My final one for fandom crescendo before the finale, I can’t draw to save my life but I am pretty proud of this technique I found on a tutorial and how it turned out 🙂
Inspired by and dedicated to the wonderful scribblecat27 and her gorgeous CS fanart “Stargazers”, I hope you like it! (even though it kind of sucks because I just couldn’t really get the coloring right T_T coloring a day scene as if it was a night/dusk scene is hard yo :/)
Yet one more for fandom crescendo, this was originally dedicated to @scribblecat27 and it’s only fitting it is dedicated to her yet again for creating the fandom crescendo ❤
I’m staying home today for the finale and I want to know, what has been one or some of your FAVORITE CS memory/memories in the fandom? Was it a filming spoiler day? SDCC weekend? Meeting someone who became a great friend? Meeting our babies at one of the conventions? Writing/drawing/etc.? Reblog this and let me and others know! Let’s spend a little time today reminscing about all the wonderful times we’ve had in fandom and as a fandom, remembering what we’ve loved and what we’ve learned and what we’ve gained all because of this show and the story about a lost savior princess and a dashing pirate hero ❤️❤️
What a wonderful idea.
Obviously the friendships formed have been wonderful, and are a huge part of what made this fandom great.
As far as fan moments, I think the three consecutive amazing San Diego Comic Cons: 2014, 2015 & 2016, were some of the most amazing days ever. Being a long time fangurl, but not having had really participated in fandom for a genre show during the age of social media, WOW, was SDCC 2014 a revelation. Going in I had no idea that an avalanche of content that was headed our way. I hadn’t made any special plans that weekend, but once I realized what was happening it’s all I did all weekend, from Friday night through when I went to work on Monday. I’m not sure I even slept?? Also I had no expectations that day, so every new thing was a gift. The next two years kind of got into “Oh, boy, I hope this happens again” (which it was delightful when it did!) but that first year for me was special.
There were also so many shooting days that were a delight. We were so well fed by all our fellow fans who went to set and fed us with instant updates and photos. THANK YOU!
During S3, I would definitely see shooting spoilers, but after the fact, I wasn’t yet tuned into actual shooting days and the excitement of refreshing my dash all day long looking for nuggets of information.
The first Steveston day of S4, was the first time I experienced that, and it was FUN. I loved refreshing and a new picture of Colin and Jen would pop up strolling around set with an umbrella. That was a good time.
Another day I remember, was late night Steveston shooting for 4×04 and waiting up until well after midnight to get a glimpse of Colin in Killian’s new modern clothes. I wanted to see that so badly. That same episode also had the shoot day on the docks where they covered JMo so we couldn’t see Emma’s date clothes, except for her shoes and maybe a hem? So fun.
Steveston for 4×20 also springs to mind. Emma and Hook had that nice reunion and JMo and Colin might as well have been doing a photo shoot for how many excellent photos we got of the two of them as Hook and Emma.
Then of course all the shooting spoilers for 5×01 were exciting. Confirmation that Hook and Emma were reunited in that episode, and the fact that they marched arm in arm, leading the whole Camelot crew into actual Camelot was the reassurance that a lot of us needed!
However, I think one of the most exciting spoiler days ever was for 5×04. The information came in drips that day. JMo and Colin’s doubles are on set. Jmo’s double is in white and Colin’s is in an altered version of his pirate gear. There’s a horse on set. The doubles are on a horse. JMo and Colin are on set! Colin is on a horse! Colin and JMo are on a fake horse! They are on the fake horse together! Colin and JMo are standing amongst middlemists! Now they’re kissing amongst the middlemists!
Also, the day that both Killian and Emma’s names were spotted on Excalibur during 5×10 shooting, that was a hilariously fun day around these parts.
Good times. (I’ll stop now, because with shooting days I could go forever)
Beyond that I’ve just loved all the creative output from CS fans. I’ve never in all my years being a fan of things seen such a bounty or such a large, talented fandom. Fics, gifs, art, meta, what a joy, and I love that I will be able to enjoy all those things for many years to come!
Thank you to everyone who has made this experience great, and I’m not going anywhere. I’ll be here to continue appreciating these fantastic characters and I hope you will be too!
I love this idea! Also this is making me emotional 😭
Man there have been so many memorable moments in this fandom, but for me the first one that was just incredible for me was definitely the first kiss photos, and that GIF from EW and then the kiss sneak peek sans music (you all know the one), that day was so exhilarating, we were dying of fangirl flailing, it was such a fun day.
The next one for me was the set spoilers for the CS movie, seeing Colin in Prince Charles outfit had us all flailing all over the place.
Obviously the 2014 SDCC was amazing, but 2015 SDCC was EPIC, so many goodies from that day, and 2016 SDCC was wonderful as well even if we never saw that photo shoot from EW 😒 lol.
Next, definitely meeting Colin at EA con was so wonderful and a one-in-a-lifetime experience, and what made it even better was meeting some wonderful fellow CSers there, the lovely @missfords who was so gracious to me.
And of course, all the amazing friendships I was blessed to find here, I’ve met so many amazing, caring and wonderful people in this fandom, thank you everyone for making these 7 years such a special time in my life ❤️❤️❤️
(And I’m finishing here before I start bawling in the middle of work lol).
When Killian arrives in New York to find Emma Swan with her memories of fairytales and Storybrooke intact, he doesn’t realize his life is about to change forever – that is, until Emma introduces him to his daughter. (Roses in December companion piece)
A/N: Happy Birthday, @katie-dub! I have been so blessed to have gotten to know you over the course of being in fandom together. You are an exceptional woman: smart, funny, caring, and talented. So, of course, you got me to do something I never thought I’d do: write a companion to Roses in December from Killian’s POV. I do so hope you enjoy. And for all you readers, this aligns with the second chapter of RiD.
He tells her not a day goes by when he won’t think of her, and by the gods, he means it.
Killian’s thoughts are drawn to her like a moth to a flame. All-consuming. Dangerous. Whenever he sees a flash of blonde hair, for a second Killian believes it is her. Red will forever be associated with visions of her jacket and the flush of her cheeks. She invades his dreams. She’s a siren, one he would easily submit himself to his doom just to be closer to her.
He can’t be. Damn the curses. Damn the barriers between the worlds.
He plays the precious few memories he has with her in his head. Beanstalks and jungles, her lips moving against his own and fingers questing under clothes. “One-time thing,” that’s what she’d told him the first time, the second time. He has to believe it means something, the repetition of broken vows. She kissed him once, and then again, and she drove away with a whisper of “Good,” and Killian’s world has felt off-kilter since.
(Lies. It’s been off-kilter ever since she pulled him from the pile of bodies. He just hadn’t realized it then.)
She has no memory of him. He can’t get her out of his head, but he’s nothing to her. All of the people she loves, those he ran away from the moment he could, are nothing to her. Probably for the best, because Killian knows all too well the pain of being separated from loved ones (loved one, because he accepts now that he might actually love her), and wouldn’t wish that torment on her. Yes, it’s better she not remember him or her parents when there’s no hope of ever reuniting.
But then there’s a message and a curse he’s able to outrun, and a magic bean he’s able to barter for, and Killian Jones finds himself in a foreign land standing outside the door of the woman her loves. And when he knocks and she opens the door, he’s blown away not just by her beauty – gods, she’s beautiful – but also by the whisper of his name on her lips and the realization that Emma Swan remembers.
For the first time in a year, Killian Jones allows himself to hope.
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