Chapters 43-45 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. This is the end of the fic, sorta! We’ve still got the epilogues (there are three of them) to cover next time, but we’ve reached the end of the story proper. There’s also a big, awesome, epic twist that the author would like to remind you is very epic and awesome, so you’d better look forward to it. For our second segment, we’re getting into the spooky season a little early and taking a look at Darker Yagami - Dark Yagami gets Dark, a side story which is far far too scary by far.

Content warnings: You know the drill by now.

Chapters 39-42 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. We’re nearing the end of the fanfic, so naturally there’s some sort of epic showdown happening and the cast is killing each other more than usual. We also listened to Death Note: The Musical during our hiatus, and we’ve got a lot to say about it (including some Frozen 2 hot takes, mostly unrelated).

Content warnings: As usual for this story.

Chapters 35-38 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami… except that according to the author, these are chapters 32-35, since he wrote himself into a corner and had to back up to an earlier point in the timeline. Will things play out differently this time? Will any of it make any sense? (No.) In the second segment we continue digging into the author’s Twitter account to look at some EPIC fanart and even read some poignant quotes from the author himself.

Content warnings: As usual there's some mild cartoon violence and some vague references to nudity and "sexing."

Chapters 30-34 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. As usual, there’s a lot going on in this story: we’ve got mind control, Lego coffins, time-traveling trains, a cyberspace adventure, Soichiro Yagami going to McDonald's, a chapter allegedly so sexy you will get too turned on and die, and so on. We also discovered the author’s old Twitter account, so for our second segment we read through a choose-your-own-adventure story told through Twitter polls.

Content warnings: Same as usual for this author, plus we spend a little time investigating a Death Note parody that’s mostly just a series of fat jokes.

(Additional music credits for this episode: "The Beast" by Shiro Sagisu from the Neon Genesis Evangelion Original Series Soundtrack © Milan Entertainment, Inc)

Chapters 27-30 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. Intermission is over! We’re back to the world of Death Note, and the cast is disguising themselves as other characters, killing each other, and “sexing” as per usual. However, we’re not quite done with Metroid High School yet, either — it’s time to check out 111SAMUSRIDLEY4EVA2006-chan’s final story, Tio Juan: Fusion.

Content warnings: Usual warnings for Light and Dark (cartoon violence, death, mild sexual content, etc.). Tio Juan: Fusion is a little bit weird about the main character being Mexican, as in Metroid High School, but probably nothing too egregious.

Now that we’ve finished reading the fanfic, watching the fanime, and playing the video game, it’s time to take a look at Blood Raining Night as a whole and give some closing thoughts! We talk about the video game and also spend some time going through the author’s DeviantArt account looking at her older journal entries, as it appears Rachael went through a little character arc of her own and became more mature over the course of creating BRN. Then we reveal what we'll be tackling next on the podcast!

Content warnings: brief mentions of sensitive material present in the previously covered chapters including violence and sexual assault, plus some casual racism from our weaboo author.

Our Let's Play of Maid Madness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUuwr_qeIpg

Our New Game + run of Maid Madness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tZ2zCho8wk

Chapters 27-28 of Blood Raining Night. We’re closing in on the end of the story! This week we learn a lot of new information that it sure would have been nice to know earlier, Reicheru learns to practice self-love in a surprisingly literal fashion, and we have a nice relaxing island getaway with no murder involved at all, definitely not! We also finished up watching the fanime this week. 

Content warnings: death, gore and violence, body horror, some fairly mild sexual content, uh… clone sex? If that bothers anybody.

Chapters 25-26 of Blood Raining Night. We only cover two chapters this time but there’s still a lot to dig into here — like curvy meatloaf, questionable fiancé behavior, suspicious boys of indeterminate age, and dildo arms. In the second half we discuss episode 9 of the fanime, which reveals Reicheru’s tragic backstory and explains why her dad hates her, but doesn’t explain why we’re supposed to be on her side about it.

Content warnings: ableism and racism, both within and outside the context of the story, in addition to the fanime version of the previously covered nonconsensual abortion that doesn't work.

Chapters 19-21 of Blood Raining Night. This week we go shopping for some "maid's dresses," invite a lesbian couple to witness an epic wedding murder prank, and learn why you shouldn't order burritos on a first date. Afterwards we cover episode 7 of the fanime, which is probably the weirdest yet.

Content warnings: mentions of blood, gore, and other bodily fluids, creepy and suggestive dialog, an instance of ableist language, and the protagonist being incredibly, cruelly unsympathetic to multiple characters who have suffered abuse.

Chapters 7-8 of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. We don’t want to spoil anything that happens in these final two chapters of the story, as things go in some… rather unexpected directions this time! We also watched the second and final season of the My Immortal webseries, which we discuss in the latter half of the episode.

Content warnings: sexual assault again, as well as some apparently  consensual but still very strange bestiality (it’s hard to explain).

