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#sq love emma regina

grainsofexcellence · 1 year

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“Hey…”

The brunette ignored her.

“Regina, I’m sorry I freaked out… can we… can we talk about this, please?”

The brunette stood and flipped her hair. “I’m going out.”

Emma took in her outfit. “Oh… where did you want to go?” She felt like she had messed up again. She hated moving and Regina knew that, or maybe she had forgotten. Maybe Emma needed to explain that moving reminded her of the homes she was shuffled between before her parents adopted her. Shit, her parents hadn’t even been able to meet Regina yet.

“Oh no. I’m going out. Alone.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23115847/chapters/115923745#workskin

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once-upon-a-side-character · 2 years

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Once Upon a Time Appreciation Week:

Day 3 - Favourite Romantic Pairing: Emma/Regina

“...Regina. 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.”

#ouatweek2022 #userstorybrooke #ouat #swan queen #once upon a time #emma swan #regina mills #my gifs #laughing I feel like i did this wrong somehow #like?? it didn't HAVE to a canon pairing right?#anyway controversial maybe but I've been loving sq since I first watched Once back in 2016

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abbie-carmichael · 10 months

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how do i make when emma falls in love about swanqueen

#once upon a time #ouat #emma swan #Regina Mills #swanqueen #sq #taylor swift #speak now tv #when emma falls in love

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mcpercky · 1 year

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So I’ve been writing another SwanQueen Fanfic and decided to share my playlist with you guys. It servers as inspiration for me when writing about them so it might help someone else. Feel free to add songs that you think fits this couple :)

My SwanQueen Playlist

Love/ Fun:

Afterglow - Taylor swift (one of my personal fav)

In my room x you came - remix + speed up

Those eyes - New West

I’ll be waiting - Cian Ducrot

Soldier, poet, king - The Oh Hellos

Daylight - Maroon 5 (one of my personal fav)

Emily - James Arthur (this one but Henry’s name)

I hear a symphony- Cody Fry

Enchanted - Taylor Swift slowed

Fire on fire - Sam Smith

Tacones Rojos - Sebastian Yatra

Numb - marshmellow ft Khalid (for this one I always imagine every character in the Rabbit Hole having a blast)

Fix you - Coldplay

Speechless - Dan + Shay

Still falling for you - Ellie Goulding

Here with me - d4vd

Always - Gavin James

If you’re not the one - Daniel Bedingfield

Dandelions - Ruth B.

Infinity- Jaymes Young

True love - Pink (one of my personal fav + literally them)

Hurt/ Comfort:

I drink wine - Adele

Car’s outside - James Arthur

Love you in the dark - Adele

Wonder - Shawn Mendes (one of my personal fav)

Touch - Sleeping at last slowed

Saturn - Sleeping at last (one of my personal fav + very deep song)

Dancing all alone - Clinton Kane

Forget me - Lewis Capaldi

Atlantis - Seafret

Iris - googoodolls

Past lives - sapientdream (cover)

In this shirt - the irrepressibles (very deep song)

Let’s hurt tonight - One Republic

Hold on - Chord Overstreet slowed + rain

You say - Lauren Daigle

If the world was ending - Jp Saxe

Rescue - Lauren Daigle

Don’t give up on me - Andy Grammer

Falling like the stars - James Arthur

Ghost of you - 5 SOS

Control - Zoe Wees (Regina feelings)

Silence - Marshmellow ft Khalid slowed

What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts

The loneliest - Maneskin

Pointless - Lewis Capaldi

Set fire to the rain x another love mashup

As the world caves in - Sarah Cothran

Naked - James Arthur

Angst/ War zone:

Bones- Imagine Dragons

How to train your dragon - flying theme (literally imagine Emma coming to a fight on a back of a dragon holding for dear life but still showing off and waving her sword)

Once upon a dream - Lana Del Rey

Uprising - Muse

Stranger things theme song - C418 remix

Star walkin’ - Lil Nas X

Venom- Eminem

Demons - Imagine Dragons

Whatever it takes - Imagine Dragons (literally every imagine dragons song makes me want to throw hands lol)

#swan queen #regina mills #emma swan #swanqueen #swen #dynamic: swan queen #emma and regina #swan mills #ouat #once upon a time #sq #swan-mills #swan mills family #playlist #true love

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you-taste-likewhiskey · 6 months

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My Roman Empire is the way Emma and Regina were so clearly made for each other and that them falling in love would have made an incredible/influential storyline, but the writers were so afraid of success and good writing that they decided to turn two independent, powerful women into damsels in distress who base their happiness on the presence of men. And they did this for the sole purpose of proving to SQ shippers that Emma and Regina were straight.

