Emma Grant

Fangirl. Coffee drinker. World traveler. Podcaster. Purveyor and consumer of erotic fanfiction. Here lies a multifandom mess of a Tumblr. May also include American politics and hockey squee. She/her pronouns. Bi. Not your mom, but old enough to be.

[bettsfic]

I was wondering if you'd heard anything more about the Slash film from the director? I only ask as I stumbled across his tumblr blog and I get the impression he's getting really annoyed with all the negative press his film is getting, so I was intrigued about what you'd heard.

Well, I have bad news, good news, and great news.

[For those of you just joining in, you can follow along with the discussion in my “slash the movie” tag]

bad news

I haven’t received anything to convince me that this movie isn’t as offensive as the PR and overall synopsis makes it sound. I have, however, accumulated some links to help us determine what we’re up against.

The filmmaker himself linked me to one of his shorts, My Mom Smokes Weed (I watched it, and while I appreciate the premise and see the appeal for audiences who like that kind of awkward, stuttered humor seen a lot nowadays, it’s not my cup of tea)

Here’s an article in which the filmmaker condescendingly says of fanfic: “There’s a low-fi quality at work here. Something very cobbled together, and in a strange way, dangerous. Dangerous in that sexy way that something can be when you don’t quite know where it’s coming from or what its intentions are,” among many other disrespectful gems.

And here’s another where he says, “That stuff [Harry Potter erotica] is out there. It’s not hard to find. It’s just hard to erase from your mind afterwards.”

Lastly, this is an interview where he discusses the inspiration for his main character as such: “The easy thing to do is say, ‘Look how bad this person is and ridicule and deride.’ That’s extremely easy and therefore not interesting. Solondz actually makes you sympathize with these characters that are almost unsympathetic.”

emmagrant01 was kind enough to reblog my last ask with her personal run-in with this film, where a PR person (not the filmmaker) spoke with her about slash fic. 

The Daily Dot posted an article about the film, confirming that the “male lead’s sexuality is genuinely undefined in traditional terms,” which basically means we don’t get any solid queer representation, either.

good news

I’ve had a few one-on-one discussions with the actual filmmaker (not a PR person), and he does seem like a really nice, chill dude. I really appreciate that he reached out to me, and I appreciate his willingness to have a discussion around the concerns of fandom.

He offered to send me some more info on the actual film based on what his producers will allow, and he said he’d send that to me when he could. I’ll let you know when I know more.

GREAT NEWS!!

So in this whole whirlwind of activity around turning fandom into the subject of a movie, I had the amazing opportunity to read a script WRITTEN BY A FANPERSON FOR FANPEOPLE.

I laughed. I cried (twice!). I picked it up thinking I’d just read a couple pages and then I couldn’t put it down. 

shipitmovie is everything I’ve ever wanted in a movie. I’m basically willing to set myself on fire to get it made. Please follow the blog for updates on the project, and read a few of the script pages to see for yourself!

[xslytherclawx-writes]

The Charm Offensive & plagiarism

I've been mulling this over for a while, and while I did make a brief post about this initially, I'd like to name names because, frankly, I don't see any reason why not

Allison Cochrun, the author of The Charm Offensive, a widely-praised LGBT romance novel, seems to have based her novel on a Harry Potter fanfiction I published between 2018-2019.

I never gave consent for publishing my work or using my work as a base to edit for publication.

The main plot of my fanfiction is the same as the novel - though the novel also "borrows" many minor details to a point that it is impossible to believe that it is simply coincidence. My fanfiction predates the actual novel by over a year. In the fanfiction, a Harry Potter character goes on the Bachelorette and falls in love with one of the crew members - and then announces it on the televised finale.

Sound familiar?

Details below.

The fanfiction was the result of an inside joke with a friend, and I only posted it on AO3 (rather than keeping it in my google drive, in which case I can just about assure you: there would be no Charm Offensive) because I thought a handful of people familiar with some of my original characters might be interested in reading what is doubtlessly one of the silliest things I've ever written.

I wrote the fanfiction over the course of a few weeks in October 2018, while I was between jobs and looking for something to occupy my time waiting for HR to process my upcoming job offer.

