Sometimes your song can’t start until you go some place to reflect.
I think more famous people should do what robert pattinson does / what will wood used to do and just lie spectacularly about their personal lives. a) it makes it harder to invade their privacy, b) it would cut down on the weird cultural obsession we have with connecting a creator's life to their works, and c) it's funny as hell.
the woods are the sky (Kodak Ektar 100)
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“How’s life going?”
I keep seeing posts saying that SQ wasn’t intentional in the beginning, but then they started adding it when people saw it as romantic.
THEY made it queer from the start, people simply picked up on it. When they shot the Pilot and the first couple of episodes, there was NO AUDIENCE yet. Emma was queer coded and I’m not just talking about that shot of her kicking off her heels after the job (aka fake date with a stupid dude). I mean, just fucking look at her here!!
Think about it for a second!! If the show was always just supposed to set them up as RIVALING MOTHERS (lmaooo), why the fuck did they write Henry out of the scene as quickly as they could?! The kid was there for a couple of seconds and then out of their hair! The whole drinking thing also makes it more erotic/romantic/passionate… I mean, remember that overview shot of the hallway with Emma following Regina? I mean the whole thing could be the set up for a porn. And the way Regina hands her the glass, how they look into each other’s eyes… If they didn’t want to set SQ up, they could have gone for apple juice or whatever.
Why the shy “Hi” and the staring at each other??? That’s a classic romantic meet cute!!! Sit your ass down, imagine that you are writing a scene of an adoptive mother meeting her child’s birth mother. This is so not what you would end up with unless there was something else on your mind. (No, a curse and a Savior doesn’t explain it either.)
And then the second episode, still no audience response yet when this was written and shot.
Emma is wearing almost nothing for NO GOOD REASON. The whole scene is threatening and seductive. If it were just threatening, it would NOT HAVE LOOKED LIKE THIS. I MEAN, I AM SURE THEY BOTH WANTED TO JUMP THE OTHER AND ONLY AFTER THAT GET RID OF THEM, YOU FEEL ME??
So excuse me, but DON’T LET THEM OFF THE HOOK for ANYTHING! The writers invited a female queer audience, and they got it! Nobody is fucking delusional, okay?! or I’ll punch a… lesbophobe. It was always there, they put it there! If you think they didn’t create Swan Queen, then you’re taking the blame off of the writer’s shoulders. End of the story. Merde.
And these guys are still around too, swooshing through the yard and landing gently as they do wherever there is a promise of food. I see more couple photos on the booth now, and the males are seemingly starting to squabble. First one shows the beautiful subtle back colours of the female.
I want one!