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[lotus0kid]

OUaT: The Founder of the Feast

AO3 link.  Belle and Rumpelstiltskin attend the midwinter festival in the town near the Dark Castle.  ((For the 2019  Rumbelle Secret Santa, using @0ceanofdarkness’ prompt "Dark Castle fluff, library, kisses", with a sub-prompt of "lights, cookies, pine scent, finding the perfect gift". Hope you like it! Also, let’s pretend the events of “Skin Deep” happened between fall and winter instead of between winter and spring, okay? Okay!))

[gch1995]

Get to know me tag meme (tagged by @rumplefloofywoobiestiltskin)

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to know better and answer the questions.

Name: Grace 

Gender: Female

Birthday: July 6, 1995, so I’m 23 years old going on 24 now. It feels like my generation is getting old so fast! Like, I can’t believe that Hilary Duff, Zac Efron,Taylor Swift, Vanessa Hudgens, Drake Bell, Josh Peck, Emmy Rossum, Lea Michele, Ashley Tisdale Dianna Agron, and Amanda Bynes are already in their early thirties! I can’t believe Miley Cyrus, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Selena Gomez, Emma Roberts, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Victoria Justice, Sophie Turner, Ariana Grande,  Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Freddie Highmore, Joe Jonas, Miranda Cosgrove, Anna Sophia Robb, Debbie Ryan, Jaimie Lynn Spears, and Dakota Fanning are all around the same age as me! I can’t believe we’re already in our mid twenties to early thirties! It feels like our childhoods were not that long ago, even though they were over ten years ago! It still feels like I didn’t watch Hannah Montana, The Amanda Show, Sonny with a Chance, The Wizards of Waverley Place, Drake and Josh, Zoey 101, iCarly, Because of Winn Dixie, Hairspray (2007), The Bridge to Terabethia, The Suite Life of Zac and Cody, Jessie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Glee, the High School Musical films, Victorious, Unfabulous, Sharkboy and LavaGirl, The Lizzie McGuire series, The Phantom of the Opera, The Twilight Saga, and the Harry Potter movies on TV and in movie theaters when I was a kid growing up with these guys that long ago! I still remember singing You Belong With Me, Teardrops on My Guitar, Love Story, Picture to Burn, Boyfriend, Our Song, Baby, Never Say Never, One Less Lonely Girl, and buying my friend in high school a Justin Bieber album for her birthday because she was obsessed with him back in 2012! I remember being a stupid kid in middle school and high school who thought she was so smart because she managed to read all four of the trashy Twilight novels by Stephanie Meyer in less than a year!!! I remember how fucking stupid I was as a kid for idolizing Edward Cullen’s and Bella Swan’s romance!!! I’ve matured so much since then, we all have, but it still feels like our childhoods/teenage years weren’t that long ago! We’re still relatively young adults! A lot of people older who are over thirty five, would still call us kids, but it feels like we’ve grown/are growing up so damn fast!!! It still feels like we should be babies!!! I think a great thing about those of us in our generation though is just how young most of us still look in our twenties to early thirties for our age!!! Like, I still look the same as I did seven years ago when I was sixteen at nearly twenty-four! Selena Gomez, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice,Taylor Swift, Kristen Stewart, Justin Bieber, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Emma Watson, Emmy Rossum, and Freddie Highmore still mostly look the same as they did over ten years ago! We’re the generation that seems to age well and/or barely age at all, so long as we take care of ourselves! We’re the age of vampires!! Relationship Status: Single, in the romantic sense, but I have my parents, my brothers, my grandparents, my aunt and my little cousins, and a cat for family.

Favorite Color(s): Any shade of pink, red, or blue

Top 3 Ships:

1). Rumbelle (Rumplestiltskin x Belle) from ABC’s Once Upon A Time, but with conditions. I love how much they love each other, and would do anything for each other when they are both in-character. I’m also a sucker for the whole “love redeems” and BATB tropes in fiction, but they also tend to be the ones that the writers love to fuck up deliberately for shits ad giggles at some point on TV shows when they get bored or lazy. That’s why I only accept their individual characters or relationship together when they are both written in-character, so mostly from S1-3A of canon OUAT and in various canon-divergent/AU scenarios thereafter. However, I feel like the same thing can be said about every other remaining main character/ ship in canon OUAT post 3A. There was a serious nosedive in characterization, consistency, and storytelling integrity after Neal got killed off in canon OUAT, and while there were moments where Rumple, Belle, Emma, and everyone else seemed to be like the characters and relationships I originally fell in love with in canon from 3B-S7, I still feel like the show truly ended most organically and satisfyingly with “Going Home” (3x11), and there were serious problems with the writing starting to show with plot versus character driven writing, rape culture, abuse apology, broken rules of magic, plotholes, and character favoritism, even before 3B in S2. But after Neal got killed off, Hook became the main lead, and they started resurrecting the dead with magic when it suited the plot, they clearly didn’t know what the fuck they were doing anymore, and weren’t trying to tell any sort of story at all by undoing everyone’s original characterizations for plot back-and-forth.Everyone was ruined by illogically ooc, inconsistent, and toxic character destroying plot driven inexcusably bad writing that made absolutely no sense, which made them all unsympathetic and unrecognizable from 3B-S7 at one point or another, including Emma, Belle, the Charmings, and Henry, the “good guys,” so I try to pretend it never happened, and quit watching regularly after S5 to preserve my sanity.

