This is my 'personal' site (the others are deeply impersonal, to the degree that I find editing them dehumanizing). I made it because I wanted a place to post my Hakuouki review, which kept getting eaten by blogging services an opportunity to post everything I've ever written? Why else would I need a personal site? I've got like nine blogs. the things I've written over the last couple of years that don't really belong on a blog. There is, of course, no chance that I could simply keep these posts to myself. My words must breathe free online, or they will die gasping like Brontës. So, please don't steal my deeply personal stuff. Except where obvious or noted, everything here belongs to me. (And why would you want to steal it, anyway? What's wrong with you? Go plagiarize George Carlin like a normal person.) Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart:
But which would you rather be stabbed with?
1. Remember the Titans = This is a review of Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan (NOTE: it's not a review of Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan).
2. Harry Potter's Happy Thoughts = A haphazard semi-review, semi-ranticle re: Harry Potter and the.
3. The Feminist Mystique = I feel very +1 about 94% of modern feminism. Wolf lives in the 6% margin. Short.
4. Fuck You, Jane Austen:
a. The Immaculate Bartender = Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted
b. Some Shoelaces = The protean snatches of an essay that I edited out of Cynn Corvus
c. Sense & Sensibility = I actually watched this shit! With my eyes!! (Coming soon.)
5. Angels & Demons Read Along = One of my oldest continuing projects; making fun of Dan Brown on the internet is like feeding ducks in the park: Harmless fun for everybody!
6. In Defense of Fantasy = A single paragraph from a super-long, totally insane essay that will never, ever see the light of day.
7. The Vampyre = This is a massive book review/essay thing. Like its subject, it abhors daylight and virginity. (Coming soon.)
8. Liquor Is Quicker = This turned out to be a thing! Kind of stupid, but newly annotated.
9. Garner & Tolkien = Another epic book review/essay. (Coming soon.) (With a better title, hopefully.)
10. My Thoughts on... Postmodernism = Snatches from an essay on the pomo-momo that turned out so deranged it made the fantasy-fiction essay look like somebody's shopping list.
11. The Law of Conservation of Penises = One of the last things I wrote via IM! Really short (and retarded).
12. GENRE WARS = A completely terrible essay about genre novels that is: 1. mean, 2. irrelevant, and 3. semi-delusional. Enjoy.
13. There Is a Monster at the End of This Book = With apologies to Grover: my reading list.
Those are pearls that were his eyes
You can steal these; it's okay. And maybe one day, I'll try to produce something that is not a tragical interpretation of John Uskglass as he might look viewed through the eyes of an 8-year-old with a learning disability. Don't bet on it:
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What have I got in my pocket?
My name is Emma, and this whole thing was my idea.
The Duke has a minimalistic layout this round, because even I am getting sick of the sight of my adowwable skill-free fanart avifauna. The graphics & content font is Baskerville (which you can steal from the Pirate Bay if you don't have it installed and still wish to experience its serify goodness) and the wood-texture background came with a layout I downloaded from Spire. The words of the title are written in roumaji (obviously), and together they conspire to form an impolite request. The page was named after this imaginary incident from the novel Ragtime.
That's it! Here's my Listography, the more useful of my Delicious accounts, my Flickr, and my Google identity. Feel free to get in touch! Also, you can return to Duskglass.com by clicking on that link right there.