#teaseries

[violivs]

Like Cleopatra grew up in a small town...

When Emma falls in love, it's all on her face Hangs in the air like stars in outer space When Emma falls in love, she disappears And we all just laugh after seein' it all these years

-- Taylor Swift, When Emma Falls in Love

[panneshirley]

the emma agenda + hands

[echoversit]

(Editted) Here's a revised version so you can see it better 😂😅

[quipmodestproductions]

We made a playlist inspired by Emma Woodhouse and Jordan Knightley as a perk for Carmen for donating to the Public History crowdfunding campaign on Seed&Spark!

Playlist link: spoti.fi/2W4NLDS

Campaign: seedandspark.com/fund/publichistory

[solidikeatypings]

MBTI types according to literary web series

ISFJ: too good for this world, to pure, doesn’t deserve this ESFJ: kindly mom friend, trying too hard ISTJ: underrated girlfriend who puts up with too much and is trying to keep things In Order ESTJ: organized but slightly controlling girlfriend of the main character who is trying to Get Everyone’s Shit Together INTJ: knew it all from the start but hid it from everyone to dramatically reveal it later ENTJ: either a lovably sarcastic smartass or trying to take over the world. May display some of INTJ’s qualities but less hiding-in-a-dark-corner about it INFJ: introspective ukulele kid, girl stubbornly trying to find The One, or any other variety of niche types ENFJ: woman with a stubborn but bad plan to set people up. Needs to talk to her XSTJ girlfriend/ potential girlfriend.  ISFP: intense artist kid ready to fight when the time comes ESFP: over-the-top overly sure Shakespearean boy who needs to learn about consequences. If they’re not running the main vlog channel, they’ve hijacked it. INFP: struggling child overcome by the Possibilities of life. Either fears the camera or vlogs as a form of therapy. ENFP: excited nerd who starts a vlog to document a Big Journey in their life. Or maybe they’re just bored.

ISTP: the guy who can’t express his feelings and gets into fights while in denial. It takes him the entire series to get it together.  ESTP: overdramatic ukulele kid who dons a fake identity at some point INTP: chill negative drama side character who isn’t of importance until a major crisis turns them into the only sensible person ENTP: 

[liwtextposts]

[literaryinspiredwebserieslove]

This chart shows (as best I could manage with the information I had) the connections in the LIWEU (literary-inspired webseries extended universe). 

A guide to the lines: Shows connected with solid lines mention each other as real people in video canon. Shows connected with dotted lines have characters who interact through transmedia, including video descriptions. Dashed line connections are for Inseparables in All For One, since those are really their own category. And the tiniest dotted lines are for shows that are fictional in each other’s universes. There are a lot more of those, but if I added all of them, this chart would cease to make any sort of sense.

I only used arrows when the shows are clearly in a weird situation with each other (mutually fictional or just super not on the same page).

A huge thank you to everyone who helped with this. I’m not going to tag you all because I WILL forget someone, but you’re all amazing humans. If I left anything out, please let me know, and I’ll make an updated version!

[songsofantiquity]

Gender bends are sort of transphobic... I hope you mean trans woman!Odysseus, trans woman!Diomedes, etc???? Can you clarify??

Hi! Thanks for the ask! We’re really happy to answer questions about representation because it’s so, so important. This is obviously a really sensitive and complex issue, so we wanted to give it a thorough answer.

This series has arisen from both a desire to see some genuine LGBTQ+ representation in a Trojan War story and certain ways of creating said representation that have evolved in the literary-inspired webseries community in general over the past few years.

When we say that we have a female Odysseus, Diomedes, etc., we mean that we have taken these characters, originally cis men, and reimagined them as women. This means taking the traits of the character and creating a new interpretation, genderwise. Since the series also takes place in a different setting from the source text and several characters will have different ethnicities, there will naturally be other changes as well. 

There are, however, several characters who our showrunner has been envisioning as trans, and if casting permits, there will be several trans characters in the series. This includes some of the “gender-bent” characters previously mentioned. We use this term despite its antiquity and controversial status only because of the lack of other terminology to use. The most likely challenge we will face is the fact that we are filming at a small, insular liberal arts college whose queer population includes several trans men but almost no trans women.

If you would like to see how other similar series have handled issues of gender representation, we can point you toward a couple good ones. Twelfth Grade (or whatever), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, created most of its queer ships out of the existing character dynamics but also adapted the character of Sebastian into a trans man rather than a cis man and created the character of Tammi, a cis lesbian, based on Sir Toby. Hamlet the Dame also does a lot of creative gender-bending: Francisco becomes a trans woman named Frankie, Ophelia becomes a trans man named Alex, Horatio and Marcellus both become cis women, and Hamlet herself is an afab nonbinary demigirl. 

If you’re looking for a show with a trans woman lead (and lots of POC rep), we highly recommend The Adventures of Serena Berg. Recent shows that gender-bend more conventionally to create some great representation include The Emma Agenda and Middlemarch: The Series. These shows all vary in film quality, but they should give you a good idea of what our series is going to be going for. 

Our head writer and showrunner is a cis woman, and she realizes that she isn’t the most qualified person to speak on the topic of trans representation and what is and isn’t appropriate in the gender-bending department. She is lucky enough to have some wonderful trans people on board as advisors and a backdrop of good and sensitive representation in other LIWs to draw from.

If you have any other concerns about representation or diversity, please send us an ask. We want to make sure that our series is as inclusive and sensitive as possible while also telling a compelling story based on frequently ill-adapted source material.