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itwasmagic · 4 months
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even in my worst times, you could see the best of me » requested by @emmafallsinlove ♡ reblogs are encouraged!
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lumadreamland · 2 months
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killian jones in every episode 4.05 breaking glass
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vasfasan · 7 months
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Killian's probably thinking like: "I usually WEAR my reminders-of-the-dark-past-ring-trophies, but whatever floats your boat, Emma"
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Almost. Again. -- Regina Mills x Emma Swan
Well hiyah Tumblr. I wrote a swanqueen fic. I don’t really know what this is. All I know is that I was watching episode 4x05 and there was a pretty harsh cut between when Emma and Regina defeated the ice monster and when the snow queen showed up. And I thought “they cut something out. We missed something” and then my brain gifted me this. So. Enjoy, I guess…? 🙈
Words: ~2,100
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes battles give you a rush of adrenaline. Sometimes battles exhaust you. And sometimes... Sometimes, battles are the perfect catalyst to mend relationships and create space for repressed feelings to bubble up and boil over. But not always.
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Snow monster? Melted. Emma’s hands burned a bit, but the giant thing dissolved into a puddle with a splash, so it was probably all taken care of. 
Probably. 
“I think we did it,” Emma panted, smiling despite herself. 
Because it felt good. Falling back into their rhythm, melding their magic. Working together after however long they’d been apart. It couldn’t have been more than a few days. It felt like an eternity. 
She looked over at Regina, finally catching her breath. And Regina… 
Regina was looking at her with some kind of expression, emotion, that Emma couldn’t read for the life of her. But then a beat passed, and another. And Regina was still looking at her. 
Emma cleared her throat. “Nice work.” 
That seemed to jar Regina out of her stupor, because the next thing Emma knew, she was nodding. 
“And you.” A pause. A swallow. “It seems that whole ‘learn as you go’ thing is working out for you. You didn’t need me after all.” 
Emma fought the instant response, the guttural “I will always need you” that rattled against her ribs. Instead, she settled for a simple— 
“I still have a lot to learn.” 
Regina’s lip curved at the corner, and for a moment Emma thought that she had won. That she had earned herself a smile, after all this time. But then it morphed into something sad, and Regina pinned her focus on smoothing out the hem of her shirt. And Emma’s heart splintered again. 
Always again. 
The forest was silent for a moment, their ragged breathing the only thing filling the gaps. And really, it hadn’t been that much effort. Not with Regina helping. But it was the fear, the adrenaline. The feel of it all, and how much she had missed it. 
Emma was chewing over what she could say, how she could tell her without Regina snapping her neck. She was so lost in weighing her options that she almost missed Regina breaking the silence. Beating her to it. 
“I forgot how nice that felt,” she murmured, voice low and rasping. 
Emma blamed it on the cold lingering in the air. Emma knew that she was lying to herself. 
A measured breath. “Yeah.” 
And then, to her surprise, Regina snorted. 
“Always so articulate.” 
Emma couldn’t help the smile that spread, because yes, working together had felt wonderful. It had stirred something inside of Emma that she forgot existed. Reminded her of a piece of herself that she forgot she possessed. 
But this? Regina looking up at her through heavy lashes, a smirk pulling at the corner of her mouth, one hand wrapped protectively around her stomach and fingers fidgeting with her sleeve at her elbow— This was what Emma had missed. Had longed for. This felt better than any magic ever could. 
Because Regina was open again. She was letting Emma in. She was— 
She was stepping in closer. Closing the space between them. 
Oh, shit. 
“Regina…” Emma tried, but her voice wobbled. Cracked. 
Another step. 
Emma stepped back. 
She expected Regina to stop. She expected that to be enough to break the moment (were they having a moment?), to put that wall back up between them and prompt Regina to shut herself off again. 
But she didn’t. And she was still looking at Emma like that. And Emma couldn’t breathe. Dear god, she couldn’t fucking breathe. 
Not only could she not breathe, apparently walking backwards had fallen completely out of her arsenal as well. Because the next thing Emma knew, she tripped over a large root and went careening backward. 
And then there was bark against her back. And Regina’s hand on her waist. A nice, firm, solid tree trunk had broken her fall. 
And Regina’s hand on her waist. 
Emma blamed the way her lungs constricted on having the wind knocked out of her by the impact from the tree. 
Definitely the tree. 
“Still as graceful as ever, I see,” Regina said softly, eyes flitting across Emma’s face for the briefest of seconds before boring back into hers. 
