#7 days of robron

[kirk]

okay top five favorite underrated robron scenes and go

this took me several days to think about lol you have no idea how much i love you rn for letting me info dump about them omfggg i dont know what counts as underrated really i feel like every single scene they have is so well-loved for one reason or another but, i'll happily list some underrated(?) details i noticed on my watchthrough

this will be in no particular order just from what i think of first. god. ok

though its a very very very well known and loved scene (WELL DESERVED) i just love how robert sways with aaron during the reunion scene, like he's trying to do a first dance 2.0 with him to adele all over again. and help jog aaron’s memory about the scene like. Well technically it’s just standing. and then of course they have a flirting banter back and forth EXACTLY like their first dance too. god. wedding parallels kill me always

when aaron goes away to ireland after the gordon stuff comes out but before gordon is charged, the background plot of robert working at the scrapyard for aaron to not only make his life a little easier once he comes back but also working his ass off to have the scrapyard earn MORE money so aaron can be a little more comfortable financially (and pay for legal fees) once he's back too. like. god. 2016 robron forever and ever and ever i would live there 24/7 if i could

the casino las vegas holiday scene where robert has his hands over aaron’s eyes and is leading him to the back room it’s just. sooooooo cute to me but also shows how much aaron trusts robert. and it just makes me happy to be reminded what kids they both are like i truly do believe they have eachother pieces of their childhood back after both of theirs were taken from them :,-) like they can be KIDS together. ugh

the fact that chas picks out the song “can’t take my eyes off you” just kinda confirms that even when robron aren’t on screen all they are doing is staring at and giving heart eyes to each other, so much so that everyone in the village notices that it’s like. constant. and honestly just gonna throw in the whole karaoke scene as a scene i love that’s underrated(? not really), i’m a sucker for karaoke. and it kinda calls back to them being kids with each other

the "you are such a wind-up" scene lives rent free in my head its just sooooo them its SOOOO them, and really shows how much they know each other like aaron is literally saying nothing and robert STILL knows he's trying to rile him up likeee. i think theres a common trend with my fave details/scenes of them both and it's when they allow themselves to be silly / be kids like i cannot state this enough sorry. it just hits sooo good that they not only supported each other through revealing their childhood traumas to the other (robert supporting aaron getting gordon locked up / aaron supporting robert by steering any and all conversation away from jack) like... they can give each other a little piece of childhood glee back like its just so special to meeee

i'd love to know yours if you'd like to list some :-)

[scrapyardboyfriends]

After that ask yesterday I've been trying to think how I would even attempt to fix Emmerdale.

I really just want to lock all of the producers and storyliners and decision making creatives into one room and ask them a lot questions.

I'd want to go through each and every character and be like "tell me this character's job (cause some don't have any), tell me what this character's hopes and dreams are, career ambitions, tell me what their purpose is in the village, tell me about their family, their romantic relationships/prospects and why they actually like/love those people, tell me about their friendships and the last time they had any meaningful interaction with those friends (cause most don't have any or don't talk to them if they do)" and if they don't have answers to some of those questions, we'd sit there and figure some out. I want everyone to have a prospective friend or at least address why they don't have one and what that says about their character.

I'd want to go through all of the businesses in the village and figure out which ones are actually worthwhile and how many are just blatantly ignored. I'd want them to give me story ideas to incorporate all of those businesses. I'd want them to explain to me why the HOP exists and why the Woolpack no longer feels like the heart of the village.

I'd want to force them to go through every terrible story from the past 5-7 years and tell me what impact they had on the show so they can see how 90% of them were pretty pointless in the end.

I'd want to challenge them to find me one character introduced in the last 5-7 years that didn't have a convoluted backstory that connected them to a current character or two. And ask them why that's their only means of brining in a new character.

I'd want to ask them what they think the public perception of each character is and whether that matches up with what they've theoretically been trying to do with them.

