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I just read your swim date rushbelle (omg I love it so much) How was the date??

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wizzygold:

galactic-pirates:

Awwww thanks. I’m really happy that you loved it! I think I’ll have to clean this up now, it’s become a bit of a thing. Feel free to prompt for anything you want to happen next.

So how did the swim date go?

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It had been twenty minutes since the last lecture ended. Rush tapped his foot and resisted the urge to check his watch for the hundredth time. She wasn’t coming, she had realized the implication inherent in her invitation and she didn’t wish to go on a date with him. Either that, or she had previously been unaware of exactly who he was
and some kind soul had filled her in.

He should have known better than to believe that he would have a date with someone like Doctor Belle French.

“Sorry I’m late.”

Rush turned, startled. Belle smiled at him, a hint of embarrassment on her face. “I got cornered by Doctor Felger, do you know him? Anyway, he wouldn’t stop talking
and it was hard to get away. Are you ready to go? You do still want to …”

“Yes, yes, absolutely,” Rush interrupted, nodding desperately.

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alfjdlñfajdlfjañslda woobie!rush is so cute!!

Who did Belle had to bribe?

I have a prompt from @beastlycheese that Ruby is working admin at the conference (they also prompted Rush not being able to swim), so it’s less bribe and more asking a favor.

However, I don’t think I will call the person Ruby, I really don’t want to do a full crossover. There’s no Gold in this universe and it would get complicated. I mean Rush and Gold have a fair few similarities for all that they are different people. I think I would find it difficult to characterize Rush properly to be honest if more Storybrooke people turned up.

Anyway, Belle gets on well with everyone, I can imagine her on arrival being pleasant to the setup people and thanking them for their hard work. Therefore when she says to the admin lady (Ruby or otherwise) “do you mind swapping seating for me? I met this gorgeous guy” they wink at her and say “say no more” and arrange the whole thing.

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I’m writing Chapter Two of Painting Layers of Love at the moment. Got maybe ¼ of it done so far. It occurs to me that writing this fic would be 10x easier if I still headhopped.

I used to mix pov in scenes a lot, I still slip sometimes but for the most part I think I manage not to do it. Sometimes I miss my old bad habits. They were formed for a reason.

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Hmm I seem to be making Rush, in that Rushbelle swim date ficlet (which has become an actual fic) act like a woobie!Gold. To be honest though I do see Rush like that. I think he’s very confident in his abilities at work, but he has spent so long working that he has no confidence socially.

Rush has the same thing as Gold, in that everyone loves to hate him, until they need his help. He’s used to the dislike of his peers and he is far more comfortable with that, than somebody wanting to be his friend or something more and Belle is definitely wanting more heh 🙂

I don’t think Rush is usually all that self-conscious about his appearance. I don’t think it usually occurs to him, it was just with the comparison on the beach with Belle and all the other ‘beautiful’ people around him, that he had a moment of concern. Not that Belle would agree of course …

wizzygold replied to your post:Hmm I seem to be making Rush, in that Rushbelle…

Rush is a woobie, is just that so few people get to see it, but look how he acts around Mandy, he gets all goofy and relaxed around her (hello, white shirt of sex) I think maybe he is more comfortable with his body than Gold is, but not too much (he does use two shirts in Destiny and I don’t think that place is very cold)

Yup you are right. This ^^

When he was with Mandy his whole expression softened. He lost the hard edges and his smile was so sweet. On Destiny he was at a physical disadvantage as well with the military, they were all taller and stronger. Well stronger physically, Rush certainly knew how to take punishment. I think it’s all about self-protection with Rush really. He uses his intellect, his sarcasm and his razor sharp comments to defend himself, although of course that sometimes gets him into trouble.

In regards to your TMI Tuesday question, you probably weren’t expecting a ficlet in answer to your question about how the swim date went. However, I’m afraid I took the question more as a prompt. I hope that was ok.

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Just saw the prompts for A Monthly Rumbelling and my first instinct was to panic. I didn’t make the leap to join tumblr until the start of May, and so I just missed signing up for the first quarter. I have been reading the prompts and fics every month, my mind spinning with ideas, and I couldn’t wait to sign up and join in and then I do sign up and …

brain blank.

So I went to make coffee and stopped consciously thinking about it. My panic receded, my mind cleared and by the time I’d drunk my mug I had my idea. Coffee is truly the fuel of writers. I should go make another mug actually …

Anyway, dark!Belle, light!Rumple, will be happening. I wanted to push myself and write the smut prompt but I didn’t like this one so much. Now the previous two months, oh yeah I would have tried my hand at those. Maybe I’ll like next months smut prompt more.

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I was just reading the last post I reblogged and it reminded me of a conversation I’d had with someone recently. They asked me the other day if I liked going to see movies with other people. I said that in terms of actually watching the movie, going with them added nothing.

