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Artemis Fowl Substack!

I have created a substack for all things Artemis Fowl! I will be sharing lots of stuff there over time, and unlike on discord/tumblr/reddit, my informational posts won't be buried after a few days by other stuff. It's just pure AF goodness curated by me. Sign up for free if you want AF news updates and articles and other AF goodness to be delivered to you.

Whenever there's AF news, you will hear about it there. Deep dives on the books? Also there. Cool merch showcases? There too.

Any and all feedback is welcome. Some introductory posts are live, along with a loading dose of normal content you can expect there to be more of. I have the aspiration to turn it into a paid thing for certain premium types of posts, but obviously if this fails to gain traction I can't do that. For now, it's all free. Happy reading, and please share!

https://artemisfowlfanfeed.substack.com/

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AF Book 1 has a sub-title in several countries!

These lucky people don't have to say "Artemis Fowl book 1" when discussing that book.

Subtitle

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new article

Forget the cube color. Is Butler Asian or isn't he?

Everything that's different between US and UK editions of Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. It's more than just the color of the cube.

Please consider subscribing and commenting on the substack to help it grow!

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New article on a rare AF chapter sampler

And more importantly, a request for a help building a community. Please share!

https://open.substack.com/pub/artemisfowlfanfeed/p/rare-item-spotlight-bk5-sampler

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Foreign Artemis Fowl Cover Arts

Some incredible artwork in here.

Or, as they call them in foreign countries, Editions

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Changes between editions of AF: Arctic Incident!

Big new (and free!) post on the Substack. All human-written and researched, no AI. I have read the US and UK editions of Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident side-by-side, line-by-line and am bringing you every notable difference. There's more than you might think!

Many of you know about the C-Cube being a different color in book 3, but what do you know about book 2's changes? Whatever you know, you're about to know a whole lot more.

If you have thoughts after reading this article, I welcome reblogs and comments here, but please also consider creating a free Substack account and commenting directly on the piece. People in six years who find this article and read it won't see the comments left in quote-posts / reblogs across various social sites, but they will see comments left on the actual article and I'm kinda hoping to grow a visible AF community where, unlike here, comments about subjects aren't buried by new posts and/or an algorithm; something new fans can actually find down the road.

Anyways, enjoy the findings!

Censored violence, cut dialogue, centaur text, and attractive elves...

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New Article

Spent several hours gathering intel on Gnommish for you all. Some stuff in here I don't think anyone knows about.

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Includes answers to recent questions from @theblackrainbowyt

It rapidly became less brief as I wrote it

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Hi there it's me again! I successfully acquired both TAI and TEC (with the centaurean and eternean respecively) and all is well, but one thing confuses me, neither one appears to have the translation key anywhere?

Ah yes. Congrats on acquiring the books! But yeah, they don't just give you the key. I plan on making a big post about these eventually, talking about the surprisingly complex work required to decode Eternity Code. Since you've asked, perhaps I'll try to get to that sooner than later. For now, I recommend not looking up the solution to the decoded message or the translation key, because that sorta spoils the fun.

What's easy to forget is that in the original AF novel, they don't just give you the key, they give you a couple paragraphs in English and also their gnommish equivalent, which allows you to derive what the alphabet is. This edition of Arctic Incident you hold in your hands does something similar about halfway through the book that lets you derive what the alphabet is. There's like a whole page of text about the centaur script that is exclusive to this edition. However, centaur letters are kinda just english letters with some stylization added to them, so that one's not too hard.

What's much harder is Eternity Code. It's kind of the grand finale of the trilogy of codes. This time, the only thing you have to work with is the dedication page at the start of the book. It has the dedication in English and then in eternity code script, to give you some letters to start with. The trickiest thing about this code is that it's not just what the symbol looks like, but also about where it is placed on the page relative to an imaginary center line running through the text. The same symbol means something different depending on if it's above or below the imaginary center line.

