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@startreksecretsanta gift for the wonderful @commandtrek - I sort of amalgamated two of the wishes into one thing (i.e. you’re getting hurt!Jim AND fluff -  hopefully) <3 I love your blog, and I hope you like this. 

I’m looking forward to it :)

Oh yes, I could talk for ages about where I think the show went wrong and that is without even bringing in ships, just characterization and themes and such.

SanSan has been such a huge part of my life back in 2012/2013. One of these days I’ll finish at least one of my WIPs for that fandom, I swear.

I’m absolutely fine with AUs, both canon divergent or modern or even a mix of genres. I really don’t like how the show has been written past S3A (it wasn’t stellar even before that but any and all coherence it managed to keep until that point went down the drain in 3B, at least in my opinion).

I hate Zelena. Hate, hate, hate her. There’s nothing about her character that I find appealing. She is the worst.

I don’t like Hook. I used to appreciate him as a villain and before S3, I rooted for a redemption arc for him based on the last episode of S2. We know how that went down in the show proper. He’s not a hero, no matter how many times the characters say it. I know what a hero is and Hook’s not one.

Most other characters are fine by me although as I didn’t really keep up with the show, I know very little about the huge cast of guest characters from S4 onward, aside from their own franchises.

The cast of S1 and 2 is whom I like the best. I liked the Pan twist in S3. I don’t like Felix because the guy who played him looked like my ex - not a good thing at all.

I’m fine with a lot of things in fics. About the only line I draw is non-con and I’m really, really uncomfortable with infidelity/cheating due to personal reasons.

I enjoy angst with a happy ending; if it’s well-written, the happy ending is not necessary either; still, fluff is even better. Family fluff is my jam when it comes to OUAT. I’m a sucker for Dark Castle AUs. Canon fix-it fics and canon missing moments fics are always great, too. I’m okay with smut but it’s not necessary for my enjoyment.

I have and I love them all! I am so sorry this is coming in late. It’s been a wild week. I’m guessing you mean King In the North? If so, then yes, and can I say that I love you even more now? Thank you for asking! I’m always a slut for headcanons. 

Robb always knew he was going to rule something somewhere one day (though he thought it would just be Winterfell), and I think that’s why he made such an effort to get to know everyone growing up. We already know that he’s best friends with his family’s bastard and ward (two people that aren’t exactly “approved” friendships for a little heir) and I headcanon that he also would have made friends with the servants and cooks if he could because Ned drilled into him early on that you can’t expect anyone to serve a ruler they don’t know. He definintely took that mentality to the war with him and would always make sure he was on the front lines and would chat with as many of his lords or soldiers (even the very very low born ones) as often as he could and ask about their families and just try to show, generally, that he was going to be a part of their lives and that he wanted to get to know them. That if they were going to die for him, he’d live for them. 

I think one of the things that terrified him the most about becoming King was that he knew Winterfell, and so he thought he was ready to be lord, but everything just became so much bigger than Winterfell. He spent his whole life there, knew every little piece of the castle and the lands, and (as said above) he knew the people. He doesn’t know all of the North, and I think he would have been scrambling to try and expand his horizons on that as quickly as possible. Especially when he takes on the Riverlands as well. (And we see in the books Robb asking his mom for stories as they move around, trying to get to know the history of the land.)

Robb thinks of ruling (as Ned taught him) as being a father and all of the people are his children. So just like with a parent, I think, he both loves and fears that responsibility. He finds out pretty quickly that he likes his new role (he gets to know people, he gets to look out for them, he gets to carve out this new plan for the future, and it’s all very exciting) but it’s also the most terrifying thing he’s ever done because he now has thousands of lives in his hands, and he wants to please everyone (just like you never really want to play favorites with your children and want to be diplomatic and find the right solution to appease them all), but you literally can’t please that many people at once, and that’s difficult for him to learn. 

He’s just confident and arrogant enough to accept the title and to believe that he actually can be king (not that he was given a lot of choice) and once he makes up his mind, he’s very stubborn (and he has a very rigid sense of right and wrong), but he’s also learning on the job, and he’s open to criticism and advice and knows how to apologize/suck up his pride and grovel when he needs to. I think he called for council quite a lot and genuinely wanted his lords’ and his mother’s advice, but at the end of the day, if he didn’t look like he believed in himself, no one else would, and he was constantly fighting against being seen only as a “boy” so he often just had to make the executive decision and pretend he was confident in it and hope it worked out (which we know it didn’t always).

He’s learning as he goes along that “good” and “what works” are not always the same thing, and he’s always stubbornly going to pick “good.” Because he’s so unwilling to be morally flexible, ruling starts to feel like a pretty impossible job. 

He takes the job very seriously and that’s why he never sleeps, barely eats, never does anything but obsess over what to do next. He definitely doesn’t take the responsibility for granted.

Let’s see. 

I would love to be able to travel around the world and be a tourist, and hope that I’ll be able to afford to in the future. 

 I feel education is important, but not all of it is really necessary (Phys Ed for example. Never going to use that.) 

 I love reading, I used to be able to read like 2-3 books a week, but lately my attention span has been really bad? 

I love animals in theory, but I feel I can barely take care of myself, much less a pet.  I love other people’s pets though.

And lastly, I’m actually in college right now, I think I fit it really well.  My only issue is that I can’t keep enough motivation for homework a lot of the time >.>

Hello! The Santa/Satan typo is quite common, isn’t it? Have you published the book or did it remain an exercise?

I’m quite fine, thank you. Busy working on my RSS gift and there are prompts from my birthday promptathon (almost three months past!!!) and I’m also doing a secret santa in a different fandom but the deadline is almost a week earlier and I’m almost done with that one plus the multitudes of my WIPs and... it’s a good thing I thrive under pressure. A good thing indeed.

Anyway, Rumbelle. That tale begins in the early fall of 2012. I have been on the Tumblr for about six months, hanging out in the ASOIAF corner, SanSan division :) One of the people I followed posted some really adorable gifs of a couple where you could feel the love just from the way they were looking at each other. The tag said rumbelle and ouat and I started digging. I realized it was the tv show that had been bought for broadcast by one of the channels in my country so I read about it in the TV guide and decided it sounded right up my alley. I spoiled myself enough to know that the twelfth episode of season one was the relevant one to that couple. I went and binged-watch season one and I didn’t look back. I looked away after 3.15 but that’s neither here nor there.

The earliest moments are the ones I love the most. Almost the entirety of Skin Deep (when she laughs at his joke about forgetting what he wanted to forget in particular), their reunion in the shop in the finale and then when the memories come back (”I remember! I love you!”). The date invitation in 2.4. The date itself. Certain parts of Outsider.

As for parallels, I have always been drawn to the Beauty and the Beast-esque couples so on the basis of that alone, about half of my ships count (seriously, it’s either BatB or battle couple dynamics with me, sometimes both, usually with some age difference thrown in; oh, and kindred souls, that too; aaand sometimes enemies to friends to lovers...). But I would say SanSan stands out even among those (self-hating beast, sweet and kind beauty who makes him reconsider his outlook on the world).