Chapters 4-6 of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. This week we go to the beach, attend a high school talent show, and learn about why Ewdard is promised to Bella (it's because he made a promise). In our closing segment we discuss the first season of the My Immortal webseries.

Content warnings: there are more references to sexual assault this week (as stated before, it’s not something we can avoid talking about with this story), though nothing as explicit as the previous episode. There's also a brief mention of self-harm.

Chapters 43-44 of My Immortal.  We’ve reached the end of the story! This fanfic has a rather abrupt conclusion, so we spend some time discussing what that might mean. For our closing segment, we take a look at some decade-old reviews of this story to get a sense of what the critical reception was around the time the fic was written.

Content warnings: self-harm is mentioned once again, we talk about the rape scene from an earlier chapter, and there’s an instance of homophobic language.

Chapters 40-42 of My Immortal. As we close in on the end of the story, the chapters are getting longer and we’ve got more to talk about — plus, we had to take a quick aside to cover our favorite AITA post of all time. This week we’re again jumping backwards and forwards in time as things appear to be building towards a climax. We also get to meet Voldemort’s ex-boyfriend, who might not be who you expect! In our closing segment, we take a look at an article from 2015 that speculates on My Immortal’s authorship and provides some context about the cultural phenomenon surrounding this fanfic (we have some Thoughts about this article and they aren’t exactly positive). 

Content warnings: as always, self-harm is mentioned, and there’s also some discussion of rape (talking about the attempted rape of a character in a previous chapter) and pedophilia (talking about Ao3). There’s also an instance of ableist language in the article we read for the closing segment.

Chapters 34-39 of My Immortal. We investigate the mystery of Lucius Malfoy’s missing arm, watch a movie that definitely isn’t The Exorcist, and attend yet another concert (Marilyn Manson), before taking a closer look at the “troll chapter” of this story in which Tara’s account was allegedly hacked by another user.

Content warnings: self-harm gets mentioned yet again, and there’s a bit where we discuss Ebony and Satan trying to give each other magic roofies.

Chapters 26-33 of My Immortal. We’re getting into the Real Plot of this fanfic, in which Ebony travels back in time to seduce Voldemort to prevent him from becoming evil. This week we sexily jump into the Pensieve to meet Voldemort back when he was a sexy goth boy, learn about the addictive properties of truth serum, and (as usual) listen to some My Chemical Romance. In our final segment, we hunt down quizzes similar to Tara’s “are you a goff or a prep” quiz that has sadly been lost to time.


Content warnings: self-harm per usual, a scene in which an adult threatens to rape a teenage character, and some references to (fantasy) drug/alcohol addiction.

Chapters 18-25 of My Immortal. This week we learn about the proper way to smoke heroin, meet several new characters including “da coolest fucking teacher ever,” and attend yet another MCR show. We’re getting close to the point where the actual plot of this fanfic kicks in (yes, it has a plot). In the closing segment, we finish our deep dive into Raven’s fics, including one she co-wrote with Tara.

Content warnings: self-harm again (as per usual with this story), a couple brief mentions of rape, and some ableist & homophobic language.

Chapters 12-17 of My Immortal. We learn about what really happened to Draco, attend an MCR show with an unexpected twist, and investigate the saga of Tara and Raven’s fight. Viower excretion advisd! Finally, we take a look at the first few chapters of one of Raven’s fanfics, I’m Not Okay.

Content warnings: more self-harm mentions as well as a very brief mention of rape and another brief mention of necrophilia.

The second half of Metroid High School! Again, this fic is full of surprises (and politics! and maybe even themes!) and maybe it’s best if we don’t spoil it by attempting to summarize what happens this time around. As usual, we finish up by having a look at the reviews for this story and discussing the reception it’s received from the fanfiction.net userbase over the years.

Content warnings: There’s a sentence or two in this story that gets weird about one of the side characters being Mexican. Aside from that, it’s just cartoon death/violence.

We’re taking an intermission from covering Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami to check out another fanfic, Metroid High School by 111SAMUSRIDLEY4EVA2006-chan. This isn’t a very long story (this episode covers roughly half of it), but there are a lot of, well... let’s just say "unexpected twists and turns." We’re also looking at a shorter story by the same author called The Metroid Conspiracy: Pasts of the Sin."

Content warnings: This fic revolves around high schoolers and includes some pretty vague talk regarding the sex lives of said characters, as well as some similarly non-explicit "sex scenes," if they can even be called that.

Chapters 23-26 of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. As usual, any attempt to briefly summarize this story in the shownotes would be futile — lots happens, none of it makes sense — but we do have a lot of badly machine-translated Japanese this time, so that’s fun! Plus, now that we’re about halfway through the fic, we have an announcement to make… and after that, it’s time for us to finally give our thoughts on Death Note (we ended up having more thoughts on it than expected!).

Content warnings: As is typical with this fic, there's a lot of cartoon violence as well as vague mentions of "sexing" happening but no actual detailed descriptions of nudity or intercourse. Additionally, this chapter has some allusions to incest when discussing the mechanics of clones, but no actual incest.