#i think about this daily #probably too much #emmaswanedit #reginamillsedit #emmaswan #emma swan #regina mills #swan queen #once upon a time #swan mills family #swanqueen #swan mills #lana parrilla #reginamills #regina and emma #emma x regina #swanqueenedit #swan queen endgame

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grainsofexcellence · 1 year

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I had my first SQ Advant calendar story! and it's a piece called Love From Tehran and a tribute to my family and friends fighting for Women, Life, Freedom in Iran. All my love.#mahsaamini #freeIran #SwanQueen

Love From Tehran

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Regina could have been in Canada, at home, she could have been in the states continuing her Masters but no, her grandmother had fallen ill, and here she was – in Tehran – when the greatest fight for women’s rights of our century exploded.

Emma Swan had been covering the developing story in Iran as a correspondent for Al Jazeera. She had even dyed her hair dark for this assignment, tanning lightly to fit in with the crowd. She had been shielded by the Italian Embassy in Iran as a Canadian-American citizen. But they couldn’t protect her out on the streets as her team went reporting.*note -- it is marked as "graphic" just as a warning. there is a gunshot but not overly graphic and there is a quick doctors without borders type gunshot medical scene, you can skip those sections if you need or start reading and see if those two paragraphs need to be skipped or not

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swanqueenelmaxshadowhunters · 2 months

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what is your favorite swanqueen scene?

there's a lot of sq scenes I love with all my heart but if I have to choose only one, then it will be Emma sacrificing herself to save Regina from the darkness.

#swanqueen #emma swan #regina mills #swan queen #once upon a time #swanqueennation #emma x regina #regina and emma

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ouatsqincorrect · 9 months

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ok once upon a time failed in many regards but one thing they continuously did right were the scenes of sq on regina’s front porch (whether we’re talking about shipping them or not, it doesn’t matter)

anyway i’m gonna rant so.

in 1x01, regina starts off on the porch, being higher than emma and showing the audience that she has the power but she comes down when she’s threatening her, which is interesting because now they’re on the same level. which i’m guessing is supposed to give us some sort of moment of clarity for emma or maybe regina doesn’t really believe what she’s saying. they’re suddenly on the same level though which means in this moment their power is equal. regina has the ability to fuck up emma’s life and emma has the ability to fuck up hers. but then regina steps back onto the porch and emma doubts regina’s love for henry, telling us she’s doubting regina and that doubt actually gives regina some of the power back (because she actually really does love henry)

also the coloring of this scene is perfection. it’s meant to make us feel threatened and misled. and show that regina is being intimating. (the color of their outfits is also so important)

OH and that arc shot!! when the camera does a 360 around emma and we’re suddenly facing regina, this is meant to make us feel a little lost but keep those power dynamics between them

honeslty this is one of my favorite scenes in the entire show because it’s actually really well thought out, directed and edited. plus jmo and lana acted their asses off

THEN, in 1x18, we have this other moment of them on the porch where emma’s accusing regina of having framed mary margaret (not in so many words but the point is there). in this scene, there is literally not one moment where the two of them are on a different level. emma has gained some power, she has figured regina out, and regina no longer has the upper hand. (their outfits being almost the exact same also proves that point)

in 2x10, they’re back on the porch again when emma confronts regina about archie’s death. they start off at equal height, and then when emma steps off the porch, we literally see regina step down too. regina may be getting confronted and accused of something horrible, but they’re still equal here. regina even knocks emma down, but emma gets right back up.

not to mention, they’re outfits in this scene are SO important because they literally are the exact opposite of what they wore in 1x01.

