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[praetorqueenreyna]

Elaingate Master List

Greetings, fellow clowns! As I have previously threatened, I have created the Official Elaingate Master List! I tried only to include posts made that were intended to be humorous or analytical, and not ones that were just negative. I also didn't want to get too far into ship wars, so some posts may have been excluded because of that. I also very easily could have missed some posts, since there isn't a single blog for me to scour for all the content made. If you feel that you made a post that should be on here, please message me!

This post will be in multiple parts because it's TOO DAMN LONG! Enjoy!

(Putting the masterlist under a read more because HOLY SHIT is it long!)

Fanfiction

warmth (Tamlin/Beron) by @feyres-divorce-lawyer (AO3 link)

the bridges we mend (Tamlin/Beron/Elain) by @mathiwrites (AO3 link)

banned from Elain Week (Tamlin/Beron) by @shadowqueenjude

Beauty and the Beast (Tamlin/Elain) by @ennawrite

Spider-Lily (Elain/Ianthe) by @spidersmiceandeverythingnice

Stone Statues and Viperous Hair (Elain/Ianthe) by @velarisbynight

Fanart

Guess who just got BANNED!!! (Tamlin & Beron) by @jadedbugart

You got us banned from Elain Week! (Tamlin & Beron) by @thrumbolt

true soulmates (Tamlin/Beron) by @mossytrashcan

Beron/Elain and Tamlin/Elain by @mygreendandelion

Tamlin/Elain by @arson-09

Threesome fun (Tamlin/Beron/Elain) by @loonylooly

Banned for being too sexy by @herrinarte

Tamlin, Elain, and Beron by @rosesncarnations

Poetry

An invitation (Beron to Tamlin) by @rin-u-pos

A Rejoinder (Tamlin to Beron) by @jules-writes-stories

Elaingate limerick by @rin-u-pos

Analysis

What is Elaingate? by @praetorqueenreyna

ACOTAR fandom tips by @mathiwrites

Fan events as an archival space by @huntquinlan

Essay on modern ACOTAR fandom by @praetorqueenreyna

It was never about Elain by @sserrafeim

Thoughts on Elaingate by @matrixsss

Is Elain Week for all? by @mathiwrites

Is an event "for all" fans? by @theshadowsingersraven

ACOTAR Rant by @achaotichuman

Reactions to other ships by @toolsofmyenemy

Fandom Event etiquette by @obsessivecompulsivefantasyreader

ACOTAR fandom analysis by @mathiwrites

How Elaingate was avoidable by @herrinarte

A stand against all abuse by @ladyfoxreads

Elaingate Thoughts by @feyres-divorce-lawyer

fanfic detached from canon by @ennawrite

Art is a form of therapy by @mathiwrites

Dark Romance by @bluiela

Dark ships by @pan-withnoplan

Morally correct ships by @olenvasynyt

is banning ships normal? by @olenvasynyt

Other

Tamlain Collage (Tamlin/Elain) by @ennawrite

A poll: who would carry the Tamberon baby? by @huntquinlan

Tamberon Collage (Tamlin/Beron) by @shadowqueenjude

Who did this to you? (Tamlin/Beron) by @yaralulu

Koshchelain is on (Elain/Koschei) by @avabrynne

Elaingate food by @feyres-divorce-lawyer

What are your ACOTAR OTPs? by @mathiwrites

Elain Week Moodboard by @shadowqueenjude

Choose your acotar ship event by @feyres-divorce-lawyer

[garden-of-mythology-and-fate-go]

List 5 songs you actually listen to & then tag 10 people. I was tagged by the wonderful @mono-frog !

