#for related elsanna

[ingridverse]

I think that years ago the elsanna community missed an opportunity. We had "elsanna" and "snow sisters" to distinguish between Elsa/Anna vs Elsa& Anna. But we didn't have a simple, distinct tag that distinguished between "elsanna (related)" and "elsanna (unrelated au)".

[inquisitor-julia]

Starting the very long road to replaying and rereading all of the Dragon Age content in prep for DA4's *eventual* release and.......Cousland origin has me fucked up again 😭😭😭

[glittering-snowfall]

The Elsanna ship, ten years later...

When I think about the golden days of the Elsanna ship (circa 2013-2015), two images come to mind – this one… 

…and this one…

Both pieces of fanart were created to celebrate the legalization of gay marriage nationwide in the US in June 2015 – and both encapsulate the youthful energy, the innocence, the idealism of Elsanna shippers at the time. They might seem silly now to some people, but only because they are so earnest. There is an achingly earnest sincerity here because the Elsanna-shipping community was made up of a bunch of young, queer Disney fans. 

The ship wasn’t created by a bunch of creeps who wanted to “disregard or misunderstand the message of the film.”

The ship was created by a group of young wlw, young lesbians, young queer folks, who were drawn to the film because of its themes of self-acceptance and self-understanding (because they UNDERSTOOD the message of the film.) And they were drawn to the sisters’ bond because, in some way, it resonated with them – a connection between two people that was based on coming to an understanding of shared trauma and pain, a connection rooted in compassion for someone othered by society.

Frozen came out in 2013. Korrasami wouldn’t be canon for a while yet, things like Lumity and Catradora weren’t even a dream, and these naive, earnest, heartfelt kids wanted to see something that reflected themselves so much that they built a ship from the ground up.

I have seen people in recent years express bewilderment about why the Elsanna ship came into being, saying things like, “Why does this ship exist? Elsa and Anna aren’t in love; they’re sisters.” Which… duh. Obviously, they are not in love. Obviously, they are sisters. Such an attempt to say, “Checkmate, creeps!” ignores why ships come into existence in the first place. Non-canon ships emerge because there are aspects of two particular characters that the audience can relate to or project a part of themselves upon/see themselves in; and because there are elements of these characters’ dynamic/interactions that the audience can project upon/see themselves in.

And with Elsa and Anna’s dynamic together and connection throughout the film? There was A LOT that a young queer audience latched onto - NOT because these shippers felt the film was secretly espousing incest subtext, but because the characters were created to be broadly relatable to anyone with a difficult home life, anyone who felt isolated and ostracized from society, and so their narrative together lent itself to a queer reading.

Consider: on the one hand, there is Elsa – a character who exploded across the popular consciousness because so many people related to her individual story, many of them queer young people. Isolated for who she was, taught to repress her identity and her emotions, forced to conform to a society that could harm her. There hardly needs to be any more ink spilled on why Elsa struck such a chord with queer viewers – and the queer viewers who helped to shape the Elsanna ship were among the people who fell in love with her as much as anyone.

On the other hand, there is Anna. Anna’s story is different from Elsa’s, but bears many of the same marks of trauma. Anna is forced to live in a world where the rules feels arbitrary and uncaring, where nothing makes sense but no one will tell her why. Not her sister, who has been taught that she must shut Anna out. Not her parents, the authorities of the society she lives in who put the rules in place. Like many queer young people, Anna is forced to navigate a world where the rules are arbitrary and cruel. And, like her sister, she begins to internalize that pain. “What did I ever do to you?” she cries to Elsa at the coronation because, without the full context, she can’t rule out that this might be her fault – or at least, that societal forces around her tell her that this is her fault even when she did nothing.

There was so much in each character individually that queer young people resonated with.

When you factor in that their connection is something that the powers that be within the film attempt to forbid, that their connection is something that is at first treated as something that needs to be suppressed but that ultimately proves to be a positive force for both of them, then… yeah, it becomes clearer why so many queer young people aching to connect with something would see themselves in that relationship.  

