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Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
Okay, I’m reposting this from earlier in the week because I want to say it again. No matter what happens in 2 hours I love each of you, and I love this thread, and thank you thank you thank you for helping me get through the last 6 weeks since 315. HUGS. So many HUGS!
I want to take a moment to thank all of you for just being so awesome. Just a general awesome, but especially after 315. I was just a lurker before then, just content to observe rather than to engage in the fandom seriously, but having people to connect to while we all figured out how to cope with our shared pain really changed things. As much as I wish 315 had never happened, without it I wouldn’t have made such friends who have accepted me as part of this tiny community of SFers, and who have embraced the insanity that I bring with me wherever I go in a way I never expected. Thank you for making NEALWHALE and #KillianJonah a thing, for practically turning the Conspiracy Train and #HopeForRogueBison into our motos, and pretty much just rolling and building on every crazy, stupid idea that I’ve thrown out, even ones that meant nothing at the time.
I don’t know how this season is going to end, and I don’t know how I will feel about Once Upon a Time this time next week, over the summer, or when season 4 starts. I may never want to watch it again. But all I know is I don’t want to lose what we’ve created here, or any of you. Even though if feels like I’ve fallen into the bottomless pit of the internet, I don’t regret it for a moment and I’m so thankful that I stopped lurking and you all let me in. So thank you. Whatever happens after Lunacy Junction, whether we go to Sad Town or to the Swanfire Bison Ranch, I hope we’ll still have each other.
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
Yes a pic of Puck is needed soon. Text, dear?
I’m getting ready for work at the moment, so I don’t have time for anything new. Will this suffice for the time being?
Also, I just want to say that I think the level of discourse in this thread is the direct reflection of the people who are posting in it. We have run the gamut from insightful and inspired to angry and heartbroken, to just plain crazy and off the wall (I will admit to being a direct factor in some of these… oops!). If people have issue with the way this thread has gone and the things we have discussed, then they need to be a part if the discussion so they can help steer the direction it goes, rather than just observing. And this is coming from someone who lurked for MONTHS before actually engaging in the discussion (and look where that has gotten us with talks of trains and bison and Sad Town…).
I have loved every moment of this thread, mostly because it has been a safe haven to speak my mind about what I have so deeply loved about this show, as well as what I have sadly begun to dislike immensely about it as well. I’m not a naturally positive person, so having a place to vent and cry with other people who get it has probably been the only reason I’ve gotten through the last 6 or so weeks without having to find some other outlet, whatever that may be. And to know that I’m not alone in my interpretation and feelings about events has been reassuring at a time when I needed it most.
Also, I hate that we’re losing good people in both this thread and the fandom because the show has changed on us. This is probably the thing that I’ve been most afraid of all week, that the finale would come and go, and so would the familiar faces here and my forum home would turn into the Sad Town ghost town that I’ve spent weeks joking about (but secretly afraid of). And now it looks like we’re about to watch it all happen before our eyes…
I have more to say, but I have to run to work, so I will leave the rest for later.
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
We’re so unusually quiet today. I feel like this must be the calm before the storm. Even when this is all over we’ll still have each other, right? I don’t want us to lose this, even if we’ve lost the show.
Also, because:
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
What’s a morning without some reposts? These tweets don’t bring me glee at all. Nope, not at all.
Also, this:
1What a huge waste it is to have Emma go back into the past with Hook. Imagine Emma and Charming, Charming having to ensure the past happens as it did before, forced to make sure that he and Snow lose Emma and Emma grows up alone. Or imagine Emma and Neal. Two people who loved each other but it ended in hurt and betrayal having to not only deal with it but make sure it happens again, because it got them Henry. Neal having to face his father again as the dark one. Or imagine her going with Henry!
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Anonymous2Henry getting to see the enchanted forest, Henry having to deal with the reality of his mother as the evil queen. Henry having to face that if too much gets changed he may cease to exist. Instead of any of these we get Hook following Emma, wondering why she doesn’t return his love. Going with any one else would result in more interesting character revelations. Heck even if Hook still seemed to care about Neal his being in the past could be interesting, but nope he has no story outside Emma.
Basicaly, anyone else would have been more interesting than going with Hook. Imagine even Regina or Rumpl
Those would have been fantastic stories! I’m really hoping someone fanfics them over the summer hiatus (or any time really, since I doubt I’ll be actually watching again in the fall).
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
So I wrote another snarky thing. Oops.
#hope
You know what Adam and Eddy? I do have hope. Even after everything you’ve put us loyal fans through over the course of this season I can actually buy into your incessant tag line of #hope, but probably not in the way you want me to.
I have #hope that your ratings will reflect the quality and caliber of programing you have and will continue to create, whether good or bad.
I have #hope that you will remember how rewarding and moving having characters driving their own stories can be.
I have #hope that viewers will see the disservice you’ve done to your female characters this season, by dumbing them down and taking away their agency, by making them objects to be won rather than creators of their own destiny.
I have #hope that there will be an outcry from the fans and the media about your (hopefully) unintentional promotion of misogyny and violence against women. That the women on your writing staff calmly explain to you that having characters who make lude and suggestive comments to the female characters, who encroach on their personal space is unacceptable and a far cry from the romantic vision you constantly promote in the media.
I have #hope that you will realize the detriment that perpetuating these kind of sexist and abusive character traits on the show does to a generation of little boys and girls growing up who see these actions in the media and grow up thinking this is how things are, that this is okay, that this how men and women are supposed to interact with each other.
I have #hope that those who deserve it will get their happy endings, and that it will happen before you get cancelled.
I have #hope that I’m not the only one who feels this way, and that even if you ignore us we will be out there, and we will speak our minds, and that eventually people will realize that the “hope” and the “happy endings” are over.
I have #hope that once this season is over I will finally be able to move on and heal my broken heart.
I also have an extended version of this that I wrote (but it seemed too wordy), which I’m happy to share if anyone is interested.
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
Aaaaannnd now I’m getting visions of Neal’s headstone vanishing and the rose that Henry laid on top dramatically falling to the ground in slow motion.
Ya know, they could do that and still not be lying about Neal not being in the finale. We could see that, but nothing more until some point in season 4.
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
Just got home from work, so I’m catching up. Quotes galore!
So totally NOT firing you. Sad Town can’t function with only 1 twin. And you know, being happy in a sad town is pretty sad in itself if you really think about it. So, we’re still legit residents.
Yay! I still have my sad job! That’s sad twin!
Almost there guys. Couple more days and for worse or for better worser we will have made it through the disaster that was 3B. (I think we deserve t-shirts. “I survived 3B and all it got me was this ugly map!”)
Or perhaps a tote bag? 😉
I might pretend that Slurpeez theory is what actually.
Cool with me. Who will fanfic it for us?
Obviously you and Text.
🙂
I’ll bring the chips and dip and snarky bitterness.Only if you want it to take forever and be full of sad. Oh, and no dialogue.
I was actually thinking of giving the whole FanFic thing a go myself (but I’m going to wait and hold off until after the actual finale on Sunday).
Yay Slurpeez! Please write it (so I don’t have to)!! Yay!!
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
@Sad Twin, hey just cause we’re sad doesn’t mean we can’t be awesome. 😉
Is it wrong that Sad Town makes me happy? I’m such a contradiction! Please don’t fire me as co-mayor!
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
@Onyx – Oh Sad Twin, I want to say I love the villa, but I feel it might betray my job to promote the sad (but it’s pretty awesome, despite all the sad). <3 for Sad Twin.
Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison
