Just here for the Captain Swan

Muse: no.

Me: Kay, how about the Rogers/Dark Swan alternate fanfic.

Muse: best I can do is Rogers gets trapped in a pocket realm where he’s with his own Emma alternate that he consciously has to leave to break out and save the day.

Me: can we please just finish a project we’ve already started.

Muse: what if Blackbeard had an evil snowglobe where he trapped Killian and could put him through all kinds of torturous nightmare scenarios so he could watch and laugh at him from his desk.

The speed at which I moved to immediately hang this up in my basement bedroom/office (that I am *still* slowly shoveling out and reclaiming as living space.)

I have mixed feeling about being stuck in this space for now but at least I giggle every time I look at this sign now.

The wall adjacent to it is going to be my writing/art space. Shout out to the letter board trend that I lost interest in almost as quickly as I lost all the extra letters.

All this time and I’m still unsure what to do with the scene where teenage Bae is asking if Milah left or died. Rumple says she died but his affect seems like he knows she left, but later when he goes to confront Killian as the DO, he seems surprised to learn that she is dead. Also, the way he says “how’s Milah” reads to me like he knows she ran.

Maybe they were just laying the clues a season early, but it seems to me like Rumple knew on some she wasn’t kidnapped.

For instance, instead of her verbally abusing him for her being “lashed to a coward” and not being able to travel the world, show how exhausted she is after five odd years of trying to scrape by in a town that won’t buy the wares of a man they see as a coward, but said man refuses to relocate to a place where they might be able to start over.

Slight tangent: I know they mean well but it’s a bit of a pet peeve when non-writers try to give me advice about writing. I don’t mean feedback or criticism, I mean they think a book pops out fully formed with no edits in a few hours of concentration at a coffee shop and when I try to correct them it’s some variant of “maybe you should just write short stories for practice.”

M’am, I have a degree in creative writing.

Also. No one is more annoyed than me at my lack of ability to update. Since my brother passed, I’m basically the third parent to my niece and nephew, I don’t think it means a lack of talent.

Especially in a Villain’s “lair.”

- “Killian, did you ask Peter for help? I think his ship has a little more firepower, if you need it.”

- “Oh, looking for Peter? I think he picked up a shift at the hospital. Did you ever consider Med school, Killian?”

- “You’re gonna have to ask Peter about that, he was just elected lieutenant mayor so Regina delegated that to his office.”

Edit to add:

Plot expansion arcs I would have preferred:

- F-king Sleeping Beauty backstory. Also how TF did they get Phillip back?

- show the shadow organization that sent Tamara and Greg. Yeah it was really Pan being Pan, but the way Tamara and Greg talked, it was like there was a whole anti magic Men In Black operation. It might have hit different if we saw more of how they were drawn in and manipulated before the true reveal and subsequent unaliving.

- unpack onscreen literally anything that happened to the main cast/ships in the frozen arc, I’m begging you.