thescholarlystrumpet:

tearingdownthatfence:

bisexual-books: A character in hit Disney-ABC series Once Upon A Time, was revealed to be bisexual in a scene of unrequited love on Sunday. Pretty scant evidence of bisexuality…. but coming from a Disney product I will take that. Let’s just cross our fingers that it develops to be more queer than queer coded. - Sarah Link contains SPOILERS for the whole thing. And what I’m gonna say now contains the same massive spoilers. I stopped watching OUAT around the end of season 2 for a bunch of reasons, but in the beginning of season 2 I was rooting for these two ladies, like so many others. So on one hand, bi Mulan is awesome? But on the other hand, Aurora being married to Philip is just about the opposite of awesome. Revealing Mulan’s sexuality in this way is just. Heartbreaking. And it makes me think they’re only ok with queer characters as long as they’re single and miserable? For a brief moment, I wondered whether this meant it was time to give the show another chance, but ultimately this just made me even more convinced that giving it up was the right thing to do.

Yes, the queer characters on Once are only allowed to be miserable.

As opposed to ALL the Hetero ships on Once that are just ecstatically happy… You know, like…. um well, Snowing- except that they keep having to find one another and Charming got shot by a poisoned arrow and Snow doesn’t know yet.

Or SwanFire/ Swan Thief, except that they haven’t been together since Henry’s conception and he left her to take the fall for a crime they committed and then he got shot and fell through a portal and he’s just now finding his way back (maybe) so that they can work through all the madness (maybe) and raise their estranged son (maybe).

Or how about Ruby and her first True Love, y’know, the one she accidentally ripped to shreds and stuff?

Don’t get me started on Rumbelle….

Cinderella and her fella aside, I can’t think of too many Canon couples on OUAT who have it easy. Mulan and Aurora may not end up together, but I thought the reveal was beautifully done and an interesting plot twist. I would have thought the same for a Het pairing.

If Sleeping Warrior only ever lives on in fanfic, I will be very sad. But either way, Mulan is a BADASS queer woman and I look forward to seeing if and when she does find love again (with or without Aurora).

If you don’t like the show, don’t watch it. That’s totally cool and I will never be judge-y toward anyone’s TV habits. However, I think last night’s episode (s3e03) was just the first step and I applaud the writers for including a canonically queer character without it being an obvious add-on for purposes of political correctness.

It’s been ONE episode. I’d like to give it at least half a season before I rush to the assumption that queer characters can only be out if they are single and unloved… :-P