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Also btw Emma's "sorry, the only one who saves me is me" isn't a motto or a mantra or a creed. It's a statement of fact. Her parents didn't save her from the foster system. Neal didn't save her from prison. August didn't help her fight the dragon to save her son when she finally believed in magic. The only one who's ever saved Emma is Emma. She's not breaking herself out of this cell because she doesn't want anyone to save her, she's breaking herself out because she doesn't expect anyone to save her- the only one who's ever saved Emma is Emma, and why should this time be any different?
#once upon a time#ouat#captain swan#emma swan#killian jones#the cs movie#once upon a time season 1#once upon a time season 2#once upon a time season 3#no place like home#ouat s3 finale
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favourite ouat scenes: 15/?
#ouat#ouatedit#captain swan#captainswanedit#emma swan#emmaswanedit#killian jones#killianjonesedit#captainhookedit#henry mills#mine#gifs#ouat scenes#listen. my love for deckhand!hook will never die#look at him#killian's love for emma is simply too powerful#but also. he didn't know who she was and once she realized it her reaction reminds me sm of the s3 finale#where emma is sad bc snow didn't recognize her. and the fact that killian comforted her over it hurts#but unlike past!snow. deckhand!hook is immediately open to emma#so they could bond :) and he could die for her <3#and look at his face in the last gif#he mouths 'what' because what wedding?? is he helping them??? why????#and then he just smiles and accepts it#bc he just committed mutiny against his captain and then stole the jolly roger so like. what else is he gonna do#deckhand hook#200
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mikey's ouat rewatch notes: 1x02 edition
#once upon a time#mikey's ouat rewatch#ouat#ouat 1x02#i am on s3 mid finale by now#and I don't have ANY NOTES per 1x23 to 3x12#why tf that happened#emma swan#regina mills#morwn
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My Art Summary for 2023!
Template made by ArielDrawsDragons on DeviantArt!
January/February: No art. Didn't have much time to make art for myself, and I hadn't made anything for class yet.
March: Poster for the font Franklin Gothic. Not really attached to this one.
April: Pros + Cons of Different Headphone Types Zine. I know I posted this in May, but I actually finished it in April. My favorite are bluetooth over-ear headphones.
May: The House of Moth Menu. I was inspired by GHOST and Pals' song "Honey I'm Home" for the theme. Had a lot of fun coming up with the food options!
June: Circus Baby from FNAF: Sister Location. I made it for my cover of "At Sister Location" by Chi-Chi.
July: Titan!Luz. I started sketching it on my iPad while hanging out with some friends. We all just had a drawing session together. I'm really proud of this piece because her Titan design is extremely detailed (and her HAIR. It's beautiful and fabulous and I didn't wanna mess it up). I also like the glow effect on her chest and hat.
August: Redraw of Carly from the revival's S3 finale. So iCarly consumed my brain over the summer. Creddie became canon, Spencer has 11 kids??, I want to kill Paul, it's a good revival. But the reveal of Carly's mom??? DUDE. I knew I had to redraw that scene. I'm really proud of the hair and the background in this one.
September: Still Life Illustration. I took a Digital painting class this semester, and learned how to use ProCreate. I like the shading in this piece, and think I replicated the plant very well.
October: Flower Art. I recreated two different plants I found in plant books, and then made copies and changed the color/hue of them to make a more full composition.
November: Redraw of Emma from the OUAT S4 finale. I love this scene and I love her outfit and she kicks ass.
December: Redraw of Regina from OUAT S1 ep 21. I love this scene and how intense it is. Also gives more insight into Regina's character and the guilt she feels.
#art summary#art summary 2023#circus baby#fnaf#fnaf sister location#luz noceda#titan luz#the owl house#toh#carly shay#icarly#icarly revival#emma swan#regina mills#once upon a time#ouat#my art
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Hello again everyone! Please help me welcome @goforlaunchcee to the CSSNS23!!!
What’s your Tumblr?
@goforlaunchcee /xhookswenchx (on AO3)
How long have you been in the CS/OUAT fandom?
I hopped onto tumblr when I needed more CS content after the S3 finale. (That was a long hiatus!)
When did you start shipping Captain Swan?
Season 2. How could you NOT?
What drew you to this event?
I've done it before and had a lot of fun. :)
What inspired your topic?
Honestly? I was wracking my brain for a topic, and finally gave up. Then, it just hit me before I went to bed one night, and VOILA! The plot bunny was born!
If you would like to share a snippet/sneak peek/summary of your fic or artwork, please use the space below.
Emma Swan didn’t believe in ghost stories. It didn’t matter that the entire town warned her about the old building, she just couldn’t buy into the nonsense. Was the previous owner’s story sad and somewhat mysterious? Sure. But his disappearance wasn’t anything weird. He disappeared before most of the people telling his story were even born.
So in her eyes, it was nothing more than an urban legend. A cold case that lingered over the town like a bad memory.
She could relate to that. There were a million bad memories she was attempting to escape. The story of Killian Jones just helped her get a prime spot in town at a cheap price. It was perfect. She’d fix up the old bar and people would see that it was just another building.
What are you looking forward to most about participating in this event?
The new content to read!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, this is gonna be GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! Everyone go say hi to Cee and welcome her to the event! Her ghost story MC will be dropping on Friday July 7!
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20 questions for fic writers
shamelessly stolen from @sapphicsandscience <3 questions and rambly answers beneath the read more!