I encourage you to try to work on cracking it the way it's intended, without looking anything up, because it really is quite rewarding imo. But I will try to get a post up about it that goes into the process with more detail soon. Thanks for the ask again!

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Big new post!

Did you know that 'bum' is a bad word and is not allowed in the US edition of Artemis Fowl? Did you know there are plot holes in the story that only exist in certain editions? Do you know the history of the letter E (in gnommish)?

In case you ever wanted to know everything that is different about the US & UK editions of book 1:

https://artemisfowlfanfeed.substack.com/p/usuk-version-differences-book-1

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hi, i know you have a really big artemis fowl book collection and so could perhaps help a guy out- which are the editions with the code written in centaurian and enternean instead of gnommish, if you know that?

You have come to the right person! You are looking for the first UK editions of books 2 and 3. Either hardcover or paperback, they just have to have these covers. It's silver for book 2, and red for book 3. Make sure it's a UK silver book 2 and not a US silver book 2. The centaur code and eternity code are pictured on the covers you're looking for. If you're buying a copy online, I strongly recommend you do not buy a listing that uses a stock image. You'll almost certainly receive the wrong cover, at least that's been my experience. Gotta find a listing that uses an actual photo of the actual physical item (such as this photo). Thanks for the ask! Lemme know if you have any other questions :)

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Not to be totally insane but I have now read your AF fics on both ff.net and AO3 and now I accidentally find you here? I'm a very lucky A/H shipper!

thank you so much for your support and lovely reviews on all platforms!

What is your favourite A/H fic you have written?

Thanks for this! It's difficult to answer as I don't have a super high opinion of myself. Perusing through my list of works, though, what jumps out at me is "Five Times Artemis Asked Holly to Marry Him..." in terms of standalone fics. And in terms of my oneshot collections, I really like number 11 of Milestones, which is dialogue-heavy but I think it's decent dialogue. But my answer can easily change depending on my mood and my opinion of my writing ability at any given moment! Thanks again!

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My Obsessive Artemis Fowl Collection

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Does anyone remember what Juliet's backstory was?

Quick question, (yes I am writing a fan fic). I remembered a while back that Eoin gave us details in like an interview or something that Juliet was born in America in a prison??? Is that real or am I pulling things out of thin air?

Also, can someone tell me what happens at the end of "The Fowl Twins get what they deserve"? I can not be bothered to finish that particular book (I usually love Eoin's work but that... just wasn't it) and I can't find any book summaries.

Hope you all are doing well, 🧡

jasonball34

44:07 in this video https://www.youtube.com/live/a1ygsaXCX3A?t=2647s

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The musical has been in the works for years

I made this video compilation of clips from 2020-2021 in which Eoin floats the idea of a musical and then confirms he is working on something Fowl-related besides the books.

Eoin Colfer has written many other stage shows/musicals, you just don't hear much about them because they haven't played in America. But he's wanted to do Artemis for years. It took longer than he expected to come to fruition, but he's been working on this for a while.

Personally, I hope they're in contact with Lara McDonnell and/or Josh Gad and that they reprise their roles. They're both experienced and talented musical theater actors and were excellently cast in the movie, perhaps better fits than certain other characters' actors were. Eoin Colfer has on multiple occasions expressed public support for Lara so I hope it crosses his mind to attempt to cast her, especially after she expressed enthusiasm for the musical in 2020.

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maryam26

Not something I’d normally post but this has infuriated me for YEARS. The most popular Artemis Fowl ship is Hartemis. For anyone that doesn’t know, it is the titular character x a character named Holly Short. I don’t know, but I never noticed any chemistry between them but that’s not the point. The problem with this ship is that Holly is in her 80s and Artemis is 15 at the end of the series. Nobody ever seems to notice or care about that fact, though. Not only that, but she KISSED HIM. She kissed him and nobody acknowledges how messed up that is.

piscespixiewastaken

All right, now this makes me feel old, and I feel like I need to defend my older, former fandom members and any current members as well.

