#rumbelle moodboard

[notonlymice]

queen!Belle x Dark One!Rumple au moodboard

#rumbelle #rumbelle moodboard #not only mice but also moodboards #my rumbelle things #my things

[bibliosauruswrecks]

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Abram Gold was a 16th century captain cursed to sail the seas for eternity in retribution for his hubris, only allowed ashore once every seven years.  Belle French was radio operator for the WRANS during World War II, wanting to do her part.  A ghostly encounter one night in 1944 would alter their fates forever...

#rumbelle au #rumbelle moodboard #rumbelle aesthetic #wrecks made a thing

[ace-cf-cups]

#rumbelle #anyelle #weaver x hierophant #the hierophant #detective weaver #my creations #my edits #my moodboards #I'm not sure I ship these two but when I saw those two photos of them I thought they might look like one scene... and the rest is history 😅

[boopsterliv]

@augustwritingchallenge Day 12: Candyman

Rumpelstiltskin had been trapped in a mirror for centuries. Say his name three times while staring at a reflective surface, he kills you. He was sick and tired of this pointless existence, but no reason to change it, eh? So, he continues with the dark magic and evil and such, willing to inflict punishment on anyone who dares summon him.

Belle French would do anything, anything to get away from her husband. It was a loveless marriage she was forced into, which was okay until he started taking his frustrations out on her. After one argument left her particularly vulnerable, she runs into the bathroom and doesn’t turn back, saying one name three times and sealing her fate.

When local athlete Gaston is found dead in his home, Belle is the first to fake tears and the last to actually cry. However, she’s not free from the murderous spirit she summoned, but is he really all that bad? After a cup of chipped tea with honey, she doesn’t really think Rumpelstiltskin is as bad as people think.

#au_gust #au_gust_2022 #rumbelle #rumpelstiltskin #belle french #candyman au #horror movie au #once upon a time #ouat #moodboard #aesthetic

[a-monthly-rumbelling]

March Prompts

Moodboard:

Non-smut: relation, painter, hiccup

Smut: Choosing to do nothing is still a choice after all.

Random: (song lyric): "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail." Simon and Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa

gif:

A reminder for all:

If the prompts are 3-5 words you don’t have to include all of them. Imaginary bonus points if you do :) but zero stress they just have to include a couple in some fashion so it fits the prompt.

If the prompt is a quote you can include it at any point, it doesn’t have to be the opening line.

If the prompt is the image moodboard (multiple images) you can be inspired by one of them, be inspired by two, be inspired by the lot, get a feeling from the thing and not one of the images specifically - it’s all good. There is no wrong way to approach this.

If the images on the moodboard are of Robert or Emilie’s non-rumbelle characters (eg Rush, Macavoy, Claire, Heiro…), don’t feel you have to use that character. They’re just there for a bit of variety.

Anyelle and anyem are welcome if you do want to use them, though!

if you are inspired by the gif prompt, similarly, your creativity is your only limit. It’ll be a real treat to see you might come up with.

Happy Rumbelling!

#a monthly rumbelling #march prompts #amr prompts #rumbelle fic

[peacehopeandrats]

Darkness

It was the darkness that broke his heart. Years ago. Ages ago. What was nearly a century ago and might as well have been more. On the side of the road his kindness made him vulnerable and the darkness overpowered him. It tricked him. It schemed its way into his heart and began an infinite lifetime's worth of manipulation from kindness to cruelty. From weakness into power.

Now it had ended him.

As Rumplestiltskin, bent on hands and knees, felt the grit and pocked hardness of the paved road beneath him, he wondered if his fate was to be controlled by roads. At once powerful and sure of its destination, a road could take you to what you loved most: a long lost son, a friend, the person you loved... They were meant to be signs of hope for the future. Yet this night was proof that for him roads insisted upon continuing to do just the opposite: a son lost on his journey, a friend walking away to his distant mansion... and now he cowered in exile, sent to his heart's final demise by the woman he loved.

There was no way of knowing if she lingered or if she had quickly walked away, heels tapping out a rhythm of pain equating to a hammer driving nails through flesh. He imagined the sound for a moment, knowing he deserved the pain of each tap. Magic kept him from seeing her, kept him from hearing her, but it could not remove the anguish. All he knew now was the darkness and the empty road, leading to a place he would never again see and a heart he would never again feel beat against his own.

Darkness and the road. This was his fate.

He lingered for what felt like an eternity, weeping her name, knowing it would never bring her back. She was lost, just like everything and everyone he had ever loved. All he had left was the pain and the pitch black of the night that he wished would swallow him whole.

