#reasons to watch ouat

[miramelindamusings]

The moment there is a bit of cool weather where I live, all I can think about is rumbelle. I've been thinking alot about Lacey too so here are a few of the sketches I've done :)

[emmasaviorswan]

@rawbutprecious

[dylanconrique]

my brain: you know you have other shows to watch??

me: 🤫🤫🤫

[redheadedratt]

I WAS LISTENING TO THIS SONG AGAIN AND.....

holy shit

ITS THEM FR!!!

[thebirdandhersong]

I'm operating off of "everyone is within the 20s-30s range and I don't need to know the real numbers because the timeline's all over the place" because Killian who looks mid-20s got with Milah when she looked early 30s, right, who was married to Rumpelstiltskin at that time, who was mid-30s then, and they had a son together, and then a few years after Baelfire disappears, and Rumpelstiltskin meets Belle, who looks mid-20s, and Belle mentions that Regina had her locked up for 8 years before the curse, and in Storybrooke, Mr. Gold is like late 30s early 40s, right, and Emma's just turned 28, and it looks like her parents are around the same age or maybe early 30s because magic, and Ruby's probably the same age as Snow (ish) but she looks mid 20s, and the corner of the enchanted forest that was preserved is going along the same parallel time as current Storybrooke shenanigans, which means Killian must be how old now?

[depressedstressedlemonzest]

Her EYES

Belle WHO HURT YOU.

Oh yeah

Keep that little shred of resolve you still have rumple.

Once she's gone, you can show your emotions on how you really feel.

[transannabeth]

if we're being so for real, i was a goner on the winter soldier storyline in the mcu the second they cast sebastian stan as james "bucky" buchanan barnes because i was watching once upon a time season 1 episode 17 hat trick when it aired on march 25, 2012 and became deeply enamored with jefferson's tragic backstory, manic moments, fun little kidnapping habit, and deeply deeply sad eyes

[secretsofthewilde]

Snow White asking Regina to pull out her heart so that she can give half of it to Charming so that he will live and they can live together as one heart is all very sweet and romantic on paper, but the execution of that moment is actually incredibly literal and comes across absolutely insane

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Absolutely insane of Tremaine/Drizella to not just give Henry a fake name in the curse lol

[chaosinstigator]

it’s been a full decade and I’m still upset at how badly adam and edward fumbled the peter pan storyline

[lizardthelizard]

That playlist though. Oh no. OH NO! Feelings for and about Mulan. Right through the heart. I love "Another Love" so very much, but I'm often said when you watch some fanedit and it's kinda missing this beat how, well, the previous/other/first love was so all consuming, that finding something new is hard. Now you make me think about Sleeping Warrior vs Red Warrior here, OBVIOUSLY!

Mulan hitting rock bottom, wandering around aimless after leaving Aurora, because obviously she didn't join Robin. And we see her in that tavern, given up on honor (her truest of loves, clearly). Hitting the other direction of her whole character so hard. Meeting Ruby is nice, but falling for her doesn't come easy at all. She had her hopes set up on Aurora and it destroyed her completely, now where is the energy to muster up the courage to go for a second round?

~And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight But my hand's been broken one too many times~ HELP! I'M DYING OVER HERE WITH THE IMAGES!! Thinking back to the intensity of the first time and while wanting love not being able to go for it... yeah, very canon, very tragic.

I'm listening through the whole thing, but I saw it ends with Marina. Great. The only thing more devastating would have been a Florence song. Marina's voice alone can carry this specific kind of melancholia/sadness... ~I'm a nomad [...] no sweet home~ Yeah, a Mulan song. What a choice. Never meeting anybody from her past, not getting her own happy ending.

Also, yes to the thing you said - she is so terribly stubborn. They gave us a fullfledged 3dimensional character with flaws, who would also bring a very useful skillset to the table and with more time all those walls she clearly build could have been torn down by the right person. Damn.

(Maybe I should finally cave and get spotify, make things easier. lol)

Another Love THEE reason for this playlist! At least, when I listened to it some years ago, it was the first (and for a while the only song) I had on her playlist. Because it was so perfect for her!! and I HAD to have it on some kind of Mulan playlist.

But YEAH!! Mulan's heartbreak over Aurora is so evident in season 5 and it really changes her as a person. And she becomes so bitter and so jaded (and then canon doesn't even give her a happy ending and she has to third wheel AGAIN 😭)

But when you throw Ruby into the mix? Oh boy, I'm VERY here for this. It won't be easy for either of them (Mulan struggling to open up and put herself out there again and with Ruby viewing herself as a monster still and worrying about hurting Mulan if they're too close) but...if they were both able to work up the courage and power through any of those issues... 👀

Also, see, I think it's such a shame because I feel like Mulan IS three dimensional, yes! But sometimes fandom (very broadly speaking) treats her like she's not. And she gets watered down into this kind of 'girlboss' character. And yeah, she IS a girlboss! Sure! But she's kind of a dork-ass-loser as well sometimes and she takes things way too seriously and she's so closed off.

Anyway, the point is that, like many ouat side characters, Mulan deserved so much more from canon.

[fiqranas]

my sleeping hook era was truly sth else

[caliburn-the-sword]

nothing has given me greater whiplash than seeing that there's a very specific breed of people that are very obsessed with both ouat and cw supergirl. i grew up on supergirl (or more specifically supercorp) and not only did kara danvers turn me gay but nia and brainiac transed my gender. i however only discovered ouat recently. is this my sign to finish supergirl

[mytardisisparked]

Brother help, I am rewatching all of the media I was obsessed with in high school. If I can't pull myself out of this, I may end up rewatching O*ce Up*n A T*me. Should life go that route, please tell my family I love them and that I-

[thebirdandhersong]

YOU GUYS DON'T GET IT PAN TOLD HIM IN THE LAST EPISODE THAT NEAL IS ALIVE. THAT PUTS A WRENCH IN ALL OF HOOK'S FLIRT-WITH-EMMA-GET-WITH-EMMA PLAN AND HOOK WAS JUST STARTING TO HAVE HOPE THAT HE WAS WINNING HER OVER. PAN GIVES HIM THAT INFORMATION AND WE'RE LEFT WONDERING WHAT HE'LL DO WITH IT. AND IN THE VERY NEXT EPISODE NO GET THIS GUYS THE VERY NEXT EPISODE AND THE FIRST CHANCE HE GETS HE JUST STRAIGHT UP TELLS THEM THAT NEAL IS ALIVE HE DOESN'T WITHHOLD THAT INFORMATION HE DOESN'T LIE HE DOESN'T TRY TO KEEP IT FROM THEM FOR SELFISH REASONS HE JUST TELLS SNOW AND CHARMING FIRST SO THAT HE DOESN'T GET EMMA'S HOPES UP IN CASE PAN HAS A SINISTER PLAN HE TELLS THEM HE TELLS THEM AND THEY'RE COMING UP WITH A PLAN TO FIND NEAL

[smugraccoon137]

I gotta say I do remember watching s1 when i was like 11. And I thought David was such a rat bastard for cheating, and then lying to both parties about it. Like not very Prince Charming of him hmmm