Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-4975807-20130619022312

Dragonmouth wrote: Applegirl wrote: The problem is it's fanbased, so basically it's not even an official couple on the show. I get that there's a lot of imagination and what-ifs involved in people wanting SwanQueen to happen, but that's also another issue. I hear about the "sexual tension" people want to believe is there on the in-show scenes between Emma and Regina, and I don't understand that. That's what I mean when I say imagination. The intention of having Emma and Regina interact has never implied anything romantic in-show, and I have no inkling why people want them together so badly if it's not logical or even makes sense (or at least to me). Why should it matter if the ship has a low chance of occurring in canon? What precisely is wrong with using one's imagination? Isn't that the whole point of shipping? To use one's imagination to enhance your enjoyment of the show? I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else to ship SQ. I'm just telling you to stop making excuses for people who want to bully their fellow OUAT fans over their favorite ship.

The tone in your post, Applegirl, was respectful and rational even if I disagree with its content. The tone in the posts of those you are defending is not. I'm just asking everyone to watch their tone. I never said there was anything wrong with using one's imagination in pairing people together. What I have an issue with is when fans think using imagination to make a what-if pairing automatically translates to "it's going to happen on the show". My frustration stems from watching on Adam Horowitz's twitter feed all the time of some fans constantly asking him if SwanQueen is going to happen on the show. And some of them have been blalant and rude about it and questioning Adam in the aspect of just because SwanQueen isn't happening now or isn't going in that direction on the show it means he's against LGBT. Where is the logic in that?

I can understand it if a fan likes SwanQueen as just an exclusive shipping or pairing outside of the show, but when a person takes it so seriously to the point of demanding to Adam Horowitz on twitter to make them a real couple on the show, I really don't know what to think. I especially do not appreciate the ones I've seen on twitter literally use SwanQueen as an excuse to blame Adam for being anti-gay, which is really just wrong. To think about it honestly, if hypothetically SwanQueen *did* happen, I would want it to be based on the creative input of Adam and Eddy and not because they have tons of fans constantly asking them for the two characters to get together.

I actually don't ship anyone on the show, so I don't know what that's like to pair two characters together and create a possible romance between them. When I say ship, I mean pairings between characters who aren't already paired together officially on the show.