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(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)Constructing Love And Creating Community In The, Shannon A. Suddeth
(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)Constructing Love And Creating Community In The, Shannon A. Suddeth
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines a queer fan community for the television show Once Upon a Time (OUAT) that utilizes the social networking site Tumblr as their primary base of fan activity. The Swan Queen fan community is comprised of individuals that collectively support and celebrate a non-canon romantic relationship between two of the female lead characters of the show rather than the canonic, heterocentric relationships that occur between the two women and their respective male love interests. I answer two research questions in this study: First, how are members of the Swan Queen fan community developing counter narratives of …