The fic meme: "Not A Fool Now (Better Run And Hide)" (bonus points of it's a Rireth fic fac 'cause i'm trash and i miss Galavant)
send me one of these titles and I’ll tell you one (1) fact about the eventual fic /future of the fic
Dude, I miss my in-love gay fantasy dorks so fucking much, you have no idea. God, I need to get back to my fics for these two.
If I titled a Rireth fic as Not A Fool Now (Better Run And Hide), the premise would most likely be a fic where Richard is dealing with the low expectations of him by his family; no one expects him to be a good king, they think of him as stupid and dreamy and unfit for the role. He proves them wrong, but in an AU of sorts he starts to lose his ability to feel.
Obviously, Richard never had that happen, he loved deeply for his entire life, but in this fic it would be different and in his attempts to be a Good King he would begin to lose that ability to love. Meaning he and Gareth never become an item. He always has this nagging feelings about Gareth, and little dreams about him while he sleeps, but every time he acknowledges them he runs away from them just as quickly because no, softness and emotions are bad.
The fic itself would probably end with Richard gaining back that softer side, probably due to Gareth saving his life - again - and the two of them being stuck caring for each other due to, I dunno, a storm that keeps them stuck or an army having destroyed the castle so that they’re trapped in just one side of it.
I don’t know. I rambled a lot, but I like the idea of a fic where Richard becomes cold and callous, but has this nagging feelings for his bodyguard that end up finally breaking his walls down when the two of them have to be comforters and confidantes to each other in a war zone.
And I loved it, oh my god did I love it, except... in season 1--which, utter perfection--Richard and Gareth were so damn bromantic, then--season 2 opener--the Enchanted Forest, and Uncle Keith, and Gareth having guilty nightmares because of Richard... but suddenly, BAM, they both turned out to be incredibly hetero. And that made me sad.
-whispers- as a Rireth shipper who wonders why it's such an unpopular ship, i just have to say that one, your art of them (and your art in general as I see now) is amazing, and two, hi, it's wonderful to meet another shipper.!
Aaahh, thank you so much! I just recently watched through Galavant, and it's such a shame it's not a popular ship, I need more of this Rireth ;0;...but then again, I suppose I should be used to this, my favorite shipping trope of the ruler x their second often isn’t the popular one umu
I was tagged by my enby space dad @bouncingbones. Actually, I wasn’t, but I’m a bored and sad bee right now so I’m doing it anyway, all of you suck it.
Rules: Tag 15 people you would like to get to know better. Umm... do I even know 15 people who don’t think I’m a maniac. I dunno. You, reading this - I tag you.
Name: I’m still trying to decide on one. Let’s go with Angelus.
Zodiac: Leo.
Gender: Male. Trans male, actually. But yo.
Sexuality: Weird. My sexuality is Weird. I’m sex-repulsed asexual. But I fall very easily in love with boys. Or men. Mostly men 30 years old and older. But also sometimes - very rarely, but sometimes - I fall in love with women as well. And nonbinary folks (more often than women but you know). So... panromantic and leaning toward men? I guess? Who knows, not me.
Favorite color: I love them all. But if I had to choose my top three: green, gold, and blue.
Favorite books: I have a lot. I’m sorry. Let’s go with the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke. And any nonfiction books on acting, filmmaking, or behind-the-scenes of my favourite films and television programmes.
Favorite films: So many. So, so many. To highlight a few... Indiana Jones (all), Inkheart, Eragon, Van Helsing, National Treasure (both but mainly the first one), My Bodyguard, D.C. Cab, The Luck of the Irish, Tangled, Jumanji, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, Lord of the Rings (all), The Hobbit (all), Pirates of the Caribbean (all), Thor (both), The Outsiders, 3:15... you know, a bunch of films no one has ever heard of, some that people despise, and some that are highly popular.
Your OTPs: Carlton Lassiter/Juliet O’Hara (Psych), Cain/Colette Mullen (Supernatural), King Richard/Gareth (Galavant), John Constantine/Zed Martin (Constantine), John Casey/Sarah Walker (Chuck), Rumplestiltskin/Belle (Once Upon A Time), Eli/Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess), annnd... Simon/Sister Carmel (The Booth At The End). I think that’s it. And the only ones that are true OTPs for me are the first three.
Current time: 1:39 PM.
Average hours of sleep: I don’t know. Four if I’m lucky.
Dream job: The one I could never get. My dream job is to be an actor and filmmaker (maybe a writer on the side). I want to make enough money to travel and to help my friends and family who are struggling. I want to be able to play the roles I’ve always admired all my life; the tough guys, the fighters, the intimidating characters who act like they don’t give a damn when secretly they care all to much. The sorts of people I look up to and want to be and will never be.
Height: 5′2′’. A fact that leaves me drowning in self-hatred more often than not, haha. Short men aren’t exactly respected. Especially ones shorter than the average woman. And they mostly play comedy relief or bullied weaklings. There’s my future.
What do you post: A lot of personal stuff, since this is one of my only safe havens. I do post a lot of Timothy Omundson and Adam Baldwin stuff usually. Quite a bit of Galavant usually. Occasionally I liveblog whatever I’m watching. I’ve been posting moodboards I made rather frequently... been meaning to post more poetry. I also reblog a lot of pretty pictures and poems and such. Basically, my blog is a ragtag mix of a lot of things.
Why did you choose your URL: I needed a new URL. I gathered quotes from my favourite singers and characters, and had friends help me choose one. not-shakespearian-if-you-lose is from a Frank Turner song. I chose Frank Turner because he is currently my favourite musical artist. He’s very down to earth, and his songs are realer than any songs I’ve heard from other artists. Each one tells a story, and they’re often very serious stories.
The URL itself is a bit from his song Richard Divine. The full verse goes as follows:
“He said he’s not for sale, said that he felt hounded,
crowded and surrounded by this life he didn’t choose.
But everybody plays this game on a daily basis.
They’re not heroes, they’re survivors,
and it’s not Shakespearian if they lose.
So do what you want, do what the voices tell you,
but don’t ever say that we didn’t warn you.
He said he’s not for sale, but he bought into his failure.
He’s telling tales that hammer nails right into open palms.
A martyr in reverse, he’s best at being worst,
the rest of us are cursed but we keep calm and we carry on.”
It’s just a song I relate a lot to, and as such, I liked the idea of putting a bit of it into my blog.
Anyway, yeah, there was my useless rambling. I tag whoever is reading this. Go do it. Now.
WOOHOO (ok we’re gonna assume this is a modern au for the ease of answering)
rireth is honestly probably a B ship for me? it’s cute and i like it but i care way more about how my friends enjoy it. :v
who cries when someone dies in a movie: RICHARD. mr evil king with blood on his hands doesn’t like it when someone he’s come to empathize with or like dies even for narrative purposes. he’s in willful denial of at least 15 fictional deaths and also demands one of his servants read spoilers abt the movie so he can go into it KNOWING if someone dies.
who wears the ugly holiday garb: richy rich richard!! as hideous and ostentatious as he can get, and he looks ridiculous, but the moment anyone starts to laugh at him, they have to remember that the hulking dude next to him is his bf.
who pays for the meals: richard. gareth would, but richard won’t let him, and besides, he pays gareth anyway, so either way it’s coming out of his money. (gareth goes hunting every fall and makes meals out of the things he’s killed or has one of the cooks do it so richard will stop wasting money)
who slams the oven door and who plays the trombone: richard’s on oven door, gareth is on trombone and deliberately swinging it as he plays to take out as many people as possible when they come to see what the noise is about
who brings home stray animals: richard and gareth both do this lmao richard ends up feeding strays or petting them and they follow him home meanwhile gareth comes back from hunting seasons like ‘yeah this is rex and this here’s king. thought they could steal my kill but now they know who’s in charge. (meanwhile richard is going pale bc THOSE ARE DIREWOLVES?? GARETH, PLS)
who leaves the bathroom door open: gareth bc gareth’s an animal
who tells the ‘dad jokes’: richard tells horrible jokes constantly. gareth’s picked up the habit a bit and he HATES it
who wants kids more: mmmmmm i feel like this one’s gareth. it’s not that he particularly wants kids around; they’re loud and time consuming and needy. but there’s a part of his heart that goes soft around kids that makes him think that it might be worth putting up with.
who travels more: they go on frequent ‘political excursions’ together. gareth doesn’t let richard travel alone.
who spends more cash: idk if richard really has a concept of how much money is? like if someone he cared about came up and was like “i need $100 to go see a movie” richard would just give them the cash lmao it practically grows on trees (i’m a trust-fund baby, you can trust me, etc)
who buys the things in infomercials: richard. “BUT THEY SAID IT WAS MAGIC” and gareth’s just “‘LIKE’ MAGIC. it’s a bloody piece of cloth they’re selling to you like a paper towel.”
who draws in the dust on their cars: gareth draws rude things in the dust on richard’s expensive cars bc nothing says ‘sunday drive’ like realizing there’s a dick drawn on the hood of the car that wasn’t noticed for several hours.
who starts the snowball fights: richard and then he calls a truce immediately before gareth can retaliate which only works so many times before his bf shoves a handfull of snow down the back of his shirt.
