History JustForFun / SerraElinsen

--->'''Tara Gilesbie :''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome o my god]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome i cant]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome believe ho beautful ths is]]. [[HeartwarmingMoments i luve ya serra!]]
* AuthorAppeal: She calls ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' her favorite book and references it several times. Though some suspect she hasn't actually read the book, and has only seen the musical.

* ChurchOfHappyology: A "Reform [[JustForFun/{{Anaprotestantism}} Anaprotestant]]," an obscure branch of Christianity that she hopes to bring more attention to. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's not dwell into that or get into whether this influenced the themes exploited in the Viridian Saga]]...

--->'''Serra''': It makes me a little queasy that you share a name with my beloved son, Matt B.

%% ** Except no. Reform Legalist Anaprotestants link the Pug Of Epiphany with the mythical figure of the Pope's Bane, because they unjustly accuse the Pope of trying to destroy their crazy cult, so, no, I think she wouldn't mention it if she was a Congregationist, since those have made peace with the pope and are mostly saner and ALighterShadeOfBlack.

** No offence, but, please, STFU ! The "Guide" may have had an horrible childhood, but he was still manipulating a whole town and thousand of illegitimate children to follow his heretic agenda, and he took credits for things he never did. Sorry to blow up your trusting mind, but catholics did most of what he said he invented when he was in his diapers.

%% ** I just meant that and he used precedent teachings and a few proverbs that pre-date his actions and took credit from them, you psycho.

* {{Hatedom}}/HateDumb: After the sixth chapter of ''Awoken'' was published for a teaser, she gained a faithful fanbase as well as one of the most virulent and precocious hatedoms ever known to man. Some think she is TheFundamentalist and criticize the potential Anaprotestant SuBtext, others claimed she was an avatar to the Beast from the apocalypse, the Antechrist and Keanu Reeves ; a few people think that her characters are not that much into one another, while others find the relationship obsessive and abusive ; some think the story could become irrealistic woman-oriented erotic empowerement fantasy, other think it anti-feminist story of a glorified BastardBoyfriend and a co-dependent ShrinkingViolet with low self-esteem. Especially glaring since the first few pages of the book haven't been published, so the readers missed all the build-up.

* AscendedFangirl: DeconstructedTrope since she took distance with her inspirators and now dislikes being compared with StephenieMeyer. Possibly also PlayedStraight with Coleen Houck and Becca Fitzpatrick, with whom she is now supposedly able to converse on equal terms on their somewhat over-average active Goodreads account.

* ChurchOfHappyology: A "Reform Anaprotestant," an obscure branch of Christianity that she hopes to bring more attention to. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's not dwell into that or get into whether this influenced the themes exploited in the Viridian Saga]]...

* BrownNote: After the chapter describing the heroine's reaction to Riley turning a classmate insane in ''Awoken'' was used as a teaser, some readers just... ''snaped'' and seemed to lose a bit of their grip on reality. Were they already mentally unstable ? Is her style just so moving and controversial ? Was Cthulhu somehow involved ? We'll never know.

** Except no. Reform Legalist Anaprotestants link the Pug Of Epiphany with the mythical figure of the Pope's Bane, because they unjustly accuse the Pope of trying to destroy their crazy cult, so, no, I think she wouldn't mention it if she was a Congregationist, since those have made peace with the pope and are mostly saner and ALighterShadeOfBlack.

** I just meant that and he used precedent teachings and a few proverbs that pre-date his actions and took credit from them, you psycho.

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she has just released ''Awoken (Book One of the Literature/ViridianSaga)'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to cruel cyber-bullying]].

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken (Book One of the Literature/ViridianSaga)'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to cruel cyber-bullying]].

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken (Book One of the Literature/ViridianSaga)'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParent: She combines this with MyBelovedSmother with most of her children except Matt B. He's not considered fair game amongst her haters despite his numerous clumsy remarks on twitter because he seems to always be a textbook example from victim of ParentalNeglect. Matt A and Josh, however, once suffered a bad case of almost MyFriendsAndZoidberg which caused even the {{Hatedom}} to go MamaBear or PapaWolf on them.

* AscendedFangirl: DeconstructedTrope since she took distance with her inspirators and now dislikes to be compared to StephenieMeyer, though possibly also PlayedStraight with Coleen Houck and Becca Fitzpatrick with whom she is now supposedly able to converse on equal terms on their somewhat over-average active Goodreads account.

