Literary Demerit

Picking up our Anonymous Agony discussion where we left off, this time we’re covering days 2 and 3 (videos 6-11 in our YouTube playthrough). The latter half of the game has some surprisingly decent scenes and ends on a high note, but there’s also some parts that are absolute dogshit, and many other parts that we just weren’t sure what to make of at all. This concludes our coverage of the playable part of Anonymous Agony - next up is the script!Content warnings: Aside from the usual violence, murder, and implied CSA, one of the scenes we have to discuss this time involves a character getting subjected to weirdly explicit racial abuse; it’s intended to make some sort of point about how racism is bad (I guess?) but it probably goes without saying that it’s very tasteless.Watch our Let's Play on YouTube at Bloom Plays or follow the link below:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_kv2siylOERxK7pk0cokR7YMv5zmAHJ

After having played through Anonymous Agony — the parts of it that are a playable game, anyway — we’ve got a lot to discuss. This episode we’re covering the prologue up to just before the start of day 2 of the game (that’s equivalent to the first 5 videos of our YouTube playthrough), recapping the events and getting into what works, what doesn’t, and what would happen if Sweeney Todd was written by Bloober Team.Content warnings: This is a game in which child abuse, specifically CSA, is central to the plot; it’s also a very edgy game with a lot of subpar writing, so this subject matter isn’t being portrayed sensitively. There are no explicit scenes of children being abused in the game but plenty that’s talked about, implied, or happens offscreen. There’s also murder (naturally). We may have more specific warnings later as we continue this season but it should be assumed going forward that the CSA + murder warning applies to all Anonymous Agony episodes.Watch our Let's Play on YouTube at Bloom Plays or follow the link below:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_kv2siylOERxK7pk0cokR7YMv5zmAHJ

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠⁠Bloom Plays⁠⁠ or follow the link below!⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNZiathjFHgContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠⁠⁠Bloom Plays⁠⁠⁠ or follow the link below!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSmYkhXWyJwContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠⁠⁠Bloom Plays⁠⁠⁠ or follow the link below!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJgHQnGZ7VUContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠⁠Bloom Plays⁠⁠ or follow the link below!⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whW7cm4ARq0Content warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠Bloom Plays⁠ or follow the link below!⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYM9kIk35J4Content warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠Bloom Plays⁠ or follow the link below!⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVyj66uZqX4Content warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on ⁠Bloom Plays⁠ or follow the link below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyxH6jJI76gContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays or follow the link below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuDyVGDYZlQContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays or follow the link below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOv4mN8bSEContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays or follow the link below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8TZZR06uoContent warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Anonymous Agony by Coded Emotion. For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays or follow the link below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWNsmaUdkw&t=23Content warnings: This game contains depictions of CSA, as well as other forms of sexual assault and child abuse. While nothing particularly explicit happens onscreen, these topics are central to the story. These topics also tend to be poorly handled within the game itself. Viewer discretion is advised if you are sensitive to this subject matter.

Chapters 46-48 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. We’ve done it, we’ve reached the end! Technically the fic was already over, but we’ve got three(!) epilogues to cover, in which the author answers all of our burning questions about the story. Per podcast tradition, we’re taking a look at the reviews this fanfic got in our second segment, and then finally it’s time to announce what we’ll be covering next!Content warnings: The usual for this story.

Chapters 43-45 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. This is the end of the fic, sorta! We’ve still got the epilogues (there are three of them) to cover next time, but we’ve reached the end of the story proper. There’s also a big, awesome, epic twist that the author would like to remind you is very epic and awesome, so you’d better look forward to it. For our second segment, we’re getting into the spooky season a little early and taking a look at Darker Yagami - Dark Yagami gets Dark, a side story which is far far too scary by far.Content warnings: You know the drill by now.

Chapters 39-42 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. We’re nearing the end of the fanfic, so naturally there’s some sort of epic showdown happening and the cast is killing each other more than usual. We also listened to Death Note: The Musical during our hiatus, and we’ve got a lot to say about it (including some Frozen 2 hot takes, mostly unrelated).Content warnings: As usual for this story.

Chapters 35-38 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami… except that according to the author, these are chapters 32-35, since he wrote himself into a corner and had to back up to an earlier point in the timeline. Will things play out differently this time? Will any of it make any sense? (No.) In the second segment we continue digging into the author’s Twitter account to look at some EPIC fanart and even read some poignant quotes from the author himself.Content warnings: As usual there's some mild cartoon violence and some vague references to nudity and "sexing."

