Literary Demerit

Chapters 17-22 of Kelly the Roman Warrior part 2 The plauges of Gaul. Some surprising twists this week, and for once we mean that both genuinely and positively! We’re not done going through KingAurthr2’s other works, but we took a break this week to instead go check up on our old friend Reicheru-Ketsueki on deviantART. Content warnings: as before, just some cartoon violence and character death, wi...

Chapters 9-16 of Kelly The Roman Warrior part 2 The Plauges of Gaul. More wacky plague-related hijinks this week as Kelly and her allies battle plague crocodiles, plague orcs, a plague kraken… you get the idea. For our closing segment we’re once again perusing KingAurthr2’s extensive body of work; we read his stories Batman VS Manbat and Chance Taylor Monster Huntar. Content warnings: more cartoon...

We’re onto Kelly The Roman Warrior part 2 The plauges of Gaul (yes, that’s what it’s called), covering chapters 1-8 this week. It’s ten years later and Kelly, who is now the Caesar, has to get the gang back together so they can go stop a plague! (Or a plauge.) We’re also still going through the rest of KingAurthr2’s stories and read two more of them in our closing segment (one is a Huntik/Pokémon/...

Chapters 8-14 of Kelly The Roman Warrior. As Kelly and her ragtag band of adventurers continue the search for her dad, they travel to all sorts of interesting destinations (Ancient Egypt, some sort of jungle, Mordor) and face many enemies (mantis men, Edward Cullen, 1,000-100,000 orcs). After that, it’s game time as we take a look at an incomplete Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic written by KingAurthr2. Content w...

At long last, we’re starting something new! On this season of Literary Demerit we’ll be covering Kelly the Roman Warrior, a story by Fanfiction.net user KingAurthr2. This is a bit of an odd one; it’s written like a trollfic but still retains a tone of charming sincerity, and despite being posted to a fanfiction website, it’s not really based on any one existing media property, though characters fr...

Even though we’re done reading Dirty Laundry, it isn’t done with us. First up, we thought we’d take another look at some of the reviews/comments this fic received; next we go completely off the deep end and start getting into how we’d fix the story if it were up to us to rewrite it. Over the course of the last several months of covering this fanfic, we’ve come up with way too many ideas for how to...

We’ve finally reached the end of Dirty Laundry! We have a lot to say, so much so that we’re going to need to do a wrap-up episode after this one, but first we need to see how the story concludes. Will Keith accept Lance’s apology? Will Lance properly apologize? Will everyone in the McDonalds clap? It’s also time we did another “obvious” count, though this one isn’t a drinking game as we’d probably...

Part one of part eight (the final part!) of Dirty Laundry. After Keith stole a car belonging to two lawyers and fled to go sulk at McDonalds, Lance and his family have to try and make things right and repair the relationship… but it’s not Klance time yet; first it’s time for Keith and Rosa to discuss how they really like the part about the bees in The Secret Life of Bees. We also decided it’s time...

Part two of part six of Dirty Laundry, aka the “Warning: Triggering Homophobia” scene. The tension that’s been building in the Sanchez household finally comes to a boiling point at Christmas Eve dinner! Will it all end out alright, or will it be just as worse? We also decided to cover part seven of Dirty Laundry in its entirety in our second segment, as it’s not long enough to justify spending a w...

We’re onto part six of Dirty Laundry and again so much is happening (and we get so mad about it) that we have to break up this section of the story into two parts. This episode we do some last-minute Christmas shopping with Keith and try to make his $40 budget stretch as much as we can, learn about the true cause of mental illness (stomach demons), and then it’s finally time for Keith to confess h...

Part five of Dirty Laundry is a bit shorter so we decided to cover it all in one go; however it does contain two particularly noteworthy scenes, including the (allegedly) the most controversial scene in the fanfic, which we’ve got way too much to say about. Many others over the years have also had a lot to say about this part of the story, which means it’s time to revisit the Fanlore article in ou...

Part two of part four of Dirty Laundry. Abuela is coming (haha, sooo funny!) but she’s not the only new character getting introduced this episode, and it’s honestly difficult to say which character introduction we’re angrier about! This is a particularly long and rowdy episode, so strap in; we have a Lot to say about this part of the story. To close out the episode, we checked in with the Voltron...

