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EMMA SWAN & REGINA MILLS in ONCE UPON A TIME
4.05 “Breaking Glass”
The way Emma contemplates for a second, then shrugs like, “yea she’s totally right, I’ll follow this woman till the end of time,” and proceeds to follow her.
Part II
Someone please tell me there’s a fic out there about this
the really great thing about swan queen is that it doesn’t work as a standard lady friendship. like i’ve been trying to compare it to Buffy/Willow as a benchmark, because that’s a platonic f/f friendship that lasted seven years and never had much of a femslash following?
and it doesn’t compare. Buffy would absolutely sacrifice her soul for Willow, but the point isn’t that she would– it’s that the show would never create that kind of dramatic scenario for them. If Buffy and Willow fought, it was resolved within an episode, not dragged out as a lengthy arc or a big cliffhanger. Because in general, that’s how female friendships are written onscreen! There are occasional exceptions but rarely so often for one friendship.
And why people read Swan Queen as shippy? Because we have great MOMENTS OF SACRIFICE. Because full arcs have hinged on their conflict with each other and full episodes have been about their conflict or its resolution– and rarely one after another. These aren’t tight oneshot stories; they’re sprawling sagas of trust broken and gained, friendship lost and won, sacrifices made and repaid.
We had a full season about Emma struggling to bring Regina happiness. We had a full season about Emma faltering and losing herself and Regina fighting to bring her back. We’ve had full arcs about them learning to be partners to save their son and about them being rivals and enemies and coming together for that reason, too. The Cricket Game was structured around Emma having faith in Regina and losing that faith– and not regaining it until the S2 finale. Breaking Glass wasn’t a Very Special Episode about friendship– it was one turning point in a far longer arc.
It isn’t that Swan Queen is a relationship on the show– it’s the relationship that is the show, that runs as the backbone of the story, because Emma and Regina are the backbone of the story and their interactions guide it. And because the stories are romantic in how they’re handled! The situations they’re given are indisputably romantic, from Henry Has Two Mommies to Emma sacrificing herself for Regina to Regina holding Emma’s hands in her own and promising her a happy ending. This is romantic when it’s Emma standing on Regina’s doorstep and begging for forgiveness and it’s romantic when it’s Regina sitting in a darkened library and urging Emma to fight fate with her.
This is Mulder and Scully, Castle and Beckett, relationships that begin with friendship and develop beyond it, and it’s coded every step along the way as romantic in a way that far exceeds TV friendship.
From "you're Henry's birth mother?" to "she'll always be Madam Mayor to me." they found each other over and over again, in every realm, in every situation.
they are the embodiment of true love and I don't care about what anyone else says
ONCE UPON A TIME -> 4.13 “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
The way she instantly takes a breath of relief when Emma says, “trust me”
Endless Swanqueen gifs (59/∞)
Regina’s double take on Emma’s hand 😭😭😭
Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own.. [x]
emma & regina, 4.12
The way their eyes connect 😭
the gayest of them all
#casually checking you out
I don’t think that’s #casually
fun canon otp fact: Emma is a faster runner than Regina
Yeah but if you look closely Emma is in flat boots and Regina is in heels so the fact Regina keeps up is quite inspiring.
Running in heels on ICE.
Some people get therapy others drown themselves fanfiction about pretty girls kissing. I believe everyone should try the latter but that's just me.
Ain't no way those motherfuckers put those bitches looking at each other like that and expected us to believe they weren't madly in love
"she didn't want anything to do with me"
"I have to say goodbye to the thing I love most"
And with those lines??
bonus points:
And even the way the camera pans to Regina when Mary-Margret tells Emma, “Happy endings aren’t always what we think they’ll be, just look around you.”
Tell me why Emma’s first instinct is to look at Regina who is already staring at her.
100% how it happened