Chapters 31-34 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. As usual, there’s a lot going on in this story: we’ve got mind control, Lego coffins, time-traveling trains, a cyberspace adventure, Soichiro Yagami going to McDonald's, a chapter allegedly so sexy you will get too turned on and die, and so on. We also discovered the author’s old Twitter account, so for our second segment we read through a choose-your-own-adventure story told through Twitter polls.Content warnings: Same as usual for this author, plus we spend a little time investigating a Death Note parody that’s mostly just a series of fat jokes.(Additional music credits for this episode: "The Beast" by Shiro Sagisu from the Neon Genesis Evangelion Original Series Soundtrack © Milan Entertainment, Inc)

Chapters 27-30 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. Intermission is over! We’re back to the world of Death Note, and the cast is disguising themselves as other characters, killing each other, and “sexing” as per usual. However, we’re not quite done with Metroid High School yet, either — it’s time to check out 111SAMUSRIDLEY4EVA2006-chan’s final story, Tio Juan: Fusion.Content warnings: Usual warnings for Light and Dark (cartoon violence, death, mild sexual content, etc.). Tio Juan: Fusion is a little bit weird about the main character being Mexican, as in Metroid High School, but probably nothing too egregious.

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 became more mature over the course of creating BRN. Then we reveal what we'll be tackling next on the podcast!Content warnings: brief mentions of sensitive material present in the previously covered chapters including violence and sexual assault, plus some casual racism from our weaboo author.Our Let's Play of Maid Madness:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUuwr_qeIpgOur New Game + run of Maid Madness:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tZ2zCho8wk

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 warnings: death, gore and violence, body horror, some fairly mild sexual content, uh… clone sex? If that bothers anybody.

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 be on her side about it.Content warnings: ableism and racism, both within and outside the context of the story, in addition to the fanime version of the previously covered nonconsensual abortion that doesn't work.

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 suggestive dialog, an instance of ableist language, and the protagonist being incredibly, cruelly unsympathetic to multiple characters who have suffered abuse.

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 apparently  consensual but still very strange bestiality (it’s hard to explain).

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 something we can avoid talking about with this story), though nothing as explicit as the previous episode. There's also a brief mention of self-harm.

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 about the rape scene from an earlier chapter, and there’s an instance of homophobic language.

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 expect! In our closing segment, we take a look at an article from 2015 that speculates on My Immortal’s authorship and provides some context about the cultural phenomenon surrounding this fanfic (we have some Thoughts about this article and they aren’t exactly positive). Content warnings: as always, self-harm is mentioned, and there’s also some discussion of rape (talking about the attempted rape of a character in a previous chapter) and pedophilia (talking about Ao3). There’s also an instance of ableist language in the article we read for the closing segment.

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 discuss Ebony and Satan trying to give each other magic roofies.

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 down quizzes similar to Tara’s “are you a goff or a prep” quiz that has sadly been lost to time.
Content warnings: self-harm per usual, a scene in which an adult threatens to rape a teenage character, and some references to (fantasy) drug/alcohol addiction.

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.Content warnings: self-harm again (as per usual with this story), a couple brief mentions of rape, and some ableist & homophobic language.

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 necrophilia.

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’s a sentence or two in this story that gets weird about one of the side characters being Mexican. Aside from that, it’s just cartoon death/violence.

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 Metroid Conspiracy: Pasts of the Sin." Content warnings: This fic revolves around high schoolers and includes some pretty vague talk regarding the sex lives of said characters, as well as some similarly non-explicit "sex scenes," if they can even be called that.

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 finally give our thoughts on Death Note (we ended up having more thoughts on it than expected!). Content warnings: As is typical with this fic, there's a lot of cartoon violence as well as vague mentions of "sexing" happening but no actual detailed descriptions of nudity or intercourse. Additionally, this chapter has some allusions to incest when discussing the mechanics of clones, but no actual incest.

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. Content warnings: Usual warnings for this fic and author including cartoon violence and whatever the equivalent of that is for sex.

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 week we read Who Is Voldemorts Dad? The Tales of Vernon Dursly!, which doesn’t appear to directly connect back to Light and Dark but I guess anything could happen at this point. Content warnings: Same as for previous episodes covering this fanfic.

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 our last episode. Content warnings: Same as previously - death and cartoon violence, vague sex, and whatever is going on with Roger the creepy dude and his dog.

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 absurd, and so the content warnings this week are basically the same as last week except crazier. There’s more sex and death and incest and it’s all completely ridiculous.

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 remember about the anime (and the cultural phenomenon surrounding it) in the second half of this episode. Content warnings: Well, it’s a Death Note fanfic, there’s naturally a good amount of death in the story but nothing really graphic. This story also has some sexual content, and while it’s overall very mild there are a couple incest jokes and also a sexual scene involving Light’s little sister Sayu, whose age isn’t clear in this story but who is introduced to us in the anime as a young teenager.

