The Dark Swan & the Evil Queen

Inspired by this ficlet by @coalitiongirl

Thanks to her I still wish I could be a teaspoon... So bad it's unbelievable.

Oh sweet lord, have no mercy on me. Just turn me into a that teaspoon in her mouth and hand

charlize theron x max irons

CASKETT APPRECIATION WEEK 2021 ◆ day one – color.

Baby Henry’s internal thought process.

‘The Blackout in the Blizzard’ (BONES 6.16) remixed for Swan Queen 

Dammit... That's hot as fuck

the beginning of a porn movie, probably

don’t tell me that regina isn’t bisexual because this is a straight-up (no pun intended) sexual powerplay and if emma was a man nobody would even question that fact and don’t tell me that this is just a misapplied tactic from her dealings with men don’t tell me that regina never dealt with other women of power in FTL regina has been playing politics both in court and in storybrooke for decades she has many tools in her bag of tricks threats manipulation deception seduction bargaining and she chose this one what she is wearing how she is sitting how she is acting all of this is calculated … i would actually be really interested to read a fic about regina developing those skills in FTL one where she starts off as powerless as sansa and learns how to deceive and who she can trust where she sneaks away to develop her magical power to give herself another advantage where she learns that raw magical power and military force doesn’t always work to get you what you want where after what she went through what she did with leopold she stops seeing her body as hers and treats it like another tool where she uses mens and womens lust against them and she always uses sex as power and never about emotions give me regina as a cunning and ruthless political operative backed by powerful magic and a mighty army then give me emma swan finding a way through all of that and into regina’s heart ugh i really wish OUaT was on a different network with better writing  in which saunteringvaguelydownwards is both a genius and an asshole

everything about this post is perfect

but can we also note the way Emma reacts. She’s been a con. She’s dealt with jail. She’s been a bounty hunter. SHE KNOWS THE TRICKS TOO. She’s been ‘round town, and probably has been played several times before she was able to catch on. Then she’s also got her ‘super power’ with the lying thing. So I would and will bet anything that she’s feeling her radar bing for deception and lies. Everything is too calculated. Regina? Waiting for her? Sitting on the desk? That’s sexual. There’s nothing else but that. AND EMMA MUST KNOW IT! Look at her face! How she’s not blinking. She’s studying. She’s taking in every inch of Regina’s face. She’s using her OWN lessons on power and control and using her bounty hunter and street skills. She has to have them. There’s no way she doesn’t. Of course Regina must know some of this. So Regina must have taken this into consideration when deciding how to deal with this. This is my headcanon.

I love how the first gif of Emma is eyebrows inching up, mouth parting in surprise (a surprise that looks amazingly like lust) before the skepticism falls into place.

Her season one Dealing-with-Regina face comes back, trying to parse the lies from real motives. Curious puppy head tilt at the unexpected show of sexual power. It’s the same sort of wary, defensive, “I’m listening but ready for anything” look she has when Henry first shows up in her apartment and he’s pouring himself juice. It’s the face she gives to Gold.

But before? Before! That initial reaction, before she comes back to herself…that’s what my face did when I saw Regina on the desk. “Holy hotness from hell…”

There are many things you can explain away or tell me are unintentional. But this right here will always tell me that the sexual subtext between these two in season one was carefully orchestrated and acted. I call bullshit based on this and “forbidden fruit” every time.

It’s my headcanon that before Emma realized who she was dealing with, when she was a quiet “hi” and open stares on the porch or she tried to share how she didn’t want to be alone on her birthday, defenses peculiarly low, Regina picked up on her attraction to her like a shark with blood. I think she knew she had this tool in her arsenal with Emma, and she tinged their interactions with sex for this very purpose.

Also someone write the aforementioned fic please.

I want to add one more thing—we’ve seen Regina use this tool before in a very similar fashion. The desk sitting above is in 1.19, The Return, but the first time we see this behavior is in 1.07, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, when the Queen asks Graham to kill Snow White. A scene that is irrefutably about sexual power play. The parallels are actually quite astounding. Even the music is similar.

Her body language, tone of voice, the positions of the players (one walking in to find her propped up like a commanding delicious dish, chin rising to meet them), the opposite party at once wary and curious…the only real difference is that the gender of Regina’s target has changed. That is the only reason that this scene is “questionable subtext” and not clear seductive manipulation. Emma is not a man.

