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Anonymous asked:

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!

#asks#websites#archive#emilie autumn
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Anonymous asked:

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.

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Anonymous asked:

hi there! I have another weirdly special question for you....... if memory serves, EA had her super cherry red hair for at least a little while before Opheliac came out.... (I know she occasionally had red hair now and then during the Enchant era, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks of the hair color changes as a big dividing line between eras, and there was obviously a long period of time where her hair was ONLY red). do we know when exactly EA debuted the super red hair for the first time?

I love questions like this! I also hate that I have so much info in my little archive...

You're right about the Enchant Era. EA went back and forth from brown to reddish to redder and pinker throughout the era. Her natural hair color is a slightly-reddish brown. Enjoy some old potato photos she's posted throughout the years:

EA was sporting bright pink hair through most of 2004. Some examples:

Then, in November of 2004, we got this:

The "Opheliac Single cover" from this journal entry.

Is that a wig? Not sure. Is it edited? Most definitely so. But even with all the editing, that hair is red!

Then, a few days later:

From "Last Call on Secret Garden Crowns!"

This was followed by EA posting about her "Crafters Coast 2 Coast" filming, which you can read about here (and here and here and here). Turns out the red hair is actually a result of production not liking the pink!

EA stuck with this red-and-pink vibe for a looong, long time. The shade range varied as time went on. Some examples, circa 2005:

So, TL;DR? It debuted online on November 11, 2004 and came into being because HGTV producers thought bright pink was too sexy.

#emilie autumn#hair#asks
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Anonymous asked:

apologies for the EXTREMELY niche question, but has ea ever talked about what type of strings she uses on her violins? I know she's talked about her gear in various interviews, but I can't recall ever seeing that bit of info specifically..... many thanks in advance

TL;DR: I can't find a good answer for you, but I feel like this is a question EA might actually answer if you write or email her. (Good luck!)

However, I did end up going down a rabbit hole trying to answer this, so I thought I would share what I found.

"I play three types of violin at present, the electric (a Zeta Strados Series), a classical Gand & Bernadel from 1885, and a beautiful baroque violin and bow."

- Emilie Autumn, MyMac Interview (2002)

The Electric Violin

Emilie Autumn playing the ZETA Strados Electric Violin, 2011 || Photo by mauszozo

EA uses a ZETA Strados Series Electric Violin, purchased around the time she was 12 or 14 (the story changes based on the interview). In most of her interviews she points out that ZETA went out of business, which they did, but they're back in action now. The ZETA website doesn't call out what type of strings the current Strados Series comes standard with, and since EA was a child in the late 80s/early 90s, information is scarce.

Gand & Bernardel (1885) and Baroque Violins

EA, Gramercy Theatre, 2011 || Photo by Ken Pierce

Gand & Bernardel (1885) & John Speak Baroque Violin

The most I could find about these was in a post where EA thanked Marc for getting her violins rejuvenated for her birthday in 2020, plus a little bit more from the old MyMac Interview.

"...thank you to W14BB @marcsenter for the fabulous surprise of having my instruments rejuvenated. 🎻 I had absolutely no idea that my case had even left the Asylum, and then there I am, standing in the workshop of @davidbonseyfineviolins, my beauties in perfect condition—it's not like they were broken, but after traveling all over the world and being with me since my childhood there was some painful wear on my 1885 French baby (you've heard this on everything from "Opheliac" to "The Art of Suicide" to "Fight Like A Girl" to "One Foot In Front Of The Other" and more), and my bows were down to their last horsehairs. The other is my Baroque fiddle, which is also on "Opheliac" (in the middle breakdown fiddle solo) and "Marry Me" and ALL of Laced (of Laced/Unlaced), and so YOU, my fellow Inmates, are in fact dear friends with these instruments yourselves!⁠"

- Emilie Autumn on Instagram (September 24, 2020)

In the MyMac interview, EA identifies that she uses a Pajeot Violin Bow and a Ralph Ashmead Baroque Bow. I am assuming the photo included above is the Baroque; I'd be shocked if she took the Gand & Bernardel on tour, considering that they sell for ridiculous prices.

I did find this fascinating article about an 1870 Gand & Bernardel here. It talks about some different strings that were tried on the instrument, but it's entirely unrelated to EA.