I know of several prominent artists on this site who got their start in the Elsanna fandom, or who were happy to take part in the ship because they saw the way other queer young people connected with it (signatures blotted out to prevent potential harassment of artists over decade-old art):

People don’t like to remember it, but ten years ago, there were wlw fandom blogs on here that would casually make or reblog Elsanna art – not because they had some secret insidious agenda – but because the ship connected with them on an emotional level or because they understood why it did with others:

And there were shippers of other queer ships reaching out:

The Elsanna fandom of 2013-15 was a reflection of a group of queer young people (primarily wlw) – a reflection of their passion, their dedication, their craftsmanship, their creativity, and their longing to be seen. It was a group of queer young people using the pieces that a film they loved gave them to create something of their own, from their hearts, for themselves.

Create something of their own with their own spirit and hopes, reflecting their own aspirations and fears and dreams for the future.

And sure, people now can say, “That’s disgusting! How could anyone do that?” In 2020, someone called out a lovely person on here because she shipped Elsanna nearly a decade ago (even though she HAD LONG SINCE DELETED ALL EA CONTENT FROM HER BLOG, even!):

This callout is dishonest. It claims that the individual “thinks shipping them is cute” even though, when this was written, the person had not shipped Elsanna in years. It also claims Elsanna is p/*do/ph/ilic when it is not. (It is incest, obviously, and that is inherently problematic.) It also tries to make a connection between the person wanting queer rep and shipping an inherently problematic ship, when those things do not correlate at all. You can ship something and never want it to be canon. You can ship something and not want it to be “representation” – and that’s what being in the Elsanna fandom of 2013-15 was like.

People didn’t want it to be canon. They didn’t want it to be “representation.” Everyone already knows that incest is wrong. People don’t have to ship something as a crusade for representation. But people DID ship it because they saw something of themselves in the ship – and they saw the opportunity to project something of themselves (their queerness, their sense of being othered and isolated by their families, etc.) onto characters that they loved. The ship provided the opportunity for these young people to explore their senses of self and explore their identities.  

And sure, as I’ve said in the past, perhaps that wasn’t ideal – the fact that these young folks were starving for anything that was like them and so had to make a feast from whatever they had available. But I find something BEAUTIFUL in the fact that so many people were able to come together and create such beautiful things because Elsanna inspired them. I know people who met their partners, met their wives, through this ship. I’ve seen firsthand the positive influence it has had.

Like Elsa on the North Mountain, we felt isolated, we were figuring ourselves out. And we built wonders with what was inside of us. The beauty of some of the art in this ship is akin to the beauty of Elsa’s ice palace. The writing I have seen in this ship can be as elegant as any elegantly-sculpted spire Elsa fashioned through her own magic and her own will.   

This ship was ours, is ours. 

We made it for ourselves, to reflect ourselves and our identities and share aspects of those identities with others, the same way people came to ship Elsamaren when F2 came out. It may have been new faces and a new ship, but it was part of the same idea, just for a different time. 

And when you look at the thousands of pieces of Elsanna fanfiction that have been written, and the thousands of pieces of fanart (especially the beautifully diverse styles of early Elsanna fanart) – you don’t get so many people expounding their passion and creativity on something unless it means something to them, and Elsanna meant something to so many people. Mattered to them. Look at the excitement and joy in people’s words in the early days of the fandom if you don’t believe me. 

And I think that’s beautiful.

EDIT: I’ve made another post about this, but I want to add to this post that I regret saying things like “maybe that wasn’t ideal” when I wrote it. It WAS ideal because it was a beautiful to see us create a space for ourselves. 

And it STILL IS beautiful.  It CONTINUES to be beautiful. The fandom still exists and I’m glad that it still exists because it still brings such beautiful things into the world.

Elsanna isn’t just a placeholder until a better, more palatable ship comes along. Elsanna is beautiful in its own right.

[tfwyouloveher2]

/r9k/Elsa Ten Years Later: A Retrospective

Ten years ago today, on July 22, 2014, r9kElsa is Suffering was completed.

