[ SECRET POST #3189 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3189 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Once Upon a Time

[(Anonymous)]

+1 To this I almost brought up Once myself but I didn't know where to begin.

I think Hook/Emma and Rumple/Bell are huge issues for me in the way they present abusive relationships as true love.

I also just started getting annoyed at everyone being related and Rumple and Regina being in EVERY story (I mean they were some of my favs but I still got annoyed.)

Re: Once Upon a Time

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--I still ship Belle and Rumple, but then, I haven't watched an episode since Neal died, just lurked in the Rumbelle fandom with occasional forays into SwanFireQueen as a brot3 or OT3.
I'm not sure I'd call Emma/Hook, Belle/Rumple, or Regina/Robin abusive, exactly. But I don't think any of those relationships work, not as currently written. They're all drama-fodder, and all six of the characters involved have done thoughtless or reprehensible things that are framed as romantic. And it doesn't help that I like pairings best and ship them hardest when they bring out the best in each other. I can think of ways to write all three canon pairings (and SwanQueen, and Warrior Royals, and Frozen Swan, and SwanFire, and the list goes on) in ways that bring out the best in everyone involved, instead of prepping them to star in Jerry Springer: Fairytale-Land Edition. I might even like Jerry Springer fairytales, but the show frames their big three couples as sweepingly romantic rather than desperately in need of therapy. The disconnect between what the characters do, and how their actions are framed, bothers me so fucking much.

Re: Once Upon a Time

[(Anonymous)]

"The disconnect between what the characters do, and how their actions are framed, bothers me so fucking much."

Everything wrong with OUAT in a nutshell.