#jade-ellsworth

[clonerightsagenda]

jade-ellsworth

twice a month i think of the tamsyn interview where she's like "you've not begun to see the horrors of love" like WHAT DO YOU MEAN... i've already seen harrow's bathroom amnesia lobotomy i saw cam and pal literally turn themselves into one person!!! what is there left to see!! tamsyn!!

Perhaps we're going to see how 'for John so loved the world, for the world loved John' plays out with Alecto Like That.

[bitimdrake]

just read your post-crisis batfamily timeline post and its such a great reference! i did want to mention a quibble i had though which is that you state jason shoots and paralyzes damian but afaik it's actually the flamingo that does that in b&r #6 (though to be fair jason is there being actively unhelpful)

yeah you are absolutely right!! I don't know how it got mixed up in my head. (best guess: jason shooting damian in BtfC + jason being present with guns and antagonistic when damian was shot in the spine in B&R = brain conflated two events.) But I reread the sequence more recently and realized I had misremembered it...but did not remember if and where I might have talked about it on here.

Anyway, thanks for flagging it, has been fixed :)

[bitchsexuality]

jade-ellsworth ha respondido a tu publicación “beloved followers of this blog… let’s play a fun little game! guess...”

bisexual opossums....

it wasn’t originally...

... but now it is

[gurguliare]

feel free to ignore this if it’s too much of a fandom throwback, but do you have any thoughts on consort chen/consort jing? as a ship but specifically i’m finding that whole era hard to conceptualize re: how they ended up living the inner court lyfe. can’t imagine consort jing esp having wanted that but also can’t see “dragged tearfully to the wedding bed”? and add marquis yans comments on consort chen which may/may not be posthumously validated friendzone frustration. whatchu think

Hmm… Well, I do have a pretty different mental image of that era; because it’s been a while I don’t quite know how much of this is grounded in canon. My impression (more genre-based than historical) is that you don’t really say “no” to an offer of concubinage from the emperor, and that “unenthusiastic but resigned” was therefore the likeliest response from both consort Chen and consort jing–Consort Jing I also thought maybe welcomed the opportunity to stay close to Consort Chen and help the Lin family in general by supporting Consort C in the Inner Palace (though I don’t know if that was personal loyalty to Consort Chen or more gratitude to Lin Xie, not sure what the timeline was on him helping her vs the emperor’s coronation and subsequent lightning fast courtship snipes.) Speaking of which, I really don’t think we’re supposed to get a nice guy vibe off Yan’s narrative: I think he’s being literal when saying they were essentially promised to each other, it’s just that the emperor had first pick of everyone not actually married.

[gregorvorbarra]

@jade-ellsworth ha risposto al tuo fotoset “some of the pages. i’m only doing one-sided bc the ink shows through...”

yr handwriting is so cute and neat looking... this is like studyblr material except, for dnd,

thank you! finally did it, finally achieved studyblr-level notes... for dnd....

and i’ve been looking at this reply all day, it makes me feel v happy, thank u

[clonerightsagenda]

jade-ellsworth said:   reminds me of a post i saw that was like, “if i were tamsyn muir and people kept claiming that my entire novel series was just homestuck fic with the serial numbers filed off i’d be so enraged i’d release the final book as a 20 minute flash animation that didn’t really resolve anything and see how people liked it”                            

Haha

I do think people can be very obnoxious about ‘this work references/has influences from xyz so that must mean everything will play out exactly like xyz’, but imo Muir has taken strengths and neat ideas from HS and made them work for her in her own context. In conclusion if she made a flash animation to conclude her story I believe in my heart it would actually be not shitty.

[clonerightsagenda]

jade-ellsworth

i definitely feel all of this and i think one of the loose ends i dislike about how nona just Ends is how there's no resolution on the Problem Of Paul.  but at least for myself i wouldn't phrase these feelings as a "complaint" because i don't think we're supposed to be happy about paul?   i mean cam and pal are essentially dead, i think unhappiness is probably the intended effect...

jury IS out on whether i like this narrative decision ultimately though 

Yeah it’s a bit mild to be a legit complaint but when Nona first came out I saw a lot of posts complaining about people ‘complaining’ about Paul so I figured I would flag myself as a Hater.

The Nona/Alecto split does leave it hanging, yeah. I’m inclined to read it as one more tragedy of a necro/cav pairing leading to destructive consumption, and certainly Harrow spends the whole book unpacking the destructive consumption at the end of Gideon. But Cam and Pal view it as a triumph, or at least the closest to a victory they can obtain, and since we mostly see what they have to say about it, it’s hard for me to tell if the narrative itself sees this as a good thing or not. I suppose Time Will Tell.

Since Nona was also a hater I was reminded of the bit near the end of Good Omens when Adam sees Aziraphale stuck in Madame Tracy and goes “it’s not right being two people. you’d better go back to being two separate people” and promptly unzips them. It would be very funny if Alecto did that at the start of the next book bc she simply does not vibe with this, but not particularly narratively unsatisfying. I’d still take it though.

[clonerightsagenda]

jade-ellsworth

i'm glad it worked out!  i also have a old fandom URL for something i haven't been into for years so your initiative is a bit inspiring for me...

Eventually the time comes. For reference this is the code I used. Although fair warning it can make your redirect page green.

pickledragon

(ao3 ramble warning) ignore if you've already done this, but you can definitely change your username! the archive allows you to do it every 7 days, but unless you're messing with pseuds only, it'll break any link with your previous username in it (anything but individual works/series)

Thanks! I need to figure out if I want to change my username or just make a new pseud and set it as my default.