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posted by LowriLorenza89

The Tallahassee Flashbacks

I believe that the writers were trying to create a tragic romance in Neal and Emma's backstory, a scenario where she would realistically believe that he'd used her but in truth it'd been a sacrifice. However, it didn't fully work, not for me anyway. My main problem with their relationship in the Tallahassee flashbacks is the fact that Neal didn't need to betray Emma to the police. It's implied that the shock of being arrested and imprisoned was required to frighten Emma out of her current criminal lifestyle, but surely Neal could have simply told her that he wanted...

Rapes, Dubious Consent & Rape Threats In Once Upon A Time

posted by LowriLorenza89

Despite OUAT being intended as a family-friendly TV series, it contains a lot of story-lines and pairings which involve a lack of consent or dubious consent. Most of these are not recognised or acknowledged within the story. These are the ones I've identified:

During the flashbacks in The Heart Is A Heavy Hunter, Regina ripped out the Huntsman's heart, squeezed it to display the effect this would have and threatened to crush it if he ever disobeyed her. She then kissed him against his will and ordered him taken to her bedchamber. The clear implication here is that she raped him. The writers...

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A Comparison of Characters

posted by zanhar1

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So all of the chatting I've been doing with Audreygrace had gotten me to thinking. Mostly about the psychology of our core characters and how they work with and compare to one another. I am particularly captured by Regina in comparison to Gold. They are so similar yet so different. And so I wanted to type up a little something about it. I'll be using bits and chunks of the aforementioned comments.

One way in which I found Regina and Gold to be very similar is how they both started off as good people and then slowly became corrupt out of desperateness. They were both put in very trying situations...

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My opinion on Belle

posted by Evilregal14

Majority of you voted for me to share my opinion about Belle this time.

Okay, so just a heads up I really don't like Belle, she annoys the shit out of me but here goes:
Positives:
She's smart. Now in this show being smart is a huge advantage. She was able to find Hook's ship, knock him out and get the shawl back. She's also quite a good friend to Ruby considering she hasn't known her that long. When she spotted Ruby panicking in front of a boy she stepped in and helped her which was a sweet thing to do. She also was willing to stay Ruby with the chance that she would be wolf supper.
She's also...

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My opinion on Mary Margaret/Snow White

posted by Evilregal14

So the majority of you on the poll voted for me to write an article on my opinion of Snow/Mary M this time.

As some of you know, it's MM I mainly hate not Snow. This is because of things she did in Storybrooke.
Positives:
Snow isn't like the Disney Snow, a damsel in distress. I like how bad-ass she is and that she doesn't need a prince to come and save her. She is also quite selfless, no completely, but quite selfless. When she ate the apple so that Charming could live was very brave of her. She is also loyal to Red which makes me happy since Red/Ruby is my favorite. The way she helped her out...

On Regina Letting Go and Forgiveness (Part 2)

posted by zanhar1

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I think with the latest episode, Page 23, we've finally completed an important arc. Over the summer I made an article about my speculations as to weather or not Regina hates herself as well as her ability to forgive herself (link). Now I finally get to type one to sort of wrap it up.

Since that last article it has been confirmed that Regina really did hate herself with a degree of intensity. That moment when the arrow leads the Queen to a mirror was so emotional. How she stares at herself in the mirror, crying and saying no. And then her father softly saying, "oh, Regina." That had to be one...

Cobras & Crowns (A Snake Regina Crack Fic)

posted by zanhar1

“Regina, I have something you need to see.” David announced.

“David, I just got home from an alternate universe, can’t this wait?” Regina frowned.

David set a fair-sized cage upon the counter. “You bought me a pet snake?” Regina asked, knitting her brows quizzically. “A venomous one too…”

“It’s not just any poisonous snake.” David replied. “This one prefers to poison it’s victims with apples instead of fangs.”

Regina stared blankly for a few moments and then her eyes went wide, “she got herself turned into a serpent!?” She huffed, pinching the bridge of her...

