Current commission is Red’s cloak from OUAT. I couldn’t resist snapping a picture with it!

Elenatintil: OUAT 2.21 - "Second Star to the Right"

Episode review and finale theories! 

SO ARE WE OFFICIALLY CALLING BELLE, LACEY NOW?

joyfulslytherin:

CRYS. no no no no no. its like… giving up temporarily I have faith that belle will return I don’t think I can handle the fandom calling her lacey…. ._.

No, we’re just calling her Lacey as long as that’s who she thinks she is, to keep her separate from her ‘good Belle’ personality. Like Dr. Jekall and Mr. Hyde.

Snippet Preview of Belle Blue #4

claraoswaldforthewin1309:

oh-my-ouat:

storybrookemirror:

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OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!

So….it might not be him

BUT OMG YES!!!!!

Disney has done better at getting Robin Hood right than anyone else recently (Yes, I’m looking at you, Shrek and Russall Crowe), so I am actually excited about him FINALLY TURNING UP IN OUATTTTTTTTTTTT

Okay. Excited is an understatement.

FULL Thoughts on the last two OUAT Episodes

lucymontero:

Elenatintil: I go into the OUAT time tag and…

elenatintil:

…everyone is saying that Tamara is more evil than Cora.

Um… she’s helping her lover find his long lost father who was stolen from him by an evil magic woman. That’s why Tamara scoured the world looking for magic.

She’s ruthless, that’s for sure. But the only experience she and Greg have had with…

We have a much clearer idea about Greg’s motives than Tamara’s at this point.  Greg wasn’t looking around the world for magic, or trying to prevent anyone else from finding magic.  Greg knew exactly where magic was. In Maine. He didn’t go to Hong Kong because his dad isn’t in Hong Kong. He just couldn’t get anyone to believe him and help him.

Tamara’s actions are very different and don’t make sense if we assume her only goal is rescuing Kurt.   If Tamara was only concerned with finding Greg’s dad, there was no reason to kill the Dragon with the Uber-Taser.  She is seeking magic, and doesn’t seem to want anyone else to find it. Greg is desperate for someone to believe him about magic and help him get his father, who is trapped in a magical place (or so he thinks), so for the moment their agendas both involve getting into Storybrook.  

So we don’t know that she’s there just to find her lover’s dad, because most of what she’s done, has nothing to do with Kurt.  

Nothing about finding Greg’s dad would have required that the Dragon be murdered or August be eliminated for knowing about Tamara’s history of looking for magic and slaying magical beings.  Her murderous side-trips, sans Greg/Owen, indicate that Tamara might have additional motives for getting involved with Greg in the first place.  Motives that Greg probably doesn’t know about, or he’d be a little sharper all together.

That could certainly be true, I won’t deny it. However, allow me to articulate my thoughts a bit further…

Yes, Greg knows where the magic is. However he can’t get into Storybrooke. As he said to Regina, he’s been trying for a long time. The way I interpreted Tamara’s search was that she and Greg were scouring the world for something they could use to break through Regina’s magic barrier and into Storybrooke.

As far as why she ‘had’ to kill… yes, it’s very possible she’s evil and stuff. I’m entirely ready to be proved wrong. My point is that, thus far, this is what we know for sure. We know that she’s working with her boyfriend to get her father back. We don’t have concrete evidence yet that she has other connections. I think it’s unfair to call her ‘more evil than Cora’ until we have stronger proof.

Because think of it this way. IF Tamara has no other experience of Magic, and IF she is going off of what Greg told her (all we know for sure right now), then the only things they know about people who use Magic is that they’re controlled by Regina. And they know that Regina is evil. They have no way of knowing that August is not another heart zombie like Graham, or that the Dragon is not another ‘pretend to be nice but really selfish evil guy’ like Regina. In their experience, they have not met one magic-user who was a ‘good guy.’ 

Yeah, I do expect that more will be revealed about Tamara in the future which very likely will reveal some dastardly roots. But until then, until we know more and possibly have a literary identity for her (i.e. Dr. Whale), I am trying to be fair in my analysis. 

I go into the OUAT time tag and…

…everyone is saying that Tamara is more evil than Cora.

Um… she’s helping her lover find his long lost father who was stolen from him by an evil magic woman. That’s why Tamara scoured the world looking for magic.

She’s ruthless, that’s for sure. But the only experience she and Greg have had with magical people is negative. Regina taking his father. August stealing her money. They have no reason to believe that there /are/ any good people in Storybrooke. All they know is that they’re up against overwhelming odds and they have to utilize all of their resources to have a hope of surviving.

No, I don’t like Tamara or Greg. BUT I can’t call them evil. What they’re doing, as far as we’ve seen, is NOT for selfish reasons. They’re trying to rescue a man. 

Now, will we see more in future episodes that changes this? Quite likely. But for now, I think it’s important to imagine how the situation looks from their eyes.

sparkycircuit:

There’s been a lot of comments about the black spot on Snow’s heart and how Cora’s heart has seemed pure when we saw it, which doesn’t make any sense when you consider everything she’s done. I wonder if the spot or state of one’s heart has more to do with self perception then anything else. Snow clearly is agonizing over what she did in a way that neither Cora or Regina ever did. As a result, she’s found flaw in herself, and no doubt that black spot is how she views herself, and therefore is reflected in her heart, which represents who she is at the deepest level, and how she thinks of herself. Cora and Regina have never admitted their actions were wrong or flawed- hence their ‘plain’ hearts by comparison. If that’s true, it makes that conversation between her and Gold interesting, because I wonder what Rumpelstiltskin’s heart looks like. 

I just find it interesting that the only heart we’ve seen with this black spot is Snow White- the fairest of them all, the purest of heart- she’s pure, she sees herself for who he is, in all her flaws, which has been shown by how often it seems that Snow or Mary Margaret really just didn’t like herself that much. She sees the good in everyone else, but not always herself, it seems. Which is why her heart reflects the negative and the positive. 

Just a thought. 

First of all,yes, I agree this seems odd. We could try to explain it by pointing out that Regina seems to have to tilt the heart to make the black dot visible, as though she’s coaxing it to the surface.

Regarding Cora… her heart was removed before she had done anything like killing a person. It’s possible that only murder will leave a black dot on a heart, and since Cora hadn’t committed murder when she removed hers, it was preserved in it’s (relatively speaking) spotless state.