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Blend of Emily +‎ Alison.

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Emison

  1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Emily Fields and Alison DiLaurentis from the television series Pretty Little Liars.
    • 2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 121:
      Adherence to canon is crucial for non-AU (alternate universe) fictions, but Emison shippers invert canonical events to draw attention to the textual margins wherein Emison arguably exists.
    • 2017 May 31, “Pretty Little Liars: Two Liars Get Together as One Falls Apart”, in The Ledger:
      “The Glove That Rocks the Cradle” was a bittersweet episode for Pretty Little Liars fans as “Emison” shippers got their greatest wish and Aria (Lucy Hale) began to buckle under the A.D. pressure.
    • 2017 June 29, Anna Cafolla, “#PLLGameOver: Farewell Pretty Little Liars, the most fancentric TV show yet”, in The Guardian:
      Popular fan-fic writer JennasSunglasses writes extensively, as do many others, about Emison: the lesbian relationship between Emily and Alison.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Emison.

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