The scene with Graham is slightly more overt (as a velvet gown, roaring fire, and Lana’s less restricted physicality when portraying the Queen will do) but they are the same method, tried and true.

The fact that playing the second scene atop a desk this way was Lana’s idea (and director approved) is even more interesting to me. She understands her character’s motives and tactics better than most of the writers.

How people see her and how Regina sees herself.

This show, I swear, stands on the cusp of greatness but just pisses over the side.

Does anyone else have a hard time seeing Emma as anything but a deeply closeted lesbian or bisexual-with-a-strong-preference-for-women? It’s not really about projection I think - Regina is my go-to character for that and I see her as bisexual/pansexual - but about how they always seem to leave that door open and infuse the subtext with it. I don’t want to call this a meta, because this stuff is so subjective, I’d rather you read it as an elaborate headcanon. I think it also might just be me trying to… I don’t know. I think the biggest part of it is that it’s the only way for me to understand how Emma can be with Hook. If I think she’s using him to deny her sexuality to herself and her family, then it makes more sense than anything else I can come up with. Granted, I haven’t really tried very hard to come up with anything else. So for the sake of it, I’m just gonna explore Emma the subtextual/unintentional lesbian. I am completely aware that textual Emma is afraid to let people in and lose them again. It’s not about the moments that confirm this, it’s about the show seemingly deliberately leaving the door slightly ajar to allow for a different reading.

Character introduction Emma is actually paired with quite a few men, but she would ping on many a gaydar because of her body language and wardrobe choices. In fact, I wonder if the way she was introduced during the pilot was out of fear that it was too obvious. First impressions are a powerful thing, so why would you choose to introduce one of your protagonists in a scene where she is not herself? She’s on a date, tight red dress, high heels and she seems into the guy for the first few minutes. Everything shifts, turns out she’s a bail bondsperson and it’s gonna be a while before we see her in a dress again. Yes, it makes her character interesting, but it also firmly puts her in the heterosexual category. By the time we see her swagger, leather jackets and all round demeanour, most people have already made up their minds.

Queer coding Queer coding relies on cliches and stereotypes. It’s problematic, it’s unfair and it perpetuates a limited and limiting idea about a minority. But if you’re not going to have a character come out and say they’re queer or engage in a same-sex relationship, there’s simply no other way to tell your audience that they might be. Choices like this on television are always deliberate. You can make a female character rough around the edges, in Emma’s case to hint at her difficult upbringing, but they went beyond that. The rather ‘masculine’ swagger, sitting with her legs open, … I’d say it’s uncommon to do this with your female protagonist, because unfortunately according to regular tv-makers logic, making her a little less butch would make her more appealing to the heterosexual male audience and thus attract more potential viewers. So I don’t really see why they’d do this for no reason other than to hint that she’s a lesbian. 

Obviously we’ve all talked about her outfits. Flannel, beanies, tank tops, leather jackets, boots… I don’t think I need to elaborate. You could add in a traditionally male employment, with the show emphasizing it by having Emma correct ‘bail bondsman’ to ‘bail bondsperson’. (Typical lesbian feminist behavior to boot! Oh my!) And her tendency to use her fists, resort to physical violence and wield a chain saw does not help either.

Relationships I assume the queer coding is something we all see, but interpreting the relationships is pretty subjective. They’re telling a textual story that needs to make sense, so I’ll just point out some observations and fill in the gaps with my headcanons. In general, she seems to have great bro chemistry with all the guys. Then when it turns into something romantic, she suddenly becomes stunted, awkward and physical contact just looks forced. Exception to the rule is Neal during the flashbacks. As for Emma’s state of mind, I think she goes from completely unaware to moving into denial. Denial both to herself and her loved ones. I only rewatched a couple of scenes here and there, so I’m just writing from memory for most of this, I apologize for any mistakes or things I misremember.

Emma & Neal Emma cares about Neal, she loves him, he’s important in her life, there’s no disputing that. She’s never been in a relationship with anyone before and she’s finally happy, because she’s hoping to find a home with him. And that’s what this entire relationship is framed as. It’s about her finding home. I was looking at the first time we saw her say ‘I love you’ and it’s when Neal wants to call off the plan to go to Tallahassee. Look at her face after she says I love you. It’s not romantic. It’s a threat. Look at that intense stare, it’s angry and it’s ‘Don’t you dare take my home away. Don’t you dare come back on that promise.’

