Pride is here and this is your reminder from those of us in Storybrooke that:

Queer people have always existed. Yes, even in fairy tales. Yes, even in the medieval times. Yes, even when there were kingdoms who found queerness reprehensible. Yes, even during the curse.

Outing someone is never okay. Even if it’s a joke, even if you didn’t mean it, that doesn’t make it okay. If it was an honest mistake, then you should apologize for it. If you did it as a joke, then congratulations! You’re an asshole!

this also extends to outing someone as a shifter or a magic user. you don’t know what’s going on in their life. yes, queerness is different from being a shifter or a magic user, but the damage of being outed is still the same. so don’t do it.

Being queer and having magic or being a shifter (or, in some cases, all of the above) in certain kingdoms kind of really sucked in the Enchanted Forest, so offer your support.

if you were one of the people who thought being queer was bad, dirty, sinful, etc. or if you purposefully ignore someone’s pronouns, then please step over the town line and get out. you’re not welcome here.

(Sadie please)

(don’t “Sadie please” me, you were thinking the same thing)

queer isn’t a slur.

However, if it has been used as a slur against you in the past and would like it to be tagged, please let us know! Mental health and self care is also really important during Pride since things can be really stressful.

if you’re like us and you’re trapped in your town (i mean, for us it’s more literal than it is metaphorical) and you can’t make it to pride, don’t freak out. the gay police aren’t going to come to your door and revoke your gay card. you can show your pride in little ways. pins, buttons, decoration, stuff like that.

TERFs will be blocked

remember: don’t be a dick

And enjoy Pride! Even if you aren’t out or if you’re still questioning or if you aren’t proud of yourself quite yet, that’s okay! Do what you think is best for yourself.

as long as that doesn’t include being a dick to everyone else

let’s see. she cursed us here, stripped us of our memories, replaced them with even more traumatic ones, threatened to kill us several times, actually killed dozens, probably hundreds of people, murdered graham, and did gods only know what else that we don’t know about

yeah. i think she should be punished.

don’t give me the “she’s trying to change” speech. trying to change doesn’t make the bad shit you did go away.

It’s… a lot. It’s kind of overwhelming? There’s so much going on both in my head and around me right now that it’s hard to piece things together. I’ve been trying to sort everything out, which memories were just from the curse and which ones are real.

It’s not difficult figuring them out because of the content of the memories. It’s the emotions attached to them that are giving me the most trouble…

– Ethan

outside, everything’s kind of going to shit. people are trying to find their families and having no luck, people are trying to leave, i think someone was trying to start an angry mob the other day against the queen

with me? i’m… okay. i guess. that’s one way of putting it. i’m finding my own ways of coping.

I guess she picked us because we’re teenagers and we have a better understanding of the internet?

– Ethan

i have no clue. pretty sure she just saw a pair of teenagers and decided “good enough” and went back to whatever family drama’s going on over there

Hi! I’m Ethan. I’m here to make sure this blog actually gets updated somewhat regularly and Sadie doesn’t go off the rails.

I hope things go well!