1. 芲生不配 (According to my YouTube review I’ve listened to this song 444 times this year, if that tells you anything)

2. 晚夜微雨問海棠

3. Wrecking Ball (Why yes this is here bc of that svsss animatic why do you ask)

4. 扶搖山上有月亮

5. I’m Just Ken (🎼One of these things is not like the other)

Have fun! (or feel free to ignore this if you don’t want to do it): @sailor-toni @mako-neexu @spidersmiceandeverythingnice @avicebro @bitterrosebrokenspear @bibliophilea @waveoftheocean @youremysunshine8 @silvadraconis @azuregold

[rexcaliburechoes]

wip tag game

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

thanks for the tag, @spacemonkeysalsa!

the thing is, i'd love to play but i have an uncountable number of wips that have all gone into "marinating for 50 years" status and uh...

pained laughter yeah i don't... title my wips. i always start an idea on my phone but never remember to title the document so i just get a zillion untitled documents and seldom ever return to them. oops.

however! i do have one (1) set of wips that's actually titled, but it's been sort of abandoned since all of the nijisanji drama happened...

oh, and this one from a while ago that i want to expand upon one day. it's very close to my heart because this was about one of my oldest ocs, and the game she originated from was the game that saved my life

titled: you told me to live, and so i shall (though your definition of living might differ from mine when you're not here)

though in tangentially-related writing news, i have a tiny pet project that necessitates the learning of css and html, so wish me luck:

(psst! i have a masterdoc on istorros here! please check it out, i've worked so hard on him.)

anyways, i don't have enough people to tag for the amount og marinating wips, so i'l just gonna tag the couple of people i know who do write and are mutuals!

@spidersmiceandeverythingnice, @mt07131, @didsomeonesayventus, @overlord-surgeus

consider this an open invitation to participate, but my no means do you have to!

[bookishfeylin]

Lucien lay chained to the center of the floor on the other side of the chamber, his remaining russet eye so wide that it was surrounded with white. The metal one spun as if set wild; his brutal scar was stark against his pale skin. (ACOTAR Chapter 40)

Someone appeared beside Lucien—a tall, handsome brown-haired man with a face similar to his own. Lucien didn’t look at his father, though he stiffened as the High Lord of the Autumn Court approached Tamlin and extended a clenched hand to him. (ACOTAR Chapter 45)

So Lucien goes from pale and looking like Beron in ACOTAR to tanned and looking like Helion in ACOWAR. Another retcon.

@spidersmiceandeverythingnice You inspired this post :)

[theladyofbloodshed]

Start the year off with gratitude! Name 10 mutuals you're grateful for and why! Go!

I have so many wonderful people on here that I am so grateful for, it is so difficult to pick just ten, but a big shout out to these for encouraging, supporting, motivating, and just being generally brilliant people... @a-court-of-valkyries @this-is-rochelle @spidersmiceandeverythingnice @headcanonheadcase @loysydark @adelindschade @blackcanary13 @illyrianhighfaerie @queercontrarian @harrowhark-nova

[cafe-camelot]

I haven’t been active in a while and people are doing this on Twitter so here I am going to do this again 🎺

Favorite servant per class:

Saber- Arthur

Archer- Napoleon

Lancer- Cu Prototype

Rider- Habetrot

Assassin- Koyanskaya

Caster- Geronimo

Berserker- Cu

Avenger- Dantes

Moon Cancer- Jinako

Alter Ego- Dōman

Ruler- Artoria Bunny (don’t judge ok)

Foreigner- Van Gogh/Voyager

Pretender- Oberon

I am curious to hear @avalonblue12 @innovatorbunny @spidersmiceandeverythingnice @dontstalkhaleyshedontlikethat @saeraas @bitterrosebrokenspear (obviously only if you want to!:))

[cafe-camelot]

Oh man I’ll try: my guess is that you’re surrounded by idiots hahaha. (I really need to get back into Bleach cuz I don’t even recognize that guy)

Here are mine!!