After she gets him to agree, we see her later sitting in the car and again, they show us that her entire focus here is settling down and finding a home. It’s never focused on finding a home with him specifically. It’s just home.

Fast forward to the conversation she has about this with Hook. While they’re climbing the beanstalk, she claims to never have been in love. She later changes her tune and says that she may have been in love once. Now, it looks like she’s keeping her guard up and she’s not sharing her secrets with Hook, but it can also easily be interpreted as her genuinely not being certain if that was love or not.

There was another curious moment with Lily asking about Neal in New York. Lily goes on to ask “Was he your…” but Emma cuts her off with the line “His name was Neal. He was… a lot of things to me”. It seems like she really doesn’t want her to say boyfriend or lover, because she doesn’t know how to define her relationship with him anymore.

There are two more times that she says she loves Neal, once before he is sucked into the portal, so it’s a moment where she doesn’t know she’ll see him again. She knows she doesn’t have to follow up on it. The other time is when she tells Rumplestiltskin, before she goes back to Storybrooke through the portal. She’s not lying about loving him, I think, but it might not necessarily be romantic love.

When he comes back and they meet again in the current timeline, all they seem to have left is a relationship that reads more as siblings than as former lovers. Pretty much the same pattern as she seems to have with all the guys. Good buddy thing going, awkward or stand-offish if they want more.

So with Neal to me it seems like it’s about levels of intensity. She loves him, but she doesn’t know any better yet.  She thinks that’s the way she’s supposed to be and she’s definitely madly in love with the idea of home. I don’t think there’s any kind of conscious deception going on here, just that everything might not be as it seems.

Emma & Graham Emma does not act interested in Graham at all. She likes him, she’s glad she’s making friends and she’s happy to be given the chance to be deputy later on. When he tries to kiss her, she’s really unambiguous. She rejects him and she’s angry.

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[Graham tries to kiss Emma] Emma: How much have you been drinking? That was way over the line. Sheriff Graham: I’m sorry. I just…? Emma: (angrily) What? You what? Sheriff Graham: I need to feel something. Emma: Listen to me, Graham. You are drunk and full of regret. I get it. But whatever it is you are looking to feel, I can tell you one thing.You’re not getting it with me.

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Then in comes the hopeless romantic Mary Margaret (boy, young Regina’s love speech is still working in another realm with false memories) to tell Emma that she’s in love with Graham. There really have been no hints that she is, it just looks like Mary Margaret is projecting her own current romantic struggles on Emma and misreading her.

Emma: (coming downstairs and noticing flowers on the kitchen table.) Really? (throws them into a garbage bin.) Mary Margaret: Oh. Hey. Wait, what are you doing? Emma: If Graham thinks flowers will work on me - Mary Margaret: No, those were mine. Emma: Oh. From David? Mary Margaret: No. Dr. Whale. Emma: Why would Dr. Whale - (Mary Margaret looks back at Emma.) Are you serious? Mary Margaret: I know, it’s a disaster. Emma: No. That’s amazing. You’re getting over David. Mary Margaret: First of all, there’s nothing to get over. And second of all: just one-night-stand. Emma: Not according to those flowers. Mary Margaret: Yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have called him. Emma: Oh my God. You called him? That’s definitely not a one-night stand. Mary Margaret: O-Okay, I’m still learning. I- I never had one before. I felt guilty. Emma: Why? There’s nothing wrong with what you did. Trust me. One nighters is as far as I ever go. Mary Margaret: That’s because you’re- Emma: Because I’m what? Mary Margaret: Never mind. Emma: Yeah. Tell me. What do I do? Mary Margaret: You’re just protecting yourself. With that wall you put up. Emma: Just because I don’t get emotional over men. Mary Margaret: You don’t get emotional over men? The floral abuse tells a different story. Emma: What story is that? Mary Margaret: The one that’s obvious to everyone - except apparently you. That you have feelings for Graham. Emma: Come on. Mary Margaret: There’s a wall. Emma: That’s not a wall. (Mary Margaret picks the flowers out of the garbage bin. She puts them into a vase.) Mary Margaret: Really? Emma: There’s nothing wrong with being cautious. Mary Margaret: Oh, true. True. But, Emma. That wall of yours, it may keep out pain. But it also may keep out love. (Takes the vase and leaves.)

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I want to talk about these lines in particular:

Emma: Just because I don’t get emotional over men. Mary Margaret: You don’t get emotional over men? The floral abuse tells a different story.

