What if the game IS rigged? What if the Author really doesn’t want Villains to get their Happy Endings? What if the Author wants to reward the people she likes and punish those that she dislikes? What if the Author uses slanted facts?
What if the Author of Henry’s Book is the Blue Fairy?
What if August appears because he once edited the Book? Did Blue finally allow him to put in his own story? What if other realms have other histories of the same events, that have a different slant? How many other realms had a sacred book of spells, or some other significant tome?
After reading this, I just remembered something… In “The Return”, we saw August talking to ‘Mother Superior’. It seemed like they knew each other quite well. I can’t remember what exactly she said to Rumple about August (was it something about looking for his father???), but I wondered in that moment if ‘Mother Superior’ knew exactly who she was, who Rumple was, and who August was. August must have known her anyway. Actually…yeah…he must have known her, because he was never cursed, but DID SHE KNOW HIM???
Have we all assumed that Blue only remembered when Emma broke the curse? Was it ever suggested that she was awake the whole time, or that she too had a loophole for remembering? Was it ever explicitly stated that she had no memory of who she was? Can anyone remember?
Is Blue the Author? She seemed not to know how the story would ‘reveal itself’ to Emma, but Blue lies, or she omits, a lot, so maybe she knew exactly how it would all play out…
And other realms with histories of the same events, only told with a different slant…yeah, I wanna see that…
I’ve long thought that Blue is super shady. Earlier this season, I wondered if Blue was The Sorcerer. The Sorcerer created the hat, which is older than “many Dark Ones”, so s/he must be very old. Isn’t Blue the oldest character on the show? Could The AuthorThe Sorcerer/Blue be one and the same?
Exactly about the scene with her and August. What was he talking with her about?
Blue’s suspcious activity includes:
Lying-by-omission when neglecting to tell young Bae that True Love’s Kiss could break the curse of The Dark One
Lying to Snow and Charming about the magical tree to placate Gepetto
Being cruel to Nova and Dreamy (Grumpy) and overly-rigid in her “dwarves can’t love” dogma
Banishing Tinker Bell for trying to help Regina, who Blue didn’t think was worthy of help for being Cora’s daughter and Rumple’s pupil
She has said things like:
Baelfire: How do I know I can trust you? Blue: Because there’s good magic and dark magic. And I’m on the right side. [Note that she doesn’t say the “good” side, she says the “right” side.]
and this exchange:
Tinker Bell: My name isn’t Green. It’s Tinker Bell. And I can’t believe you want me to ignore someone who needs help. It’s not very fairy-like. Blue: I would be the judge of what is fairy-like.
In summary: BLUE IS SHADY AS HELL.
Can we also talk about how Blue doesn’t really go by the “All magic comes with a price” rule? She doesn’t trade. She doesn’t bargain. She just gives.
“Oh here’s this enchanted tree you can make into a wardrobe aren’t I awesome?”
“Oh here’s this bean you can use to be with your father (and subsequently get The Dark One the hell away from me.) Aren’t I the best?”
She GIVES, and we assume it’s because she’s good and nice but what if it was just because she had her own agenda? What if she was also manipulating the stories from the inside, disguising herself as the most good being ever just to make sure the villains came up short because she didn’t like them?
Wait, are you telling me that the blue fairy is actually more manipulative than rumps and has actually managed to fool people into not even seeing it?
Breaking: Fox News doesn’t lie or exaggerate for once.
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I remember this one post about this guy saying something like “women are lucky because if you’re an ugly chick you can wear makeup and not be ugly anymore but if you’re an ugly guy, you’re fucked.”
Now I’m just sitting here thinking, why can’t a guy wear makeup?
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When modern media wants a group of baddies to look badass, it’ll often borrow design elements from Nazi uniforms. It’s not hard to understand why; the Nazis famously had their uniforms designed by professional fashion designers, including runway mogul Hugo Boss, and it worked wonderfully in terms of giving Nazi troops a stylish and intimidating public image.
What’s less well known, however, is how ridiculously terrible those uniforms were for any purpose other than looking smart.
Let me give you an example: suspenders. Back in the 1930s, the modern tactical harness hadn’t yet been developed. Instead, soldiers would wear a sturdy pair of leather suspenders in order to help distribute the weight of their ammo belts (which could be substantial - bullets aren’t light!). Hitler didn’t care for that - he thought it would make his troops look like farmers. Instead, he commissioned his uniform designers to come up with a complicated system of internal suspenders that could be worn under the uniform jacket, with metal hooks projecting from special holes near the jacket’s waistline. The idea was that the ammo belt would rest on the hooks, thus allowing it to be supported without disrupting the jacket’s clean lines.
The problem? The system’s designers, being accustomed to crafting for the runway, had completely overlooked that soldiers sometimes need to move quickly. At any pace quicker than a brisk walk, the ammo belt would bounce off of the hooks and slide down the wearer’s torso, often tripping him in the process. Worse, news of the issue didn’t filter back to the high command until the uniforms had already been widely distributed, so it was impossible to fix in an economical fashion. The Nazi troops eventually resorted to wearing external suspenders over the internal suspenders in order to keep their ammo belts in place, thus entirely defeating the purpose.
Then there are the cold-weather jackets, made infamous by the Nazis’ disastrous Winter Campaign against Russia in 1941-1942. At the time, the standard cold-weather jacket in use by most armies consisted of heavy quilted fabric stuffed with torn-up cotton. Hitler didn’t like that at all; in his opinion, it made it look like his troops were wearing blankets. So he had each soldier issued an individually tailored winter jacket made of suit-grade fabric and lined with fur (sourced from civilian clothing seized from death camp inmates, because of course it was).
You can probably guess where this is going. Predictably to anyone who’s not a Nazi fashion designer, the fine fabric of the jackets wasn’t tightly woven enough to stop the wind. The fur, meanwhile, harboured lice and fleas, stank abominably when wet, and was impossible to launder in the field. They’d managed to issue their troops dry clean only winter apparel, in a campaign that would send them far from their supply lines. That the weather ended up killing more Nazis than the Russian army should thus come as no surprise.
And these aren’t outliers. Virtually every element of the Nazi uniform made up for its smart styling by being ridiculously impractical. The officers often had it worst of all; their uniforms were expertly tailored to make their builds look trim and powerful, at the cost of being stuffy, uncomfortable, and difficult to move around it. Indeed, some officers’ uniforms were so smartly tailored that they couldn’t sit down without taking their pants off. Yeah, let that image roll around in your head for a moment or two.
The upshot is that whenever I see baddies in a movie or a TV show with clearly Nazi-inspired uniforms, my first thought is less “whoa, badass!” and more “these men are about to be murdered by their own trousers”.
There is some deeply undignified part of my soul that is taking deep and abiding comfort in this.
Amazing.
The lesson is, never let style outweigh practicality.
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