Good luck @avalonblue12 @saeraas @spidersmiceandeverythingnice

Making a tag game cause I can

Rules: post 4 fictional characters you relate to and assume something about the person you reblogged from based on their characters

No pressure tag! @sidneyoftheblackwoods @mqstermindswift @stars-and-birds @zenilvar @forever-chained-to-myself @themidnightarcher @skeelly @thepencilsnameissteve @thislove-taylorsversion @thislifeissweeterthanfiction @swiftieannah @a-pessimistic-swiftie @catastrxblues @jellycanon @what-about-wendy and anyone else who wants to join<3

[garden-of-mythology-and-fate-go]

Five comfort characters, five tags

Thank you @mymessyshelf for the tag!!!

1.) Xie Lian (Heaven Official’s Blessing)

2.) Romani Archaman (Fate Grand Order)

3.) L (Death Note)

4.) AIDAN (Illuminae Files)

5.) Bedivere (Fate Grand Order)

Tags: @spidersmiceandeverythingnice @sailor-toni @astraltrickster @mako-neexu @silvadraconis

[teatitty]

Please make video essays I'd watch them all when I'm bored at work!!!!!!

I HAVE NO GOOD RECORDING EQUIPMENT OR EDITING SKILLS THOUGH IT'D LITERALLY JUST BE ME ON MY DAMN LAPTOP CAMERA AND MIC WAVING MY ARMS LIKE A LOON AND CONSTANTLY GOING ON TANGENTS

[raspberryusagi]

A1! for your vibe check

[justastoryteller]

spidersmiceandeverythingnice replied to your post: Ouran High School Host Club was 15 years ago and I...

since lockdowns started, i’ve been buying instant coffee as a saving measure/convenience and let me just say, i think about that scene EVERY goddamn time i make coffee now, it’s never going to go away

I’ve never been so thankful for my pourover carafe, but yeah, that shit’s ingrained in my brain forever now. The commoner coffee never goes away.

[tainbocuailnge]

Is Extra a PC game? I've been slowly figuring out how to amass Fate games but have no systems except my computer 😂

it’s a psp game but you can emulate it (i use ppsspp personally) and I actually recommend you do so you can savescum past the annoying stuff/download cheats or whatever cause the gameplay, is not great

[king-of-zeroes]

spidersmiceandeverythingnice replied to your post:

Diarmuid got a Saber upgrade but his Lancer form is still a bit... Eh.... And while Fionn's kit was later updated, Diarmuid Lancer has received no updated at all... If you have thoughts I'd love to hear them!

Ah Dia, you were one of my favourite characters in Zero but much like Boudica your FGO kit is just... bad. Dia at least got a viable 4* but still no justice for Best Rider.

To be honest, he needs a lot. Damage output is poor, and he doesn’t have much else in the means of survival. However his deal was that he was an excellent one-on one duelist and he could take out people way stronger than him. This is what we need to work with. (Also Love Spot Sucks, throw that out)

Skill 1: Eye of the Mind (True) - Keep it as it is, nothing wrong here.

Skill 2: Knight’s Gambit (7-5 turns) - Draws attention of all enemies to self for 1 turn. Gains Critical Stars (10-20)

Skill 3: Gáe Buidhe (7-5 turns) - Inflicts Buff Block status to one enemy for 3 times. Inflicts Curse for 5 turns to them.

Noble Phantasm:  Gáe Dearg (Quick, 3 hits) - Deals damage to one enemy, removes their buffs.

Overcharge effect - Reduces defence for three turns (10-30%)

________________

“What have you done, you’ve created a monster”

Look, his max ATK is 6,877 at level 70 and has 1 buster card. This makes him lore accurate. “Oh you’re strong and have half a dozen buffs? How about no.” This works with his idea of a duelist who gets strong people to slip up and turn their power against him.

It also lets people who do solo runs on youtube use another silver lancer other than OG Cu.

[iambigboldhead]

Я не понимаю арахнофобов. Ну ладно, нет понимаю, сам им был, но нахера подписываться на группы с пауками? Вы подписывпетесь и засираете коменты, ну вот Н-А-Х-Е-Р-А?

[spidersmiceandeverythingnice]

Yooooo I'm so ready for that crackpot theory 👀 Batshit and Evil Nero rights all the way!!

YOOOOO I think @teatitty was also saying this - that if Nero hadn’t been Waifu’d so hard by the writers, she could’ve been one of the best anti-heroes in the series, and I feel that in my soul because I frankly think Nero has so much untapped potential, like even apart from the increasingly obvious hints that she’s the Beast of Revelations/the Whore of Babylon, you don’t need to look any further than the fact that she has Imperial Privilege Rank EX.

For reference, not even someone like Ozy, a literal god’s avatar, who considers himself far and above all other humans, who as a Servant is on par with the likes of Gilgamesh and Karna for how absolutely busted strong he is - not even “King of Kings, god-pharaoh Ozymandias, look on my works and despair,” has Imperial Privilege Rank EX.

Because as I mentioned, Nero is straight-up delusional. A lot of this manifests itself in her constant attempts to be a famous singer or actress - not realizing that she’s tone deaf, because she is Nero! The greatest artist who ever lived, who is good at everything! There’s also like, absolutely everything about Nero Bride, who represents one of Nero’s most famous IRL episodes of “madness.” Ozy knows that he has limits and weaknesses, and even though he’s immensely powerful, he knows that he can’t simply snap his fingers and bend the universe to make himself invulnerable. But Nero? Nero fully believes that she can do whatever the hell she wants, she has no flaws, and no weaknesses. So what if she never learned to use a sword, she’s the greatest emperor of Rome, she can make a sword and become a Saber-class Servant if she damn well pleases. So it goes.

But there’s also a lot of hints that Nero recognizes that she’s delusional. The plotline in the Roman Singularity with her constantly having headaches was dropped - her second skill, remember, was originally called “Migraine” before it was upgraded. She also admits at one point that her best class as a Servant is Rider - but she refuses to become a Rider-class Servant. (Because again, doing so would bring her closer to her true form as Beast.)

Nero IRL is a SUPER interesting figure. There are, actually, some who believe that Nero was semi-popular among the common people of Rome, and that there were active efforts among the upper-class to oust and discredit Nero because his political whims were unpopular in the Senate. There isn’t a lot of evidence to support the “fiddling while Rome burns” anecdote, but of course, we can’t forget the conquest of Britain, and the bride incident, the persecution of minority faiths, among other things. I wouldn’t really consider Nero a sympathetic figure at all, even if a lot of the worst stories about them were exaggerated. But this kind of plays into Fate!Nero’s characterization.

So Nero spends a LOT of time in Fate doing absolutely everything possible to avoid facing who and what she really is and desperately trying to make herself appealing and cute and charming to others. This includes becomes a Saber class Servant (I have a theory about Sabers representing forms of idealism but also they’re supposedly one of the most well-rounded Servant classes in terms of their strengths, and are considered “strongest” of the seven normal classes), trying to forcibly make up with Boudica (who should be an Avenger but that’s beside the point), downplaying her hatred and persecution of Christians and her role in the burning of Rome, downplaying her conquests and her mistakes and the callous way that she treated people around her, generally making herself into a “benevolent emperor” who was beloved by her people and fell on tragic times but always got back up again!

My crackpot theory is that we’ve never seen Nero’s true face - literally. I think that, upon dying, Nero may have had a moment where she realized what she truly is - and that includes seeing her appearance clearly for the first time. And I think that what she saw, she didn’t like. So as part of her intense image make-over, she manifested a new face for herself - the face of someone in history who was beloved, who was adored - really adored - by everyone, who was held up as a shining example of a leader. At the point when Nero was created, it was already canonical that OG Saber and Jeanne d’Arc had a strong enough resemblance that the lunatic Gilles de Rais could mistake one for the other, and Mordred being a clone of Arturia makes their similarities a given. But I genuinely think “picked” her face on purpose when she manifested as a Servant, so that more people would be inclined to like her, because she’d look like someone they already admired rather than someone they knew to fear.

