![Christmas was the worst time, Jareth had found
He was always drawn to Sarah, all the time, but he could resist it when she moved through a humdrum, boring world, and blended. When she wasn’t glowing bright with happiness, when she was far from her old home, and the girl she’d been when last they met.
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Christmas was when she returned, sometimes alone - when she’d be a little sad, alone with no one to shield her from Karen and her jibes - or, worse, with another man on her arm, and he’d watch the beautiful woman she’d become slowly fade, and that willful girl emerge. She’d play with her little brother, the boy he’d tried and failed to steal away, and she’d smile or sigh, she’d settle back in close or run as she had in her youth, back to the park.
He made himself avoid her the rest of the year, but those few weeks when she’d be home for Christmas, that was when he’d watch. He couldn’t help it.
He was sorry for that, and glad of it, on the thirteenth Christmas he spent watching her. He was following her car on silent wings, drifting through the falling snow with unnatural grace and speed, both dreading and desperately needing these three weeks, these days when he could pretend he was there with her, that she’d let him in.
Maybe this year he’d be brave enough, he thought, maybe he’d come to her door and court her: she was alone this year, after all, no beau to bring home. Maybe he’d have the courage to ask, this year, to do more than lurk in the shadows, a forgotten enemy from childhood.
The snow came harder, faster, and then there was a sharp bend in the road. Sarah’s cheap Ford rent-a-car did not turn: it skidded, slid, collided with a tree just off the highway.
He landed on the fencepost by the wreck of his love’s car as fast as he could manage it, but without a summons he was trapped as an owl in this world.
Sarah’s head was bleeding, her neck at an unnatural, sickening angle.
Now, every Christmas, a barn owl sits on that same fencepost, and stares at the tree. It doesn’t move, it doesn’t cry out, it doesn’t fly away. Because for three weeks, Jareth watches Sarah, and so he does, although her spirit is long gone and her body buried. There is a little memorial on the tree, and that is enough.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4a5c28d5e0db3c191f7cf2fb9943f19a/tumblr_mlv6o8XmJJ1rqd92do1_400.gif)
Christmas was the worst time, Jareth had found
He was always drawn to Sarah, all the time, but he could resist it when she moved through a humdrum, boring world, and blended. When she wasn’t glowing bright with happiness, when she was far from her old home, and the girl she’d been when last they met.
#sorry I made this post about labyrinth #Jareth x Sarah #jareth #labyrinth
Fic: And Yet
Ficlet: And Yet
Rating: PG
Summary: Rumbelle. OUAT/Labyrinth crossover. Belle and Sarah discuss their men.
Prompted ages ago by middlemikki
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Belle needed a babysitter for Ellie, so that she and Rumpelstiltskin could have one night alone together. A date night, without their daughter there to stop them from stealing kisses and breaking public decency laws.
It was a noble aim, she had good intentions, and she felt she had been maligned by the universe when it all went horribly wrong.
Just fear me, love me. Let me rule you and I would be your slave.
There is a reason that this is my favourite movie. And this my favourite scene from it. And my favourite Jareth outfit.
#umf #hello childhood #well that does explain a lot #this man being central to my early development #oops #Labyrinth
Teaser: Feathered Wings and Heartbeats
This is the opening piece of what could be a Once Upon a Time/Labyrinth crossover. Wherein Daniel became Jareth, and Regina has some fun scampering through the night.
Let me know what you think, if I should continue it!
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Regina enjoys grand gestures.
Oh, of course some would accuse her of lacking subtlety, of being somewhat over the top or dramatic at times. Those are people who need to believe her incapable of cunning, of planning and quiet execution.
She doesn’t dress as she does for the fun of it, although black lace and leather always were rather fetching on her.So you want to know if you should continue this? Um, that’s be a HELL YES … please? Good lord, my two greatest loves, Once and Labyrinth … together …beautifully. Doesn’t happen often, and not always that well. You Rufee, you my peach, I know will do this more than justice. You will make it EPIC. Is there anything I can bribe you with to continue? Flowers? Chocolates? Promises I don’t in tend to keep?
I’m afraid of how plotty and complicated it would be. And IDK whether to put Sarah in it or not, and… I’M JUST GLAD SOMEONE WOULD READ IT *hugs*
Teaser: Feathered Wings and Heartbeats
This is the opening piece of what could be a Once Upon a Time/Labyrinth crossover. Wherein Daniel became Jareth, and Regina has some fun scampering through the night.
Let me know what you think, if I should continue it!
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Regina enjoys grand gestures.
