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#Art (via HappyToast)

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Chloe Giordano — Freehand Embroidery by AdamPellinDeeve

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Yass, look at them all! Cleo’s tiny outfit is delightful, Venus looks like she has on a green rose (or cabbage?) skirt, and i love the hair streak decision-making going on here, LOL.

I like this set very much!

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Hey, I saw you answering a question about Emma's heart and that remind me... It was just me or Hook's heart had too little darkness for someone who was a pirate and a villain for hundred of years? Like I know he didn't kill half as much as Regina, Rumple, Cora, Zelena or any other villain, but... I didn't expect to be THAT red and only a little dark spot. What are your opinions on that?

I think people give the GCI team too hard a time over this. Basically they were instructed on a few occasions so put in a little or a lot of blackness in order to illustrate a specific point that the scene is conveying but without instruction they just go with red. We saw Snow’s heart in a scene that focuses on her darkness, same as when we first see Regina’s. Hook’s darkness wasn’t the topic at play in the scene in which we see his heart so there was nothing in the production notes telling the GCI team to color it a certain way.

Hook’s heart when we first saw it WAS very glowy when we saw it. AH has already said it was a production error that we didn’t see any dark swirl in it. But I also interpret his heart as being more bright  because it was filled with love for Emma and he had been working towards redemption and healing… AND, as you said, because he had a history that was way less dark than Regina and Rumple.

He was a pirate with a quest for vengeance against one man. And he, based on his “youthful glow” was likely stuck in Neverland for hundreds of the years he’s been alive - so he couldn’t do too much villainy there. Hades credited Regina and Rumple with driving the body count of his realm up - no such thing was said of Hook so I do think the show presents him in a different light than the other two. Even in Neverland, before Hook saved his life, Charming referred to Regina as the villain and Hook as “pirate”, so that distinction has been there since almost the beginning.

We did see he killed his father - just like Regina had. But Colin himself has said that Hook knew Brennan was about to do the same thing to his new son that he had done to Liam and himself. He was killing a bad man that had hurt him greatly and up until he saw how Brennan hadn’t changed Hook was actually going to HELP him - despite the childhood abandonment and life of slavery. Compare this to Regina who killed her father knowing he truly loved her - he was THE thing she loved most. You have to be in a MUCH darker place to do a thing like that.

AH has said that magical hearts are about feelings and emotions. And Darkness takes root when you have NEGATIVE feelings. So Snow had that black swirl because she believed she’d done a bad thing by killing Cora (I still maintain it was self defense) and that guilt over the dark thing she had done was eating away at her. Dark feelings like that fester and ultimately lead to more bad thoughts and actions if you let them. (this is what happened with Regina under Rumple’s influence).

So where Hook’s vengeance was about killing Rumple as payback for killing Milah - a life for a life, Regina’s vengeance was about making Snow SUFFER. And she was willing to kill villages (including children) and to curse an entire kingdom taking away EVERYONE’S happiness just to cause Snow pain. Hook’s plans were about removing darkness from the world - he was trying to kill something evil. Regina was, as she said, CONSUMED by the darkness, and she was creating MORE of it in the world by enacting the Dark Curse. So her heart looks much more like Rumple’s who was also consumed by Darkness via the dark one curse.

It’s also my head canon that magical hearts become blemished not just by dark feelings or dark actions but particularly by DARK MAGIC. And so we see Emma’s heart glowing bright red in the Underworld because she is free from the curse, while Rumple’s heart (while still cursed) was like a lump of coal. It was also able to be “wiped clean” which suggests that there is a magical component, more than a spiritual one, in play here. Regina’s heart has been blackened by years of dark feelings and dark magic but I think it’s healing.

@oparu mentioned, in a reply to the same set of posts you are asking about, that there is a lot of inconsistency to the way the writers/procuction handles hearts. And I think that is an important point. I think we are thinking through this all way more than the show’s creators are -but that is true for much of what we discuss in fandom isn’t it? 

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Day/Night

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Inspired by a conversation two kids had as they walked past my garden.

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Untenable OUaT Crack Theory

Have you ever gotten an idea stuck in your head that you can’t get past until you put it down on paper? An earworm for your brain, so to speak? This is it for me, I’ve had this crack theory floating around in my brain all week and I can’t shake it so I’m putting it out into the universe and, hopefully, now I’ll be able to move on to other things. So here it is folks:

Aladdin isn’t the savior, Jasmine is.

Argh, I know, it makes no sense! But this is what happens when my brain gets stuck on an idea, I have to run with it to work it out. So I went back and watched the clip again this morning. At the beginning of the clip, random about to be dead guy #7248 rides up to Aladdin’s refuge desperate for help:

About to be Dead Guy #7248: Help! He’s coming my prince, he’s coming! We need your help!  Please, sir, our kingdom is in great danger. We need the savior.

About to get a concussion Woman #4247: I’m sorry. He’s not seeing anyone today.

I can read this as the man seeking out Aladdin for help in getting to the savior, not because Aladdin is the savior. In fact, if, as Jafar says later, the savior is in hiding, why would the woman with Aladdin say that he’s “not seeing anyone today” – implying that he gets visitors and some days he does see them and some days he doesn’t, and why wouldn’t she refer to him directly as the savior?

