buffy and harry potter are my original fandoms. i also like orphan black, oitnb, jessica jones, person of interest and aos but i'm currently obsessed with swan queen. so I will post mainly swan queen fanart. and regal believer. and swan mills family. my fanart my fanvideos
no matter what anyone says, swan queen has and will always be ours. we wrote it, we giffed it, we drew it. we gave swan queen life and meaning and no one can take that away. through all the fandom fuckery and insane amounts of bullshit we created magic (let me have this cheesy moment). thank you, swen, for the last six years. #strongertogether #swanqueenforever
At the end of the day, Swan Queen has always (and will always) belonged to Swen. They can’t take away something they never gave us in the first place. It’s not theirs, it’s ours.
Years from now, when everyone has forgotten about the train wreck of OUAT and C$, Swan Queen will live on in the thousands and thousands of fan creations, the books being published, those of us who realized our own sexuality because of SQ, and, perhaps most importantly, the friendships made along the way. They can’t take any of that from us.
So let the show fizzle out. A&E clearly don’t care about their own creation, let alone their fans. But we don’t need them or their show. Swen does it better anyway. We always have and we always will. And fuck anyone who says differently!
I’m fairly new to the fandom but in the time I’ve spent shipping with you I have seen our hope for canon swan queen ebb and flow in magnificent tidal waves and then dwindle and fade only to flare again when we get so much as a simple line shared between Emma and Regina.
It’s quite fascinating.
We’ve got one of the most beautiful ships in existence.
It’s difficult shipping these two with the constant barrage of ignorance thrown our way but swan queen’s interactions (no matter how minuscule) seem to hold a well of emotions and words left unsaid.
And that is where we came in.
We bring them to life through beautiful fan art, fan fictions, fan videos and well thought out metas that are so brilliant in their complexity that they manage to explain the writers’ incompetence.
This fandom is full of strong, resilient, powerful people who took a show like once upon a time and saw the potential for one of the greatest love stories to ever be told.
Validation would be icing on this already perfect cake but this fandom can and has existed independent of and regardless of what the writers say.
It’s such a beacon of hope, it’s a part of us, of people who are different and can actually see themselves in both Emma Swan and Regina Mills individually and the beauty that they are when they’re paired together.
They keep claiming swan queen was and still is unintentional so let’s never stop claiming it for our own, for ourselves.
Let us be loud and bold with our opinions even down to the last minute of this show.
Let’s claim our happy ending with this ship regardless of how things end.
Because the show may end and fade away but swan queen will always be something powerful that has inspired so many of us in our daily lives.
With 10 minutes to spare (in my timezone), I couldn’t resist! Swen is great, Lana and JMo are great, and the fact that Swen as a fandom has this to unite us is a really wonderful thing.
(Also, I totally used this lovely photo of theghostlywitch and olivetreehouse as reference. I hope you don’t mind! If you do, I’ll take this down nooooOOOOoOoo problem!)
I wanted to make something fun for Swen today that was related to musicals and weddings. This is what I came up with. It’s simple, but I hope you guys enjoy it :D
Song: Under your spell by Tara Maclay (Amber Benson) from the Buffy musical episode :D
I don’t know why there are so many people saying Swan Queen will never die… Did someone say that it would?
But anyway I think that’s pretty clear. Swan Queen will never die.
No matter what happens in canon, no matter what anyone from the cast or crew says about it. Swan queen will never die.
Swan Queen is ours, it’s beautiful and it’s here to stay.
how can you say youre an ugly duckiling and ship swan queen? why would ou want emma to be with the woman who ruined her entire life, tried to kill her family, is the reason for emma's darkness and is awful to emma's son? Killian is the only healthy person for emma - everyone else is just wrong
Yeah hold on kids - this is going to be a long one (gifs aren’t mine)
Ok i’d usually ignore this but this gets me on a personal level.
Listen very closely, anon. My shipping Emma with Regina does not mean i am not an ugly duckling. Do you know how left out a big portion of swen feel because they arent allowed to call themselves ugly ducklings due to the fact that so many think that if you dont ship captain swan you dont love emma??
