#whatifqueen

The highlights:

Kerry: me at Outlaw Queen: YA NASTY

Kerry: guess who's a shaaaaaaaaady bastard

Kerry: i'm just waiting for Hook to give up on his first name and start calling himself Hook all the time like Emma does

Kerry: well. i mean. yes, technically the only person you are betraying is Emma but i don't think that reasoning is going to stand up in court

Kerry: oh please tell me Belle is listening to all this [to Hook's voicemail to Emma]

Kerry: you know i'm kinda bummed Charming backed off his "this is what Emma wants and we should respect her decision" 

Kerry: i was really into that

Kerry: but not so much into "emma's so special lets all team up and convince her that her decision is wrong!"

Kerry: "these tire tracks are so fresh we can carry on on foot!" ?????

Kerry: Belle what on earth is your filing system even

And probably, the most important part:

Kerry: lolol the romantic parallels between Hook and Elsa tho?!?!?!

whatifqueen: OMG YES

whatifqueen: I was sitting there like "A CLEAR SIGN ELSA IS EMMA'S TRUE LOVE"

Kerry: OMG YOU WEREN'T KIDDING

Kerry: I HADN'T GOTTEN TO THAT PART

This ask is from so long ago. Sorry I didn't reply. *hugs*

Now that I'm farther away from the actual episode, I can appreciate it more. I can appreciate that it was their plan from the start. I see how the narrative worked and how it was planned and executed. 

Would I have liked more detail? Yes. Would I have liked more time with the mother? YES. Would I have liked Barney and Robin to stay together? YES. (though I've head-cannoned that she's Maria Hill and he found out about Shield and oh so many wonderful things happened.)

But in the end I truly respect the story they told. It hurts because I don't want to be Robin. I don't want to play that game. I also don't want to be the Mother, with only a few short years of love. 

It hurts the most because I always saw myself as a "Ted" where I was looking for love and stuck with the wrong person. it seems like so many years wasted. I don't want to waste time. But it's a real love story. Something that happens over and over again. You search and you look and sometimes you need to do other things before the stars align. I think that's why it hurt so much: we all wanted a great romance, but what we got was bleak reality: people divorce, people die, and the fairytale romance we were all banking on was all too short. 

AU: Bae doesn't get taken to Neverland, so when the curse gets cast it throws everyone into the Victorian era.