[ SECRET POST #2446 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2446 ⌋

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

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04. [WARNING for gore, blood, etc]

[How To Train Your Dragon]


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05. [WARNING for child abuse]



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[Fall Out Boy's "The Phoenix"]


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09. [WARNING for underage]

[pokemon conquest]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Regina is abusive and has no right to keep Henry as a child.

It's a big trope in fiction that your family is whoever you want it to be. That it doesn't necessarily come down to blood, but who you love. Henry loves Emma and wants her as his mother. She loves him and wants him as his child. So despite it not being technical in legal terms it counts in fiction and that's how they're treating it.

[(Anonymous)]

But by having them be genetically related it is a slap in the face to every adoptive family in America. That message of family is who you choose would go over a lot more smoothly if Emma and Henry really were not related.

[(Anonymous)]

But them being related was kind of important for the plot? If they weren't related he would've had no reason to find her and she'd have never returned to Storybrooke. If you consider that a slap in the face to every adoptive family in America... I think you're putting waaay too much importance on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Now you are seeing why the show is problematic. The writers based it on a common but offensive, stereotype that adopted kids want to find their bio-donors. Some do, but the social expectation is that every adoptive kid must, so playing into that stereotype in your show's basic premise and plot mover is a recipe for trouble. It reinforces a common negative perception that insults the vast majority of happily adopted kids and adoptive parents.

[(Anonymous)]

are you fucking serious.

the ONLY REASON henry wanted to find his bio parents was because regina gaslighted and abused him his entire life.

if regina wasn't a fucking psychotic horrible person he probably never would have cared. emma tried her hardest to leave the entire first season but henry kept BEGGING HER to stay and help him.

[(Anonymous)]

OUAT isn't, in any way, about chosen family. Over and over again, the plotlines are about the superiority of biological familial bonds, as opposed to adoptive family units (see Emma/Henry/Regina stuff and the Hansel and Gretel BS).

[(Anonymous)]

This. I'd have very little problem with the Henry issue if they didn't keep on doing this every time the subject of parents and children comes up.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed