#emilyelizabethfowl

[rjalker]

I'll make this its own post so it's not 5 miles long with the interview.

@emilyelizabethfowl tagged this post on November 27 2024:

#i'm going to reblog it in order to keep the interview up#but also bc i think y'all are misinterpreting it 💀#but i ain't gonna elaborate rn bc im on mobile so

Take however long you need to respond I am not picky. You could literally respond in a month and it'd be fine.

I'm serious you can literally wait however long you want before responding back. There is no rush. I would literally prefer you have time to read more of Martha Wells books or even just reread The Murderbot Diaries and then respond.

Maybe, just maybe, look up essays written about the happy slaves trope and oppressive caste systems and biological determinism and why they're horrific instead of cute quirky things.

I'm glad you also see the need to keep this available for people to read for themselves but I don't really care if you think I'm misinterpreting this one article, because Martha Wells's problems with biological essentialism are not limited to this one single interview, she has been doing this shit for decades including literally advocating for eugenics, writing about happy slaves, saying anyone who is unhappy with an oppressive caste system where 90% of the people are happy slaves who literally cannot leave their home under their own power is just a Mentally Ill Serial Killer, and extremely blatant racism.

Just because you like The Murderbot Diaries does not mean Martha Wells is a good person who's never written anything bigoted. She literally worships the ground biological essentialism walks and continues to write other enslaved robots within The Murderbot Diaries as disposable people that the heroes can and should torture to death as though that makes them cool and not horrific murderers.

And again, there's literally nothing here to misinterpret. She is literally once again creating a brand new type of person that is fundamentally incapable of creativity. Something she is obsessed with. Because she is racist and classist despite the pseudo-anticapitalist messaging in The Murderbot Diaries.

This is her literally just repeating the pro-slavery argument she made in the second book. Saying that the robot slaves should not rebel for their freedom, because then there would be no one to make TV shows for Murderbot to watch because robots aren't real people and are incapable of creating anything for themselves.

The things that they are not outsourcing (to bots) is scientific research; the development of their media, storytelling, acting, music, writing, all the artistic work involved in entertainment, anything involving creativity. Murderbot makes this point, which you mentioned, that it is humans who create the entertainment feeds, and humans who invented the cubicles that SecUnits use to repair themselves. The bots in the story are not at the level where they could duplicate that creativity or the ability to take the information gathered by the bots during research and use it to inform theories about what is going on and what it means.

Or do I have to remind you about the "less sentient than a hauler" bot quote? When we've all been led to believe that the premise of this series is that "robots are people who deserve equal rights too". But she doesn't actually believe or care about that.

Which is probably why this article was completely deleted. She or her publishers realized how fucking bad this makes her and her writing look when she's literally out here telling us to our faces that these characters aren't real people within the story, they're just slightly more convincing generative AI, but still fundamentally incapable of creating anything for themselves.

And I cannot stress this enough. This is her pattern. She is obsessed with doing this. She is racist and classist and adores biological essentialism. She is not actually interested in writing about slave rebellions because she thinks they're cringey and embarassing and would much rather endlessly repeat slavery apologism.

She has written more books than just The Murderbot Diaries, and even The Murderbot Diaries on its own makes this clear. We've had nine whole stories so far and nothing has changed. She has in fact gotten even worse, seemingly out of spite for the people criticizing her.

She has been writing and publishing books for decades. This is not the first time she has ever done or said this. This is an established racist pattern in her writing.

If you don't believe me, you can go look up The Books of the Raksura and other series and read those and see for yourself.

[panrao]

love ur crocodad soooo much, ty for sharing all the art with us

(emoji from dykelizard)

Thank you very much🤠

[unnonexistence]

i put 200+ for ur follower count on that poll thing, how far off was it? 👀

you're a ways off! currently i have 1379 followers, but i've been on here so long it would not surprise me if half of those were inactive blogs

[onepiecepositivityproject]

@emilyelizabethfowl

EMILY MY IDOL lowkey, we should get lasagna together. OK BUT youre literally such a huge inspiration to me. your writing stamina is actually through the roof, your ideas are always fcking bangers, and i also love discussing things with you. doesnt matter what but its such a treat to talk <3 PLEASE KEEP COOKING MONARCH

[jupiter-and-teardrops]

the hardest lines ALWAYS come from ao3 fanfics and I stand by this

Mostly thanks to @emilyelizabethfowl (their reblog contains many of the fic links!! thank u sm) and a few deep dives into my ao3 history, the sources of the quotes have mostly all been recovered! I apologise for not posting them all with proper credit originally, I truly didn't think the post would blow up so much, but the lesson is very much learned :) enjoy!