2). Jane Eyre x Mr. Edward-Fairfax Rochester from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte-Again, I’m a sucker for the whole “love redeems” trope in fiction, and I appreciate how Edward is portrayed as the “dark” one, while Jane is the “virtuous” one, but neither one of them are without their flaws that go unaddressed, which is a big problem with a lot of “love redeems” couples. Their conflicts become hypocritically one-sided. 

3). Anne Shirley x Gilbert Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery-These two started out as frenemies, then became best friends in childhood and adolescence, and then eventually got married. The perfect love story!

Last Song I Listened To: I watched and listened to the Hairspay (2007) musical-comedy film adaptation on Netflix with Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, John Travolta, Zac Efron, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brittany Snow, James Marsden, Elijah Kelley, and Allison Janney, and have been jamming out to Miss Baltimore Crabs, The Ladies’ Choice, Good Morning Baltimore, I Can Hear the Bells, You Can’t Stop the Beat,  Welcome to the ‘60s, Run and Tell That, Big, Blonde and Beautiful, and Without Love a lot since remembering the music again. Does that count?

Last Movie I Watched: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins on Netflix.

I’m tagging @ishtarelisheba, @mrgoldsdearie, @sieben9, @emospritelet, @rufeepeach, @ellen729, @pinchtheprincess, @0ceanofdarkness, @thestory812 and whoever else wants to do it. 

[abovethemists]

0ceanofdarkness replied to your post “Festive Fic prompts: #32 Weaver/Stripper!Lacey”

I’m gonna need more of Weaver’s oversized peppermint stick.

So is Lacey. ;)

[delintthedarkone]

Bae: OKAY WHO’S READY FOR XMAS KAREOKE?

Rumple: ......We’re leaving.

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FOR @0ceanofdarkness <3 <3

My incredibly lovely, INCREDIBLY patient RSS giftee!!! To the person who got me into Rumbelle and tumblr in the first place. Happy Yule and Happy New Year and all the fluff your heart desires!

-Delint

[pinchtheprincess]

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[sieben9]

0ceanofdarkness reblogged your post and added:

I envy you being able to enjoy the really good episodes for the first time. Thanks for reminding me why I used to really love this show!

You’re very welcome -- I try to share the experience to the best of my abilities

[emospritelet]

Can we see HoHoHoBitch Lacey & Gold from 'Tis the Season kissing under the mistletoe at Granny's Christmas Party while Zelena seethes? Pretty please?

I’m a little late with these, but in my defence there was gin and tonic and I was too busy channelling my inner Cruella to write.  

Follow-up to this ficlet

AO3 link

Lacey didn’t expect Gold to attend the party.  He had said that he would, but that was after she had dumped a load of snow on his stalker, and she suspected he had only said it to be polite.  Certainly she had never seen him at any of the other festive events that Granny held at the diner.  He didn’t even come out for Miners’ Day.  Ruby said it was because he was a miserable bastard, but Lacey thought he simply didn’t like crowds.  It was therefore a surprise to see him enter the diner, side-stepping revellers to get to the bar.  He was wearing a red shirt with a tie in a darker shade beneath the three-piece suit, and looked as though he wondered what the hell he was doing there.  She took a slurp of her drink and hurried over before he could change his mind and leave.

“Hey,” she said.  “Can I get you a drink?”

“I - uh - yes, alright,” he said, glancing around with a harassed expression.  “Whisky, please.”

“Sure thing.”

She handed her drink to him so that he definitely wouldn’t leave, and ducked behind the bar to pour him a whisky.  By the time she got back he had pressed himself against the wall, his eyes flicking from left to right across the room.

“Not one for crowds, huh?” she said knowingly, and he sent her a thin smile.

“What gave it away?”

“Come here, then.”

She grasped his arm, surprised at her own boldness but trying not to think about it too much, and pulled him with her away from the crowds and into the corner by the dartboard.  It was quieter, and a little darker than the rest of the room, and she heard him sigh with what she thought was relief.

“Here,” she said, holding out the whisky as she took her rum and coke from him.  Gold nodded his thanks.