How many works do you have on AO3?
63.
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
451,140.
I’m kind of impressed that it’s almost half a million, but also just how much I wrote in the last two years after not writing/publishing anything at all in 2021.
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Currently, Star Trek: TNG and PIC. Before that, the fandom I wrote the most for was Once Upon a Time. Everything else was just two or three fics, at least on AO3. I’ve been writing fic for decades so there are A LOT of fics and fandoms that have been lost to time. (Random shout out to Battlestar Galactica, which I wrote for back in my LiveJournal days!)
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
I’m going to do two sets here, because my All Years one are all OUAT fics no one cares about anymore, and I have enough fics published from this year to have a top five of 2023 so my current fandom has something to read that will make sense to them lol.
All Years
The Fire’s Found a Home in Me - my Dragon Outlaw Queen magnum opus, the one shot collection that makes up the bulk of my Flicker Beat universe that divulges in season four. Technically “unfinished” but complete since it was never intended to have a true ending.
It Happened Once… - a Evil Captain Charming crackfic that honestly has way more kudos than I expected. This one for some reason sees a lot of traction still. It was originally supposed to have a just-as-cracky sequel, but I never finished it.
A Loaded God Complex - ah, Golden Queen, my guilty pleasure OUAT ship. Set in s6, this was the start of a set of one-shots that took the romantic Golden Queen that finally blossomed in that season and ran with it. Mostly involves a lot of dark power struggles masking as sex. Aptly all titled after Fall Out Boy lyrics, if I say so myself.
Put Your Venom in Me - another Golden Queen fic, see above.
The Computation - a little Dragon Queen one-shot I did, short and sweet. Honestly surprised it’s on here, because it’s not my best work by any means.
2023
peace - my Picard/Crusher fic set directly after the epilogue in the PIC s3 finale. I was pleasantly surprised by how much attention this fic has gotten. I had suspected I would end up writing a prequel, but I never thought it’d turn into the four part series that it has. I hope everyone still enjoys it.
Mastermind - the first Star Trek: TNG fic I wrote since I was a teenager watching TNG for the first time! This was entirely thanks to my friend Jess, if I’m remembering correctly? She prompted me to rewrite the season 2 episode “Manhunt” with Beverly in it instead of Pulaski, because my favorite toxic trait of Beverly’s is her jealousy.
what could’ve been, should’ve been (you) - my PIC s3 Picard/Crusher masterpiece. I got the idea for this by the end of episode two, struggled with it as the season went on, and then finally wrangled it into something that I truly love.
in the business of misery - jealous!Beverly makes a reappearance in this s4 TNG fic that fixes QPid. Because fuck Vash, okay.
trustfall - dlfshfsl this fic. If what could’ve been, should’ve been (you) is my PIC masterpiece, I think trustfall is my TNG one. I disparage it a bit by talking as if it’s shameless smut, but honestly I’m quite proud of it as a character piece as Picard and Beverly navigate a new relationship and new dynamics across 11k of words. Set in TNG s3, post-Sarek.
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I try to! I genuinely appreciate comments, because I find it quite difficult to give them myself, so as a part of trying to be better I also try to respond to comments. I’m an awkward turtle, though, so I feel like I usually end up babbling about things people probably did not care about. If I don’t babble, I usually just leave a short and sweet “thanks for reading” that I hope doesn’t come across as insincere.
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Probably Winter Song, a OUAT fic I actually wrote for a holiday fandom advent calendar we did back in the OQ fandom. It’s a wedding fic, and smutty as is my usual, but it’s got a heavy dose of sadness. I sort of tried to make it hopeful in the end, because ending a Christmas fic with no hope felt like I was killing Christmas.
Another OUAT fic I wrote, A Spark to Ignite, was also really angsty, now that I think about it and doesn’t involve any character death (canon or otherwise). It was supposed to have a part two that fixed it but I never wrote it.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Oooh. I’ll be polite and not take “happiest ending” to be dirty, even though I could list SO MANY fics for that.
bound to break, my Greatest Showman AU that I wrote for Outlaw Queen (OUAT fandom, again) ends pretty cleancut happily after having some angst in the middle. And it’s technically a multi chapter fic, though it’s short lol.
I Know, I Know, I Know (I Feel the Same as You) as my Outlaw Queen college AU always makes me happy when I think about the ending.
8. Do you get hate on fic?
Not really. I’ve gotten some comments that were definitely unnecessary and mean-spirited, but nothing major. Truthfully, I’m not nearly a big enough deal to get hate.
9. Do you write smut?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry, nothing against anyone who doesn’t, but writing smut is basically all I do. It’s what I was known for in my previous fandom. It’s the thing I find the easiest to write, and secretly I suffer from a lot of insecurity because I feel like it’s the only thing I actually write very well. For a bit, in the OUAT fandom, I felt a little like a smut jukebox and it was entirely my own fault. But I wrote a lot of fun things and ultimately I enjoy writing smut.
10. Do you write crossovers?
I definitely have in my distant fic writing past, but nothing recently. OUAT almost counts as a canon crossover, given the story of it.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not to my knowledge.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
No.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
No, not really. My great network of fic writing friends have definitely provided excellent guidance and suggestions that have been enormously helpful, and that’s the closest I’ve gotten.
14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?
