She Fights Like A Girl

Yes! I was going to make a post about it but forgot.

Her art-related blog posts have been gone for a while, but within the last month EA culled all her so-called "AI Art posts" from Instagram. It also appears she swept through her feed and deleted other posts (I only noticed because I very recently ripped her feed for the "from the archive" posts). Her followers are now private and, as it's been for a while, her comments are extremely limited on Insta.

EA's facebook page has also been partially purged. Her "last post" and everything dating back to 2015 appears to be gone. 2015 and earlier is still there, though... very weird.

EA's presence online is very scattered and inconsistent right now. Here's an odd list of things I've noticed:

Hard to tell if she's just slowly shutting down or quietly ramping up for something.

I don't! I tried to find the answer for you, but the credits in that edition of Opheliac don't list anyone.

The best person to answer this question would be EA herself or maybe Inkydust, if anyone can still get a hold of him. It's more than likely she either hired someone to do a one-off recording for her or that she had a friend do it.

If I find an answer I'll update here!

There was never a physical release on that one. It was a digital download. I believe it included some other digital goodies alongside it.

You probably saw the physical audiobook release — their minimalistic black designs are similar.

Jill Evyn is Moth's real name. To my knowledge, there's no known reason for why Moth didn't continue touring. No drama, no tea... She was hired to replace Captain Maggots for a stint in 2013 and when Maggots returned, Moth bid us farewell.

I don't think anyone has ever said anything about how she and EA came into contact.

Today, she's a mother of three and resides in California. She credits herself as an actor, fire dancer, creative director, and producer on Instagram.

Yes! In one of her many statements about the delay for the audiobook, she said:

Basically, she reformatted the book while with an editor, then later broke with that editor, and changed a lot of the content back to the original version.

Ah! You're talking about two different series.

The Advent Calendar was an online release of short videos of Emilie during Christmas season 2006. You can find them all here. Fun fact: these were filmed during the creation of Laced/Unlaced, which is teased in these videos, and she appears to be living with Brendon Small and his dog named Ernie.

The carriage video you're referencing is "A Day Out With EA," which was included on The End Records release of Opheliac.

And thank you for all your sweet words. ♥️

It's impossible to know how much of The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls is true and how much is exaggerated or fabricated. (I'm focusing on the book here because that's where loads of "controversy" comes from.)

There are moments in the book that can be tied to certain events in her life through context clues, mainly in the original Diaries from hardback editions. Other factoids about her life have been disclosed publicly over the years from friends, acquaintances, family, and (former) management / business partners.

The claim that she's directly descended from Alice Liddell of "Alice in Wonderland" fame can be disproven from that family's historical records.

The modern chunks of the book have had details altered over the years, then reverted back or completely edited out. It's a mess that I've never tracked completely.

But, at the end of the day, the book is not an autobiography. It's a fictional fantasy thriller based around events in EA's life. The only way to know what's "true" would be her private medical records, which are hers to keep or disclose. Obviously.

Content from her early Asylum Journal Entries all seem fairly honest and raw, though. I don't think anything dramatic has happened in relation to those, as they were retellings of moments in her life that were pretty standard (partying, thoughts and feelings, recording sessions, goings-on, etc.).

How have I never seen these before? These are surprisingly high quality for a 2008 fan recording!

Liar:

I Want My Innocence Back:

Shalott:

Thank God I'm Pretty:

These were the shows meant to be on the DVD, by the way.

I assume the Goodreads Q&A is the interview you're referencing.

There are many links inside the eBook, but no hospital or asylum letters have been found. The only Asylum Letter currently missing from the book's index is Asylum Letter No. I, but that's because it's included inside of Hospital Entry 12: The First Note.

See the links and passwords list here.

Yes, but I've been hesitant to comment on it as Emilie is clearly going through a lot of medical struggles and is still following their instagram account. Their announcement post is still up about the musical is still up, too.

The world of theatre is very fluid—if she has health issues that have been impacting her ability to finish a draft for IAMT to work with, her project likely got pushed forward.

That's why I haven't said anything.

EDIT: Apparently the musical is being delayed "due to COVID."

That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about this blog. Thank you! ♥️♥️♥️ Stay as long as you like.

This question makes me sad and happy at the same time. It's been so long! Some people don't even know who Joo Hee is!!!

Well, here's your answer: Lady Joo Hee was the first Bloody Crumpet and the only Bloody Crumpet to play an instrument alongside EA.

She was recruited via ad, which was posted to the Asylum Forums (and elsewhere) in August of 2004.

She was a Bloody Crumpet from 2004/2005 to 2008, appearing alongside Emilie in her first-ever Opheliac show at the Double Doors in 2006. Most people believe that she recorded all the cello tracks for Opheliac, but she isn't directly credited as doing so. She's only mentioned under Emilie's "thank you" list.

Lady Joo Hee toured intermittently with EA and the other crumpets as her schedule allowed, departing during the Plague Tour in 2008. Here's a video of her playing live cello in one of her final appearances:

She was also featured in the earliest versions of The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, though she was later replaced with Sachiko. See her name mentioned in a 2008 book reading below:

(Original Video Credit Here)

She still lives and works in Chicago to this day, but hasn't revisited the Asylum since her "escape."

Yes!

The Asylum Outcry Video Podcast was a three-part podcast filmed in 2009. It was meant to be a continuous series, but ended after three episodes. Here's one of the Forum Journal entries where she talks about it.

There was also another video podcast before this, circa 2006-ish. Only two teasers and a few photos were released. I believe the footage was lost during one of the robberies Emilie suffered, but I can't source that info right now.

The teasers:

The photos:

(Note: because this is public info from a very large website, I feel comfortable posting this.)

Emilie has been in a few movies. There's TDC and TDC2, of course, but there's also the two you mentioned.

11-11-11 is another Darren Lynn Bousman movie. She had a very minor cameo as a vlogger. (That's her old home in Chicago in the background!)

She was also in Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance, (credited under another name) as Violinist. This movie is terrible, but weirdly enough, it's also Mark Ruffalo's debut. So there's that.

EA would've been a teenager when it was filmed and you can hear her violin in a few parts of the movie, but I haven't found a scene of her physically on screen.

If you want to try sitting through it, be my guest. I assume she'd be the body double for the main character's little brother.

Enchant is faerie-pop, or maybe medieval-pop. It's lovely.

She started playing violin around 4 years old (reports vary slightly) and continued through her adolescence. In her teenage/young adult years she played classically, until she released Chambermaid in 2001, by which point she had begun singing professionally.

The full Victorian inspired look came in 2006, which was heavily inspired by the VECONA brand when they began to collab during the Opheliac era. But Emilie had shifted toward a more victorian, ophelia-like look for Opheliac before its release, probably inspired by her time with Courtney Love. This was around 2004/5.

(Note: if you look up VECONA now, you'll get Vecona Vintage, which is a different style than the one that was made throughout the mid-2000s. It's the same designer, though.)

Her first vocal performances and concerts were around 2000/2001 during the Enchant Era. Her first Opheliac concert was in 2006. Her first Fight Like A Girl concert was in 2012. Is there a specific moment you're referencing?

Hope this helps!

And your left foot? That might be a little much.

But me too, anon. Me too.

Agreed!!!! 100%!!!