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Friday, November 2nd, 2012 01:34 am


I love Once Upon a Time.

I love the fact that it’s a show with three female leads, each with their own share of agency within the narrative, each modeling a different performance of femininity. I like that despite having three ‘strong female characters’, Once Upon a Time has made Emma, Snow, and Regina smart as well as physically tough. And I really like that in a genre that so often treats motherhood as the end of the adventure or fodder for tragedy, Once Upon a Time positions motherhood (and all parenthood by extension) as a heroic journey that, like all great quests, involves the active choice to take up the responsibility.

And because this is a fairy tale story, sometimes that means struggling to parent your newly-discovered 28-year-old daughter who is also your best friend and roommate - thanks to the Evil Queen’s curse stripping you of your memories and freezing you in time - and who has an oft-stated weakness for dating the wrong guy.

Hook doesn’t need to worry about giants or evil sorceresses. He needs worry about how Snow White is ready to cut off his other hand just for looking at Emma.
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Monday, October 24th, 2011 01:33 pm
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 01:24 pm
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Friday, October 21st, 2011 01:29 pm
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011 01:50 pm
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 01:31 pm
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 01:54 pm
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Monday, October 17th, 2011 07:49 pm
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Friday, October 14th, 2011 10:36 pm
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011 10:36 am
  • Ср, 11:46: Newly obsolete (and discounted) iPhone 4 or shiny new (expensive) iPhone 4s? Decisions, decisions.
  • Ср, 11:57: Bingo: RT @cinn48: @common_st @lifeonqueen That's why none of these networks have actual value, it's the users, not the software.
  • Ср, 11:59: Have discovered the problem with designing a SM marketing plan is developing a process that will be adaptable to the Next Big Shiny Thing.
  • Ср, 12:00: Everyone else in SM has probably already figured this out. Ironically, the #FieryRobotDeath workplace is adamantly analog not digital.
  • Ср, 12:03: #cdnpoli RT @RosieBarton Crazy question: how does a govt making 4 billion dollars in cuts this year build a new bridge in Montreal? #hw
  • Ср, 12:23: Show me one project, any project where 3P has actually resulted in "no additional cost to taxpayers": http://t.co/vnTYxU7P #cdnpoli
  • Ср, 12:27: Not even the Conference Board of CDA rpt commissioned to sell 3P to govts could find a "no additional cost" 3P project: http://t.co/eigyNFt4
  • Ср, 12:31: What Harper's actually proposing is pay for a new bridge & sell the right to collect tolls to the private sector. That's not a win for CDNs.
  • Ср, 12:34: Haven't seen anything yet: RT @aeleitch Is anything Harper directly proposes _ever_ a win for CDNs? LINKS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
  • Ср, 12:47: Michael Lewis, "California and Bust": surprisingly, California's troubles aren't all Schwarzenegger's fault - http://t.co/pxfI60I4
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 12:52 am
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011 09:09 pm
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 02:33 pm
  • Сб, 15:48: I am learning about how to set up fireworks... You have all been warned. #sooncon
  • Сб, 20:10: 'Nuit Blanche traditionally begins with attendees running to Yonge St tat shops to buy cheap scarves as they realize it's fucking cold...'
  • Сб, 20:42: I think this installation is called 'Queue'... #NuitBlanche
  • Сб, 20:58: '...I believe the absence of light in the Port-O-Let interrogates the genitophobia of contemporary Western culture...' #NuitBlanche
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011 08:33 pm
  • Пт, 23:39: The most academic of insults: "You belong in York!" OH Christie & Bloor
  • Сб, 15:48: I am learning about how to set up fireworks... You have all been warned. #sooncon
  • Сб, 20:10: 'Nuit Blanche traditionally begins with attendees running to Yonge St tat shops to buy cheap scarves as they realize it's fucking cold...'
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Friday, September 30th, 2011 03:32 pm
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 01:23 pm
  • Tue, 14:18: Wolf-dog crosses - a bad idea: http://t.co/J750KBGI via @electricland (still - you're 50x more likely to be killed by a dog than a wolf)
  • Tue, 14:23: Oh, goody. Back from coffee w/Dad in time for Adam Vaughan's speaking time. Political theatre is the best theatre. #TOcouncil
  • Tue, 14:24: TO 1842: "Men are weighed by their dollars... [valued] by their dollars." ~ Charles Dickens via Adam Vaughan. How little life has changed.
  • Tue, 14:26: Vaughan now quoting all #EXcomm members' opposition to individual cuts - collectively condemning all proposed cuts in Core Service Review.
  • Tue, 14:28: "When the Mayor says 'raise taxes' that's a conversation we should have and we should have it today," Adam Vaughan, the petard of #TOcouncil
  • Tue, 14:28: RT @nowtoronto: Cllr Vaughan lists all the cuts Ford's allies have opposed. "It's not us who have blinked. It's the mayor's executive" # ...
  • Tue, 14:30: "The wild and rabid Toryism of Toronto is appalling." Charles Dickens via Adam Vaughan, #TOcouncil
  • Tue, 14:33: I seem to recall the Province of Ontario offering to pay for something to move ppl in TO... I think they called it #TransitCity? #TOcouncil
  • Tue, 14:35: Cllr Shiner, if #TOcouncil's spending is out of control, perhaps Rob Ford's first act shouldn't have been to spend $100 on cutting taxes.
  • Tue, 14:36: Also, anyone know but isn't the $13 billion figure Shiner's quoting include the capital budget? #TOcouncil
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 12:30 pm
  • Mon, 13:57: Cutting govt spending: "an intellectually bankrupt dogma that only worsens the crisis of widespread income deprivation" http://t.co/rw03puiM
  • Mon, 16:07: Cllr Minan-Wong wants to know why TO EMS works so much overtime: the recent hiring freeze might provide answers http://t.co/krABnfQH #TOpoli
  • Mon, 16:11: RT @InklessPW: This is one of those days when I wonder how the street containing the parliament of a rich and happy country became so de ...
  • Mon, 16:12: If you don't know which museums you want to close, how can you know how much money you'll save by closing them? #TOcouncil #basiclogic
  • Mon, 16:14: Managers have three choices to manage high workloads: hire new staff, pay overtime to existing staff, don't do the work. Pick one. #TOpoli
  • Tue, 11:48: I'd say it's more likely that 9/10 TOians are too passive-aggressive to call Rob Ford a mendacious moron to his face: http://t.co/BB1B8Zfh
  • Tue, 11:53: RT @AdamCF: As charming as @johnparker26 is, he's now trying to justify his vote for amalgamation while a Harris MPP, which is never cha ...
  • Tue, 11:59: Someone should have ONTgovt fix this: MT @goldsbie [re BBMs] Also, it's the only type of written message that can't be accessed via MFIPPA.
  • Tue, 12:03: Cllr Stintz? Subtle? RT @DavidHains Stintz is making an argument that is either an unintentional or subtle indictment of this vague process
  • Tue, 12:07: RT @cityslikr: Tough choices, Cllr Thompson? Did you tell your residents repeal of VRT and freezing of property taxes would lead to serv ...
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