Lol I feel like this is impossible to answer? My current hyperfixation is Picard/Crusher, and that’s a ship I’ve loved for a very, very long time. So maybe it’s that. But I’ll always hold a place in my heart for Outlaw Queen and Dragon Outlaw Queen (especially for the latter, since I wrote SO MUCH of it). Adama/Roslin is my OTP from back in my LiveJournal days that will also be special to me.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but probably won’t?
Funnily enough, it’s not a Star Trek one, even though that’s my current fandom. The WIP I really, really wish I had finished is Where the Burn Marks Form. I had SUCH PLANS for Dragon Outlaw Queen and Calida and got too intimidated by what I wanted to do to actually write it. Sometimes I think it’s for the best though, because I think any remaining DOQ fans might have been sad about what all was supposed to happen (though it was always supposed to have a happy ending).
16. What are your writing strengths?
Smut. Once upon a time (lol), threesomes in particular. Ironically I used to struggle a bit with writing just two people having sex after writing so much Dragon Outlaw Queen, but I find it not as difficult anymore.
Character voices. Not to brag, but something I pride myself on is getting a character’s voice right. It’s something I work very hard at, and stress a lot over, but generally feel like I succeed.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Literally anything else? You want long, detailed plotty fic? Sorry, can I interest you in a smutty one shot instead. You want something angsty? Not really my style. You want a well-plotted completely alternate universe fic? LOL please, I write fic so I don’t have to world build. Canon compliant or canon divergence or bust, baby.
I write on vibes, and I’m sure sometimes that is blatantly obvious. I have the vaguest of plans whenever I sit down to write something, and I go from there. Probably someday I should try to have actual concrete plans and not just “hmm what if i do this” vibes.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
Lol okay let me piss off the entire Picard/Crusher fandom real quick: IN MY OPINION, it is annoying to write dialogue in another language unless it’s like… blatantly obvious what you’re saying. Very rarely is there a point to it, and it can be easily sidestepped by “blah blah blah,” he said in French. Basic phrases, sure. Pet names, have at it! Several sentences in another language?
Look I don’t speak French. If you put French in your fic, I’m having to pull out Google translate and heaven help me if it’s dirty talk, because now Google is translating “I want to fuck you,” to English from different languages (French, it’s French, I didn’t have this problem in my other fandoms). I wish if people were going to do that, they’d at least make a footnote (I would 100% be willing to find out how to format it) and!!! I think you can still use html to set it up so that when you hover over text, it gives you a little mouseover text where you can have the translation!!! That way I don’t have to one: try and scroll down to the end notes hoping for a translation and thus breaking my immersion as I scroll back up, or at least if it’s a footnote it’ll have an anchor taking me back to the sentence in question.
Sorry rant over, everyone please continue writing however you wish, I will deal. And honestly if you use the same French phrases enough I’ll learn them anyway, so it won’t matter in the long run. This absolutely is not a deal breaker for me when it comes to reading a fic, it’s just a pet peeve.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Um, probably Harry Potter but that is my long-forgotten days.
20. Favorite fic you’ve written?
trustfall as mentioned above for Star Trek: TNG. With trustfall, it was maybe the second or third fic I wrote for Star Trek (I mean, at least not counting back when I was in my early teens writing for it) and I really think it's just some of my best work? It's a smut fic, but I think there's really, really good character exploration in it. It easily could have just been a fic where Beverly soft dommes Jean-Luc and all you get is that final scene, but I think the build up really makes it worth it. idk idk I have a lot of feels for this fic lolol.
Wishes in the Dark for OUAT. My key party in Storybrooke fic!! aka my Awkward David fic. I think this is one of the best fics I've written, period, for a lot of the same reasons as above. It's 30k, it's got Dragon Outlaw Queen, but more importantly it's got David lusting after Regina and Mal and getting the chance to sleep with them with Snow's permission... and then also Robin joins in and David realizes some things about himself. There's a whoooole side quest of things that was supposed to happen after this story that I never wrote. It's also got some really tender Evil Charming, because I couldn't resist.
And that's all folks! Thanks for reading if you made it this far, I know I really rambled. <3
#text post#man i haven't posted on tumblr like this in forever#idk what to tag anything with lol#fic writer questions
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ouat's s3 finale was the best time i've ever had watching anything because of the time travel shenanigans...i think ever tv show should do a ridiculous, campy time travel bottle episode, no matter how little sense it makes in the actual universe of the show. let's throw common sense out of the window for a bit and have some unhinged fun!!
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this may be a controversial opinion, especially in the ouat fandom, but belle should have died in s3. stop stop let me finish it's not inherently misogynistic for a woman to die in a piece of media. it would've been a lot more emotionally impactful if she had died resurrecting rumplestiltskin instead of neal. and this is partially because neal is the last person to ever want to resurrect his father, but also because belle never has consequences to her actions. she kept trying to change a man who didn't want to change, and it would've been interesting if that finally came back around to bite her in a way that has consequences. sort of a tragic tale, if you will. a warning that men who don't want to change won't change just because you want them to, even if they are capable of it. that forgiveness does not equal redemption because the forgiven are not always redeemed
#it also would've been great in terms of the themes of the show#forgiveness vs redemption is already a huge theme in ouat this would've made it so much better#yes i'm a writer don't touch me#once upon a time#ouat#ouat belle#i've been thinking about this a lot lately
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I posted 2,264 times in 2022
That's 2,244 more posts than 2021!