The biggest problem with the show is that they don't care about the characters anymore, or the village as a character. They're just chasing big headlines and things that get people talking for a moment. And yes, part of what goes into that is the way the world has shifted and our attention spans are garbage and part of the reason people respond to the older episodes is due to nostalgia, but it's also because there was a level of care with the characters that's not present on the show now. The reason those big hyped up events of the past worked better than they do now is because there weren't as many, but also because we cared about the characters affected by them. And they had longer lasting impact on village life. Now everything feels meaningless because you don't care about the characters or whether they live or die and these events happen every other week and there's zero lasting impact moving forward.

So I'd want to lock them all in a room and make them care about and understand their characters again and if there's any that are falling by the wayside, maybe they're not needed anymore.

And then from that basic level of care and understanding, I'd want to challenge people to build stories out of that. Stories that matter to the characters and therefor to the viewers. Maybe if they cared about the characters they were writing for, they'd want them to succeed every now and then and they could find the occasional positive story to tell.

I don't know. It just feels like without that level of caring about the characters, there's no hope for the show and that's why it just makes me sad these days.

Sure maybe a lot of robron things I loved happened kind of on accident but they just had so much more depth than anything happening in the last five years and I miss that. I miss caring about it and if the creators don't care, I'm sure not going to.

(and...end rant)

(wow I haven't done one of these long winded rants in a while. you should be thankful I'm not actually watching anymore or they'd still be happening frequently I'm sure)

[thefancyspin]

Writing Asks Meme

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

188

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

533, 435

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Too many to name but mainly hawaii five 0, eastenders, emmerdale, skam and due south.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the blind side (mcdanno)

breathe for two (mcdanno)

outside the lines (mcdanno)

safe at anchor (mcdanno)

tell me with your body (skam)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do! Even though I don't always have anything worthwhile to say, I try and reply to them all to say thank you and let people know how much I appreciate it. Sometimes I forget or I miss a few but I try!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

There is here at the wayside which is ben/callum in an imagined affair era. My soaps fandoms are probably the only ones I've written angsty endings for haha

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

There are so many, too many to mention. I much prefer happier endings haha.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

nah, only some dumb comments from the infamous 'ds anon'who doesn't like ray kowalski.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have more recently, and a few PWPs but I fail at writing anything without feelings.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

No, I've never done any crossovers. But I don't read them very much either so. Not really my thing.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't believe so?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I've had a few translated into Chinese, Russian, and Italian. I think that's all?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I did co-write a story in the jongens fandom, called Count on Me. It was a very strange but lovely experience!

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

It's difficult to choose between mcdanno, and fraser/ray k. I love ballum and robron, too, but the others endure through so much. definitely my otps.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I don't have any WIPS that I've posted but I have a ton of unfinished stories in my documents. a due south au, a midsomer murder futurefic and an sga fic that I particularly like all of but I just can't write any more. hopefully it will come back one day.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and turns of phrase.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptive passages and setting up scenes.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I've done it before but usually only a word here and there, not big blocks. I'd have to talk to a native speaker about it, and get a good beta, if I was doing that.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I think it was Harry Potter.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I'm a fan of outside the lines and like to reread it now and then!

I just tagged myself in this meme haha and welcome any one to do the same if you feel like it

[sugdenlovesdingle]

Ok I've decided I'm doing Flufftober for tarlos this year and the goal is the full 31/31 - aka a fic a day in October.

since i'm so great with deadlines and writing short fics *snorts*

i did it for robron a few years ago, it was fun but sooo much work

BUT the list is under the read more, if anyone has any suggestions or requests for fluffy tarlos one shots with any of these prompts, drop me an ask or reply to this post and I'll do my best to make it happen!