At the time I found The Charm Offensive on Barnes and Noble's website, the fanfiction had around 700 hits. It isn't widely read, and, frankly, this isn't the first time that someone has ripped off my fanfiction, but this is the first time I've seen it monetized and acclaimed.

It is, quite honestly, an infuriating position to be in. I write fanfiction as a hobby; this is not my career, but why should that mean that I should sit idly by while someone else gets praise for my idea?

I found The Charm Offensive while looking for books to add to my cart so I could buy another romance novel without feeling guilty about paying for shipping. I saw the description and thought it sounded uncomfortably familiar, so I managed to get my hands on a copy without giving the person who ripped me off money. Because I needed to see if it was, perhaps, a strange coincidence.

It was not.

That became even more evident the more I read it.

The changes made are the sort of deliberate changes that are apparent when one reads other fanfiction that has been turned into published novels - but the key difference here is that Cochrun did not write the fanfiction, I am not her, and I did not consent to this.

And like, to be clear, this is a non-exhaustive list of the similarities between this novel and my fanfiction that was published between October 2018-January 2019 - so also before Cochrun says in the acknowledgments that the novel was actually written:

- bachelor-style setting - relationship is a participant on the show/a member of the crew (the “bachelor”/his handler vs a contestant/make up artist) - character A is a minority and specifically one often seen as a Model Minority (Indian vs Jewish in the fanfic) - character B is white & culturally christian and grew up with super homophobic parents - character A, however, grew up with super loving and supportive and slightly hippie parents who sought diagnoses and treatment for his neurodivergency and mental illness from a young age - all main cast in mid-late 20s (almost exactly the same age; they're 28 in the fanfiction and I believe 27 in the novel?) - character B went to a top university (Stanford vs Columbia) - character B (appears to? in the novel) speak German - special reassurance scene at a home visit with character B and someone who isn’t character A - character B has severe anxiety including panic attacks and thinks he’s unloveable (which isn’t unique but come on) - character B’s best friend is a woman who takes no shit and is also LGBT in some way (Pansexual vs lesbian) - character B is super into science fiction and exercise - character B is drop dead gorgeous and muscular with grey eyes - character B is sexually inexperienced - character A is very tall and skinny and often wears shorts (to a point where other characters use it as a defining thing) - character A is a hopeless romantic who desperately wants to find true love but can’t seem to find it - character A is sexually experienced (especially compared to character B) - character B / character B’s brother leaves home at 15/16 to get away from abusive, homophobic parents (LITERALLY. WHAT. THE. FUCK.) - subplot of the producers / show runner trying to make an extremely chill bisexual contestant’s sexuality into drama fodder - the entire plot about editing the footage after the fact to include scenes with characters A & B together because… - character B comes out on television, and says the words “I didn’t expect to find love here” (or similar) and then details that he did fall in love with one of the crew - also one of the women is a bisexual medical student (novel) / doctor (fanfiction) which is just. a lot. It’s a lot of little things that all seem to add up to more than coincidence, and given the way I've seen the author react to claims about the Desi rep in the book (it's not good, and I can tell you that much as someone who has just had Desi friends since she was 9), I doubt anything will come of this, but I thought I'd say it outright and make it clear that this is not anything I signed off on or was aware of prior to publication.

But hey! Don't just take my word for it. I've kept the fanfiction up with a disclaimer, so you can read it here! (Edit: originally linked the wrong fanfiction; the link has been fixed!)

[lunnitavaldez]

my baby my baby 😭

[charlesoberonn]

"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

[charlesoberonn]

I apologize.

[noroquian]

[demareth]

insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it

[charlesoberonn]

This one?

[schwazombie]

[ruffboi-mags]

Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.

[dzamie]

I love how we don't even need Apollo to be captioned, it's just "he's holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it's Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users"

[nebulous-nebuli]

[sour-charity]

[blueelectivire]

Absolute fucking trainwreck of a post

[seven-very-hot-fish]

Oh gee I wonder why this is going around again

[zack-creeper]

Art

[the-doctor-and-the-asshole]

How. Interesting

[rainbow-dash-the-ultimate]

Absolute bog standard post

[oli-bird]

@charlesoberonn

How about now?