I come out wanting to discuss:
– motives, feelings, interactions between characters.
– I would have whole theories about the fictional universe.
– the musical score, and how parts of it repeated in certain segments to link/echo different scenes.
– wardrobe choices, or wardrobe mirroring, so characters complement or clash.
– how scenes were shot e.g. closeup or wide and why that choice was made, and how it changed the complexion of the scene

and I do this naturally, without really thinking about it. This is just how I watch. My instinct is to dissect. I don’t do it for everything. I mean there are some things that I just enjoy for what they are, and when they are done, I don’t think about them anymore. However, those are things I can take or leave, I don’t really care about them.

With anything I care about my focus is always on the characters. I’m a big fan of suspending disbelief and treating the characters like people. That means I don’t get to argue about what happened, it’s fact. The characters get the lions share of my attention. However, I’m not ignorant of cinematographic choices or how they are designed to manipulate us to think/feel certain ways.

The other people I go with on the other hand come out saying “well x character was hot” “that was a fun explosion” and they are done. They don’t think about things like I do, or anywhere near the depth that I do. To be honest I don’t know anyone in real life that thinks like I do. In fact, I think I could probably exhaust most people, by my willingness to discuss things in depth.

This is why I blog, so I can talk at my screen all the things that I think and get it out of my system without bothering anyone. I’m a writer though, maybe I’m predisposed to analyse everything and find meaning.

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still-searching47:

beastlycheese:

still-searching47:

I’m procrastinating and really shouldn’t be writing this but this is too gorgeous to pass up. It’s Rushbelle, sorry, not sorry 🙂

Professor Nicholas Rush hates conferences. He loves his work but he hates having to explain himself. If people don’t understand, then it’s a waste of his time trying to explain it. He accepts that level of idiocy from his students, but from his peers, it’s just frustrating.

Rush especially hates conferences, when they are just blatant ‘jollies’ such as holding the conference in Hawaii. It’ll be 90% procrastination and 10% math, he would have preferred to stay home but the university insisted he went. His reputation within his field was worth it to them.

The afternoon he arrived, he made the best mistake of his life – he went for a walk on the beach. There, walking on the sand, was a sea nymph come to life, a mermaid walking out of the water, an angel fallen from the sky. Rush has never been a poetic man, numbers mean more than words, and she has perfect equation written all over her. Her smile is brighter than the sun and the warmth sinks through him, easier than the heat of the sand through his shoes.

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Please make them meet 5 minutes later in the shop both buying swim gear. Pretty please.

Ask and you shall receive 🙂

Ten minutes later and Rush had found a store that sold swimming gear. He wrinkled his nose in distaste. Did all of the trunks have to be Hawaiian print? They were loud, colorful and nothing he would wear in a million years. Didn’t they have any solid color trunks?

“Excuse me,” Rush said to the assistant behind the counter. “What do you have in a solid color?”

He held up one of the distasteful pairs, this one had palm trees all over it, against a set of crashing waves. Honestly, who would wear something like this, unless they lost a bet, or it was for money? They were ridiculous.

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So quick. So perfect. So ..so..i need to lie down now. Thank you soooooooo much.

Oh no, I hope I didn’t kill you with the fluff heh. It’s probably a good idea for me to stop now anyway. I’m supposed to be working and if I wrote more, then that would just be more procrastination.

Anyway, I was thinking the next scene should be Belle going back to the hotel and maybe Samantha Carter asking where she was, saying that there’s not long left until the next lecture etc. I thought about using someone else from Storybrooke for Belle’s friend, like Ariel maybe, but I couldn’t picture her at a maths conference.

Belle admits that she went shopping for a new swimsuit. Carter blinks in surprise and says “you came to Hawaii without a suit?” and Belle blushes and says no, but the only suit she brought had shorts built into it, because she thought she might try surfing while she was here. The suit was not exactly sexy and she has a swim date later with this really attractive guy. She then laughs and says that she ran into Rush buying a swim suit of his own and maybe he came to Hawaii without one, she’ll have to ask him later.

Please no self, don’t make another thing /slaps self

woodelf68:

Oh dear. Can’t even image Rush in palm tree print trunks!

No neither can I really. He didn’t want them, he wanted a nice plain pair. However, Belle said they’d match and he just bought them automatically after that. Thanks for commenting!

I’m actually cleaning this one up at the moment. Making some notes about what I want to add to flesh it out. So if there’s anything you want to be included, prompt while there’s still time 🙂

August Status Update

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A summary post of what happened last month fic-wise, and my plans for the forthcoming month, because I can’t hit a target, if I can’t see it.

Previous Status: July

Works posted in July:
– Learning Curve (RCIJ fic)
– The War Within (Alternate season six, WIP)
      – Chapter Three
      – Chapter Four
      – Chapter Five
      – Chapter Six
      – Chapter Seven
– Painting Layers of Love (AU romance, WIP)
      – Chapter One

Coming up definitely in August:
– The next five chapters of The War Within (posted every Tuesday)
– The rest of Painting Layers of Love, so it gets completed.

What I hope August might bring:
– A couple more chapters of The War Within should there be that many (posted on Friday’s)
– The Rush/Carter oneshot because it’s a oneshot and then I can clear it off my list, which always feels good.
– The first chapter of Nightwalkers (based on this discussion thread)
– A fic based on the A Monthly Rumbelling Event if I am inspired by any of the prompts.

