TEA Time is fast approaching, and I would like to throw my hat into the ring. In order of recency, my fics are:
Begging On His Bended Knees My RSS fic. Gold goes to a dominatrix, who just so happens to be the tenant he’s had a crush on for months. This fic could be nominated for Best BDSM or Best Woobie!Rum
Presents My Rumbelle Christmas in July fic. After Belle walks in on the Dark One in a compromising position, he begins to treat her differently. This could be nominated for Best Kink, Best Dark Castle, or even Best RCIJ
Her Angel When Lady Belle runs away from her wedding, she is helped by a poor spinner and his son. This fic could be nominated for Best Spinner Rum or Best First Meeting.
Trio: A Golden Cuffs Story Rumpelstiltskin invites his former lover Jefferson over to share his new plaything--Belle. This could be nominated for Best Threesome or Best Kink
Sigh. Having spent ages going back and forth on whether I should bother making on of these. I went for the worst option: making one at the last minute.
Every year I hope I’ll have made enough progress publishing my WIPs to suggest nominating them. Alas, yet again I have been thwarted by my health and life. But, despite being in a state of constant migraine for multiple months (this barely being able to use a screen), I did manage to write some fluff pieces I liked. I’m also including some past fics of mine that are eligible too.
Amends:
Dark Castle fluff written for Fluffapalooza 2021. Rumple has noticed something up with Belle's behaviour over the past few days, and is concerned one morning when he smells blood on her. Belle is upset by his nosiness and he has to work out how to make things right with her.
Possible Categories: Best Fluffapalooza, Best Argument (Fluff)
Family Photos:
This was my second Fluffapalooza piece. It’s a ficlet set in the same ’verse as “Unlovely Thoughts” but far in the future when everything’s resolved and Rumbelle, Gideon, Henry and Neal go out for ice cream.
Possible Categories: Best Fluffapalooza, Best Drabble*
*Technically speaking not a true dabble but it’s a similar length to multiple past winners.
Distractions:
More Dark Castle Fluff. Rumplestiltskin finds his maid very distracting -- only because of her antics though, not for any other reason.
Possible Categories: Best Comedy, Best Dark Castle
An Unconventional Gift:
Yet more Dark Castle fluff (do you get a sense of what I like to write?). Rumplestiltskin brings a baby back to the Dark Castle.
Possible Categories: Best Dark Castle, Best One-Shot, Best Family
A Christmas Present for Mama:
After giving birth to their second child Belle loses her memories. But it's Christmastime and Gideon doesn't want her to miss out on her present so father and son pay a visit to her in hospital.
Possible Categories: Best Gideon, Best Child Fic
A Moment’s Peace and Quiet:
Belle and Rumplestiltskin relax after a long day and discuss their family.
Possible Category: Best Family
Thanks for your consideration! I know some of my fics don’t fit into the categories that well so if you think any of them fit into a different category that’s better you are welcome to nominate in that category instead/ as well.
It’s that time again. I know I didn’t post consistently in December, but thank you everyone who kept reading and leaving comments! I hope you’ll consider nominating some of them. If you do, here are my suggestions for fics that are eligible this year, for your consideration:
One of the Others - Best Supernatural and Best AU Belle
An isolated Gold and Belle struggle to connect with people, until they find each other. It probably helps that they’re both undead.
Whisky Glasses - Best Golden Lace and Best Lacey
Neal invites Lacey to stay at his dad’s house whilst her apartment’s flooded. You can guess what happens next. [Prequel to Lipstick Kisses]
Dearly Departed - Best Historical AU and Best Horror
Late Georgian AU for October, with body snatchers and their cadavers coming back to life. Sort of.
The Cunning - Best Creature AU and Best Unexpected Twist
People keep going missing in the woods, and Belle suspects Gold knows why.
Lace Roses - Best Smut: B/D//S/M and Best AU!OUAT
AU where Rumple falls over the town line instead of Belle, and leaves Gold to discover the truth about his relationship with French’s daughter. (I’m censoring the category so tumblr doesn’t block it.)
A Faint Reflection - Best Dark Castle and Best Wish!Rumple.
The reunion Wish!Belle and Wish!Rumple deserved, with a mixture of fluff, angst, and misunderstandings.
The Best Offer - Best Movie AU and Best AU Gold.
Written for 2020's RCIJ, inspired by the film of the same name. An esteemed auctioneer meets an elusive and enigmatic young heiress.
I’d also really appreciate it if you considered me for Best Author. I hope everyone had a good New Year, and Happy TEAs! 🖤
This year all of my work aside from the secret gifting events was centered around A Monthly Rumbelling, which put out 5 fics a month for 12 months in a row. As I wrote this series I had a plan: to create a Choose Your Own Adventure series using the individual stand alone works from that 60 fic library. So far I have created two fics in the Rumbelle Me A Story series, but there are several more to come.
I would be honored if any of my writing was to be nominated, but my pride and joy for the year is the Rumbelle Me A Story series and in that series, the fic titled Those We Leave Behind. I would be grateful if readers would consider them for a TEA award this year.