And god, anything would be better than this. Regina fully ogling her lips would be better than this. Because her eyes were dark in the deep forest, and glittering against the moonlight. And Emma was certain that Regina could see straight through her, let alone read her thoughts. 
She was definitely not having appropriate thoughts. 
And she blamed Regina for every single one of them, because her hand was still on Emma’s fucking waist. 
“I— um.” It just fell out. Because Emma felt like she needed to say something, but there was no coherent thought to pull any kind of anything from. Not in Emma’s head. Not with Regina looking at her like that.  
“We really need to work on your vocabulary.” 
Remember when Emma thought she’d rather have Regina ogling her lips? When that would have been easier? 
Yeah. She was wrong. She was so, entirely and completely wrong. Because in the next second Regina’s gaze dropped, and Emma’s heart went right along with it. 
“I missed… what our magic feels like pooled together.” Regina’s voice was low. Careful. But Emma didn’t miss the hesitation. Didn’t miss the way that Regina’s gaze snapped back to her own. 
Didn’t miss that tiny flicker of longing in her eyes. 
They spent enough time dancing around each other for Emma to know it when she saw it. And she saw it. Plain as day. 
And that’s why she gathered up enough courage to slide her hand beneath Regina’s jacket. Over the curve of her waist. 
She let out a slow breath as the warmth seeped against her palm, eyes fluttering shut. 
Her thumb brushed over the smooth fabric of Regina’s shirt, and in the stillness of the night, Emma caught the tiniest hum that racked up Regina’s throat. It was enough to prompt her to open her eyes. Because she needed to know if Regina was looking at her the way that Emma wanted her to, the way that she used to. She needed to know. 
Emma startled, shoving herself back against the tree. Because Regina had gotten close, so close. Too close. And Emma could feel her soft breath washing over her cheeks. Could smell her perfume, still perfectly placed, even after the long trek here. And a battle. 
And Regina was leaning in, leaning up on her toes. Closer, closer.  
Emma would have closed her eyes if she hadn’t been so focused, so completely enamored with that little scar above Regina’s lip. The way it stretched as Regina licked her lips, smoothed them together. 
And then Regina let out the smallest, shakiest breath. And then she pressed her forehead against Emma’s. Sighed. 
Somehow, that felt more intimate that a kiss. Than a hug. Than anything Emma had been expecting. She didn’t know what she had been expecting. But she knew that this was infinitely better. 
“You’re going to be the death of me, Miss Swan,” Regina breathed. And was she…? Yes. Regina was nuzzling her forehead against her. 
But the words stuck, and Emma didn’t like them. 
“Why do you keep doing that?” she asked softly, pushing at Regina gently. Pushing her back, despite everything that screamed for her to pull her closer. “Why do you keep calling me Miss Swan?” 
Regina swallowed. Straightened. “So now I’m not allowed to say your name? It’s always infinite, pointless rules with you.” 
“I wish you would.” 
Shit. 
Shit.  
“Would what?” 
“Say my name.” She needed to stop talking. There was an inch of space between them now and she could finally breathe, and she needed to stop talking before she suffocated again. “I wish you would call me Emma… like you used to.” 
Welp. She never could trust her heart. And here it was, overriding her brain and screwing her over once again. 
Or so she thought. Until Regina didn’t push her away and tell her off. Until Regina didn’t laugh in her face and call her a stupid child. 
Until Regina stared her down, jaw working and nostrils flaring with deliberate breaths. Eyes searching. 
Until Regina swallowed around whatever she was about to say. Squeezed her hands into fists. And breathed Emma’s name out on a ragged exhale. 
It did something, that breath. Emma didn’t quite know what it was, but it set something hot pooling through her veins and something spiky constricting around her heart. 
And if she thought she couldn’t breathe then, the air got kicked out of her again as Regina repeated it. Firmer this time. 
“Emma…” 
She stepped closer. Pressed in. Pinned Emma against that stupid fucking tree. 
And Emma could have sworn she saw Regina’s hand shaking as she smoothed it over Emma’s shoulder. Slid it down to her waist. Squeezed. 
“Emma,” she breathed, and it almost sounded like a plea. 
Her breath was heavy now. Emma could see her chest heaving under her shirt. Could feel the tiny, fast puffs of it against her lips. But most of all— 
Most of all, Emma could feel that energy coming off of her. Crackling and sizzling and hot. Pounding through the thick of the air and pulling Emma in, in, in. Making every atom inside of her vibrate with a want that she couldn’t describe. Didn’t understand. All she understood was Regina. All she could comprehend was Regina. Their breathing syncing, their heartbeats thudding together. 
