#hobbydrama

[shefightslikeagirl]

Hobby Drama: Emilie Autumn's Asylum [Part 1]

u/pillowcase-of-eels posted a link to their fandom-and-EA-history write up to the r/EmilieAutumn Reddit, and I thought it would be a fun project to share! 2 out of 7 parts have been posted to r/HobbyDrama so far.

Picture this: it's the early 2010s, somewhere in the western world. Instagram is a novelty, Harvey Weinstein runs Hollywood, almost no one on Earth leans one way or the other about RNA vaccines, and Donald Trump is that one real estate guy you vaguely remember from Home Alone 2. New player Lady Gaga is the most interesting thing to have happened to pop since Madonna, and the whole industry is attempting to catch up; Miley Cyrus is the chick who used to be on Hannah Montana; Melanie Martinez hasn't hatched yet. The time of Oddball Concept Divas is dawning just below the horizon.

You're a Bowie-loving student who skipped goth night at the club to tag along with your art school friends for a very special evening. You're a giddy sixteen-year old rocking cat ears, purple Wet 'n Wild eyeliner, a polyester petticoat, and a coffin-shaped backpack. You're an effete theater kid who sewed his own waistcoat for the occasion, but won't dare wear it to school the next day. You're a buff, bearded dude in a Venom shirt who's trying not to look too excited, since your girlfriend supposedly had to drag you here. You're a slightly bemused parent leaning against the back wall of the venue, sipping a warm half-pint, wondering if this isn't all a bit dark for a tween. ("It's called 'Victoriandustrial', mom," you've been told in the car, "and it's not dark, it's art.")

On stage is a pink-haired woman, with red porcelain-doll lips and a heart painted on her cheek. Among a set of antique consoles, twee tchotchkes, teacups and plastic rats, she pounces and twirls in glittery platform boots, tattered striped stockings, and a tightly laced crystal-studded corset that looks like it's splattered in blood. This is ostensibly a concert, but there is no live band. Where one would expect a drum kit or a bass, three bedazzled burlesque vixens act as back-up singers and dancers, with the occasional vaudeville act a fire-twirling number, a fan dance, throwing pastries and spitting tea into the audience. Lots of wholesome girl-on-girl kissing, too. The music on the backing track is a genre-bender of clanging beats and beeps, lofty orchestral strings, and the frantic hammering of a MIDI harpsichord, as the pink-haired frontlady sings of heartache and betrayal and drowning. Think if the Brontë sisters had invented industrial rock.

The audience gasps in excitement when the lady whips out a vamped-out wireless electric violin. With rockstar cool and virtuoso poise, she leans into the instrument, touches the bow to the strings, and tears out a single plaintive, impeccably distorted high note. Then her fingers go wild, and for a few seconds, everything is perfect suspended animation. Uncannily perfect, almost. Just behind you, you hear someone whisper: "Wait, is she miming it?"

[waywardvictorianconfessions]

I feel weird about r/Hobbydrama writeup and how its message feels like "Well it's mentally ill woman, how dumb & cruel were you all to expect anything from her". Well, the very least you should expect from an artist is not to be scammed. I think she's been treated way more generously than you'd think. If any other artist was in her place and had so many dramas and scams, nobody would be as forgiving. People were making fantastic excuses for her for years, some are to this day.

[wizardsdeservecats]

is there like a /r/hobbydrama equivalent on tumblr? I'm addicted and need my weekly fandom drama

[ur-friendly-marketable-brand]

I spent a lot of my night shifts reading hobby drama posts. And I am rather sad that people will not share the latest scoop in their niche hobby or jobs because some CEO thought user retention was out of fashion.

[bebe-benzenheimer]

remark: Twilight was always horribly written and racist and sexist and the fact that its main demographic was teenage girls should not make it exempt from criticism, and places like /rhobbydrama should stop whitewashing it.

hobbydrama mods:

[heydis-hotlight]

well this isnt very hot or sexy

[cassierobinsons]

i know s11 cas languishing in bed watching nothing but jenny jones was about him being so depressed he was rendered incapable of enjoying anything but the trashiest of television but have we considered he's just messy and loves drama? Like have considered that he's autistic and his special interest is other people's business?

