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ouat rewatch party! #1: Pilot

2023-06-07T00:21:36Z

Once Upon a Time
Season 1, Episode 1: "Pilot"

Episode MVP: Henry (way to kick off the plot, king!)
Favorite line of dialogue: BIG FAKE LAUGH

Biggest parenting L: Emma one-upping her own son when he tries to tell her about his parental trauma from Regina 😔 empathize with your kid and then tell it to your shrink, bestie!
Wasted lore potential: In this episode we're introduced to the magical big gun of the series, namely True Love's Kiss, which is an Enchanted Forest-specific type of magic that can break any curse (except when there are exceptions, which of course there are). Most of the context we see this in has to do with romance because down the line it usually functions as a way for the show to reify the 'correctness' of a canon couple while moving the plot forward. But it's also shown to work within platonic or familial bonds, which makes me sort of wish loved ones in the EF ritually greeted each other with a cheek kiss or something like that, just to break any curses that might be lying around and ward off evil.

( Tell me a story... )

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introduction

2023-06-04T23:11:35Z

realized i should probably give some quick information about myself!

hi i'm kila, i'm a nonbinary adult (she/they), usa, currently doing an mfa in screenwriting. (yes i know i picked the most hilarious possible time to do this. whatever, union strong.)

fandom is my main hobby and has made up a large part of my social circle since I was a kid. I love reading & writing fic (ao3 plug), although i'm an extremely slow writer, and i do a lot of edits that i mainly post on my instagram (short looping fanvids, like the kids do. also have some more traditional longer vids up on my old youtube, although i don't really post there anymore so it's pretty outdated).

i also love, um... long meta, parallels, creepy taboos, fucked up things, codependency, toxic men (just in fandom though), and weed. and being pretentious. but like in a way where everybody still has fun.

oh and i also rotate through fandoms fairly quickly. It's not a super long list of regulars, and there's the occasional thing that i'll get really into and then 3 months later i'll never want to think about it again. but anyway my most consistent main fandoms are westworld, battlestar galactica/caprica (where the username is from), and revolutionary girl utena. fandoms i'm less deep into but still regularly enjoy include once upon a time, btvs/ats, twin peaks, atla, lost girl, american horror story, doctor who, and harry potter (weird relationship with the last one these days, but i still kind of keep one foot in). i engage with a ton of fandom in general, so by no means is that a comprehensive list, but it's most of the stuff that i regularly engage with in a fannish way.

anyway that's the basic rundown. i'm new here (not really, but i didn't get a footing last time so i'm trying again) so i don't have a ton of friends or comms or anything here yet. please don't be alarmed if i randomly follow you, please feel no obligation to follow back or engage with me in any way, but also please feel free to say hi if you want to. oh and i'm very active on tumblr.

thanks for reading!

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trying to be on dreamwidth round 2

2023-06-04T18:41:27Z

hiya. i still have no idea how to use this site and i don't know how to start, so i'm just gonna jump in. all my old entries are pretty much just anxiety-ridden little updates on my WIP, which i'm on a bit of a hiatus from working on at the moment (it's still on the back burner, but like. way in the back), and hadn't been posting consistent progress updates anyway, so i will be pivoting to using this account for other things.

I'm going to be doing a full rewatch of abc's once upon a time. By full rewatch i mean probably up to 4A, which is where i dropped out of the fandom when the show was airing (and where i usually quit rewatches) because I've always felt like that's the point where it starts to feel like a different show. possible that i might go farther depending on how it goes. I'm gonna be watching each episode, taking notes, writing whatever meta i feel like writing, and posting here with some screencaps and things. i have zero knowledge of the various fandom presences on here, what's normal and expected on here, what stuff people have already said, or if anyone will be interested in my thoughts about the show. this is really just an exercise in me learning to have fun doing the fandom things i always wanted to do but was too much of a lurker for back in the day. i still sort of have that feeling i used to get that always kept me in lurk mode, like, well this fandom is so big, everything anyone could ever say about it has already been said. but i mean, you never know.

I'm hoping this will be fun! I really like this show, I miss long-form posting about fandom (i've made a few longish meta posts on tumblr but people just silently reblog them.... not the point of meta to me lol, it's supposed to be discussed!) and I miss being around older fans. I'm hoping i can maybe make some friends here. It feels daunting, but i also have never really tried it.

so uh.... idk. here goes.

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henlo frens

2018-12-04T00:17:05Z

here on dreamwidth now because tungle.hell is ass and i decided to leave. i've never used a long-form journaling type site before so probably this is going to end up mostly being used for fannish content and related stuff like that. it'll take me a minute to figure out how to use this site but it seems nice here.

anyways hello *-*

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