[charlesoberonn]

Still not as bad as 1910s and 1940s but definitely getting there

[demareth]

[grandexcessivecoremode]

I feel like this is going to go around like 5 more times before someone deactivates or something breaks.

[toppettehat]

Some tiny, evil part of me kinda sorta wants things to get worse JUST so this post can keep getting updated

Just a little

[ciel-of-vault-111]

Oh way more than a little for me I’ve not got much else left to keep me entertained to why not watch it all go down the shitter :3

[mentally-unstable-bagel]

status update: uh. hmm. well

[zeta-finnish]

What am i doing here.

[imightbeafaerie-official-offical]

Well this aged terribly.

[cherries-of-wrath]

woah-oh we're (over) halfway there! woah-oh! living on a pra-ayer!

[anotherwellkeptsecret]

Just a Kiss: 1

Five times John and Sherlock kissed because of a case and one time they kissed for real.

Next

Welcome to my newest Sherlock comic Just a Kiss written by emmagrant01, which you can read here. This 5+1 fic does have a NSFW ending, which will be limited to Patreon. But the comic and fic itself can be enjoyed in its SFW version which will be posted in full on Tumblr and Twitter. $1 Patrons will be a page ahead and all other patrons will be two pages ahead. This comic will update Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please enjoy!

Patreon support helps me make comics like these. So a huge thank you those who pledge! If you'd like to continue seeing such work, please consider supporting!

Read more comics on my website! Support my work on Patreon, where you can read ahead!

[emmagrant01]

If you haven’t seen this amazing comic adaptation of this fic, check it out!

[the-bar-sinister]

Actually, the reason to write that rarepair longfic that no one else is going to read is so you can go back and re-read it yourself when you're sad.

[the-bar-sinister]

Or horny.

[omgpostsplease]

jack: the tv show copied us!

Pt. (1) (2) (2.5) (3) (3.5)

[ineffableclassics]

The world hadn’t ended and neither had they, but something had definitely changed.

Words: 10,135

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

@emmagrant01

Art Credit: Little Enid in Red Chair by Harry Boardman

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20170075

Listen Here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57334111

[emmagrant01]

Aw, thank you so much for the rec!

[shitpostingkats]

Shoutouts to Lan Xichen, who just spends the final chapters having the worst day of his life in like five different ways. FIRST he gets kidnapped by his situationship and dragged along to go corpse hunting because????? He likes you and wants you to be there when things break bad and he inevitably has to flee the country: just him, you, and the rotting body he is trying to dig up. Okay. Awesome. Don't know how this is going to shake out.

And THEN your brother's situationship crashes the party, and there's a lot of complicated feelings there, this is the man your brother has absolutely destroyed his life over, this man has caused your brother two decades of pain and suffering as you've had to watch him slowly tear himself apart with grief. Also your brother really desperately wants to sleep with this guy. So. There's that. Also he is just. Visibly covered in hickeys.

And THEN your brother's situationship accidentally lets slip that he's NOT sleeping with your brother and DOESN'T know that your brother is madly in love with him and literally everyone in the building (including your trusted and beloved situationship) has to stop what they're doing and ponder this fundamental flaw in the universe. You are so blinded by rage you temporarily have to play couple's counselor and simultaneously tear this guy a new one for daring to put your little brother through all this grief and not even having the decency to be aware of it. And you're still a hostage (maybe?)

ANYWAYS, then the little brother in question shows up and he also looks like he's having one of the worst days of his life (Worst days of his life #1-#4 also involve his situationship. You know this for a fact.) and your situationship threatens to kill his situationship, which would absolutely skyrocket this from The Fifth Worst Day Of His Life to Numero Uno Worst Day Of His Life.

And THEN the guy being held at knifepoint (stringpoint? Semantics.) takes a deep breath and loudly proclaims to everyone assembled that he DOES want to fuck your brother. He waits a beat. He looks ready to repeat himself.