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 out this season of the podcast, we take a look at the reviews this story received, and then it’s time to reveal what we’ll be covering next! Content warnings: Again, there’s a lot of incest in this story, and we do have to keep talking about the incestuous date-rape that took place in a previous chapter. This time there’s also domestic violence, self-harm, and suicide. As before, none of this is particularly explicit, but it certainly isn’t handled well.

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 uses drugs to trick a relative into sleeping with them. While, again, there’s nothing that explicit in here, the subject matter is plenty unsavory on its face and the way the story handles it is bad too. Unbroken Dreams has more in-universe homophobia and also since it’s a Harry Potter fanfic we wind up having to talk about the house elf slavery thing a little.

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.net, Unbroken Dreams, which is a Harry Potter fanfic (Drarry, specifically). Content warnings: Hoo boy. So from this point in the story onwards, it’s basically impossible to talk about Love Knows No Race without also talking about incest. Thankfully there’s still no explicit content, but the way the fic handles this topic really isn’t great, either. Also, in one scene the characters discuss a previous sexual encounter that might not have been totally consensual, and another scene has some mildly gross descriptions of pregnancy/childbirth. Unbroken Dreams has a brief reference to self-harm as well as in-universe homophobia and homophobic language.

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 Invader Zim and spend the second half of this episode discussing the show itself (both of us love this cartoon and we’ve got altogether too much to say about it). Content warnings: Per the author, this is where the “mild lemon hinting” comes in. (That is, there’s implied sex in this part of the story. Nothing explicit, thankfully.) Additionally, this is technically a ZaDR (Zim x Dib) fic, which is a ship with a canonical significant age gap, and thought this doesn't really matter because the author has changed their ages to be the same, it still bears mentioning.

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 business with KingAurthr2, so it’s time to conclude The Quest for the Holey Grail. Content warnings: Love Knows No Race is a ZaDR (Zim x Dib) story, and we do have to be clear that canonically Zim is an adult while Dib is a child. While that doesn’t actually matter to this story (like a lot of ZaDR stories, Love Knows No Race treats Zim and Dib as though they’re peers), it’s not really something we can avoid mentioning. The way this author handles Zim and Dib’s relationship is going to require additional content warnings later, but… we’ll get there.

Chapters 27-32 of Kelly The Roman Warrior part 3 The Final Invasion. We’ve reached the end! Kelly, Boudica, and their allies prepare for their final showdown against “Superhannibal,” and we honestly don’t want to give anything about these last few chapters away because this is the first time on the show we’ve read a fanfic that has a satisfying conclusion. We’re also continuing with The Quest for the Holey Grail this week and talking a little bit about what we’ll be covering next on the show! Content warnings: this is the climactic battle of the entire Kelly saga, so naturally there’s violence and death, but it’s as cartoonishly inoffensive as it always is with this author. (Additional music credits for this episode: various songs from the Shoujo Kakumei Utena Original Soundtrack and La Fillette Révolutionnaire UTENA: Adolescence Rush by Mitsumune Shinkichi.)

Chapters 19-26 of Kelly The Roman Warrior part 3 The Final Invasion. With Elkus gone, Boudica and Kelly set off towards Carthage in a last-ditch effort to find an ally, but the road ahead of them is filled with despair and cyber-elephants. Will they be able to defeat Superman and protect Rome? This week we’re also taking a look at one of KingAurthr2’s other stories, The Quest for the Holey Grail. Content warnings: you know the drill, there’s never anything worse than some cartoon violence and character death in Kingaurthr2's fics.

Chapters 9-18 of Kelly The Roman Warrior part 3 The Final Invasion. Kelly and her allies prepare to fight Superman, get help from the Boat Master, investigate a spooky lighthouse, and suffer a great loss… Lots going on this week, basically. In our closing segment we read Profesor Lupus 2: Fighting Moudlermore, which is rather short, so we had plenty of time to also complain about the Harry Potter books. Content warnings: cartoon violence and character death again. Particular emphasis on the latter this time.

Chapters 1-8 of Kelly The Roman Warrior part 3 The Final Invasion! Another decade has passed since the end of part 2, and Kelly’s life with her wife and magic ghost deer has been peaceful… until suddenly, a new super-powerful threat crashes in from outer space! Per request, we also read KingAurthr2’s story Profesor Lupus and the Curse of the Wearwolf. Content warnings: cartoon violence, character death - you know the drill. This fic is harmless.

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, with some brief references to drug abuse and self-harm in the final segment.

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 cartoony violence and character death, also some descriptions of the plague’s effects that would honestly be pretty gross if the prose wasn’t so shoddy (affectionate).