Some shipping history first of all -
I didn’t start properly shipping swan queen until well into the third season - i noticed the chemistry and innuendoes before and yeah a few times during the 2nd season i thought there was a lot of potential or the ship. But i didnt actually ship it until i saw how much they cared for each other and how they were willing to do anything for each other.
I actually was a swanfire shipper before swan queen and - here’s the real plot twist - during 4A i thought captain swan was so much better than swan queen. You know why? Because EMMA is my favourite character and i ship her with who ever makes her happiest. Right now that means i am most definitely anti captain swan and pro swan queen.
First of all - swan queen.
Why wouldn’t i ship my favourite character with the woman who gave her a good life filled with good memories?
Why wouldnt i ship my favourite character with the woman knew Emma’s biggest regret was leaving henry and worked to make sure that regret never happened?
Why wouldn’t i ship my favourite character with the woman who gave her the life she always wanted?
Why wouldn’t i ship my favourite character with the woman who gave her her happy ending?
How dare i ship my favourite character with this person. I obviously hate emma swan so much. How dare i ship emma with someone who constantly saves her, believes in her and is literally in hell for her?
Instead i should ship her with a man who has tried to kill emma just as many times -the last time being like 4 episodes ago??? Captain swan has just as many issues as swan queen - if not more seeing as so many of those issues happened in the name of love and therefore all the problems are being romanticised or white washed.
Now Emma’s past and childhood…
Yes. Yes you are right, Regina’s curse was a big part of why emma grew up alone. But let’s break this down for you as the show is a bit more complex than that.
Regina wasn’t responsible for Neal leaving emma in prison - that was August and Neal.
Regina wasn’t responsible for the mess between Lily and Emma - that was Snow and Charming’
Regina wasn’t responsible for August leaving Emma in the foster home - that was August (and i know he was a child but still)
Regina cast a curse butit was Snow and Charming that put emma in the wardrobe - not Regina
But i’m guessing that’s not good for you. Im guessing you’re about to say well without regina’s curse that wouldnt have happened. Yes, but if we’re going back in history, let’s go way back.
Remember this? It’s rumple being taunted by your precious Killian. See because of situations like these, where rumple was so powerless against other people - other men like Hook - that he takes power wherever he can. Enter the dark one
And in becoming the dark one, rumple loses his son.
And so he spends centuries trying to find him - which leads him to Cora and teaching her magic. And Cora uses that magic to kill daniel
Which is the source of regina casting the curse. So let’s summarise - If killian hadnt made rumple feel so powerless, rumple wouldnt have become the dark one, wouldnt have lost his son, wouldnt have ever met cora or regina, regina wouldnt have lost daniel and wouldnt have cast the curse.
It may be a bit far fetched but Regina is most definitely not the sole reason for Emma’s crappy childhood - there is blame for everyone there.
Now for the rest of your dear message…
- tried to kill her family,…..Killian is the only healthy person for emma
Really anon? Reeeaaallly?
Last person who tried to kill Emma’s family - Killian.
And before you say Gold isnt family - yes he is because quite literally in the next episode emma says “You’re henry’s grandfather. Like it or not that makes us family”
And Hook being the dark one does count as the only thing that can control a dark one is excalibur/dagger and Hook was not being controlled by anyone. This was most definetely hook being an ass and nothing else.
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is the reason for emma’s darkness
Again anon, that would be Killian and Emma’s fault
In fact…
Pretty sure Regina’s been the one fighting for Emma’s light harder than anyone
-is awful to emma’s son?
Riveting tale, Snow likes oatmeal. Is my morning breakfast in there too? Henry I thought you were gonna use your author powers to get us to defeat Hades.
Yeah again hook is the one who is awful to henry - not Regina…
So please do not tell me what sort of fan i am. I absolutely adore Jennifer Morrison and have avidly followed her career for years. The first character i fell in love with on this damned show was Emma Swan. So yeah that makes me a bloody ugly duckling thank you very much