--->'''A reviewer:''' For the entirety of my reading, I found myself as if about to have an epiphany. I feel as if I was about to really understand your aim and to see what remained unseen in the mind, true meaning and oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO T Hou Shall not pass I woUld rather have a job WIPING SADAM HUSSEIN 4S ARSE ! There was what she said, what she meant, and what she thought, which was completely GAZE INTO THE ABYSS, OZYMANDIAS, and despair the lion and the lamb and THE FUCKING WARD robe made from the tree of knowledge, how d’you like them APPLE, THE BIG APPLE was brothel YOU are all servants of the seven-horned beast, REPENT anaprotestant’s children orgnizations with clowns daddy why is the clown looking at me you are my angel of music ash nazg durbatulûk ash nazg gimbatul
--->'''Another reviewer:''' What goals ? What Rr RRE U tHEIR GOAT ''(the All-Forgiving Goat is part of the anaprotesant tradition, being a representation of the spirit of creation, NDLR)'' ? IT 4S mE CASS anD RA ! IT 4S ME, THE gOAT ! I WANNA CREATE A WORLD WI tH HOTTIES !
--->'''Yet another reviewer:'''I know my theory is crazy but I mean all the fuss around his eyes, what if what the guy so where like his real tiger eyes and that scared him to death?.. And the title… Awoken… What if riley like, awoke from a dream just like tigers do when they stop sleaping!!!1!
--->'''Yet another other reviewer:''' [[GodwinsLaw God, this book is just like HITLER]]. Look at how focused Riley is toward achieving his goal. [[HitlerAteSugar You know who else was really focused? HITLER]]. That girl knows no one will believe her, just like no one believed the Jews when they were being slaughtered by HITLER. GOD THIS BOOK WON’T STOP REMINDING ME OF HITLER.

--->'''A reviewer:''' Th IS Re LIGION GA vE Me THE HEA vENLY ANA pROTEStANT CLO wN ! TH iS REL iGION TAU gHT Me IT 4S No T BEC aUSE Y oU HA vE A DIPL oMA O r A J oB Or YO u THI nK ABO uT STU fF THAT Yo U ARE WOR tH ANY tNG ! T rUE WO rTH CO mES FR oM FA iTH B uT ONL y IF Y oU BELI eVE TH aT T hE AN aPROTE sTANT GO aT MA dE FO oD F oR THE S iNGER ON THE DA y THAT T hE MO uNTAiN GR eW LI gHT W iLL Y oU BE SAV eD !
--->'''Another reviewer:''' I love that in her book. How Riley loses all his personal traits and projects and the heroine was only waiting for someone to give her goals and opinions, and finally they don’t need any of this because they are together. Adorbs, right ?!
--->'''Another reviewer :''' [The story promotes] the idea that abusive relationships are desirable and that it’s healthy to have crippling insecurity and a martyr complex.
---> '''Another review :'''I love it when men push me around because I’m a woman and I don’t know what I want!

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken (Book One of the {{Literature/ViridianSaga}} )'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

* CuteAndPsycho/BewareTheNiceOnes: Depending on whether you ask her fans or the people who tried reviewing her book on Goodreads and missed the five-star button.

!!Elinsen and her work provide examples of:

* AscendedFangirl: Inverted, though possibly also PlayedStraight. Acclaimed fanfiction writer Tara Gilesbie already showed her full support and went on board saying she was keen to read her book !

*** [[UnfortunateImplications Would this make Andi Ophelia ?]]
* BigApplesauce: She's taken some heat for her inaccurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, which some residents describe as seeming like it was based on ''Film/HomeAlone 2''.
* CluelessAesop: Here is a selection of the sort of morals which reviewers of the teaser chapter directly assumed to be what was in the story. A surprising amount of it is... well, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment surprising]] :
--->'''A reviewer:''' Th IS Re LIGION GA vE Me THE HEA vENLY ANA pROTEStANT CLO wN ! TH iS REL iGION TAU gHT Me IT 4S No T BEC aUSE Y oU HA vE A DIPL oMA O r A J oB Or YO u THI nK ABO uT STU fF THAT Yo U ARE WOR tH ANY tNG ! T rUE WO rTH CO mES FR oM FA iTH B uT ONL y IF Y oU BELI eVE TH aT T hE AN aPROTE sTANT GO aT MA dE FO oD F oR THE S iNGER ON THE DA y THAT T hE MO uNTAiN GR eW LI gHT W iLL Y oU BE SAV eD !
--->'''Another reviewer:''' I love that in her book. How Riley loses all his personal traits and projects and the heroine was only waiting for someone to give her goals and opinions, and finally they don’t need any of this because they are together. Adorbs, right ?!
--->'''Another reviewer :''' [The story promotes] the idea that abusive relationships are desirable and that it’s healthy to have crippling insecurity and a martyr complex.
---> '''Another review :'''I love it when men push me around because I’m a woman and I don’t know what I want!
* BrownNote: After the chapter describing the heroine's reaction to Riley turning a classmate insane in ''Awoken'' was used as a teaser, some readers just... ''snaped'' and seemed to lose a bit of their grip on reality. Were they already mentally unstable ? Is her style just so moving and controversial ? Was Cthulhu somehow involved ? We'll never know.
--->'''A reviewer:''' For the entirety of my reading, I found myself as if about to have an epiphany. I feel as if I was about to really understand your aim and to see what remained unseen in the mind, true meaning and oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO T Hou Shall not pass I woUld rather have a job WIPING SADAM HUSSEIN 4S ARSE ! There was what she said, what she meant, and what she thought, which was completely GAZE INTO THE ABYSS, OZYMANDIAS, and despair the lion and the lamb and THE FUCKING WARD robe made from the tree of knowledge, how d’you like them APPLE, THE BIG APPLE was brothel YOU are all servants of the seven-horned beast, REPENT anaprotestant’s children orgnizations with clowns daddy why is the clown looking at me you are my angel of music ash nazg durbatulûk ash nazg gimbatul
--->'''Another reviewer:''' What goals ? What Rr RRE U tHEIR GOAT ''(the All-Forgiving Goat is part of the anaprotesant tradition, being a representation of the spirit of creation, NDLR)'' ? IT 4S mE CASS anD RA ! IT 4S ME, THE gOAT ! I WANNA CREATE A WORLD WI tH HOTTIES !
--->'''Yet another reviewer:'''I know my theory is crazy but I mean all the fuss around his eyes, what if what the guy so where like his real tiger eyes and that scared him to death?.. And the title… Awoken… What if riley like, awoke from a dream just like tigers do when they stop sleaping!!!1!
--->'''Yet another other reviewer:''' [[GodwinsLaw God, this book is just like HITLER]]. Look at how focused Riley is toward achieving his goal. [[HitlerAteSugar You know who else was really focused? HITLER]]. That girl knows no one will believe her, just like no one believed the Jews when they were being slaughtered by HITLER. GOD THIS BOOK WON’T STOP REMINDING ME OF HITLER.