and then finally, in 5x05, we have another scene with them on the porch when emma’s the dark one and regina confronts her about camelot and what happened with the dreamcatcher. (again, it’s all about confronting. these two only have scenes on this porch when it’s about one of them confronting the other)

they start off with the same level of power. they’re at each others height, until regina leaves and emma walks off the step. she literally has that power taken away from her in this moment because, arguably, she’s just lost her son and regina and even though she’s the dark one, that loss takes something from her.

and AGAIN—their outfits. regina is wearing red (shes pissed, has the power, we’re being encouraged to focus on her and maybe even relate) and emma’s wearing black (she’s depressed, and has power, even if that power gets taken form her just a little in this scene)

the fact that this scene happens at night (when all the other ones happened during the day) i think is also really important. we as the audience feel a little uneasy here and that’s done on purpose.

these scenes just really get to me because they genuinely get the job done. they do exactly what television is supposed to do, which is affect the audience without actually saying something. we don’t need to hear what emma and regina are saying in these scenes to understand their roles, their power, and the way they feel about that particular moment

#ok thanks for coming to my Ted talk and all that #regina mills #emma swan #swan queen #once upon a time #ouat #ouat rambles

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ouatsnark · 2 months

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i just read the worst fanfic of all time and the context is emma breaking off her engagement because hook was physically abusive to her (???) and one of the excerpts include “When a woman says ‘no’,” Regina plunged her hand into Killian’s back and yanked out his heart, “she means no.” HEFJIBDRDV. i will send you the link if i have to it's just so bad it includes emma yelling at her parents with stuff you debunked like giving her up to save her life from regina. sq shippers really hate emma omg

Yes. SwanQueen and Evil Regals 100% hate Emma Swan. Well, they love season 1 Emma but they never wanted her to change. Emma is only a stand in for themselves. They would much rather see Emma under Regina’s heel and being called “idiot” by Regina than seeing Emma’s complete joy with Killian Jones calling her “amazing, beautiful, strong etc”. And this is based on the edits I’ve had the misfortune of seeing on Instagram because no one respects tags over there. The “art” they make would have people’s heads spinning if the gender roles were reversed but it’s somehow perfectly acceptable as long as it’s Regina. It’s OK because they find Regina hot and they themselves want to be abused by her.

If SwanQueeners had an ounce of honesty and even remotely tried to follow/understand canon (and acknowledge where the writing got it wrong), then they'd know that Emma should be 100x more angry at Regina for abusing Henry, making her an orphan and just overall treating her and her loved ones like they are lesser. But those that favor Regina aren’t honest about canon at all or wish to recognize how heinous the writing was when it came to how the other characters handled Regina. That and they’d have to come to terms with how crappy of a character Regina is.

And it’s really hysterical having Regina standing against domestic violence when Regina was the one that got away with so much abuse. Regina abused Henry and Snow. Regina also kept a sex slave (Graham in the EF)n and forced him into a relationship with her against his will (cursed Graham). I actually talked recently about how Regina is more like to abuse her partner than Killian Jones: CaptainSwan abusive marriage debunked.

I mean which one has struck Emma out of jealousy? Or anger? Or just enjoyed being cruel to her? Their queen!

So they can write all of the AU and highly OOC fanfic they want but at the end of the day canon reigns supreme. Because using their logic, Regina is the one more likely to abuse Emma because Regina has a history of doing so even after her redemption and she was never consumed by evil in the first place.

#anti regina mills #anti swanqueen #fandom asks #what the hell kinda fic did that regina apologist just write #reacting to ouat fanfics

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swanqueensalad · 1 year

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i’m not sure if you’ve already done something similar but i was wondering if you had any hc for regina’s relationship with clothes? i just feel like there’s so much to dig into with all her mother’s bullshit and how she was raised to value appearances, how performative a lot of her outfits were as the evil queen, the shift in how she dresses after the curse breaks, her and emma’s opposite approaches to how they dress themselves. idk i just feel like if anybody else would also have thoughts on this, it would be you

anon i am literally in love with you for sending me this ask. honestly why have i never done a post on this before!!! this is SO interesting to me!! clothing is definitely a hugely important part of regina's character and journey over the course of the show.