(I've swapped a few prompts with the substitutes and removed the alternate scenarios that didn't speak to me so my list is slightly different from the 'official' one)

Prompts

1. “I’ve got you”

2. Family, Friends, Loved Ones

3. “Wait you love me?” - “I always have”

4. Alt 5: “Oh no, you’re a Morning Person!”

5. x + 1 "5+1 things" [or any number you want]

6. Alt #3 wearing each other’s clothes

7. Porch Swing

8. Rainy Day

9. (...) at first sight (think "love at first sight", "enemies at first sight"...)

10. Love of my Life

11. Sweet Tooth

12. Alt #2 "You’ve told your parents?"

13. Wrong (...) (think "wrong number", "wrong train", "wrong person"...)

14. “I hate it” - “No, you don't”

15. Emergency, Confession, Adventure

16. Singing one another to sleep

17. Encouraging someone to achieve a goal

18. “Did you plan for this to happen?”

19. Keeping someone safe

20. Pumpkin

21. Swoon

22. Picking (think "picking flowers", "picking up someone", "picking out a dress", "picking a song for the wedding"...)

23. Trinket

24. [melting emoji] (does anyone even know what this emoji stands for? No? We neither but we would love for you to get creative with it 😉 but also, think "melting in the heat", "melting from embarrassment"... also, I would've loved to add it here but tumblr doesn't have this emoji yet)

25. Nook

26. Fireplace

27. Outdoor Event (think "hiking tour", "concert", "picnic"...)

28. Soothing Touch

29. “Hey, wake up!”

30. Self-Worth / Self-Love

31. Dreams Do Come True

Prompt Extras

Last Year's Favorites

Alt 1: Hot Chocolate

Alt 4: Candles, Lanterns, Fairy Lights

Scenarios

Alt 8: Give your character a new occupation

Alt 10: Have your characters share the last table at a café

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[aarondingle]

7 DAYS OF ROBRON: 

↳ Day 2: Favourite Robron car scene Super Soap Week 2016 // 17.10.2016 // 20.10.2016 “I am not having you dying in here because of me.”

[whatdoiknow]

7 days of robron

Day 3 favourite places/locations

robron in hospital  from “so hurry up and die” to “you can’t die, you can’t”

“I bring the ideas, U bring the art” @letthebluerain

[cowboybuckleys]

7 Days of Robron Day 7: Favourite Robron “I love you” scene

[dingletragedy]

seven days of robron 

↳ day one: favourite robert & aaron outfits

[stopthefeeling]

7 days of Robron

Day 3: Fave Location(s)

[robronanyway]

7 Days of Robron - Day 7: Favourite Robron “I love you” scene

[hawleywilby]

7 days of robron - 1 outfits

[wycombewanderer]

day 6 favourite colour // green

[luststricken]

seven days of robron: day five, favourite robron song 

“it’s like a badge of honour that you know me well,

perhaps you know me better than i know myself”

↳ aboard - tom grennan

[sugdenlovesdingle]

7. Amelia suggests running away With a dark cloud hanging over Dan's future, he does his best to reassure Amelia that he'll still look after her. But Amelia is convinced there's only one option to remain as a family – to go on the run. As stressed Amelia plans their escape to Ireland, she almost hurts Esther, but Dan saves the day and proves how much they rely on each other. 8. Dan asks Cain for advice As Dan's fears of prison and leaving Amelia sinks in, he starts to consider running away as an option and asks Cain for help. Cain offers to sort Dan out with what he needs to escape and soon the Spencers ready themselves to leave. Amelia is frightened and knows she can't tell Noah the truth about their runaway plan. 9. Dan and Amelia flee the village Cain delivers ferry tickets, an old car and a burner phone to Dan, and suddenly everything becomes real for Dan and Amelia. They share a moment as they say goodbye to Emmerdale, alongside Esther – but are they able to cope with this life-changing move? Or will Dan's crime catch up with him?

tell me this isn't robron on the run 2.0 with less interesting characters

[howellobrien]

7 Days of Robron

Day 5 - Favourite Robron song

Flicker - Niall Horan

And I want this to pass And I hope this won't last Last too long