Hi there! My name is Em and my pronouns are she/her. I’m an adult.
I mainly reblog hermitcraft, empires, and various life series stuff. A lot of it is also shipping content. I don’t usually tag reblogs as shipping, so just be aware of that if you are going to be scrolling through.
As for things that have come from my own brain, I have written some fics, which you can find under #mermaid writes. Any answered asks or writing ideas are tagged with #mermaid chats. Everything else is under #mermaid rambles. I also have an AO3 account if you want to find me there.
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Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.
The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.
The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.
I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.
I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.
one day for april fools ethoslab should hire an editor to make him an episode with the production style of a tommyinnit video or something and then he just never acknowelgdes it and goes back to his normal style forever after.
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X I like to prep a bunch of veggies in a container in the fridge so that I don't have the daunting task of prep every single time I want to stuff food in my face. Literally just baby carrots, washed and chopped veg. All mixed together. Also, if you need dip, get dip!
yesterday i was at the woodworking store getting a knife sharpener because i've been really into whittling hair sticks out of hardwoods which dulls your blades like mad. and the lady who was helping me said "oh yeah i know the feeling of jumping into a project that turns out more complex, that's how i feel about my cable knit right now"
which in turn activated my sleeper autist, and we ended up talking about fiber arts, where i learned that this woman is part of the local lacemaker's guild and uses her woodworking experience to carve lace bobbins on the lathe. she then gave me the email address of the woman who runs it, because their group has no social media and only meets when the lead lady says 'everyone come to my house.'
while all of this was going on, another woman walks up. her partner was shopping for wood repair stuff and she heard us talking about fiber- she's a spinner who does historical reenactments nearby. period accurate, processes the wool herself. of course i ask her if they need volunteers and she gives me her contact info
long story short. autism is everywhere you look and you have to be okay with chatting with strangers. i don't remember where this post was going
Pearl (reading a comment): The undoomed yuri is now doomed again *laughs*
Pearl: There's no- my character is not- does not have a romantic interest with any of the other characters and is not interested in it. I'm gonna put that out there. My character has zero, like, romantic feelings for anybody. *laughs* She is in her own world making her own chaos just messing with people. *hums* She's not interested in it in the slightest. *Pause to read chat*
Yeah, yeah, we'll say aro ace, yeah. She's- she's not- she's not about that. She's just- she's just happy with her own company. *laughs*
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Hey everyone, goingdownorup here! Unfortunately, not great news is ahead and I'm sure this is going to be a long winded post so if you want the shorten version, here it is:
All my fics not gifted to someone are going to be/have been deleted off of AO3.
Long version:
When I came into this fandom back in 2023, I was so startled and amazed at the reception of my first ethubs fic. I had just come out of a slump from my last fandom, and had just gotten some of my work stolen over there, so it was refreshing to see such an active community. Everyone was so welcoming and kind and genuinely interested in what I had to write, and coming from my past fandom, I was so excited and nervous to interact with people. Since then, I have made so many friends and met so many amazing authors that create incredible stories with the same characters I also love. I have also had my words and stolen twice since being in this fandom, and neither time was AI. (though I have had them scraped as well)
I think what is the most frustrating part of all of this is I would've been so willing to beta read the fics, or even just leave Kudos on them if there was even a mention of being inspired by my works. I love the community of fandom more than anything else, and to have the community take what I have created, remove the parts they don't like/change a few characters around and then claim it as their own, cuts deeper than I wish it did. I can't keep having my friends call other human beings out, get a half-hearted apology and continue to pour effort into something I know will just continue to get taken.
I love all the friends and people I have had the honor of creating with and for, and would never want to take something given away from them. So, any gift fics- actually gifted or have a dedication in the notes- will be staying up so they can continue to enjoy. I truly value each and everyone one of them, wither they're beloved friends or simply someone I gifted to during battleship. This also includes any fics part of an event or zine, with a few exceptions if it was unofficial.
As for the rest of the fics, I can not in good conscious keep them up anymore. To be frank and a bit selfish, I'm tired. I'm tired of getting on my phone or laptop and seeing that yet again someone has taken my exact words and claimed them to be theirs. I'm not staking claim of common fandom troupes, I'm not saying others can not write the same type of stories as me. I love one bed as much as the rest of them, I don't like when its my one bed being claimed as someone else's. Maybe that makes me a bad person to not want them up anymore, I don't really know. I do know, however, a majority of my fics will no longer be up on AO3 after this post, and I would appreciate if there was no re-uploads of them anywhere after the fact. This does include any rated E fics and series, along with the others attached to my actual AO3 profile.
In the end, there really isn't much to say that I haven't said before in earlier posts and comment sections. I'm sorry to everyone who likes the fics that are gone, but I simply cannot keep doing this and getting a half-hearted apology after one of my friends points it out. I have plenty of other creative outlets I've been putting off for writing that I'm going to go back to, and will probably step back from the fandom as a whole. I really appreciate every single one of peoples comments and kudos and bookmarks, I'll miss reading them. I look back and have the art people have created on my computer. I hope people can see this and realize the best thing to write is something from their own heart and mind, instead of what's popular and will get them hits. I loved the time I had here and will probably still be lurking, but I doubt there will be any new fics coming from me soon.
