#ursula ouat

[goosin-around]

nothing in this world can convince me Cruella, Ursula, Maleficent, and Regina weren't in some kind of f'ed up polycule frenemy on and off relationship

[chillaxzmadudesz]

YES

ursula ouat

combination of ouat ursulas from 2 fics (bar singer + burlesque?)

not dramatic enough... too plain making everything seem too pink...

wanted to add dancers but didnt know how to incorporate in...

[yellowbugifs]

157/365 days of regina mills

[jaddison]

the queens of darkness arc is a lot more entertaining if you view it in the perspective that they used to be couples who went on double dates but now they've both broken up and have to spend time together for work.

[wicked-storybrooke]

Ouattober 2023 Day 17 - Villains

[dreadpiratestrove]

OUAT vs History

[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME REWATCH: 4.16, POOR UNFORTUNATE SOUL With all this talk of authors and the book, we’ve never discussed one fact - I was a villain.

[glittter-skeleton]

I loved the evil girlgroup

[halloweenisallyear]

Who is your favorite witch/wizard?

[goosin-around]

in my brain theres three different ouat universes, one where Regina is married to Emma, one where Regina, Snow, and David are in a throuple, and one where Regina and the QOD's are in a strange love circle that nobody else understands

[frie-ice]

This Disney Villains crossover collage is of Mother Gothel and Ursula, as part of my crossover collage series of Disney Villains, to mark the countdown to Halloween. The time of year when Disney gives their villains control of the rains.

[insanelydeadlybookcollector]

One of my favourite things Once Upon A Time did was skew fairytale, myths, fables, and folklore. This isn't new or even remotely groumdbreaking, especially because the entire premise was adapting these stories. But I like how they did it and how much attention they paid to other retellings and, in a manner of speaking, validated those retellings and interpretations.

By this, I mean, how the writers have harnessed the story world Author plot and storybook existence and shown how in a few oral retellings or translations the gist of the story that we as an audience (and Emma in the story world) know has the bones of autobiographical truth but misses a few crucial details.

I could talk all day about retellings of snow white and Cinderella and Red Riding Hood that the writers of OUaT pay homage to (Red as the Wolf is no where close to being a new take but God they do it well). And then even changing the stories in a way that matches what they do with retellings in a novel way (Regina as the Ursula from Disney anyone? meaning the "real" Ursula can be anyone at all because this audience doesn't actually know Ursula) which serves in the same manner as their nods to existing appropriations and adaptations.

But I think, for me at least, how well they do this in their character of Captain Hook, a literary figure with near nothing specific tying him down and 101 readings because academicians and creatives alike have no consensus on what the hell Barrie was on about.

And from these little glimpses and subtle nods to retellings you can see how the story might have been twisted from autobiographical truth to some of the adaptations we know to the source texts. For example,

1. Hook as the original lost boy - a popular theory in adaptations. We see Killian and Liam in Neverland when he is barely an adult and still naive (sort of) and hopeful, long before his revenge days.

2. Hook as a symbol of adulthood, maturity and aging - for those who read Barrie as an allegory for children rallying against growing up and the only adult cast as a symbol of that, this guy is 300 years old.

3. Hook as the villain - sure thing.

4. Hook as fighting the tyrannical Pan - guess what? We've got that too.

5. Hook as rescuing Lost Boys - got that.

6. Hook as the guy kidnapping or otherwise delivering Pan lost boys - you'll never believe it.

7. It's an Crocodile that takes his hand - Hook calls the guy that took his hand that he's afraid of and hates with a passion a Crocodile.

8. Hook is Pan and vice versa, one grew up to be the other - not quite that. But we have a close enough story in 2 ways - pan/Malcolm and pan/henry.

9. Hook is Peter's father - again, a close enough story is provided that could easily be misremembered a few generations down or mistranslated a few times. Peter is Rumples father.

10. Hook wears red and has a perm - and I really do love this. They drop Blackbeard (the Treasure Island character that Hook was based on [so there's an even better nuance there too, not just in story world building but a nice nod to canon that their story world plot of misappropriations of the oral tradition of bedtime stories and generational stories is entirely feasable]) in Neverland looking exactly like Disney's Hook. Indicating that 'hey a pirate that looks like that is in neverland and well, there's only one of those in the story so it must be Hook' happened at some point.

I'll never get over how good they did that in story plot device of we're an appropriation, but our story is about this one source book existing that's a hundred percent accurate although it doesn't have all the details and somehow this realm is a bit mixed up on the facts.

[likehandlingroses]

OUAT Rewatch 4x16 - Poor Unfortunate Soul

Maybe she was right - maybe villains can’t get their happy endings. Maybe that’s because villains always go about getting them the wrong way.

[stabbyapologist]

Regina as Ursula is prime time shape shifting and amazing entertainment

[sokeefeweasleychase5]

Regina is so amazing in this episode:

She's Ursula in the flashback and her costume is sooooo good

She gives Rumple a reality check with Belle and the Shadow

I love her

[doublelbricks]

I’ve saved my favorite OUAT villains from a previous habitat project. I am still super proud of these.