And she didn’t know why it got like this, why the need rang out this loud. Why Emma’s body responded to Regina’s like this. She knew it wasn’t a spell. It wasn’t a curse. She didn’t know if it was their magic, having its own conversation and yanking them together, or if it was just Regina herself, Emma’s body ready and waiting to worship her like the goddess she was. 
It wouldn’t take much now, just the smallest tilt of her chin. The tiniest shift. And Emma could do that. She could absolutely do that. But so could Regina. And she wasn’t. And Emma didn’t know if she was debating, what she was waiting for, when she had Emma literally pinned and at her mercy— 
Regina’s hand tightened, nails digging in. 
“Someone’s here.” 
And then the moment broke, the tension shattering around Emma like her own personal wall of ice as Regina pushed away. 
She barely had time to think about how fucking ironic that was, how cold she felt in this stupid forest without Regina pressing into her. And then Regina said her name again. 
This time, it sounded like a warning. This time, it was too wary and too firm, and Emma decidedly didn’t like it coming out of Regina’s mouth when it sounded like that. When Regina had that look in her eye. 
“We should leave,” Regina tried, reaching for Emma’s arm. Her hand? God, Emma couldn’t think. All she could register was Regina pulling her off of the tree, dragging her back the way they had come. And god, how could Regina be so put together and observant after— 
“What a welcome visit, ladies.” 
The wave of cold hit Emma in the stomach, pulsing off of the snow queen and hanging rigid in the air. Keeping her pinned. Slowing her down. Regina’s hand fell from hers. 
Against everything, it burned. 
It all happened so fast after that. 
One second, it was pleasantries. Niceties. Everything was civil and Emma thought that maybe they could all actually have a proper conversation with her head screwed on straight. And then Regina’s mirror, in the wrong hands. And then those hands, lifting Regina off the ground and suffocating her. Suffocating Emma. 
Ice flying, cold air filling her lungs. A whirl of snow, and quiet descending once more on the forest. Regina huffing out a long breath. Emma reaching for her, questioning. Regina glaring back, shaking her head. And then the anger, the betrayal. That acute hurt from before that had been thrown on the back burner, evaporated to oblivion by the feel of Regina’s hand on Emma’s waist. 
It all came crashing back down at that look on Regina’s face, fully formed. A brick in her stomach. 
Like she said, it all happened so fast. Emma asked a simple question with too much hurt laced into it. And Regina bit back. Too hard. 
Emma blinked, and the next thing she knew, Regina was gone in a swirl of smoke, her words ringing low and dangerous in the air. 
“I don’t want to.” 
And so, Emma did the only thing she could do. The only thing she knew how to do. She took a deep breath, pretended that Regina’s words didn’t shatter her heart. Again. And then she went about the rest of her day, just like usual.
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onceuponarewatch · 8 months
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ONCE UPON A REWATCH SEASON 4 EPISODE 05: BREAKING GLASS is now available!
In which The Narrators Three discuss: Blueberry Poptarts, First Queer Crush Vibes, Can Snow & Will be in every scene together please?, Good For Sydney, Elsa’s Missing Confidence, and There’s Something About SwanQueen (although FrozenSwan is also pretty dope)
Listen to Once Upon a Rewatch: Spotify | Apple Music | Stitcher | Google Podcast | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | Breaker |
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dinneratgrannys · 11 months
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You don’t mind the company, do you?
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Get someone who looks at you the way David looks at Mary Margaret.
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likehandlingroses · 1 year
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OUAT Rewatch 4x05 - Breaking Glass
Living in Storybrooke, I’ve got my son and my parents. And I love them. But they can’t always understand me. They don’t know what it feels like to be rejected and misunderstood, not the way I do. Not the way you do. And somehow that makes us, I don’t know--unique. Or maybe even special.
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intothewickedwood · 2 years
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Once Upon A Time Rewatch: Links to My Recaps
So, I finished 3 year long rewatch of ouat & ouatiw a few weeks ago and I thought I’d post links to my live reaction posts of each episode. If anyone’s interested in anything specific you can find it here. It’s also just to have them all in one place. I would love to see your comments about the episodes or in regards to any questions I raised, or anything really if you would like to add anything! I’d love to talk Ouat with you!
