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18yo me: I really don't like any of Regina's love interests

28yo me: I really want to be Regina's love interest

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Does your Swan Queen fic or art need A Place In This World? SQACC Might be just that! Sign ups open in 11 days!

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From "you're Henry's birth mother?" to "she'll always be Madam Mayor to me." they found each other over and over again, in every realm, in every situation.

they are the embodiment of true love and I don't care about what anyone else says

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I hate this woman so much 😭

ONCE UPON A TIME 7.11, Secret Garden

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“I’ve known you for some time, and all I’ve wanted was for you to get the hell out of my life so I can be with my son.”

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262/365 days of regina mills

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S6 of Once Upon a Time was not good. Like. At all.

Still...it was worth it to watch Lana Parrilla flirt with herself. IDK if Regina x Evil Queen is the best ship, but it's definitely the hottest.

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ANNOUNCING ONCE UPON A TIME APPRECIATION WEEK 2024!

From November 10-16, post your gifs, art, fics, etc. to celebrate 13 years of Once Upon a Time! The only rule is no negativity towards any character/ship! Any post with the tag #userstorybrooke or #ouatweek2024 will be reblogged.

Day 1 (11/10) - Favorite Character Day 2 (11/11) - Favorite Character Arc Day 3 (11/12) - Favorite Origin Story Day 4 (11/13) - Favorite Plot Twist Day 5 (11/14) - Best Disney Parallel/Adaptation Day 6 (11/15) - Storyline That Never Was/What If Day 7 (11/16) - Free Choice

Let me (@dinneratgrannys) know if you have any questions!

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Oh ideas! OH!

1.21 - An Apple As Red As Blood ONCE UPON A TIME (2011–2018)

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This is so funny because Regina's "experimenting" was killing people and Zelena's "experimenting" was figuring out how to go back in time to erase Regina's existence. So, maybe Robin experimenting isn't the worst, no 😂

Do you remember giving her this highly dangerous, volatile book, that belonged to our one-time, highly dangerous, volatile mother?

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LANA PARRILLA in ONCE UPON A TIME | 1.09 True North

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Swan Queen +Text Messages (50/?)

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The Real Tragedy of SwanQueen/OUAT

Expanding on my swanqueen thoughts in our recent pod here (bc why not) :

Check out the pod for my initial rant (starts at around 1:17:30 if you want to skip there, but there are mentions of them throughout)

I think this comes across in the pod somewhat, but the point I really wanted to make about Emma and Regina and swanqueen as a ship, is that it's not just a letdown that they didn't get together for the gay of it all.

Obviously representation is important, and SQ would have been an insane leap forward for that in this era of media. But IMO, that's still not the real tragedy here (since we've made a lot of progress in that regard).

The real tragedy is that doing the enemies-to-lovers thing with Emma and Regina would have been the ULTIMATE manifestation of the concept of the show, which is taking fairytales and retelling them in a way that subverts your expectations. Subverting your expectations around what a fairytale is, how a happy ending goes, and what is possible for the genre. Making swanqueen the endgame for the OUAT fulfills its premise in a way that few shows can even hope to achieve, much less actually have the opportunity.

Built into swanqueen, you have these subversions of the original fairytale genre:

the "villain" gets a happy ending,

the villain is redeemed/redeems herself and in doing so acquires romantic/familial love,

the princess retains her agency,

the princess saves herself, everyone else, AND the villain,

the villain also saves the princess,

the princess does not find love with a prince,

the princess and the (former) villain live happily ever after together.

And that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more. I didn't even bring Henry into it either.

That's the real bummer for me. It's the absolute once-in-a-lifetime chance they had here to turn an entire genre of stories on its head and tell an even greater story from the pieces, and they didn't do it.

Even if they did it in a clunky way or it wasn't written the best, it still would have made the history books for the attempt alone. Not to mention the opportunity to tell a fairytale that completely puts agency back into the hands of women. Sigh. What an absolute waste.

But I guess that's why god invented fanfiction. :)

I hope you enjoy the pod!