#ouat 3A

[vasfasan]

yall can throw stones at me but captain swan in 3a specifically is rushed

EXPLAIN

imagine falling so hard & fast that you abandon the thing that basically was at the foundation of your identity for CENTURIES no exaggeration for a girl you know approximately maybe a month or so*

don't get me wrong, it's in-character, but idk i wouldn't even consider a person i know for less than a year a best friend, let alone the Love of my life

(*maybe more than a month but most of that time is season 2 and they were barely interacting or thinking abt each other then)

[happy-emmdings]

Captain Swan Vibes 1/2⚓️ 🦢

Seasons 2&3&4

[ncassidy]

favorite scenes in once upon a time | 1.01, pilot

[livvyofthelake]

perhaps my mother should never have encouraged my childhood obsession with tinker bell. i don’t think it affected me in a normal way at ALL.

[sassyandclassy94]

Lol. The high hopes OUAT first timers have🤣 Its cute you have that much faith in the losers that are Adam and Eddie🥹

[destinyfound]

I’ll always be bitter that, Graham was killed off in OUAT and we couldn’t get to see Emma and Graham together.

So here’s my take on what would have happened if Graham was resurrected.

A Reminder of You

Summary: Story takes place in season 3A. Graham is alive. He came back from death when the curse was broken. During this time, he was in Neverland with the Lost boys. He joins Operation "Save Henry" and returns to Storybrooke with Emma.

Hope you like it💚

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Idea #89: House, but make it Once Upon A Time

My dash has inexplicably been filled by House lately, leading me to rewatch the entire first season - which in turn naturally led me to think: how could I shoehorn a crossover with Once Upon A Time into this?

Or: What if Allison Cameron was replaced in the House lineup with OAUT's Emma Swan?

Just imagine it:

Following her stint in juvie, Emma Swan radically turns her life around. She gets her GED, goes to college and medical school, and lands herself a job at Princeton-Plainsboro on Dr. House's diagnostic team. She remains sharp and prickly and hesitant to trust others - less the moral center Jennifer Morrison's character was intended to be and more a House-in-the-making, though less willing to lie to patients or causally break the law to get a diagnosis.

Then early season two Henry appears on scene, casually walking into the conference room while Emma and the others are researching a case and declares himself to be her son. (For maximum impact, this should be during "Daddy's Boy," but definitely before "Hunting" and Cameron's HIV scare.)

This naturally causes some consternation, and after Emma takes Henry back home she's compelled to stay in Storybrooke and become part of the hospital staff there.

Canon proceeds more or less apace in for both series until the end of OUTA 3A, "Going Home". At that point instead of Emma and Henry starting a new life in NYC after leaving Storybrooke, they "return" to NJ. Emma takes up her old position on House's team-

-but for some reason the magic doesn't work quite as it's supposed to on House. Maybe all the Vicodin makes it easier for him to determine when his mind is playing tricks on him, or maybe he's just observant enough to catch all the little contradictions that magic would otherwise smooth over to make things seem normal.

House, naturally, treats it as just another puzzle and spends the better part of a year trying to figure it out.

He's not gotten as far as he'd like (but closer than anyone in from the Enchanted Forest might hope) when Hook shows up a la "New York City Serenade" to bring Emma back to Storybrooke. Emma, naturally, is having none of it, but House is just more intrigued, so he cuts a deal with Hook to have him admitted as their latest case in exchange for finding out the truth.

What follows is a typical House differential - only instead of doing a differential on Hook's "symptoms" House writes up all of the small contradictions and curiosities regarding Emma and her background he's picked up over the years. None of it screams fairy tale princess stranded in a world without magic, but it's definitely suggestive of something - the end result of which is a massive group road trip up to Maine to "search Hook's home", but ends up with Emma regaining her memories.

Emma remains in Storybrooke, ends up taking over the hospital there, and preferably avoids all the mess of OUAT seasons 5-7. The others return to Princeton-Plainsboro, preferably avoiding all the mess House's later seasons became. Everyone lives - if not happily ever after, then at least as the best versions of themselves.

...that's really all I have: the two major scenes of Henry appearing at Princeton-Plainsboro instead of Emma's apartment on her birthday, and Hook doing the same years later to bring her back to Storybrooke. I'm sure it can be padded out significantly, but my mind has latched on to these two scenes and won't let them go.

Bonuses include:

As I absolutely adore the relationship between Emma and Hook, keep the focus there. Her previous relationship with Neal should not be idealized at all - he was an adult, she was a kid, he took advantage of her and let her take the fall for his crimes - and this should be made clear. In no way should Snow and Charming's baby be named after Henry's birth father;

Relatedly, there should be a lot of focus on family - both of blood and by choice - and the idea that true love doesn't have to be romantic love, as is made abundantly clear in the OUAT S1 finale;

All the parallels between Belle and Rumplestiltskin's relationship and that between Chase and House. Dealer's choice on the exact nature of the latter, but I find myself wanting a happy ending for a gay couple in the "real world", so make of that what you will. (And if this skips House's weird obsession with his ex in S2 all the better.)

It's shorter than I usually have, but neither of these have ever been major obsessions for me - I mainly just want to see a cross fertilization of characters, even if its just to bring those two scenes to life. As always, feel free to adopt, just link back if you do anything with it.

More Terrible Fic Ideas

[eevylynn]

Writing Patterns

Tagged by @sunwarmed-ash

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

I think I know what the pattern is going to be because I've noticed it in the past. Let's see if I'm right

Locking the office up with a whistle, Stiles tossed his keys in the air before catching them and shoving them in his back pocket before he turned to walk down the street to the combination coffee and bar that sat a block or so away from his office. You're Good || Sterek friends to lovers future fic

A cry crackled from the baby monitor, rousing Stiles from his deep slumber. His Little Miracle || Sterek slice of life

Among born werewolves, it was common knowledge that the prime age for a human to endure the bite of an Alpha and survive was typically during their teenage or young adult years. Tiny Spark, Mighty Flame || Alpha Stiles

Emma sighed as she took a break from doing paperwork. Tallahassee Bagels || Swanfire oneshot

“It’s all about the tumblers,” Neal said as he wiggled one pick around before twisting with the other causing an audible “tick”. Torque and Tumblrs || Slice of life with Neal, Rumple, and Henry

Little feet pattered down the darkened hall before the soft crack of an opening door followed. Breakfast || Nealfire/Robin Hood slice of life

The early morning light streamed through the curtains as Rumford Gold slowly opened his eyes. Meet Me at Diagon Alley || Once Upon a Time Hogwarts AU

Voices could be heard, garbled and distant, some desperate, some cheerful, but never understandable. Accidental Occurrence || OUAT 3a divergence

Belle still wasn’t entirely sure how she ended up in line for the autograph of some actor she’d never heard of before at a convention she didn’t even know if she had wanted to attend in the first place. Awkward Fangirls || Rumbelle celebrity AU

Cora didn’t have what many considered to be an idyllic childhood. The Mills Ladies || OUAT Hogwarts AU

Ok, it was only 3 out of the 10, but if I went further there would have been ever more: I tend to start my stories with someone waking up.

2 out of the 10 is someone leaving their office.

Tagging: @endwersed @violetfaust @dear-massacre @thotpuppy @renmackree @swanfireprincessmydear

[snowbellewells]

Happy Happy Birthday Jennifer!! @whimsicallyenchantedrose

So, while I wasn’t able to write you a brand new birthday story this year, I thought it might be fun to highlight my all-time favorites of your stories. You were the first fandom friend I met and interacted with, we talked the show and plot points and character development together, and you helped me begin to navigate Tumblr back when I first joined. It’s been a gift to know you all that time, and your writing is a gift to us all! You’ve written so many GREAT stories that it was hard to narrow down, but I have settled on my top half dozen at last to highlight for your special day -- with some cover art for a few of them!!! 💖 Hope this gift serves to remind you of all you’ve written and created and how much all of it - and you!! - are loved. 🥰

The Strongest Magic - This short MC is one of your very early works - a Neverland season 3a divergent tale, but where it diverges gives us powerful adventure and emotion, sacrifice, and much earlier admission and acceptance of the love between our Pirate and Princess. I simply adore it - it squeezes your heart for sure, but it also wraps you up in a wonderful happy ending by the time you are finished.

A Wish Your Heart Makes , Getting to I Do & Mysterious Fathoms Below - This series of longer, connected multi-chapters (The "By Land or By Sea" trilogy) is simply EPIC!!! I don't know how to sing the praises of this story half as much as it deserves. There's adventure in the Enchanted Forest, Camelot, and even under the sea! There's so much beautiful love story for CS (and even some lovely, redemptive Outlaw Queen as well), and @whimsicallyenchantedrose even incorporates some unexpected and perfectly cast characters of myth and legend and her own creation alongside our faves. I don't want to give too much away, but these stories MUST BE read! Once you do, you'll want to read them over and over again.

