Sideblog For Fandom Stuff (18+)

no spoons pfp and header made by me <|=^) I am tired.

[grannybobo]

I love pearl steven universe

[girldraki]

kind of harmonically beautiful

[funky-insanitear]

[penelopepennington]

It's the Royal Academy of Art Young Artist's Summer Show. One of my favourite exhibitions of the year. Like. Not only are the older kids insanely talented, the younger ones' artist statements will just punch you right in the face.

Jeffrey is my cat and he feels like my heart

Click [here] for the full online exhibition

[gender-luster]

they gave that fifty year old man a fuck ass bob and some skin tight leather pants and he took them and gave us one of the best television performances of the 2010s

[macbethz]

Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

[gender-luster]

something that will never not piss me off about once upon a time is the fact that rumplestiltskin spent literal centuries trying to get to the land without magic. to get back to his son. he spent hundreds of years crafting a curse to tear through the universe and get him there. he spent lifetimes manipulating other people's lives so that he could put the players in place to inact and then break said curse. because it was "the only way to get to the land without magic."

only for the writers, to, over every other season of the show (and the spinoff) add more and more ways for people to travel between realms. making rumple's centuries of effort pretty much pointless and silly. i mean. the least they could have done is make up some kind of reason that none of those other options would have worked for rumple. but that would have taken more skill and planning than they were willing to give

[gender-luster]

this is what i like to imagine interactions between baefire and other kids would have been like had rumple not immediately decided to go scary murder mode and instead just quickly went to the skin-tight leather and magical blowout

[midnightella-mass]

okay genuine question but WHYYYY put all of the characters through SO MUCH to destroy the darkness just for Gold to take it back? He literally had a pure heart and had absolutely no reason to become the dark one again. “But he craved power!” BEING PURE OF HEART AND A HERO MEANS THAT HE SHOULDNT HAVE CRAVED POWER!!! HIS WHOLE ARC MEANT NOTHING!!

[elcrahdraws]

RIGHT??? Like if he had taken it back just so it wouldn’t go into someone else and he knew he could handle it… Maybe that would make it worth the turn. But no.

His motivation kept flip-flopping based on the writers needing an antagonist… But they literally had a tool to explain away irrational alliances, or self motivation… The dagger. Literally that dagger should’ve been fought over by all forces… One person could’ve told Gold that he can’t say that someone has the dagger, operating stealthily… like Hades. But no.

[deliriumsdelusion7]

This whole mess could have been avoided if they hadn’t massively fucked up by killing off Cora at the end of The Miller’s Daughter. Cora should have been the recurring villain of the series. In Rumplestiltskin you had the exact formula for a redeemed villain: someone who made a lot of selfish mistakes, whose actions - even when corrupted by the dagger - were always rooted in love. But Cora’s primary motivator was anger. Anger at her father, at Snow’s parents, at the situation of her birth. She had multiple chances for love, and she deliberately cut it out because the anger was more important. I have no doubt in my mind that, had she lived, she would have soon realized that forgiveness and redemption don’t come overnight, and she would have removed her heart again so the guilt would stop hurting. The fact that Cora continues to haunt the narrative both figuratively and literally shows how the writers truly didn’t realize as they killed her that they were far from done with her.

[elcrahdraws]

Good point… but they done REALLY messed up A-Aron when they didn’t pursue the BLUE FAIRY being of questionable moral value.

She literally creates Rumplestiltskin‘s journey because she told his mom that he was bound to a fate of living as a savior, denied self happiness, and then dying as a savior as all saviors do… And then his mother went off the deep-end to try and protect him and then basically messed him up beyond repair by leaving him with his toilet-bowl of a dad.

I REALLY wish his mom had been an actual fairy instead of the weird thing the writer’s came up with that “she was human and THEN a fairy”… Make that make sense… But if he had been part fae, it would explain why he’s so good at magic, disarming, and clever beyond reason… And his slim build (just saying!). The very act of Blue throwing out a disgraced fairy and hating Rumple for what he is… Could’ve been amazing. A fairy isn’t supposed to fall in love with a human. A male fairy isn’t supposed to exist. And such an abomination of enchanted order is not supposed to be a savior. Total Shrek vibes. That kind of rigid “goodness” being the surprise villian is something that could’ve really resonated with people. She even echoes back to it later with the whole Dreamy and Nova encounter.

Because Blue was such a strong presence throughout the whole series, and with very questionable decisions/restrictions at inconvenient times… it Almost makes sense that she should’ve been the dark fairy that was pulling all the strings for “the final battle.” Not Rumple’s mother… Who came literally out of nowhere!

I daydream about this stuff while driving…

[deliriumsdelusion7]

Oh man and they basically worked entirely at odds with one another. Imagine the heroes constantly going to Blue for help against Cora (because that’s obviously preferable to going to Rumplestiltskin), not knowing that they were gradually furthering the Dark Fairy’s goals every time they did. That could have been such a great reveal.

[midnightella-mass]

something something OUAT would have been so much better if the writers actually knew how to write moral ambiguity in an interesting way and didn’t just rely on the same two characters to be the default heroes and villains something something

[defectivegembrain]

The thing about Once Upon a Time is it can be simultaneously creepy and silly and in the early seasons it's just the right mix. Like fucking hell almost nobody in this town remembers who they are and they don't age and there are hearts kept in a vault and the people are still alive but being controlled. That's horrifying. And also so ridiculous. This woman's mother tore her boyfriend's heart out in front of her and she blames the ten year old who told her about the relationship. She holds a grudge for many years and what is her ultimate revenge? She sends her to Maine and makes her work as an elementary school teacher. And then tries to frame her for murder. What the fuck I love this terrible show

[aropride]

this is my terrible tv show that is bad. i will watch it 1 maybe 5000 times

[defectivegembrain]

Ouat was like this is a coward and then showed us an ordinary guy who *checks notes* didn't want to get killed fighting in a war

[defectivegembrain]

The thing they never talk about is that Rumplestiltskin was clearly having a panic attack by the portal with Baelfire. Like. I have acted that way before too. And attachment to power aside, it's also a new unknown place, and as we find out later he has had bad experiences with both portals and fairies. Doesn't make it okay that Baelfire had to grow up without him, but like. It's a fear response not an evil, calculated decision.

[defectivegembrain]

Like many other things he did were evil calculated decisions but like a guy can be evil and also have an anxiety disorder

[defectivegembrain]

OUAT if anyone considered abortion at any time

[defectivegembrain]

OUAT Ariel would've been so much more interesting if she focused more on her collection instead of her seemingly willing stalking victim I mean her factory made prince I mean her bland fish food I mean her boyfriend

[cristabells]

The Queen and the last dragon.

[phoenixes-and-wizards]

there’s just something so lovely about how a passionate kiss wasn’t enough to jog mj’s memories, but peter and ned’s secret handshake was more than enough for ned to start remembering, everybody say thank you to destin daniel cretton for showing that platonic love matters just as much and can also break any spell

[poszukiwaczbzu]