All Episodes Tag
Chronological Order | Last To First Order
Season One
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1x01 Pilot | 1x02 The Thing You Love Most | 1x03 Snow Falls | 1x04 The Price of Gold | 1x05 That Still Small Voice | 1x06 The Shepherd | 1x07 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 1x08 Desperate Souls | 1x09 True North | 1x10 7:15 A.M. | 1x11 Fruit of the Poisonous Tree | 1x12 Skin Deep | 1x13 What Happened to Frederick | 1x14 Dreamy | 1x15 Red-Handed | 1x16 Heart of Darkness | 1x17 Hat Trick | 1x18 The Stable Boy | 1x19 The Return | 1x20 The Stranger | 1x21 An Apple Red as Blood | 1x22 A Land Without Magic
Season Two
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2x01 Broken | 2x02 We Are Both | 2x03 Lady of the Lake | 2x04 The Crocodile | 2x05 The Doctor | 2x06 Tallahassee | 2x07 Child of the Moon | 2x08 Into the Deep | 2x09 Queen of Hearts | 2x10 The Cricket Game | 2x11 The Outsider | 2x12 In the Name of the Brother | 2x13 Tiny | 2x14 Manhattan | 2x15 The Queen is Dead | 2x16 The Miller's Daughter | 2x17 Welcome to Storybrooke | 2x18 Selfless, Brave and True | 2x19 Lacey | 2x20 The Evil Queen | 2x21 Second Star to the Right | 2x22 And Straight on 'til Morning
Season Three
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3x01 The Heart of the Truest Believer | 3x02 Lost Girl | 3x03 Quite a Common Fairy | 3x04 Nasty Habits | 3x05 Good Form | 3x06 Ariel | 3x07 Dark Hollow | 3x08 Think Lovely Thoughts | 3x09 Save Henry | 3x10 The New Neverland | 3x11 Going Home | 3x12 New York City Serenade | 3x13 Witch Hunt | 3x14 The Tower | 3x15 Quiet Minds | 3x16 It's Not Easy Being Green | 3x17 The Jolly Roger | 3x18 Bleeding Through | 3x19 A Curious Thing | 3x20 Kansas | 3x21 Snow Drifts | 3x22 There's No Place Like Home
Season Four
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4x01 A Tale of Two Sisters | 4x02 White Out | 4x03 Rocky Road | 4x04 The Apprentice | 4x05 Breaking Glass | 4x06 Family Business | 4x07 The Snow Queen | 4x08 Smash the Mirror, Part 1 | 4x08 Smash the Mirror, Part 2 | 4x09 Fall | 4x10 Shattered Sight | 4x11 Heroes and Villains | 4x12 Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4x13 Unforgiven | 4x14 Enter the Dragon | 4x15 Poor Unfortunate Soul | 4x16 Best Laid Plans | 4x17 Heart of Gold | 4x18 Sympathy for the De Vil | 4x19 Lily | 4x20 Mother | 4x21 Operation Mongoose, Part 1 | 4x22 Operation Mongoose, Part 2
Season Five
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5x01 The Dark Swan | 5x02 The Price | 5x03 Siege Perilous | 5x04 The Broken Kingdom | 5x05 Dreamcatcher | 5x06 The Bear and the Bow | 5x07 Nimue | 5x08 Birth | 5x09 The Bear King | 5x10 Broken Heart | 5x11 Swan Song | 5x12 Souls of the Departed | 5x13 Labor of Love | 5x14 Devil's Due | 5x15 The Brothers Jones | 5x16 Our Decay | 5x17 Her Handsome Hero | 5x18 Ruby Slippers | 5x19 Sisters | 5x20 Firebird | 5x21 Last Rites | 5x22 Only You | 5x23  An Untold Story
Season Six
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6x01 The Savior | 6x02 Bitter Draught | 6x03 The Other Shoe | 6x04 Strange Case | 6x05 Street Rats | 6x06 Dark Waters | 6x07 Heartless | 6x08 I'll Be Your Mirror | 6x09 Changelings | 6x10 Wish You Were Here | 6x11 Tougher Than the Rest | 6x12 Murder Most Foul | 6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns | 6x14 Page 23 | 6x15 A Wondrous Place | 6x16 Mother's Little Helper | 6x17 Awake | 6x18 Where Bluebirds Fly | 6x19 The Black Fairy | 6x20 The Song in Your Heart | 6x21 The Final Battle, Part 1 | 6x22 The Final Battle, Part 2
Season Seven
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7x01 Hyperion Heights | 7x02 A Pirate's Life | 7x03 The Garden of Forking Paths | 7x04 Beauty | 7x05 Greenbacks | 7x06 Wake Up Call | 7x07 Eloise Gardener | 7x08 Pretty in Blue | 7x09 One Little Tear | 7x10 The Eighth Witch | 7x11 Secret Garden | 7x12 Taste of the Heights | 7x13 Knightfall | 7x14 The Girl in the Tower | 7x15 Sisterhood | 7x16 Breadcrumbs | 7x17 Chosen | 7x18 The Guardian | 7x19 Flower Child | 7x20 Is This Henry Mills? | 7x21 Homecoming | 7x22 Leaving Storybrooke
Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
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1x01 Down the Rabbit Hole | 1x02 Trust Me | 1x03 Forget Me Not | 1x04 The Serpent | 1x05 Heart of Stone | 1x06 Who's Alice | 1x07 Bad Blood | 1x08 Home | 1x09 Nothing to Fear | 1x10 Dirty Little Secrets | 1x11 Heart of the Matter | 1x12 To Catch a Thief | 1x13 And They Lived…
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wolfthatroamsshadows · 9 months
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Discipline of Submission - a Swanqueen snippet
A/N: Too short and unfinished to put on AO3 I think. But just enough to put on tumblr. Directly after that scene in 4x05 - Breaking Glass. You know the one. Haven’t seen OUAT in years but have been on a fanfic reading spree for the last few weeks. Don’t know where this came from though... it was just there one moment.
