#emilyenrose

[quote-tournament]

First round, thirty ninth fight

Quote number 81 :

So may all evil undo itself!

-Arc words from The Starless Road, emilyenrose on ao3

VS

Quote number 83 :

Planning takes time that men of action don't have.

-The MC Bat Commander

Which quote do you choose?

Quote number 81

Quote number 83

Voting ended onMay 19, 2023

[duckyreads]

the mysterious disappearance of emilyenrose (update)

I don’t know if it’s a good idea to post this or not, since it’s literally based off an anonymous message dropped in my inbox, but apparently there was controversial content in a Good Omens fic that led to a kerfluffle and subsequent editing, orphaning, and account deletion.

I have no idea how true this is, but it’s disheartening, because it means if emilyenrose chooses to write again in the future, it may be under another name to minimize renewed conflict. (Which is fair. I’ve done my share of conflict avoidance, both reasonable and otherwise, so I’d be a massive hypocrite to criticize that choice - it’s just a bummer.)

tl;dr there might have been fandom drama behind the disappearance

[strewbi]

I’m SO excited. This book comes out June 18, I’m literally counting down the minutes until I can own this book in paperback AND digital. 

If you like The Gays/The Fae/ Tam Lin/ Tree Sprits/ Green Men/ Seven Year Kings/ Cottage Gays this is the book for you. I’m OBSESSED. 

[potofsoup2]

repost from Jun 4, 2014:

Woo, read the most recent update to Out of the Dead Land (part 64), where Bucky suits up.  It triggered all these Kenshin/Battousai feels (my first fandom!!) of the whole to be a more efficient killer (and protect those you love) you must give up all of this hard-won humanity thing.   (Even now when I think about the Kenshin/Saitou fight where Kenshin falls and Battousai gets up and starts the swagger-killer-walk and his eyes are yellow…. sends shivers down my spine.)  So here’s awkward Bucky contemplating a cookie and Winter Soldier suited up for battle doing his swagger-killer-walk.  :)

[shinelikethunder]

justaphage replied to your post “Unsolicited Opinions on Fic Criticism”

I mostly agree with this but will say that on tumblr the way you get exposed to criticism of your work might not be "vanity searching yourself" because tumblr likes to suggest shit to you, or people may reblog it not knowing the author follows them, you just go in the tag for your ship, etc. Which is why I prefer to keep criticism I do not mean to share with the author to private channels.

Yeah, one of the shitty things about Tumblr is the total inability to define semi-private spaces or un-advertised backchannels. You’re either globally on blast, or you don’t post at all. The closest we’ve got to quiet backchannels are replies (prominent in the post notes, but not blasted out to your followers) and tag chatter (semi-hidden in the post notes, broadcast to anyone who sees your reblog on their dash).

OTOH, the lack of privacy means fandom has evolved elaborate customs for when a post is and isn’t your business. If someone’s untagged, read-more’d vent post comes up in Tumblr search despite their best efforts, picking a fight with them for talking shit about your fic is a dick move. This is another area where some leeway has to be built in, because people’s immersion in Tumblr social norms varies a lot. But I’m pretty comfortable saying that if a fic-crit post didn’t say anything about you personally, clearly wasn’t meant to be seen by you, and wasn’t meant to affect anyone’s interaction with you, it’s a mild-to-moderate dick move to treat it as an attack or jump in without good reason. (Reasonable responses: catty vagueblogging, undeclared spitefic, griping to a sympathetic Discord channel and basking in all the totally unbiased outrage at how Wrong some people’s opinions are, etc.)

emilyenrose replied to your post “Unsolicited Opinions on Fic Criticism”

bonus opinion: most fans are better at identifying ‘there’s something not right here’ than they are at identifying what, exactly, isn’t right. good critical editing is a skill. i’ve been in fandom for years and can count on my fingers how many people i’ve come across who can do it. odds are that the majority of any given person’s concrit is just WRONG.

Endorsed. I mean, for one thing, coming up with useful suggestions with any kind of specificity means knowing what the author was going for, and oftentimes the whole problem is that the author isn’t sure. Or there’s a mutually-unidentified missing link between what they intended and what they actually got across. But even if you’ve reached “I can see what you’re trying to do, and I can handwave in the general direction of where and why it’s not landing right,” teasing out the specifics--let alone a fix--is the stuff of back-and-forth brainstorming sessions with a good beta. Pulling it off in a drive-by AO3 comment would be kind of uncanny.

[thelioninmybed]

emilyenrose replied to your post: I am a very lazy cook, so the only reason I even...

I feel like nothing is more on Lion brand than you dying on the figging hill screaming IT’S JUST FUCKING GINGER WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

@imindhowwelayinjune and I are gonna write some REAL fic to educate people. It’s gonna be someone spending half an hour trying and failing to defrost the thumb of ginger they keep in the back of the freezer, and then the skin won’t come off and it’s all just going into stringy clumps and ahh shit they just cut their thumbnail. Let’s not bother. 

[sathinfection]

emilyenrose replied to your post: hell is making a 30k slutty caesar shitpost where...

‘incorrections’ is a very good word

It certainly describes 99% of Tumblr posts on classical greco-roman history and myth, that is for DANGÈD SURE

[gurguliare]

✄ for jing and if you don't have pet peeves about him then you can tell me his pet peeves instead.

I love the idea either that I don’t have pet peeves about Jing or that I have pet peeves about Jing which you are not aware of. idk, his distaste for strategists is a little weird to me, and interesting—I MEAN IT MAKES SOME SENSE but like .. .. .. …. anyway to cut a long intervening thought process short I have this post-Chiyan fantasy where, after extensive exhausting stonewalling, his mom like, very very casually offered to frame literally everyone who could have been involved, “i don’t know who killed your brother but i know who benefited,” and jing in turn was like UHHHHHH THIS IS MY FAULT SOMEHOW PROBABLY and then they never talked about the case again

that really makes no sense on a number of levels but I like the idea that Jing’s Strategist Trauma is tied up in his sense that he might be able to get REVENGE for his boyfriend, but not JUSTICE… until mcs offers surprisingly constructive goal of “make yourself emperor!” which his mother lit er all y never suggested