#silasuniversity

[jpolish-writes-queer-ya-fantasy]

What A Nerd. Stoked and repping #SilasUniversity after a brutal two-hour training session. -- #trainingday #writerswhotrain #powerlifting #veganbodybuilding #hiittraining #liftingislife #carmilla #carmillaswag

[mariangeldlfs-blog]

🥁Pum pum pummmm...🎶 Yeah, well... I love @carmillaseries AND last night I saw the movie... and I love it MORE!😍 So, I made this illustration to show you all my love (hope you like it)🙃💜 @natvanlis @baumanelise @carmillaseries @kindatv_ #carmilla #carmillamovie #carmillamovie2017 #carmillaseries #carmillakarnstein #laurahollis #natasha #natashanegovanlis #elise #elisebauman #kindatv #illustration #illustrations #drawing #draw #digitalart #creampuff #creampuffs #cupcakes #cupcake #silas #silasuniversity

[carmillaseriesdaily]

Love this project it’s such a good idea!! So you’re obviously including tweets from Laura and Carmilla, are there any other accounts? I think SilasUniversity on twitter was an official account, the rest of the characters might have just been run by fans? Also I know they posted some different stuff on Laura & Carm’s tumblr accounts and I was wondering if you’re going to include that stuff too.

Hi! Great question. The four official Twitter accounts are Laura, Carmilla, Silas University, and LaFontaine. The Silas twitter made a quick appearance in yesterday’s summer tweet backlog. LaF’s first tweet isn’t until September, but when the time comes I’ll absolutely be including them here too! I don’t plan on sharing tweets from any of the fan-run twitters unless it’s part of an interaction with one of the official accounts.

As for the tumblrs, the three canon accounts are @laura2theletter @heycarmilla and @voiceofsilas. I will definitely be sharing all of their original posts and asks, but not the non-original reblogs. This is because there are quite a lot of posts, and I worry that it would be too redundant to share all of them here when their full tumblr archives are already accessible to view. I’m still building up the queue though, so this is subject to change.

I am also in the process of setting up an “extras” page with links to Laura and Carmilla’s tumblr archives, non-canon fan twitters, Ellen Simpson’s Carmilla ask blog, cast interviews and other notable pages. If anyone has suggestions for resources to include there, please let me know! There’s so much content, I’m sure I’ve forgotten something.

- Silas U Librarian

P.S. This page just reached 100 followers. How exciting!

[mooncaps]

Presenting: The Carmilla Canon Tweets Collection!

I’m only four-and-a-half years late, but I hope people will enjoy this anyway. All four of the canon Twitter accounts, arranged in chronological order, and packaged into a .cbz file for your reading convenience.

Here’s the download link.

If this is the first time you’ve heard of a .cbz file, they can be opened with a program called CDisplay (and other programs too.) Alternatively, you can change the extension to .zip and extract all of the images if you so choose.

For a little more specificity and methodology about this collection: When images were tweeted, the full-size image follows after in a “page” by itself. For links, if they didn’t have an embedded preview within the tweet, I include a single screenshot of the linked site in a “page” by itself. It’s not the full content of the link, just enough to preview the webpage and understand the context of what was being linked.

This collection contains the public tweets, i.e. scripted content. The only replies are the replies to each other. No one else. I did seriously consider including all replies, as well as the tweets to which they were replying, but I ultimately decided against it for a few reasons.

The four canon accounts are still on Twitter and are expected to remain there indefinitely. The accounts are: Laura2theLetter, HeyCarmilla, SilasUniversity, and LaFilphormes. This collection just arranges the tweets from all four accounts together into chronological reading order and uses the icons that the accounts were using at the time the tweets were made.

For the explanation of my reasons for leaving out replies and other highly specific nerdy details:

Reason number one is that the scripted content is essentially the story the writers were telling with these tweets. The rest is sort of in-character ad-libbing, but not necessarily story progression. Reason number two is that a lot of the accounts being replied to have changed names or vanished in the years between then and now. Even a few of the quasi-canon fan-made RP accounts are gone and I wouldn’t have been able to track down all of their tweets or their icons. Reason number three is that if I had included everything I could find then this project would’ve taken me at least ten years to complete instead of four. There are a few gems in the replies, especially from the Silas University account, but I had to make a judgment call. The tweets in this collection are the tweets you would see if you followed all four accounts, but didn’t follow any of the other fans and RP accounts that the canon accounts would occasionally reply to.

