Literary Demerit

Now that we’ve finished reading the fanfic, watching the fanime, and playing the video game, it’s time to take a look at Blood Raining Night as a whole and give some closing thoughts! We talk about the video game and also spend some time going through the author’s DeviantArt account looking at her older journal entries, as it appears Rachael went through a little character arc of her own and becam...

Chapters 27-28 of Blood Raining Night. We’re closing in on the end of the story! This week we learn a lot of new information that it sure would have been nice to know earlier, Reicheru learns to practice self-love in a surprisingly literal fashion, and we have a nice relaxing island getaway with no murder involved at all, definitely not! We also finished up watching the fanime this week.  Content...

Chapters 25-26 of Blood Raining Night. We only cover two chapters this time but there’s still a lot to dig into here — like curvy meatloaf, questionable fiancé behavior, suspicious boys of indeterminate age, and dildo arms. In the second half we discuss episode 9 of the fanime, which reveals Reicheru’s tragic backstory and explains why her dad hates her, but doesn’t explain why we’re supposed to b...

Chapters 19-21 of Blood Raining Night. This week we go shopping for some "maid's dresses," invite a lesbian couple to witness an epic wedding murder prank, and learn why you shouldn't order burritos on a first date. Afterwards we cover episode 7 of the fanime, which is probably the weirdest yet. Content warnings: mentions of blood, gore, and other bodily fluids, creepy and sugges...

Chapters 7-8 of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. We don’t want to spoil anything that happens in these final two chapters of the story, as things go in some… rather unexpected directions this time! We also watched the second and final season of the My Immortal webseries, which we discuss in the latter half of the episode. Content warnings: sexual assault again, as well as some appar...

Chapters 4-6 of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. This week we go to the beach, attend a high school talent show, and learn about why Ewdard is promised to Bella (it's because he made a promise). In our closing segment we discuss the first season of the My Immortal webseries. Content warnings: there are more references to sexual assault this week (as stated before, it’s not somet...

Chapters 43-44 of My Immortal.  We’ve reached the end of the story! This fanfic has a rather abrupt conclusion, so we spend some time discussing what that might mean. For our closing segment, we take a look at some decade-old reviews of this story to get a sense of what the critical reception was around the time the fic was written. Content warnings: self-harm is mentioned once again, we talk abou...

Chapters 40-42 of My Immortal. As we close in on the end of the story, the chapters are getting longer and we’ve got more to talk about — plus, we had to take a quick aside to cover our favorite AITA post of all time. This week we’re again jumping backwards and forwards in time as things appear to be building towards a climax. We also get to meet Voldemort’s ex-boyfriend, who might not be who you...

Chapters 34-39 of My Immortal. We investigate the mystery of Lucius Malfoy’s missing arm, watch a movie that definitely isn’t The Exorcist, and attend yet another concert (Marilyn Manson), before taking a closer look at the “troll chapter” of this story in which Tara’s account was allegedly hacked by another user. Content warnings: self-harm gets mentioned yet again, and there’s a bit where we dis...

Chapters 26-33 of My Immortal. We’re getting into the Real Plot of this fanfic, in which Ebony travels back in time to seduce Voldemort to prevent him from becoming evil. This week we sexily jump into the Pensieve to meet Voldemort back when he was a sexy goth boy, learn about the addictive properties of truth serum, and (as usual) listen to some My Chemical Romance. In our final segment, we hunt...

Chapters 18-25 of My Immortal. This week we learn about the proper way to smoke heroin, meet several new characters including “da coolest fucking teacher ever,” and attend yet another MCR show. We’re getting close to the point where the actual plot of this fanfic kicks in (yes, it has a plot). In the closing segment, we finish our deep dive into Raven’s fics, including one she co-wrote with Tara....

Chapters 12-17 of My Immortal. We learn about what really happened to Draco, attend an MCR show with an unexpected twist, and investigate the saga of Tara and Raven’s fight. Viower excretion advisd! Finally, we take a look at the first few chapters of one of Raven’s fanfics, I’m Not Okay. Content warnings: more self-harm mentions as well as a very brief mention of rape and another brief mention of...