Firstly, Emma’s line is interesting, because she uses the plural form, again making it about all of her relationships with men and her lack of emotional investment in them. Then Mary Margaret’s reading of Emma’s response is just completely wrong. Emma gets emotional because she’s made her boundaries very clear and this guy pushes right past them, or so she thinks in that moment. 

Next thing you know, we see her kissing Graham and then he dies. So to the audience it looks like “Awww… Mary Margaret was right, she has to let down her walls and just let love in.” From then on, that’s the accepted story on why Emma is the way she is with men. Except it came from Mary Margaret and what we saw actually happened contradicts this.

All I saw was Emma latching onto that theory, because the alternative is that she might be a lesbian and she doesn’t want to be. She’s been rejected and misunderstood her entire life, she doesn’t want to give people yet another reason to reject her. I mean, if someone offered me that plausible sounding theory when I was still in denial about my sexuality, I would have gratefully accepted it, to deny my gayness to myself and everyone around me. So I think Emma kissing Graham was just her testing out if Mary Margaret was right and she was crushing on Graham without being aware of it. That she’s not gay, but that she’s simply got walls put up. Except her test doesn’t really go so well, because he frickin’ dies on her. Thanks, Regina.

Speaking of which, when she finds out Graham and Regina are sleeping together, she might be angry with Graham for sleeping with a woman she doesn’t trust, but the jealousy can easily be read as her being jealous of him. She has looked at Regina with lust multiple times at this point, they have been constantly engaged in their antogonistic flirting. Meanwhile, all of her interactions with Graham have been friendly and she’s actually rejected him. So why would it be such a stretch to think she’s jealous of Graham and angry with Regina for flirting with her, but sleeping with him?

Emma & August Don’t think there’s a lot that needs to be said about these two. She has great chemistry with him as a friend and again, they feel more like brother and sister.

Emma & Walsh Walsh is actually Emma’s most credible relationship with a man… and he’s a flying monkey. His sole purpose of being in NYC was to seduce her, so he probably behaved rather perfectly. It was his job.

She had a normal life, everything she ever wanted, except it wasn’t real. The Emma in the first picture is cooking breakfast wearing a skirt and high heels, first thing in the morning. This is not the Emma we know. In fact, that outfit scares me more than an early 90ies horror movie. What does she do before leaving for Storybrooke after getting her memories back…

…she puts on the epic red leather jacket of queer coding.

When Hook is trying to convince Emma to drink the potion, she tells Hook that she has everything she ever wanted and that it includes a man she loves. Now, we always talk about Regina giving Emma her memories, but to give Emma her happiness she would have had to tap into what Emma wanted. I think Emma just wanted to be normal. As ordinary as she could possibly be. A life, a job, a family, a home. So Regina gave her memories of relationships with men and for a while there, she wasn’t queer. She didn’t have to be misunderstood anymore, in any way.

Emma & Hook Oh boy. Let me preface this with a personal story. The thing that sparked the idea for this post a couple of months ago was a conversation with a friend. We’ve known each other for almost ten years and when we first met she was married to a guy. That day I was meeting her before being introduced to her… surprise… girlfriend. A couple of drinks later I couldn’t help myself and asked how she identified now… as bisexual or… She shook her head and said she saw herself as gay. So we talked about her ex-husband a bit and she explained that it had just been so easy. That he had chased her, that he just really, really wanted her. So she gave in, because it was easy and she didn’t want to come out of the closet. So this high-pitched voice in the back of my mind just screamed “Oh my God, you are Emma Swan.” Also, sometime later that evening I got called a gay conspiracist and if you’ve made it this far, you know that claim might not be completely baseless…

Anyway, so that really sums up Hook and Emma for me as well. There is a lot of pressure from Snow for her to get into a relationship, because for Snow finding true love means happiness. She wants her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Her parents naming their new baby Neal, must have driven that one home, even if it were meant as a tribute. Also, the New York version of Henry worked very hard to get her to say ‘Yes’ to Walsh and I think that stuck. I think Emma and Henry may have misread each other there. Henry took Walsh to be important because he was the first man Emma brought home. Now we know the reason for that is that all their memories together up until that point were fake, but they didn’t know it. Henry assumes it took her so long because of Neal abandoning her and again, we get a reinforcement of the theory that she is afraid to be betrayed again. Again, they let another character voice it and Emma runs with the assumption. Henry goes on to arrange a date with Walsh behind her back so she can say yes to his proposal. Which she really doesn’t seem to want to do. So I think she took from this that Henry secretly wanted a father figure, but that she should’ve just taken the words that he wanted her happiness at face value.

