#emma x graham

[beautyinsteadofashes]

there's doomed by the narrative and then there's my type of ship which I think is called never intended by the narrative. It's the political marriage or the unrequited best friend or the pre-hero's journey boyfriend or a character they barely interact with and my brain just goes "that one"

[oautincorrectquotes]

Graham: You're late.

Emma: I can turn around and go home if that will be a problem.

[tvshowscouples]

If you love Emma&Graham (Once Upon A Time) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

[artist-issues]

Your favorite character was Graham you say?

How did/do you feel about his history/relationship(?) with Regina. Since there are a lot of different opinions and I'm curious how you view the two. Especially with Regina literally having Graham's heart and him having to obey her otherwise he'd die.

I don’t love his relationship with her. I don’t think they should’ve made it romantic, but I see why they did, because by making him romantic with the Evil Queen, they could segue into giving Emma a love interest that her rival also has. Like Mean Girls.

I don’t think they should’ve made it romantic because the only things we know about the Huntsman from the Snow White fairy tales is that he 1) is compassionate 2) works for the Evil Queen and 3) is afraid of her ((enough to initially obey her command to kill a child; enough to try and outsmart her instead of stand up to her directly.))

All those things are still intact in OUAT. It’s just…it’s not clear why the original Evil Queen from the fairy tale would ever want to be in a romantic relationship with her Huntsman. So why is it that way in OUAT? Just because the actor is handsome and the leading lady needed to prove she could get the villainess’ man.

Remember, this is the issue I had with season 1 of OUAT. Regina is an interesting villainess and a cool character but she’s not…actually…The Evil Queen Character from the original Snow White.

The Evil Queen from the original Snow White was self-obsessed in the MOST shallow way. She wanted to be the most renowned beauty in all the land. She wanted everyone to see her as beautiful, even though all along her heart was ugly. Which is what makes her a good opposite to Snow White, who is pure, innocent love on the inside and the outside, with nothing to hide. If you suddenly say, “no, the Evil Queen didn’t poison Snow because she was jealous—she poisoned Snow because she has this hole in her heart where love was stolen from her, and she thinks revenge or a child of her own will fill it,” that’s a cool character, but it’s not The Evil Queen.

If I were telling that story, I’d simply have had Regina find out that Graham kept Emma on as a deputy, or was consulting with her on police cases, and won’t stop defying orders on top of being dangerously close to finding out about the curse… then she crushes his heart and kills him. It’s still the same basic reasons—Regina needs to protect her secrets/Regina can’t stand losing control of something she once possessed/Regina hates anything that contributes to Emma’s happiness, etc. But you take out the weird “we’re in a loveless power-struggle relationship.”

But…you know, to do that, I’d have to re-tell all of OUAT, because this OC they made up who is not the real Evil Queen, Regina, really is the central character of the OUAT show. To re-write her motives in “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” would only make sense if she weren’t Regina anymore; if she were the real Evil Queen from the fairy tales, instead.

But either way Graham can still be in love with Emma and she can still be in love with him. I liked that, even if the “age” difference was weird. But take out the part where he’s ever forced into a relationship with the Queen. The Evil Queen wouldn’t have any interest in exercising her power, romantically or sexually or whatever, over someone who was already her subordinate. She’d just have him beheaded, or curse him. She doesn’t care about proving her power or finding someone to love her. She cares about appearances and being worshipped.

Anyway. Graham.

I liked that they explained his compassion for an innocent person like Snow White by recognizing she’s “pure of heart…” because he has this whole life-philosophy of “purity of heart” and knows how to spot it in animals. Because they raised him. So that’s cool. I like that he still has to learn to stand up to Regina, because in the original fairy tale, like I said, that’s the one thing he doesn’t really do. So it’s cool that when he meets Emma, he’s supposed to frame and ruin her by order of the Queen, but he doesn’t, simply because he genuinely feels compassion for her. That’s Step 1: show how he’s still The Huntsman at his core. Then Step 2 is: have the Huntsman’s story move forward from there, which essentially what the Curse being broken looks like: it stops all the fairy tale characters from moving toward a Happy Ending, and rewinds their character developments, and freezes them in time. Then when Graham starts developing past the point his character ended on in the fairy tale, that’s when the curse starts to weaken, so he has to be killed off. So I thought Graham was just a really cool bite-sized version of the whole plot, before they killed him off. 🤷‍♀️

[morethanweseem]

re-reading some REALLY old threads I had with old partners and feeling so nostalgic.

[crosseyedcricketart]

MET Gala 2024 - "The Garden of Time" - 20 Looks

[lisanees]

assuming this was cut from the script like most additions the novelizations include are, I'd have loved to see this scene in the film

I love the idea of all the major Monarch scientists together, maybe Monarch season 2 can pick this up

[sophs-style]

Kim Kardashian and many other celebrities attended the Swarovski x SKIMS celebration held at the new Swarovski Flagship on Tuesday (7th November 2023) in New York City. The guests were wearing SWAROVSKI x SKIMS unless otherwise stated.

