#anti regina mills

[thedisdainfullysilentvisitor]

Just thought I'd ask; how badly do people want a ouat fanfic where Graham's assault is addressed and Regina isn't catered to?

[shewhotellsstories]

This reminds me a bit of my Regina Mills problem with Once Upon a Time. In OUAT they wanted to redeem Regina, but they spent three seasons showing her being an unrepentant child abuser, mass murderer, and rapist. They couldn't make the audience unsee her reign of terror (although there were way too many Regina apologists), so they relied on making her victims disregard their valid distrust and anger or lowering characters she'd been at odds with to make her look better.

The Bridgerton and Once Upon a Time writers couldn't make Penelope and Regina's actions less egregious. Hence, they had no choice but to invalidate everyone's feelings and vilify them to make their pets look better.

[sapphic-agent]

In case you were wondering where I stood with any of these characters.

(Yes, Catra is in the middle. She gets her own category because I have complicated feelings about her)

[sprnklersplashes]

me: now it is interesting that emma swan and lorelai gilmore got incredibly similar treatment in their respective fandoms; they were both teen parents, and working-class ones at that, who struggled to make ends meet and made difficult decisions to give their child the best life they could. despite this though, their fandoms can only focus on and exaggerate their shortcomings; in emma's case it was giving henry away and in lorelai's it was being too friendly and immature around rory. still me: by contrast, regina mills and emily gilmore-who are in many ways emma and lorelai's counterparts in regard to motherhood-are hailed as "icons" and also the best mothers on their respective shows despite having significantly more shortcomings than emma and lorelai did. henry is painted as an ungrateful brat despite clear evidence that regina was an unfit if not abusive parent, which in turn demonises emma for "turning" henry against regina. moreover, we see throughout the show that emily is an overbearing and toxic influence on lorelai, criticising every movement she does, and yet lorelai is still called ungrateful. what unites emily and regina is their wealth, as this is used as proof that they gave their children good lives despite their canon actions. still me: in summary, although these are two different shows, their fanbases show the same bias towards upper-class motherhood and a belief that providing for a child's basic needs is somehow a grand gesture, and in turn demonises and belittles the very struggles lorelai and emma had gone through as mothers. take-away delivery guy: ma'am please just take your food.

[hitchell-mope]

Emma: Oh, by the way, if you ever speak disrespectfully again about my husband, I’ll kill you. Sorry, that sounded like a joke. I will ACTUALLY kill you.

[couragehopelovefaith]

During every single OUAT-rewatch I hope I would understand why Regina has such a huge fan-base, but nope. Lana did a good job playing her and I couldn't see anyone else in that role. But the character herself has ruined so many people's lives by her actions - that she constantly and absurdly kept blaming other people for - and her redemption-arc is basically so non-existent that I just can't root for her or any ships or other relationships she's involved in.

[vasfasan]

Dark!Hook would be amazing at Cinemasins

All the Dark Ones 🤝 fucking finally putting Regina in her place

He's got a point, he's an icon, he's a legend, and he is the moment

[ouatsnark]

When Regina stans try to gaslight

Killian isn't wrong. That Emma isn't HERE in this scene.

Regina doesn't know that Emma is still THERE. She's said otherwise prior to this.

In this scene, Regina is accusing Emma of calling the Fury. She wants Emma to save her handbag (Robin). Oh yeah that sounds like someone who really believes and loves Emma...

I mean the only reason Regina is speaking to Emma, by her own admission, is to get her to call off the fury.

The Truth:

For more truth bombs on this subject please visit the below post.

[camelotroses]

I could watch this all day.

Regina had no right. Killian knew that. Killian stopped her cruelty against Emma.

He'd been against using the dagger to control her from the start. He believed in her enough to help her without using force.

"Are you all right?"

I love that Killian puts the dagger down before asking. He's been in a hurry to get rid of the darkness but since they got there he's been all about "Emma's choice". He's livid at Regina & he knows being controlled by the dagger hurts Emma.

That is true love.

[astridthevalkyrie]

the fact that once upon a time made regina so evil and awful that the only way to redeem her was tragic backstory+henry does a 180 and loves her now+snow is a murderer which makes her just as bad+snow and charming stole a baby+snow and charming could have went to emma when she was like 6 but they didn't+emma will talk about how they could've been together if they didn't send her through but regina would have either be with someone else or would have literally fucking killed her+zelena and every other villain is worse somehow+emma is evil now+the author WROTE regina to be evil+she SPLITS THE EVIL FROM HER LIKE IT WAS A SEPARATE PERSON AND NOT HER+and everyone who doesn't want to forgive her for killing hundreds and abusing her son because her mom killed her boyfriend is the scum of the earth and will either be portrayed as a villain or will just do a complete 180 like henry

[ebdaydreamer]

omg, Regina yelling at and insulting Pinocchio (as in, THE CHILD) for not remembering his life as adult August... she's so cruel and vicious about it, it's the same way she talks to most adults too, but at least they're not literal children. Good people don't throw hissy fits and yell insults at children because they don't get their way. Yet she and most of the other main characters still insist she's good. Yes, she apologised but she shouldn't have had to, because it shouldn't have happened.

[thedisdainfullysilentvisitor]

Here's your reminder that Swanqueen was never canon. It would be unfortunate if the ship wasn't incredibly toxic.

[myimaginarywonderland]

If there's one thing that I wish I could reverse it is the fact that for the 2010s one of the biggest lesbian ships is literally between a rapist, murderous and manipulative bitch who also happens to be the step-grandmother to the very kindhearted and traumatized woman she is shipped with. Add to that the fact that she tried to murder said woman and here entire family because of a teenage romance gone horribly wrong.

Not to mention the fact that she rapes and kills one of the first man that woman cares about.

[killiansprincss]

I just don’t think I’ll ever understand people that say Emma and Regina is their favourite friendship. In what world is that a friendship when Regina literally barely tolerates Emma because she’s Henry’s mother and belittles her at any given moment, tried to kill her when Emma is simply existing - need I go on ????

[shewhotellsstories]

This really is bringing back Once Upon a Time levels of rage. I loved that show at first, but the writers making Regina Mills their pet and whitewashing all her crimes killed it for me.

Yes, she was abused and then abused her own son and ruined countless lives. But, she shouldn't have to feel any consequences because she had a tragic backstory so sayeth the showrunners. She doesn't have to take accountability, everyone else just had to get over it. Sound familiar?

I hated Regina Mills and she was thin, so please spare me the, "if Penelope was thin you'd love her nonsense."

[princess-ibri]

Just wondering, what’s your opinion on OUAT?

Great concept, increasingly poor execution, shouldn't have been a Disney fanfic. It would have done better to keep building its own versions of the fairytales. Also should have been 2, 3 seasons tops.

And, personal rant here: No, Regina did not deserve a 'Happy Ending'.

Not saying she couldn't have somehow become a better person but its honestly unlikely after the pattern of decisions she made. And more then that, she never atones for the bad things she did. She just stops doing them. Actually not even that, she just starts doing them to different people.

She has no actual excuse for what she did. She murdered and raped and abused and was more then happy to let the whole world burn so that she could hold onto a gruge that anyone who'd ever once been actually good or sane would have understood lies at the feet of Cora, not an 10 year old child.

And she never feels sorry for any of it, just sorry that people call her out on it.

(And Zelena and Rumple are just as bad)

Ok, rant over