We’re now right around the halfway point of Dirty Laundry, which means it’s almost time for Abuela to arrive, but first we have a scene where Keith gets confronted about his fake relationship by his not-boyfriend’s fourteen-year-old kid sister and has some Very Normal Thoughts(™) about a potential domestic life with Lance! In our second segment we decided to compare/contrast Dirty Laundry against...

Part two of part three of Dirty Laundry. Closing out the arcade scene from the previous episode, this section of the story contains such exciting events as Keith being a god gamer, Lance managing to (somehow) sexily play Dance Dance Revolution, and the promise of Abuela’s impending arrival in part four. In our closing segment, we decided to have a little fun and play a drinking game… that we advis...

This episode covers the first half of part three of Dirty Laundry. Keith and Lance go on a date and play laser tag, a scene which takes up the majority of this section of the fic, so we chose to cover it all in one go. As for our closing segment, this time we decided to take another look at ReicheruKetsueki’s deviantArt account, since there’s more material there we didn’t cover during our Blood Ra...

The long-awaited second half of part two of Dirty Laundry, which features Lance’s dad outing his bisexual son to a homophobic man and Keith and Lance getting into a very logistically implausible fight by the side of a highway. This part of the story has been driving us particularly insane ever since we first read this fic and we’ve got a lot to talk about. For our closing segment we took a little...

Part one of part two of Dirty Laundry (this is gonna get confusing, huh?). Keith and Lance play twenty questions, there’s a “recording your fake boyfriend in the shower” prank that goes both wrong and sexual, and Rosa makes a cum joke. We also took a look at the Fanlore article about this fic, though we’re saving some of it for later when it’s more relevant. Content warnings: same as usual with th...

On this episode we’re covering the latter half of part one of Dirty Laundry, which contains such fascinating topics as implausible iguana behavior, Keith and Lance’s bizarre Star Wars hot takes, Lance’s innate dancing talent, and eavesdropping little sisters. We spend the second part of this episode giving our thoughts on The Secret Life of Bees, which this fanfic was heavily inspired by.  Co...

This week we’re beginning our coverage of Dirty Laundry, a notorious shipping fic (Keith/Lance) from the Voltron fandom. Unlike previous stories we’ve covered, there’s no doubt this one was written sincerely, and it’s an unbelievably popular fanfic with plenty of genuine fans; it’s also incredibly controversial, and honestly it’s so bad I think it’s been driving both of us crazy. The story is divi...

This is the audio-only version of our second playthrough of Maid Madness by BoldZone Games and Reicheru Ketsuekineko-Oni! It's a New Game + and includes a different ending and lots of extra content. For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays or follow the link below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tZ2zCho8wk

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Maid Madness by BoldZone Games and Reicheru Ketsuekineko-Oni! For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays , or follow the link below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUuwr_qeIpg

Chapters 29-30 of Blood Raining Night. We’ve finally made it to the end! But there’s still a lot left to talk about; the final two chapters are no less weird than the rest of the story, and we have some Theories on what might be being implied if this fic is, indeed, secret genius. After having finished the fanime last week, we decided to take a look at the other videos on the creator’s YouTube acc...

Chapters 22-24 of Blood Raining Night. We have a wedding — sorry, I mean a “weeding” to attend! After that, the fic hits us with some extreme mood whiplash that we don’t want to spoil, but there’s a reason why this is our longest episode yet. Episode 8 of the fanime also contains a… surprisingly good scene that doesn’t matter to the story at all, and we spend a while unpacking how bizarre it is.&n...

Chapters 15-18 of Blood Raining Night. Our reading this week covers such topics as anime-induced amnesia, more singing competitions, wedding invitations… and a surprising reveal about Reicheru’s father. We also watched episode 6 of the fanime. Content warnings: more weird student/teacher interactions, violence, gore, cannibalism, and another ludicrously unsexy sex scene, this time between two char...

Chapters 10-14 of Blood Raining Night. This time we’re faced with an unsolvable math problem, another high school singing contest, a Japanese-Mexican fusion restaurant, God appearing in the form of a newborn catgirl, and more! We wrap things up by talking about episode 5 of the fanime. Content warnings: inappropriate teacher/student interactions, a scene where a character is given a nonconsensual...