When Emma goes to ask Hook out on a date, this weird conversation with Henry happens. She asks if he’s sure he’s okay with it, he replies that he isn’t, but he wants her to be happy. Before she can address this, he forcefully pushes her towards the door. Now, Emma is an unconventional parent, but it seemed out of character for her not to turn around and talk with him about it. Unless she felt she wasn’t really doing this for herself, but for everyone around her. Hook made it clear he wants her, she’s sure he’s a guy who won’t leave her. She also knows at some level he’s not a good guy, but he’s a good enough guy. If you’re going to use someone to hide your sexuality or for any other motives than love, doesn’t it make sense to pick a guy who deserves it to be lied to? He needs to be attractive enough, he needs to be good enough, but not too good. So she doesn’t have to feel bad about living a lie. (I’m convinced a lot of this reasoning can happen on a subconscious level.) There aren’t exactly that many guys around Storybrooke that fit the bill for Emma, but Hook does. All that broody darkness and leather also make it so much easier to picture Regina instead. If you consider that she thinks she’s doing it for her family. The alternative being that she’s alone forever or with another woman, her parenting slip-up makes a little more sense. Who could blame her for being afraid, she’s probably noticed - like us - that she’s the only gay in the village and her parents come from some place that has its moral roots in the Middle Ages. She actually looks very determined like someone who is fulfilling a task when she goes in to ask Hook out.

Then there is the date itself, which is really about the relationship with her parents. Look at Emma in her uncharacteristic dress experiencing an ersatz prom night with her parents.

After she’s kissed Hook goodnight, this is her face when she comes in. To me it reads as ‘What the hell am I doing?’ or something along those lines. She then notices her parents sitting up waiting for her and she shifts back into the role of happy teenager in love.

Much of the physical contact between them looked forced and unconvincing to me at first. It looks like she’s going through the motions and she’s still guarded and uncomfortable even when she’s embracing him. Gradually we see her looking more comfortable with him, they’ve found this routine and she likes him well enough. Like with Neal, she’s starting to care about him. We know all Emma wants is comfort, stability and normalcy. If the price for that is settling for less than what she actually wants, it looks like she’s willing to pay it.

The other thing that seems to bother people is that she easily excuses his lies and his behavior, something the bad-ass we met in the first season wouldn’t have put up with. It tells me that she isn’t really interested in having a serious relationship with him. She doesn’t want to work through the issues, because she doesn’t actually want to be with this guy for who he is. Not really. It’s something they have in common, it seems. How can she talk about lies when she’s living a lie here? What if he turns the tables on her? What if he starts asking the real questions? Like why she’s chasing Regina and putting her first? She put in his heart and went to Regina. She brings Regina lunch, while he brings her lunch. She’s not interested in shaking things up with Hook simply because the facade of that relationship is more important than the quality of it.

…and then that dude you were using as a smokescreen goes on to say you’re his happy ending. Oh f*ck. Didn’t think that one through, did you, Swan?

So what’s a girl to do but kiss him as a deflection like every other time things were getting a little too serious or too complicated? 

Plenty of people have talked about the finale and yes, let’s agree that actions speak louder than words. She wasn’t even going to say goodbye to Hook, she was so ready to jump in. If he hadn’t shouted, she wouldn’t have. So just as she did with Neal, she says it when the expectations that statement comes with are erased and she thinks it’s what the other person needs to hear. She told bandit Regina she was too scared to tell Hook she loved him, because she was afraid it would make things real. Implying that they aren’t right now. Her words, not mine.

Emma & Lily Awww, Emma’s first crush! I think we can all agree that the scenes between Emma and Lily could easily be read as two teenagers in love. The talk of their special bond, the matching scar/tattoo, the way they look at each other just a little too long. It was all very cute and romantic.

What I found more interesting however, was the story with Emma’s new foster family. It definitely seemed very subtext heavy. First, the depiction of the family. They chose a warm and welcoming family, the perfect family, but then they chose to show a couple of things that would be red flags for a closeted gay kid. There was a shot of a list of chores on the wall, suggesting they were pretty strict and then they said a prayer, confirming them to be religious and possibly conservative. None of these things have to mean these people are homophobes, but they would give a queer kid pause for sure. Then we get the dinner scene with Lily and the family.

