I hope not!

I do need to admit to a bias before I answer really. I have issues with the dagger. I mean actually that’s not true. I have issues with how casually it is treated on the show. People take it and use it against Rumple and seem to think it’s nothing. The dagger forces him to do as commanded, he loses all free will. Now you know what a big fan of Regina I am, and as a redeemed villain and fellow magic-user she’s the best example to use for comparison.

Nobody has ever tried to put some kind of control device on Regina. Even when she was at her worst, nobody tried to strip her of her free will. Whereas people treat the dagger so casually, I wonder sometimes if they’d use it on Rumple to get out of a parking fine or something else equally minor. I know I’m being ridiculous with that statement but the way using the dagger has been portrayed in the show, it’s been like using it has no consequences.

Anyway, I could rant about this for ages, so I’m going to shift gears slightly. Rumple didn’t lose the dagger for almost the entire time he was the Dark One. Then especially come season 5/season 6 it was like he was losing it practically every other episode (I know that’s an exaggeration but my point stands). Rumple knows what the dagger can do, he’s not a careless man by nature, so why has it been so easy for people to steal the dagger?

In my opinion the dagger has become something of a “get out of jail free card” for the writers. They need Rumple to do something, or to not get in someone’s way etc. and rather than think of a legitimate reason, they just have somebody take his dagger so that he does whatever is necessary.

So yeah I loathe the dagger for multiple reasons. I hate it for stripping away Rumple’s free will. I hate that there are never any consequences for that. I mean I know it probably contributed to Rumple’s mental state in season 6 as he was in a terrible place, but I’m not just talking about consequences for Rumple, but consequences for the people that use the dagger. If “all magic comes with a price” surely controlling the Dark One and using his magic should come with a price? Plus controlling another human being shouldn’t be something that is done so casually, it’s fundamentally wrong. Shouldn’t any of the main characters have at least some conscience pangs about it?

Sorry I’m going on again. Basically I would be happy if the dagger never came up again. Say Rumple has it locked up in a safe place if they must and then leave it at that. They don’t ever show consequences for using it, and I’m sick of them using it as a way to stop Rumple from getting in the way. My greatest wish for season seven is that they stop finding ways to bring Rumple down, if the villain is an evil like we’ve never seen, then let them be powerful enough that Rumple can go full power on them. Let’s see every inch of the power he commands, not just magically but tactically.

However while I hope the dagger won’t be a factor, I rather suspect that it will be. It’s far easier for them to hobble Rumple, and they like him to be on the villains side and as Rumple is redeemed and looking out for his family, how else are they going to get him to be all evil? They’ll have to have him commanded. That’s my pessimism talking though. *cross fingers* I’m wrong on this score and my hopes come true and the dagger is ignored.

@rumbelleluv I just read your tags on that gifset about why the portal looks different? A ring of fire rather than a green swirl that destroys the road. I have a theory about that!

Henry isn’t going to a realm within our reality – he’s going to another realm where the same stories play out differently. So the portal looks different because he’s not just travelling to another realm, he’s crossing reality.

Why do I think this? Well the portal reminded me of a Doctor Strange portal (also seen used by Ghost Rider in Agents of Shield) which crosses dimensions. Disney has the rights to Marvel which is why we’ve had the comic books shown on the show, they are never going to have the Avengers show up but that could be a nice little nod. Hello reality portal.

Also this ties into my theory as to how Henry got to be 28 but Regina and Hook haven’t aged – time isn’t consistent between realities. I mean that kinda makes sense with time being relative because of the storybook thing anyway. I mean the versions they’ve used on the show were “written down by the author Walt Disney” long before the events technically happened.

I mean the first Dark Curse created Storybrooke in 1983. Walt Disney died (and Isaac was recruited) in 1966. So if the Enchanted Forest and the Land Without Magic had time operating concurrently, that wouldn’t be possible. I mean the tale of Snow White was written long before Snow was actually born.

I know time was acting concurrently once the curse happened but maybe that’s why it was such a dark curse. It connected the realms in a way that wasn’t usual. Perhaps that’s why Isaac never aged from 1966 to present day, but Henry has got older while he’s been gone.

Just a couple of thoughts 🙂

We have guests so the radio was on earlier – it never usually is I’m married to iTunes or Spotify heh – and I suddenly tuned in to the song that was playing.

