Bingo time!

An event where everyone wins. As long as you get bingo. CURRENT EVENT ENDS NOVEMBER 1, 2026. And a big thank you to @notonlymice for the AMAZING graphics <3

[rumbelletropebingo]

1. Creative works can be fic, art, photo manips, videos, etc. As long as the trope is clear and recognizable.

2. Your work may contain more than one trope on your board, but you can only cross off one square per work. So FOR EXAMPLE, if you have a pregnant Belle in a historical AU, you have to choose whether it will be your pregnancy square or historical AU square.

3. All works must be new. No existing WIPs will count toward a bingo square. THAT SAID, you can write in the same universe as an existing WIP/completed work. As long as the fic itself stands alone, have a blast.

4. That said, your work does not need to be complete in order to count. 4a. The posted work MUST contain the trope. Example, if the trope is pregnancy, the pregnancy must be happening already in the incomplete work. 4b. To put in just a few guardrails, if it is a multi-chaptered work, there should be at least 60% or 5 chapters posted (whichever amount comes first).

5. REQUIREMENTS: Fic: At least 1000 words Art: Cannot be doodles/rough drafts (but can be incomplete/uncolored) Gifsets/photosets/moodboards: At least 6 panels Videos: guys i don't know, video editing is a mysterious art.

6. You can ONLY work off your own bingo card. Please see the participating post for more information on how to get a bingo card and where to access it.

7. In order to receive a trophy, you must get bingo by the ending date. The event will run until November 1, 2026 (so you've got plenty of time!). But do feel free to keep going otherwise--this is still fun!

8. Works must either be rumbelle (and all its forms), anyelle, or anyem. If you have the crossover trope on your card, anyelle/em does NOT count.

9. You can request a card at any time! There is no deadline for receiving a bingo card.

Please feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions! And click the "frequently asked questions" tag on this post to read through ones that have been asked.

*If anyone needs the text on their bingo card written out instead of an image, please send me an ask and I will be happy to!*

**anyone using AI to create works will be disqualified**

[notonlymice]

uhh a storyboard? based on one of my Ally x Rush drabbles😶

@rumbelletropebingo: vulnerability

[rumbelletropebingo]

HELLO EVERYONE happy saturday! Time for another poll!

What's your favorite trope?

Superheroes

Vampires

Werewolves

Zombies

Voting ended onAug 9

[beeeinyourbonnet]

Through the Curtains

Rating: E

Pairing: Nostelle in the It's Good to Be Alive universe (Nosty from Safe and Belle; fic set in the Barney Thomson universe)

Summary: Somehow, Belle accidentally buys a vibrator. Nosty reacts to this news better than she expected. And Barney is also in this fic. This fic may or may not be canon. Please mind the tags on ao3.

Annnnd this is my first square for @rumbelletropebingo! Voyeurism!

Read It's Good to Be Alive

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Belle did not have money to be wasting. With Gaston dead and Nosty to provide for, she should not have been buying extra frivolities, especially ones she would never have the opportunity to use.

But when she’d seen the bullet vibrator, so small and smooth and for pleasure without penetration, she’d been unable to resist it. Upon bringing it home, she’d hidden it in the back of her closet. What would Nosty think of her buying a toy for herself when she had him now? 

He would be as mad as Gaston would have been, and he would have every right to be.

She resolved to return it, to get back the ten pounds she’d wasted on it, but for some reason, she just couldn’t find the time. All week, she couldn’t take it because she had to work or because she had to see Barney or because she needed that extra space in her purse for chocolates.

Then on Friday, she decided enough was enough. She stuck the bullet in her purse wrapped in a scarf and brought it to the store in secret while Nosty was off doing whatever he did, only to find out that the sex shop had a no-returns policy for sanitation reasons.

Which made sense. Belle understood that. 

But now she had a sex toy that she would have to explain to Nosty because she couldn’t just keep secrets from him. Gaston had kept secrets from her and she had almost married him without knowing he didn’t even have a job, and now he was dead and his penis was in the police morgue. 

She didn’t want that to happen to Nosty. 

Read on AO3

[rumbelletropebingo]

I'm working on all squares and none of them at the same time! Brainstorming is a lot easier than starting 🙃

that is sooooooooooo true 😭

[rumbelletropebingo]

HAPPY MONDAY! How are we all doing? Which square are you working on? How goes? Don't forget to hydrate <3

[rumbelletropebingo]

Hi again, this is probably a stupid question, but do fics more focused on the gold family count towards a bingo? I had this idea for one of my tropes that's about Rumbelle dealing with some Gideon teenage angst and romance troubles, or him going to them for help with these things, but I think the story would work best from his perspective.

Hmmmm. I would say as long as it's still a fic where rumbelle is a main focus/are main characters, that's fine. Like, if it's actually a Gideon romance fic, I don't think I would accept that, but if it's Gideon doing things off-screen and coming back to interact with rumbelle, that would be fine. I'm always hesitant to rule that something doesn't count because this is just supposed to be fun, so I think as long as there is rumbelle happening and it's a major piece, I would be okay with that. Pls feel free to ask follow ups if this was unhelpful x]

[rumbelletropebingo]

Happy saturday, bingoers! Have a poll that I will actually remember to keep up for longer:

Which is your favorite trope?

tentacles

ropes

teacher/student

leash/collar

Voting ended onAug 4

[polytrixaf]

dont forget that YOU 🫵 are the backbone of this fandom. oh but im not a- DONT CARE. write a bad fic, draw that silly art, make that tumblr post with your headcannon. oh but i have nothing to share- DONT CARE. kudos that fic, write a nice comment, gush in the tags of a reblog.

YOU 🫵 ARE CREATING A FANDOM SPACE BY EXISTING AROUND AND ENCOURAGING CONTENT CREATION

what YOU 🫵 say has impact. make it a good one.

[notonlymice]

a collage/cover/whatever-it-is for @beeeinyourbonnet's Insomnia💕

@rumbelletropebingo: insomnia

[bg-sparrow]

Title: According to Avonlean Custom Fandom: Once Upon a Time Pairing: Rumbelle Rating: T Words: 2800 Summary: Five times Belle informs Rumplestiltskin he’s accidentally demonstrated a courtship custom from her kingdom—and one time he does so intentionally.

☙ Prompt 1 of 5 filled for @rumbelletropebingo (Five Things) ❧ ☙ Written for the July 2026 mood board prompt by @a-monthly-rumbelling ❧

[maybemiserablywrites]

"Let it be known that Rumelhart Gold is hereby exiled from the town of StoryBrooke, having been found guilty of the murder of Belle French-Gold."

Storybrooke is surrounded by a cursed forest from which no one ever returns. So, when the town seeks its harshest sentence, it does not choose death, it chooses exile.

And that is the fate that has befallen the town pariah, Mr. Gold. Upon the accusation of murdering the eccentric yet beloved librarian... and his own wife, Belle French-Gold.

Prompt 2 done :D

Please click on the image to read the words

@rumbelletropebingo: Exile

Yes, there is lore. I won't be me if I didn't give them backstories and made a whole world for them XP

So, lmk if you want the lore ^^'

(I won't assume ^^')

[rumbelletropebingo]

I have been reading through the rules and terms for the bingo game and I love it! this sounds like a really fun idea to get the creative juices flowing properly again and would love to have a card

Hi hello! Welcome! Happy to have you and here's your card! 😊

Happy bingoing!

[peacehopeandrats]

BINGO!

Thanks to @rumbelletropebingo for getting me writing again!

Here's the card, below it are the fics, in order from bottom left to top right.

Heat

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Kidnapping

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Free Space (__ Made Me Do It)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Exile

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Speech-Deprived

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[maeuseken]

First entry in the @rumbelletropebingo.

Trope: Fandom Fusion

I went with the good old 'His Dark Materials' Dæmon Mix. This scene has Belle and her dæmon Lumea discovering Rumple's dæmon, after it was previously unknown to her that her master even had one.

Some ideas for this fusion, as well as the uncolored version and little timelapse under the Cut.

Belle's dæmon, Lumea, settled as a Barred Owl. She was also born female, making Belle one of the few people with a same-sex dæmon. It always made her stand out a bit at home. Gaston once said he wouldn't mind being surrounded by three lovely ladies, inluding his peacock dæmon Fleur, a comment that earned him a few weeks of silence from Belle.

Lumea tends to worry more, where Belle would bravely rush forward. For the first few weeks at Rumple's castle she was convinced they would end up as subjects for one of his magical experiments, because of their oddness. Rumple has in fact met a few same-sex pairings in his time and did not chose them because of it. He tells himself he chose them because it would be funny to have a princess cleaning his castle, but of course it's also because of loneliness.

His dæmon Minna, a Scottish Dunface Sheep, is kinder and more polite than him, but seems to be in a constant haze. She used to be more caring and motherly as well, but now she's withdrawn and wanders the dark castle, seemingly always in thought. Becoming the Dark One has driven a wedge between them and is the reason why they can stay far away from each other and be seperated for long stretched of time, but Rumple can't clearly remember if she became that way when he took on the curse, or when they lost Baelfire and Elkin. He does not like being confronted with the state of his dæmon, so he locked her away in the forbidden wing, but of course no one can keep Belle and Lumea from snooping while he's away.

Baelfire's Elkin hadn't settled yet when they fell through the portal, but she did like various birdforms, as well as taking the form of a lamb or a fawn.

It's been a while since I read the books but there is also the potential for Rumple doing really, really dark things in order to reunite with Bae, considering the methods they used to create portals to other dimensions in the first (?) book, but let's keep this light in comparison and just assume he's still going for the dark curse in this AU.

[rumbelletropebingo]

damn, I definitely meant to let the poll go for longer than 24 hours. my bad guys 🙈😅

[rumbelletropebingo]

Helloooo everyone! Just checking in with a fun little poll. Maybe there will be more polls like this? Maybe a death match at the end? Anyway, let's vote:

What is your favorite of these tropes?

Love triangle

Friends to lovers

Second chance romance

Love at first sight

Voting ended onJul 26