#onellabella

[dingdongyouarewrong]

30 for the ask meme!

30. pick one of your favorite quotes.

oh my god they were roommates

[youngerdrgrey]

ooh imagine maria and monica starting to stargaze bc Monica insists she can see Carol up in space, and she makes up long elaborate stories about all the heroic things she's doing

oooh yes. Maria’s fine most nights. She listens and nods and dreams, but one night, she couldn’t play along anymore.

+ on ao3, as her head’s always on her shoulders

They’d been on a blanket that night because the porch didn’t offer the best view of the whole sky. Bug spray thickened in their throats, but Monica used that as a reason to talk even louder. Faster to beat the cough building from too many nights out under the stars until way after her bedtime.

“She probably fights a hundred aliens a day,” Monica said. She propped herself up on her elbows to get a better look.

Maria’s eyebrows hiked up. “One hundred?”

“Yup, all over the galaxy. She flew through a spaceship, Mom; she can beat some aliens. And then she finds the little aliens that need somewhere to go and protects them, like she did with the Skrulls. Gosh, I hope her communicator can take pictures. We should’ve given her a camera. I want to see everything! Their new planet, and what a star looks like up close, and where we’ll all go on spring break.”

Maria’d tried a few times by then to slow down Monica’s daydreams. Subtle reminders that spring break would be a normal one this year. Maybe they’d go to Disney World, or Disneyland, if they felt really adventurous. But into space? How were they supposed to do that when Carol didn’t even leave a number? Did Carol even have a number? Phone service barely worked down here on Earth, so it sure as hell wasn’t working in space.

Monica laughed to herself. “We could go the moon, Mom! We could be the first women up there. Or anywhere!”

Maria scoffed. She meant to stifle it, thought she did, but Monica narrowed her eyes at the sound. Eyebrows stitched together as her lips pursed. A flush grew under Maria’s cheeks.

She sat up and reached out to rub a hand down Monica’s arm. “Great idea, baby. You know it is. And I believe it’s possible, but…” Carol left them for six years. Sure, she didn’t remember then, but what’s to say remembering will make any difference this time? What’s to say that she’ll come back at all?

“No but’s,” Monica said.

“Well,” not a but, “your dreams and ideas might not come true this year. We don’t know if she’s coming back.”

Monica launched herself the rest of the way up. “When she’s coming back, Mom. She loves us. She’s coming back, and we’re all gonna see the stars together. She’s coming back. We’re her family. We’re her home.”

“You were a little young last time Carol had a purpose like this. She might want to be here, but she can’t turn down an opportunity to prove that she’s unstoppable. ‘Higher, further, faster’ at all times, Monica. I don’t want you to get your hopes up and then have them come….”

“Come what?” Monica sneered, but the tears lining her eyes stole some of the bite away. “Come crashing down? Because they already did that. And we got through that. We’ll get through this, and whatever comes next because that’s what families do. She’s coming back, and we’re going with her, and no one is dying again. Okay!?”

Her little chest heaved with shaking breaths. Her fists clenched into the blanket beneath them.

Maria sighed. She shouldn’t have said anything. Monica might be older this time, but that just means she understands a lot more of what could happen. She can remember the loss better this time.

“You wouldn’t let me leave the house after Carol last time. You wouldn’t sleep if I had to fly. Your alarms went off so long before mine just so that you could tell me you loved me and go over my flight plans before I left. Baby, we can’t do that again. I can’t….” Maria cleared her throat to get control back. “We can dream, and we can hope, but we’re not putting our lives on hold for that. If you believe that she’s coming back, great, but we don’t need the stars to have an adventure of our own. A life of our own. Do you hear me?”

Monica’s jaw clenched. Maria reached up and smoothed out some of the tension. Latched her eyes onto her daughter’s, and let the air carry her question a second time.

“Do you hear me?” she asked.

Monica dropped her eyes. Nodded. Whispered, “She’s coming back.”

Maria tucked Monica into her side, and Monica shook against her.

“I know.” 

Maria just didn’t know if they would be around to see it when she did.

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a/n: they’ve been through a lot, these two. what do you think, though? will Carol take them to the moons? will that make anything better? will someone (else) give us the 20k slow burn long road back to each other fic that I’m barely resisting writing?

[novellaqueen]

moodboard based on 'onella' for @onellabella 

[regalgeek-blog]

Zelena!

