thanks to this episode’s angst fest. Anyway, loved it!

Yeah, as I had fluff written I thought given the circumstances I should post it heh. I’m really glad you liked it, thank you 🙂

anneelliotscat replied to your post:Transposing Digits (Chapter Five)

I *so* needed this! See what happened when they got rid of Bae? Everything would be all right if Neal (Sr.) were still around!

Well seeing as I can barely go a chapter, let alone an entire story, without mentioning Bae/Neal – 110% yes! He was so damn important.

In my opinion, without Bae there would be no show, or at least not as we know it, because there would have been no dark curse. Rumple’s quest to find him kickstarted everything. I think I have one AU fic where there is no Bae, it’s hard not to write him. Anyway, I’m glad you enjoyed the fic, and that seven year old Bae made everything right in the end heh 🙂

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Want more! Sleepover! Pony rides! Halloween! One of them finds a book of practical jokes and swaps sugar for salt, and greases doorknobs, and so on…

Pony rides? I suppose perhaps if a circus came to town, I can’t think how that would happen … actually there’s the stables isn’t there? So yeah I guess if Bae wanted riding lessons or something. Hmm ok, I will file this prompt away and get to it when I can 🙂

leni-ba replied to your post “Transposing Digits (Chapter Five)”

*hugs fic* This is such a great series! I love David trusting his own eyes more than he does gossip, and how he gently makes sure that MM realizes she’s been wrong (can we have this in canon?)

Emma was a treasure! I’ll never get tired of seeing a version of her as a child where she’s loved and has a family. *hugs lil’ Emma*

And, yay, family time at the cabin! And of course Gold knows it’s too soon to their the L-word around, so I’m glad bae pushed his dad in the right direction anyway. LOL bonus points for Belle for showing the kids how to bait their hooks. Bet that will be the thing they’ll delight in telling their classmates! “We took these worms and…” Yeah. lol Tks for the update!

Oh wow thank you so much, I’m really glad you like it 🙂 To be honest that is how I see canon David, except in the last couple of seasons he hasn’t spoken up, instead just following Snow – downside of sharing a heart perhaps? I don’t know, I hadn’t really thought about that before. Hmm.

Anyway, yeah I imagine the gross worms will be the high point of the day heh and yup if it wasn’t for Bae, Gold would probably still be thinking it was “too soon” months later. He is continually surprised by Belle because he is just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for her to leave him, but instead she’s right there with him for every step forward. Gold is always expecting rejection and getting the opposite from Belle 🙂

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I was planning on posting this final chapter of Faith of the Heart on Tuesday. I have one scene left to write and then it’s done. However, it is so damn fluffy I’m wondering if I shouldn’t wait a few days and post it for Rumbelle is Hope. I’ve got something else in mind to post for that but I’m not sure I’ll finish it in time. Maybe I’ll hang onto the chapter, until I’m sure that I’ll have it finished, because I would be sad if I had nothing to post for the event.

Anyway, I’m so relieved to soon be able to scratch one fic off my list. October is going to be the month of finishing things I’ve decided. By the time November gets here, I want my only WIP to be Painting Layers of Love. Everything that has been lingering for months, is going to be done this month. I need less on my list. I know it’s bad when I can’t sleep because I’m running through the list in my head.

So with that in mind, I’m going to go re-order my list. Normal service will be resuming at some point (I hope) but right now all I’m willing to guarantee is that there will be fic of some description on Tuesday. I haven’t missed posting on a Tuesday in months and I’m not about to start now.

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How is everyone doing on their prompts?

In case anyone has forgotten or missed the posting for October’s prompts, here a reminder….

Non-smut: Mr. Gold Loses His Cane

Smut: Watching Porn Together.

I have planned the smut one. I did that the day the prompts came out and I’ve been itching to write it ever since, but I have a priority list for what I work on. As I don’t post this until the end of the month I have to write other fics first (like my wips), otherwise my update schedule gets thrown out of whack.

I have a vague idea (so vague it keeps changing on me every time I think about it) for the non-smut one and it’s possible I won’t write it. I’ll have to see if I have time and feel like it. So many fics, so little time 🙂

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I finished my fic for Rumbelle Revelry!