Only You – all my SwanFire feels!

I love random happenings which spark good thoughts like that 🙂 I started humming along and thinking about these two dorks and the AU’s someone was talking about yesterday with baby brother Gideon. All the feels heh 🙂

little-inkstone:

So I’m doing research for an up coming story, and I’ve been messing around in google translate.  Apparently the word for fairy in Scottish Gaelic is sìthiche.  Blue why you so shady?!

She’s the Sith Lord we’ve been searching for!

(I’m going to be laughing about this for days)

#shady blue fairy#I love how that is a popular tag on tumblr the whole world knows it

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still-searching47:

I have season seven feels from that gifset I just reblogged. I’ve reblogged that gifset so many times because I think it’s the only scene in the show that has Regina, Rumple and Henry that isn’t just a group thing.

All I want from season seven is Grandpastiltskin, and Regina going into protective mother mode. I want them protecting Henry because even if he’s grown-up, he’ll always be Regina’s kid and Bae’s son. Maybe we could see that struggle actually of “I suppose I have to accept you are all grown up” and then working together to protect their extended family.

If I don’t get it then I will have to fic it because I want this so much.

YES! Dear god I want Rumple and Regina fighting for their family because whoa that’s powerful after so many years of them being opposed to each other. But I feel like any reasonable villain would really not want that because honestly… the Evil Queen and the Dark One fighting against you? What’s that gonna last like 5 minutes?

Well … yeah. I’ve always likened Rumple to Professor X to be honest. He’s so powerful, and so skilled (I mean he schemed for the dark curse – that guy can plan) that they have to take him out of the game or a half season fight against a villain, would be over in episode one. Just like Prof X was in a coma in the first movie, brainwashed in the second, dead in the third etc. They always sidetrack Rumple so that he doesn’t just take care of business.

It’s kinda the same with teaming up with Regina. Two powerful, angry, highly-motivated magic-users? They would tear through the bad guys like tissue paper and have their family back in no time. Yeah all the villains we’ve seen so far wouldn’t stand a chance. However, maybe if in season seven there is the biggest bad ever, then perhaps Rumple and Regina wouldn’t have to be brought down to the villains level (depowered or rendered useless) and instead they can fight with everything they have because the villain is on their level.

I can dream 🙂

I have season seven feels from that gifset I just reblogged. I’ve reblogged that gifset so many times because I think it’s the only scene in the show that has Regina, Rumple and Henry that isn’t just a group thing.

All I want from season seven is Grandpastiltskin, and Regina going into protective mother mode. I want them protecting Henry because even if he’s grown-up, he’ll always be Regina’s kid and Bae’s son. Maybe we could see that struggle actually of “I suppose I have to accept you are all grown up” and then working together to protect their extended family.

If I don’t get it then I will have to fic it because I want this so much.

worryinglyinnocent:

I’m putting my music collection back onto my new computer and I’m currently listening to Carrie Underwood, and it reminded me of this post I made a couple of years back, basically a ‘If OUAT had a musical episode’ thing, with Ruby frantically trying to make Emma see sense about the whole C$ debacle.

Two years later and I am listening to Good Girl again and thinking exactly the same thing, and thinking that since we have had a musical episode… Damn, the wasted potential. I can seriously see this number so clearly in my mind… 

Does anyone else have songs they’d put in a musical episode? 

You’re making me want to do a Once Upon a Time playlist again. I made up several playlists, and did album cover art and stuff for my first fandom. I actually used to do a lot of fan stuff, I just write fic now but I digress. I have a couple of contributions!

For happier Rumbelle times I nominate So Far Gone by Thousand Foot Krutch

I know they say that the space between
Can make it stronger than we’ve ever seen
They might be right but I disagree
Cause I’ve never felt stronger than when you’re with me

Sometimes I wonder why you even care
Cause even when I leave you’re always there with me
And like a candle makes a brighter place
This mark you’ve made on me can’t be erased.

For angsty Rumbelle times I nominate What Have You Done by Plan Three

All the stories are over
Chapters are done
All this chaos around me
Always Alone

Oh and one for Regina I nominate Reflection by Christina Auguilera

Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you’ll never know me
Every day
It’s as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart