Literary Demerit

It’s time for us to start a new fanfic! We’re reading Blood Raining Night, an anime crossover fic about a demon catgirl who is in a relationship with the entire country of Denmark. It even comes with its own fanime! This week we read chapters 1-4 and watched episodes 1-3.

Future episodes covering this fic will require stronger content warnings, but this week there isn’t anything to warn for other than some (gross, unsexy) suggestive language and descriptions of violence.

We’re starting a new fanfic this week! We read chapters 1-3 of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. This is a personal favorite for both of us and we’re excited to discuss what makes it such a good trollfic. As a point of comparison, this week we also take a look at the first three chapters of Twila, The Girl Who Waz In Luv With A Vampyre (another Twilight badfic with very clear My Immortal influences).

Content warnings: chapter 3 of Forbiden Fruit contains a rape scene, and the entire story merits a warning for consent issues as the protagonist being sexually assaulted is a plot point and thus something we can’t avoid discussing. We give a more in-depth warning for this fic’s content before beginning the chapter reading. There is also an instance of homophobic language in the fic we read for the closing segment.

This week’s episode covers chapters 6-11 of My Immortal. We meet our  tritagonist Vampire Potter (and a few more new characters), try to solve   the mystery of whether or not Voldemort has a nose, and learn about  what cut of meat is required to kill a vampire. To close things out we  talk about the Todd G. authorship claims.

Content warnings for  this episode: mentions of self-harm/suicide, a scene in which two adults  spy on a (technically of age) teenager in the bathroom, and a couple  brief instances of ableist & homophobic language.

Welcome to Literary Demerit, where we examine works of questionable literary merit. In our inaugural episode, we begin to cover My Immortal, the infamous Harry Potter fic considered by many to be the worst fanfiction of all time. This week we're covering the first five chapters of the story, in which we meet our protagonist Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and accompany her to a Good Charlotte concert with Draco Malfoy. Then we talk about the elephant in the room - the Rose Christo fiasco.

Content warnings for this episode include a hilariously vague sex scene, as well as a very brief and flippant mention of self-harm.