Clexa 4 Ever

Awkward Regina on skates. xD

My doodle for day 6! Prompt: “Ice Skating Shenanigans”

Plus, I wrote a little Christmas fluff piece for our favourite girls. Includes Snowing and Rumbelle. :)

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11689364/1/Once-Upon-a-Christmas-Tree

And my original SwanQueen fanfic over here:

Lucy Lawless makes her stance very clear. There’s no need to dig for context clues to see that she’s committed to her LGBT fans. She nips the homophobes right in the bud by flat-out refusing to let them use her words to ridicule and alienate LGBT people.

This is an area where a lot of would-be celebrity allies fall short. They think that not using slurs or actively discriminating against LGBT people means that their words and actions can’t contribute to creating an environment that empowers and emboldens the homophobes within their fanbase.

She doesn't say "when it was just you, me, Robin Hood and Roland", which is how that sentence should flow, if she were saying it normally.

Instead, she said "when it was just you and me [PAUSE] Robin Hood and Roland."

"when it was just you and me" is a complete clause on its own. The pause makes it sound like the end of the sentence, and the camera cutting away adds to that.

If she intended to list off four people, there shouldn't have been an "and" between "you" and "me"

I very much comes across like she added "Robin Hood and Roland" as an afterthought.

It feels very much like it was shoe-horned into the sentence, the way that OQ was shoe-horned into the show. It also takes away from the emotional impact of the sentence, the way that OQ takes away from Regina's character.

Like, Regina feeling happiest when it was just her and Henry makes perfect sense, and is totally in character for her. Implying that she was happier with Robin Hood and Roland in her life than she was when it was just her and Henry contradicts pretty much everything they ever showed us on screen.

When was she so happy with Henry AND Robin Hood and Roland?? Because we didn't see that on screen. We saw her essentially having a short-lived fling with Robin until Marian came back, and then we saw her having a secret affair, knowing that it was doomed to fail... that's the level happiness she doesn't know if she'll ever have again?

It's also interesting that it's "you and me" "Robin Hood and Roland"... two separate groups. Regina is Henry's mom, and she was also dating Robin Hood, but the four of them did not form a family unit.

Her lips work, camera on Henry, still a bit of pause then that part.

What was it like, especially around the time when things moved from offline to online? I've spent a lot of time thinking about the social function of fandom, especially for lesbians/wlw. So many couples and babies born from fandom couples... So many people realizing their sexuality and finding community because of tv shows and resonating with the same female characters or (subtextual/potential) couples... but I just wonder what it was like in the nineties and before. How did y'all connect? Was it more hush-hush? Where are the couples with fandom origin stories etcetc?

People who lived in Los Angeles and Vancouver, what was it like to be close to where it was shot? Were there friend groups locally that focused on fandom? Were there set spoilers? How did you know where they were shooting without social media etc? What has changed, and also what's the same? Did you get to meet creatives? Conventions?