8 posts created (0%)
2,256 posts reblogged (100%)
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I tagged 59 of my posts in 2022
#captain swan - 18 posts
#once upon a time - 17 posts
#killian jones - 16 posts
#emma swan - 14 posts
#captain hook - 14 posts
#ouat - 11 posts
#anmylica writes - 5 posts
#the fields of asphodel - 4 posts
#season 5 fix it - 4 posts
#whumptober 2022 - 3 posts
Longest Tag: 98 characters
#s3 really gave regina the foundation for a fantastic redemption arc and then they tossed that away
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Chapter Three: A Certain Shade of Gold
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The lashings and beatings seemed to go on forever, and in some ways that was true. Time had no meaning for the dead. They didn’t change, didn’t progress, didn’t grow. They were only what they were: shades of their former selves. Killian knew this; he wasn’t an unfamiliar stranger with the concept of frozen time. He had never experienced timelessness in quite the same way as this neverending, never-changing torture, though.
The lashes progressed to beatings with a cane. Then came the punches and kicks. Then came the periods of solitary confinement. Killian spent a lot of his time unconscious during those periods. When he was dragged in for another round of torture, he swore he wouldn’t give into what Hades wanted, but it was hard to endure that kind of endlessness. The only thing that kept him going was his faith that Hades had no idea what he was referring to when he talked about Killian’s hope.
Killian had no hope to relinquish. But still, Hades persisted onward in pushing Killian to let go of something that he knew didn’t exist. What Killian didn’t know at this point in time, but Hades knew and recognized, was that hope could take many forms. Death often destroyed hope, but not every form of hope was touched by death.
Time didn’t matter in the Underworld, so Killian couldn’t have said how long had passed since the torture sessions had begun. He had honestly begun to sort of tune out the relentless pain until it was nothing but background noise, a fact which cheered him up long enough to endure the session until he was finally granted the oblivion of unconsciousness back in his cell. Then he dreamed.
He dreamed of Emma, of how they had left things between them as he tried to punish her for going against his wishes with the Darkness. He dreamed of the terrible, harsh words he had said to her during his short tenure as a Dark One. He dreamed of the pain he knew he had inflicted on her family, his friends, and her son, who he viewed to be as good as his own. Those dreams made his heart ache, for he knew instinctively that Emma was experiencing the very same ones as he. Those weren’t the worst he had, however. The worst dreams were the ones where he had returned to Emma, embraced her to him in a bone crushing hug, each raining kisses over each other as rain fell softly down around them. He dreamed of the life they could have had in that Victorian house down by the sea, the children that could have been theirs, the memories they could have made, and the life they could have lived together.
Those were the ones that burned deep within, the visions of could have been fueling the despair he knew to the very depths of his soul that Emma was feeling too. That was perhaps the worst part of this whole ordeal, knowing that she was hurting. He hoped she could move on, that this experience didn’t cause her to reconstruct her walls against her family. He hoped that his love had been enough to change her for the better, to allow herself to have built enough connections between her heart and those who loved her to find solace and peace with his passing. He hoped she remembered him fondly throughout her years, if she even would remember him at all. He hoped he could let her and their blossoming love go.
But an even deeper, darker, more selfish desire reared up and consumed him at that thought. This desire was what had made him stay a pirate after he’d turned to piracy in vengeance for Liam’s senseless death. He wasn’t proud of this desire, but he couldn’t quite tamp it down; he wasn’t strong enough to. Deep down, he truly hoped she would never move on, and when she finally arrived in the Underworld after a long and content life, he could be there to greet her. Then they would both move on to whatever came next, hand in hand as they were supposed to be. He felt this so strongly he nearly burned with the longing, and was nearly consumed by it every time.
He didn’t like to admit this, for he wanted to be selfless with her, but he couldn’t deny it, even if only to himself. Every time he’d think about this, he’d end up right back here to this selfish desire. This was beginning to be his way of knowing how much time had passed since his last torture session because Hades would usually show up after he finally accepted that he felt this way and drag him right back to the throne room and repeat the beatings.
One of Hades’ minions (Killian didn't know his name) had just begun the process for the fifth time when Killian felt his heart skip a beat. He felt a pull on his heart leading to the outside of the throne room so strong he gasped. It felt like his heart had been restarted. He felt more complete than he had since his death, but he didn’t know why. He lurched as another blow connected to his back.
Just before the minion could land another blow, a ray of bright golden light burst through the throne room. A rainbow was left flashing across the ceiling once the golden light passed through, a magical northern lights in a funereal setting. The minion stared at the ceiling, confused, but Killian knew what this was.
“Emma,” he breathed out, love and hope surging through his entire being. Then, he felt a brief pain as the minion gave him a hard blow to his head, and Killian was aware of nothing more.
Emma didn’t see the flash of golden light and the rainbow trailing after it, but the other denizens of the Underworld certainly did. It blew people’s newspapers out of their hands down Main Street, knocked off several people’s hats and forced them to chase after the missing articles. The light and its subsequent breeze ruffled the brunette curls of a pretty blue eyed woman stopping traffic at a crosswalk to allow kids to cross. The light caused a chill to go down a dark-haired man’s spine as he looked up from the notes he was writing about the latest woman who’d been separated from her baby by death. The commotion knocked over an open bottle and spilled a good bit of expensive rum inside a bar that was run by a curly haired man who scowled at the mess as he moved to mop it up. The denizens of the Underworld all stared at the golden light and the rainbow that tumbled after it, and then they looked around themselves in wonder as the Underworld suddenly seemed to be just a little bit brighter.