You stop him.

All of you get shuffled into a further hostage holding area and told to sit tight so you have to sit there and pretend not to overhear your brother and his situationship have an extremely deep and emotional conversation and also talk about all the awesome sex they're going to have if they survive this.

FINALLY you are saved from your agonies by your situationship almost dying and fully revealing himself as a for real villain, which hits like a knife to the heart because you loved him, you thought you could trust him, but you have your principles and you have to stick by them. It's what your other (dead) situationship would have wanted.

ONLY THEN FOR YOUR OTHER (DEAD) SITUATIONSHIP TO SHOW UP.

Your dead situationship is trying to make your other sitautionship also dead and the problem is your dead situationship is really, really good at making things be dead. Actually that's only one of the problems. You have a lot of problems.

For example, you have this problem where you are also really really good at making things be dead and you end up running your sword through your situationship's gut. And with his dying breaths, he tries to drag you with him. Finally, all three of you can be together. One big, happy (extremely dead) situationship.

Except he changes his mind. At the last possible moment. You're alive. And now you have two dead situationships and a box you have to bury and your brother is gone (presumably off to go have gay and epic sex) and you now have to go home and explain this entire thing to everyone and maybe go scream into a pillow and spend the rest of your life contemplating if love was why he tried to kill you or if love was why he saved you. And it's still only Thursday.

[faithfulpuppy]

This ain't new material but every time I get back to the scene in The Untamed where lwj comes in after wwx's coma to play for him I forget just how insane it is. I just want to know what the hell acting directions they were giving. "Lan Zhan stare at him like you want to fuck his brains out respectfully. Don't break eye contact. Wei Ying act like you also want that but you're very shy because you're in your fucking underwear. Okay now bite your lip-"

[gatorix1]

Cql wangxian will always have a special place in my heart

[ngoziu]

Actually, we need to talk about fandom and the NHL's conservative politics

(read on my Patreon)

You just finished reading every queer hockey story available to man—and holy Wayne Gretzky—you're a newly minted hockey fan. You love the gays; you want to watch the sexy men zoom around in the boy aquarium, and it's Friday night. So you tune into an NHL game.

You're a brand new hockey fan and you can see that there's twelve men on the ice, a bunch of others on the bench, there's coaches, assistant coaches, goalie coaches, referees, retired NHL players doing analysis and color commentary. You scan the faces, and all are consumed by the reason for tonight's gathering: working together to get a vulcanized piece of rubber into a goddamn net. We've left the outside world behind; color, creed, orientation, immigration status, and gender matter not. All that matters is the effort these athletes put out on the ice.

Yet, as a new, leftist hockey fan, pick any one of these people, and flip a coin—and there's a decent chance that this person has conservative politics. If they're American and registered to vote, there's a 43.9% chance they are registered as a Republican and if they voted, they voted for Donald J. Trump.

src: From Peter Lutz on Vote Hub

And I'm sure if you asked the other 38.5% of NHL players, they'd say something along the lines of "I don't really do politics." You know, the type of "uh...I think everyone should stop fighting" response that the willfully under-informed offer when you bring up genocides.

Oh man. Oh gosh. That's so weird. You got into hockey because of the myriad of stories that celebrate queerness and marginalized identities and intersectional feminism—so what is up with this league? Why is it so different from the stories that use it as an athletic backdrop? Has it always been like this? And how did you end up here? Why are so many other fannish/bookish left-leaning people like yourself finding solace in a league where there are millionaires who will gladly win it all and shake hands with a self-proclaimed fascist?

If you're at all like me, a leftist Black woman, it's a simple cycle.

You discover the world of hockey and the NHL which is strange and fascinating. The blood, sweat, and tears compel you. Yes, it's filled with white people—like it's mostly white people whatthefuckisupwiththat—but they're a different sort of people because this niche underground culture is...strange and fascinating! They have slang and enormous asses! (edit: I speak on hockey and whiteness in this Vanity Fair article.)