If you're reading this, you probably already know the gravity of that event. Let's talk about it anyway :)

r9kElsa is Suffering was one of the earliest fan fiction works written for Frozen, its first chapter published only a few weeks after the movie's release, and was decidedly the most influential.

It was the first widely-read modern-alternate-universe take on Elsa's and Anna's characters, and the way it painted their relationship into a reluctant and tragic romance almost singlehandedly inspired the wider Elsanna ship.

Despite its legacy, it's not the most practiced prose, nor is the plot meticulously planned.

So why did it leave such a mark on its audience? And how was it conceived?

Come with me back to 2013 and we'll find out.

A History

Frozen was released on November 27, 2013, to unexpected critical acclaim and unprecedented box office success.

The internet was quickly buzzing with thoughts about it. A hundred communities in the far-flung reaches of a simpler Web gathered in their respective forums to articulate what the movie meant to them.

Within a few days, a few thoughts began to coalesce in many different places at once: these characters are important to us. They're relatable. They're inspiring.

And, in some strange new way, the scattered diaspora found that the message had spoken to their hearts: love is stronger than fear. There is hope.

The first Frozen fan fiction to gain any traction was "Songs of Ice and Snow", published on November 23 by a lucky author with the privilege of seeing a pre-screening of the movie. It would go on to reach almost 140,000 words over the next several months, and explored the characters in their canon environment, written to take place immediately after the events of the movie.

Soon though, another fic was written with a bold twist: For the First Time was published on December 3, and suggested something previously unexplored: a romantic angle to the sisters' relationship. Niche artists and shitposters had already asserted the notion, but this very early work fleshed out the idea into something surprisingly charming. If love is an open door, then For the First Time opened it just a crack, and readers everywhere were tempted by the glow from beyond.

One specific forum that was quick to latch on to the hard-to-swallow concept was /frz/, a thread on 4chan's /co/ dedicated to Frozen. The trolling effortlessly began to morph into ironic, then tongue-in-cheek, and finally occasionally genuine consideration of what this romance would mean. The trolling never stopped, of course; but in the margins, there was a growing understanding and even affection for this relationship. Why?

Like so much well-loved fiction, it was because people saw themselves in it.

In Elsa, some saw a shut-in who just didn't want to be ostracized anymore. Some saw a dutiful figure who couldn't allow herself to be happy.

In Anna, some saw a socially awkward romantic, starving for affection and acceptance. Others saw an endlessly forgiving empath.

And in both, they saw someone who might understand them.

And in that moment, they fell victim to the fantasy: that two people could be so different and yet could love each other so unreservedly. That two people could understand each other's failings and doubts and grief, that they could be so wounded by each other, and at the end of it all, still sacrifice everything for the other.

In a world of cynicism and transactional relationships, it turns out that these sisters bound by blood scratch an itch: a need to be accepted despite all our flaws. And in some corners of the internet, there grew an quiet desire to be loved like that.

It was in this context that an anonymous /co/ reader, usually only browsing the board for DC comics, began to engage with /frz/. She hadn't ever written fiction before, but at the moment unemployed, was sucked in by the concepts being set forth. She wrote a first chapter that was an exceptional attention grabber, starting with the line "She heard the crossbow bolt thud into her shoulder before she felt it." Many readers will recognize that opening line immediately from Frozen Fractals. The first chapter was initially published in a pastebin for /frz/ to read, on December 6, with promises of violence, cuteness, and sex. Despite very little initial response, the anon is fully engrossed in her work, and posts the next few chapters in the following two days.

Over the next couple weeks, Frozen Fractals becomes the foremost image of the romantic portrayal of the sisters. The writing style is unpracticed, the character choices sometimes stretch disbelief, and the story is occasionally brutal; and yet, the work is outstanding.

The critical response is enormously positive, even reaching the point of other fiction authors in /frz/ asking the author -- having at this point earned the nickname "Fractals" or "Frac" -- for writing tips and constructive criticism. Additionally though, there are some constructive criticisms offered back, which undoubtedly aided Frac's later work.