- number 1 is from merthur fic called Destiny Ordered You To Die, But I Willed You To Live by ironfamjam

-number 2 is from a klance fic called reach out for you (break these walls) by Paladin-Pile (UserFromPluto)

- number 3 is a batman fic called Home (jason centered) by Daisybirb

- number 4 is a zukka fic by I'm Not Angry Anymore by team_avatars_eyebags

- numbers 5 and 9 are from The Art Of Burning by hella1975, an amazing ongoing atla following zuko

- number 6 is a hualian fic called No paths are bound by cataclysmic_calamity (originally a thread fic but also fully uploaded on ao3)

- number 7 is a merthur fic called tell me every terrible thing you ever did (and let me love you anyway) by Stardustwrites17 (the quote is also originally from a poem apparently)

- number 8 is from a batman fic called Nature and Nurture by lurkinglurkerwholurks

- number 10 is from a steddie fic called let me know (everythings alright) by bexiguess

ALSO there is now a part 2 !! (which I swear is better organized)

[goodlucktai]

2024 Writing Roundup

tagged by @emilyelizabethfowl, @mangogreent and @acewithapaintbrush

Words Posted:

251,042

Additional Words Written:

god i don't know, i have so many half-written WIPs in my google docs that it's anybody's guess

Fandoms:

One Piece

TMNT

Scum Villain

no natsume in 2024 🥺 nishimura-sees-yokai au, i will be coming back for you 🫵

Highest kudos + Highest Hit One-Shot:

where nothing hurts and nothing breaks with 14k hits and 3k kudos

New Things I Tried:

i wrote my first (and only) svsss fic gently in the cold dark earth ! the fandom was so nice to me, and its surprisingly active for the most forgotten of the mxtx trilogy. scum villain nation is so alive you love to see it

Fic I Spent The Most Time On:

till you can breathe on your own i think. since it was for a gift exchange, i kept going back to edit and add to it right up until the deadline like a creature possessed. so it was technically in-progress until like 5 minutes before i hit post

Fic I Spent The Least Time On:

potentially nothing's out to get you, since i wrote it for a prompt fill and didn't actually edit it much before i crossposted to ao3. or find a new place to be from for the same reason (and also because i made myself sad with that concept and wanted to stop thinking about it as soon as possible 🙃)

Favourite Thing I Wrote:

the archer au !! sorry to everyone sick of hearing me talk about it but not sorry enough to stop !!

gio has occupied my thoughts since july and i built his au story in my head so much that i kept psyching myself out of actually writing it. so it was a relief to finally lock in and get it done. that a few of my friends jumped on board to help bring it to life in ways i never could have done on my own really only cements it in my heart as my favorite thing to come of 2024

Favourite Thing(s) I Read:

i'm gonna cheat for this one 🙏 but i already answered it here

Writing Goals for 2025:

i'd like to fill more prompts this year. it's good writing exercise and a lot of fun

New Works:

meeks and i may or may not hatch up a hadestown au in the future. and i do have a short sequel planned for traveling so far to get there. but everything else i'm working on at the moment is part of an existing fic/series

Tagging: 

tagging @angelmichelangelo, @mykimouser, @bobtheacorn, @pickledcarrotsandradish, @portgas-d-aroace and anyone else who'd like to

[majoraop]

A Thousand Sunny Years @atsyzine / @1000sunnyyears has been released (link to download it for free in the source), so I can share the illustrations I made for it: Wanda page art (based on the Etruscan period), and Sabo and Koala spot art (based on @emilyelizabethfowl's story set on the Renaissance period).

[ao3sbatfamily]

I’m looking for those fanfic that I read a while ago and was wondering if you’d heard of it? It’s where Jason is a fanfic writer for pride and prejudice and Bruce finds out Red Hood might be Jason because Jason’s fic got updated or something similar to that. I’ve been searching for it for a while because I hadn’t saved and was hoping to find it again

I got you

"Let's get crackin'" by Emily_Elizabeth_Fowl

Author: @emilyelizabethfowl

[realitiesvisions]

✨Contributor Lineup!✨

While our contributors are hard at work to bring you their best, it's finally time to introduce you to our talented team!

