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So before I jump into the convo I want to give a quick intro to me – I hope that’s okay to do here in this thread – I honestly don’t anticipate posting much outside of it.
Welcome!!! All newbies get hot cocoa with cinnamon and cookies!!!
required myself to read the CS thread… okay, I want to be honest and say, I said I was going to read the whole thing, but 800 pages… and just no. So I read the first chunk and the last chunk and a handful of well-written metas – enough to feel I had a balanced view of the situation, and yeah, my shipping tendancies did not change. (More on this later.) I planned on reading the entire SF thread before I was allowed to post but, well, 800 pages and if I’m gonna fanbase it up I want to fanbase it up!! I’m on pg93 – I WILL read them all, just might take a couple of weeks.
Goodness. Dedication!
Say what?! That is not how it read at ALL to us, as casual viewers
Something we’ve been saying for a long time
When you back up and look at the overall “poetry” of the show… it’s blatant. In my mind’s eye, there’s kind of the lineage on the left side, Emma on up, and the lineage on the right side, Bae on up, two converging lines that meet down in the middle at Henry, and it’s just so so so so clear.
Marry this point I shall
I am going to try to spoiler the paragraph below but RG you’ll have to forgive me if I screw it up!!
I must earn my cookies somehow
Hopefully y’all don’t mind chatty houseguests. 😉 This totally did not even scratch the surface of my notes, and quite frankly, that scares me a bit… clearly I should have come aboard sooner.
we love them, actually
Ugh…that scene with Penny and Desmond…why did you post that?
Because they are the slow burn of slow burns. And because it was needed.
🙂
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
I made this one back in October. Go me!
This is gorgeous! Do you have a link please? I’d like to reblog this several hundreds of times. 🙂
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Repeat after me:
There’s no place like home
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"thought id share some pretties and i think lizzie was it wanted a sig doing? well whoever it was ive done it and hope you like
#BOOM
or just done this one
WONDERSTRUCK!
Beautiful work there!
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
There’s no place like home
There’s no place like home! There’s not place like home. Is shall be the S3 SwanFire mantra.
Here is a pretty thing. Souce: Tumblr I think our own Mickstemp made it!
AU Swanfire in which the Daughter of True love meets and falls in love with the Son of the Dark one. Oh wait…
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
AU Swanfire in which the Daughter of True love meets and falls in love with the Son of the Dark one. Oh wait…
This made me giggle manically. It’s so *fairy tale*
Poetry, friends. Poetry.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Rushed home because of the explosion of excitement going on this thread. I had to keep myself from giggling like a mad woman at work. *Yes, bad girl…went on the forums during work…*
Throws confetti on everyone’s post!
I’m feeling great after reading what everyone wrote. Welcome de-lurkers! The more the merrier I say!!!
There’s no place like home! There’s not place like home. Is shall be the S3 SwanFire mantra. Here is a pretty thing. Souce: Tumblr I think our own Mickstemp made it! AU Swanfire in which the Daughter of True love meets and falls in love with the Son of the Dark one. Oh wait…
*DIES* Overload of feels! Can’t compute!!!
GAH it’s sooo perfect!!!! 🙂
@Mickstemp did you create this? It’s awesome!
If you take a magnifying glass, and come right in on the CS stuff – yeah. They have a story. They have promise. I am not even decidedly anti-CS! They are fine, they are just not SF. But to me, it’s like those photomosaics – when you’re standing right up on it, yes, that is a photo of Aunt Myrtle and her beloved cat, but when you take ten steps back, hey, it’s really a fleck on Albert Einstein’s head! And that is where I think SF has the win as endgame. If you consider either potential pairing in insolation, they both have merit and potential to go forward. But Once is not a show of isolation. Once is an ensemble cast, where each thing someone does is affected by and continues to affect another. That’s a huge piece of the show, you know, the EQ enacted the curse to get back and Snow but it affects soooo many more people than that, it’s people they know, people they don’t know – people who don’t even exist yet (yes, Henry, I am looking at you.)
Welcome! It’s great to read your insights, and I totally agree with this point in particular.
To be fair to my above photomosaic points, zooming out, I guess I would say – the overall show – what is it? Emma’s fairy tale, right? So we have two potential stories here – Option A, Girl from crap background meets boy from crap background, they fall in love and restore faith in life. Get torn apart by a curse, faith gone, little family scattered in three different directions. Family reunited as curse is broken (and then torn asunder by a magic bean, curse repealing, re-cursing… you get my drift) work out issues and eventually live happily ever after. Option B, girl from crap background meets boy from crap background, they fall in love & restore faith. Get torn apart by curse, faith gone, family scattered, reunited with issues never fully resolved and then runs off with a pirate while boy meets demise. Which of those sounds like a fairy tale? (Frankly option B makes me want to curl up in my corner and bawl!!) Story-wise, I still do not see where the death of Neal makes the most sense
When you spell it out like that, it’s so clear that Emma and Neal are each other’s destiny and where the real-world fairytale is.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
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