#ouat post

[dragonsfictavern]

Waiting for the day when I find out I’m a fairytale character who just didn’t know it that’s been put under a curse to forget

[jainasolo1233]

If Encanto came out around the time of Once Upon a Time, that show would incorporate Encanto in the best way and cast the most perfect actors.

[nivalingreenhow]

so i had the urge to actually draw Regina again (like don’t ask me why) and i’m going through my old folder of Regina pics and let me tell you i had some strong feelings. here are a few of my favorite file names

haha heart ripped in half

i’m dying

i die

kill me it would be less painful

noo

noooooo

no no nooo nono

no god no

shes crying oh god shes crying

[lady-bell]

Poor Killian is having a really awful week...all he wanted to do was propose to his Swan and instead he got an ‘Around the fairytale world tour’ 

*sigh* At least Emma is doing better. Oh...wait.... 

[emeraldwitches]

honestly who let me ship???

ruby x dorothy x lily

wish!hook x roni

wish!hook x everyone not related to him tbh

captain redswan

alice x ruby

roni x ruby

i'm?????

[tough-lass]

As someone in her thirties watching OUAT

I have to say something.

I’ve seen this post today mentioning Rapunzel's age on Tangled, and I was thinking about how in all the fairy tales the princesses are usually 18 (maybe even less, never more). 

When I was a child they have always seemed to me so adult, so mature. I couldn’t wait to get to this age and become a woman of my own (and if it comes with a prince, even better).

But then the years pass (still no prince in sight in case you were wondering), but I finally do feel like a woman. And as such, I look back at age 18, and I don’t see it as an age where I was really an adult. I truly didn’t know anything about life yet back then. I didn’t know who I was, not for real anyway. And I just look at these princesses now, from the wisdom of my age, and just think, whoa, whoa, what’s the rush? You have your all life in front of you to get to know yourself, then meeting that prince (or princess, or even no one in particular). All these fairy tales seem even more unreal somehow.

But then it suddenly hit me, my favorite princess is actually a woman in her thirties:

Her fairy tale story began when she turned 28 and not 18!

No offence to those of you who are still teenagers or in their early twenties, trust me, one day you will maybe understand this post better, or maybe you are even getting it now, but I just want to take this post to acknowledge the fact that A&E chose the proper age for their princess to began her journey as a swan in oppose to a duckling. 

Emma of age 18 was thrown into jail, and had a baby she gave away for adaption because she was still immature. She was led by the guy she thought was her “prince charming” right into a jail cell, and pregnant, probably because she was still a child who didn’t know herself enough to realize she needs to put herself first (or to use protection...).

It took her 10 more years to come to the point in which she truly knew who Emma Swan was. To become an adult. To be really able of becoming the hero, the savior, the princess.

She regain her son when she was at the right age to become a mother:

She regain her parents certainly at a very old age, but at the age she could tell them how she really felt  

But also forgive them from a mature prospective

She was able to use what she learned about herself during her entire life, to fully fulfill her role as the savior and the princess

 And she met her true prince (well, pirate) after she knew exactly what she was looking for, what she needed from him, and what she deserves

Don’t get me wrong, at this age people don’t just stop being a little childish

The young spirit is always there at any age. But I feel like Emma (and all of us at this range of ages) knows just a little more about life itself, and she was taking the role of the mature princess at the age it was truly designed for.

[tough-lass]

What makes Emma“special”

So last episode we were discussing how most people sees Emma as the Savior (sometimes even her own parents), and now the EQ has proven it once more by saying that the magic is what makes Emma special.

And the thing is, I just realized something about Emma’s magic. It parallels to Killian’s hook in a way. 

Think about it, Emma’s magic, and her being the Savior, is what most people see, it’s what defines her for them, in the same way Hook’s hook defines him. But let me remind you of something:

In the same way that Emma didn’t even notice the hook was missing, or cared little about it being back, Hook couldn’t care less if Emma is the savior or not.

Don’t get me wrong, he admires her for being the savior, in the same way that Emma really loves that hook. But above all, they love each other for who they are within their soul. They don’t care about nonsense like magic and hands. They truly see how incredible the person is that they don’t see anything missing.

Emma is special to Killian by just being Emma, and Killian is special to Emma by just being Killian. Wanting to keep her safe at all cost is exactly because of it. He didn’t fall for “the savior” Or any other title that someone would give her, he loves her with all his heart, and his special Emma comes first, above all.

[tough-lass]

I was watching it over and over and over (x endless of times) again, and each time that this little moment came, in which Emma is laughing, I was trying to think when it was the last time I heard her laughing like that. Not just a smile, or a slight giggle, and rolling eyes with amusement, but an actual laugh like this one that she has here. And then I realized I don’t recall on any occasion that she had one (aside from bloopers that is).

Maybe my memory is lucking something, but I honestly don’t recall seeing Emma like this. And this makes that little split of a second moment one of my favorite on the scene.