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HELP ME I JUST READ TRAUMATISING EMILY OF NEW MOON FIC. SOMEONE GIVE ME A COOKIE AND TELL ME THAT THERE IS STILL GOOD IN HUMANITY.

*whimpers*

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[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

OH DEAR LORD.

There is still good in humanity. There is. (I can point you the way of nice Anne-fic, if you like.)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? :p

And please do. I need to read goodfic badly. :D (Moreso than usually, I mean.)

[trolliepop.livejournal.com]

I'm too scared to even ask.

I'm humanity, and I'm good, right? So even if it's just you and me left, there's good in humanity.


I think.

If you'd like a good fic to recover with, look up Pancakes by Huinesoron on FF.n. It's the funneist Legolas crack-fic out there. It will cheer you up in a hearbeat.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

You're good? I could've sworn you were Evil Incarnate. ;)

That would explain why we're the only people in the universe now, right? You and your stupid nitroglycerin. Drat you.

♥

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

How is that even possible?

I can give you the cookie, but I don't know about the other. I mean, if it's just the fic, you could read my newest fic. Again. 'Cause...it's just a repost and that. But still. Especially since--you probably saw this--one of the most recent mixes on fanmix was for Tom/Luna. Yes, that Tom and that Luna. I can't even comprehend it. I thought about it for a couple seconds and something in my brain just broke.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

It's certainly possible. *cries* Emily and Teddy were divorced (and there wasn't any scandal about it, either, which there would've been, back then), and Ilse was dead, for no good reason I can find, and Emily had a daughter named Ilse, hitting square on one of my most bothersome pet peeves (next-gen fics in which all of the children are named after characters' parents/best friends/other important people, especially if they died tragically), and then Dean showed up, and he was written all wrong, and Emily had some Sue friend, and it was...TRAUMITISING, OKAY? *fetal position*

Oh, and let's not forget the one Dean-fic that might have been really good except for the implied Dean/Douglas Starr. Yeah. *whimpers* That is wrong on far too many levels to count.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Dean/Douglas Starr

*brain totally explodes, in the worst possible way*

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly. I think part of me died when I read that.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

BANUI. NO. YOU DIDN'T. Hold on. Breathe. You can do it.

It sort of sucks that most fic for LM Montgomery is written by preteen girls who have no conception of punctuation or grammar (or plot or characters or, like, anything else), doesn't it? :(

*cookie* ♥

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I'm re-reading Emily and longing desperately for a huge fandom--I wouldn't even mind Emily/Teddy Emily/Dean Emily/Perry Emily/Andrew Murray shipwars, er, very much, if a great brimming fandom came along with them. There's so much possibility, and no-one's writing it, and I certainly can't write it all. Why hasn't anyone written Douglas Starr/Juliet Murray? It's got elopment and Douglas is a journalist! Surely there'd be some sappy Suefic somewhere, right? What about younger!Dean fics? He's got siblings, hasn't he? Why is there no fic about his relationships with them? What about all the Murray backstory? (Er. Yes. As a rule, I am generally more interested in reading about things that didn't get much canon attention.)

Alas, fandom.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

I know! I know! I want fic about Dean travelling the world, I want fic about the elopement, I want fic about Elizabeth pushing Jimmy down the well and Priest stories and... eee!

Okay. Here's what we're going to do.

We are going to track down all Emily of New Moon readers, hold them at gunpoint, and make them write fic. And... *drumroll*... a fandom will be born!

Alternately, I could just write fic alongside of you, and even if we were the only writers in the fandom, um... it'd be worth it?

So my resolution is: write Emily fic! And keep working on that Dean mix!

And I will get back to you on that... tomorrow. Have to go for a sleepover now, we'll see how that goes. But I still have about a week of break left, and we WILL do this!

*is all excited*

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Oy, I'm all a-tingle with the possibilities. If the two of us were to attempt to fill the void, it would take the rest of our lives. Not a bad pursuit, though. Few writers have as much backstory and history as Montgomery does, and yet the fandom, such as it is, totally ignores it. Also, Dean is a canon bookworm. Which is just awesome. (I do, of course, subscrive to fanon!bookworm!Remus, but it isn't the same as if it were actual set-in-stone Rowlingness.) I'm just disappointed because he's a bit too early to be into Eliot. Dean would love Eliot. (Emily would probably like Edna St. Vincent Millay rather a lot, too. I suppose one could reasonably write Emily-as-writer-in-the-twenties + Millay fic, and I suppose one could even write rather!older!Dean + Eliot fic, but the latter wouldn't be quite as interesting as canon-timeline!Dean + Eliot.)

