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penelope

“an edifying legend. a stick used to beat other women with. why couldn’t they be as considerate, as trustworthy, as all-suffering as I had been? that was the line they took, the singers, the yarn-spinners. don’t follow my example, I want to scream in your ears - yes, yours! but when I try to scream I sound like an owl”.

- the penelopiad

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Once Upon a Time 1x10-2x10

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emma & regina, 4.12

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Emma always listens to her wife Regina

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#how emma watches regina to see the fireball #and then starts to move her hand because she is FULLY ANTICIPATING what regina is about to do #correction: fully CORRECTLY anticipating regina’s plan #but even better than that is that regina knows she can count on emma to get what she’s going to do #and to do her part to execute the plan #knows that she can count on emma to be there for her #THESE TWO ARE SO IN SYNC OK

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“That's what true love is. It's sacrifice. It's giving up everything for the person you love.” - Regina 5x21

Emma in 4x22:

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Seven of Nine & Raffi Musiker Star Trek: Picard (2020-2023), S02E10 “Farewell”

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Happy “#TeamMoms’” Day.

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Swan queen outfit difference kills me 😭

They are gay your honour 🤪

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Lana Parrilla with her Evil Queen side showing through. Custom-made jigsaw, 1000 pieces, almost half of them black 💀 the result is worth it, though 😄

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Done done DOOOOONE :D :D :D

Welcome to my shiny new SwanQueen alternate universe story, taking place during the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang! ❄️⛸️https://archiveofourown.org/works/54178111/chapters/137181814

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The final two chapters of All That Glitters is Not (Olympic) Gold are up!

I'm both happy and sad that I have to let this story go 🥹 I had so much fun writing it! I can't believe it's done. But I'm insanely happy with how it turned out. ❤️❤️

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OUAT's Wasted Potential.

This is very anti-Captain Swan & anti-Outlaw Queen but isn’t really anti-Hook or anti-Hood.

I was watching the last scene of the season 4 finale where Emma sacrifices her soul for Regina and I’m not even a Swan Queen shipper but that scene was so beautiful like it made me want to ship them. It also shows that Hook & Hood aren’t good enough for Emma and Regina. They are never of any help, they know nothing about magic or how things work. Robin Hood is so clueless about everything and Hook can be so easily manipulated. Separately, both these characters are fine but I don’t think they make good partners for Emma and Regina. These women deserve better. And it makes me really sad to see them paired up with someone who isn’t good enough for them. I mean think about it:

Regina, a woman who’s been through so many emotions and so much pain in life, who has caused others pain, who has dealt with darkness and has fought to be a better person, such a complex character is paired up with someone who can’t even take care of his own children let alone Henry, sleeps with someone while he claims to love someone else. So what if he didn’t know it was Zelena? He was in love with Regina right? How did he even move on so quickly? And wasn’t he having a make out session with Regina while his wife was frozen? The same wife he had just slept with I mean why on earth would anyone want to be with him?

Emma, a complex and layered character and has felt like a lost girl all her life. She has dealt with some tough stuff and is an independent strong woman who can handle things on her own, she is smart and has always fought back. But she’s paired with someone who has till now not done anything useful and is a one dimensional character; not compatible with a character like Emma’s. He hasn’t been able to save himself ever, has been manipulated by other several times, has an obsessive behavior and changes sides in the blink of an eye, looks down upon her when he’s angry and calls her names. I feel annoyed by this relationship because I’m a HUGE Emma fan and he’s not good enough for my Emma. Again, I’m not against Hook as a character I think he has so much more potential as a villain rather than a hero.

Like I said, I’m not even a Swan Queen shipper (I think I will always be a Swanfire girl) but if they become canon it would make a lot more sense and they would be highly compatible with each other. But if not then I would really like for them to be single or find someone who’s actually just as smart, brave and badass as these women.

And as I’m writing this I feel Outlaw Queen and Captain Swan aren’t just bad relationships for Emma and Regina they’re also destroying Hook & Hood’s characters. Both these men have been reduced to just being love interests.

