Anonymous said: ❝ What you're seeing now is culmination of what's been brewing in this fandom for a long time. If this was CS show from the start, nobody would be complaining. But it wasn't. When you have a group who became so obviously favored by the show while fans who have been here from the start as well are ignored at best and their faves are basically background ornaments, and CS shippers act like they're better than everyone else, hating on other fans, characters and actors alike, this is what you get. ❞

“while fans who have been here from the start are ignored”

That’s the funniest line of this ridiculous ask!

I’ve been watching this show since DAY ONE friend. DAY ONE.

LOST is my favorite show of all time and when I heard writers from that show were doing a show about fairy tale characters in the modern world I was beyond excited to watch it! I didn’t just fucking poof into existence when Captain Hook appeared on the show in S2, dear anon.

I have been a fan of OUAT, watching it LIVE, since the PILOT.

BUT THE WRITERS DON’T OWE ME SHIT!

AND THEY DON’T OWE YOU SHIT EITHER.

You think just because some fans made a tumblr account back in S1 that the writers are obligated to “favor” them over someone who made one in S3? You think because you, random tumblr blogger #7355812, love a particular character that got lots of screen time in 2011 it means the writers are obligated to keep focusing on them?

News flash - it’s THEIR STORY. Not a damned CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE book.

CSers haven’t been “favored” with this love story. We just happened to correctly pick up on what the writers were overtly throwing down. If you watch the beanstalk episode without your shipper and stan goggles on you might have seen it too. Romantic music, conversations about love, sexy hand bandaging scenes, the new male character reading Emma “like an open book”, a thousand romantic tropes, parallels to Snowing throughout S2…it was all very obvious from the very beginning.

We weren’t gifted with this story for being the teacher’s pets.

Our reward comes from the simple fact that we happen to love the story the writers are ACTUALLY telling.

And in THAT story Emma Swan is the leading heroine, and as such her romantic plot, and her love interest, get a big focus. Because you are right anon, this hasn’t “been the CS show from the start”.

BUT IT WAS THE EMMA SWAN SHOW FROM THE START.

If you want to know why the network promotes CS - there’s your answer. It’s the story being told right now - Emma’s love story, and like it or not, it’s a popular one. And Hook is a popular character -both in fandom and in the general audience. Lucky for me. And I fully admit and appreciate that.

But in S4 CSers weren’t so lucky - we didn’t get such a big focus.

In 4A, after Emma, RUMPLE was the main character with the most screen time. And in 4B REGINA had the most - more than Emma. But you didn’t see CSers starting any ridiculous campaigns to convince the network to reduce focus on those characters did you?

Because it’s childish. And pointless.

And we certainly didn’t start any movements to try and exclude Swen or RB from the fandom. Even when antis tried to taunt us by saying that Hook was useless and that CS didn’t get any meaningful scenes. Because, contrary to what you think, we don’t think we are better or more deserving than anyone else. And we aren’t, as a whole, the toxic group so many antis like to paint us as.

Nor do we have a reputation, as you have claimed, for sending hate to the actors or the writers. There’s one part of this fandom that’s known for repeatedly being called out for bad behavior - for harassing the cast, the writers, and even other celebrity fans of the show. And it isn’t CSers anon.

If you really believe that the writers have no integrity and no vision for this fairy tale and that all of this is happening because they have a favorite “fandom” that they are rewarding, and it isn’t YOUR fandom, then maybe you should ask yourself why that is?

If you really believe the writers are playing favorites with their fans then you must also believe that, to put it in your own words, “What you’re seeing now is culmination of what’s been brewing in this fandom for a long time” and “This is what you get”.

If you are a Snowing shipper or a Belle stan then I apologize - for this rant doesn’t truly apply to you - I fully admit you’ve been done wrong by this show. But if you are one of my fellow Regals or Dearies and you’re whining because your fave wasn’t the star of THIS particular half season - then grow up. Plenty of fans can’t stand your faves and they’ve had to deal with a thousand flashbacks and centric episodes dedicated to them. If you can’t handle Hook getting a focus for a few episodes and, as a result, you feel the need to ruin the fandom experience for others and are actively rooting for the show to get cancelled… just do us all a favor (yourself included) and STOP WATCHING. Find something you love instead of wasting your life focusing on something you hate.