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

FAQ
WHY DO YOU REPLACE IMAGES? I've been asked about this a couple of times: Why do I replace episode screenshots from online sources and DVD with Blu-ray screencaps? Well, the answer is: I do it for the readers, to give them a better experience, because I think the readers deserve the best experience we can give them. Don't you?

Don't forget that most of our readers are not users and contributors; the majority of the people who drop by this wiki, are just that: readers. And I think the people who read our articles and look at the images, no matter whether they are contributors or just readers, deserve the best quality there is. Believe me, I have absolutely no wish whatsoever to hurt anyone or make them feel like their contributions are worthless (which I don't think they are, in any way - read the last paragraph), but my opinion is that when you are making a wiki, you should put the reader's needs first, not the creator's.

Blu-ray pictures are much clearer, sharper and bigger than the pics you get from other sources, and the colors are also much better. Blu-ray pics are not "slightly better" better than other sources, they are much, much better. It shows in the infobox (yes, it does), it shows even more when people open the picture, and the superior quality really, really shows when people look at the pic in its full size. Here is a table, for comparison:

http://i.imgur.com/GfQUHMB.jpg

Also, remember that even if it didn't show in the infobox (which it does), don't forget people also look at the big version of the images. The pig picture, so to speak. Plus, most of our images can only be found in the galleries, not infoboxes, which only make up a tiny fraction of the total number of pictures on this wiki.

There aren't many online sources that actually offer galleries filled with Blu-ray screencaps from Once Upon a Time. This is because many people do no own the necessary hardware to play Blu-ray on a computer, and because Blu-ray, for various reasons that I will not go into here, is generally more difficult to get screencaps from than other sources. Therefore, most of the Once Upon a Time screencaptures that you find online, come from sources other than Blu-ray. If there happens to be an editor who, unlike most other people on the Internet, has the time, means and inclination to provide the best quality, Blu-ray screenshots you can possibly get, do you think it is right to say, "Oh, you can add new Blu-ray pics, but pics that already exist can't be upgraded to Blu-ray, because that picture is taken?" I don't think it's right.

And finally, content and images being replaced, is how wikia works. It's how it's always worked. I'm sorry to say it, but it is in wikia's very nature, that any contribution can, and will, be mercilessly edited and redistributed. It's just how things are, and always have been. A user may add/upload something, but others may replace it with something better, and replacing images is common across the entire wikia network. If people don't want their contributions to be mercilessly edited or changed, then wikia is not for them.

''However: This does not mean, in any way, that I don't welcome non-Blu-ray pics on this wiki. Far from it. I love it when people are willing to take their time to help out and make this wiki better by adding new material, and I appreciate every contribution to our image galleries. Seeing our galleries grow, makes me very happy. And no, I have no intention of replacing every pic. That would take ages ;-)''

NSFAQ
''Not So Frequently Asked Questions. Done mostly tongue in cheek... Mostly...''

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

<!--==Fables vs. Once Upon a Time== I've started putting together a little list to compare the OUAT characters to Bill Willingham's Fables counterparts. Just for the heck of it... (Note that I'm not nearly finished yet - many more characters remain.)

Fables is about a group of characters who flee their homelands and end up in New York City where they have been living for centuries. Immortal, and fully self aware (no cursed identities here), their attitude tends to be more cynical than the characters on Once Upon a Time. Note that while OUAT is a family show, Fables is a comic for mature readers, which definitely shows in the comparison.

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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"
 * "Changelings"
 * "The Song in Your Heart"
 * 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, Prince Charming and Anna in "White Out", and Alice and Will Scarlet in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.