During this same period, the image of Elsa being a broken, self-doubting recluse, while Anna waits determinedly for her to open her door to the world, begins to take a more distinct shape in the /frz/ threads.

Anons start to see Elsa as one of them.

And so it began, slowly at first. But over the next couple weeks, this idea started taking center stage in threads.

And then, the first greentext from the character of /r9k/Elsa:

There grew a consensus, a common understanding of who this persona was.

It was initially tongue-in-cheek. But later, like Elsa's monster, it was often the person that we most fear to be.

And the storm raged on.

Then, the next day, a turning point is reached: a greentext that realizes the core of the character. These 12 lines precipitated years of community fixation and the story that would come of her.

And the rest is history.

Over the next few days, an onslaught of r9kElsa greentexts are posted. For a short while, threads are overwhelmed with discussion of the character. People can't stop talking about it.

Some suggest temporarily banning it from threads so as to stop derailing every discussion.

Despite the proposed ban, some discussion continues behind spoiler tags. Frac is wrapping up Frozen Fractals and becoming increasingly engrossed in the character.

Then, finally, on the Winter Solstice 2013, Elsa's first birthday, tfw She Loves You is posted on Fictionpress.

Frac posts it under an alias in an ultimately-doomed effort to fly under the radar.

Over the next few days, up to and through Christmas 2013, Frac cannot stop writing. She writes ELEVEN CHAPTERS in four days. The rest of /frz/ is caught up in the r9k storm right along with her.

And then, there's a pause. A couple days go by without update. Finally, a few days later, chapter 12 Drawfriend is posted, and Frac seems a little burned out. Anons ask her what's up.

She realizes that her story is beginning to diverge from the greentexts that /frz/ has written. What started as a collection of one-shots based on scattershot 4chan replies is beginning to feel more important than that. None of the offered greentexts are hitting the spot like they used to. Somehow, the characters need more.

From this moment onward, Frac takes a new direction. Only a couple chapters after this point (16 and 21) are based on greentexts, and even those are loosely adapted. Instead, the fic ceases to be a collection of one-shots and starts forming into a true story, the story that everyone now knows and loves.

She posts the next chapter the same night. Chapter 13 Past is in the Past is a unique installment in the series, going back in time to detail the moment Elsa believes that she fell for Anna. It briefly scales back the angst and drama, and gives a cute slice-of-life of a simpler time for the characters. Some consider it the most human chapter in the story.

From this point on, the story progresses in a remarkable way. In case you haven't read it, I'll avoid too many major spoilers here. But as you can imagine, certain chapters (like 20: Implode-Explode) prompted clamorous reactions from the /frz/ threads.

After a few more weeks, other sites start taking notice of what's happening here. Tumblr picks up on the fic and begins rallying behind it. Artists begin painting r9kElsa portraits. It's when r9k starts wrapping up that r/Elsanna is founded and starts gaining traffic.

Other well-known stories also start being published once r9k hits its stride. During a very short period between mid-January and early February 2014, you see Extra! Extra!, A Formal Arrangement, Feel, Don't Conceal, Drum Major, You Are, A Snowflake in Spring, Winter Girl, the Cake Fic, and others published for the first time. Almost every modern-AU fic can trace its characterizations at least partially back to r9k. In some cases, e.g. Tessellate, much more than partially!

A Reason

If you read any post or thread from any Elsanna community in 2014, you'll find one thing repeated over and over: r9kElsa is Suffering brought me here. The story is the most common elevator pitch for the ship, because especially at that time, it meant something more to people than just sexy cartoon girls (though it undoubtedly meant that too).

In a world of isolation, where many traditional sources of community have been whittled away, people are desperate for hope.

This is the core of why Frozen succeeded so tremendously.