Regarding chronological order, there were a few instances in the early days when several tweets seem to have been scheduled for the same time and ended up posting out of order. I rearranged in these instances to present the tweets in what seemed to be the intended order. There was also one instance that I’m reasonably confident was an a.m./p.m. scheduling mixup and I’ve rearranged that one as well. There are other instances where I suspect some tweets might have been inadvertently shuffled somehow, but I didn’t have anything solid enough to justify rearranging.

And this is about to be an extremely nerdy aside within this extremely nerdy aside, but there was one particular tweet that I chose to edit because the formatting or something was causing it to display differently on different devices. It’s one of Laura’s garbled tweets from between S3 Act 2 and S3 Act 3. The characters of the tweet displayed in different orders every time I tried to view the tweet another way. Windows 7, Windows 10, Android Phone, the search results page vs. the status page, and using the mobile.twitter link instead of the regular twitter link.

After much confusion about this, I eventually copied the text of the tweet into a document, and it came out in this order:

And according to Ellen Simpson, what the tweet actually says is that, when you read it backwards, bottom line then top. So, what I did was take the screenshot and then manually rearrange the characters into that (backwards) order, and kept the right alignment that the tweet seemed to have, producing this result:

I also included the tweet in a separate “page” right after, as it appeared in the search results on the Windows 7 laptop that I used to screenshot the rest of the tweets, for authenticity’s sake.

The tweets at this time were all scrambled anyways, but the rest were all readable approximations of Ellen’s translations and I don’t think making it that level of scrambled was intentional. The character’s show up in the right (backwards) order on TweetDeck, just not on any version of the Twitter site.

And lastly, the way tweets appear on Twitter has changed several times since I started this project. The circular icons are probably the most obvious change. I’ve pasted the original square icons over those. However, the width of the tweet column, font, and the replies/retweets/likes have changed over time as well.

I restarted this project several times, hoping to be able to screenshot every tweet in the same layout. Eagle-eyed viewers may spot a small and insignificant difference between certain page groups. Doing the whole project in-between any revisions to the Twitter site proved to be more than I was capable of, but the final result has an overall uniformity of presentation that I’m very satisfied with.

I think that should explain just about anything that anyone as nerdy about this as I am would be curious to know.

[soniafcademoura]

regram @natashaelisefans I miss this haha "Silas University"😖😌😔 #silasuniversity #carmillaseries #NatashaNegovanlis #EliseBauman https://www.instagram.com/p/BRsYc7RgFOc/

[mariangeldlfs-blog]

(I publish it again because the second part was never loaded) Ok... I think I'll never get over this song🤣🤣🤣 Oh, I love it so much! I still laugh like a stupid🤣 @natvanlis @kindatv_ @carmillaseries @hauntersmusical @baumanelise By the way, it's subtitled in Spanish🇪🇸🇻🇪 #carmilla #carmillaseries #carmillamovie #carmillakarnstein #laurahollis #natasha #natashanegovanlis #kindatv #haunters #hauntersmusical #burritos #burritossong #singingonthespot #creampuff #creampuffs #cupcakes #hollstein #silasuniversity #lesbianseries #lesbianmovie #lgbt

[soniafcademoura]

regram @carmillasunicorn Two cuties behind the scenes✨ . . . #natashanegovanlis #elisebauman #thecarmillamovie #thecarmillawebseries #carmilla #carmillakarnstein #laurahollis #silasuniversity #negovanman #karnstein #lovewillhaveitssacrifices #carmillaseries #hollsteinforever #hollsteinlove #likeforlike #creampuff #buckleupcreampuff #natlise #carmillamovie #loveislove @baumanelise @natvanlis #carmillaseason1 #carmillaseason2 #carmillaseason3 — view on Instagram https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/95e8b1954ef4c14d549fac41760598f5/5B938266/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/p640x640/32180709_1742313202483819_8147195705132318720_n.jpg

[musicdepartmentofsilas-blog]

there's a way that you look me straight in the eyes only lasts for a moment, it lasts through the night it's so easy to hold you, it's so easy to mourn to it's a dream to be close to you, didn't know you were meant for me.  

[musicdepartmentofsilas-blog]

i'm in a haze, an in between stage 'cause i'm not awake but walk in a state of ghostly charm, a deadly calm and my filthy palms reach for the harms today's tonight, tonight's today, today's tonight!