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oh my Gawd, Graham? LOL might as well toss in August really have us a hoedown. and Walsh we can use some Walsh. 😀 Emma Swan the Sookie Stackhouse of Storybrooke. Good Lord I can use Pam famous line right now. 😛
[adrotate group="5"]"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
Neal Cassidy is So Important Week
Day 5: why neal is an important love interest“But listen, I don’t own Emma, and she doesn’t owe me anything.” —Michael Raymond-James on Neal’s relationship with Emma in season 3.
What I love about this that it sets up Neal’s mindset and approach going forward with Emma— it clearly defines where he’s acknowledged where he’s messed up in that past, what he needs to do differently this time, and, most importantly imo, that this doesn’t entitle him to anything.
Neal is told by Emma in SSttR how much it hurt that he didn’t look for her. He tells Mulan that this is the greatest regret of his life, and that it happened because he was too scared of rejection. So going forward, he resolves to get back to her, to let her know that he loves her. to get to neverland and save their son and get his family out and support them the way he hasn’t gotten to do before. this is the moment that leads to “i’m going to get my family and go home” and “i’ll never stop fighting for you” and asking her to talk once they’re all safely home.
But it’s also the moment we see him acknowledge that recognizing his mistakes and acting accordingly doesn’t entitle him to anything. “I need you, I love you” doesn’t mean we’re going to be together and live happily ever after. Neal knows he’s going to try to do right by her this time, but that it doesn’t mean she’s ready to try again— it doesn’t mean she ever will be.
And to me, that’s a massive point in Neal’s development as a character and in terms of Emma romantically. The idea that she’d never forgive him is one of his biggest fears. And the thing that fear does to him is fracked up, and it wasn’t fair to Emma, and he’s not going to let it dictate his actions. He’s not going into this expecting it to work out— he knows that he has to step up and be there, in whatever capacity she and their son need, because they all deserve better this time. Emma deserves to know that she is loved, and she deserves the right to say that’s not enough, and the right thing for Neal to do is to give her both those things.
What’s so important to me about how he’s portrayed as Emma’s “love interest” is this: He acknowledges his mistakes. He listens to what hurt her. He acts differently not to be something she wants or to entitle him to her love, but because he knows he fucked up and he knows he loves her and he can do better by that love. He knows that her loving him doesn’t mean shit until she says it does/if she ever says it does. It’s respectful and layered and character growth and portrayed in a deeply human way and idk where I’m going with this sentence, but I love it.
so much this, I just don’t get why anyone thought Neal was being an ahole. He knew he hurt Emma and in turn hurt Henry. He wants to earn Henry and Emma’s love. EARN Henry and Emma’s love. he is not trying to win Emma’s heart like she is an objectified prize, he wants to earn her love again and not just her love, but his son. He wants to earn their love. EARN their love. EARN THEIR LOVE. And you know what even if he didn’t earn back their love. He will still fight and support them till death. Oh wait he did.
Neal Cassidy is BETTER THAN YOU.
runs off to cry
https://www.tumblr.com/empresssilversky/94695744270/neal-cassidy-is-so-important-week-day-5-why-neal"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
This is AWESOME some did this for me. I feel so special
http://out-of-time-and-space.tumblr.com/post/94635651484/i-need-nealfire-graphic-with-him-being-a-phoenixI am so reposting this because someone did this for me and I want to brag and I want others to ooggle, oh and ah over this. Yes this is shameless promoting someone else art work done for me!!!!
Not ashamed
@theWatcher request for @Lisa"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
Hi guys! I saw plenty of bison on my roadtrip from California (home) to Missouri (school) and thought of all of the regulars this thread.
I’ve continued to lurk about/follow this thread over the summer, but I haven’t had much to say about the show that hasn’t already been posted. But, I have to say, I love how much many of you (you know who you are) like to interact with each other on this thread and your “Ranch” (I don’t really know what that is, lol). If nothing else, it’s really cool to see how this show, though it has gone downhill quite a bit, has brought about fun friendships. Welcome, I can’t believe none of us scared you away with our wackiness! HUGS and Kisses. Here is some flirty MRJ for you.
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
Well it looks like its time to change the subject
Why do you think Neal was important as a Father?
Neal Cassidy is So Important Week
Day 4: why neal is an important father.his first act as a father was to apologize for not being there sooner.
Let me preface this by saying there’s not a single aspect of Neal and Henry’s relationship that I don’t love with every fiber of my being. It’s one of the most important relationships of the show for me, right next to Emma’s relationship with Henry. But I want to talk about this moment, their first real interaction— because much like the conversation Emma and Henry had in the pilot at his castle, this is the cornerstone the rest of their interactions built from. This is the first moment they get to connect.
At this point, presumably (because we didn’t see this happen and yes i’m still flipping mad about it), Neal doesn’t know Henry wasn’t raised by Emma. He doesn’t know that there was a point in time when Henry thought his birthparents didn’t want him. All the parallels that can easily drawn between Henry’s life and Baelfire’s from what we’d already seen in Desperate Souls and The Return— these aren’t things Neal knows. Neal doesn’t know yet to look at his son and feel flipping haunted by the past repeating itself. Neal just knows he’s looking at his son, his son who just expressed a desire to meet him. And I think that fuels everything for Neal for the literal rest of his life, honestly.
Neal’s first act as a father is to let his son know he wants to be there. He apologizes to Henry for not being in his life sooner— and Henry’s reply, of course, is that it’s okay, he didn’t know. And he didn’t. Neal’s not guilty of the same thing every parental figure he himself has ever had is guilty of— Neal’s never chosen something over his son. Neal has never abandoned his son. Neal didn’t know but <exmp> ok this is what gets me— to Neal, I don’t think it matters. I don’t think that the fact that he has a legitimate reason for not being in Henry’s life— not knowing he existed until five minutes ago— excuses Henry’s experiences of growing up without him, to Neal. It might mean he’s not to blame for the fact that he wasn’t there, that it wasn’t by choice, but it doesn’t erase whatever Henry might be feeling about it, and it doesn’t erase that he missed over a decade of this kid’s life he would have wanted to be a part of.
So he apologizes to Henry, because no matter what Henry thought or experienced, he wasn’t there, and he’s truly sorry he wasn’t. This isn’t a “i’ve got to be better than my dad.” This is the beginning of a “i can’t let him grow up like i did,” but it’s not fully there yet, not like it will be when he knows how very close to his own experiences Henry’s life has been. This is I’m sorry that I don’t know you. I want to know you.
And he can’t know yet just exactly how much that means to Henry—Henry, who, I think, very much started this show with the hope that he can be loved and, by the point we’re at now, has gotten to the point where he knows he is loved by his moms, his grandparents, his dad, so many people. But he knows what it’s like to wonder if your parents care that you grew up and they weren’t there, he knows what it’s like to feel unwanted. And he’s not for a second going to let his kid think that he anything less than 100% wants to know him.
So basically A flipping + dad-ing idk it is late and i have been writing this for a long <exmp>me i’ve lost the plot tl;dr neal flipping loves his kid that is all.
edited for lang
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
This is AWESOME some did this for me. I feel so special
http://out-of-time-and-space.tumblr.com/post/94635651484/i-need-nealfire-graphic-with-him-being-a-phoenix I am so reposting this because someone did this for me and I want to brag and I want others to ooggle, oh and ah over this. Yes this is shameless promoting someone else art work done for me!!!! 🙂 Not ashamed
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
The thing he had a chance to sacrifice his special “item” for Eric but didn’t do it because he would not gain anything out of it.
But he traded his ship for a bean (why are there so many beans?) so he can get to something he wanted more which is Emma. He wanted Emma more than his ship.
@Pom I see it as more of he gambled his chances with a role of dice.
But I am so misinformed with this that you have better chances with others. I have to say I don’t have the first hand knowledge.
But I can use example,
I can give up my car to help pay for my family member surgery the benefit I get my family member.
I give up my savings to help pay for a strangers surgery so they can have a second chance at life. I will never meet them and they will never know I did it. In fact no one will know what I did. That is more of a sacrifice to me.
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
This is AWESOME some did this for me. I feel so special
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
Link for Lang!
http://euphoriapotion.tumblr.com/post/94643503507/the-fact-that-all-of-you-nasty-anti-captain-swan
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
I am not mournful today, thoughtful but not mournful. I think I cried it all out after the loss of Robin Williams. I just let the emotions flow because sometimes it just help.
As for the spoiler I am happy to report I got nothing, not ill, no angry, not upset. I guess I hit indifference and expectation. I expect this to happen now and then some. I expect kisses, giggles, sex, and babies and all that fluffy jazzy super awesome totally cool fanfiction.
What can I say:
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