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Significance of the Real World Character Names

posted by FlightofFantasy

I was just thinking about the fairy tale characters' real world counterparts, and I noticed that most of them had names that tied into their "real," fairy tale selves. So I decided to throw together a list of their names, with meanings and explanations, just for kicks. First I will say what the character's name is in fairy tale land, then in the real world, with meaning attached. All name meanings come from the website Behind the Name, with help from Wikipedia.

I will add more characters when they are introduced and edit existing characters when we know their full names and/or know more about...

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My Top 10 Most Beautiful Once Upon A Time Women

posted by KataraLover

I've been meaning to do this for a long time and now I'm finally doing it. Once Upon A Time has a lot of really beautiful women. I believe these women are the true beauties of the show and some need more appreciation for their looks. Please leave a comment but keep in mind this is just my opinion.

10.Mulan

First of all I'm not a big fan of her as a character, she has the personality of sand paper, but she's really beautiful. She has such long beautiful hair, even though it's in a weird style for most of the time we see her. I just love Asian eyes and her skin is lovely. She's such a natural...

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my theory about the curse

posted by bdavis98

ok so we all know that becuase of the curse non remebers who they are/were, and they don't age. but henry becuase he wasn't effected by the curse still ages like a normal kid (as far as we know) which makes sence is to why he's the only one who can see/know that they are crused they never get old,but how is it possible that they themselves don't notice (most of you would say because they are crused) ok they are but they are crused to live as different people that's all as far as noraml goes they look very normal, like normal people they have jobs,hospitles,cafe's..... and so on they even don't...

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My top 10 most beautiful women on the show+Wonderland (Inspired by Katara's article)

posted by Evilregal14

I have made one of these before and since it's pretty late where I'm living I haven't got time to give explanations for why I find them pretty, so I'm just going to order them :)

1.Ruby
2.Regina
3.Amara
4.Ariel
5.Aurora
6.Young Cora
7.Tinkerbell
8.Zelena
9.Older Eva
10.Milah and/or Jack

Please no rude comments like saying people are "ugly" or anything like that, or I will report the person who said it :)

Side note:
If Amara wasn't here, and it was just OUAT Emma would probably be here, but there wasn't room for her, considering how gorgeous I find Amara.

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Snows pregnancy was wanted by writers

posted by HPMad

Just found this online about the writers intending to have Snow pregnant even if Ginnifer wasn't expecting.

Ginnifer Goodwin is pregnant and that is in the storyline for her character?

Horowitz said,

"We’ll deal with the realities of her pregnancy, but how we do it, we’re not ready to share. When you saw Snow share her secret about that, it was well before we knew Ginny was pregnant. We’re telling the story that we’ve been setting up since the beginning of the season."

He also added that having a child tends to attract chaos, so it definitely sounds like there will be a lot of drama surrounding that.

Not sure if I wasn't the only Oncer who didn't know this so I wanted to share it with u guys :D

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OUAT in Wonderland- characters

posted by Diamond_Queen

I can't watch OUAT's episode until tomorrow :( so I was bored and decided to make an article with my opinion on characters. Warning: Just my opinion. Not serious at all xD and I practically criticize everyone.

Lets start with the most... evil villains... ever! Da-da-da!
The Red Queen: She' so terrible... that all the inhabitants seem pretty happy with her and don't have much complains. What she's doing to Alice is probably her first actual crime (apart from stealing before she became queen and slaping people when she feels like it). Has some teenage drama with Will eventhough she dumped him...

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Regina is NOT The 'True Villain!'

posted by zylice

I didn't write this...it makes sense though..

Olmpiias Wrote:

I think in the end we will find out Rumple manipulated the whole thing...Even down to Daniel's death by Cora and Regina's hatred of Snow..etc. Remember without the prior events, the Dark Curse, Invented by Rumple, would never have been used.

I think in the end Rumple will be the true villain, not Regina.