Happily Ever After - This short MC was originally part of your Fluffy Fridays compilation, and I have often revisited the few chapters of this on their own and definitely think of them as their own little stand-alone story. I love the family recipes, the competition, the rivalry that becomes something much sweeter.... it's a truly delicious addition to your collection of writing!

Caribbean Shores - This lovely little MC reads more like a modern day AU, though they are in Storybrooke and many of our favorite characters still appear. I love the cute sweetness of this one, and the adorable addition of a few scheming cuties from MM's class when she takes them for a field trip tour of the Jolly Roger from Killian. ;) All the sizzle and attraction is there for Emma and Killian right from the start, and though she tries to resist (Why is she always so stubborn?!?) She can't do it for long...

Under the Apple Tree - It's hard to even express how much I adore this fic originally written between season six and season seven of canon. The way @whimsicallyenchantedrose wove in what we knew might be coming in season seven and then supposed what still could happen (a lot of which I would have loved to really see!) is simply brilliant. I love the relationships explored and the way the plot unfolds. It's a special and unique version of our beloved characters, and of course the unstoppable power of Captain Swan to always find each other again is fully on display too! ;p

Until the Stars are all Alight - Wow, this story must have been such a daunting task to undertake - one I would have been afraid to tackle, but the skill with which the OuaT world and the LotR world are woven together, how the plotlines come together and reach fruition, and how the characters coincide for best use so seamlessly is truly admirable and just adds to the depth and power of this full multi-chapter adventure. It has heart and hope and True Love conquering all - all the best things we love so much from the world of fairy tales and the brain of J.R. R. Tolkien!

[vasfasan]

He used to call me DN

That stood for deadly nightshade

'Cause I was filled with poison

But blessed with beauty and rage

Jim told me that

He hit me and it felt like a kiss

Jim brought me back

Reminded me of when we were kids

[cssns]

We’re back, y’all!!! Please help me welcome @spartanguard to the CSSNS23!!!

What’s your Tumblr?

@spartanguard​

How long have you been in the CS/OUAT fandom?

A looong time--I watched the show live for its entire run, but didn't become super active until fall 2014 (4a).

When did you start shipping Captain Swan?

I don't know that I can fully pinpoint a moment, but sometime during 3A. (And my answer to that changes constantly, haha)

What drew you to this event?

The same thing that drew me to OUAT in the first place--I love seeing different takes on fairy tales/fantasy, especially against the backdrop of the real world, and love seeing what new adventures we can all take Emma & Killian on.

What inspired your topic?

So I've technically been working on this story since 2015. IIRC, there was a mirror-image manip going around of Colin on set, which brought up the theory of two Killians in my friend group. Which prompted one of them (I believe it was @kat2609) to send an anonymous ask regarding the shenanigans that Killian and his double/twin could get up to. (Note that this was long before the Wish Realm was even thought of, so well before there actually were two Killian Joneses in canon.) I kind of ran with the idea at the time, but then hit some dead ends when the 5A storyline resolved different than anticipated. It sat for a very long time until I finally came up with a workaround sometime last year. and now it's almost done!

If you would like to share a snippet/sneak peek/summary of your fic or artwork, please use the space below.

"I'm disappointed in you." The man almost sounded sad.

"As I told the asshole in the diner, you don't know me." He groggily sat up to stare the man down; a sheriff's badge gleamed from where it was hooked to his jeans, below crossed arms and a stern glare.

"I know you plenty well, pirate." He'd been called many things, but that was a new one. "How could you do this to Emma?"

Who? "Who the f*ck is Emma?" Something weird was going on, but his brain hurt too much to process it.

"I the f*ck am Emma," came a feminine voice from the hallway, followed by the clack of boot heels as she approached. The sheriff ran in her direction, stopping her before she came into view.

"Emma, hold on; I have to tell you something."

"Dad, what's going on?" His vision was blearier than he thought if he hadn't noticed that the man was old enough to have an adult daughter.

The rest of their conversation was too quiet for him to hear, so he slumped back against the concrete wall and glanced around the station.

The sheriff came back, followed by his daughter. Ooh, now there was a sight. A gorgeous blonde came into view, a vision in a red leather jacket. Now why wasn't she at the bar last night? A much better bedfellow she would have made.