For context, I’ve been in the fandom for over 15 years. First picked up the books at 12, and found the forums (the place for fans to chat with each other) and the fanfic site attached to the only insider source any of us had to Eoin and the series at 14. I became an integral member of both a couple years later in 2010-2011.

Back in the day, there were THREE main ships with Arty. Just three. You had Hartemis or A/H ship as some also called it. You had A/M for Artemis/Minerva (which most folks hated because there was a general sense of disgust at Minerva’s character back in the day). And you had the previously popular Artemis/OC.

Also, a lot of the original fanfics were written all the way back 2002-2008, way before the ships that are popular today came about. There was no Alexmis because that didn’t start gaining traction till much later (and given the state of society, probably wouldn’t have gotten popular regardless until mid-2010s). Sadly, the original fanfic site went down about 7 years ago, otherwise I could point you toward it as an example.

You also have to remember that this whole “problematic ships are evil” thing didn’t come about till less than 5 years ago. Back in the day, we were all prepubescent and young teenagers shipping two main characters because most of us didn’t think of the ick factor of an adult dating another adult she’d known since he was a teen. Because we didn’t know better, and it was fiction to begin with.

The instance in The Time Paradox was specifically Eoin trying to see if romance would work, deciding it wouldn’t as he was writing but left it in to demonstrate the dynamic between Holly and Artemis. He’s not saying it’s canon; he’s showing that if they were closer in age (as they were in the time travel section), then it could have been possible in canon. But he left no opportunity for it to continue past that.

All this to say, the Hartemis shippers are probably just older fans from back when aging up Artemis to fit the ship was more acceptable (or creating human!AUs where they’re both the same age). They’re not horrible people, and I know some of them are kids themselves. If you decide to run these people out, there will be no Artemis Fowl fandom left on tumblr.

So play nice, and if the ship icks you out that much, block the related tags or users who use them. It’s fiction. It’s only a problem if you make it one.

Signed,

An older and very tired, possibly-sick-with-a-cold, fandom member who would rather not see this shit devolve into callouts, thanks

do-you-sea-whatididthere

I do think people should be allowed to just talk about it though? Not saying you're wrong about who the shippers are, that's pretty much on the money, but every time I see someone just try and talk about their negative feelings on the ship the fandom "becoming toxic" and "getting torn apart" gets brought up to effectively shut them down.

I am also an older fan who only thought it was a little weird as a kid. As an adult it actively bothers me. I'll still talk about it, it's an adult and a child, I will always find it strange. I don't think mentioning that will tear the fandom apart, I just think it will get those shippers to block me so we don't have to interact with each other. I think that's fine.

The fandom is getting older and it's slowly becoming a less and less popular ship. The people who ship it should still be able to acknowledge why it will understandably make other people uncomfortable. I think we should be able to talk about it and just shut down the call out thing if it actually happens instead of trying to pre-emptively stop it by stopping anyone who tries to talk about the ship in anything but a positive or neutral light. It doesn't really make for an unbiased discussion

piscespixiewastaken

I feel not quite as cranky now, so I apologize if I came off too harsh. My intention was mainly this point here:

If you decide to run these people out, there will be no Artemis Fowl fandom left on tumblr

I believe the discourse surrounding A/H has occurred several times throughout the fandom’s 20+ year history. It happened on the forum boards, it’s happened here, and obviously it will continue to happen as new people join. But it needs to stay as actual discourse, and not pointing fingers while saying “this thing is problematic and if you like it, you MUST acknowledge that it is wrong”.

When I see the discourse start with “hey this ship/thing is messed up and NO ONE acknowledges it”, the implication is the people who like the ship are inherently messed up themselves and don’t understand that they’re “wrong”.