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Emma studied Regina for a moment. It was good that she didn't want to kill her, but there was still something more. She took a few small steps towards Regina like she was magnetically pulled.
A glint in Regina's eyes halted her. A warning. And then something clicked in Emma's mind. Suddenly, she understood.
"But you still want to punish me. Need to punish me."
Regina looked away. A deep breath and the setting of shoulders spoke for her. Regina was fighting against herself. Good and evil warring within her.
Emma didn't know where it was coming from, and this was absolute madness. She sent a quick prayer to whomever might be listening and desperately hoped she wasn't mistaken in her assumption.
She took another step forward, bringing her directly in front of Regina, which resulted in a dangerous look thrown her way. And just as Regina opened her mouth to lash out, Emma sank to her knees never breaking eye contact. "Hippopotamus." She then bowed her head in clear submission.
"What?" Regina's use of 'what' in favor of 'I beg your pardon' spoke volumes of her confusion. Emma might have smiled if she wasn't so focused on sinking into her role.
"My safe word." Emma said evenly. She could feel Regina staring at her.
"What are you saying?"
"You need to punish me."
"I don't want-"
Emma's gaze snapped up, her body never leaving the submissive pose. "You need this. I'm offering."
Regina's eyes were practically boring into Emma's soul. Looking for something. She seemed to find something for she leaned down and laid a surprisingly gently hand on Emma's right cheek. "Do you fully understand what you are offering?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes… My Queen." It was barely a whisper, but it had conviction.
Regina closed her eyes and bowed her head. "Very well." Opening her eyes, her complete posture changed and the air around her changed. This wasn't just Regina anymore, this was the Queen, if not the Evil Queen.
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demonicbaby666 · 10 months
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WHAT IS UR FAVE SEASON OF OUAT
This is bullying cause I can't just pick one so imma choose multiple and bore you with why I love them.
Season 3
Specifically 3a, I bloody loved Neverland, I feel like Pan is such a cool villain, and just the whole thing of Emma and Regina going to save their son, very nom nom. Also nom nom, the outfits in Neverland, which I refuse to ever shut up about. 3b is meh, enjoyable, but I prefer Zelena later on, I don't crazily love her in earlier seasons.
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Season 4 (probs my fav)
Starting off, I FUCKING LOVE ANNA! The whole frozen thing, I wasn’t sure at first but honestly I can say confidently now, it’s so fucking fun! The season also has two of my favourite episodes. 4x05 and 4x20 because HELLO, they're packed with Emma and Regina, more importantly, them together. Eh hem, the ending, EMMA SACRIFICING HERSELF FOR REGINA! GOBBLE GOBBLE.
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Season 5
Dark Swan. That is all.
Favourite moment: “You’re about to be punished.” 🤭
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I condensed this because I didn't want to be insufferable, though I fear it is already too late for that. Moral is, I love pretty much every season (excluding season 7 because no matter how many times I've rewatched the show I just never seem to wanna watch it...)
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bbcsassdeadass · 3 years
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2022 and this still is the worst missed opportunity
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lumadreamland · 8 months
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365 days of ouat ladies: day 209
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vasfasan · 7 months
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What the fuck is up with ouat 4a episode titles honestly?
4x05 Breaking Glass
4x08 Smash the Mirror 1
4x09 Smash the Mirror 2
4x11 Shattered Sight
....and you expect me NOT to get confused???????
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piracytheorist · 5 years
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dinneratgrannys · 11 months
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ONCE UPON A TIME 4.05, Breaking Glass
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