It came at exactly the right cultural moment, when both adults and teenagers the world over were feeling more alone than any prior point in history; and it showed that there's a reason to open your door. Even when you're feeling like there's no way out, like no one could ever see past your faults and doubts, you can remember that there IS hope. It's not in Prince Charming or a genie in a bottle. You can have hope in knowing that there are other people, broken in their own ways, who WILL love you for you. Unreservedly.

Frozen has been criticized for its resolution being too easy. "Love," they say, "what a shallow fix for everything!"

They are wrong. Love is an anomaly of nature. It breaks every rule. It is supernatural and spiritual and it is real life magic. And realizing that you can always choose to love the fixer-upper beside you is the surest way to thaw your own frozen heart.

r9kElsa is Suffering has likewise been criticized for its ending. Readers wanted to see something sexy, thrilling, or at least certain. Instead, they got something ambiguous and thoughtful.

Personally, the last two chapters are my favorites of the whole story.

We see a broken family trying to piece itself together. We see a father reckoning with his abject failure, and seeking a new way of living with his family. Any parent would feel overwhelmed, angry, afraid in that situation. He doesn't want to be consumed by fear and frustration. He just wants to love his daughters. And he does. Even after everything, he does.

And critically, he trusts Elsa to make the right decisions, even when he himself doesn't know what they are anymore.

And then, ultimately, in the final chapter, we read a beautiful mirror of the first. Elsa is in her room, but the curtains aren't shut anymore. Sunlight streams in through the window. Anna enters freely, their tension long released by their figurative walls having been dismantled.

In an often-overlooked moment of clarity, Elsa ceases to be consumed by her preferred method of isolation, her computer. Whereas in the first chapter, she can't look Anna in the eye, and only stares at her ever-illuminated computer screen; now, she does something new. She turns off her monitor and momentarily contemplates her reflection in the black mirror. Who is the woman she sees staring back at her?

She would be unrecognizable from the girl who sat in that chair six months before.

Finally, in the last moment, Elsa is faced with making the "right decision".

Unburdened by fear or requirement, she is prompted for the first time to determine honestly what the right thing is, for herself, for Anna, for their family.

She hesitates. What is right? Is it right to push Anna away?

She decides. She loves Anna, and she's never going to erect a wall between them again.

Her father asked her to remember what's important. Anna is what's important to her. All of the rules, all of the shame, all of the worries -- they don't matter.

You love her, and she loves you. That's all that matters.

Dear reader: today, now ten years older, remember what matters to you. Love the people in your life. Love boldly and selflessly and unreservedly, and frozen hearts will begin to thaw.

- tfwyouloveher

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A/N: many thanks to the people and resources that made this retrospective achievable

frac, also known as @kate---kane and anonelsa, who so many of us have to thank (or curse?) for our years spent in this community

desuarchive.org and archived.moe make this digital archaeology possible

/frz/ will hate me for posting their activity across the web but I don't mind :)

there is a wealth of fascinating and entertaining material in the /frz/ threads of these archives. I spent weeks reading through old threads long considered lost for this post

neiromaru and @spooths are among the top connoiseurs of frozen fanfiction, and their ancient lists made this research much easier

the various archivists on r/elsanna and elsewhere who saved so many important pieces of fic history before they were deleted

the dropbox and mega archives were instrumental

enormous thanks to my editor, who ended up rewriting most of this post, but who wished to remain anonymous. seems unexpectedly appropriate :)

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

I have Thoughts about Frozen. I never have thought about the movie This way before because it makes me uncomfortable given that I related so much to it as a queer older sibling who had always loved the winter and pretended to have ice powers, but I feel as if the Reading is there...maybe the elsannas are right

[syunkiss]

bitch an elsanna fan followed me

i never even mentioned frozen or anything related to Disney yall are doing this purposefully im so sure 💀

[converse-with-air]

I'm now idly wondering if there are any circumstances in which a not-related AU of a incest ship would work for me. I generally think it's a really boring thing to do to an incest ship, but... If you look at, for example, not related!Elsanna fics, I would say they tend to have Elsa and Anna meeting as adults or young adults, which is basically stripping away everything that makes their relationship interesting in the movie. If you instead wrote them as childhood best friends who grew up as next door neighbors, would that retain some of what I like about their relationship? I also just think modern day, no powers AUs are really boring unless done right, so keeping Elsanna in the same time and place as the movie would make me more willing to try a not-related AU. Keep Elsa as the princess and make Anna the daughter of a servant, who has a little bit of a hero-worship crush on the elegant, refined, slightly older princess, until one day the castle doors shut and she no longer has any access to Elsa... that's intriguing.

