If it can be broken it means it still works

Nomes. T'was Captain Swan what led me to tumblr and Captain Swan that dominates this (occasional) blog. But I might throw in some of my other favourites for good measure. Welcome aboard!

[youarentreadingthis]

THERE’S TOO MUCH FANFICTION AND I CAN’T READ IT ALL

[thewishhookjunkyard]

1 WEEK OF WISH HOOK

I needed something to get me through this next week of hiatus so i’m dedicating the whole week to wish hook. Each day is going to be focussed on a different persona of him or his relationships with others because i’m just choc full of feelings for this dashing dude!

DAY 1: OLD HOOK

Boy oh boy, where do I begin? 

When we were first introduced to this version, I can’t lie, I was slightly bitter. As funny and clumsy as he was, there was a part of me that wanted to know why he’d been chosen to be aged and made into a comedic joke. 

So naturally, when he appeared again in 7x02, my knee-jerk reaction was “Again?!” 

There was no doubt that Colin had the time of his life playing this version and I could see why.

He made me laugh, he made me facepalm, he made me kind of annoyed…. 

but then something else happened. 

He made me feel.

All it had taken was 5 minutes of backstory. Just 5 minutes of his journey and why he’d become the way he was…. and I was hooked. 

I wanted to know more. Where was his daughter? Why couldn’t he find her? What happened to his crew? Where had he been? What struggles did he face? How was he cursed? And by who? Why’d he been left alone?

A whole new box had been opened and I was ready to dive in head first to get to know Old Hook.

This bumbling mess of an old man captured my heart and an undeniable fondness formed for him. 

And I was ready to find out just exactly every tiny thing in this version’s life that made him the majestic mess he is. 

And really, who could resist that ridiculous grin?

Old Hook, you’re the roughest diamond in the batch, but you sparkle just as brightly as the best of them. 

[queen-mabs-revenge]

BLESS! Seriously, I have been a loud and tenacious critic of the wish world, and especially ww!Hook because he was just a comic relief cameo, unlike deckhand!Hook who had little backstory bits and personality quirks, but man did they turn that story around!

And as brain-hurty as it makes the timeline, I love that they reached back into an existing story and expanded it, and that everything about his over-dramatic, silly, trying-for-heroics self fits into his story with his Alice.

[hollyethecurious]

YES! I’ve actually loved Old Wish Hook since he first graced our screens in S6 and it made me VERY sad to think of him left all alone in the Wish Realm. I’m so happy they went back so he can have a second chance. I’m here for every version of Killian Jones getting his happy ending!!

[shoedonym]

Julia, my dearest love, would you please tell me a story? Any story at all.

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Lilac breeze

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A/N: Hello! Dunno what this is, but I’m a bit fascinated with November where I live, so I came up with this and *shrugs*. Happy to tell you a story anytime you like friend <3

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Some snippet of a CS adventure, at some undefined point in an undefined future.

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“Do you think we’re cursed?”

It mustn’t rain much in this realm, Emma surmises. The trees seem a different green for it, their leaves more silver and sun-sorry than at home. And even though there is currently rain dropping from tree top, to tree top, to their heads, a tiny crescendo of noise, the ground is hardly wet. There are few puddles upon the bark-littered path, no great squelch and slip of earth, low lying flowers wilting a little. The rain is new here, the plants are still taking as much of it as they can get before it sinks out of reach.

All it really does is change the colour of the trees they go past, purple bodies turning bold shades of orange and green with each ripple of water that trickles to their roots. (Almost as though the rain is trying to hide the colour from them.)

“What makes you ask that, Swan?”

Emma pulls her slipping hood back over her head, grumbling as the rain means it both slips and sticks from her head and she contemplates leaving it off altogether.

“I just feel like we’ve been in this situation far too many times before. You, me, some sort of forest-”

Emma’s words are cut off by a sharp noise above them, a haunting cackle that jars every thought in her head. Killian stops his feet, glancing up into the canopy above them for the source of the noise. The ground beneath Emma’s footsteps snap, the bark that is stripping from the trees around them mostly terracotta and silver in tone, but she only stops walking once she’s shoulder-to-shoulder with Killian and his great leather coat again. 

He is still listening to the air as the mysterious cackling noise fades once more.

“Danger,” Emma finishes pointedly, head tilting in the direction of the laughter.

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[raracygno]

This made me think of scribbly gum and jacaranda trees. I loved looking at scribbly gum when I was a kid wondering if I could 'decode' the secret message on the tree. I think I still wish I could.

No jacaranda trees where I live though so I'm always in awe of their beauty if I happen to visit the right location at the right time of year.

