Aro + Selfies

Lets be honest, if someone got Aro a smart phone, he’d go nuts. Also, these pictures I photoshopped are just hilarious. So I had to share. 

This is Meatball. Meatball loves to photobomb. None really knows how old he is but he is great.

(via Анна Домащенко)

#actual relationship goals

where’s the lie

Rumple + Looking at Belle

The ending can still be open ended

We Rumbeller’s have great imaginations.

One way to continue thier story is that once Rumple finds the Guardian he’d become mortal and can be with Belle again.

Think of how A/E had Zeus grant Hook another chance even though he really didn’t do anything. He had a grave stone etc even and just showed up.

Rumple finishes his quest to find the guardian and become mortal. But Belle read the prophecy wrong. Yes they’ll be reunited but instead of Rumple dying he gets to be mortal and Belle is returned to him so their journey and life can continue here. It’ll start where they were at the library.

Death on Once Upon A Time is not always permanent.

The Rumbelle fandom has the best writers. We have can take the journey anyway we want it to lead.

Death can be another realm as well.

I like this

How 7x04 should have gone (and Rumbelle in general)

Rumple, Belle (who doesn’t age, Gideon, and their younger son, Cassidy, travel the world. One day, Rumple realizes how much he missed out on Henry’s childhood and that he is the closest tie to Bae. Rumple, a bit before whatever curse hit Henry, Cinderella and Co. arrives, goes to the Newchantet Forest. They get sent to Heights and that curse breaks. All of them head back to Storybrooke, where everyone is waiting for them, including Belle, who is holding a newborn baby girl, Rumple’s first daughter, who he names after his beloved wife; Beauty.

YA SEE HOW LESS SAD THAT IS! AND NO ONE HAD TO DIE!!!!!!

I haven’t stopped crying since yesterday night.  I was gonna try and type out all my thoughts on the ep but I don’t think I’m in a place emotionally right now where I can do that.

It was an amazing episode.  Truly beautiful.  Loved all the fluffy fanfic Rumbelle moments we got from it.  There was stuff I never thought we’d get in the show that  we got in that episode.

Belle’s death is just hitting me really hard.  Those scenes were so emotionally packed.  The way they executed it just really got me.  I’m finding it really hard to talk about still.

It was a great episode.

I’m totally feeling the same way

Thoughts on “Beauty,” that Fanfic on TV Last Night

As all the Rumbelle fans know, the real Once Upon a Time ended a few years ago. Since then, there’ve been some fanfic writers with the budget to shoot what look like real TV episodes, but they’re not fooling anyone.

So, what are my thoughts on this latest offering, “Beauty”?

It wasn’t so bad, all things considered. I think the biggest problem was that the person who did it was trying to make it work with “Hyperion Heights,” and some of the other big budget fanfics. I think some of its biggest problems stem from that.

Gideon remains a popular for an OC who was never part of the original series, and I can’t fault his use here. Oh, sure, it’s giggle-worthy that the Enchanted Forest (or whatever magical realm they were in) has college entrance letters being sent out (by the way, if you want to know you’re in fairy-tale land, both Belle and Rumple assume an eighteen year-old going to college has moved out permanently), but it was great to see him growing up as the much loved son in a stable, healthy family. 

Belle and Rumple traveled worlds having adventures before settling down in a piece of beautiful scenery. There were also some great callbacks to previous episodes. Sad as it was, it seemed so fitting for Belle to fall–and be caught–one more time while letting in the light.

I also liked the way the dagger came back to Rumple when he tried to lose it at the bridge.  When he reached for his leg, I thought he was becoming lame again.  Instead, he found the dagger in sheath in his boot. It was a good fake-out.

But, that doesn’t hide the weaknesses. Like I said, the biggest weakness is still that this episode has to fit into Hyperion Heights. That means, they had to come up with an excuse for what happened to Belle.  The idea they came up with is that Belle made a very un-Belle-like choice to speed through her life, losing opportunities for all the things she might have done and the time she might have spent with her son and other family (I remain convinced Belle had at least one daughter). In the end, she did this not because this was the way to break the curse but because her understanding of the prophecy was that she had to die in this place with Rumple there. 

First, it seems like that gave her a pretty large margin of time to work with. Second, given the track record for prophecies working out just the way people think they will on this show, I wouldn’t bet the farm on that one.

By the way, you don’t want to have to build a house like that by hand without a lot of people to help you. Even if you were in your twenties in pioneer times, that would have been an accomplishment. If Rumple is limiting himself to the skills of a man in his fifties, that’s going to be a much smaller house. Also, if he’s not using magic, how did those fancy clothes remain so intact?

We’re also supposed to believe that Rumple is now actively seeking his death. Does it matter that he has a son, grandson, and great-granddaughter? Assuming Gideon hasn’t done anything to expand the family tree? Please.

There’s also the glaring mistake at the beginning. It’s possible Belle and Rumple might allow Hook to come to Gideon’s party because he’s now a package deal with Emma (again, that’s only if you accept some of the crazier ideas in “Hyperion Heights.” For those unfamiliar with it, yes, the author really does say Emma married Hook. So far, this hasn’t been revealed as a false memory or the result of a curse, so I suppose “Beauty” couldn’t completely ignore it). But, does anyone believe Belle would invite the woman who tortured her husband and murdered her stepson to her baby’s birthday party? I’m hoping this was some kind of really bad typo that didn’t get caught in time).

I did like the ending with Rumple getting his memories back. Lady Tremaine has no idea what the phrase “world of hurt” means or the definition that is coming her way.

So, how do I rate it?  I think it would have been a lot better if the author had just broken free from all the “Hyperion Heights” nonsense and had been able to write a story where something is done about the curse and Belle and Rumple head off into the sunset together.  But, once you allow for the basic silliness of that other fanfic (and how HH seems to assume Belle died before it started), I think it was valiant effort. It doesn’t replace the real series for me (or even many of the better fanfics), but I’m giving it points for effort.