(This is my Watsonian reasoning talking - the Doylist and actual reason why Nero has Saberface is because the creator wanted to surprise the fans by making a familiar-looking character act in ways that were completely unexpected. But I like my theory better.)

Anyway rights for Batshit Antihero Nero!!!

[astrababyy]

three ships: umm currently? i’d say zukka from atla since that fandom is my current fixation. i really like jegulus from the marauders fandom. then perpollo from pjo because im currently writing a fic with them!

first ever ship: that’s a hard one… when i first started getting into fandom, i wasn’t very into ships. i think the first ship i ever started to really like was hedric because of this one fic i read years ago.

last song: last song i was listening to was hold on by bella sisoski cause i heard it on yt and it sounded pretty good.

last film: i’m trynna get through all the star wars films right now! i’ve finished the first two, and it’s pretty good so far.

currently reading: i’m reading game of thrones right now. not very far in, but it seems pretty interesting. i’m planning on watching the show after i finish the books so im excited.

currently watching: im trying to get through agents of shield because a commenter from ao3 recommended it to me! i’m on season 3 right now, and it’s really good.

currently consuming: i’m trying to get into the marauders fandom right now to be honest. they’ve got sooo many fans, and i like fandoms with lots of people.

currently craving: this one obscure fandom no one knows of so i just write a bunch of content for and then consume it myself lmao.

okay! nine more people i’d like to get to know better: @ae-neon @kateprincessofbluewhales @foxcort @mygreendandelion @spidersmiceandeverythingnice @feynessupremacy @szalonykasztan00 @andramoreaux @nestaismommy

Nine People You'd Like To Get To Know Better

I was tagged by @transboyzuko, and it's been a minute since I've done anything like this so here goes:

Three Ships: RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, HMHS Britannic. The only three Olympic-class ocean liners ever built by Harland & Wolff for the White Star Line. Titanic's story is well-known, of course. Britannic was a hospital ship in World War I until she hit a mine in the Aegean and sank. Olympic's career lasted 24 years before she was retired and sold for scrap. Why do I know this? Because I have a morbid fascination with maritime disasters.

First Ever Ship: Heero Yuy/Duo Maxwell. I grew up watching Mobile Suit Gundam Wing on Toonami, and these boys were my bias. I still hold this fic up as one of the best I've ever read. Although, thinking about it, my first actual ship was probably Sirius Black/Remus Lupin via The Shoebox Project by dorkorific and ladyjaida, which I first read on Livejournal. But that was less something I actively shipped and more a ship I actively enjoyed.

Last Song: Hypomania, by Coping Method. My music taste currently vacillates between dance pop/electronica and heavy metal.

Last Film: Uh. Fuck, I dunno. I don't watch a lot of movies anymore. I did do a double Barbenheimer over the summer, though.

Currently Reading: So This Is Ever After by F. T. Lukens and Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, but progress has been slow. Just prior to starting them both I devoured the Simon Snow trilogy, though, so maybe I just have poor time management skills.

Currently Watching: myself age by steady increments. I also don't watch a lot of TV or streaming series, although that's less from lack of desire to watch and more from being busy with other things. Well, I have been watching Money, Explained, but that's for work and does not therefore count.

Currently Consuming: I'm between hyperfixations at the moment. I have been working my way through Bret Devereaux's collected blog posts on the Battle of Helm's Deep to cope.

Currently Craving: rice. And the next part of Dog's In Love 2. But I can get rice.

I guess I'll tag some folks. Do I even interact with you people enough for this? I'unno. Let's go with: @chiptrillino, @lizardlicks, @three-lesbians-of-the-apocalypse, @schrodingers-bisexual, @deliciousstrawberrythings, @portraitoftheoddity, @sixseisliu, @persnickety-peahen, and @astrababyy