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If it’s Ruby and Dorothy who wants to place a bet that “Ruby Slippers” is the writers cutesy attempt to name the ship?
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"And on other fronts, have y’all started a cookie jar for a Zades TLK to precede CS? I haven’t read back posts — long few days of conference travel — so apologies if this has already come up
Slurpeez brought it up the night the episode aired to which I responded that it’s pretty much the only thing I’m hoping for right now. Seriously, the number of times CS is denied a TLK….well, it makes me side-eye the writers. (and laugh gleefully)
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I finally manage to sit down and read the 99 problems post from PsychBlog. Inspired and wonderful. It’s likely someone sat down and rifled through out collective brains, managed to put it into more coherent words, added some pics, added some necessary psychology and said, “here world. This is everything you need to argue against CS”
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"The Underwoods are a good analogy.
Zelena and Hades could be well written and interesting; they could potentially be the first successful villain/villain couple. Other villain/villain couples have died or someone left the other. If you’re gonna be “terrible” then you might as well be with someone who is as terrible as you, who doesn’t pressure you to change, who accepts you without hesitation, who doesn’t put constraints on your relationship–sorta like Gareth and Madelena from Galavant. It’s pretty telling that the other major couple who got screen time or had a significant heart to heart this week were Rumbelle, the very couple who are putting pressure on each other, who aren’t accepting the other without hesitation, and who are putting constraints on their relationship.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Meghan Ory as Ruby/Red
YAY!!! This is all I care about tbh. I bet that she’ll only be in the last 30 seconds, arriving in the Underworld to lead into 518 though.
Yes that’s my guess.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Those greek gods had wacky child-rearing practices.
Yes. Now what’s wackier? Swallowing or….
–Being birthed from the head of your father (Athena?)
–having your mother burn up in a fire when she beholds the true image of your father, while you are in utero, only for your father to take your “unborn” body and sew it into his thigh and later birth you that way? (Dionysus)
–to be born from the cut off genitalia of the god “Sky” (Uranus) after they were thrown into the sea and formed foam? (Aphrodite)
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"–Why in the world would they change the birth order of Zeus and Hades? It makes way more sense to have Zeus be the younger one who got everything, to parallel Regina who got everything over her older sister, Zelena
Oddly enough, that’s the birth order the Disney version went with, too. I don’t think it was brought up in the film itself, but it was in the animated TV series. Not sure why they decided to do that.
Like most things in mythology, different sources say different things, but the most widely accepted one (and the one that’s the oldest–surviving) is Hesiod’s Theogony, which gives the list I provided above.
Full text (line 453) of the Theogony
But Rhea was subject in love to Cronos and bore splendid children, Hestia, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus, father of gods and men, by whose thunder the wide earth is shaken
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"(This is a bigger problem, because Mulan keeps playing the pronoun game)
Mulan? Or Chambliss?
All of the above.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Why in the world would they change the birth order of Zeus and Hades? It makes way more sense to have Zeus be the younger one who got everything, to parallel Regina who got everything over her older sister, Zelena
Just to clarify…..Cronus and Rhea has 6 children in the following order
–Hestia
–Demeter
–Hera
–Hades
–Poseidon
–Zeus
(From Hesiod’s Theog0ny)
ETA: oh. Maybe I just figured out what the show’s doing. When Cronus regurgitates his children, he does it in reverse order of their birth. Zeus was never swallowed so he was never “reborn” making both the youngest and oldest, and making Hestia the oldest and the youngest
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