ROBIN HOOD: We could’ve had a good Robin Hood story about family bonding and stuff but no he only revolves around Regina. The writers have reduced him to a lover who’s not even good enough for his partner and also made him an incompetent parent.

CAPTAIN HOOK: We could’ve had a great unapologetic villain for once. To be honest, the writers try so hard to force him to be a hero he just isn’t meant to be. He was made to be a villain. That’s what makes him likable. Isn’t that why Cruella is liked by many? She isn’t just another redeemed villain or a villain turned hero with a sob story. She’s just a villain and she’s fucking proud of it. I wish they did the same for Hook. I wish they gave the character its own identity and not that of a whining boyfriend. Pirates can be really cool but this one is ruined and serves no propose to the story.

So much wasted potential for all these characters. So much wasted potential for a great story and a great show that Once Upon A Time could’ve been after Season 3B.

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Hey everyone just wanted to come on here to promote some of my prints. I just set up shop and would really appreciate the extra help(my iPad got stolen and I can’t create more art until I get a new one;() https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/fridaquesadilla/

These and more are available on the shop more!

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Adulting: 1/5 stars, do not recommend.

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Chapter 8 is up - and make sure you read 7 first if you haven’t yet :)

In which Regina skates her final race during these Olympics. Can she break her curse?

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Yes yes yes I agree with everything that's been said here. I'm volunteering my character study fics, Free Of Doubt and and The Human Equation:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26844148/chapters/65494585

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36725788/chapters/91616077

Ok so my friend and I just recorded 4 HOURS of raw audio breaking down the OUAT pilot, season 1 finale, and discussing the show in general for our new podcast where we make each other watch episodes of our favorite shows and talk about them together. It’s exactly as fun as you would imagine. :)

But even after all that, I still have things I forgot to say or didn’t get to. So here’s a few of them:

1. “Evil” as addiction: the OUAT writers treat the concept of being evil like addiction/substance abuse which is really interesting and kind of a bold choice for a 2011 show about fairytales. Then within that structure they show basically the two choices you have when facing addiction: choose not to use and become a better, healed version of yourself (Regina) or keep using and stay stuck in your patterns and hurt everyone you love forever (Rumple). As a child of an alcoholic who has chosen the latter, I loved watching Regina’s journey in this context and while she stumbles a lot, she keeps striving to be good even though she gets the short end of the stick most of the time. And her North Star is always Henry, which I think is important to show that you don’t just change because you feel like it, there usually has to be the threat of something worse happening if you don’t change (in this case, losing Henry physically and emotionally).

2. Regina Mills might be the most psychologically complex and interesting character on prime time tv in the 2010s? Period??

3. I rambled a good bit in the podcast about the costumes and color symbolism but here’s a bit more for you: Once Regina is on team heroes she often wears some kind of red top (the hero’s color) with a black jacket/coat over it showing that she’s changed on the inside but she still *looks* like the evil queen on the outside and can now use that persona/power to her advantage instead of being consumed by it. By the end of S5 this contrasts with Emma who wears her signature red jacket but a black/white/gray sweater underneath, showing that she’s a little more of a mix of good and evil these days post-dark one. In a color sense, they’re almost mirror images of each other at this point, and it’s really cool.

4. I know a lot of people are really salty about how Emma’s light kind of dims toward S4, 5, 6, and I’m right there with you. Her character feels flatter, and honestly kind of depressed. Now idk if this was a real choice on the writers’/JMo’s part, if she was going through some stuff at this time and it just showed up in the character, or what. That said, it does track for me in a way, especially post-dark one. She should be kind of thrown off by everything that’s happened! She should be changed! I just wish they had done something with it instead of pretending it was normal. If Regina’s struggle with evil is analogous to addiction, why can’t Emma’s struggle with evil be analogous to depression? It would have been an interesting take. Somebody write the fic.

I could keep going but I’ll stop here for now. Stay tuned for the podcast!