I agree. I think Rump knew Cora before Regina was even born. Since the show likes to remind us (read: drill it into our heads) that "evil isn't born, it's made" I think we will eventually see how Rumpel "made" Regina evil, possibly orchestrating...

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My Top 10 Best and Worst Once Upon A Time Actors

posted by KataraLover

Mirror, mirror on the screen, who are the best and worst actors on the show?

I thought of this while I was doing my polls about the best villain actors on the show. It also made me think of the Nostalgia Critic's best and worst Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes videos. So I decided to do a list of the best and worst actors on the show. Now, I would like to make ONE THING PERFECTLY CLEAR! Just because someone is in the worst list, it DOESN'T mean that I think they're a bad actor, just that I think that they're acting isn't as good as the others. Because I think the acting in Once Upon A Time is absolutely brilliant. So here is my list of both the worst of the best...

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6 Songs That Remind Me of Regina and Why

posted by zanhar1

Basically what Imma do here is state the song and pull lyrics from each song that just really remind me Regina and how said lyric reminds me of her. These aren't in any particular order.

1. Glittering Cloud by Imogen Heap; Granted this song is literally about a plague it has a whole bunch of lyrics that just remind me of Regina. I'm not always like this it's something I've become a terrible weakness in my nature, in my blood. Regina wasn't always the evil queen, she became the queen. And the evils she does is a terrible nature. This runs in her blood; the whole heart ripping out and what not...

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That awkward moment when you realize that Regina is a huge fucking nerd

posted by BellaLovett

NOTE : This is not mine I didn't write this, I just found it on tumblr and thought to bring it here without any additions
(Source: eshusplayground.tumblr.com)

Yes, yes, BAMF, but consider that she just blurts out random apple trivia to both Emma and Snow White at times when she’s the middle of threatening them. (Or, in Emma’s case, both threatening her and hitting on her.)

"Did you know that the honeycrisp apple tree is the most vigorous and hardiest of all apple trees? It can survive in temperatures of up to 40 below and keep growing."

"Did you know that apples stand for health and wisdom?"...

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“ONCE UPON A TIME”: “Making Excuses”

posted by DR76

"ONCE UPON A TIME": "Making Excuses"

For those fans who believed that Emma Swan had done the right thing by killing Cruella de Vil in the “ONCE UPON A TIME” Season Four episode, (4.18) “Sympathy For the de Vil” . . . I could not disagree with them more.

Emma could have used another way to save her son, Henry Mills, from Cruella. She could have teleported him from Cruella’s grasp. She could have teleported Cruella’s gun. Someone on FANFORUM.COM had pointed out that Emma could have saved Henry . . . and not kill Cruella. After all, she managed to stop Zelena aka the Wicked Witch of...

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In Blackness We Lay (A Regina Fic)

posted by zanhar1

When zanhar gets bored, zanhar makes fanfictions. And when zanhar can't decide who she wants to obsess over more (Gina or Bella) zanhar makes crossover fics.

Another world is her only choice. That’s what she had decided.
That would be here only means of escape now.
The thought had been dancing in Regina’s mind for a few weeks now, just itching to be acted upon. And finally Regina had, had enough. Between all attempts to revive Henry’s memories failing (resulting in a return to New York for a happy mother and son) and Zelena’s murder of Robin Hood. The witch had been sure to make the...

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My NEW Top 10 Most Beautiful Once Upon A Time Women

posted by KataraLover

Nearly a year ago I made a list of my top 10 most beautiful women on the show but now my opinion has changed. It's changed even more because now we have some new beauties that we didn't have before. Please comment and if someone you think is really beautiful isn't here it doesn't mean I don't find them attractive, it just means they're not as beautiful as the others. If you're wondering how I feel about a certain character's looks who's not here feel free to ask me. Anyway, enjoy!

10.Anastasia

The only Once Upon A Time In Wonderland character to make this list and boy she's a knock out!...