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I wanna take things slow. Go on this date, maybe a second date, have our first real kiss. I just don't think we should jump into bed together, just because we know each other so well, right? I mean, do you…? No, I -- Agreed. ↬CHENFORD MOMENTS | 5.10 - The List

gingerbreadnewslady

Would love a fanfic where they decide to go back and actually be able to redo this date at this restaurant....without crime breaking out. #chenford #fanfic

officerrogers

Unpopular Opinion: Colin isn't as unaware of things as a lot of the fandom likes to think he is.

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killian-whump

Actual footage of Colin watching us from a safe distance:

hollyethecurious

Colin, considering all the ways he can troll us next:

gingerbreadnewslady

Totally agree. This fandom tends to treat him and sometimes Jen like children. He's a grown man and yes, I think he's messing with us out of fun.

hplyrikz

Clear your mind here

searchingwardrobes

Bargain Beach Read!

Many of you probably know that I wrote a book. It’s called What Hindered Love, and it’s actually gotten some pretty great reviews on Amazon. Rachael said this:

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transisstor

Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

gingerbreadnewslady

Why would it not be?

vajeentambourine

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.

Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.

Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.

Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.

I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.

Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.

But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

ineffablecolors

Unpopular opinion: At the end of s6, Emma died. Yes, tlk brought her back but she died. All saviors are destined to die and Emma fulfilled that. Therefore (here's the unpopular part), Emma is no longer the savior. Hero, heck yes. But no longer the savior.

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Hmmm, I agree that she died and TLK brought her back. I dunno about the savior part. I wouldn’t mind it, if she wasn’t the savior anymore. As you said, she will still be a hero ofc but perhaps the burden of protecting everyone and procuring their HEA wouldn’t lie so heavily on her shoulders. So I would totally be game for the Savior being something like the Slayer in Buffy but I dunno if A&E would go for that.

let-it-raines

I have an idea for a CS doc that I'd love to see. Remember that box of memorabilia Emma kept from her life? Have Hope find a whole box of stuff from Emma's relationship with Hook/killian starting with the handkerchief from the beanstalk. Other items include the broken dart, the wine soaked napkin, both roses somehow kept in stasis, etc.

As Emma gets older, she appreciates different things in life.

She used to like to get dressed up, tight dresses with cleavage showing and heels that were definitely more for looks than for practicality, to go out for drinks and dancing and maybe a little something extra if she was feeling it that night. And it definitely wasn’t the same type of dancing she did on her wedding day or back in the Enchanted Forest when she and Killian went back in time and had to reunite her parents so, you know, she didn’t disappear from existence amongst other things. Now, though, she prefers to stay at home in her leggings and an oversized sweater or one of Killian’s shirts, her makeup wiped clean and her hair falling in loose, sometimes un-brushed waves as she dances with Killian in the kitchen when she swipes some of the blueberry muffin batter out of the bowl he was mixing it in and he grabs her by the waist in retaliation until they somehow start swaying to the music that’s often playing through Killian’s phone. He prefers slow, soft songs, and there’s usually something from the fifties playing whenever he’s in control of the music instead of Hope and her penchant for Disney music that she doesn’t fully realize is about the very real people in her life.

She hasn’t discovered Peter Pan yet, and Emma’s not sure if she or Killian are more thankful.

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searchingwardrobes

I’m going to reveal my inner nerd here, but I had an idea. I was online looking at getting my oldest the game Clue for Christmas, and seeing all these different themed editions. My husband and I actually own The Office Clue, and I also saw Firefly Clue, Harry Potter Clue, The Walking Dead Clue …

Where is the Once Upon a Time Clue? I mean, it’s perfect. You could be one of six characters: Snow, Charming, Emma, Hook, Regina, or Rumple. The six weapons: poison apple, dark one dagger, sword, bow & arrow, Hook’s hook, and a gun (I’m thinking a weapon that would match each character). Instead of nine rooms, there could be nine realms: Storybrooke, Enchanted Forest, Wonderland, Neverland, Oz, Arendelle, Camelot, The Underworld, and the Land of Untold Stories. Instead of secret passages, magic beans. And the person who was murdered could be either Cora, Pan, or the Black Fairy because, let’s face it, no one shed any tears when any of those three kicked the bucket.

Like, why is this not a thing? I would so want this for Christmas …

gingerbreadnewslady

Holy crap this needs to be a thing

staff

A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

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@netflix, please, please, when you’re making your show, do not forget that the Narnia series is rooted in Christianity. Please.

I think as a culture we have all forgotten that fandom is supposed to be fun.

It’s not that serious.

It was never supposed to be that serious.

Especially since most of the drama and hurt revolves around shipping.

All of the ships are fictional. Being canon doesn’t actually negate the fact that the ship isn’t real.

No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.

It’s not that serious.

razztazticffn

“No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.”

jellyfish-aquarium

THANK YOU!!!

leparfum-desfleurs

“NO SHIP, OR ANY ASPECT OF A FICTIONAL UNIVERSE, IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO TREAT ANOTHER REAL LIFE HUMAN BEING BADLY”

quicksilvermad

The heart of Killian Jones

queen-mabs-revenge

I’m never over that small benediction motion he does in the fifth gif.

Forehead, lips, heart.

gingerbreadnewslady

You know what I always notice here? How his heart just has a little bit of darkness in it instead of being consumed by it.

alexandralyman

So you know these two super Extra! Dramatic! idiots had to have had this huge duet together when they were sailing on the Jolly to the Evil Queen’s castle (even though Snow and Charming never needed to reach Regina by ship before and just randomly decided to take a nice cruise to go by the scenic route or something) like this total bombastic, over the top Power! Ballad! where Killian’s all “Yo ho, it’s a pirate’s life for me! Never bow to a king and we take what we please, with rum in me hand and a wench on me knee” and Charming comes in with his verse “Met a girl in the woods and she fell for my charm, said I’d find her anywhere and protect her from harm!” with Snow interjecting “That’s not actually how it happened” and a pirate/prince dance-off in the middle, including a little soft-shoe routine from Smee

Then after the Black Fairy is defeated and things go back to normal, everyone is at Granny’s to celebrate and while looking at the menu David just starts absent-mindedly whistling this tune that makes Killian stop and cock his head because it’s just. so. familiar….

…and then alllllll the memories of the singing curse rush back and they both just stare at each other while Snow absolutely loses it.

“You two….you SANG together….you did this whole dance routine…Emma, Regina, can one of you project my memory onto the TV or something with magic? Cause you have got to see this!”

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The abelism from the fandom towards original killian jones is actually really disgusting especially from his supposed “fans”. Original Killian Jones is a badass good fucked up person, he is valid with his disability and his hook. He can hold Hope just like everyone else and like Wish Hook held His daughter. Fuck the fandom for their ableism and biasness towards original Hook