“I didn’t think you’d come,” she said, and he shrugged.

“Honestly?  Neither did I.”

“Then why did you?” she asked, and he grinned at her.

“Having said I would in front of Miss Mills, I really had no choice in the matter.”

“Yeah.”  She tugged at her lip with her teeth.  “She’s kind of relentless, isn’t she?  Ever thought about a restraining order?”

His grin widened.

“I’m hoping that the fact that I laughed when she was covered in snow will have been deterrent enough.”

“I don’t know,” said Lacey, glancing over at the door as she saw Zelena Mills enter.  “She doesn’t seem the type to take a hint.”

Zelena’s eyes swept the room, and Lacey groaned as they latched onto Gold.

“She’s seen you,” she sighed.  “She’s coming over.  Want me to throw my drink over her?”

“I believe the Mayor has distracted her,” said Gold, nodding to where Regina Mills had grasped her sister’s arm and was speaking to her in an urgent tone.

“See, even the Mayor knows she’s making an idiot of herself over you,” said Lacey with a sniff.

“Thank you,” he said dryly, and she sighed.

“That wasn’t an insult, I just mean that she seems to think ‘no’ means ‘try harder’.”

“Well, I suppose there isn’t much to choose from in this town,” he said wearily.  “I’m a single man with my own home and business.  Perhaps that’s really all she’s looking for.”

“Hmm.”  Lacey pursed her lips as an idea formed in her mind.  “Hey, I’ve just had a thought.  What if we pretend to be dating?  Might make her take a hint, what do you say?”

Gold raised an eyebrow at her.

“So if my knowledge of romance tropes is accurate,” he said.  “Your plan is to create a fake story and tell the whole of Storybrooke that we’ve been secretly dating for some weeks in order to convince Miss Mills that I’m not interested in her.”  He tutted, shaking his head in amusement.  “Sounds like a lot of work.”

“Uh-huh.  Or, I could just kiss you.”

He blinked at her.

“What?” he said weakly.

“I could kiss you,” she repeated.  “A good, long kiss.  We even have mistletoe here.  Kiss me like you mean it, and maybe she’ll start looking elsewhere.”

Gold licked his lips, his eyes darting around the room as though he was trying to find a way out, but then they returned to meet hers, and he nodded slowly.

“Alright,” he said, and put down his drink.

Lacey put hers down too, turning back as he stepped closer.  His chest was rising and falling beneath the thin silk of his shirt, and she wondered what he looked like beneath his fine suits and expensive shirts.  She wondered if he would be a good kisser.  If he would be a good lover.  She thought so.  He seemed meticulous in everything he did, and he had those lovely long fingers.  He was reaching up to touch her with them now, stroking her cheek and along her jawline into the dark curls of her hair.  His touch made her shiver, and she felt her heart thump.

He lowered his head, pressing his mouth to hers, and she ran her hands up his arms to his shoulders, her fingers sliding into his soft hair as her tongue slipped into his mouth.  Gold let out a tiny groan, his own tongue stroking against hers, and she pressed herself against him, enjoying the taste of the whisky on his tongue and the feel of his body, firm and lean against her soft curves.  He pushed her back against the wall, his lips sliding over hers, and Lacey moaned as he kissed along her jaw and down her neck, his mouth sucking at her skin.  A crash of glass behind them made them stop, and over his shoulder she could see Zelena Mills, standing there with clenched fists, glaring daggers at Lacey.  She whirled away, wrenching open the diner door and storming out, and Lacey turned her eyes back to Gold.  He was watching her, his breathing unsteady, his eyes dark, and she licked her lips.

“That - that felt like you put a lot of effort into it,” she said breathlessly.  “Ten out of ten for your acting.”

“Yes,” he said, and his voice was low and rough, making her think of how he might sound in the throes of passion.  She swallowed hard.

“So, you’re not keen on big crowds, right?” she said, and he gave her a twisted little smile.

“Indeed not.”

Lacey jerked her head at the door.

“Want to get out of here?”

Festive fic prompts already written

[whisperstothe0cean-blog]

Letter#2 (attempt 3)

Well yup that tears it. I’m quitting on the asks for now! Keep an eyeball on your @0ceanofdarkness tag or just check this here bloggity blog every now and then <3

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*Tears open a bag of fluffies from the grocery and dumps them to an already bubbling cauldron* So the soups cookin now! Extra fluffy with a side of Bae, my FaaaaVorite recipe. 

Now’s a good time to throw in anything extra if you want it! 5 word only prompts are hard i find, though do I have something good going i hope you might like! 

Are there any other ‘ingredients’ you'd like to toss in before I set it to stew? Time periods? locations? Prooooops? Do let me know if you'd like some “extra spices” in there!

-Santa