˚✧˳★ The Green Witch ★˳✧˚

☆*:.｡. she/her ☆ twenties ☆ imagining worlds .｡.:*☆

[essie-exe]

꧁༺☾ Welcome To My Lair ☽༻꧂

I am Essie! (or Espy, if you know me personally).

• ━━━━━━━ ˖°˖ ☾ About Me ☽ ˖°˖ ━ •

My pronouns are she/her and I’m in my twenties (which means I’m an adult, and if you are a minor, please be aware).

I love to write, draw and READ. Seriously. I read constantly lol (books, fanfics, comics, you name it).

If you have a good story to show me—do it. And if I get captivated by it I will become your number one fan haha.

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Check my AO3 (Imagining_Essie)

Undertale Fandom

The Last Soul *

Dead Quiet *

* I’m rewriting all my works for Undertale because I improved a lot and reading back gives me nightmares.

Heated Rivalry Fandom

If Ice Calves And There Is No One Around To Hear It

As Closets As Lockers

• ━━━━━━━ ˖°˖ ☾ Thank You! ☽ ˖°˖ ━ •

[avpd-pain]

[allstarrocks]

in my dreams unrivaled is about them finally acknowledging and working through processing shanes issues leading up to ottawas first stanley cup win, i want it to start with shane in a Considerably worse place mentally, restricting himself, barely enjoying his husband who he lives with, overworking himself, torn up about not being the captain and getting into fights with ilya about it bc hes stuck on the idea that he cant redeem himself until this team has a cup, i want them to win the cup in the end and for shane to have worked through all if this over the course of the season to the point where he realizes that the thought of losing didnt paraliyze him finally, and was maybe the thing that let them win

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[bluegiragi]

long distance selfies

early access + nsfw on patreon

[valtsv]

"here's my original character, Man Who Sucks But Loves His Daughter Very Much" and it's a guy who worships at the altar of patriarchal violence and the woman he uses as an excuse and an effigy to absolve him

[valtsv]

well i think his daughter should tell him to kill himself

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[write-on-world]

[viralfrog]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[typewriter-worries]

where's that picture that ruined my life

[typewriter-worries]

found it

[typewriter-worries]

this comic did the same thing

[figarooney]

been obsessed with hollanov au recently and i’m not usually super into au, i like inserting a new narrative into canon

but i think because shane and ilya do end up together, i don’t have to wish for it the way i do with other media

and so it’s fun imagining that every new fic i read of shane and ilya is another legitimate timeline where they end up together, because they always end up together, even in canon

[cancerously]

I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

[moetxt]

i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.

[giveemhales]

Criminally Underrated Hollanov Fics - Part 2

Part 1

People seemed to like the first list so here are 10 more underrated hollanov fics. All are completed, all have under 10k hits and 100 comments, and all deserve more love! And all but one are under 10k words. I have personally read and can vouch for all of these. If you enjoy, please remember to show some love to the authors! Also, if anyone ever wants to discuss any of the fics I ever post about, my dms are always open :)

it’s just background noise, anyway by @anincompletelist (2.4k, M) - cliff and carmichael sneak into ilya’s penthouse in 2014 vegas and almost catch shane and ilya in the act. love how this author writes ilya’s pov, he’s such a yearner

Forget about it by @deliciousblizzardshark (2.5k, G) - shane and ilya wake up together in a hospital room and both have temporary amnesia, they are so silly i love them

who else could love me quite as kindly as you by @eemolu (2.9k, M) - ilya can’t actually live inside of shane, so he settles for burrowing under his sweatshirt instead. so achingly tender. the love they feel for each other really shines through

jealous of the night watch by @lottswrites (3.7k, E) - hitman ilya needs to cuff hitman shane to make sure he doesn’t interfere with his job. i think you can guess where it goes from there hehe. love this au plus this fic was written for a charity event which makes it even more special!

Shane Hollandbear by writeitininkorinblood (4.1k, G) - outsider pov. the centaurs take shane to build-a-bear to make a bear for ilya. pure fluff and humor. made me want to go back to BAB

loose lips sink ships all the damn time by hollsynov (4.2k, T) - texting and socmed fic. ilya’s phone is broken so shane messages him on twitter, but accidentally outs them to a fan account instead. love this oc, this was funnier and more wholesome than i expected

i pay attention to things that most people ignore by @extendedpl4y (4.9k, T) - hayden realizes lily is ilya all on his own. i usually read (and write) fics with hayden as a dumbass so this is a nice change and very sweet!

In Sickness and In Health by gnomey2001 (5.5k, E) - shane gets the stomach flu after fleeing the tuna meltdown and so do all the raiders. shane is stuck in boston when the game is canceled, and ilya takes care of him. i love a post-tuna meltdown fix it and really enjoyed how everything was resolved.

slow motion, love potion by @delsicle (6.8k, E) - sex worker ilya is hired by shane in sochi during the winter olympics so he can experiment with a man. hot, sweet, and sad all at once. lovely writing

78 seconds by @felifiran (11k, E) - instead of shane being injured at the boston-montreal game, ilya takes a skate to the neck. it’s not as graphic as it sounds (but obviously there are discussions of blood). some lovely hurt/comfort, perfect if you want something bittersweet

[chokedqwerty]

Tabloids for the Project Hail Mary mission, c. 20xx. (The Sunday Times, The Times Magazine.)

[champagnemoon]

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

[carewitchproject]

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about