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The IHOP near me recently burned down. Now I'm starting to wonder if it means something. Am I in the Bad Place?

Did anyone else laugh at the make up job when vengeful!Bae showed up with the mud perfectly placed on his face and carefully circling each eye? He looked like he had a mud mask on. It was so goofy. Rumple: "Bae! What did they do to you?" Me: "Gave him a facial?"

Really enjoyed this one. Thanks for the recommendation. So angsty. Very funny! But I wanted her to keep going with it! Right now I'm in the last chapter of this fake!dating CS. The twist is that Emma is pretending to date Liam when she meets Killian. It's well done: Oh, Brother...

Wow. That's a loooong way to go to troll. Writing a fic of any length is a lot of work and I would assume a total labor of love. Huh.

I was thinking about this episode more and it struck me as weird that Gina hadn't seen their viral video. She's supposed to be all tuned into social media and whatever's current and hot, right? Wouldn't she have seen the video if an old mobster did?

Oh yeah, you're right! Oh thank God. Actually, that shot of him seemed kind of weird and led credence to the, "This is just a manipulation and not actually the future" spec, since Hook's reaction seemed weird and disengaged. He looked like, "Eh, she knew what she was getting herself into."

I had a "oh please no" thought that because Emma apparently dies the exact way Killian did, that it's Hook under that robe. Think of all the wonderful parallels. Desperately hoping I'm way off base here.

So Emma loves Killian enough to scour the Underworld for him and enough to risk making him a Dark One just to keep him alive no matter the price. But when touching the hubcap off a dirigible gives her a vision and the DTs? Nope. Don't love him thaaat much. They're established True Love, but apparently not Dirigible DTs Love. That's what pissed me off. It wasn't that she didn't tell him about the crazy bird oracle as much as it was that it was her very first instinct to shut him out. And she didn't pull back from that instinct at all. No she dug in and even lied to his face by promising nothing more was wrong. Zeus must be like, "Dude! Sorry I sent you back to that."

The final chapter of Every Letter got posted this week. It did not disappoint. Perfect ending. http://archiveofourown.org/works/7305970/chapters/16593694

I don't know why, but the scene that cracked me up the most was when they pulled up to meet with Maya Rudolph and spent 5 minutes discussing how they couldn't hear each other. The quick cut to the quiet car just killed me.

When you stand outside a store called "Once Upon a Skirt" geeking out. Like....why????

Thank you! I'll read anything you tell me to after Every Letter. (;

I just started this modern AU, and it's cute so far: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10291019/1/Sit-Stay-Feel I've been having trouble really getting into anything since I finished the perfection that was Every Letter, but I've got decent hopes for this one. Anyone read it before?

Mwahahah! Should have read it at work like I did. (;

Yes! That last chapter is everything. There's still an epilogue to come I think, which is making me unreasonably happy. I just started Lilac Wine. You guys recommended it back on like page 4 or 5, but it only recently got completed, it looks like.

Just wanted to report back that I adored this one. I devoured it yesterday. Read it on the train, over lunch, on the train home, on the treadmill at the gym...haha.

So, along the same lines as the trademark Killian smell being a funny repeated trope, does anyone else get grossed out by the vast quantities of hot chocolate with cinnamon that Emma downs in any given story? Like, it's cute and comforting at first, but eventually, by the end of every story, she's consumed enough to put any normal human in a diabetic coma. I'm like... drink water once in a while. It's started to take me right out of the stories.

Yes! Thank you. I just adored that one.

Yay! I'm so excited to check it out. I love fics with texts or emails or letters a LOT for some reason. My all-time favorite is that one where Killian lives in Emma's building and sends her anonymous letters and they start corresponding. I can't remember the title though--it's all a blur. I am totally in Hotel Californiafic. You nailed it. Haha.

Ha! Your discussion of the trademark Killian smell made me lol. So before this summer I'd never read any fanfic before, but reading this thread sent me plummeting into months of voraciously reading tons of CS fics. I just wanted to thank all of you for your recommendations. I've combed through this entire thread, reading as many as I can still find. I'm so sad that some are no longer available (and I'm dying to read Put Me In Coach--she's been slow to get it posted back up. Anyone still have it saved and can PM it to me? I'd love you forever, based on all the raves you guys gave that story!). Has anyone found any new fics they can recommend? I love all of it, but I think I love the modern AUs the most.

Dianthus, I took your recommendation to mean you wrote that fic. I wrote the author, not!Dianthus, this super dorky comment about being so happy I followed you over from here. So embarrassing! But thank you for the recommendation! I'm really enjoying it.

Not sure where to ask this, but I had a horrible thought: Do you think we're heading for a "rapist Chase was a Dimera clone too" story so they can reset the Chase character?

Yes! Totally agree. I saw a "Shows That Killed Off Main Characters" kind of story the other day on yahoo, and I clicked on it, expecting to read about Sleepy Hollow (I'll never get over that one), and I swear I was kind of surprised to see Once mentioned. I was like, "Who....oh yeah." Poor Robin. I couldn't even retain that info for 2 weeks, even while reading this board non-stop..

Thank you KingOfHearts and andromeda331! I don't remember that at all. Guess I should do some more rewatching.

Random question: I've been watching some old clips of the show lately and saw one with Hook and Cora where he...takes Aurora's heart? Did I misunderstand? Hook never had magic did he? It's been a while since I saw the early seasons, but I feel like I'd remember that.