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Thanks for sticking up for me surayya and Bo-Peeps 🙂
Crystal Princess, I have to ask how long you actually searched for that post so you could blow it out of proportion and out of context? That post was from ages ago and as surayya rightly pointed out, it was about a group of fans who were being very rude and aggressive to the actors and actresses of Once and going way beyond the point of making their voice heard.
How dare you accuse me of bullying. You come in here and demand that you get what you want, you slam people that don’t agree with you, calling their views and opinions “homophobic” or “heteronormative”, giving them a negative label just because they’re not hopping on your bandwagon. I suggest that you look at your own posts for an example of bullying.
For the record I don’t ship SwanQueen romantically. Not because it’s a LGBT ship, but because Regina is essentially Emma’s step-grandmother.
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Keeper of FelixI did a search for LGBT on the forum to see if anyone else had made a thread/post on the subject I was about to post. That’s reasonable enough. And those comments weren’t really out of context at all. They were problematic, and instead of complaining about being outed as a “bully” people should own up to them.
Bully again is when someone uses a position of power to persecute someone without it. Strong against weak etc. so I found the accusations of bullying from Swan Queen really distasteful. Maybe some individual shippers have been harassing people unduly – but it pales in comparison to the harassment SQers get in the first place.
You don’t seem to understand what “Heteronormative” means. We live in a heteronormative society where the values of heterosexuality are upheld above all. Your views are, most likely, coming from a heteronormative place. It’s really really messed up to talk about someone like me “Demanding” what we want as if we are spoiled when again – we don’t even get a thread here! You guys already get far more than us. You guys got the ship you demanded. Painting a marginalised group as needy and demanding is problematic, because we already get so much less than you guys. We deserve more and there is an element of understandable anger when you’re treated like crap. It’s wrong – please don’t do it, and please apologise when you do.
Please don’t make this argument about you. We’re the ones who have to live under oppression and a lack of representation. If there was no institutionalised homophobia this wouldn’t happen. Please acknowledge that everyone can be homophobic a little bit, that it’s part of the values ingrained into society and we all need to do better by checking our privilege and recognising our own internal biases. You are not oppressed by me calling you out on a biased viewpoint. There’s nothing wrong with having a biased viewpoint and then acknowledging it and taking efforts to change that – I’ve had to do this with many things. I’m white, so I suck with race issues. A lot of my friends are sex workers, and I have to learn to be more respectful of their worlds. My views on that have changed greatly over the last year, because I got to know people and didn’t get defensive when corrected.
I don't cause commotions, I am one.
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Ok, now I’m stepping in. This thread is being disrupted by an argument that is turning into a personal fight/attack on other participants. Shipping threads are safe havens that are meant for shippers to discuss everything from why they love that pairing, why they do not like another, the show in general, or even the weather and how everyone’s day was. Friendships and close bonds are formed in shipping threads and disruptive fights like the one going on right now are not conducive to fulfilling conversation. There are more proper threads in which to have this sort of LBGT conversation, so long as it remains polite and considerate to all involved. For example, this conversation could be moved to the new LBGT thread found in S4 Spoilers.
I want to restate something @Bo-Peeps rightly brought up: this is an open forum, meaning we allow any sort of topic under the sun so long as it follow the basic rules of the forum at large: no foul language and nothing sexually explicit. There are over 140+ ships on this show; we do not have a thread for every single one, but if someone wanted to make a thread for every single one, they are well within their rights to do so. It is up to the shippers to make their own shipping thread. This task does not fall on the Mods or Admins or non-shipper participants.
I am going to strongly encourage that everyone return to their regularly scheduled shipping of CaptainSwan and take the other conversation to another thread where I will continue to monitor.
This thread has been locked and will continue to be so for another 10-15 mins until I can rest assured that everyone has seen and understood this message.
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It has been about 20 mins and I am going to go ahead and reopen the CaptainSwan thread. Again, I am strongly encouraging everyone to go back to their shipping conversation, GIF posting, anticipation for S4.
Let’s not have any more fighting please.
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Bring on the monster snowmen…we generate the HEAT to beat them!
Appreciative thumbs up to @RumplesGirl.
surayya…consider my aura deliciously FLUFFED!!! Hump Day visuals are always lapped up with unashamed glee 🙂 We are not too far from a single digit countdown to new adventures, new angst, new lust, new leather (!) and new “gif”fery to suck up.
and a nod to PoM across the mighty Pond, just because!
***Always in search of a good flock***
Thanks Bo-Peeps 🙂
Yay happy CaptainSwan stuff!
Do you think Emma and Hook might keep their relationship secret, or rather Hook wants to tell everyone but Emma would prefer to keep it private for a little while?
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Keeper of FelixI don’t know but I think whatever Emma decided, he’ll respect her decision. If she wants to keep their relationship private, they will but I think in a town like Storybrooke, that’ll be difficult.
Do you think Emma and Hook might keep their relationship secret, or rather Hook wants to tell everyone but Emma would prefer to keep it private for a little while?
I’ve wondered about that as well…Maybe if Emma’s going to start pulling back a little, she’ll want to keep it under wraps for a bit because that might make it seem less “real”, if that makes any sense?
My question is, isn’t it a bit late for that? I mean, they were kissing pretty seriously right out in the open in front of Granny’s with almost the whole of Storybrooke inside. It’s a little late to try to keep it secret, haha.
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