Until he saw that she, too, wore a sheriff badge. Law enforcement was an immediate turnoff.

She wore a concerned look on her face as she slowly approached his holding cell. It seemed as if she was studying his face, searching for something. But she must have come up empty, as relief flooded her features, followed quickly by confusion.

"That's not him."

What are you looking forward to most about participating in this event?

Seeing all the great stories and gorgeous art everyone comes up with!

I’m so thrilled that Kaitlyn is back participating again this year! Her MC featuring Killian’s evil twin will be dropping on Wednesday July 5! Everyone go say hi and welcome her back!

[moistvonlipwig]

fic ask please!

bullet in the proof - 8, 20, 26

laid in thine enemy's grave? - in truth, i dig it - 7, 20, 26? :D

bullet in the proof

8. What inspired the title for this fic? Is that usually how you choose titles?

it's from the dessa song "i already like you"! which i wouldn't say i associate Strongly with guardiancorp but it doesn't Not fit. (although genius.com is now claiming the line is "i'm your bullet AND the proof", which....may indeed be the real line but it makes less sense as a line because presumably the line is riffing off of "pudding in the proof". but ok.) i really had no idea what to call this fic but i like this line and it works with james taking a bullet for her. honestly how i choose titles in general varies a lot. currently i don't have any other published fics with song lyric titles though.

20. What is something you wish more people noticed about this fic?

well to be fair i haven't gotten very many comments on this fic lol so i'm not sure what people have noticed. but one detail i sprinkled in there is that james does aikido; IIRC it's never revealed what martial art he has a black belt in but i decided to give him aikido because (a) i do aikido lol and (b) it's a purely defensive martial art and i like the idea of a guy whose superhero weapon is a shield doing a defensive martial art. oh and also i included a bit about eve where i kind of 'foreshadowed' that she is being blackmailed by leviathan to spy on lena for lex but she doesn't want to because she does genuinely like lena. i like writing limited 3rd person POV fics where i have other characters say/do things that the POV character doesn't at all understand the implications of but the audience does.

26. Wild Card! I’ll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

hm not sure if this counts as a fun fact/trivia but the reveal in s4 that lex tortured james and gave him 16 scars was really one of the first things that made me super interested in guardiancorp (reminder that i watched this show spoiled & out of order lol) because i was like. ok how does he get to the point where he can see past his own hurt to who lena actually is? and part of that was thinking about how growing up with lex left its own psychological scars on lena and how i think james probably came to see that and understand that it wasn't him vs. the luthor siblings, it was him and lena vs. lex. so this fic was in large part an attempt to flesh out the crumbs of guardiancorp we got in 3a to include james's evolving thoughts on that aspect.

laid in thine enemy's grave? - in truth, i dig it

7. What inspired the idea for the plot?

well as i said in my author's note i owe a big debt of inspiration to the OUAT fic "The Long Con" by lostlilsnail. i actually kind of worried while writing it that it was Too similar? then i was like, no, the characters are tackling a similar plot from a different angle because they're different people with different motivations from a different source material. honestly i'd love a third party reality check though!

20. What is something you wish more people noticed about this fic?

now this fic does have a lot of comments so i guess i will just quote some lines that i haven't seen anyone mention that i was particularly proud of:

Lena knows all about the greater good. It’s the thing you kill brothers for.

&

Kara took Kara from Lena, and that is unforgivable.

& a moment i thought was funny:

Even Lillian comes. She sits next to James and occasionally leans over to whisper in his ear, and from the deer-in-the-headlights look that keeps crossing his face, Lena infers that her mother is probably trying to flirt with him.

26. Wild Card! I’ll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

i almost included a line about how kara & lena considered inviting oliver & felicity to the wedding but decided not to because barry & iris warned them that they were bad wedding guests LOL. but i decided against it in the spirit of not making the fic hostile to olicity fans.

[ohmightydevviepuu]

Rules: Go to your published works on AO3 and list the first fic you ever published there, the last fic you published, any fic that you wrote for a fandom/ship only once, your favorite fic you wrote in the fandom/ship that has the most works, the fic you wish more people read, the fic you agonized over the most, the fic that sprang fully formed from your mind without any effort, and a work you are proud of—for whatever reason. <3

tagged by @shireness-says and @spartanguard and @thisonesatellite

First fic: foreign, but familiar, a little sailor moon number i did a looooong time ago because it was crawling around in my head.