Forever.

Taken from the Monthly Rumbelling post here:

Sorry to use February. I didn't see one for March.

#angst #Rumbelle #Ouat #prompts #Saturday Shorts

[the-chipped-cup-awards]

Events: Best Monthly Rumbelling

Each Month, to encourage writers with a starting prompt, A Monthly Rumbelling provides various different kinds of prompts - a moodboard, random quotes, sometimes a few words, and our talented writers turn those scant few nudges into wonderful, fully fledged fics.

In the category of Best Monthly Rumbelling, the winner of the 2024 Chipped Cup Award is…

The Landlord and the Princess by @Rumplerose (AO3)

#the chipped cup awards #cca 2024 #award ceremony

[deliriumsdelight7]

If you could wish for one thing to lift your writer's heart, what would that one thing be?

I've been giving this a lot of thought, and I've determined that the whole lack of audience engagement is just a symptom of what's been missing from the Rumbelle fandom: energy. The law of conservation of energy states that, if no energy is added to or removed from a stable system, the energy levels will always remain the same. Well... energy has been leaving the fandom as a whole lately, and that's been severely impacting those who remain. In order for creators to put out content, they need energy. In an active fandom, that comes in the form of general excitement: discussions, fic, art, speculation, moodboards, playlists, frothing at the mouth in tags, and just general squeeing all around. The excitement and energy of the fandom fuels creators to push out content. Without that, creators can only rely on their own energy, which is a finite resource.

Lately, that excitement has been very missing in this fandom. Maybe it's because the show's been off the air for a while now. Maybe it's because of the "last" TEAs. Maybe it's just a symptom of the general exhaustion we all feel from dealing with a general global situation that just plain sucks ass. Maybe it's all of those things, or something else entirely. I dunno. I've tried to supplement the general lack of enthusiasm by overcompensating with my own, and I'm just... I'm burnt out. I've got nothing left.

I'm getting off-topic. The point is, if there is one thing that would lift my spirits, it would be to see more excitement in the Rumbelle fandom. I get that this is an unrealistic expectation. I joined this fandom after the show ended, after years of the writers actively shitting on our ship. It's hard to muster up excitement and energy for that, even in the best of times. But if there's one thing that would light that fire under my butt, it would be to see the fandom as a whole playing a more active role. More art. More video edits. More prompts submitted to @rumbelleprompts. More people engaging authors in their Ask boxes. More reblogging gifsets and writing out novel-length, mouth-foaming rants about some tiny little detail nobody pointed out. Just... more. Content creators are an important part of any fandom, yes, but so are the consumers. If you want content to consume, show us that you love what we put out! Slam that reblog button! Make a moodboard or a playlist inspired by your favorite fics, and share it with the creator! Throw prompts out there and see if it inspires someone! Your contributions are SO important.

Thanks for the ask! I may not be doing TMI Tuesday anymore, but they are always welcome.

#tmi tuesday #ask answered

[kelyon]

I love reading all the rumbelle secret Santa fics but have always been scared at getting a random prompt. Since the prompts are not your own idea how do you even start building a story on a random prompt?

Okay, you should definitely enter Rumbelle Secret Santa BECAUSE you're afraid of it. This is one of the most low-risk fears you will ever face. All of us will be happy to receive new Rumbelle content! Like all fanfic, it does not have to be good to be lovable! And with an RSS fic, it doesn't have to be long or thought out or anything. Just do your best!

On to the actual question.

I think prompts can be divided into two basic categories. They are either A) broad enough that you can wrap your own story around the prompt, or B) specific enough that you pretty much know what kind of story the other person wants. Either way, it's a framework. It's a tree that you get to put lights on.

My writing process is always about questions. So prompts are kind of fantastic for me. For example, last year my giftee had the prompt "begging on his bended knees," which I turned into a fic Begging On His Bended Knees.

Now, because I'm a smut writer (and the RSS form lets you chose if you want to write and/or receive smut), my mind when to exactly one place: Femdom. Because this is the Rumbelle Secret Santa (and my giftee hadn't asked for a non-Rumple and Belle pairing, which is also an option), I had a pretty good idea of who was begging on their bended knees.

Of the main writing questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How), I now had some of the major ones covered. Rumple was going to be begging Belle for something sexy.