Rumplestiltskin was the only one of the group who saw the golden flash of light. His only reaction was to raise an eyebrow before stating, “You should start by having a look around. The Underworld is a rather complicated place.”
“I’ll say,” Emma breathed as she took in the deadened grass and the gray husks of poplar trees that grew (were they even alive and able to grow?) stilted around them.
She breathed shallowly, grimacing a bit at the sulphuric smell in the air. The red glow in the sky made her feel as if she had stepped into some sort of Twilight Zone, and there was no way back to normalcy. The entire place felt oppressing and hopeless. How on earth could they possibly expect to find Killian in time to save him? She wasn’t going to succeed, couldn’t even begin to hope that she’d actually manage to change his fate… She started breathing harder, panting at the paralyzing fear, that feeling of being caged in, that suddenly gripped her heart. There was nowhere to run; there was no way out of this realm, and no way to achieve what she’d set out to do. Instinctively, she grabbed at the ring that hung around her neck, and took a deep breath. The sudden panic vanished as quickly as it had come on. It was just the atmosphere. She could do this. She just had to be strong and fearless. She took her first step straight into the depths of Hell.
The group moved forward, as if awaiting their cue from Emma, and went through the archway. They all looked around themselves in amazement. Everything was dead, or at least it looked like it. The colors were all muted, as if they had been bleached away by the decay that permeated the air. After they had walked for some time, they all stopped short. Somehow, without quite realizing how, they had walked right up to Main Street of Storybrooke. It was an exact replica, but there were many shops closed and some minor damage along some of the buildings.
“What is this place?” Snow breathed out, startled by what she was seeing.
“I thought we were in the Underworld,” Emma replied uncertainly, her brow furrowing in confusion. Had they been portaled back home somehow?
“The Underworld takes on the appearance that its lord and master wills it to,” Rumple replied. “For some reason, he sees fit to make it appear familiar to us.”
For some reason, Emma thought that was a peculiar explanation, but before she could think more about why the Dark One’s statement bothered her, her father asked a more logical question.
“Well, where do we start looking?” David asked no one in particular.
“I guess we split up?” Emma suggested, at a loss for what to do next. God, how was she supposed to lead them? This wasn’t Neverland; she was under a completely different set of rules here. She hadn’t even been here for five minutes, and already her leadership was unraveling at the seams. She felt another wave of anxiety wash through her. She had to get it together, or none of them would survive. She mentally shook herself and took a deep breath, trying to ease the anxiousness she felt.
“Well, you can do whatever you wish. I want no part of this. When you’re ready to give up on this foolish endeavor, you can find me in my shop.” Rumplestiltskin moved to walk away in the direction of the place he had just mentioned.
“Hang on! You said you were going to help us!” Emma protested. Wasn’t it just like the damn Dark One to jump ship when nothing in it directly benefited him? She should have just put the Darkness back into him and shoved Excalibur through his chest when she had the chance. She’d have saved herself some damn trouble. Killian really did have the measure of this guy.
“I actually did no such thing,” Rumple responded, turning to address her. “I agreed to open the portal to the Underworld and bring you here. I have fulfilled my end of our deal, and now my services are no longer required. Good luck. You’re going to need it,” he sneered and stalked off in the direction of his shop. Emma rolled her eyes.
Regina scoffed. “Well, we don’t need his help anyway. I think splitting up might be the best way to cover more ground.”
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Chapter Five: Deal...?
"The Fields of Asphodel"
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If there was one place Rumplestiltskin had hoped to avoid for the rest of eternity, the Underworld was it. He hated seeing so many of his victims in one place, sneering at him for their pathetically stupid decisions in trusting dark magic to solve their problems, and he hated the gloomy dismality that purveyed the realm. He hated the persistent sulfuric smell and he hated the black dust that seemed to settle over everything.
He hated most of all that this was a realm over which he had no control.
He wanted to spend as little time in this place as possible. Let Emma Swan and her band of do-gooders chase after the pirate; it was no concern of his what happened to the man he loathed more than any other. The only good thing that could come from being here would be seeing Baelfire one last time. Rumplestiltskin, having arrived at his shop, opened the door and observed the changes. Most everything was the same as it had been the last time he’d been here, stuck in limbo with nothing to do but await his judgment from Hades. Only that hadn’t come; instead, he had been whisked back to the Enchanted Forest only to lose both his only beloved son and his freedom in the same instance.
There were a few new objects, things which had been lost as the owners’ passed into this realm from the Land of the Living. But Rumple wasn’t interested in those. He didn’t plan on staying here long enough to deal with them. He locked the door and headed to the back room. He gave another glance around to make sure no one was there, and he stepped up to his workbench.
He set to work collecting his ingredients, including an eyeball, from the stockpile he had saved here. He created a potion, using the eyeball to guide the magic, and once the potion was ready, took up a crystal ball and dipped it into the potion. Once a sufficient amount of time had passed, he took the crystal ball out and used his own magic to dry it. Satisfied, he placed it onto the stand and stared at it, his hands flat on the table to support him as he leaned against it.
Rumple considered the crystal ball for several moments, pondering how to word his command. Finally, he said to it, “Show me my son.”
The crystal ball filled with smoke that swirled and churned for a moment before solidifying into shapes. Finally, the shapes formed a picture. It showed him Belle, eating at Granny’s back in Storybrooke.
Rumple frowned. Why was the crystal ball showing him Belle? He said again, more forcefully this time, “Show me my son.”