[opinated-user]

A normal person: "I love my brother." Lily Orchard: "Romantically?!"

No, you fucked up incest fetishist, when a person loves their family it doesn't mean they want to fuck them. I know all the Elsanna porn and the porn of Amity and her mom Lily looks and the Nyx/her adopted mom porn she wrote and the jokes she makes about how Rey and Aliana/Lily herself would fuck even if they were adoptive sisters has rotted her mind but NORMAL PEOPLE DO NOT THINK OF INCEST WHEN THEY HEAR SOMEONE SAY THEY LOVE THEIR FAMILY. The sentence 'I love my family' is not fetish fuel or a kink prompt!

I have weird kinks too and I write about them a lot but I would never under any circumstances project them onto real people, nor would I hear people say something unrelated to sex and kink and make it a sex or kink thing. Do you know why? It's because most things are not in fact sex or kink related in any way, shape or form, a thing most people know without having to be told by the time they're done with their hormonal high school phase.

That Lily Orchard thinks about her spouse and her spouse's brother being together romantically is genuinely fucked up on just about every level. Porn isn't reality, Lily, it's porn. Fiction. Make-believe. Not. Real.

i have no issue with her making jokes about Frozen (when it isn't frammed as legitimate review for children to see), but when it comes to real life people... it's not only not funny, it's also such a monumental crossing of boundaries to do that only because MO happens to have a positive relationship with her brother, something that LO lacks completely and only has "i had a hot sister and i couldn't do anything about it" jokes to remember her sister by.

[welovefrozenfanfiction]

hi! i am desperately looking for a fanfic i started reading years ago and never finished! here’s everything i can remember: elsa/anna but not related (i don’t think); elsa is queen and there is some sort of evil group trying to kill her. there’s an evil guy called “the druid” and the bad group works for this woman who can kill/control people with fog powers? also rapunzel, merida, and belle are in the story. this sounds crazy, but i hope you can help!

Hi there, sorry for the super late response! I'm getting this blog back up and running.

This sounds somewhat familiar. You think it was an unrelated Elsanna fanfic? Do any of the EA fans possibly know about the fic this person is looking for?

[ao3feed-ncishawaii]

Love in Hawaii - An Elsanna story

by Monk_555 Jane Tennant the First female sac of Ncis has 2 sisters, Elsa Arendelle & Atlas Arendelle. They are twins by the way. Also Jane is a divorcee & mother of Alex & Julie. Atlas, Anna summers, Jesse Boone, Kai Holman & Ernie Malik works under Jane in Ncis Hawaii. Elsa who worked as a Doctor in Army comes to Hawaii to stay close to her sisters. It's her story. This is a story about love, friendship, struggles, bravery and Family. Sorry kacy fans... There is no kacy in this story Words: 1625, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Frozen (Disney Movies), NCIS: Hawai'i, Elsa - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: F/F, Gen Characters: Elsa (Disney), Anna (Disney), Atlas, Jane Tennant, Jesse Boone, Alex Tennant, Julie Tennant, Carla Chase, Daniel Tennant, Claire Browne Relationships: Anna/Elsa (Disney), Anna & Elsa (Disney) Additional Tags: Unrelated Anna/Elsa (Disney), Lesbian Elsa (Disney), Elsa-centric (Disney), Anna and Elsa are Not Related (Disney) via https://ift.tt/YV7Dc9h

[werewolf-cuddles]

Idea: modern AU Elsanna fic where they’re half-siblings who meet for the first time as adults, become friends, and ultimately fall in love and start dating, without knowing that they’re related.