In a fandom as AU-heavy as Rumbelle, the When and Where are very important. A common question you'll see Santa's asking their giftees is if they want the fic to be set in Storybrooke or the Enchanted Forest. This also brings up the question of where the characters are in their relationship. It's equally valid to write Belle and Rumple as married for years, dating but not living together, "platonic" friends or co-workers, flirty acquaintances, sniping enemies(to lovers), cordial strangers/neighbors, or people who are meeting for the first time and may have wildly inappropriate first impressions of each other.

All of these scenarios are good! Every one of them has potential to be a great story! No matter what you pick, it will be somebody's jam.

In my case, I knew that I had Dark Mistress coming up, so that freed me to write the type of femdom that would never happen in that fic. (Another reason I love RSS, it gives you an excuse to work on some smaller ideas or elements that I've had to cut from other fics. Another gift exchange fic, Presents uses some concepts that I had toyed around with for Golden Cuffs.) So now I knew that my RSS fic would be a Storybrooke/real world AU.

Having done all of that mental work, I could focus on the meatiest questions of them all, Why and How. In this case, Why would go back to Who. Why is Gold begging Belle for something sexy? Who are they in this fic that they have that dynamic? Why does Belle have sexual power over Gold? Why would he give her that power? In a femdom story, punishment is fairly expected. Why does Gold want to be punished? How is Belle going to respond to his begging?

Focus on these sorts of questions and you have a Gold and a Belle that are specific to this fic. They both want something from this situation they're in--can they get it? How? What's stopping them?

And never forget the most important question to any story: What happens next?

There are a million prompt lists floating around Tumblr and the greater internet. Try to find one of those and just practice telling yourself a story. You could also look up the moodboards and prompts for @a-monthly-rumbelling. Just be free, be loose, know that you're going to make mistakes but it's better than not making anything.

Best of luck with prompts. Hope to see you at the RSS.

#tmi tuesday #rumbelle secret santa #rss

[personinthepalace]

Me, encouraging myself to learn how to edit just so I can make Captain Canary, Museum Heist, Rumbelle, and Belle & Len moodboards? Maybe-

Yesss you got it!!!

#boopsterliv #answering asks in the palace

[eirian-houpe]

TMI Tuesday

Welcome to November!

Phew, it’s been a while, right back at the beginning of October to be precise.  Honestly, work has been kicking my arse, and I’ve been too mentally exhausted to do more than come home and play mindless video games. Well, not quite mindless, but...

Anyway, with a new month (and a new year for me), I’m going to see what I can do to change that.  I have my new office furniture (and it helps me feel like a grown up at work), and of course it’s November, and we all know what that means, right...?

NANOWRIMO!

I’m going to participate again this year, like every year, but I’m not going to - or try not to anyway - get bent out of shape if I don’t keep up. The link above will take you to the site in case you feel like signing up to join me.  I will be making my daily progress posts - going to try and be creative about it this year.

With that, I’m also going to try and shake things up a bit here, so that I don’t keep repeating myself day after day. So TMI Tuesday will be a bit of a ‘behind the scenes of Eirian’ kind of thing.

Like I said, work has been kicking my arse. I work as a special education teacher in high school, and as you can imagine the beginning of ANY school year is busy, but considering that I am the only member of a new team that was at my school last year, the other team members are looking to me for guidance a lot of the time.  I don’t mind that, and it’s a great time, but it does mean there’s a lot, a lot, a lot to do.

In other news, and probably related tbh, the twin orcs of depression and anxiety have also been doing their fair share of arse-kicking. Now though, I’m kicking back. Does it mean that I am (grudgingly) embracing ‘the list’ - you bet it does. I’m just hoping there are folks who are willing to remind me to be kind to myself on the days I don’t get to the end of the list. Full disclosure - the monster in my head that gets on my case when I DON’T get to the bottom of a list is why I am super resistant to list-making.

Those I guess are the negatives.  So the positives...

I recently officially took over stewardship (and I like to put it that way) of A Monthly Rumbelling. I have learned to make moodboards - and I love it! 

I have an amazing husband, and my Tumblr family are awesome as well. (You know who you are!)

Writing wise, I want to be working on Disparate Pathways, and after that, I am not sure which fic I will go to for focus, and of course, just because I have a focus fic, doesn’t mean I don’t also work on other fics as well - or at least that’s my intention, so... why not drop me an ask and let me know what you’d like to see updated.  If you drop me an ask like that, I’ll give you a tidbit for the named fic.  How’s that for a fair exchange?

Otherwise, here are some other suggestions for you...

