Back when I had first skimmed through “One of Our Thursdays was Missing”, I remember wondering why the first chapter seemed so incomprehensible. I’m no opponent to using in medias res to start a story, especially one that’s part of a series. (The book also had a map at the very beginning, and while It’s […]
The most interesting thing about “The Eyre Affair” is the amount of ambition that went into making the novel. It’s interesting for two reasons: one, it shows how ambition can be a good thing when it presents original ideas in a fairly original execution, and two, how that ambition can undermine the quality of said […]
When I was about ten years old I was given a Walkman CD Player. Well, sort of. It was a knockoff version with a plastic grey appearance and one widening crack on the side that eventually scratched all my CDs and would skip on songs if you held it the wrong way. I received it […]
Not too long ago I finished a show called Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, which revolves mainly around the relationship between an overworked programmer and a dragon who can shapeshift into a human. This dragon works as a maid for that human in return for them saving her from a life-threatening injury. I say “relationship” because […]
So there’s this fanfiction that I like a lot. It’s called “Happy Birthday Shadow!” By a user who used to call themselves Shadow the Hedgehog4. It’s a Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction that is not all that interesting as a story, but it’s a story that I find myself reading more often than I read some […]
I have described before to friends and other gamers that The Beginner’s Guide is a paradox, and was made to be so. With The Beginner’s Guide, and specifically its attitudes towards how it should be interpreted, I found myself thinking of “The Raven”. The Raven is a logic paradox where you take the two statements […]
Help Me Eat A Kit-Kat At Adult Swim 