Lol, this was so random in the middle of all these THOBM asks. Um. I don’t think you were! I wasn’t even watching by that point, but I know Georgina Haig kind of took off because of that part and of course you can’t go wrong with Elizabeth Mitchell. My friend who love-love-lovessss Frozen and Elsa in particular actually liked it a lot, and she had little patience for OUAT by that point too.
To think that we had Jamie Chung ready to be a badass queer Mulan. Damn OUAT.
Oh, like, absolutely, damn OUAT, but what do you mean? Has there been an interview where she discussed it or is this just about her being amazing in last night’s Lovecraft Country?
Sleeping warrior. Sighs, that was something. I remember liking Ruby/Belle and then I got hit in the face for Aurora/Mulan. How could they did them so dirty?
Yeah, I remember Ruby/Belle being a surprising hit for a while, and they were okayyy, but I really fell for SW too.
They were just off together on their own, both unsure of how to relate to each other without Philip, almost reluctantly teaming up and then growing very very close together, canonically, to the point of loyalty to each first of all and it was just–it would have been such a good love story of THE KIND THEY WERE ALREADY DOING. It annoyed–I mean, we already know why it’s so irritating it took them so long to do anything same-sex in the context of the complaints about SQ, but these two weren’t even the leads and they clearly WERE about to do something with Mulan and then?? THEN??
And Sarah Bogler played a queer character in a movie called kisses or something with Emily Osment, but she didn’t got the happy ending.
Oh, yeah, I heard about that, but, a) movie; b) bad ending? Not for meeeeee. But I do have it and a whole ton of random stuff from her and Jamie Chung for AU gifsets I never got around to making. D:
God you’re anon reminding me of sleeping warrior, my heart hurts again ? The potential! Lemme go reread some sw fics
Tsk, OUAT really just wasted so many great f/f dynamics, that being one of the biggest.
Which fics are you reading? Oddly enough, my two best-remembered SW fics are both AUs that still make use of the fairytale world but change Mulan and Aurora’s roles: a story, a tale by maleficently and Could Have Been a Year by thrace. Oh, I like Object Permanence by thrace too, obviously, but it’s a more standard fix-it, of course I was gonna like it.
I didn’t really read too much else, it was hard to separate the actual SW fics from where they were minor to SQ, which, I do like them as well, but it’s not the same, right.
I checked the Mulan tag in your blog and I saw the Mulan/Aurora part and I have a stroke. The feels, the open wounds
Awwwww, right? God, they did them so dirty! And Mulan in particular, repeatedly. Just because they were obsessed with their twists and reveals and needing to SHOCK people with a damn romantic relationship?? But in a way I’m almost glad Mulan Rouge didn’t happen so I could go back to SW guilt-free. Possibly there was some pressure to not make a Disney Princess queer but they seemed to be building up to it so I won’t let them off the hook for how poorly they handled it all.
Omgggg I stopped watching ouat after s1, but Regina and Emma totally belonged together and it’s clear the show did not know how to deal with that lol. But from what bits and pieces I’ve seen post s1, the show blew up the storylines that’d make the most sense Bc they def couldn’t have a f/f ship be the focus. Ouat was kinda the opposite of poi, they accidentally wrote soulmates and torpedoed it for the heteros. If one of them had been a dude they would’ve 100% gone in for the romance.
Arghhh, right? God, I LOVED the first season. I loved it as a show. I loved the cheesiness, Snow, Charming, Snowing, “I will always find you”, the tinkly music when something magical happened, the parallels between Storybrooke and Fairy Tale Land in both timelines, the different and often funny spins on the fairytales, Snow White being a badass, Red Riding Hood being a werewolf (a super hot werewolf). And of course I loved that the central story seemed to be between three women with very complicated dynamics.
I just don’t get how you could write this story with this woman, a victim–as declared by the show itself–who victimizes others in turn, her biggest victim prophesied as the way to end this cycle of heartbreak and pain and then like, just…not go there? You have the Evil Queen’s son bring the White Knight to end the curse and find happiness for everyone and then decide to put them with other people?
We say that all the time, “if one of them had been a dude, they’d have gone for the romance” and in those cases there’s a lot of chemistry and the dynamic is interesting but this is one of the only times I can think of where it’s literally part of the story. Like you said, the opposite of Shoot, which is one of those times they stumbled into chemistry/dynamic and then they decided to make it canon, here, it’s the story that supports it. Evil Queen and Snow White’s child, who both love their kid. There’s no reason to not put them together.