[fairytalegf]

#every version of hook would give up his home for the most important women in his life

[cherylblossom]

“[Nick’s] not my dad, YOU are! And you’re already in my life.”

[mrsbenedictbridgerton]

I don't know if you can help me with this or not .. I was reading a fic called "fragile design" just yesterday but now I can't find it anywhere .. I forgot the name of the author .. but maybe you or one of your followers can help?!

Hey - it’s Xerxesrises (the author)… But I can’t find their blog and the work seems to have been taken down from ao3 and ff.net…

Anyone?

[teamhook]

WOW! We lost a good one. :(

I wish I had known. I would have downloaded her work. Why??

Did anyone download it?

[raracygno]

Ugly sobbing when I realised only yesterday all her fics had gone but I actually downloaded this one and have it on two different fanfiction reader apps.

But with my technological incompetence I may need some advice on how to get it off my tablet/phone without accidentally deleting it which I'm happy to do for anyone who wants it.

[flipperbrain]

Tower waltz

[lifeinahole27]

CS ff: “It’s All in the Name” (au)

Summary: Beloved Tropes- Coffee Shop AU in which Emma is the angry barista who constantly gets Killian’s name wrong.

Rating: T for maybe swearing a vulgar language at one point.

A/N: Dear god how do I post things that aren’t the Cat Fic? This feels weird and unnatural. ANyway, here’s a coffee shop au no one asked for that I just needed to put out there in the world. 

“My name is Killian,” he tells the blonde working the counter at his usual coffee shop. She’d asked; it’s not like he just randomly supplied his name. There are three reasons for this clarification:

1) She has the expression of one who could strike a person down with eye-daggers if provoked the wrong way. 2) She all but growled out the demand for his name. 3) She’s very pretty, but because of said behaviors, if he could’ve taken his name from the devil’s mouth, he would’ve.

As it happens, when he gets his to-go cup after his order is made, he needn’t worry about her cursing his name. Written on the cup is “Killium.” Close, but no cigar. His day is already terrible enough that he brushes it off. Tomorrow, he might get the pleasant brunette that normally works, and he knows she’ll get his name right.

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Wrong.

The brunette is named Mary Margaret, and she’s out on maternity leave, as it happens. Instead, the feisty blonde is back, a scowl on her face and her brows drawn down in concentration as she diligently fills his order. “Name?”

“Killian,” he says. “K-i-l-l-i-“ but she’s already shoving the cup towards him, since a large Americano doesn’t really take that long to fill. “Kilometer?” he asks out loud. The incredulity is plain as day, but she’s already stomped off to take care of the next customer. He gives her a look, just barely restraining himself from sticking his tongue out at her. He’s thirty-two years old, and that kind of childish behavior would be unbecoming.

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[wellhellotragic]

Nuuk Chapter 22/24

Summary: When a chance encounter with a blue-eyed mystery man on an ill-fated flight turns Emma Nolan’s life upside down, she has a choice to make: Continue with her arranged marriage to Senator Gold’s son to save her parent’s company, or turn her back on everything she’s ever worked towards for a chance at happiness.

Also on AO3.

Banner thanks to @shady-swan-jones

A/N: Look at me getting an update out on time. I’m back home now were is cold and overcast, and I seen to have brought home a death plague so I’ve been living on my couch the past few days. I’ll live this here for you guys while I go search for some more cold medicine.

As promised, we’re getting a double dose of Killian’s POV (which are not only my favorite, but are also so much easier for me to write for some reason). I hope you all enjoy this. You’ve been waiting long enough for it!

Updates every Monday and Thursday.

Rating: E (there’s smut!!)

Content warnings: Smut, Alcohol Abuse, Violence, Language

Beta’d by: @best-left-hook-jones

Art by: @pompeiiablaze, @jemmingart, and @shady-swan-jones (aka the banner master!)

Tagging: @storybrookeswans , @youraverageshipper, @piratesbooty63fan, @ascolinwishes, and @kmomof4​

Three hours. That’s how much of a head start Emma had by the time Killian was finally able to secure a rental car. He should have expected as much, but being from another country, one tended to forget about any holidays that weren’t ingrained into him as a child, Thanksgiving weekend among them.

The whole bloody city was against him. The first car hire place he had been to told him that all of their cars were out for the duration of the long weekend, with the first scheduled return set for the next day. After calling around, they said that one of their other sites had a car returned early and that they would hold it for him.

Like a madman on a mission, he dashed through the subway, hoping to get there faster without the gridlock of Sunday afternoon traffic. Feeling a bit like a schoolboy playing rugby, he bounced into people, moving them out of his way as needed. He barely made it onto the train car before the doors shut behind him. Five stops later he emerged and ran up the platform taking a left as his phone instructed him to. Unfortunately, there had been a misunderstanding and the car that was to have been held for him had just been rented.

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[raracygno]

Yay! He will always find Emma! Now to convince her that he's not the least bit interested in Milage and they can have as happy new beginning with reach other. :)

[swanprincessswift]

Captain Swan kisses ♡

[clockadile]

“Good morning, love.” He joins his hands behind his back, standing straight and trying to appear calm despite the roiling of his thoughts.

“And to you,” she replies, moving to stand in front of him…

@lifeinahole27‘s fic Wait for the Moonrise  may be over but there’s still more art!

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Because I forgot about this one! This was probably meant for chapter two when I got excited for the idea of baby faced, unshaven Killian with a pony tail, but I was distracted by dancing ;) Tumblr AO3 FFN

[megancrisp24]

Burbank Convention

Those who are going to the convention and would like to purchase these prints just contact me here or at [email protected] and I’ll bring them to you there. I need to know, at the latest, by tomorrow night. Oh, and Hook has his hand on the correct hand now! ;) Have fun and if you have any convention tips that would be cool too- I’m a newbie. Oh, and I’ll be with my niece and my mom (who loves the show) so I’ll b really hard to miss!

[wumingsflower]

“It’s her rook… she is my knight.”

[singingisfun]

Changing Tides - Chapter 20

link to cover art by @otpapprovedbythegods

And here’s a link to an adorable pic of Dopey as a pirate by @clockadile

ff.net: From the beginning - Current Chapter

AO3:  From the beginning - Current Chapter

Tumblr: Prologue - Ch 1 - Ch 2 - Ch 3 - Ch 4 - Ch 5 - Ch 6 - Ch 7 - Ch 8 - Ch 9-Ch 10 - Ch 11- Ch 12 - Ch 13 - Ch 14 - Ch 15 - Ch 16 - Ch 17 - Ch18 - Ch19

I know it’s a little late but I’d like to dedicate this chapter to @kmomof4 for her birthday.  Thank you so much, Krystal, for always sending such incredible messages and encouragement.  You inspire me more than you know!  XOXO

The Battle and The Huntsman

Emma can barely breathe as she watches the scene play out, her heart hammering.  She doesn’t know the story – Killian has never told her – but it’s clear both Jeff and Graham do.  It’s also clear just how this stand-off is going to end.  So she watches, as entranced as the onlookers surrounding her when Graham approaches the queen.  

“Think back to that day, Regina.  Do you remember what you asked me?”  He pauses until the Evil Queen’s gaze lands on his.  “I didn’t have to lie.”

There’s a wealth of meaning in Graham’s words that has Regina breathing heavy, her eyes wild. Graham takes another step while she’s distracted, and Emma immediately sees his intention.  A quick glance to Killian tells her he sees it, too, and this time when she tries to gather her magic Killian doesn’t stop her.  

The Evil Queen shakes her head in denial, her eyes narrowing on Killian and Emma knows it won’t be much longer.  The wheels are spinning in her head and she’s going to figure it out and, when she does, this stalemate will be over and they’re all going to have to act very quickly.

“You’re…”

“I’m Killian Jones.”

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[shoedonym]

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I want it all

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A/N: a little baby fic. If you catch my drift.

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It’s a conversation that’s a while in the making.

Only partly because of Emma’s own reluctance to broach the subject.

They’ve come a long way, the pair of them, truths and fears and uneasy declarations slip from lips nowadays far more easily than they ever did before. But that’s not entirely the point. The point is that it’s still a difficult conversation, the point is that there are still some things she’s afraid of. Hard things are still hard with or without courage. Hard things still form a misshapen lump in her throat – with or without his encouraging hand in hers, with or without the cursory kisses to her temple.

With or without that thick feeling in her heart when she thinks about the two of them as some sort of perpetual thing.

It’s just a different kind of hard.

(She loves him too much for it to be anything but.)

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[raracygno]

Also some days I am REALLY MAD that I can only get less than 3mbps internet speed despite living only 20kms from the national seat of government. I had to keep searching for an internet stream of sufficient poor quality that would actually play without continually stopping to buffer because everyone is on the internet at 7:30pm on Sat night.

WHERE IS THE NBN? WHERE ARE THE PROMISES IF GLORIOUS SPEEDS OF 25 MBPS???! (Let's be real anything over 10 has to be an improvement).

Ok. I've got that off my chest. Still mad though.

[raracygno]

While I'm happy ouat is now Sat and not Mon, the problem is having things to do all Sat so it's still evening by the time I see it!!! (Here's side-eyeing you fetes and rehearsals).

And now I'm too tired to bother writing up some comments. Maybe tomorrow. Off to read some fanfiction and get an early night.