The second half of Metroid High School! Again, this fic is full of surprises (and politics! and maybe even themes!) and maybe it’s best if we don’t spoil it by attempting to summarize what happens this time around. As usual, we finish up by having a look at the reviews for this story and discussing the reception it’s received from the fanfiction.net userbase over the years. Content warnings: There...

We’re taking an intermission from covering Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami to check out another fanfic, Metroid High School by 111SAMUSRIDLEY4EVA2006-chan. This isn’t a very long story (this episode covers roughly half of it), but there are a lot of, well... let’s just say "unexpected twists and turns." We’re also looking at a shorter story by the same author called The Metr...

Chapters 23-26 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. As usual, any attempt to briefly summarize this story in the shownotes would be futile — lots happens, none of it makes sense — but we do have a lot of badly machine-translated Japanese this time, so that’s fun! Plus, now that we’re about halfway through the fic, we have an announcement to make… and after that, it’s time for us to fin...

Chapters 19-22 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. We didn’t plan it out like this, but this episode is sort of a Christmas special! Also, we find out about Shakespeare’s shinigami, and a character we thought had died comes back to life (it’s actually a twist this time). Finally, it’s time to check out more of D’arkYagam’i’s body of work; this time we’re reading The Hunger Note Games....

Chapters 15-18 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. You know the drill by now; this fic’s basically impossible to summarize because so many things happen yet so little of it matters to the plot (is there a plot?). From what we can gather, the chapters we read involve samurai swords, gay marriage, and clone sex. We’re still working our way through this author’s other fanfics, so this we...

Chapters 11-14 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. Once again there’s a lot going on — characters turning into other characters and dying and coming back to life. You know, business as usual for this story. We’re also once again taking a look at another fic by the same author; this time it’s The God Of Time With No Name Light’s Real Name! which is a follow-up to the story we read in o...

Chapters 7-10 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. Lots going on this week as Dark dies, becomes king of the shinigami, attacks New York, comes back to life, and has a car chase in France. In the second half we take a look at another fic written by the same author, Pain Note The Ressurekshun of Ray Pember. Content warnings: This story is steadily getting more and more over-the-top and...

It’s our 50th episode and our 7th season! This time we’re covering Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami by D’arkYagam’i on fanfiction.net, a very silly Death Note trollfic in which characters are constantly disguising themselves as other characters. Also, neither of us have seen Death Note all the way through and we need to rectify that, but we spend some time talking about what we do reme...

Chapters 10 and 11 of Love Knows No Race. We did it, we reached the end! The final two chapters of this story are every bit as strange as you’d expect, but, at the same time, nothing that happens could realistically have been expected. We spent a lot of time trying to make sense of this fic and ultimately I don’t think we succeeded, but perhaps we still learned something along the way? To close ou...

Chapters 8 and 9 of Love Knows No Race by Carlotta Valjean. Zim and Dib are now parents, and, well... this is where the story begins to truly go off the rails, and, as before, we don’t want to spoil it. We also covered the second half of Unbroken Dreams by the same author, and that wasn’t very normal either. Content warnings: Incest again, but worse this time, as there’s a scene where a character...

Chapters 6 and 7 of Love Knows No Race by Carlotta Valjean. In this part of the story we get a shocking (frankly, baffling) reveal that dramatically changes the nature of Zim and Dib’s relationship yet also arguably doesn’t mean anything at all, and… well, you’ll just have to listen for yourself - we don’t want to spoil this. We’re also taking a look at Carlotta Valjean’s other story on fanfiction...

Chapters 3 and 4 (and 5, but it’s just an author’s note) of Love Knows No Race. After finding out that Dib is Irken, Zim and Dib are summoned to meet the Almighty Tallest so that Dib can become a proper Invader. We haven’t gotten to any of the truly insane stuff in this story yet, but already there’s plenty to say about how little sense this story makes. We’ve also both completed a rewatch of Inva...

Time to start a new fanfic! We’re reading Love Knows No Race, an Invader Zim fanfiction written in 2002 by fanfiction.net author Carlotta Valjean. This one’s considerably more obscure than previous stories we’ve covered, but both of us have a Lot to say about it — we’re only covering the first two chapters this week and we still talked about it for well over an hour. We also have unfinished busine...