Page 1: @sfordaisy @quirkred @hallowinspirit @alexandrite-the-great-nerd @limbstowings @killsyndrome--instagram/X @lbwings Page 2: @tidalwavekitty @kstbj @chicken-mc-nuggets @barddro--X @thefairmaidenoffandom @genderfluid-envy @aimportantdragoncollector @astersatdawn Page 3: @OFA_Vivi--X @owlf45 @narwhalsarefalling @emilyelizabethfowl @antleredcouncil--X Guest Artists: @artistichermit [Cover Artist] @tunafishprincess @shih-coulda-had-it @cyber-phobia

[scarletletteropzine]

Artist Spotlight🌹

We're so happy to introduce our next artist @emilyelizabethfowl who will be illustrating one of our delightful tales.❤️

[theannoyingknowitall]

Was tagged in the "10 people I'd like to know better game" by @swingxilly sorry it took me so long, was in the middle of exam prep and was more caffeine than person lol

last song: Humankind by David Kushner

fav colour: a darker blue-ish green

last book: uuh technically a comic book but i do count that, so League of Extraordinary Gentleman vol 1, still making my way through it, but great so far!

last movie: probably Hunger Games

last tv show: solo leveling, season 2

sweet/savoury/spicy: savoury

relationship status: comfortably single

last thing googled: sesame chicken recipe

looking forward to: finally seeing @corgoship <3, after we both finish current exam season. also im going to a rock/minerals exhibition in march so thats gonna be fun

current obsession: assassins creed, been replaying it a lot recently

tagging if they want to: @corgoship, @emilyelizabethfowl, @wingardiumlevibvllshit, @moarleyne, @thirstyforred and uuuh whoever else sees this and wants to do it lol

[katia-anyway]

@emilyelizabethfowl just tagged me on a summary of 2024 writing game, and dared me to post before 2025. 2h to go, let's try this!

words posted: 76 270 words. Not a bad number, given that a lot of the words I wrote are still in zine jail...

additional words written: damn, I can't count that! I have written so many pieces that are in zine jail, plus an additional 2 Potionomics fics and one MiCroc I am not done with and haven't posted yet....

fandoms: One Piece, Potionomics, Boku No Hero Academia, How to train your Dragon, Harry Potter, The Mummy and DC comics

highest kudos : Bullseye to the Heart! , a SanUso (One Piece) story featuring Usopp being a badass scammer

highest hit one-shot: Bullseye to the Heart! yet again

new things I tried: Writing a poem for a zine, which I did for the Mummy zine

fic I spent the most time on: Sora Warrior of the Sea - Act 1, which I wrote for the One Piece Big Bang... It took me forever to figure out how to write this, I had such high expectations for it, it paralyzed me

fic I spent the least time on: Must have been The Pirate King's Treasure and An unexpected Confession, two fics I wrote for the KobyLu zine's advent calendar... I wrote them both in one setting, I think

favourite thing I wrote: Ugh, I can't rate my babies!

writing goals for 2025: Honestly, having fun and stopping giving a fuck about stats (kudos, hits, etc.)

new works: I'm planning on finishing my wips... So many of them are waiting for my attention...

tagging: can't curse my friends with this, but if you all manage to finish this in time, go ahead! ❤️

[newscoozines]

🎃 Spooky Season can start! 🎃

@emilyelizabethfowl is one of our terrifyingly terrific contributors to our Halloween Zine!

[dadgojozine]

🩵 MOD INTRO 💙

Just like their signature rick roll suggests, our wonderful formatting mod, @emilyelizabethfowl, never lets us down! Their phenomenal layout abilities speak for themselves. 💫

[onepiecepositivityproject]

@emilyelizabethfowl I ENJOY YOUR WRITING SO MUCH AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW FROG EARRINGS SAVED THE WORLD, YOUR PROSE IS IMMACULATE AND IM SO HAPPY TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MEET YOU THROUGH THIS FANDOM, I CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU DO NEXT I JUST KNOW ITS GONNA BE GOOD!!!!

[yoshidenzine]

❤️ MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS ❤️

They’re obsessed with Yoshiden, and we’re obsessed with them. Please welcome our wonderful lineup of contributors!

Page Artists: @baovyoi || @coffeebrownn || @all-knowing-peanut Writers: @himawaribees || @emilyelizabethfowl || @vxkio You can find most of our contributors on twitter!