User:Nightlily

"I don't understand. What's the problem with this Lily?"

- Hook

Introduction
I am Nightlily, and I am one of the administrators on this wiki. And, before you ask, no, my user name is not really based on Maleficent's dark daughter, Lily. Nightlily has been my wiki user name for years; the character name was a fun coincidence. Although I like to joke about it and say that they named Lily after me ;-)


 * While your here, feel free to check out my own personal mash-up of all the timelines from the show. I did my best :-)

Short History Section
I remember the first time I heard about Once Upon A Time. As an avid reader of the Fables comics by Bill Willingham, I was already familiar with the concept of fairytale characters living in exile in our world. I liked the idea of a new, fresh take on this concept, and decided to check out the show. I watched the "Pilot" episode back in 2011, and fell in love with the show immediately. When the DVD was finally released, I showed a few episodes to my parents, and now we enjoy watching the show together. Which is nice to think of, considering how one of the most important themes on the show is family.

They even added a few Scandinavian elements to their story: Bridge Trolls based on the Norwegian folktale "Three Billy Goats Gruff", and characters from "The Little Mermaid" and "The Snow Queen", fairytales by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Which is awesome :-)

Favorite Images
In my eyes, these screenshots are some of the most visually striking images from the show

Not So Frequently Asked Questions
Is there anything you've noticed on the show, that no one else seems to have noticed, that you are willing to share with the rest of us?

As a matter of fact, there is. Am I really the only one noticing that Emma isn't wearing any trousers when she opens the door in this scene...?

Are you Lily?

Yes I am.

Why haven't you answered my question yet?

I probably hate you.

'''Really?!? :-('''

No, just kidding. I try to answer everyone as quickly as I can, but I also have a life, and a job, beside the wiki.

You ship Hook and Emma?

Oh, yeah. They have extremely intense chemistry.

But how can you ship Hook and Emma when [insert every bad thing Hook has done in the past]???

Next question, please.

But seriously... Sit down before you hurt yourself.

Argle bargle I don't like Once Upon a Time, and I need to tell you!!!

Ergodic theory (Ancient Greek: ergon work, hodos way) is a branch of mathematics that studies dynamical systems with an invariant measure and related problems. Its initial development was motivated by problems of statistical physics. A central concern of ergodic theory is the behavior of a dynamical system when it is allowed to run for a long time. The first result in this direction is the Poincaré recurrence theorem, which claims that almost all points in any subset of the phase space eventually revisit the set. More precise information is provided by various ergodic theorems which assert that, under certain conditions, the time average of a function along the trajectories exists almost everywhere and is related to the space average.

What the *** is that?

It's a random paragraph from the Wikipedia entry on "ergodic theory". It makes about as much sense as coming to a wiki about Once Upon a Time and complaining about it.

I don't like your favorite ship/character, and I feel the need to tell you, to get a rise out of you!

Here is a GIF of a bunch of birds. One bird is running around stirring up trouble and accomplishing diddlysquat except to annoy everyone else and turn themselves into a spectacle which everyone then stares at because holy crap, that guy is making a fool of himself...

http://i.imgur.com/kWXjT0f.gif

Trivia

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User Notes

 * I am a ovo-lacto-vegetarian.
 * I am the proud owner of two very spoiled guinea pigs.
 * I have a Bachelor degree in organization and public administration.
 * Watching the show with my family sometimes leads to funny situations. When me and my parents were watching Season Two, my father kept mistakenly referring to Captain Hook as "Captain Cook"... And my mother keeps getting Robin Hood and Hook mixed up (don't ask me; I don't understand how she does it).
 * My favorite characters are Hook, Emma and Ruby. Emma was actually one of my least favorite character in the first two seasons, due to her "I refuse to smile and prefer to look moody almost 24/7" attitude. But she's evolved since then.
 * My favorite episodes are:
 * "Red-Handed"
 * "The Crocodile"
 * "Tallahassee"
 * "Queen of Hearts"
 * "Good Form"
 * "Going Home"
 * "New York City Serenade"
 * "Snow Drifts"
 * "There's No Place Like Home"
 * "Smash the Mirror"
 * "Fall"
 * "Shattered Sight"
 * "Birth"
 * "Dark Waters"
 * Hook and Milah's story in "The Crocodile" reminds me of one of my favorite novels, Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier. This classic novel tells the story of a noblewoman who is fed up with her life and her husband, and joins a pirate crew and has a love affair with the captain. The most important difference, however, is that the main character SPOILER ALERT chooses to stay with her husband and her children in the end.
 * On television, you don't see a lot of stories about a real friendship between a man and a woman. Usually, it's something romantic. Once Upon a Time, however, stands out by having a few stories about a man and a woman who have pure friendship like a brother and sister: David and Ruby in "Child of the Moon", Hook and Belle, and Prince Charming and Anna in "White Out".