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Hey there! Santa here, back for one last anon message before delivering your gift. I want to respond to some of what you said in your last answer, and I also wanted to let you know it’ll likely be either a late Christmas day delivery or 26th delivery. I’m working on it, but the past few weeks have been super hectic and I’ve had essentially no downtime to sit and work on your gift. I’ll have some time in the midday and afternoon tomorrow, so I hope to finish getting it polished and posted by tomorrow night, but if not, it’ll be the 26th at the latest.

Now onto those replies!

I agree with all the moments you mentioned—those are so good! I like largely the same tropes, too. But I’m actually a little iffy on the 3B kidfic trope, lol! It can be done well, but overall the general idea irks me a bit.

More friendship moments between Killian and Snow, David, Smee, and Tink—yes please!! And I love CaptainBeauty as a friendship too. Their “I’m pregnant, remember?” “…Oh yeah.” always gets a laugh out of me.

Shows! Yes! I’m also a Miraculous, Phineas, and Psych fan!

Good genre picks for books as well 😌

The Santa Clause is a favorite of mine too! I haven’t watched all 3 in a bit, but I remember liking them all.

As far as older Christmas songs go—so fair! You can’t go wrong with the classics. Sometimes they do overplay some songs, but I tend to like a good mix of classic and newer.

Hope your holiday season has been great so far!! I hope you had a good Christmas Eve, and if I don’t see you around beforehand, I hope your Christmas is wonderful too.

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I completely understand!! It gets busy this time of year. So I get it if you need a little more time <3

Kid fic isn't for everyone, that's for sure. And most of the time, I'm hit or miss with it lol But idk, something about the 3b ones hit different for me.

The "I'm pregnant" scene is so funny 😭 Like, how does he forget?? Peak comedy (but it was so sweet how he was trying to help her settle in and be comfortable)

One of the beauties of streaming my own music instead of listening to the radio: I can control how many times a song is played! So I don't ruin anything for myself by overplaying, which is, as you said, something that tends to happen this time of year. But as long as you can find a good balance, right?

I'm having a good Christmas so far! Hope you are too!

Merry Christmas, Santa 🎅🎄

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this so cute!!! i love it 💗💗💗

Christmas party with the besties! They have a tradition to celebrate Christmas at Marinette’s every year 🎄

Merry Christmas im_up_to_shenanigans!! I was your Asheville Secret Santa ☺️ Hope you like it!!!

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Hey there, Santa again!

Something I forgot in my last ask: would you prefer a fic to be set during/around Christmastime, or just on any other Tuesday (at least as normal as a Tuesday can be in Storybrooke)?

If you have any detail ideas, I’m open to hearing them!!

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i actually would prefer it to be set in normal (ish) Storybrooke!

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Hey there, Santa again!

I'm glad to hear you had a good Thanksgiving, and I hope this week is off to a good start!

I hear you on season 3. It's so good!

What are some of your favorite moments, from season 3 or outside of it? Personally, I love the finale and softer moments! And the goodbye scene in Going Home was so heartbreaking, but done so beautifully.

What are some favorite tropes of yours to read?

Do you have a preference between 3A or 3B?

You mentioned you're good with anything set in season 3. Do you have any particular preference as far as when, or whether it's canon compliant or divergent? Do you tend to read one more than the other? If so, would you prefer me to write in what you more commonly read or in what's less common for your reading?

Do you have any favorite characters or ships in OUAT besides Captain Swan? Is there anyone you wish we saw more of or anyone you wish they had included in the show? I wish we saw more of Tinker Bell, myself—she was so great and we only got about half a season with her!

Unrelated to the show—what are some of your other favorite movies, shows, or books? Any favorite Christmas movies or songs?

If there's anything you feel I've left out or anything you just want me to know, feel free to include anything extra as well!

I look forward to seeing your answers! I'll get to work on that fic and see what I can come up with. I'll send more asks throughout the month as needed. If you'd like me to send any just to check in, I can do that too!

🎄 Until next time! 🎄

Hi, Santa!! My week's been pretty good, hope yours has, too 😊

Favourite moments... hmm, let's see. Well, cannot go wrong with the entire season 3 finale lol. I love the kiss in 3x5, the "when I win your heart" moment, the goodbye at the town line, the "if it can be broken, that means it still works" moment where she so wanted to kiss him (i know, she told me), ugh just... them in season 3.

outside of that season, i love the entirety of 2x6. love all their little domestic moments in s4. love the middlemist kiss in season 5. i have so many more but this is getting long enough lol

i think i love canon divergent and compliant pretty equally, so i think just write wherever the muse leads you and i'll be stoked! i do prefer 3A, but i love 3B so much too!

some favourite tropes: pining pining pining! i also lose my mind over a good secret relationship (an underutilized trope imo). a cs specific trope i can never get enough of are those AUs where they hook up once sometime during 3A and then when he comes to find her in 3B, whoops! looks like they have a baby together now haha. (but i know kidfics aren't everyone's cup of tea, so don't feel like you have to. this is one option of many that i enjoy!)

i also love me some good angst! that moment in 3x19 where everyone thinks Killian was lying and don't want to trust him? AAAHHHH we need way more fics exploring that little moment! not just between CS but also Killian with David (and Snow!! more fics with a friendship between them too!!)

other favourite characters: i love the charmings! i adore their relationship with each other, and i always eat up any moments they have with Emma (and Henry!) i'm with you on Tink! wish she had way more time here, as well as Mr Smee!! Killian and Smee are always so hilarious together, and i think the two of them + Tink would've been an amazing trio to explore. I love Belle! CaptainBeauty is actually my brotp in this fandom!

other favourite shows: well, as you can probably tell by my posts lately, i love Criminal Minds lol. other shows i enjoy are Miraculous Ladybug, the Justice League/Unlimited cartoons, Phineas and Ferb, Psych, Grimm, and probably more that i can't think of right now.

movies! my favourite movie ever is Megamind (no i haven't watched the sequel. or the follow up cartoon, no i don't plan to). other favs include: Road to El Dorado, The Princess Bride, Encanto, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Toy Story 1-3 (not 4), and many more!

now for books! i actually don't really have specific favourites here? but i love reading fantasy, romance, thrillers, and murder mystery! give me any of those, and i'm down lol

Christmas movies: i'll be honest, i'm not really a person who watches a lot of The Christmas Movies™️. i think most of them are ehh :/ however, i am also the girl who will watch every single Christmas romance movie (Hallmark or otherwise). i think i just like a little romance this time of year lol

but i do watch The Santa Clause movies (starring Tim Allen) pretty much every year. sometimes i skip #3 (definitely the weakest imo), but #1 is solid. #2 is my absolute favourite and i will watch it every year without fail

Christmas songs: i actually prefer a lot of the older songs. the classics, if you will. but more than that, i prefer Christmas Carols. the ones that sing about the birth of Jesus. (think Silent Night, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, etc etc). there's something so special about them that songs like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or Jingle Bells or [insert literally any modern song by a pop artist here] just don't have imo. i could listen to the carols all year round, even when i get sick of the songs that are played on the radio this time of year :)

feel free to slide into my asks any time you want, although it might take me a few days to answer them lol (i'm not actually on tumblr much, and sometimes my notifications get lost whoops)

i hope you're having a wonderful holiday season 💗

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✨ HEEEELLLLLOOOOOO THERE! ✨

‘Tis I, your secret Santa checking in for the first time! How are you? How was your weekend? How was your Thanksgiving, if you’re American and celebrate?

I’ll be honest—I’m a bit nervous as I feel like I never know what questions to ask with these things! But I’m looking forward to being your Santa and delivering a gift that I hope will be perfect this Christmas. I’ll do some digging around your blog in the coming days/weeks as I try to think of things, but if there’s anything you absolutely need me to know right away, please do feel free to let me know!

Until next time!

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Hi, Santa! My Thanksgiving was pretty great! Travelled to see family and had a good time. I hope everything's well on your end, too!

As far as my preferences go, my favourite season is 3. Set anything in there, and you're golden (canon compliant, divergent, etc idc i love it). Although, I'm sure I'll love anything you come up with 🥰

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The team: *serious conversation about the case*

Prentiss for some reason for a full 10 seconds:

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y'all better go read death and the lady or i'm sending nukes to your house

(for legal reasons that's a joke)

read my friend's fic death and the lady or i'll blow u up with 5000 missiles. do you like spencer reid. do you like feeling miserable. do you like feeling miserable about spencer reid. yes? read it.

(sillies aside. this has one of my favourite depictions of spencer's childhood, his relationship with diana, and just. generally his characterisation. it made me eat drywall. i haven't commented on it yet because it's taking a long time to write it. so far it's 500 words. that's how deranged this made me)

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i think all of these thoughts on a regular basis.

i can just picture the team finding out about his lackluster birthdays and they all promise to like "you don't have to worry about that with us :)"

and he smiles and accepts it, but on the inside he's like "yeah, wonder how long that'll last. eventually they won't care to remember. eventually i'll be a forgotten non-priority. and so every year, he expects them to forget.

but very year they make sure to celebrate, even if it's not big. because they promised. and he slowly begins to believe, no, they will remember. and he starts getting used to it

and then... they forget. and he tries to tell himself "it's nothing new. i was expecting it. i shouldn't be surprised. it doesn't matter"

except it does. because once again, he's been forgotten by his family, even though they swore they never would. and he doesn't understand why it still hurts

reid's reaction when emily says "we missed your birthday" is so fucking. agh.

he nods and smiles and then very quickly looks down.

TIME TO READ INTO IT WHOOOOO:

when they missed his birthday, he was like. "eh. it's fine. i'm thirty now, i don't need my friends to throw me a party. i'm an adult, i'm not upset about it."

especially because i'm sure reid didn't have a lot of awesome birthdays pre-series. i always got the impression he was mostly friendless until he joined the team, with ethan as the only exception (and in my heart they met and became friends in college, despite canon suggesting it was as young children). diana loved him and i'm sure she would have been lovely on his birthday, but i doubt she always remembered it (in the flashback to william leaving in 2x15 she doesn't know what day it is—i think it's very plausible that could happen on at least some of his birthdays) and if she did, she might not have been in the right headspace to celebrate it like she wanted.

(and even if she remembered and she was doing well, i really struggle to see any version of diana and spencer post-william leaving who wouldn't have had serious financial issues)

and then after spencer moves diana into assisted living (possibly on his birthday or at least close to it) he's mostly alone until he meets gideon. (again, except for ethan)

so, in summary: pre-bau spencer's birthdays were probably infrequently celebrated, and when they were celebrated, they were probably a lot less of a Big Deal than other peoples' were, for various reasons. so spencer spends about a decade growing used to not celebrating his birthday, then joins the bau and spends about a decade getting used to celebrating it, and then...they forget. not only do they forget, they forget the big three-oh.

so he tells himself not only that he's too old now to care about his birthday, but he spent so long not celebrating it anyway, and he's fine. it's fine.

and then emily finds out. and it's not fine. and he is upset about it.

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OOOOHHHHH

After so long of wondering why Reid wears his gun like that, only to find that it's because that's how cowboys/gunslingers would wear it for a smaller target and a faster draw...well, it's changed me as a person 😅

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screaming crying throwing up

i desperately need this fic and i may just write it myself 😭😭😭

i need him coming to the realization that he loves her but never saying anything until after she's gone. i need him confessing at her grave and in his letters. i need him angry and heartbroken when she comes back and no one knows why he's betrayed *to this extent*

i need her to think of him constantly in Paris. i need her to long to come back to him every day. i need her to hug him in 7x1 and it to feel like coming home. i need for her to miss him even after coming back because he's distant with her.

i need them to finally talk. i need them to slowly rebuild their friendship. i need them to watch movies in his apartment. i need them to maybe almost kiss. i need them to have a near death experience on a case. i need them to go out with the team and get kinda tipsy. i need them to leave the bar, one planning to drop the other off (probably via taxi but hey, an excuse is an excuse). i need one of them to walk the other to their door. i need them to kiss desperately. frantically. an *i-need-to-know-you're-alive* kiss

i need them to go back to work and try to act normal around each other. i need them to get flustered and worked up just looking at each other. i need them to finally come together, secretly. on a case maybe, or maybe just when they're hanging out, or maybe when with the team outside work. i need them to start a secret relationship.

i need her to panic once they realize they are in love. i need her to flee to London. i need him devastated. i need them to fight and break up.

