#regina mills
Emma was 17 when Neil got her pregnant and left her in jail, she looked way more like this
than this
Regina was forced to marry a middle aged man at 19. She would have looked a lot more like this
than this
(The actress who played young Emma was 17. The actress who played young Lily was 19/20).
These plot lines would have hit so different if the characters’ youth hadn’t been obfuscated by the casting.
There’s a trope I don’t really like on general media but when it comes to Swan Queen fanfiction it gets me every. Damn. Time.
Miscommunication.
Regina and Emma together, kissing, cuddling, dating and fucking and BAM- someone fucks something up (specially when it leads to one of them thinks the other one was just pretending ).
And if Emma is the one who fucks something up and it leads to heartbroken Regina because she doesn’t know how to be loved??
Or Regina fucking something up and Emma thinking she was just pretending because she’s not good enough for Regina??
This trope have my heart, and I’m lucky this fandom has some of the best writers in the world, and every now and then I stumble upon this trope. Bless y'all.
miscommunication works as a trope for SQ because these women are *so bad* at communicating. usually with this trope its like “no one could possibly be that dense” whereas with emma and regina its like “yeah that checks out”
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of books and kisses and giving the middle finger to fate.
thinking about the mirrors and reflections that dark swan could have given.
back on my oaut bullshit ( aka the first show i ever obsessed over and the first show i wrote a fanfiction that i actually finished ) ( technically speaking i finished season one of the story before season two came out so it had an ending but i was gonna add more once season two was released but during that time i reread it ( i was 12 at the time and at the peak of my marianas trench phase ) and realised it sucked and went bye bye and threw it to the void.
however i am ( ten years later still a huge marianas trench fan and a ouat fan, especially the first two seasons ) getting back into that show again like i do annually and i want to rewrite ( for like the seventh time ) my ouat fic i wrote when i was twelve and cringey because listen the bones of the plot went hard my writing did not! SO here i am in 2021 rewriting my ouat fic!!
It will now be called
SHALLOW GRAVES FOR SHALLOW HEARTS gotta get that Ever After by marianas trench references in there because they’re the ones who started it all!! instead of porcelain because it sounds better and the MC is a heartless ( literally ) bitch who wants back her heart!!
( also please go listen to Marianas Trench’s album EVER AFTER because it goes so hard and it deserves more attention and there’s a fairytale story attached to it!! )