Bonus Photos from the Behind the Scenes photos included with The Opheliac Companion:

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Anonymous asked:

Do we know who the guy doing the "bring your daughters to the asylum" speech at the end of miss lucy had some leeches on the deluxe edition is?

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!

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Anonymous asked:

Hi there! Do you know if the opheliac companion ever had a physical cd release? I feel like I saw one floating around ebay a while back, but maybe I hallucinated it. Either way, thanks very much for this entire blog and I hope you have a lovely day!

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.

#opheliac companion#opheliac#emilie autumn#inkydust#ask#asks
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Anonymous asked:

do you have any information about/ recollection of EA and Veronica's ""marriage ceremony""? I thought I made it up, but I found one picture from it on pinterest, however I can't find mention of it anywhere else. It would have been around 2009 I think, as it was when EA had the really short hair

I have a lot of photos! I'm not including them all because there are unknown children in some of them, but here are some others:

I have a nagging feeling that all of these might have been from twitter or twitlonger, which means the story behind them is long gone. All I remember is that EA was visiting NYC and did some sort of wedding ceremony with Veronica at what I think was a Ren Faire.

If anyone remembers anything more or has a source for the photos, let me know!

EDIT: In case this helps any internet sleuths, I do know this took place in June of 2009 based on some old Danger Dame entries.

#asks#emilie autumn#veronica varlow#photos#2009
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Anonymous asked:

Did emilie ever address why the audiobook is so altered/abridged from the original hardcover versions of TAFWVG?

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

"Let me tell you something that has happened to me this past year…something that has changed my world, and the future of the Asylum and its ability to change the world, one mad girl (or boy) at a time: I signed with my absolute dream literary agent, the fantastic Jenny Bent of The Bent Agency in NYC. My goal was to reformat my entire book into something that was affordable to everyone, easy to find anywhere in the world, so that I may help as many people as I possibly can through my experiences, by opening up my brain and humbly offering it to you, and through the message that what makes you different is what makes you magical (and also that rats can talk). Working with a top literary agent is the key to making this happen, and to relaunching this book, this bible of the Asylum world that we now share, in a way that I could never have dreamt of. Besides, and let’s have a teacup of “honesty time” here, if the new Asylum becomes an internationally best-selling novel, not only can we enact more change for good, but the Asylum Musical takes over Broadway faster, the Asylum Movie takes over theatres faster, and YOU are all dressed up as rats/inmates in said movie, you guessed it, faster...
...Finally, this last year, I signed with a literary agent with the aforementioned intention of re-formatting my book for wider publication, and I have a choice to make. I had basically rewritten my book, taking the opportunity (because the Asylum is living and breathing and never stops growing and never ever ends) to make it even more magical and beautiful and empowering, introduce you to a mind-blowing new character, and add some chapters that will virtually change everything (and I do mean absolutely EVERYTHING, I cannot express this with enough force to even closely convey what I’m talking about here). So, which version do I give to you, the early purchaser of the Asylum Audiobook? Do I finish what I started and get the nearly finished recording out to you as fast as I can and give you exactly what you are expecting? Or do I basically take more time and give you the ultimate, the “oh my god what the hell just happened I had no idea this is so much more than I ever even thought I was paying for seriously though what the hell just happened did you ever see that coming the world is shattering around me and I fucking love it” version? In short, the version containing all of the new things that nobody has ever read before or will see in print for quite a while yet (because publishers take a bit of time when putting out a new book I’m told)? What the hell do I do? No, really, what the bloody hell do I do? What would you want most? I had to make a choice. I had to take a chance. And I had to hope to the heavens that I was right. Knowing you as well as I do by now, I’m pretty sure I am."

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.

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Anonymous asked:

i was looking at a old interview where someone asked "According to the numbers, not every letter from Emil-y is published in the book. Do these unpublished letters exist somewhere? May they ever be shared?" and ea replied saying there are hidden clues and that there are bits online hidden in secret links. are these links still available and if so how do you find them?

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.

#emilie autumn#quest for the spoon of the royals#asks#ask#anon#goodreads#the asylum for wayward victorian girls#ebook#tafwvg
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Anonymous asked:

Hi! I'm the person from the last question! I actually found out about her through her book (I'm a big reader). I was just curious about what the genre the Enchant album is (I haven't gotten around to listen to it yet), how old was she when she first started, did the Victorian style start when Opheliac was released or before, and when her first concert was and what that was about? I hope this wasn't too much questions! I tend to get really interested in new artist's I find.(And maybe too excited)

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!