i need her finally visiting the team. i need them to get back together. i need them to rekindle what they had. i need them to keep it quiet again.

i need her to come back stateside once she realizes she will never outrun her feelings for him. i need him to forgive her because she came back, no one else does, and she keeps coming back, even when she leaves. i need her to promise to stay. i need him to slowly believe her.

i need them to finally settle in together. i need them showing up to a team hang out holding hands. i need them to finally be happy

just wanted to say that im happy to see a spemily shipper. it's not something I really ship anymore but UGH I was in the trenches over them. I Get It.

i really wasn't expecting to go back there in this the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four but by god they had the juice didn't they. the sharp-tasting being so in love juice. i won't ever watch more of criminal minds than i already watched but like the gifsets of "after what he did to you if i would have found him i would have killed him" have tempted me deeply.

we were so robbed. criminal minds pacing doomed us to only get reid devastated over her fake death for like 3 episodes. i needed a whole fucking season of that. i needed her ghost to haunt all of them through every case and every late night at the same old bar. i needed her to have left them thematically significant belongings in her will and i needed JJ to have been the executor. i needed reid to have relapsed or nearly relapsed and addressed a whole collection of amends letters to her until he got through it, until he was just beginning to see the crack of light through the pitch darkness of her absence, and right then right in that moment i needed her to have come back and blown it all to shit. ah <3333 che bella

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I know it’s August but the holidays feel fast approaching and with that my mind turns to this event.

I know the Once Upon a Time and Captain Swan fandom has dwindled over the years and with that events have begun to disappear. This being one of the last standing.

I don’t wish to see the event go but I don’t know if I have it in me to run this event or even if there is any more willing participants.

If there is interest in this event maybe I can do one last year or if anyone is available to co run it/run it in my stead.

PLEASE INTERACT WITH THIS POST AND BOOST IT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS EVENT CONTINUE! REBLOG COMMENT ADD TAGS! LIKES MEAN NOTHING BECAUSE I CANT DETERMINE MEANING BEHIND THEM!

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The Solidest Things We Can Know (Chp. 2/2)

Nino feels helpless as Adrien continues to pull away at school. Getting enlisted to fight an akuma isn't exactly helping him figure out a way to help his best friend. At least he doesn't have to worry about Adrien actively being in danger.

Except. Oh. Oh no.

aka the second part of the post-Rocketear fanfic I wanted to see in canon.

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literally every time i watch the "i'm a blinker" scene i'm like, "baby boy, i watched you stare down a serial killer holding a revolver to your head and firing it multiple times. you are not the blinker you think you are"

reid and calculated risks. reid literally staring down the barrel of a gun, running the probabilities of the next trigger being the one with the bullet ending up on his head and at the same time deducing his location at the moment and also thinking abt how to give subtle clues / hints (?) at the team even tho he's not 100% sure he's right THEN his little smile after he asked tobias and it turns out he's right. just. reid's mind is so fast i wanna kiss him so bad

ALSO he technically only blinked once during that time so i dont think he's as much of a blinker as he claims he is after the foyet episode chuchu

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Killian ‘I have a new outfit. It’s all I’m going to wear for the next 300 years.’ Jones.

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i am very sane about this. i'm so normal about season 5 Reid. i am completely and totally cool and composed seeing Spencer with long luscious hair. i am not losing my mind and going feral. i-

jesus reid appreciation post

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say it louder for the people in the back! he's been taking care of himself since his dad walked out and his mom's mental health went way down the drain and she couldn't take care of herself or him anymore. like, come on. and yeah, being the youngest of the team, people are gonna be protective of him, but he's a full grown adult, guys.

also, in that same episode he's seen pouring a bunch of sugar into his coffee at the beginning. so much so that Morgan points it out (implying that this isn't normally how Reid drinks his coffee) and Reid says he needs something to wake him up (he's been dealing with nightmares). I always interpreted this as he only uses that much sugar if he's sleep deprived/desperately needs an energy boost. otherwise, his normal coffee has two scoops

I find it absolutely wild how often in fic people write Spencer Reid like he's unable to take care of himself as if he hasn't been doing that for nearly his entire life already.

(Totally unrelated, but in s1 he asks someone for a coffee, and asks for 2 sugars. Which...I take 2 sugars, that's not that much sugar 😅)