Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25491743-20180209181244/@comment-4975807-20180405164154

Aine1989 wrote: Honestly the entire fandom could stop watching it would barely make a dent in the ratings.

As for the SQ question, that brings up a point about how this fandom seems to have forgotten the Golden Rule of Fandom: 'do not ask the writers/actors about your fanon/crack ships. 'It just makes everyone uncomfortable, including you, because you will be disappointed in the answer, and likely embarrassed. The problem with a minority of people within the SQ fandom is that they feel that because they are a large ship, that entitles them to be treated like a canon ship by the writers and actors, even though they are not.

Of no fault to J-mo and Lana, I do think them being accepting of the SwanQueen fandom is valiant and kind because they love their fans but it's a double edged sword because of how the fans themselves may perceive the actresses’ responses as approval of the ship and maybe even assume some entitlement or reasoning that because they have backing up from the actresses that is why the ship ahould become canon.

Regarding the uproar on Twitter after Adam confirmed to the SQer that the writing never intended to portray Regina and Emma as that, honestly I feel like the only reason they got mad is because Adam said what they didn't want to believe deep down: that SQ was for sure never going to be more than anything but a popular fan ship. People take their ships too seriously.