It is very gay. The homosociality of hockey breeds a male repression unmatched by any other form of physical exertion. You feel safe here now; you feel justified. Nevermind the fact that toxic masculinity is the thing you're actually observing. You were born with slash goggles on. If these men can't untie the bow on their unconscious desires and unrealized tenderness, you can do it for them.

Reality strikes. A good rule of writing is that characters are what they do. And whenever you peek into the real world of the NHL...you see what the league and its players do—or don't do. Time after time again you're presented with political inaction from the league, racism, misogyny, transphobia, and apathy towards the things you really care about. You learn slowly, that the NHL is a league that moves at glacial speeds, pun intended. It is, simply, not progressive.

Well, at least you have hockey romance and that is progressive! You don't need professional men's hockey! You can make a difference! Yay!

...But oh good God, now you've spread the gospel of hockey to dozens—maybe hundreds of people with your hockey fandom. And some of the people with whom you shared your fandom? They may never make it to step three. (Picture me running from laptop to laptop, closing the Word documents of various hockey romance writers. I kind of sound like Jimmy Stewart: "Stop! St-stop it now! We're spreading it! Dontcha know we're spreading it, huh? You're sending 'em down to the boy aquarium, but that's no boy aquarium! That's MAGA territory, you see! These people think Bernie Sanders is crazy!")

Am I saying that watching an NHL game is like buying a signed copy of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? No. (But someone do the math on that.) Any time we engage with any of the major sports we put money in the coffers of billionaires. (The PWHL is owned by billionaire Mark Walters, who is the owner the Lakers, Dodgers, and Sparks. He donated to Obama and the DNC and is always happy to visit the White House—even if it's to hang out with Trump when his sports team does well. Do NOT get me started on the MLB)

All I am saying is that, you, new hockey fan, can save yourself a lot of time and frustration by knowing precisely the league that is being marketed to you. You will be disappointed with player politics. You will be lulled by the basest forms of rainbow capitalism. 43.9% of American NHL players are registered Republicans. You will find yourself accepting the bare-minimum. (I was way too proud of Sidney Crosby for like, knowing a gay person?)

I deeply regret having made Jack Zimmermann's "uncle" Wayne Gretzky. I didn't know the guy would go to Trump's inauguration... He's not even American.

[avawtsn]

One more podfic offering for @fandomtrumpshate, wangxian edition! Witness the depths of podfic hyperfocus never heretofore seen under the meilanmeilan/avawtsn brand...which is to say that I went a little soundscape/sound effect/radio play wacky. I just hope it worked out. >.> Thank you a million times to @emmagrant01 who kindly bid on me!

[Podfic] An Opportune Lapse in Impulse Control by meilanmeilan (avawtsn) for emmagrant01

Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Explicit, M/M

Tags

No Archive Warnings Apply

Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian

Modern AU

grad school

no magic

idiots to lovers

Fake Relationship

Sexual Tension

Getting Together

Friends to Lovers

Blow Job

Hand Job

Podfic

Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes

Sound Effects

Summary

Mianmian keeps trying to fix Wei Ying up with her friends. One night, Lan Zhan decides to do something about that.

[emmagrant01]

It’s so good! The sound effects! Definitely listen with earbuds in, heh.

[kaliandra]

Hanguang-jun knew A-Yuan would never be as unrestrained as Wei Ying once was. Even so, he could not bring himself to subject the boy under the full severity of the Gusu Lan Sect’s discipline. Somewhere, there had to be a middle ground. Just enough structure, balanced with the freedom for A-Yuan to simply be himself. What Hanguang-jun had not anticipated was how quickly time would slip through his fingers. One day, A-Yuan was just tall enough to swing from his arms; the next, he was far too big for it. When had children started growing up so fast?

references

[sowecoulddance]

its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

[sharper-and-bigger]

Jesus also spent Christmas in a barn full of animals

[ottermclusky]

Sharper you do have a point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

[brenna]

[teaboot]

[wheresmyphonemp3]

[fadingponycookiedream]

[andsorrowsend]

[werefeathers]

[inpotatoeswetrust]

Good thing no one is asking me what my career aspirations are anymore because they've turned into writing a fanfic so good someone makes fan art of it. High aspirations indeed.