The picture turned back into smoke and swirled again. For the second time, it solidified into a picture of Belle.
Rumple was very confused. The crystal ball was imbibed with magic that should be capable of showing him what he sought, so why wasn’t it showing him Baelfire? He watched as Belle shifted in her sleep. It didn’t make any sense. Unless…
Could it be? Could the reason the crystal ball kept showing him his wife be that she…? Rumple’s heart stopped and his blood ran cold at the implication. He had left her back in Storybrooke alone, and he was now the Dark One again unbeknownst to her. He could only imagine what kind of hell he would face if she found out. Whatever he did, he would have to make sure she never found out that he had stolen the Darkness back. And to do that would mean that he would have to return as soon as possible to his wife's side. It looked like he would have to assist in finding the pirate after all. He really, really didn’t want to have to help them.
He waved his hand to clear the detritus away with magic, resulting in the mess instantly vanishing. The crystal ball remained where it was. He took it and placed it on a shelf just in case he would need it later. Perhaps he could use it to keep an eye on his wife during his absence. Rumple was just ruminating on a plan to get them all out of the Underworld as fast as possible when the bell from the front of the shop rang and the sound of the door closing echoed to the back room.
Rumple left the room and stepped into the shop area and stopped in the doorway.
“Hello, Rumple,” said Peter Pan, who was standing in the middle of the room in a black suit, his hands clasped in front of him.
Rumple blinked. “I had hoped I wouldn’t see you here,” he said.
“Is that any way to greet your long lost papa?” Peter Pan said.
“You’re no father of mine,” Rumple retorted. “After all you’ve done, you’re lucky I’m not sending you to the depths of Tarturus. After Bae? After Henry? That’s more than you deserve.”
Pan rolled his eyes. “Don’t pretend you cared for Henry any more than I cared for you. You and I both know the only reason you have any familial affection for that boy is because of Baelfire. If it wasn’t for him, you wouldn’t give Henry the time of day.”
“What do you want?” Rumple asked, tired of his father’s needling.
Pan grinned. “Well that is the question, isn’t it? I do want so many things.”
“Get on with it,” Rumple hissed.
“I want to be brought back to life.”
Rumple rolled his eyes. “That’s impossible.”
“Isn’t it? Aren’t you down here so Emma Swan can find a way to bring back Captain Hook?” Pan tilted his head in puzzlement.
Rumple scoffed. “A fool’s errand if there was one. We all know she’s not going to succeed in doing anything but wasting our time.”
Pan smirked and replied, “Well, be that as it may, I have a deal for you.”
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Chapter Four: Can We Panic Now?
“The Fields of Asphodel”
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Regina and Robin made their way to Town Hall as quickly as they could, making sure to keep a watchful eye on the people milling about just in case the pirate was amongst them. Everyone had the same melancholy, hopeless air of despondency about them. Regina couldn’t help but notice the dead looks in their eyes. She pulled her coat tighter around herself in an unconscious attempt at keeping the sadness at bay.
Robin reached out to place his hand on her lower back as they crossed the street, both needing the contact of each other in reassurance. They finally arrived at the mayor's office without any sign of Hook.
“No luck so far,” Robin stated, looking about, an expression of resignation on his face.
“No,” Regina agreed. Finding Hook was going to be like finding a needle in a haystack. “Why couldn’t he have made it easy for us to find him?”
Robin grinned. “Because he wouldn’t want to make it too easy on you, love.”
Regina chuckled. Hook certainly did like to push her buttons, even if they were on the same side now. Her face dropped at the thought of their last interaction. Regina didn’t have many regrets (they were a waste of time, and besides, had she not done what she did, she wouldn’t have this life that she wouldn’t trade for anything), but she regretted not trying harder to make Hook see sense before he went that far. Had she said something just a day sooner, could all of this have been avoided? Had she refused to back down from him the first time she confronted him about his guilt for what he did to his father (at her behest), would he have listened to reason and allowed them all to work together? Could Emma’s plan actually have worked had they all just put their heads together?
This was the problem with regrets. They were a waste of time. Nothing could change what was done.
On the other side of the flames, a man took shape. Regina gasped in horror once she made out who it looked like.
“Daddy,” she breathed, her voice a broken and tortured whisper.
“Are these meant to be your parents?” asked Robin.
Regina sniffed and wiped away a tear. “I think so.”
“What does it mean that you’re seeing them in the fire?”
Regina shrugged. “I don’t know, but if they’re here… they must be here because of me.”
Robin put his hand on her shoulder in comfort and pulled her in close. “You don’t know that. They may not even be here.”
Regina nodded, wiping away a few more tears. “I have to find out.”
“We’ll keep our ears peeled in case someone says something at Granny’s, and we’ll look into it further if we have to. If they’re down here being harmed, we’ll make sure to save them, Regina,” Robin reassured her and hugged her tighter.
Regina returned the embrace and after a moment let go reluctantly. “Let’s go to Granny’s and see if he’s there. There’s nothing here but a dead end.” The two of them quickly left the office and hurried through the rest of Town Hall. Robin shoved open the door, only to stop short of leaving. Regina nearly bumped into him, and was about to ask, perplexed, what the hold up was when she spotted what had stopped Robin.
It was Roland. He was lying on the ground, deathly still. The world around him had faded to almost black; everything was slowly losing visibility.
“Roland?” Robin asked with a small amount of uncertainty, not sure he believed what he was seeing. They had left Roland back in Storybrooke with the fairies. How did he get down here?