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It might possibly be a little bit long but the 10k maximum was only a guideline right? Oh well, I’m not cutting it, and it’s only 3k over the limit, which yes is 30% but that’s within a semi-reasonable margin … and I’m going to go hide now.

Tomorrow should be a Painting Layers of Love update day. I was late with the last update which is why it was on the Tuesday before last. However, I’m going to be late with this one as well. In fact I probably won’t even make Tuesday, it’s more likely to be next Friday but at least I didn’t make any promises about chapter six, which makes the delay slightly more permissible.

I feel vaguely guilty about it but I really would like to finish at least one WIP, so it’s not weighing on my mind anymore. My list for this month is still looking intimidatingly long. Therefore the final chapter of Faith of the Heart will hopefully be happening for Tuesday. I have the first bit done already, I think there are 3-4 more scenes left.

Faith of the Heart (Chapter Five)

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Synopsis: Following directly on from The War Within. Rumplestiltskin and Belle have a lot to talk about. True loves kiss might have woken Belle from the sleeping curse but their marriage won’t be fixed over night. They have a little less than nine months to sort themselves out as a couple – then they’ll become a family. It’s time for them to reconcile properly, and to finally have the courtship that circumstances originally denied them.

Note: I think this chapter should have a warning notice for extreme fluff. Also, part of this chapter was inspired by a prompt fic I did ages ago. It fit this story nicely, and I probably wouldn’t have written it otherwise. There will be one more chapter after this one. Enjoy! 🙂

On Tumblr: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four

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Three Months Later…

Rumplestiltskin
was content. It was an odd feeling for him, but one he was fast becoming more
familiar with. Just over three months ago, and he would argue over thirty years
in the making, he and Belle had finally shared true loves kiss. It had woken
Belle from her sleeping curse, and had been the start of their reconciliation.
In the weeks that had followed, they had talked a lot, finally putting all
their issues on the table. However, no amount of talking could fix their
marriage, only time could do that.

There had been
arguments, and he had despaired on occasion whether their marriage could be
fixed. They had rehashed the same conversations, and slowly over time the trust
that had been shattered between them had mended. The night that Belle had taken
him by the hand, and asked him to come to bed, was the magic moment when he had
known that everything would work out. Up until then, they had been living in
the house separately. After that night, they were truly back together as a couple
and sharing everything.

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Hearing Rumpel recite the history of their ‘courtship’ sure is depressing, isn’t it? Man, this show. *shakes head* It’s too bad that they named Ashley’s kid Alexandra, because I would have liked Alexander for a boy, with Zander as his nickname, because it’s a bit more unusual, as befitting the son of Rumpelstiltskin. 

Yeah Alexander is a good strong name, with a lot of variations for shortening and for being a bit ‘different’ but yup unfortunately taken. Their relationship has certainly been a bumpy ride but in this fic at least, they are getting some happy peaceful time now 🙂

Painting Layers Bae: Now that you have met your father’s mysterious friend, what do you think of her?

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Who’s Bae????

My name is Neal but I’m assuming that you mean me, seeing as you are asking about dad’s friend/neighbor Belle. I kinda already said how I felt about their relationship (link) but you want to know my opinion of just Belle?

I don’t know man, she seems nice enough but it’s clear she has some problems. I just came over to do her garden and beyond saying hi, it’s not like I really know her that well, just what dad has told me and what I can see for myself. To be honest I’m kinda worried about her.

I hope dad treats her right because if he thinks in three months he can just walk away *shakes head* I know he has it pretty bad, but I know how he is about work. This thing between them it might work now but it’s not likely to end well and … gah I don’t know … I don’t know whether to encourage it or not. It might be good for dad but it could be devastating for Belle.

Transposing Digits!Emma: How did your mommy and daddy react when you told them who your best friend was?

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Mommy went really quiet and then said “that’s nice” over and over and over *insert child eye rolling*

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Dad already knew because my dad runs the soccer club and Bae is his best player – next to me of course 🙂 *puffs out chest in pride* He grinned and told mommy that Bae is a “good kid” and then they went and did whispering (why do grown-ups do that?) and then mommy said we could call Bae’s papa and see if Bae could come and play.