I know I said that I hoped July would bring the first chapter of Nightwalkers and that didn’t happen. That makes me sad because I am really excited by this idea and the side of Swanfire I want to include. I planned out the general arc the other day while I was waiting for someone. I don’t know if anyone else ever gets this but I have to write this fic, because I really really want to read it. Is that weird?

Sadly Ripple Effect, my Rushbelle fic, has been put on the backburner for the time being. I really want to write it but not enough hours in the day! As I said in a random writing thoughts post I’m worried about maintaining a consistent posting schedule with multiple WIP’s. Painting Layers of Love wasn’t intended to be a WIP, it was an accidental WIP and I hope to finish it, and get it off deck, as soon as possible. I’m not committing to a regular posting schedule for it because I just don’t know how much I’ll be able to manage.

Finding out what I could manage, and increasing it, was the theory behind adding Friday as an optional posting day for The War Within. 1) I will be able to finish The War Within faster. 2) It will push me to up my game and write more each week, which is something I’ve now inadvertently forced by adding the accidental WIP.

Basically we’ll have to see what happens.

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@bookwormchocaholic reblogged your photo:mamabeckett-enchanted-forest-au-after

I didn’t want to reblog again and spam up that gifset with talking about a WIP which is best case scenario still months away from being written. However, your “do it!” made me wonder if you had read my tags that I put on the gifset. Something like that is on my list.

It’s part of a Rumbelle fic, working title Rule Number Three (after the NCIS Gibbs rule – don’t believe what you are told, double check). Basically Belle prompts Rumple to check that Bae is in the land without magic, and discovers he’s in Neverland. He rescues him from there, and then obviously doesn’t need the dark curse anymore – so it never gets cast. Everything changes from then.

It’s incredibly angsty for Swanfire because Snow and Charming are very disapproving. Bae is the son of the dark one, for all that Rumple is supposedly reformed and the consort of the Queen of Avonlea. After twenty years ruling a kingdom, they want a more appropriate match for the daughter. It’s like no matter how much you try and avoid your fate, it still finds you. Henry is born, Regina helps raise him (after she is woken from the sleeping curse, she placed herself under, because she couldn’t get her revenge on Snow) etc.

I have the whole thing planned out, I just need to find time to write it. Although it is quite funny. I realized when I was looking through my Rumbelle WIP plans, that in every single fic Rumbelle share true loves kiss. In this fic, they aren’t the only ones, there’s possibly two other true loves kisses as well. I’m a sucker for happy endings.

The War Within (Chapter Seven)

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Synopsis: Alternate Season Six. Storybrooke is visibly under threat once more from Hyde and the Evil Queen. However, not all threats are visible as an old forgotten foe has been manipulating events from behind the scenes. The very nature of darkness is revealed as everyone struggles with the most difficult beast of all – acceptance.

Note: Here’s the promised Friday chapter! I feel I should apologize for the length of Morgan’s quest, I got rather carried away. However, unlike the show, if I spend time on a guest star it doesn’t take away screentime from the main characters – it’ll just make the fic longer. For fans of Stargate SG1, you might recognize the test of bravery and self-sacrifice, it was the Asgard test for the Cimmerians in 2×06 Thor’s Chariot. Enjoy!

On Tumblr: Chapters One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six

AO3 Link

~Flashback~
Ten Years Ago (outside the dark curse)

“Are you sure about this?” Allison asked.

Morgan squeezed her hand reassuringly, as he warily eyed the cave entrance. He nodded firmly.
“Yes, it has to be done.”

After he had found the map, with the location marked with an X, in Merlin’s tower, Morgan had gone home. He had found his wife and told her a version of the truth, that
he had to go on a quest and that he didn’t know when he would return. However, Allison had surprised him, and not just because she had found the map and
confronted him with it.

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The ‘not Zeus’ headcanon accepted! *Bangs gavel down*

Heh thanks!

The show actually contradicted themselves with Zeus, which is what gave me the idea. They showed the pages of the book, of Hades story on screen, and some lovely soul transcribed them for the show wiki. Zeus is described as a bear of a man, with muscles like tree trunks. That is not the Zeus we saw on screen, who looked practically like a teenager.

Hence it wasn’t Zeus. Hook didn’t ask any questions, just made assumptions and no-one else saw him. Made sense to me. Thanks for commenting! 🙂

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still-searching47:

I have a slight issue with The War Within. I was writing some of the next chapter last night and I have a pov crisis. The scene would be so much more powerful and relevant from Snow’s pov. However, I just can’t do it, I can’t get into her headspace.

When I continue writing tonight, I’ll try again. If I can’t manage it, then I will have to try and show her feelings through the dialogue and Regina’s observations. That won’t be as good but needs must.

Maybe you can watch some Snow scenes on YouTube. That might help you get into her head.

Hmm that’s a good idea actually. I was rewatching the show. I got to about episode 6 of season 2 and then neflix added all the Star Trek shows and I got a bit distracted. Plus with the amount of writing I’ve been doing lately, I’ve barely watched any TV at all.

Yeah, I’ll go find myself some Snow fanvids or something. Thanks! 🙂