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Anonymous asked:

Re the ask where you list all the Forum Drama. I was a member back in 2009ish till it closed and vaguely remember the book drama but could you go into detail about the other dramas? They ring a bell but cant seem to recall what happened!

shefightslikeagirl answered:

Yeah! The Book Drama caused by the Omega Order really wasn't that bad, but there was other book drama that was handled pretty badly.

For all the book release drama, BTP has a really good article.

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For the IceAxe/Forum Closure drama, it was really a mess. Without digging back through my emails, the short of it was this: IceAxe, a prominent forum member, was banned from the forum and would not take the decision lying down. He berated the administration and moderators in an attempt to get reinstated, and when that failed, found a way to contact EA personally.

He was then banned from everything related to EA and the forum closed shortly after when he would not stop berating the team.

EA's statement:

Dearest Plague Rats,
The official Asylum Fan Forum has been shut down permanently.
I have personally paid thousands of dollars each year to keep the forum safe and secure for you, and did so gladly for those who enjoyed having a place to connect. Unfortunately, the forum has not been kept safe and secure for me, a truth which disappoints me greatly, instead becoming a place where people who have physically threatened myself and my staff prey upon forum members, pressuring them to contact me and my staff on their behalf.
If the gullible wish to humor my stalkers (who live in their parent's basement at age 30 something) and thus put me in danger, they may do it on their own dime. They may also fuck off, because stupidity can kill, and I won't be your victim. To those who enjoyed the forum, you know who to thank for its closure.
Now, please, step away from the computer and go outside. Live your lives. Talk to people in front of you. Make a real connection with real people who aren't hiding behind falsehoods and a pretentious username before it's too late.

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The "Twitter Rants" were a series of long-winded posts on Twitter in the 2011-2012 era that varied from understandable to ridiculous. They included accusations of plagarism aimed at Suckerpunch and Lady Gaga, as well as frustrations about fans who overstepped bounds on tour.

I have copies of them, but it's too long to include in this post.

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WVC-fLee drama was when the WVC was young and accepted confessions about forum moderators. FLee contacted the WVC admins of the time and made threats, etc., and there was a lot of back and forth. If you scroll back to the early pages you can probably find it all – none of it was ever deleted.

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CosetteAlice was a user on the forum who told EA to "drink some tea," and "calm down" (or something like that) and then EA lost her shit. CosetteAlice was consequently banned. It's where the term "fucking patronizing fucking" or FPF comes from.

EDIT: A longer post including more context was made by BTP after this was posted.

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As for Trisol... that's a long post and discussion. Shoot me another message if you want a rundown on that.

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I've got a weird influx of questions in my inbox... Do you guys want drama recaps? Like actual ones, not the very brief descriptions I put in this post?

BTP made a longer post about CosetteAlice, I edited the ask and linked it above.

#btp#asks#drama#old drama
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deepwebegirl asked:

are flee and emilie still involved? flee still posts about emilie’s merch on her tumblr, but afaik that seems to be it. they don’t follow each other on instagram, last i checked

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At the risk of sounding like a drama channel, here's what I can glean from the surface:

  • Emilie and fLee no longer follow eachother on Instagram and Twitter, but various Crumpets are mutuals with her. (To note: EA's official accounts don't follow her. I don't know if EA has ghost social accounts.)
  • The fLeesmarket accounts are mostly automated; they post using IFTTT links. It's definitely unmanned most of the time. Sometimes it posts links to merch pages that aren't complete.
  • fLee posted about Emilie as recently as 12/2/19, so. There's that.
  • fLee used to be the frontrunner of EA's online space, but that moved to the Asylum Headmistress (Melissa King) and then to Courtney of the SSS. She hasn't been very active in the fandom since maybe 2014?

I've been blocked from all her Tumblrs for a long time, so I can't reference anything for you there. But that's what I know.

Keep in mind that fLee has a family and her own life. She still lives in Chicago. Friends drift apart sometimes, but we don't know their situation.

And for any of you who don't know who Queen fLee is... that makes me feel old.

#queen fLee#emilie autumn#nurseandwound#asks#answers#history#drama llama
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literally-dont-care asked:

Do you know of any sellers/websites to watch for EA CDs? Especially Enchant? Everything I see online is the re-release or the dreaded IronD one.

