Working on the Belle Gold Replica… (OUAT version)

(Actually it’s done and shipped now, but I still like this photo.)

(And yes, I know that I look like the TARDIS here.)

A gown fit for a princess is the next project taking shape in my workroom…

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.