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@emospritelet I think Closing the Circle Belle found her loophole!

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This is how Rumplestiltskin should have convinced Belle to stay young forever!

Think of how “Beauty” would have gone if, when Belle was dying on the couch, Rumplestiltskin just said, “But you haven’t finished your book yet!”

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WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!

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#me meeting anyone I dislike again

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Rumple being a dad au

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Gold in 1x14

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Posted by Steven Payne to Facebook group British Medieval History:

People in the Middle Ages valued sweet smelling breath and bodies, seeing them as desirable, so there is a great deal of evidence from the period of tooth pastes, powders and deodorants. Contrary to the typical Hollywood depiction of medieval peasants with blackened and rotting teeth, the average person had teeth which were in fairly good condition, mainly due to the rarity of sugar in the diet. Most medieval people could not afford sugar and those who could used it sparingly. Archaeological data shows that only 20% of teeth had signs of decay, as opposed to 90% in the early twentieth century. The main dental problem for medieval people was not decay but wear, due to a high content of grit in the main staple, bread. For deodorants, soap was available for the wealthy, but a variety of herbs and other preparations were also used. Soapwort is a plant native to Europe and Asia which, when soaked in water, produces an effective liquid soap. Mint, cloves and thyme were also extensively used by simply rubbing into the skin, and alum (hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate) was an effective deodorant. I am trying to keep to 14th century technology on my pilgrimage to Canterbury, which gives me various options when looking at hygiene. In the middle ages people generally cleaned their teeth by rubbing them and their gums with a rough linen cloth, or the chewed end of a stick. There are various recipes for pastes and powders that could be put on the cloth to help clean the teeth, but I have chosen simple salt to whiten them and to aid fresh breath. I will also be using the stick method, and will be taking along a supply of liquorice root sticks for that purpose. I also have a few blocks of alum, which when rubbed into wet skin has a deodorising effect. Alum, like beeswax, was used extensively in the middle ages for a variety of purposes, also being useful: * in the purification of drinking water as a flocculant * as a styptic to stop bleeding from minor cuts * as a pickling agent to help keep pickles crisp * as a flame retardant * as an ingredient in modelling clay * as an ingredient in cosmetics and skin whiteners * as an ingredient in some brands of toothpaste The photograph shows my wash kit including home made olive oil soap, salt for the teeth, a block of deodorising alum, cloves, a boxwood comb made for me by Peter Crossman of Crossman Crafts and some liquorice root sticks, all on a woollen ‘towel’. Note that the cloves are kept in a ventilated box….this is because insects hate the smell of cloves and so a perforated box will keep them out of my kit and food bag when I am sleeping rough. TIP: If you steep some cloves to obtain the oil and put the liquid around the doors and windows of your house, it keeps spiders and insects out.

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“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

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Like/reblog if you think that you don't need to medically transition to be transgender

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Ouat was like this is a coward and then showed us an ordinary guy who *checks notes* didn't want to get killed fighting in a war

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

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"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

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rumbelle au

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I guess I'll have to try and appreciate him as Killian Jones but if I'm going to have to do that I'm going to have to tell you. When it comes to the thing with Rumple and himself, I see him as the one in the wrong.

He treated Rumple horrible and he was not fair. He gave a sword to a limp man and expected him to fight despite the fact that he noticed that Rumple has never probably used a sword. And even if one was to argue that he was testing to see if Rumple will do anything, to see if he's brave.

This is so... this is such a toxic male view of courage, it angers me so much. It's bad enough Rumple gets flack from the village, which by the way his neighbors seem to treat him well.

The only person who treats him awful that I recall is his wife Milah.

And it's pretty clear, Killian is very influenced by Milah's perception of Rumple and has a disdain for Rumple.

For any other person, I wouldn't challenge a clearly scared man to a duel. Hell, it took a lot of courage enough for him to go and ask for his wife back. You shouldn't have had said wife in the first place.

What Milah should've done was face Rumple herself and confess that she's unhappy and doesn't want to stay, that she never loved Rumple.

Imagine how much could've been avoided had she been courageous enough to do that!

What Rumple did was bad, but keep in mind, he was the Dark One at the time, and the Rumple of old would never have done what he did. He could barely hurt a fly.

Yes, it's true, Milah's life shouldn't be defined by an obligation of being a wife and a mother. That's not all she should be, or should any woman be. She's unfortunately stuck in a society where that's the only thing she could be, and she was unhappy.

But despite her unhappiness, her treatment of Rumple is not excusable. Understandable and human, I think when we are unhappy we tend to be our worst selves and at time lash out at people who don't deserve it but honestly being a 'coward" for leaving war aside, it's pretty clear Rumple is the only financial means of the house and it's pretty clear he's trying his best. Had Rumple died, Milah would be a single mom taking care of Baelfire. Maybe that's what she wanted deep inside.

In any case, she wasn't brave enough to confess to Rumple the truth. How Rumple killed her was wrong but like literally he's the Dark One, what did they honestly expect when Milah finally told him the truth especially with the way she did it with so much disgust and hatred, like she wasn't expecting an extreme reaction.

She should be fucking sorry.

Rumple clearly loved her even if she didn't and in the end of the day, I don't recall their marriage being an arranged marriage. She agreed to marry him, and they seemed to have had a good relationship initially before he came back from war with a limp abandoning his crew to their deaths.

Like I'm sorry unlike the original story of Hook's in J.M Barrie's classic Peter Pan, I don't really have any sympathy for Killian Jones in his pursuit of Rumple.

I'm kind of more on Rumple's side in this even though I do agree he shouldn't have killed Milah the way he did...

but she was kind of asking for it.

She couldn't even have the decency to be sorry for leaving. To at least appreciate or have the hindsight that Rumple was flawed but overall, a good man who wanted to be a father that he ruined his own reputation but still tried his hardest to support his own family.

So, she wanted adventure, and he was a realist and didn't want to make risks. So, they're different people because she was bored and he was content. And I'd get that. I'd even have sympathy for her hatred of Rumple due to her unhappiness.

But she's been happy with Killian in the seas for how long? Like I've been away from my family, and I know I've unfairly blamed my unhappiness on my family but after being away and being happy, I had the hindsight to recognize the humanity of my family and I and why I was unhappy, and ultimately it wasn't my family's fault. It was just me not being able to experience the things that made me, me. I also had the decency to be ashamed of how I acted in the past.

But Milah doesn't even have any of that.

How am I supposed to sympathize with Hook's vengeance when I find his love affair with Milah just despicable in its cowardice and hypocrisy. At least with Regina, I was enjoying her relationship with Daniel and hell I felt for her loss, with Hook and Milah, I felt more sympathy for the man who committed the murder rather than Hook and Milah. Idk just how the whole thing was introduced. Hook isn't seen sympathetic here.

But he was so sympathetic in the original story of Peter Pan when he just lost his hand because some annoying twit wanted to fight him the moment he entered Neverland and thus as a result lost his hand to a crocodile who also swallowed a clock and thus is haunted by the ticking tocking of the clock as a reminder of his incoming death by the crocodile.

Dude that stuff just so good and so original. Why would you change the story? Like why? I don't feel anything for Hook. I just think he's an ass.

which tbf he's supposed to be so okay but he's also supposed to be tragic man and I guess he is but I honestly don't care for that kind of tragedy. Oh poor him for losing his lover to the guy he stole her from and whose family he's wrecked due to his "love" for her

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Wrong Number | Chapter 9

Rating: M (may go up) (or down)

Pairing: Rumbelle

Summary: Belle has struck up a strange friendship with a man she only knows over text. Having finally escaped a bad living situation, she gets involved in the local city council, where she meets Mr. Gold, who seems hellbent on hating her guts. It’s a good thing she has her mysterious text friend for comfort.

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Gold and Neal stood off the sidewalk in a small alleyway while Neal ate a pretzel stuffed with cheese, clustered away from the other people avoiding the crowds. 

“So, let me get this straight,” Neal said, voice lowered so the street sounds would keep their conversation private from the other alleyway inhabitants. “You engineered a situation where she could not avoid you so you could apologize, and then instead of apologizing, you wrote a ten-thousand-dollar check to the library?”

“You made me apologize,” Gold said, as if this was any sort of defense. He had caved earlier in the week and told him about Belle avoiding him. Funny how practicing law did not prepare him for conflict with other humans.

Neal stared at him, not amused. “This woman didn’t even have to ask you for money, you just keep throwing it at her.”

“The library always needs funds.” Like this had factored into anything he’d done at all.

“You need therapy.” 

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