#Once Upon A Time Belle

[rapha-reads]

I just finished A Curse So Dark And Lonely, by Brigid Kemmerer, and wow, it might be even better than The Beast's Heart. That's a fantastic twist on Beauty and the Beast's story, and, this time, I'm using fantastic in its literary sense of "a story that starts in the real world and then gets invaded by the magical". Harper is truly awesome and badass, and I would have loved to see Grey's POV through the story, he's so good and loyal. Rhen is interesting insomuch as he's different from what the character of the Prince usually is in these contemporary rewritings. He's much more pro-active in his life and passive in his curse, if that makes sense, while most other Princes linger in their resignation and frustration.

That was such a fascinating read, I can't wait to start writing my thesis on modern rewritings of B&tB and compare it with The Beast's Heart, A Tale of Love and Revenge, Uprooted or Once Upon A Time, Belle. If you guys know more rewritings in contemporary literature of the tale, please do drop recs, the more samples I have for my thesis, the better!

[bellatrixobsessed1]

I found this alignment chart meme and so I put the once characters in into it.

[chimerazodiac]

Devil Doesn't Bargain by Alec Benjamin represents Rumbelle PERFECTLY.

[oautincorrectquotes]

Belle: I can't believe you assassinated the King!

Rumple: Well, 'assassinated' implies it was politically motivated. I killed him because he was a dick, so technically I murdered him

Belle: That's not better!

[lamour-est-la-force]

Me: Once Upon a Time season 1 is so cozy and comforting :)

ouat s1: government corruption, a woman almost having to give her baby away against her will, a mine collapsing with a child inside, a girl locked in a mental hospital, arson, homeless children needing to steal to survive, said homeless children almost getting separated in the foster care system, infidelity, drugging and kidnapping, attempted muder, actual murder, a murder trial that has nothing to do with the real actual murder, a man slowly and painfully turning into wood, etc.

[agirlwithoutmagic]

sorry but I cannot help but love ouat belle so much. she’s a hero she’s a scholar she’s the key to ending the ogre wars she was locked in a psychiatric ward for 28 years and didn’t age a day she reads mandarin and elvish she’s inexplicably australian and most of all she fucked that old man.

[kaylahastoomanyships]

Rumple + textpost memes [Part 1]

[aenslem]

Once Upon a Time (2011–2018) | 2.04 "The Crocodile"

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Rumbelle text posts pt. 1/?

[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME APPRECIATION WEEK Day 7 - Free Choice - Happy Endings

[ouatsqincorrect]

the whole fam alignment chart part 60/?

[henyrmlls]

THE CHARMING-SWAN-MILLS-STILTSKIN FAMILY

Try all you want, but nothing you do will ever tear this family apart.

[caracynthia]

#MY BROTHER IN CHRIST#NO ONE CARES

[ouatincorrects]

[oautincorrectquotes]

Rumple: Don't worry, I have a few knives up my sleeve.

Belle: I think you mean cards.

Rumple, pulling knives out of his sleeves: No, I do not.

[chippedcupwrites]

"It was an arranged marriage! I was doing you a favor!!!"

"Belle French & The Dork One"; a rumbelle fanvid