Last fic: literally just finished the part of a swan after a two-year hiatus. regency AU, captain swan, inspired by sarah maclean's casino series and a lot of very horny lorraine heath.

Only once: that would be foreign, but familiar again. i have pieces of a much longer fic scattered across my cloud drives that i turn to for self care, but it is just for me, not for posting.

Favorite fic from the fandom I’ve written in most: tough call but i think i need to go with from the edge of the deep green sea, a captain swan 3a divergence with a curse and a mermaid that pulled me deep into my teenage 90s playlist feels.

Fic I wish more people read: probably three thousand one hundred and ninety-one, a little fic that started as a series of prompts written in august 2020. it's got all of my favorite tropes and bullshit piled up in one place, but i also think it is a little unique stylistically and in its structure.

Fic I agonized over: for tonight you're only here to know, which started off simply enough but really got caught in my head for a minute while i worked through it. a very favorite of mine, though, for the writing and the weirdness of it. captain swan AU, no plot, just vibes. or maybe my 2b divergence try/cry/why (just a dream), which i rewrote more times than i care to think about because i got very caught up in the headspace of this fic.

Fic that sprang fully formed: none of them (sob), but the one that came closest was the last test and proof, a 3b no-curse divergence which started as a prompt in august 2020 that i literally wrote in maybe fifteen minutes. the subsequent sections required considerably more work. 😅

Work(s) I’m proud of: voices from the yellow road, a captain swan modern AU epistolary joint that i was low-key obsessed with while i was writing it. i still think there's not much else in the fandom quite like it. and the fic of my heart: our little life (rounded with a sleep). it's a OUAT season 1 au with a noir twist written for the 2020 Captain Swan Rewrite-a-Thon.

[ladykikyo1792]

Do you use an outline for Dark Paradise? Did you expect the fic to get as dark (pun intended) as it has?

I don't. The characters carry the story away themselves! I have ideas of where I want it to go, and some of these ideas make their way into the fic. Others are made up as I go along. I'll give you an example of this under the spoiler tag:

Spoilers for "Dark Paradise:" When first writing the fic, I didn't have Peter's past/background 100% fleshed out yet. I knew he (obviously) wasn't going to be Rumple's dad, and I knew that he was going to hate parents due to an abusive past, but I hadn't figured out the particulars until around Chapter 4. He revealed his full backstory about attending Eton and being Peter Ponsoby around that time, but this was actually not something I planned at the start! I knew the fic would be more serious and adult than the show (it had to be, if it was going to explore themes in Season 3A that the show for reasons unknown either started to explore, but then abandoned, or just ignored for reasons unknown), but some of the more graphic things (like Ferdinand's death)...no. That being said, I knew we had to explain why some of the Lost Boys are so loyal to Peter Pan, as the show never bothered. We also had to simultaneously explain why other characters were so afraid of Pan, and talking him up. That meant making him (and his actions) more horrific...but with a justification we all sort of question whether we can get behind. That's a good chunk of the fic: exploring morality, the lines of "hero" and "villain," and what do those things mean? Where do the lines blur? It's honestly where (writing-wise) Season 3 of OUAT should have gone: down this route of morality explanation to help the main characters grow- Season 2 sets them up to do this -but the canon show stops doing it and focuses on fan service for some reason. You can see what (I believe are) remnants of this original Season 3 plot in the final televised version, but the full morality exploration is abandoned. So "Dark Paradise" picks up partly where I think the show should have gone.

[phoenixwrites]

So I think I saw your doing a ouat rewatch? Will you stop at certain point or will you watch the whole thing?

I am!

I'm embarking on a weighty project finishing my OUAT fics. The next up on the list is "Of Golden Sands". Don't remember that one? Don't worry, no one else does, I just want to finish them. ;)

Definitely NOT the whole thing. I will probably watch up to season 3A, when Emma and Henry leave Storybrooke in the mid-season finale. Which is how the show SHOULD have ended.

Neal's death was really hard on me--emotionally, personally, and also frustratingly from a narrative standpoint. It was such CRAPPY WRITING, that seven years later, I'm still enraged by it. So I don't really wanna do that again, you know?

[jewishsuperfam]

ouat 3a: let’s have a villain where the surprise twist is that he’s rumple’s evil dad

ouat 6b: well we’ve exhausted all our other ideas, time to introduce a villain where the surprise twist is that shes rumple’s evil mom