Ugh, I know, I know. But just bear with me and let me get it all out. Moving on to the confrontation between Jafar and Aladdin:

Jafar: Pathetic, the great savior hiding. This is a sad day indeed. I heard but I had to come see for myself. Look at the great Aladdin now.

Aladdin: You’re going to kill me. Just get it over with.

Jafar: No, not a chance. I want to savor this. Do you remember when we first met? You were nothing but a common thief. But you had honor. Despite what you did to me. The irony is delicious. It took becoming a hero for you to completely come apart. That’s what always happens to saviors, isn’t it?

Aladdin: What? Why are you doing this?

Jafar: Oh, I’m not doing anything. It’s the fate of saviors. You give and give and give, and for what? They pick the fruits, they cut the branches, and all that’s left is this shaky stump. Always. That’s why you never ever hear these words about a savior: They lived happily ever after. Do take care, Aladdin.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been living with this idea for a while, but I can very easily see this scene playing out between Hook and Rumple, with very little change in the actual dialog. Let me be clear, I don’t want to inadvertently ruffle any feathers – I am in no way saying that Hook is the or a savior. More, I’m thinking that this does not necessarily read as Jafar’s triumph over Aladdin, he walks away a little too easily. Jafar wanted to see a broken Aladdin, but I get the impression that his quest is not over yet, there’s still something Jafar is looking for, possibly the savior herself.

I can almost see this scene as Aladdin sequestering himself in an attempt to protect the savior/Jasmine who has gone into hiding somewhere. No happily ever after for the savior because she is in hiding, cut off from everyone, her loved ones sacrificing themselves to keep her safe.

Overall, I guess I’m questioning certain of the language from the clip:

Why – “It took becoming a hero for you to completely come apart.”

Why not – “It took becoming the savior for you to completely come apart.”

Why – “It’s the fate of saviors.”

Why not – “It’s your fate.”

Clearly, my brain is leading me down a garden path that not all is as it may first appear in this clip. I mean, there’s a bird in a cage in Aladdin’s retreat for a reason, right? There’s a reason Jasmine doesn’t show up until 6x04. If the savior mythology is a season long exploration, there should be more to it than first meets the eye.

And my final thought for the day – the “O” in the final title card looks like a lens to me, possibly the lens of some type of spyglass.

Phew, ok, good talk. Feels good to finally get that out of my system! Thanks, guys!

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I’m so sorry, my dearest, but I’ve already seen the cost of immortality. Life is made of little moments, precious as diamonds. But imagine there were an endless sea of diamonds. They’d all be worthless. They’d be as common as sand. I do have another solution, if you’ll accept it. We take the Grail, and we remake it into a sword. Such a blade could cut away my magic, my immortality, and then we can come back here, and we can live normal lives together.

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i’m on to you drake

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This piece of art made by Peter Gabel “Miniature Mermaid House” it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a while. 

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Flower Figures

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Killian Jones | 5x17 “Her My Handsome Hero”

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All of the rings are handmade and unique. Made with fresh wood, jewelry resin and beeswax. 

The rings are designed and made by Secret Wood exclusively.

http://woodring.bigcartel.com/products

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 Tree Sculptures Connected to Cuban Artist’s Roots

Remembering his roots seems to be a recurrent idea in the work of the Cuban artist Jorge Mayet. His sculptures made of paper, plastic and wood represent trees and their never-ending connections that weave and mix up under the ground. A reference to the sculptor‘s personal origins and a way to underline the fact that everything is not always readily apparent.  Source: fubiz

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Based on the sneak peaks and spoilerish hints from Twitter and BTS shots, I think I’ve figured out the theme of OUAT season 6.

It seems that Hades’ plan to commandeer Zelena’s time travel spell has failed spectacularly, causing a complete implosion of the already shaky timeline running between the realms. Everything is now concurrent with younger versions of B characters interacting with older versions of A characters, and Oz appearing smack dab in the middle of Neverland.  Pan (who is young, even through he died old) will fall in love with young Zelena, who we find out will become Rumples mother, making their season three kiss even squickier.  The Lost Boys, who have all given up on finding their parents in Storybrooke (because they realized that they’d been skipping around that campfire for two hundred and fifty years, after all) will suddenly find out that the Munchkins are their presumed dead families, who were transported by one of those stray tornadoes that are suddenly popping up everywhere, negating the need for magic beans or spinning top hats.

The heroes set out to correct the timelines, now able to jump effortlessly from realm to realm through the mysterious and beautifully embellished doors that now take up nearly all the floor space in the sorcerer’s mansion.  Disaster strikes when baby Neal accidentally crawls through the door to Jolly Old England and finds himself as a pre-teen in the upstairs bedroom of the Banks’ home, directly across the street from the Darlings.  Jane and Michael Banks sneak him over to visit their good friends Wendy, John and Michael Darling, only to discover that they are harboring a boy named Baelfire who thinks that Neal is a much cooler name.  Pan’s shadow steals one of the the boys and a stray memory curse causes everyone to forget which one.  Emma fears that her little brother might be her son’s father.

It’s left to all of our true love couples to visit every possible realm and kiss each other senseless in the quest to use the most powerful magic of all to set things right.  Light magic prevails and everyone is gloriously happy.

Except Dopey, who is still a tree.