Naturally, once they inevitably discover this fact, it would be a source of conflict and drama.

maybe I’d write this if I had any confidence whatsoever in my ability to write.

[reminaissance]

Been meaning to share this recent commission I had made by the talented @elore813 for my new fic.

Infinitas gracias! 🥰

[glittering-snowfall]

You like making people who don't like incest in general or are disgusted by the thing you all turned Elsa and Anna's bond into your personal haters, constantly weaponzing one(bad and stupid) or two screenshots. But most of the time there's nothing personal. Disliking/criticizing this ship doesn't mean that your personality is under the threat. The screenshot with "it's just a familial/platonic art" and the person who suspected Elsanna in the art is absolutely innocent, nothing offensive there if you understand that incest is not for everyone and people have the right to ask what is going on.

You really don't know me, do you, anon? I have defended people's right to dislike the ship continually in the past. I have supported individuals who dislike the ship and I respect the fact that not everyone wants to see Elsanna content, that is why I have two blogs. The two blogs are there because I realize "incest is not for everyone" and I want to be supportive and compassionate towards ALL people, including people who personally dislike my ship.

Disliking/criticizing a ship is one thing, but telling shippers to die is another. Telling them to shove swords down their throat is another. Saying you want them trampled to death is another (and yes, this is in relation to a famous meme, but the sentiment is still brutal.) Someone stalking me personally and hounding others to "expose" me is another (also, I would count that one as kind of personal, since it WAS directed at me specifically.)

I am not saying that "all people who dislike incest in general or are disgusted" by the ship are like this. The fact that other KA shippers who similarly dislike Elsanna supported me when that one person stalked and harassed me PROVES they are not, PROVES that people can dislike a thing and still have some sense of decency. (At the same time, I've also been mistrusted and emotionally manipulated by KA shippers, even by some of the people who stuck up for me there, so.)

But don't I have the right, anon, to criticize the people who DO behave this way? OBVIOUSLY, not everyone who dislikes a ship is like this, but the people who are deserve to be held accountable.

As for the screenshot you mentioned, it isn't in the same category as the other things I have mentioned, but if the mere sight of the sisters near each other in a piece of fanart that could easily be interpreted as snow sisters is enough to make you think, "This is an incest red flag," then you should probably take a step back.

Likewise, if you're going to call out someone (another blogger, the one referenced in the screenshot calling the ship "p*d*ph*l*a" when it isn't) who has cleansed their blog and not shipped it in years, then you do not care about righteousness, you are just being cruel.

And if you want people to die (even as a joke) then you're cruel. I can't change you but I have every right to dislike your behavior. How would people react if I put "__________ shippers die!" on my blog or fantasized cruelties done unto other shippers?

If I did that, you wouldn't be defending me for "disliking/criticizing a ship but not personally attacking."

And even if it WERE only two examples, anon (it's not, it's been more than that since the beginning) people have a right to talk about the hostility, the "jokey" death wishes. Even if it there WERE only a few of them.

I also think it's telling that you gloss over the more openly cruel examples to focus on the tamer one. Convenient for you.

[froelsannazen]

Someone please explain

[iwritegayshitt]

Tainted Confessions: Chapter 2

Chapter 2 of my short fic for @itstooshy is here!  Rated M for nsfw elements but nothing explicit!  Enjoy!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31289219/chapters/79805992

[gryfon-spanish-werewolf]

Frozen(Elsanna)xPrey AU Snippet

Little piece that came to me while I was writing down notes about the au as a whole. @themountainsays since I tagged that I’d post it I figure I’d @ ya. Oh and @junglekiing too, since you said you were also curious

For context: Anna has severe memory-loss related to removing a device called a neuromod that previously gave her beyond-human abilities. Bellamy is the head scientist responsible for the procedure of injecting and removing neuromods. When Elsa references “’taking that too” she is referring to Anna’s memories. Dr. Calvino works in the Hardware Labs on an advanced video-tech system called Looking Glass, and Danielle is his chief assistant. Jenni is a deceased npc by the time the game really starts. All of these are characters canonically in Prey

This would be a brief moment of quiet amid the chaos of the station. Finding a little corner or lockable room (after checking it for Mimics) to put up their feet and rest before moving on to their next escape attempt. The topic of their relationship (familial, sisterly, more) comes up and Elsa is open about who was courting whom

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“You kissed me first you know.” Elsa says, tossing a can of green tea to Anna. 