[thegreatyin]

sometimes i almost wish i was interested in more mainstream things so i could spectate insane fandom discourse like a gossipy neighbor watching a couple fight with little binoculars by her windowsill. like i hate participating in the thing myself but i love reading about the drama of it all, y'know

[monstroso]

🔥 curious about what the train hot takes are

I just realized I'm a bad person to ask about hot takes because I don't spend enough time talking to other members of most communities to know what is and isn't controversial, so this might be lukewarm at best but I will say: the more I look into certain restoration projects the less I like how much gets obfuscated in the locomotive restoration world. Which is to say, I don't think anyone who goes into restoring a locomotive goes in with bad intentions, but I sense a constant need to present nothing but the best possible version of the project at all times and it ends up meaning that bad news gets delayed and the donors get nothing but radio silence until it's too late and there's no hope of saving the project.

To me, it feels like a culture thing. The guys doing the restoration work want to continue to work on their baby and don't want to seem like they're asking too much or trying to tackle the impossible, but the truth is that bad news is better than no news, and people should be allowed the opportunity to have a realistic version of the hurdles involved, even if it means it's going to cost more or owning up to having made a mistake.

I'm being vague on purpose because I don't want to point fingers and say "I think this project is being mishandled" because the truth is, I don't know if it's being mishandled! There's not enough information to come to any kind of conclusion!

I think a lot of train guys would respond to this by saying 'Well, if you're so worried about it you should get involved directly.' which is the dream for sure, but I'm not really able to pick up my whole life and move to fucking Pottstown to work on the T1, as much as I'd like to! (And this is not to say the T1 Trust is a bad operation, I actually think they're the gold standard that other newbuild and restoration projects should try to emulate, this is just an example.) Realistically, the most people my age and skill level are able to do is donate, but we want to donate intelligently and we want to feel involved even if we can't be physically.

Like I said, part of it is maintaining a certain public image, the other part of it (I think) is cliquey subculture drama bullshit that happens in every hobby, and I think will eventually be the death of these kinds of projects if more isn't done to keep interest in them alive. 🔥

[brie-draws]

A little OC ref of sorts... Not really I’m just showing off a new OC and his jackets. His name is Atsuji and hes a streamer and an author and a menace. Is deeply in love with a fan who’s never talked to him privately. Wears jackets that correspond with his mood.

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[diamondnokouzai]

hi this is joe bidens mom he killed himself. what did you think of him how would you rate him out of 10.

[waywardvictorianconfessions]

Does anyone else feel a little guilty after reading the HobbyDrama write up? Were we too hard on her?

[darkprincecait]

seeing someone complain that people 'these days' make discourse posts in fandom instead of creating 'content' and first of all, they were literally always doing that, second of all, this is the content they create. if you think you have to create stuff to participate and make a name for yourself (wrong, you don't have to make shit, you can just vibe, but i get the idea), and you don't think you can draw or write or whatever, you can at least make inflammatory posts. doesn't mean it's right, but i think the attention economy has a lot to do with this.

[aq2003]

well i wanted to watch it again with the new information of knowing who gareth roberts was and it was. interesting. that original script sounds like a nightmare so i guess it could be worse? the doctor never in his life would do that. what the fuck? i need to watch that episode to cleanse me

THIN ICE SAVE ME THIN ICE. i think sarah dollard is one of the most underrated nuwho writers she really is a prime example of someone that got a chance to write just a couple episodes but definitely made a mark bc both of them are absolute bangers. up there w/ jamie mathieson as my favorite writers for twelve

[bebe-benzenheimer]

holy schlamoly can't anybody on hobbydrama talk like normal people

[in-sufficientdata]

r/HobbyDrama/ - Treegate 2014: the drama that kept on giving

dwrp is reminiscing about this over on plurk and i thought the masses of tumblr should know that this happened because it was glorious

some of the best responses, as highlighted in the discussion plurk:

stephen colbert

ruby rhod

pope francis

the lorax

vanilla ice

the whomping willow

chris hanson

go forth and enjoy