Lily: Emma was the first person who ever really understood me, you know?  Like we were meant to come into each other’s lives. The way Lily looks at Emma when she says that last line is so intense. Emma is supposedly angry about Lily lying about their meeting, but Lily’s been lying the whole time, as she herself points out, it is better than the truth. So it feels like Emma is actually really afraid of being outed. Then we rush through a scene where suddenly there’s a robbery and Lily’s boyfriend, reframing everything we’d just seen in 15 seconds. Still, I think the subtextual reading was that Emma ran again because she was afraid of this rejection.

Emma & Elsa The fact that they chose to give Elsa’s story to Emma, knowing many consider Elsa a gay symbol, is interesting in itself. Add to that Emma and Elsa talking about her relationship issues with Regina. Elsa urging her not to let go. In short, Elsa as the fellow lesbian and new BFF you’re not attracted to, so you’re totally comfortable hugging her early on and talking girls. 

The Elsa parallel also gave us this little gem:

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Regina: Well, shouldn’t someone be out looking for Emma? David: Didn’t Mary Margaret tell you? She called. She figured out a way to get rid of her magic. Regina: Get rid of it? And you’re okay with that? David: We support our daughter. Regina: We’re not talking about an old pair of Jimmy Choos here. Tell me you’re joking. Snow: It may seem drastic, but it’s the only way Emma can be sure never to hurt anyone again. Regina: This could be the worst idea you’ve ever had, and you hired the wicked witch as your nanny. David: Well, we actually think it’ll be good for her. We… she could be normal. Regina: Let me ask you something. Do you know what I regret most? David: Countless innocent lives you destroyed? Regina: That I didn’t support Henry when he realized he was special. You of all people should remember. ‘Cause you started it all when you gave him that storybook. It opened up a whole world for him. But I was so scared of losing him… [Sighs] That I tried convincing him he was crazy… and that being normal would make things better. Thankfully, he had the good sense not to listen to me. Snow: Regina’s right. David, we’ve been rationalizing, and you know it. We cannot let her take away what’s special about her. David: I know. Snow: Well, then let’s go get her. —————————

Do I need to say something about the gay conversion therapy elephant metaphor in the room or do we agree this is way past anything resembling subtlety?

Emma & Regina I think everything that needs to be said can be found under #SwanQueen. Also everything that needs to be seen. And read. 

I’ll just let this family portrait speak for itself.

Random subtext

—————————  Snow: Oh, no, but I am the sheriff’s wife. Will: You’re married to the blonde? Snow: That’s my daughter. Other sheriff. Will: What now? —————————  This little scene where a character with very little screen time has better gaydar than the whole of Storybrooke combined.

————————— Emma: Not in the mood for a drink or a man. —————————  Just because this post wouldn’t be complete without this sentence.

————————— Sorry, I just have to include the toaster oven. At the end of Ellen DeGeneres’ coming out episode, her love interest Susan receives a toaster oven from Melissa Etheridge for recruiting a new lesbian. The joke really took a life of its own among lesbians, I think some people didn’t even know its origins. If you then consider this OUAT episode was written by Jane Espenson who also wrote for the last season of Ellen’s sitcom, I refuse to believe this was a random choice kitchen appliance to be butchered after a fight with Regina.

————————— Regina: I said we needed to meet covertly. Now I see you’ve brought the entire Charming softball team and their pirate mascot. ————————— Fun fact: I just realized I have no idea what softball is. It’s not popular around here and I literally only know it as a lesbian joke. That should tell you something about how deliberate this is. We can assume Regina was expecting Snow and David, which means Emma by herself is the entire team. Not one player, no, Emma’s so gay, Regina sees her as the entire team. And the pirate mascot. She may as well have called him her beard.

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Inspiration

Thoughts I’ve read some interesting headcanons about Emma being bi, pan, ace, … so if you’ve written any meta on it send me the links and I’ll add them to this post. Let’s make a case against heterosexuality as the default sexuality. Things get so much more fun if you look through different eyes once in a while.

30 Days of Swan Queen Challenge: Day 30, Anything you want to do: (as I originally posted a version of this back in Dec. but Tumblr ate it and I wanted to spruce it up a bit:)

↳ Lana Parrilla and Jennifer Morrison

That moment when your sexy wife struts your way.

10 Days of Swan Queen | Day 01: Flirting

If anything can happen off screen, why not this…