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shefightslikeagirl answered:

Well I spent a half hour answering this and then the Tumblr app ate the response.

The short version: eBay with “Worldwide” location settings, Discogs Marketplace, Amazon “used & new,” and the Projekt website. Keep an eye on The Asylum Emporium as well.

I’ll write a more detailed post to help out with shopping tomorrow!

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The biggest thing to know is that for anything that Emilie is not currently selling herself, the main thing is that you are going to have to be patient waiting for things to show up on ebay. Ebay.de tends to get more interesting early tour merch, jand most sellers are willing to ship internationally, it just will always cost a lot (including in my case, the time I’ve spent learning German when this has been the only practical use for that skill as of this moment)

With Discogs, you are able to watch releases and get notifications when someone puts them up for sale, however, if it is a CD that has an IronD version, always email the seller first, same with anyone who isn’t using a photo of the actual CD that they’re selling. Ask them as many questions as you need to feel secure that it is the edition that you’re looking for, and get them to send pictures of it. Explain the situation with Emilie having a lot of editions of CDs and that this issue is common. (And this might sound dramatic, but there was someone selling CDs labeled as Traitor Records Enchant who was actually selling IronD ones, so just always be very careful with stock photos.)

This also applies to the Amazon Marketplace, which is a lot worse in this regard, but sometimes interesting things do pop up, but they also on average tend to be far more overpriced, so I try to avoid it even for just standard CDs.

But off the fact that German ebay is the best for rarities, ebay in general tends to be very slow in what pops up, but the good news is that EA merch and CDs are selling for less than they ever have, and with people losing their interest and selling off their collections from time to time, you at least probably won’t be shelling out $100s for a single CD.

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shefightslikeagirl

This is a great edition to this post. Now that I've got time, here's what my original response was before Tumblr ate the damn thing.

With eBay - the "Worldwide" function is best if you don't want to interact with sellers, because they're already willing to ship internationally. ebay.de is your second best bet, like BTP mentioned above.

On the subject of eBay, here are some seller pages of note. Every once in a blue moon they might have EA-related items.

Emilie's former Trisol manager, "Bunny," also has an eBay page, but I believe he sold off his backlog a few years ago. It also appears EA shut down her personal seller page on eBay. But buying CDs from Emilie herself is your absolute best bet for anything to be guaranteed legitimate, so watch The Asylum Emporium from time to time - but keep in mind that while they do come from and directly benefit her, she does inflate the prices. (At least they tend to be autographed, though.)

I've had the best luck finding random things - namely German DJ singles, album promos - on Discogs Marketplace. They are by far the most specific with their listings. Lots of personal collections from DJs and brick and mortar stores.

Projekt still has the limited edition, digipak release of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & Bohemian Rhapsody EP on sale for under $5. I reached out to them once and they had a substantial stock.

I've also had random luck on Amazon. The same with eBay, you can visit the international websites and reach out to sellers to see if they can ship to you. Scour the "used & new" pages. In my experience, I've found Traitor Records Enchant and the Opheliac EP on Amazon for decent prices. But I did have to reach out to sellers directly to get photos and info.

As far as what's most likely to find on what website? It's a crapshoot, especially for Enchant and pre-Enchant era stuff. Most of what you can find will be European-based sellers that have Trisol Records in stock. American sellers tends to have the early stuff.

Bonus info: check library listings. If you just want to check things out or see them, I have found random and rare items on library listings online. Especially in the Chicago and California areas. You won't have much luck purchasing anything, but you can take a look.

Edit: Also worth noting, IronD copies aren't technically illegal. Trisol sold off the rights (or whatever the term should be) to the albums years after their split with EA. Emilie was unaware and publicly denounced the distribution, which is why they're widely considered bootleg. (However, the Chambermaid bootleg is a true bootleg to my knowledge.)

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literally-dont-care asked:

Do you know of any sellers/websites to watch for EA CDs? Especially Enchant? Everything I see online is the re-release or the dreaded IronD one.

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Well I spent a half hour answering this and then the Tumblr app ate the response.

The short version: eBay with "Worldwide" location settings, Discogs Marketplace, Amazon "used & new," and the Projekt website. Keep an eye on The Asylum Emporium as well.

I'll write a more detailed post to help out with shopping tomorrow!

#emilie autumn#merch#asks
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