The moment you start the conversation with “this thing IS…” rather than “this makes ME feel…” then you (the collective you) have taken a stance. And that stance is “my opinion on this is the right one”. The next logical step is to vilify and demonize those who disagree with you if you can’t change their minds

Now obviously IRL relationships like Artemis/Holly can be very problematic. It can be counted as grooming (I did not address the fact that had Holly been human, she would have been closer to 20-21, still a 8-9 year age gap, but not 60-something years like OP stated), and there would need to be significant time away from each other in order to appropriately foster those feelings as adults.

But as I pointed out, this is fiction. This hurts no one to age up a character to make a ship appropriate. Or hell, age down a character to make a ship appropriate. No one in Hartemis actually ships child!Artemis and adult!Holly.

My main concern, because I have seen this occur elsewhere, is that this attitude, this “x/y ship is horrible/messed up” that implies similarly horrible things about those who engage with it, will lead to callouts, to bullying, and more. And once those start, they are very hard to stop.

Many of the people I saw active on fowldom and the Artemis Fowl tags over the years were Hartemis shippers. They were the biggest producers of art and fics for the past 10 years since I’ve been on tumblr. You know who I don’t see as often, despite their content not always being about the ship itself? Those same users.

The only thing I can assume based on posts like these that have popped up more regularly in the past year and a half? Those users felt unwelcome. Even if their content wasn’t A/H, they still worried that they would get harassed. So they quietly left or at least limited the content they posted. And now, we’re left with people going “hey, where’s all the AF fans?” because the content has dropped considerably.

Discourse is fine. But you cannot address someone’s opinion about a fictional ship by stating your opinion is fact. You cannot start discourse by saying that the thing is evil or horrible or messed up.

You’re not looking for discourse then. You’re looking for those who think like you do.

And that’s fine too, to an extent.

PROVIDED YOU DON’T TAG THE THING YOU’RE HATING ON BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THOSE IN SUPPORT OF IT WILL SEE IT.

There are OTHER WAYS to get people’s attention. Maybe start your own tag that the others can block if they don’t want to see hate. Because I’m sure they don’t, same as you don’t want to see the hartemis tag.

For that matter, it is never up to the person who is making things that you feel uncomfortable with to block you. It is YOUR responsibility to curate your feed. Either block the tags or block the people who use them. Those features are there for a reason. This is that reason.

Okay, I’m done for now. I still feel sick, I need sleep, and I’m just really fucking tired, so my thoughts might be a bit rambling at this point. The topic of anti-ship is a sore spot for me as someone who has seen people leave fandoms because they didn’t feel safe.

So forgive me for being protective of my first fandom.

This was my home as an awkward, lonely highschool student, and this was a safe space for hundreds and hundreds of others. I don’t want that to change.

iesnoth

I agree with @piscespixiewastaken, but I can also see the concern.

On one hand, I've gotten many asks about Hartemis, and I've felt like if I don't say the right thing, I'll be labelled something I'm not. There is an inkling of the good vs evil, with-us-or-against-us in these asks, which have historically torn fandoms apart.

On the other hand, it isn't true that nobody ships child!Artemis and adult!Holly. I don't know if they're in the fandom anymore, or were ever active on tumblr, but there are some Dead Dove: Do not eat AF fanfics out there. But again, these are old: like, a decade maybe. So please, as piscespixie says, protect yourself and curate your feed. For your own mental health, I'd even say don't confront people who are on the "other side," whichever that may be.

I believe in our little fandom. In the over twenty years of its existence, even when Hartemis was more popular, there have been no reports of fan-on-fan abuse (that I know of). And if anyone were to be inappropriate with a minor in the fandom or outside it, I believe we'd stand up for the victim: because Artemis Fowl is, at its core, about the equality and protection of all peoples.

jasonball34

Really good analysis from some of you guys. I appreciate you sticking up for us hartemis fans even if you're not explicitly in favor of the ship. And for the record, since it came up, I for one would indeed be much more active here if people didn't post hate on hartemis content. It is in fact true that we have been at least a little bit driven away. Not because I can't handle a few insults but because I just don't have the time of day to deal with them.

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