Oh, of course some would accuse her of lacking subtlety, of being somewhat over the top or dramatic at times. Those are people who need to believe her incapable of cunning, of planning and quiet execution.
She doesn’t dress as she does for the fun of it, although black lace and leather always were rather fetching on her.
Labyrinth fanfic/fanwork recs
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3633532/1/The_Challenge
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1494434/Lixxle
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/175114/Subtilior
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4824776/1/The_Devil_Does_Exist
http://pika-la-cynique.deviantart.com/gallery/772068?offset=192
These are my go-to’s for first-time Jareth/Sarah ff seekers. Feel free to reblog with more suggestions!
#omfg this song #this sonnnng is my Laby song #and I thought no one would ever #omg #dying #labyrinth #Jareth x Sarah #vienna teng
Really?! No…don’t do that. Please.
So get this: I’m e-mailing back and forth with Rufeepeach on the subject of Labyrinth, being that I have all these FEELS now about it and conclusions and whatnot, and she sent me a reply that started with:
oh, god, I wrote you an essay. I apologise profusely.
Seriously? you’re apologizing to me for sending me something that is that long and prettyful and insightful? Again, I WISH you had been there for that livestream! it would have been LOVELY, you being there to share in the insights and feels and everything! Please do me a favor: NEVER EVER EVER apologize for talking fandom with me. EVER. Especially not on one of your favorite topics.
AHHHH! SORRY I DIDN’T SEE THIS EARLIER! STOOPID GREMLIN!
SHIT! I KNOW WHY! TUMBLR UNFOLLOWED ME FROM YOU! *fistshake* Will remedy this momentarily, I’m so sorry bb!
I have a lot of feelings about Labyrinth. Like, a LOT. Enough to spam innocence inboxes from here to kingdom come.
REBLOG ALL GND. EVERY TIME.
Aaaaaand my expectations of men are forever raised to unrealistic levels.
Heart. broken.
And this man is why girls from the 80s don’t think it’s skeevy for a man to stalk you, steal your siblings, blackmail you and drug you. In fact, this man is why it seems like the height of romance to be given a glass paperweight.
You know, suddenly Edward Cullen doesn’t seem quite so bad…
Jareth wasn’t an abusive asshole boyfriend, though. She asked for him to come and take the kid (worst babysitter ever), and is a cocky little shit the whole time, and this is kind of every adventure she’s ever wanted. And despite this whole ‘temptation’ scene, he never actually puts the moves on her.
And she DOESN’T TAKE ANY OF HIS CRAP.
She’s swept along because she’s drugged, but then she smashes the whole damn thing with a chair and starts tearing down walls and shit, and then goes and defeats a whole damn army, and THEN she kicks the ass of an entire new dimension to defeat him.
Bella? Even if she made it past all of that by sheer dumb luck, the last bit she would have been all ‘Squee! That’s so romantic! Of course I’ll be your slave, what else is a woman for?!’
This is brought to you by the Rufeepeach Society for Reasons Why Jareth Wears His Sparkles Better Than Edward Asshole Cullen.
#Labyrinth #rant #edward cullen #jareth #goblin king #twilight hate
It’s 2am, I’m calling it a night
GOODNIGHT, SWEET TUMBLR!
(I’m totally high right now because the first part of my AU is up, and Cal has watched Labyrinth, and I can sleep for hours in the car tomorrow cause I don’t have to drive)
UNTIL THE MORNING!
FARE THEE WELL!
I’M READING GND
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
THIS
IS
HILARIOUS
A YEAR AGO, I SPENT A WHOLE FREAKIN NIGHT READING THIS COMIC (
and texting a guy who wasn’t worth the distraction from GND, tbh). THERE’S MORE POSTS NOW. YOU HAVE HOURS OF COMPLETE AWESOME AWAITING YOU.I’M SOOOOOOO HIGH RIGHT NOW !
(pfft, men)
I WAS ON PAGE 6, B-B-BUT I WILL START TONIGHT ON PAGE 1…OF COURSE MAKES SENSE, WTV I’M GOING TO READ IT!CAN I MAKE LOVE TO HER STYLE OF DRAWING ?
JUST WAIT UNTIL SHIT REALLY KICKS OFF - I WOULD MARRY AND MAKE BABIES WITH HER DRAWING STYLE.
(what is it about the dead of night that makes us type in ALL CAPS?)
I’M READING GND
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
THIS
IS
HILARIOUS
A YEAR AGO, I SPENT A WHOLE FREAKIN NIGHT READING THIS COMIC (and texting a guy who wasn’t worth the distraction from GND, tbh). THERE’S MORE POSTS NOW. YOU HAVE HOURS OF COMPLETE AWESOME AWAITING YOU.
the memory: Labyrinth's report
Oooooooooh the 80’s !