PSA: this turned into a literal play by play biography of regina's life through clothing. ur welcome. also this is totally unedited, we die like men

I think clothing means a lot of different things to Regina. I think she both revels in and resents the glitz and glamour, uses it as her shield, weaponry and armour but also it can be very vulnerable for her... it's a lot

and I agree that, unfortunately like many things with Regina, we have to start by tracking back to her childhood and how Cora raised her

Regina is a young noblewoman in the enchanted forest, and much of her 'value' to her family would lie in making an advantageous marriage. Layer on top of that Cora's absolute single minded determination for success, social climbing and for Regina to become queen one day and you just KNOW appearances were a huge deal when Regina was growing up (we see this threaded through canon too, in Cora magically changing Regina's clothes/hair/makeup for her)

to Cora, Regina's beauty was always a valuable tool she could use, but her brutal ambition would have led to absolute perfectionism.

After all, sweetheart, queens have to be perfect.

I think even when Regina was a very young child, a huge amount of weight was put onto her clothing and how she was presented.

I can imagine Cora choosing elaborate outfits for her infant daughter, dressing her up like a doll and making sure the ribbons in her hair matched exactly, being absolutely critical of everything to ensure her child was the best dressed, the most perfect

And I think this hugely impacted Regina's childhood. Cora would have allowed Regina very little freedom, partially because she was conditioning her to behave like a queen (or just like an obedient pawn for her to do whatever she wanted with) but also partially because Regina literally could not risk getting messy or dirty.

Image is everything, darling.

As child, Regina couldn't really play because she would ruin her dress, or her hair, or scuff her shoes. She had no choice but to occupy herself with the 'proper' pursuits that her mother approved of, because she physically couldn't do anything else. No running, tree climbing, flower picking etc for tiny Regina. Lots of sitting quietly and looking pretty, even as a child.

I can definitely see Cora showing Regina off from an early age, dressing her up like a doll, inviting other noblewomen for tea and dressing Regina better than any of their children, making her sit nicely and quietly.

If Regina were to be 'bad' and accidently dirty her dresses, mess up her hair etc. I think Cora would definitely punish her quite severely. because from day one, Cora was drilling into Regina that her appearance was one of the most valuable and worthwhile things about her. Queens have to be perfect.

And of course, little Regina doesn't want to be a queen, she just wants to go play in the meadow with the other children, but she wants to be a good girl more than anything, because mother hurts her when she's not.

As Regina grows older, I think Cora becomes far more critical of her appearance. A doll like, cute child is far easier to keep 'perfect' than an adolescent girl, and it's also all a huge control tactic for Cora to keep Regina affection starved and desperate to please her. So there would be backhanded comments, the constant pressure to be more beautiful. The feeling started to grow in Regina that she was pretty, just not pretty enough, never enough.

Ik I've talked about this before here (TW for EDs) but I headcanon Cora as absolutely fucking up a young Regina's body image and relationship with food too, controlling/restricting her diet. So I can imagine that dress fittings became a source of enormous stress and pain for an adolescent and teenage Regina.

In the enchanted forest, as a noble, all of Regina's clothes were likely hand made from expensive fabrics. Cora would spare no expense for making her daughter the most fashionable, beautiful, ideal young lady. So there was enormous pressure on Regina to 'wear the clothes well' and to keep them pristine. But these fittings would have been hell, because Cora definitely was stood in the corner, never ever asking Regina's opinions or how she feels in the clothes, but only ever criticizing the fit, asking if her corset could be laced tighter, and despairing over tiny mistakes.

Despite all this though, I do think a young Regina enjoyed clothing and fashion in a way. As much as her mother made it absolute hell, Regina really did like the few dresses she was allowed to have a say in and I think she always liked pretty things, she just wished she was allowed to like them on her own terms.

I think the white dress we see her wearing in a lot of her early EF flashbacks was one of her favourites because it's pretty but also simple and comfortable, something she would have chosen herself and just luckily happened to be considered suitable by her mother.

I've written about it in this fic but I also think Cora would have been actively sexualising Regina from a young age, trying to make her as appealing to suitors and other noblemen as possible to get more power and advantage. This would make Regina very uncomfortable, and I think at this point she really resented all this elaborate clothing and heavy jewelry.

