Literary Demerit

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

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).

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/Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover and one is about Captain America).

Content warnings: the usual cartoon violence.

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 warnings: cartoon violence again, also some character death (nothing graphic).

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 from pop culture make an appearance (e.g. Godzilla is there). KingAurthr2 has also written several other fanfics, most of which are pretty short, so we decided to take a look at two others in our closing segment.

Content warnings: aside from some cartoon violence, this story is refreshingly wholesome.

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 improve the story, and there’s no way we could just move on without discussing said ideas. Of course, since this is the end of our Dirty Laundry coverage, we’re also announcing the next fic we’ll be covering, so stay tuned till the end!

Content warnings: usual Dirty Laundry warnings, though we’re not actually reading the fic itself this time and spend most of the episode talking about how we’d improve it, so I guess that might be a little less bothersome than normal.