There were so awesome !
There were so cheesy !
Oh mercy….
Ok let’s begin.
Toby, you fucking annoying baby.
The “hands” scene, oh my god, awesome ! Also the stair’s scene!
Oh god the music ! It’s so addicted ! MAGIC DANCE !
Sarah, can I have your clothes, room, and…
YES TO ALL OF THIS!
YOU REACTED EXACTLY RIGHT, I WANT TO HUG YOU SO BAD RIGHT NOW!
Sarah/Jareth = me shipping UST before I was ten years old. Just saying.
And the muppets are freakin scary. Awesome and cute as, but scary.
COME HERE BBY *HUGS*
OH ! AND THE MASQUERADE BALL
CAN I HAVE ONE !?
HER DRESS ! HNNNG FEELINGS !
It was obvious, the first time Jareth looked at her “Hey hot stuff, I like you. Now look at my gorgeous eyes and fall in luv”
That bitch knows how to flirt.
I’VE WANTED THAT DRESS FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER!
I looked for one like it for prom. Then realised it wasn’t the 80s, and no one would get it.
I’ve wanted to go to a masquerade for-ev-er, but guess what? THEY NEVER FREAKIN HAPPEN!
Jareth/Sarah: perfect OTP. There’s enough sexual tension there to sink a goddamn warship. And there is some completely epic fic out there for them, b/c it’s been around longer than the goddamn internet.
I shall get that dress for my wedding, IT’S THE ONE ! Also her hair, with those diamonds, so freaking beautiful.
Someday my child, you’ll go to a masquerade!
Oh bby, JarethxSarah the ancient internet OTP ! Pfft, she’s 15, and he…wtv, IT’S AWESOME! It’s love!
Well, most fic ages her up a little. He comes back when she’s legal.
It’s usually phrased more romanticfully than that, as well.
Not to butt in or anything, but if you want fic, I can totally hook you up. I used to write a bunch for Labyrinth. All fluff, too. Here’s my favorite thing I wrote.
Don’t mind me. Dumdedumdumdum.
Dear God, I stalked you for ages on ffnet before I joined Tumblr, HOW DID I MISS THE LABYFIC?
OH SWEET BABY JESUS
IS THIS CHRISTMAS !?
Dude, if you want fic recs, there are so many awesome labyrinth fics out there.
The Challenge is pretty good, as I remember, as is everything on here, and here.
And then there’s GND, which is nearly 200 pages of cracky meta J/S amazingness.
(also, Cy, in trying to find this I checked my old ff.net account’s favourites, and you were in there. So yeah ^_^)
GND has been mentioned in tumblr… My obsessions are colliding together!
I have a deep and abiding affection for GND: I hadn’t seen Phantom or read Good Omens until that comic. EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT. EVERYONE. ALL THE TIME.
#GND #FANDOM IS A BEAUTIFUL THING #LABYRINTH
the memory: Labyrinth's report
Oooooooooh the 80’s !
There were so awesome !
There were so cheesy !
Oh mercy….
Ok let’s begin.
Toby, you fucking annoying baby.
The “hands” scene, oh my god, awesome ! Also the stair’s scene!
Oh god the music ! It’s so addicted ! MAGIC DANCE !
Sarah, can I have your clothes, room, and…
YES TO ALL OF THIS!
YOU REACTED EXACTLY RIGHT, I WANT TO HUG YOU SO BAD RIGHT NOW!
Sarah/Jareth = me shipping UST before I was ten years old. Just saying.
And the muppets are freakin scary. Awesome and cute as, but scary.
COME HERE BBY *HUGS*
OH ! AND THE MASQUERADE BALL
CAN I HAVE ONE !?
HER DRESS ! HNNNG FEELINGS !
It was obvious, the first time Jareth looked at her “Hey hot stuff, I like you. Now look at my gorgeous eyes and fall in luv”
That bitch knows how to flirt.
I’VE WANTED THAT DRESS FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER!
I looked for one like it for prom. Then realised it wasn’t the 80s, and no one would get it.
I’ve wanted to go to a masquerade for-ev-er, but guess what? THEY NEVER FREAKIN HAPPEN!
Jareth/Sarah: perfect OTP. There’s enough sexual tension there to sink a goddamn warship. And there is some completely epic fic out there for them, b/c it’s been around longer than the goddamn internet.
#JARETH X SARAH #LABYRINTH #ALL-CAPS ARE NEEDED HERE