Regina and Robin stared as Roland woke up and slowly stood, turning to face them. “Daddy?” asked Roland.
“I’m here, buddy. How’d you get here?” Roland asked, beckoning his son to come to him. “Come here; it’s not safe for you here!”
Roland smiled and then turned and ran in the opposite direction. Flabbergasted, Regina and Robin took one look at each other before sprinting off after the toddler. The boy ran fast, and soon the two adults were out of breath from chasing him. As suddenly as Roland started running, he stopped and turned to face them. Regina and Robin stopped too, clutching their sides and panting hard.
“Roland, come here, son!” Robin called.
A fire started just behind Roland. Regina frowned in confusion. Why would a fire just randomly start up in the middle of Storybrooke? But before she could work out an answer to that question, Roland began speaking.
“You can’t save me, Daddy. You can’t. I have to go into the flames.”
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The Fields of Asphodel
Chapter 1: Souls of the Departed
Emma startled awake and gasped for breath. She looked wildly around her, shocked to find herself in the driver’s seat of her faithful yellow bug, the empty, still rides of that amusement park she had gone to one time in Portland with Neal all around her. It was daylight, with gray clouds covering the sky. When she and the others had gotten into the boat with Charon, it had been the pitch black of night. Was she still on her way to the Underworld?
“Hey, Emma.”
She jumped at the voice coming from the back of the car and the rustling of the fast moving of clothing. She looked in the backseat and stared. Neal was sitting there smiling at her, looking as if not a day had passed since she had last seen him.
“Neal?” she gasped.
“Yeah.”
“It’s really great to see you! Wait, where are we? Am I dreaming? Is this even real? How are you here?” Emma looked around, puzzled that this was even happening.
Neal huffed a soft laugh. “Yeah, it’s real. And if it were a dream, there’d be, like, talking doughnuts or something weird like that.” With that, Neal leaned up, opened the passenger door, pushed the seat in front of him up, and got out of the car. He quickly got back into the front seat and closed his door. “Just think of this as a long distance call from an old friend.”
“It really is you,” Emma said in awe. “I never thought I would see you again.” And she truly was happy to see the man she had once loved. She was amazed at how separated from the feeling of hurt and betrayal she actually was. She had the sudden thought that it really had been a shame that he had died because of the Wicked Witch; she’d have loved to have had Neal in her life as a friend.
Neal just smiled in response. “How’s our son?”
Emma smiled. “He misses his dad, but he’s great. Growing too fast.”
Neal laughed. “I bet. I miss him too.”
Emma laughed as well. She hesitated for a moment, looking around, before she asked, hesitatingly, “Is this the Underworld? I was on my way to the Underworld…”
Neal’s smile fell from his face. “Yeah, I know that's where you're headed. That's kind of why I'm here. Don't go, Emma. Once you get there, it is not an easy place to get out of.”
Emma frowned. “I’m not just going to give up. It’s not right, what happened, how he ended up here!”
“Look, I know you're trying to save Hook. I know you think you’re doing the right thing. But trust me on this. This won't end the way you think it will. You need to go back to Storybrooke and forget this.”
Emma stared at him. “You don’t think I can do this,” she said flatly. Of course. Neal had always doubted her abilities and undermined her confidence. Why should he act any differently now?
Neal scoffed. “I mean, you really think you can? Against all the dangers the Underworld has? Oh, it’s easy to get into. You can check out of it anytime you like, but you never actually can leave!”
Emma shook her head in frustration. “Don’t quote Hotel California to me. This isn’t an Eagles song, and besides, that song was supposed to be about hedonism and greed, not Hell.”
Neal shrugged. “It still perfectly describes the Underworld. You’ll see what I mean if you actually manage to get there.”
Well thanks for that. What did he mean, “if?” She was already in a boat to that very place, and she had already passed through the barrier! What could possibly keep her out now?
Emma narrowed her eyes. “Well, where is Killian at in the Underworld, since you know so much?”
Neal shook his head. “I have no idea.”
“What?” Emma raised her eyebrows in disbelief.
“I’m not there. I was able to move on. To a better place, where I’m happy. I only came here because I care about you, Emma. Stop what you're doing before it's too late. Don’t endanger our son and your family and friends over a fling.”
Emma laughed. “Killian was not a fling, and I’m not stopping. I’m going to split my heart and give him half.”
Neal gave her a pointed look. “How do you know that will even work?”
Emma felt a stab of doubt pang through her heart. She didn’t know if it would. All she had to go by was faith that, if it worked for her parents, it would work for her. She hoped it would work. She didn’t know what she would do if it didn’t.
“Seriously, Emma,” Neal continued. “What makes you think that you and Hook share True Love?”
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Hi, I'm your CS Gift Exchanger, and I wanted to ask a few questions so I can cater your gift as much to you as possible!!
- What are some of your favorite OUAT characters so I make sure they make an appearance? (Obviously besides Captain Swan and Henry!)
- Are there any characters you don't like so I can make sure to avoid them?
- What are some of you favorite CS scenes so maybe I can somehow include those as well!
Hi fellow exchange participant! 🤗👋 hopefully I can answer your questions and not make your life more difficult lol.
1. I love Will. I feel like he’s a really interesting and fun character, especially when it comes to his interactions with Emma and Killian. Those are very interesting to me. Also, I love the chaos he brings haha. Of course Mary Margaret & David I adore as well, and I’m currently being reminded of how much I love the Frozen gang (because perfect casting is perfect)! Don’t worry if you can’t fit any or not all of these into the gift. It’s totally fine!