D'you have a gun? I've got a knife; don't know how well it'll work. :D *goes in search of reader-people to bother* Oh plagues, mind, stop coming up with crack-ships. No, just stop. The mental image of very rabid and devoted Emily/Andrew shippers was bad enough.

(And I am now wanting to write Emily fic so badly but haven't any idea where to begin; there's too much to say and no-one who's said it before. Rather scary, actually. But fun.)

Oh, yes, and I have been meaning to reply to your last message on the Dean mix. Yay. By the by, what does it signify that the first thing I read in 2007 was the bit in Emily of New Moon in which we first meet Dean? (It wasn't on purpose, either, I swear.)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

I do, of course, subscrive to fanon!bookworm!Remus, but it isn't the same as if it were actual set-in-stone Rowlingness.

I know! bookworm!Remus is the best kind, IMO, but there is always fic out there without it, 'cause it isn't canon.

Dean would love Eliot! I haven't read any of this Edna St. Vincent Millay yet, though. I can sort of see a fic with Eliot and Dean reflecting on his life, I think...

The mental image of very rabid and devoted Emily/Andrew shippers was bad enough.

Oh my God, do people actually SHIP that? Shipping things with Andrew is like shipping things with... kleenex boxes... they are so... boring...

By the by, what does it signify that the first thing I read in 2007 was the bit in Emily of New Moon in which we first meet Dean?

:DD I love re-reading the Emily books. Never mind classics and books with "literary merit", the Emily series has true charm for me -- it never fails to make me happy, no matter how many times I re-read, and I always feel the urge to every couple of years.

We should make some sort of mad Emily community to discuss the mix & the fic & everything so that we don't have to keep doing 10,000-word comments. ;) Name ideas?

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Edna St. Vincent Millay is my favourite poet after Eliot (weirdly, all of my favourite poets seem to be concentrated around the first half of the twentieth century; I haven't become intimate with much of any before or after that)--I came across her exquisite poem 'Dirge Without Music' (http://poemhunter.com/poem/dirge-without-music/) in Patricia MacLachlan's haunting children's book Baby, and then again in a poetry collection I've got, and then ended up writing an entire short-story fic around it, as well as hunting her down from the library (which has a first. edition. copy. of her Collected Poems, and it's all soft and battered and beautiful and I want it for my very own). Blimey, she's amazing. 'Lethe' (http://faeriemaiden.livejournal.com/42132.html) is another favourite--I was browsing my recently acquired book during poetry class last year, and I came across 'Lethe', and it gave me the flash, it was so beautiful and delicate.

Oh my God, do people actually SHIP that? Shipping things with Andrew is like shipping things with... kleenex boxes... they are so... boring...
Unfortunately, there is absolutely no shipping going on. At all. Anywhere. Ever. I never thought I'd miss that. Just now I am so desperate for an Emily fandom that I want to see shipwars. And someone to write/argue for Emily/crazy-strange-writer-bloke-who-proposed-to-her, because it would be funny. I Googled for fic and didn't really find anything. Alas.

We should make some sort of mad Emily community to discuss the mix & the fic & everything so that we don't have to keep doing 10,000-word comments. ;) Name ideas?

Yes, we should! Um. Just now I haven't got any name ideas (Alpine Path and Vega of the Lyre, the most obvious ones that jumped out at me, are taken, one for a general Montgomery community that appears to have very little activity, and the other for a user who posts on the Sherwood Smith community. But I'm reading Emily Climbs at the moment, so we'll see if I find anything appropriate.)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

And someone to write/argue for Emily/crazy-strange-writer-bloke-who-proposed-to-her, because it would be funny.

!!! THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SCENES EVER. What was his name, Mark Graves, or something like that? I would kill for that fic. Yes.

Also, re. Edna St. Vincent Millay (oy, long name) -- OMFG. LETHE. For me, the river Lethe is one of those things that... well, you know how there are certain ideas that just stick in your mind, because they're so beautiful, and they keep showing up in your journal entries and writing and such, and you can't get rid of them? Lethe is one of those things for me.

Anyhow, yes. I really enjoyed both of those poems, and I'm requesting two of her volumes from the library as we speak. Or as I type, whichever. xD

Do let me know if you find good names. I'll go scour my books also!