There's also something really interesting in canon ouat costume design I want to discuss because I've never seen it discussed before: in 2x015 The Queen Is Dead, we get a glimpse of the fashions in Leopold's kingdom around the time Regina and Snow were about to meet for the first time. We see Queen Eva, clearly an empowered adult woman, wearing a tightly fitting deep red dress covered in jewels. Meanwhile the ten (ish?) year old Snow White wears a more appropriately girlish frock with puffy sleeves, a simple bodice and full skirts. Around this time, we mostly see Regina dressed in the latter style, implying she is still being dressed and presented more as a young lady/maiden than an adult. The blue dress Cora puts her in to meet King Leopold is a very similar design to Snow's, with full sleeves and skirt; her riding coats are also loose and puffy sleveed; the dress she wears at dinner when married to Leopold is full sleeved and skirted too; the white dress we see her in several times is the exception, but looser still than Eva's style.

I believe the earliest we see Regina in that adult style dress is in Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, when she's years into her marriage and about to kill her husband and seize power. This is a moment of empowerment for her shown through costume, and a clear shift she's gone from girl to woman, which is actually disgusting considering this is at the end of her marriage to the elderly king.

My point here is that I think throughout her marriage the world still saw Regina as a child to a degree, a poor replacement for Eva, and Regina was still very much a young woman, who did not feel any older or freer. Her marriage kept her trapped and unempowered, just like her mother had.

She always had to be beautiful and perfect, and this pressure was amped up even more as queen. I can see a newly married Regina trying so hard in the first few years to always be perfect, constructing elaborate outfits, hair and makeup just like Cora taught her, to try and be good enough for Leopold, to make him more kind to her, to make anyone at court notice her at all, but it never works. She is still only ever objectified or sidelined or both.

When she begins training with Rumple, we start to see Regina developing a new sense of style: she begins wearing darker colours, to mimic her mentor in a way. I think this is very indicative of her mental state, how easily influenced she was, how much she wanted to latch onto this one source of potential hope and power in her life.

But this was of course a transitional period, and I do think it's interesting that we see her in 1x11, seducing Sidney and killing her husband finally wearing one of the long, tight, elegant 'adult' dresses Eva wore as queen. This is when Regina really steps into her own power.

Once again to refer briefly to the same fic I think in the few years leading up to this (remember, as I love to remind everyone, her entire horrific marriage was probably around 8 years at least), Regina began to learn more of her seduction politics, and started to understand how she could manipulate the way men behaved towards her. She started to fully understand what her mother meant, how to choose a dress for the right situation, how to choose a neckline, a lipstick shade, a way of walking and talking.

I think this took her a while to stop feeling disgusted by. At some point, the rush of even this tiny way of grabbing power was exhilarating, long overdue. At some point, that stopped making her skin crawl.

Starting to wear darker colours was I think a way of rebelling against her past self. I really think throughout her reign as the 'evil queen', Regina had to loathe her younger, innocent self because that was the version of her that got hurt, used, raped, manipulated, brokenhearted. It was easier to hate that version of herself, to blame herself for being weak and stupid (Mother's voice in her head, always) than to fully feel the pain she was still in. So the pastels and whites of her youth were completely gone. She buried them, and the girl who loved them, as far as she could.

It also seems like pastels were commonplace in the Enchanted Forest based on every extra in every ballroom scene ever, and at this point Regina was so reliant on her attractiveness as a form of power that wearing dark colours and deep jewel tones was a way to ensure she always stood out, always caught the eye.

As her reign grew, I think the Evil Queen costumes grew more and more extravagant as a show of wealth and power to dazzle the commoners and intimidate all the nobles. Regina was showing them with her style choices that she was in a league of her own. And the more she leaned into it, the glitz and glamour, all the diamonds and makeup, the things she hated as a young girl, the safer she feels. The more hidden. The more superhuman.

The Evil Queen was a physical symbol as well as an idea of who Regina was. I think of it almost like how celebrities have public persona, sexualised and stylised, instantly recognisable and fastidiously designed. I think this made Regina, a physically small woman, much smaller than all the other older, male leaders and rulers, feel protected, confident and powerful.