2. There’s no real characters that I absolutely can’t read about so go wild! Even though I hate the Victor/Ruby coupling, I like both characters individually (Ruby much more so than Victor lol).
3. Favorite CS scene is a hard one and I’m going to be terrible and say that I cant pick just one? Maybe the s3 finale outside of Granny’s scene? Maybe when he tells Emma he’s yet to see her fail and also when he tells her that when he wins her heart, it won’t be because of trickery. I also like the beanstalk scenes and the coconut scene with the shadows being ripped off. Ahhhh I just love them all but I especially the scenes when they’re just supporting and loving each other and it’s just sweet. I’m sorry that’s not really an answer but I’ll just say ALL.
Thank you ❤️
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Good point. There were a lot of series that should’ve ended earlier in their run (OUAT could’ve ended after 3A or S6; Glee should’ve ended after S3; and one of my favorite series BTVS should’ve ended after S5). So I can’t blame you one bit (the show went down a lot quality-wise in S4). I’m probably being too optimistic about CK. I usually am with a lot of things. But I got nothing to lose by continuing to watch it. Even with all its flaws CK is still one of my favorite current shows. Either I’ll love what comes next (which could be a longshot lol) or it’ll be a Master Class in what not to do as a writer.
Also, on an unrelated, but more positive note, I’ve finally caught up with Superman & Lois’s new Season — and I’m loving it so far. This series is almost — almost — as well done as Stargirl. I have no idea what’s even going to happen next with all the twists and turns it’s taken this Season (while keeping the characters true to themselves with realistic drama). You’ll really enjoy both Seasons of S&L, when you get the chance.
I’ve heard good things about S&L…but given all the shows on my watchlist, and my general Arrowverse skepticism, I might give it another season just to be safe 😂 I’m not getting invested in another bad-after-2-3-seasons show
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things i think about in OUAT a lot:
- belle and rumplestiltskin town line scene. good for her/well-deserved/FINALLY/etc. also just the town line in general the way Storybrooke is one of those locations that’s almost a character in itself. like the town is so deeply entrenched in the whole fairy tale thing that anyone who wasn’t originally from the Enchanted Forest would be so out of place. when Emma and Henry left in s3 and went to New York they were very different people. also it’s a really small town so everyone’s in each others’ business all the time. and it’s literally its own bubble when you think abt the fact that people who cross the line lose their memories.
- henry being the product of both true love (snow and charming) and pure evil (rumplestiltskin). which also brings up the family tree which is. a whole Lot. going back to the first point the other reason why everyone’s involved in everyone else’s lives is also bc most of them are related lmfao
- how they rewrote the story of snow white as an enemies to lovers story where snow white is a badass bandit who can hold her own. s1 was so cool for that!!!!
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POI starts as a police procedural except for the fact that here main characters try to prevent crime or save a potential victim and slowly evolves into a confrontation between two AIs with opposite views on what's better for humanity.
Amy's character actually plays a big role starting from s3! Though she appears in the final episode of s1 and in some s2 episodes too. She's an antagonist who later becomes a member of the team.
And I don't want to give away too much but the other female character (played by Sarah Shahi, first appears in s2 and becomes one of the main characters in s3) is dare I say quite unique because I've never seen anyone like her before on television.
The plot is good, the soundtrack is amazing and the ship is just a cherry on top.
Hope that you'll enjoy watching it!
Ahhh thank you for the info!!! This makes me want to watch it even more, I was hesitant to look up too much about it in fear of spoilers. I basically just saw the preventing crime before it happens thing, which sounds interesting on its own so I’m intrigued by the opposite views on what’s best for humanity thing.
Spoilers for Angel, but Amy’s role sounds similar to what she did near the end of it with Illyria, who I absolutely love and thought her acting was amazing for (seeing her switch from a character like Fred to pretty much a polar opposite was really cool. It was something that could’ve either been done really well or really poorly and she did GREAT). She popped up in OUAT as a character similar to Fred, so I’m excited to see her in an antagonist role again.
And of course I’m starved for good and unique female characters. I feel like a lot of them are the same few tropes being recycled because women can’t possibly be as deep and complex as men!!
I did a quick search for it on my Roku and it looks like it’s only available on Apple TV… but I’m sure I’ll be able to find it somewhere lol. I’ll probably watch it once I’m done with OUAT, I don’t like watching two things at once.
#thank you again!!#this and black sails are both on my list#I’m excited to have some good stuff to watch#asks#anon
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CAPTAIN SWAN Ball Dance - 'Ripped paper'
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Ripped paper effect. Captain Swan inspiration, Ball Dance scene from the season 3 finale.
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CS Fic Rec Monday: “First of Many” by @ilovemesomekillianjones
This is a beautiful CS oneshot, set in the season three finale time frame, and supposing just when their first time together might have been. I remember being just stunned and struck to the core by the emotion of it though. It really had an impact as I read and I have yet to forget it. The feelings expressed between Emma and Killian in this were conveyed wonderfully well by @ilovemesomekillianjones and were every bit as potent as the chemistry and the act itself.
“First of Many” by: @ilovemesomekillianjones
#csfrm#cs fic rec monday#first of many#cs one shot#cs first time fic#ouat s3 finale fic#ouat missing moment ff
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