** Papist propaganda ! She's a Legalist. She even uses part of the Heavenly Goat's proverbs to salute her readers (see page quote)...
** No offence, but, please, STFU ! The "Guide" may have had an horrible childhood, but he was still manipulating a whole town and thousand of illegitimate children to follow his heretic agenda, and he used precedent proverbs that pre-date his actions. See the Desert Sisters's teachings to find the first recorded use of the bridge of the lamb thing.
** Legalist or not, it doesn't change the fact that this blessing is ridiculous. Anaprotestants are ALL nuts.
* [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Did She Just Romance Cthulhu?]]

* {{Hatedom}}: After the first chapter of ''Awoken'' was published for a teaser, she gained a faithful fanbase as well as one of the most virulent and precocious hatedoms ever known to man. Some think she is TheFundamentalist and criticize the potential Anaprotestant SuBtext, others claimed she was an avatar to the Beast from the apocalypse, the Antechrist and Keanu Reeves.

* [[ArcNumber Arc Letter]]: Every chapter title is one word that begins with "C."

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Uncle Neil is very popular thanks to his extensive backstory which we only get the barest hints of.
* FatBestFriend: Kate Fedick.

* LovecraftLite: To an extreme.
* LoveTriangle: Will our heroine end up with Cthulhu or her childhood friend?
* NoodleIncident: Half of Uncle Neil's life. Also, the villain is repeatedly described as a "woman scorned," but we never actually learn what happened.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Cthulhu becomes human due to a prophecy that the protagonist will ruin his plan to destroy the world. Turns out, due to that very investigation [[LoveRedeems he falls in love with her,]] and doesn't want to destroy the world anymore.

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken (Book One of the [[Literature/ViridianSaga]])'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken (Book One of the [[ViridianSaga]])'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken (Book One of the Viridian Saga)'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal (she is rumored to have been a Catfic author), but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

--->'''Yet another other reviewer:''' [[GodwinsLawGod, this book is just like HITLER]]. Look at how focused Riley is toward achieving his goal. [[HitlerAteSugar You know who else was really focused? HITLER]]. That girl knows no one will believe her, just like no one believed the Jews when they were being slaughtered by HITLER. GOD THIS BOOK WON’T STOP REMINDING ME OF HITLER.

** She might be quite fond of ''{{Hamlet}}'', seeing the paralels and the references in chapter six of ''Awoken''.

--->'''Yet another other reviewer:''' God, this book is just like HITLER. Look at how focused Riley is toward achieving his goal. You know who else was really focused? HITLER. That girl knows no one will believe her, just like no one believed the Jews when they were being slaughtered by HITLER. GOD THIS BOOK WON’T STOP REMINDING ME OF HITLER.

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]] She had a fanfiction.net account and a livejournal, but [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted them]] [[TearJerker due to crual cyber-bullying]].

A rising voice in the genre of [[YoungAdultLiterature teen]] ParanormalRomance, she is currently hard at work on ''Awoken'', a book about a high school girl who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be an avatar of none other than Literature/CthulhuMythos. She also credits her five children with a good deal of the book, and hopes it will make its mark as "better than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''." Her Website/{{Facebook}} page can be checked out [[https://www.facebook.com/SerraElinsen here.]]

->''Part time author, full-time mom !''

->''May the bridge of the lamb fall upon you''...