(I think it's also a defense against the fact that as a very young girl Regina was sexualised by her own mother for a much older man, for his whole court I suppose. Regina has always been taught, through her mother's words and actions, that her beauty and attractiveness correlate to her worth, power and usefulness. And now she sort of enacts that on herself to keep herself safe. Because they can't sexualise her if she's sexualised herself first, they can't be using her if she's letting them and using their lust for her to her own ends. Her beauty keeps her safe. Queens have to be perfect, Regina.)

When we get to Storybrooke, I think it translates somewhat. In this world, political figures are the power symbols, and unfortunately in this world too, female politicians are more successful if they are polished and beautiful. Or so Regina would see it.

Queens have to be perfect, sweetheart.

She upkeeps the Evil Queen thing where she has a recognisable image, this polished perfect professional thing. Though this world is on a much smaller scale, Regina's mindset is not at all. She would never be seen out of the house without a perfect face of makeup, without perfectly done hair, manicured nails, the right outfit, the right shoes. Because queens have to be perfect. You can't show them a single crack in your armour.

It isn't all a chore though. I think Regina really does enjoy her own style, especially in Storybrooke as it is so different to anything Cora or Leopold would have had her wearing, and because it's part of a world she made for herself, there's more of a sense of independence and ownership of her own style. I think she has a really nice sense of routine in doing her makeup and hair, which is good for her too.

But still in Storybrooke, we see Regina using her attractiveness, using seduction as a often reached for tool in her arsenal.

And on the other hand we have Emma.

Now, this is a Regina post but the ask did specify and I do find it interesting and want to discuss, so I'll give a much briefer overview of my headcanons about Emma and her style.

Off the bat I'll say I consider 'Emma's style' as season 1 and 2 Emma. (I'm not going to analyse the straight-girl-style-ification of Emma Swan in the later seasons bc that's another story and also just Bad storytelling imo)

Skinny jeans, boots, tanks, plaid, leather jackets, beanies, baseball shirts. She's mostly casual, can be a bit edgy, a bit lesbian swagger, a bit teenage boy (at times). Sometimes she does a winged liner, sometimes nothing. And she dresses with nothing else in mind but what makes her feel confident and cool and herself.

Because Emma as a kid never really had the freedom to pick her own clothes. The homes got a lot of donations, and sometimes there were cool things she could grab a hold of if she managed to beat the older kids to it, but a lot of the time she was just in whatever hand me downs she could get. Not ideal for a young queer girl trying to work out her identity.

So when she started to establish a life for herself, the first time she buys her red leather jacket etc, these moments are really meaningful to Emma because it's more about being able to own her sense of self and stand on her own two feet in a stable way rather than just being about the clothes.

Which is so beautiful, because it just goes to show that once again Regina and Emma are complimentary opposites. Clothes were never important in Emma's life, so when she gets the chance, she just likes being able to wear whatever the fuck she wants, to never really worry about it, and to feel good. To Regina, clothes were always enormously important and so a great deal of thought and preparation goes into everything she wears.

I think it is interesting the way they interact in this case, because they are so different, and they both find the other one so hot, and I think they also both admire how different it is for the other.

Regina in denial would definitely consider Emma's casualness to be improper and lazy, but deep down, and eventually openly once they grow closer, she knows she admires her freedom and fearlessness.

Meanwhile Emma thinks Regina is the hottest woman on the planet (she's right) and appreciates how perfectly her gf puts outfits together, how good her makeup and skincare collection is.

But Emma can also see the other side of it for Regina too, is one of the few people (perhaps because of her own history with clothes) who can see the strain there. The control and obsession with her own appearance, the perfectionism.

And I think Emma is really good for her in that sense. Emma's own freedom and confidence is a good influence. Because gradually, as they get together and their relationship develops, Regina is able to let down a little more of that mask, bit by bit.

Letting Emma see her with wet hair, her natural curls straight out of the shower. Or in her robe with no makeup on in the mornings. And as they build their life together, Regina finds this immense relief in having someone who sees all of her in every state.

It's not as scary as it once seemed.

And Emma thinks Regina is just as beautiful in leggings and fresh faced as she is with makeup and an expensive dress. (Once again, she is right). This is groundbreaking to Regina, this idea that she can be loved and valued without upkeeping her definition of 'perfection'. That she could be enough as she is, for Emma.

