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Updated: 11/15/2024
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All images link out to @opheliagallery, because I can't help but have one huge website spread across three different handles.
It can be filtered by Era (Enchant, Opheliac...) or Type (Professional, Candid...). It's mostly professional shoots at the moment.
If you'd like me to add any photosets, just shoot me an ask. Or, if you want, send any photos you have over to [email protected]
My last project: An EA timeline.
I'll finish it. One day.
Some of the old links were dead, so I deleted all those posts. This link shouldn't expire.
hi there! sorry to bother you with another weird question but: I was recently looking at old versions of EA's website on the wayback machine, and there are absolutely no saves for all of 2009. any idea why? I know, for example, rasputina/melora creager's website went through a couple of url changes a number of years ago, which now causes some weirdness with the archive, but I don't remember Emilie ever doing that... is it possible that year has been purposefully excluded for some reason? idk, just seems strange. my apologies if there is an obvious answer to this. and many thanks in advance!
Don't apologize! I love weird questions!
If I remember correctly, EA blocked the website from being archived. There was a period of time where it was a big no-no to root around on her website. I think she did it with some robots.txt fuckery? I'm not really sure how it all works. For a while the Wayback Machine barely worked for her main site, then one day it suddenly worked very well.
You can get the Wayback Machine to give you some 2009 results if you go to the Site Map option.
Thanks for the question! Hope this helps!
From the Archives (29/?) ↳ FLAG Preview Clip, 2013. From The Asylum Army Fan Club.
The tacky pink stripes. The banhammers. The blog posts. The drama.
Take yourself back a decade or two and revisit The Asylum Forum, complete with 2000s-pettiness, rage posting, and fans who take the meaning of parasocial to a whole new level.
Don't forget to have a cup of tea and relax a little...
Take a dive into Asylum History and revisit the short-lived Asylum Army Fan Club, complete with archives of old live chats and ancient drama.
From the Archives (28/?) ↳ COME TO MY PARTY???? Journal Entry, 2006
THE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
After a year or two and a lot of copy/paste, I've finally migrated BTP's old journal archive to SFLAG. I'm still going to see if I can bully the wayback machine into giving me a few more of EA's journal entries, but for now, THE JOURNAL ARCHIVES ARE COMPLETE!
Complete as they'll ever be, anyway. Things have been lost to time.
NEWSLETTERS
I added some Wayback Machine links to the Newsletter pages. If you never delete your emails and have copies of newsletters, feel free to forward them to me at [email protected]
Especially anything 2010 and before!
ART
The Art page has been updated with all of EA's AI Art Posts. I managed to save them all before she wiped her Instagram.
THE ASYLUM FOR WAYWARD VICTORIAN GIRLS
All pages in this section are complete--for now.
NEW PROJECTS
There are a few more masterposts I'd like to do, but the last big undertaking I'm working on is an [unofficial] EA Timeline. I've been writing one that's on a scrollable page, but it's incredibly slow-going. I'd also like to do a discography that can double as an "ultimate" EA Album Guide.
Masterposts in progress:
After that, I'll attempt to finish up the Merch section. But anymore than that... I don't think it'll happen. I'm all tapped out on energy and interest. Unless EA comes back, that will probably be the end of the archive.
But, please, if you have anything that you see I'm missing, tell me in the inbox or send me an email! I'd love any help!
EA slapped your friend’s ex-bf? spill…
lol! This is old drama, circa 2011. I've written about it before.
I went to the Door Tour with my friend for my birthday. I had a VIP ticket but she didn't—she decided to come last minute—so she brought her bf for company. She wasn't an EA fan; she just wanted to hang for my birthday. She had no clue what the concerts were like.
You can watch it for yourself below. He told her to "take it off." She said "you take it off" and came up to the edge of the stage. I think he thought that she wanted him to take it off of her, not for him to take off his shirt.
So he reached for her and she slapped him. He deserved it (and, yes, he's an asshole), but I think it was partly a misunderstanding. No tears were shed when my friend finally broke up with him later on. I was not a fan.
Some people haved claimed he was drunk and was being otherwise destructive, but none of us were drinking (underaged) and I don't remember him doing anything else. But it has been over a decade.
This was also the same concert where EA was getting stalked by eBay sellers and flipped out on them in front of the venue, so it was an eventful day. I remember Veronica coming outside and calming everyone down because it happened right in front of the line. You can hear EA reference it at the beginning of this video (audio warning: immediately starts with fans screaming).
I did write EA a letter apologizing for bringing him. I was in high school at the time, deep in the depths of my full-cringe PR phase.
I just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work compiling this blog and the EA archive! Considering how much of the like "infrastructure" (for lack of a better word) of this fandom has been steadily collapsing over the last several years, I'm really glad to see there's still someone out there who has managed to catalog what can still be saved! the EA fandom was a place I spent a large portion of my teenage years, and it could so easily all be lost forever. so yeah, thank you 💖💖💖
Thank you :) There's still more I could do, but I'm glad someone is enjoying what is already here! ❤️
From the Archives (27/?) ↳ The Door Tour, 2011
📸: Me! @shefightslikeagirl
About once a year I do a YouTube search for EA to see if anything interesting pops up. This video is about 9 months old, but it's a fun look at someone experiencing "Opheliac" for the first time.
I'd recommend watching on 2x—he's pretty quiet for the first part—but it's worth a view! He caught onto a lot of what EA and Inky talked about in the Companion.
Who is the girl in the sixth photo of your Warped tour set? She's stunning!
She was "the Tea Leaf Reader." Her real name is Andrea Nelson. This is her public Instagram.
At the Experience, If you figured out the password to the tent you could get in and have your fortune read. Sometimes random people would be in there with her, like EA or Veva.
From the Archives (26/?) ↳ The Asylum Experience, Ventura, 2014
📸: Me! @shefightslikeagirl
From the Archives (25/?) ↳ EA & Inkydust, "My Fairweathered Friend," 2011
