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In light of the recent policy change...

Hello, there. As many of you know, Tumblr is now banning all adult-oriented content -- that is, any posts or blogs that contain sexually-explicit content.

Theoretically, this should not affect my analysis blog. My posts will remain online for all to see, hopefully. However, in order to show solidarity with those who will be affected by the change, I will no longer be posting new content to Tumblr.

I am deeply disappointed that platforms like Patreon and Tumblr continue to be hostile to artists and writers simply because our work is of a sexually-explicit nature. Yes, I said our -- I write erotic fiction for a living. The fact that our work is continually marginalized is both depressing and angering. There is a rightful place for us in civil society, and it’s well past time that fact was acknowledged.

I cannot, in good conscience, continue to support Tumblr by posting new content here. For the time being, my old posts will remain, but I absolutely will be moving to a new platform -- probably a personal blog of some type that no one else has any control over. I will let you know in a new post when my new blog is set up. As usual, if you need to get in touch with me, my e-mail is listed on the About page.

Thank you for being my readers. In the future, I hope to provide you with many more hours of analysis and theory discussion elsewhere.

EDIT: If you’re interested in downloading an entire Tumblr blog, there are some open-source methods. I’ve used TumblThree make a copy of my own blog, just in case. Here’s a link to the GitHub releases of TumbleThree; most Windows users will want to download the one that says “Application”.

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Hello, there.

It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted, hasn’t it?

I am still alive.

Things are happening for me. You may recall that, from my last post, I have been mainly focusing on writing fiction. That labor is paying off: I will be published in print in October. (Unfortunately, I can’t say much more than that here as the subject matter is quite beyond the scope of this blog. My apologies!)

However, I have not forgotten what I have promised to post. In all honesty, it may be some time before I have enough free time and wherewithal to work on those posts. Writing paid fiction is nice (to say the least), but I also continue to consider myself a literary critic -- and, to that end, I will continue to make those types of posts on this blog.

(If I were forced to choose between the two, though, I would absolutely choose to write nothing but fiction. Writing fiction for a living has always been my dream, and it’s one that I’ve only recently felt was tangibly within reach. Besides, a man’s got to eat. I hope you understand.)

Fortunately, I need not choose; I can do both. I don’t believe my critical analysis is saleable -- I don’t make any money from this blog -- so I’ll feel perfectly happy about posting it here when I have the free time and energy to do so. This means that, yes, my analysis posts will be even slower than they were before. Sorry.

In the meantime, I would encourage you to sharpen your own craft: read, write fiction, write poetry, write analysis -- do whatever it is you do to stay connected with ideas and the skilled communication of ideas.

As usual, feel free to ask me any questions you like, and you can look back on some of my past critical analyses here. Thank you for continuing to follow this blog; I hope to return soon with something wonderful to show you. Take care of yourselves.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion coming to Netflix in spring 2019! Plus, Star vs. the Forces of Evil update.

As many of you may already know, my favorite anime series of all time -- Neon Genesis Evangelion -- is coming to Netflix in 2019. There’s a ton of analysis about the series already available online -- here’s a recent example. If you’ve never seen the series before, however, I would strongly recommend that you avoid reading any synopses or analyses and simply dive right into the series once it’s released (probably around April; it is the cruelest month, after all).

I first watched Evangelion in the early 2000s, back when I was still in high school. The series left an indelible impression on me, and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Evangelion is one of the reasons I believe that animation is the superior visual storytelling medium. Film cannot possibly hope to ever replicate the heights of animation’s capability.

In celebration of the Netflix release, I will be releasing never-before-read analyses based on the series. I hope you will watch the series and follow along with me in that journey.

For those following me because of Star vs. the Forces of Evil:

Hello! It’s good to see you again. Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything, but I’m still here. Mostly, I’ve been kind of down lately, but I’m still focusing on my writing -- mainly fiction writing. I’ve had some success with being published (yes, people paid me to write!), but I’m still not quite to the level that I want to be at, yet.

I haven’t written much in the way of critical analysis lately, but I’ve got a number of ideas for new topics in Star vs. the Forces of Evil. I will get to those when I can. (I have to make a living somehow, you know!) Here’s a list of potential topics I jotted down; let me know if any of these seem interesting:

Revisiting the Triple Goddess and Heinous’s shifting role from “Crone” to “Daughter”.

Unsolved mysteries of Mewni. (What is the symbolism behind pudding? Captain Blanche’s Sugar Seeds? Other weird things people have noticed? There’s a bunch of miscellaneous crap I never published!)

Glossaryck’s true nature and goals.

Star’s facility for lyric composition and its relation to her imaginative spellcasting.

The Holy Grail theory, revisited.

The betrayal of vision: the supremacy of dialogue over lip sync.

As usual, I’ve also got some other flotsam and jetsam kicking around that you can hopefully (eventually) look forward to:

A post about BoJack Horseman, probably. Even though lots of people have already said lots of good things about it.

Some thoughts on metamodernism.

The Real Ghostbusters and the perils of executive meddling.

I look forward to writing some of these. Feel free to ask me any questions you like, and look back at some of my previous analysis. Take care of yourselves!