That she is enough, as she is.

And of course, she doesn't always believe that. How can she, after the life she has lived? But she's working on it, and when these feelings of immense vulnerability and insecurity in herself arise, she is able to voice them to Emma (sometimes with a bit of struggle) and Emma holds space for her, listens without judgement, calls Cora a dumb bitch (sometimes) and assures Regina that she is the most beautiful person Emma's ever seen, but that her beauty is not why she fell in love with her, and it's not what makes her worthy.

And slowly, I think Regina starts to get back to finding more joy in fashion. More appreciation, in the way her younger self always wanted.

#i fucking love analysing costumes in media #and i fucking love historical/fantasy fashion #AND i fucking love analysing regina mills #this is the best post ever #christmas came early for miss salad #regina mills meta #regina mills analysis #ouat analysis #regina mills headcanons #regina mills #swan queen #sq #swan mills family #swan queen headcanons #emma swan #fuck king leopold #tw cora #tw leopold #cora mills

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deathsbestgirl · 18 hours

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Finding out that you ship Xena and Gabrielle AND Emma and Regina AND Jane and Maura…be still my heart. Do you have any posts relating to any of these characters similar to your X Files posts? I love reading your thoughts!

i don't!! i deleted my sq blog years ago and the only posts i know how to find are like. polyam ships lol (and i had soooo many different names 😭 rainbowescapades was one?)

as for xena & gabrielle i don't think i have any thoughts 😂 like, i'm kind of just in awe of them, and it's such a special show because it doesn't take itself too seriously.

and jane & maura, too blinded by the writer & angie harmon to be able to talk about it like i do x files/mulder & scully

#asks #thescullyphile

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zaffiri-saffici · 7 months

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Undone, a SwanQueen tale

Today is special for many reasons. It is the reveal of my first-ever SwanQueen fic. It is also the first chapter of a new adventure for me personally; it marks the beginning of a new era of writing reignited by one of the ships that has been nearest and dearest to my heart and life for over ten years.

A special thank you goes to my fiancé, Ashley, who dealt with my many months of plotting and countless nights of research and incoherent babbling as I tried to find the words and put the pieces together. She was also my first beta on this story!

Another special thank you goes to my challenge beta and cheerleader, Alice, for helping to quell my anxieties over the SQ Supernova challenge's deadlines, and for helping me with all my unnecessary grammar issues and the like. She helped me bring this story to life in the way I envisioned and I could not have done it without her.

This story is a Camelot rewrite. It is canon-compliant through the end of season 4 with some scenes inspired by season 5A that veer off in a different direction. It is a dark, slow-burn fantasy romance. It is a story of tragedy undone by love. It is lyrical, ambiguous, and complex (that's just my writing style; this will not be for everyone and that's okay).

I need to stress that this fic is dark before it gets better, hence the Mature rating. I wanted to explore Emma and Regina's pasts and the traumas that have been developed as a result of what they each went through. I also tried to expand on the psychological and emotional effects of the Darkness. Everything is tagged appropriately, so please make sure you read the warnings before digging in. This is a full-on adventure with many turns. It will hit you in your gut before it heals you. But, I promise it will be worth it in the end. I need my girls to be happy, so I hope I was successful in giving them the ending they deserved here and the beginning they never saw.

I'm honored to share this piece with the world. I'm honored to give it to fandom. This was a practice in healing. I hope it can offer you the same.

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Enjoy, friends!

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bytherosebushlaughing · 4 months

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Emerging from my tumblr draught of two years to share this, mostly because I am in search of other swen after being a silent member of the community for the past seven years lol. I have finally worked up the nerve to start posting some SQ fanfic after all these years of reading it!

After a deal gone wrong, Regina finds herself cursed with the gift of eternal life. In hopes of finding a cure for her dilemma, she finds herself face to face with woman called Emma Swan, who is also looking for the man who has made them both immortal. Together, they must travel the world in search of answers (and maybe even fall in love along the way).

#once upon a time #regina mills #emma swan #swanqueen #swan queen #ao3 #swen

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