Ask suggestions

Ask something about any of my fics (full list is below the cut). If you want specifics from some fics that are already outlined, you can ask about:

Disparate Pathways, Chapters 46 through 56 All Our Past Mistakes, Chapters 11 through 44 Lover’s Leap Series, Stories 15 through 31 Time’s Curse, Chapters 4 through 10 Laer o Faen, Chapter 27 & 28 Stargate: Atlantis, Harms Way or any of the 20 fics in the series.

Ask something of any of my characters in general or you can get really specific if you like - for example you might want to ask Gold from Pawn Shop a question about a chapter, a thought, a feeling… (the world is your oyster really)

Ask about my process as a writer, what makes me tick,, or even ask about me personally. Almost nothing is off limits.

Also, if you want to see a specific character or fic featured in Three Things Thursday, or Saturday Secret, feel free to send in prompts, if no one does, then either the choice will be random or they just won’t happen at all. I made an analogy for why that might be in a different post about a car stuck in the mud with spinning wheels. Those wheels are still spinning!

Please remember: if you read a fic you enjoyed on AO3 or on Tumblr (not just mine), please take the time to comment and/or leave kudos, and to reach out on TMI Tuesday. It means a lot to the writers and artists.

You can find all my fics currently on AO3 here, and there is a full list under this cut.

Storybrooke’s Best Kept Secret - Rumbelle

Darkness In Hyperion Heights - Woven Beauty au

Seven Tastes - Rumbelle

Tuesday - Rushbelle AU

The Language of Flowers Series - Rumbelle

Disparate Pathways - Rumbelle AU

Scattered - Rumbelle AU

All Our Past Mistakes - Rumbelle AU

What the Actual Fuck! - Sutherelle

Breathe - Rushbelle

The Lover’s Leap Series - Rumbelle

Awakening - Rumbelle

War Is Coming To Storybrooke - Rumbelle

Given No Choice - Rush

Thoughts On A Happy Ending Series - Rumbelle

Darker Hearts Series - Wish!Rumbelle

Modern Wonders - a OUAT/Alice crossover

Time’s Curse - Rumbelle

The Pawn Shop On Main Street - Rumbelle

The Mansion On the Edge of Town - Rumbelle with a side of Jefferson

Cobra: In Your Prayers - Cobra/FatWS/UC:Undercover et al

To See Series - Rumbelle

Nobody Knew (Bingo) - Rumbelle

Secret of the Seas - Rumbelle AU

Butterfly and Phoenix - ST:DSC

Laer o Faen - Tolkien

Ship’s Rats - ST: DCS

I Amar Boe Men Heb - Tolkien

Coming Down - Halt and Catch Fire

Armor of Ice - Halt and Catch Fire

Duath i-Achas Eriol - Tolkien

Balance of Terror - Sleeper Cell

What To Believe - UC: Undercover

If: In The End - UC Undercover

Precious - The Mummy Series

Forbidden - The Mummy Series

Power Is - The Mummy Series

Angel of the Heart - The Mummy Series

Star of the Morning - The Mummy Series

Not Yours To Keep - Foundation (TV)

No Saving Throw - Stranger Things

Here are fics that haven’t yet been started, but are in the Muse’s bucket.

The Miner’s Day Festival - Rumbelle

Aftermath - Rumbelle (with a side of madness)

Saving The Dark One (WT) A twist on a twist of Rumplestiltskin.

Brought To You By The Color… (Red)

Calcul(us)

(In)consistent equation

The Boston Storybrooke Line

Breaking the Waves (Movie AU)

ILP (or IEP) for Rumple.

One Last Wish

In Service to My Son

Playground Games

Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed

“Only Remembered For What We Have Done.”

Librarian: UC

Exquisite Harmonies

#rumbelle #TMI Tuesday #send asks #send me asks #ama #ask me anything #feel free to prompt me #nanowrimo2022

[notonlymice]

rumbelle as Slavic fairy tales characters: Belle as Vasilisa the Beautiful Rumplestiltskin as Kashchei the Deathless

#is this cliched and obvious? probably but I don't care #as I don't care that Kashchei is closer to Hades #(I would've traded one for another ouat-wise without hesitation lol) #not only mice but also moodboards #rumbelle moodboard #rumbelle+fairytales moodboards #my rumbelle things #rumbelle #my things

[tia-arte]

Rumbelle + cold weather

#rumbelle #my moodboard #rumbelleedit #ouatedit #rumbelle aesthetic #rumbelle moodboard #winter #winter aesthetic #baby it's cold outside #cold weather #rumbelle+cold weather #rumplestiltskin #belle #the dark castle #aesthetic #moodboard #winter mood #beauty and the beast

