Citations:Swan Queen

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Emma Swan and Regina Mills from the television series Once Upon a Time"

 * 2015, Emma Nordin, "From Queer Reading to Queerbaiting: The battle over the polysemic text and the power of hermeneutics", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 11:
 * Another example is Emma Swan and Regina Mills from Once Upon a Time. Regina is also the Evil Queen and the most common shipping name is “Swan Queen”.
 * 2016, Aaron Schwabach, "Fan Works and the Law", in New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction (ed. Ken Gelder), page 409:
 * or Swan Queen (for Emma Swan and Regina Hill, characters from the Disney television show Once Upon a Time and, in the case of Regina, from the Disney animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs).
 * 2016, Brittany Warman, "I Am the Wolf: Queering ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Snow White and Rose Red’ in the Television Show Once Upon a Time”, Humanities, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2016), page 8:
 * Indeed, as Rebecca Hay and Christa Baxter note, many fans have long hoped for the inclusion of a homosexual relationship on the show—the “Swan-Queen” advocates, those pushing for a romantic relationship between Emma, the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), and Regina (Lana Parilla), the evil queen, have been particularly vocal since the beginning ([36], p. 329).
 * 2017, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Screen Comedy and Online Audiences, unnumbered page:
 * This post had 4,323 notes and was also tagged #swan queen, which refers to a f/f (female/female) ship in the TV drama Once upon a Time.
 * 2017, Eftychia Misailidou, "Social Media Fandom: The construction of identity in the cases of 'The 100' and 'Once Upon A Time' Tumblr communities", 2017 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), page 5:
 * Swan Queen has been present on the Once Upon a Time fandom almost since the beginning of the show, and has been very active on Tumblr, and usually has the top positions of Tumblr Fandometrics, a Tumblr blog that measures the most popular fandom blogs on several topics including television.
 * 2017, Shannon A. Suddeth, "(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time Queer Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page iii:
 * Swan Queen fans argue that the show runners of OUAT use subtextual codes within canonical storylines in an effort to queerbait the show’s queer audience members.
 * 2018, Pauline Greenhill, "Cinematic", in The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures (eds. Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, & Lauren Bosc), unnumbered page:
 * for OUaT, the “Swan Queen” ship, pairing protagonist Emma Swan and evil queen Regina Mills, is one of the most dominant on Tumblr.
 * 2019, Colleen E. Johnson, "Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 8:
 * While not all queer female OUAT fans are SQ shippers, and other femslash ships do exist within the fandom, the Swan Queen fandom is the largest and most vocal femslash fandom (and possibly ship fandom in general) within the broader OUAT fandom and is the fandom SUAS is written about and for.
 * 2020, Victoria Gonzalez, "Contentious Storytelling Online: Articulating Activism though Negotiation of Metanarratives", Sociological Perspectives, page 12:
 * Therefore, the narratives express the desire for the Swan Queen romance to follow the same plot of the typical fairy tales.
 * 2022, Victoria Mello Veríssimo da Fonseca, "Fanfiction as a Literary Text: A Narratological Study of Fanfiction Writing", paper submitted to the Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur, page 31:
 * All of this might explain why there are so many fanworks being created to this day, and not just within the subdivision of the Swan Queen fanbase.