Kim Kardashian, Cynthia Erivo, Freida Pinto (wearing Pamella Roland), Rachel Brosnahan (wearing Rasario), Ashley Graham, Emma Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow (wearing Norma Kamali), Indya Moore, Justine Skye, Jasmine Tookes (wearing Bazilika), Madelaine Petsch, Lake Bell (wearing Alexander McQueen), Emily Alyn Lind (wearing Givenchy), Georgia May Jagger, Antonia Gentry (wearing Valentino), Lea Elui, Cindy Mello, Camila Coelho, Elizabeth Sulcer (wearing YSL) and Kristen Noel Crawley.

[ljf613]

Swanfire Week Day 5: Song/quote

“Who are you?” There wasn’t even the slightest bit of recognition in the other man’s eyes, and Neal swore he could feel his own blood boiling beneath his skin. “It’s Neal!” He was shouting now, and everyone in the bar was looking at them, but he still couldn’t bring himself to care. “You know, Ruby’s best friend?” “Ruby?” Finally, something seemed to actually reach Graham, and his gaze focused onto Neal’s face. “Yeah, Ruby,” Neal spat. “Remember her?” “I don’t…” Graham shook his head, then closed his eyes, his chest rising and falling with slow, steady breaths. “Look at me!” Neal shouted, but even though Graham’s eyes reopened, they slid past him like he wasn’t there, like he didn’t even exist. Before he could think twice, a fist slammed into Graham’s face, and Neal realized a second later that it had been his own.

- Excerpt from “Not My Homeland Anymore”, Chapter 9: “Like You Don't Even Exist”

Neal and Graham have some… differences of opinion. Neither reacts well.

Another belated entry for @mysteryandnonstopfun's Swanfire Week, and, of course, a gift to @swanfireprincessmydear.

[Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 8]

[lethargarian]

2022 books wrapped

“I just dared to fly too close to the sun in my desire to thaw” - nick and norah’s infinite playlist, rachel cohn & david levithan

“The darkness is coming for me after all. And it has teeth” - black tide, k.c. jones

“Peace, Eleanor thought concretely; what I want in all this world is peace, a quiet spot to lie and think, a quiet spot up among the flowers where I can dream and tell myself sweet stories.” - the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

“Death is too easy. Better to make every moment of the rest of a person’s life agony.” - the only good indians, stephen graham jones

“she had found more to enjoy than to suffer” - persuasion, jane austen

“she’s shooting me daggers, but she’s not feeling it enough for them to actually hit me, so instead they just fall on the ground in between us, and she’s still kind of mad about it, but I’m just like, Look daggers!” - naomi and ely’s no kiss list, rachel cohn & david levithan

“I would much rather have been merry than wise” - emma, jane austen

“all this time I had been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail”

“above me, the tides kept their relentless motion, but I was too deep to feel them” - circe, madeline miller

“I make no promises but I offer many doors” - book lovers, emily henry

“‘Welcome to the world,’ he said wearily. ‘You get used to it after a while’” - good omens, neil gaiman and terry pratchet

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me” -ninth house, leigh bardugo

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. expect us when you see us” -stardust, neil gaiman

“we reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room loving him in silence” - the song of achilles, madeline miller

“death is the only victor in war” -the house of sky and breath, sarah j. maas

"Every single person on the planet had to take turns hurting. Sometimes all you could do was hold on to each other tight until the dark spat you back out" - beach read, emily henry

"The opinion of other people never interested him in the slightest degree. I think it was really a sign of his greatness." - the man in the brown suit, agatha christie

"That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer." - revival, stephen king

"Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that's all it takes." - people we meet on vacation, emily henry

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[rawbutprecious]

continued from x for @heartlesshuntsman Graham paused when she asked what she would get if she won. "If you win... I'll take you with me when I go hunting, give you an adventure." He watched her step up to the mark with a smile. Her loosed arrow Hit the target just outside the bullseye. "Nice shot, but try to keep your eyes open when you fire."

Emma backed away from her spot so that Graham could take his shout. The Princess beamed at the suggested prize. Oh, she was going to get that! She was determined to win now.

"Sounds like an adequate prize, although I still don't understand why I can't go on an adventure with you any time I ask," she mused. "It doesn't seem right. How am I supposed to rule the kingdom if I don't know what it's like?"

She looked at the spot she had struck with the arrow. "Maybe I wanted it a little off? Maybe I'm just trying to keep you on your toes," she suggested. Emma had wanted it a little closer than she got it, but it was quite close.

[tvshowscouples]

If you love Emma&Graham (Once Upon A Time) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

[gremmaistruelove]

Graham would give Emma a heart necklace, and I will not be told otherwise!

Give it some love on Cara!

[thedevilsbckbone]

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