This post includes noms for Best Series, Best Rumbelle Fic, Best One Shot, the fics for Best Events. and a Best Monthly Rumbelling fics list for smut and non-smut. Another post will follow with the rest.
Best Series - Rumbelle Me A Story
Summary: Welcome to your very own telling of the Rumbelle story. This Choose Your Own type series takes all of my Monthly Rumbelling fics and glues them together in such a way that your reading experience is different every time. I am writing a "spine" fic where the others all fit into place and hope to include a wide range of ideas by the series end. Don't see the one you're looking for? Prompt me. I might find a way to include your idea.
Best Rumbelle Fic - Beauty and the Beast
Summary: A retelling of Belle and Rumple's story from beginning to end using Monthly Rumbelling fics, written so that you get to decide what part of the story comes next.
Best Rumbelle Fic - Those We Leave Behind
Summary: Regina finds one of Henry's storybooks after he leaves from a visit with his family. She thinks it is empty, but when she opens it she discovers a whole collection of stories about Belle and Rumple. The book tells of their lives together and she spends the day reading parts of it. Will she get to finish or will she be interrupted and what will she decide is the best place for such a collection of memories?
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Behind this cut you will find a few more nomination suggestions.
Thank you for considering any of them.
Best One Shot - A Monthly Rumbelling
Summary: A collection of one-shots using the Monthly Rumbelling prompts on tumblr for the entire year of 2021. These short fics are also a part of the Rumbelle Me A Story series, making up the chapters of Belle and Rumple's lives that tell their story in various ways.
If you found one of these fics memorable, please nominate it for best One Shot.
I am particularly fond of Storm, Ingredients, Marble, Logs, Piercing, Carousel, Ritual, Wax, and Memory, but Steps, Stacks, Stroll, Shop, Delivery, and Sunshine were popular with readers as well.
Best Monthly Rumbelling (Non Smut)
Here you will find a list of all of my non-smut Monthly Rumbelling one shots. Please consider any of these which you found memorable to be included in your nominations.
Summary: After Belle's recovery from the incident with Hook and the car at the town line, the people of Storybrooke have rallied behind her to help test her memories. Brought on by an idea from Mary Margaret, her friends break off into two teams, one captained by Belle, the other by a rather reluctant Gold. The groups race each other to points around town just for the fun of it, but Belle starts up a little bet with Gold on the side. Whoever wins is going to get something very special.
Rumbelle Secret Santa - The Oldest Door
Summary: Belle has been taken to the Dark Castle as Rumplestiltskin's maid but the Dark One has plans for her beyond simple servitude, all revolving around texts hidden behind the castle's most mysterious door. Older than all the rest and out of place, it is the only door Belle is not allowed to use. As the winter passes both the rules and Rumple's plans begin to change. Can the promises made at the door's threshold survive in a land without magic or will they be forever changed with the curse that approaches?
I don't have much to put forward because the past year has been - well, it wasn't great, although I ended in a much better place than when I started. Also I was mostly working on old fics, so there are only a couple of new things.
Comfort and Joy is the latest Extracurricular/RumBelleRush fic that I FINALLY finished so if you wanted, you could nominate that for Best Threesome. Usual Gold and Rush bickering and then lots of orgasms for Belle. You could nominate the Extracurricular series for Best Series, if you were so inclined. It's just fun and smut with no angst, which is very unlike me.
A Rose in Winter is my continuation of Key to the Cell, in which Dark Castle Rumbelle travel to the Land Without Magic to find Baelfire. Heartfelt Papafire reunion at Christmas and the Blue Fairy meets her doom. I suppose that might fit Best Storybrooke or maybe Best Baelfire. I was thinking it might fit Reunion but I'm not sure how much fluff is needed to qualify and while there is some fluff, there's also a little angst due to the Papafire feels.
Obviously these are only suggestions and I'd be grateful for any nominations you wanted to throw my way.
Good evening, dear readers and followers. I had the hardest time this year trying to decide which of my fics I would suggest for nomination in this year’s TEAs. There are some that I might have liked to have nominated, but I just don’t think I’ve written far enough into the fics to warrant that honor. So what follows are my suggestion. They are only suggestions, if you would like to nominate any others, please feel free to do so.
If you’re not sure of my fics, you can find them all here on AO3
You can also nominate any of my Monthly Rumbelling fics, they can be found by following the AO3 link above.
Links to the individual fics I am suggesting follow their images.
In the spirit of the quote I posted today, and before I go off and disappear for the weekend. (Weekends are family time and/or me time, so I don’t do internet/sm stuff - though I will be reading a lot for some reason - *laughs softly)... I used to work in HR. We had a rule for vacant positions that you could not appoint from a field of one. That has stuck with me, and I have a hard time shaking it. It’s something I’m facing right now as I look at the fics I’m going to be reading to prepare for my vote. What is the generally accepted practice in fandom?