First Impression: I was very much in love with her from the moment I saw her? My first impression was, basically “she’s going to hurt Regina and they’re going to fight but despite knowing the pain that will probably happen I am in love.” I like villains when they’re villains and she ticked all of my boxes. Impression now: I love her. She’s snarky and chaotic and immature at times but watching her journey throughout the show was a joy to watch. Like, she makes me go “goddamnit Zelena” on a very regular basis, but thats part of why I love her? Just, everything about her is something I love no matter how horrible it is. Favorite Moment: This is actually really hard? But I think I have to go with her almost sacrificing her life to save Robin. Just ugh, it hit me ridiculously hard and I loved it as much as I was also feeling many, many, many, things. Idea for a Story: I have...A lot of them, actually. A story where Rumple didn’t “kill” her at the end of season 3, pretty much any story involving her raising Robin, multiple crossover stories including the cross-over I’m currently working on, just a lot of stories okay. Unpopular Opinion: Honestly I feel like loving her as much as I do is an unpopular opinion sometimes but. I suppose besides that it would be that I actually loved her redemption arc? And that I am very much annoyed with the people bashing it while still propping up other redemption arcs? This is only referencing those who do this kind of thing in her tag rather than the anti tags Like, her arc was messy af, but it fit her a a character! And it was a good arc that indeed ended with her as a better person! Favorite Relationship: Oh this is actually really hard. I love her relationships with both Regina and Robin so much....I think I have to go with her Relationship with Regina, however, just because I’ve been invested in it so much longer. Favorite Headcanon: I have a headcanon that Zelena is a musical theater nerd that I will love and defend until my dying day. It started when she was pretending to be Marian in New York and made Robin take her to go see Wicked, and it spiralled from there. Every year for her birthday, she and Regina (and Robin once she was old enough) would go and see a musical. 

[strangesmallbard]

thoughts on constance hardbroom?

i haven’t watched enough 1998 tww to have extremely coherent thoughts but!!! she’s stern and she cares and she’s POWERFUL and a NERD and i’m a big fan! i watched the first ep of weird sisters academy and mildred turned to her for advice (well a magical hologram version BUT) and that made me emo?

also this is on kermit’s book in my. icon

[rebelbyrdie]

what would be your ideal project to see lana in post ouat

She’s so talented!  She belongs on a great show.  A lot of people want to see her on a Shondaland show.  That would be good.  I would like to see her on something dramatic, something she can sink her teeth into.  Maybe something on HBO or Amazon.  A strong female with an agenda.  I don’t think we’ll see her do any genre work, though, because she won’t want to get typecast.  Honestly, give her a Sopranos style show, she did marvelously when she guest-starred on Chase.

Thanks :)

[janetfraiser]

what's something you've always wanted to do?

just for fun, buy a plane ticket for somewhere and go, that very same day. or a train ticket. just something extravagant and crazy for the pure thrill of adventure!

lack of an airport close enough, and funds, however have prevented this goal so far

anonymously (or not) ask me any question you’d like to know about me

[marbhan]

onellabella

replied to your post

“lmao i feel like raquel cassidy is having the time of her life playing…”

aaaahh yes this! you explained it, there’s something about her on the everyday side that makes those small moments of genuine vulnerability feel so much stronger. Another one that gets me is when she’s trying to pull Ada out of the portrait, just before the alarm goes off

OMG DON’T GET ME STARTED THIS MIGHT BE MY FAVOURITE SPELL-CASTING MOMENT OF THE WHOLE SEASON 1

(okay, I wrote this and I immidietely knew I was lying, my favourite spell-casting moment is obv all the girls chanting to break agatha’s spell because I’m a sucker for theatrics, what a surprise)

but I LOVE this moment. mostly because raquel cassidy’s voice, undoing me on the best of days, is especially soothingly attractive in this scene

but also??? the scene before that??? when mildred tries to cast the same spell and hecate tells her to go and hide and be save and omg this is a. good. moment. 

I think - I haven’t thought much about it, so it’s a first-thought idea - it might be due to the fact she’s actually not that mean/viscious to the girls on everyday basis? she’s just (”just”) hella hardcore? I mean, I’ve seen people comparing her to snape and UGH THIS IS THE WORST COMPARISON EVER becayse as much as I love the concept of severus snape as a character, he’s a straight up abusive teacher??? which makes me so angry as someone who works at school and with children all the time? and sure, hecate’s super demanding and loves order and having this whole Persona air about her which simply makes it impossible to fuck around at her classes. but? she’s not a bully. and she CARES about the students and you can TELL. idk, I’m still stressing out the fact I can only base this on this reboot, but I think it’s also quite visible in the way girls - really YOUNG girls - react to her and behave around her? I’ve had a teacher exactly like her at school once and boy, was I afraid to piss her off by making mistakes (due to not preping enough) but in the same time I knew, always knew, she was a good teacher and I could learn so much from her? 

idk, I guess what I’m slopily trying to say is that even though she’s so Extra sometimes, her portrayal as a whole makes so much sense? even in those dramatic, exaggerated moments there’s an undertone of Good Teacher, Cares About Children, Super Repressed, which makes the most vulnerable moments land as well as they do.