[ace-cf-cups]

Since my inbox is always open for prompts* ( seriously, send them in, as many and as often as you'd like - I love working with prompts! ), here's a handy list of all the ships you can send them for:

Rumbelle

Golden Lace (Mr Gold & Lacey)

Woven Lace (Weaver & Lacey)

Woven Beauty (Weaver & Belle)

Woven Kitten (Weaver & Hierophant from Operation Endgame)

Russelle (David Russell from The Last Enemy & Belle)

Russellacey (David Russell & Lacey)

David & Hiero

Rushbelle (Dr Nicholas Rush from Stargate: Universe & Belle)

Rushacey (Dr Nicholas Rush & Lacey)

Rush & Chloe

Hamelle? MacBelle? Bellish? (Hamish Macbeth from the eponymous tv show & Belle)

Hamacey? Lacish? (Hamish Macbeth & Lacey)

Sutherbeth? Macland? (Isobel Sutherland & Hamish Macbeth from the eponymous tv show)

Bellix / Felle (Felix DeSouza from Formula 51 & Belle)

Lacix / Fellacey (Felix DeSouza & Lacey)

Felix & Hiero

Develle (Danny Devine from Dead Fish & Belle)

Lacine? Devacey? (Danny Devine & Lacey)

Danny & Hiero

Rob and Sam Morrison from the Flood

Robelle? Morrelle? (Rob Morrison & Belle)

Wirrelle? Belleric? (Eric Wirral from There's Only One Jimmy Grimble & Belle)

Laceric? Wirralacey? (Eric Wirral & Lacey)

*prompts are welcome and encouraged for: ficlets (of course!), TMI Tuesday questions/IC questions (you can ask any couple in general or specifically from one of my fics any questions), moodboards/aesthetics, gifsets (you can also request a gifset related to one of the aforementioned characters - whether it be a moment from their show or aesthetic or compilation or lyrical gifset etc), edits/fanvideos

The list will be updated as I watch more of Bobby's and Em's filmography and/or grow more confident in writing other Anyelle couples.

#rumbelle #rumbelle fic #anyelle #anyelle fic #rumbelle prompt call #anyelle prompt call

[boopsterliv]

@augustwritingchallenge Day 5: Teachers

Mister Rumpelstiltskin Gold has been a teacher for a decade at this point. Teaching economics to idiotic students is his daily work. But, of course, that gets more difficult when a new teacher moves into the classroom right next door. Any student that comes from her class ends up in a daze. So, he’s ready to confront this upstart for making his already hard job even harder.

Miss Belle French has just graduated. She’s wanted to be a teacher since she was young, wanting to make life a little easier for students. While standard English isn’t... quite what she’s a fan of, she’s willing to teach it alongside creative writing classes. She hasn’t seen her next-door neighbor standing by his door before class, though, and Belle has to admit she’s curious.

When Gold finally steps outside his classroom (willingly, by the way, this wasn’t because he needed to grab something) before class, he comes face to face with the beautiful Miss French, who apologizes for distracting students when he tells her about that. The second time was out of curiosity, and the third... there was a pattern forming.

#au_gust_2022 #au_gust #rumbelle #rumpelstiltskin #mr gold #belle french #teachers au #once upon a time #ouat #moodboard #aesthetic

[a-monthly-rumbelling]

February Prompts

Yay, we survived January - Let's make February a good month for fics!

Moodboard:

Non-smut: Game night with friends

Smut: Battle, berry, sports, hypnotize

Random: (Movie quote): "The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time." - Finding Forrester (2000)

gif:

A reminder for all:

If the prompts are 3-5 words you don’t have to include all of them. Imaginary bonus points if you do :) but zero stress they just have to include a couple in some fashion so it fits the prompt.

If the prompt is a quote you can include it at any point, it doesn’t have to be the opening line.

If the prompt is the image moodboard (multiple images) you can be inspired by one of them, be inspired by two, be inspired by the lot, get a feeling from the thing and not one of the images specifically - it’s all good. There is no wrong way to approach this.

If the images on the moodboard are of Robert or Emilie’s non-rumbelle characters (eg Rush, Macavoy, Claire, Heiro…), don’t feel you have to use that character. They’re just there for a bit of variety.

Anyelle and anyem are welcome if you do want to use them, though!

if you are inspired by the gif prompt, similarly, your creativity is your only limit. It’ll be a real treat to see you might come up with.

Happy Rumbelling!

#a monthly rumbelling #amr prompts #february prompts #rumbelle fic