“I.... did?”

Elsa’s smile is bitter-sweet. “If Bellamy took that too, I’m going to have to find his body, revive him, and kill him again.” She looks at her own can before popping it open with a hiss. “But yes, you did. It was back when we still lived with everyone else, before I got promoted. It was late, I’d gotten off a difficult work day with Dr. Calvino on the Looking Glass tech. He and Danielle had been fighting again, and their hostility put the whole lab on edge. I finally got back down to my pod and you were there, the reading light on, sitting with your legs dangling off the side. Every once in a while you’d bump the closed door below with your heel, which you knew Jenni hated but she’s an ass so we didn’t care.” This time Elsa’s smile is genuine, and she takes a sip with that glow on her face, that fondness. Anna leans forward, enthralled hearing about herself, as if it was someone else.

Maybe it was.

“You ducked beneath the low ceiling and hopped down to the ground, gesturing to the bed with a flourish. You joked that you were keeping it warm for me.”

“Don’t the pods have heating and cooling controls?” Anna interrupts, confused.

“Yes,” Elsa grins back.

“Oh.” Anna scratches her head. “So I was corny.”

“Don’t hang up too hard on that past tense,” Elsa returns, amused, though there is a sadness in her eyes that reduces her words’ cheer. “But yes you were. Are.” She lowers her drink, cupping the bottom with her other hand. She seems lost in the memory, the faintest dusting of pink emerging across her cheeks. “We exchanged some pleasantries --you asked how my day was, I asked about yours-- but you could see I was tired. You gave me a hug and said the next day would be better. But you… lingered.”

“I wanted to kiss you.”

Elsa’s head shoots up as the words leap from Anna’s mouth.

She remembers. Anna remembers.

Not perfectly. Anna scrunches up her eyes, trying to keep the memory stable in the darkness behind her eyelids. “I-I wanted to. You looked ready to drop but you also looked so beautiful. Your hair wasn’t perfect and you smelled a little like the burnt, sooty smell from welding and Calvino’s dark roast coffee. He never drinks anything else. But you also felt small - you fit so neatly in my arms that I just didn’t want to let go. I…” Anna thinks hard, stitching the scene together bit by bit as the pieces threatened to float off into the gaps in her memory. The holes in her life. “I wanted you to know that I was there for you. That I supported you like you always supported me, way back before. And I was feeling braver because everyone was asleep. It was just you and me. And when you pulled back from the hug the light from your bunk spilled onto your face and caught in the corner of your eye and I just stopped holding back.”

Anna mimes the motion in front of her, trying to remember the feel of Elsa’s body beneath her hands. “My knuckle under your chin, my fingers at your waist, and I just reeled you in, before I could second guess myself.” Anna feels her cheeks color. “I… think I was hoping I’d guessed correctly… about you…”

Anna opens her eyes to find Elsa hastily wiping hers. “It was very romantic,” her sister says, but upon seeing Anna catch her, Elsa adds, “well, it was, until you added tongue.”

Anna cringes, choking on her tea she’d been in the middle of drinking. “I did?”

Elsa laughs, a little watery chuckle. “No, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t resist.” She smiles. “It was sweet.”

“Good,” Anna nods, more to herself than Elsa. “I’m glad I… remember that, even if I’m not sure what all that means now.”

Elsa looks like she wants to comment, but decides against it. Too soon. “It also means we don’t have to find Bellamy’s corpse and resurrect him so that I can murder him again,” she says instead, a handful of snowflakes dancing around her fingers before disappearing. “So considering how the rest of the day has been going, I’m going to count that as a win.”