who throws away the directions to things: gareth. he’s a MAN he doesn’t need INSTRUCTIONS. ikea is honestly his worst enemy.
who puts up holiday decor: RICHARD (or well richard orders to have it done) and he goes over the top because 1) he’s the king 2) he wants it 3) he likes gareth looking all nostalgic and soft during the holiday season. (he also likes hanging up mistletoe and INSISTING that anyone who passes under it HAS to kiss the other person OR ELSE so the castle becomes a fucking game of chutes and ladders where everyone’s trying to avoid the mistletoe doorways)
who is more likely to forget to bathe: gareth could honestly go days without bathing and be fine with it.
who gets more obsessed about things: richard gets highkey obsessed with everything from his own appearance to his country to his people, once he starts Caring about something, it sucks him in, and yknow, he’d actually make a good leader if he could focus that energy productively buuuut uh, he can’t. not yet anyway.
who sings in the shower more often: RICHARD, loud and proud, any song he wants with the security of knowing that no one’s gonna say a damn thing.
how they comfort each other when one of them is upset: richard provides an Unlikely Voice of Reason(tm) while gareth gears up to fight whatever’s gotten him mad, and gareth would do damn near anything to get richard to smile if he’s depressed. they both know each other so well that it’s second nature how they react to these situations.
who asked first: i feel like richard asked gareth abt bisexuality when they were both teenagers and gareth gave a Detailed answer bc he’s been doing some research himself so richard asks if gareth likes anyone in particular and gareth’s just. no. don’t talk to him don’t look at him let him live.
who says ‘i love you’ more: richard. gareth’s not great at emotional declarations, much less spontaneous, unprompted ones, where richard can’t stop if he tried.
kisses more: richard, but kissing’s not really a thing they do that often bc it personally weirds them both out a bit.
hugs more: DEFINITELY richard and he is basically the only person who can get away with hugging gareth.
drinks more: gareth, but rarely to the point of being drunk, bc he hates feeling out of control of himself.
who’s more outgoing: richard but he’s bad at it. his idea of making friends is ordering people to be his friends and reaping the rewards of friendship. forming genuine connections with ppl is hard.
who eats more: gareth eats like 5 meals a day and is still 87% muscle
who’s more needy: definitely richard. he needs physical affection and assurance and basically everything. he’s learning to be self sufficient, but it’s a lifelong journey.
who’s more kinky: gareth but not when it comes to richard.
Who cooks normally?: gareth cooks more often than richard but they usually have a cook make a meal for them or go out to eat.
How often do they fight?: frequently, the way really close people do. but they don’t have big blowout fights very often at all.
What do they do when they’re away from each other?: gareth usually focuses on something physical, whether it’s building something or exercising or whatever it takes to get out of his head. richard tries to focus on what’s in front of him but finds his thoughts wandering back home again.
Nicknames for each other?: richard gets away with ‘gare-bear’ sometimes, and gareth will call him ‘your highness/majesty/etc’ when richard’s being exceptionally Extra(tm)
Who steals the covers at night?: GARETH he likes to sleep all huddled up and cocooned and warm. however, he is the first to initiate sleepy cuddling.
What would they get each other for gifts?: gareth would make something for richard that he couldn’t buy for himself, where richard buys these hugely impractical presents that mean well but gareth has to force himself to use them to keep from hurting his bf’s feelings.
Who remembers things?: gareth. richard remembers, but he’s bad with dates and numbers and kinda has to ballpark it in general and can be months off, where gareth knows the definite date for their big anniversaries.
Who cusses more?: DEFINITELY gareth
What would they do if the other one was hurt?: gareth would lose his temper immediately and turn it on the person or thing that hurt richard. richard frets and fusses and WORRIES and becomes depressed that he can’t do more when gareth can bc he doesn’t realize how being there is so valuable to gareth when he’s hurt and vulnerable.
Who kissed who first?: richard kissed gareth during the mistletoe madness and then acted like it Didn’t Mean Anything until, see below...
Who made the first move?: ...gareth finally made him fess up that he did this on purpose and that they can explore what they have, if that’s what richard wants.
Who started the relationship? it takes some soul searching and a lot of thought before richard’s willing to risk their friendship on his feelings, but he finally gets up the nerve to ask (order) gareth to go on a date with him.
“Richard was your friend. And yes, you took his throne and his Queen and his Kingdom and his favourite shirts and his weekly bridge game ...”
Sid, S02E03 Aw hell, the King
Gareth took Richard’s favourite shirts, yet we only ever see him wear his own, black shirt.
I think Gareth took Richard’s favourite shirts not because those were the best/most valuable ones, but because Richard had worn them a lot so they smelled the most like him.
Headcanon: Gareth missed Richard so much he sniffed his old clothes.