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I think I've got it! What about 'airy voices'? (Emily Climbs, chapter...er, somewhere near the end; can't go check because a small furry animal is napping on me.)

I've always loved the river Lethe ever since the allusion was done poignantly in Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth, and it's always at the back of my mind--I keep wanting to write about it, but I'm never sure I can do it the justice it deserves. I was ecstatic when I found the poem. :D Glad you enjoyed it. (Ack, I sound very clipped and diplomatic. Blame it on sleepiness.)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

YES! That's one of my favourite phrases from the books -- and it even looks pretty typed out. airyvoices. Did you want a hyphen? I'd prefer without, 'cause I think it just looks neater that way -- but one can still distinguish the words, right?

Also, a huge volume of Edna St. Vincent Millay has just arrived for me from the library. :DD

Also #2: I love that icon, it's gorgeous.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

It does look rather lovely typed out! (It even looks somewhat passable scribbled in black Sharpie on a rather oily bit of paper. Yes, I was too lazy to get out of bed and hunt for a notebook.) And I am not favourably inclined towards hyphens in usernames unless absolutely necessary, so all's good, then. :D

Huzzah, Millay!

Thankee! (Er. I reckon. I don't really know what to say about icons, because three quarters of the time I didn't make them. I have been supposing recently that usericons = clothing in the internet world and show a person's general personality in much the same way. This would make an interesting essay if I had the time and/or presence of mind to write it.)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

AAARGH DAMMIT I ACCIDENTALLY CREATED A USER, NOT A COMMUNITY. @#$@#%@# LJ. *sobs*

You may now kill me.

I will be coherent later. After I have sorted through this and perhaps figured out how to convert a user to a community and I HATE MYSELF GAH.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Err, never mind the earlier comment. With lots of capslocks. I fixed it -- I knew there was some way to! -- and now airyvoices is our very own community, sitting there, waiting to be posted in. And stuff.

I sent you an invite, or something, so go join. I also closed the membership for now, until we figure out what's going on there. Do we know of any other Emily lovers who'd be interested?

Yeah, I don't make most of my icons, either. I like iconing, and I can do it all right, but there is no time. And other things are more interesting, and require less effort.

I have been supposing recently that usericons = clothing in the internet world and show a person's general personality in much the same way. This would make an interesting essay if I had the time and/or presence of mind to write it.

I will think about this tomorrow in Chemistry class, or something, and come back with some conclusions. :)

OOH ICONS THAT'S WHAT WE NEED. EMILY ICONS. I shall make some, eventually.

I am still working on getting my library to buy a new copy and give the old one TO ME. They had to tape the binding up recently, anyway. Which was kind of sacrelige, come to think of it. TAPE. On a beautiful, fifty-year-old cloth-covered book!

Banui, you are too cute. :DD How, exactly, are you going to get them to give it to you? It's kind of unheard of, at least for librairies here...

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Eee, hurrah! Except I haven't got the invite; I even checked my spam folder. Something must've gone wonky on the way over: try again?

OOH ICONS THAT'S WHAT WE NEED. EMILY ICONS. I shall make some, eventually.
That is exactly! what we need.

Banui, you are too cute. :DD How, exactly, are you going to get them to give it to you? It's kind of unheard of, at least for librairies here...

Threats, blackmail, and magic of dubious legality? :DD Er. Well, the argument in my head goes 'The book you've got is falling apart; why don't you buy a brand new copy? I wouldn't mind taking the old one off your hands, by the by, especially as I'm practically the only one who ever checks it out. ;p

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it says that I sent the invite; maybe it's just not emailing? Try going here (http://www.livejournal.com/manage/invites.bml) and seeing if anything pops up.

I can't draw to save my life, either. :(

Hee, what's the policy for lost books? You could just, you know, check it out and accidentally "lose" it. :P

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm a maintainer and a watcher, and I can post, but I'm not showing up as a member and can't read f-locked entries. Very odd. (I think it needs a bit of time to process information, because I wasn't showing up as a maintainer at first, either.)

I can draw straight lines. Sometimes. If I think about it really hard.

Hee, what's the policy for lost books? You could just, you know, check it out and accidentally "lose" it. :P
I would have to pay for the book. But, you know, ten dollars... Except I already have to pay for a book I lost. Maybe in a few months. ;)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

I suck at this communities stuff. Umm... you should have full powers of dictatorship over it now, I think. :)

I can draw straight lines! With a ruler.