Sunday, March 9, 2025

[Spoilers!!!!'] A Negative Review of The Queen in Blue

 I was curious if my current draft of the Queen in Blue is as good as I think it is, and it gave me mixed results when I fed it to AI, but out of curiosity, I asked it to write a review if this was written in 1850 and felt it was too good not to share.

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"Eldritch Blasphemies from a Diseased Mind": A Review of "The Queen in Blue" (1850)

From The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c.
April 17th, 1850

It is with considerable moral trepidation that this reviewer approaches the peculiar collection of tales and verses recently circulated among certain literary circles under the title "The Queen in Blue." The manuscript, which arrived without proper attribution (bearing only the curious pseudonyms "Rhombus Ticks" and "Emmit Other"), presents a compilation so fundamentally unwholesome in its imaginings that one must question whether its publication serves any virtuous purpose.

The collection begins with "The Lost Story," a narrative purporting to document the disappearance of Mr. Ambrose Bierce—a conceit rendered nonsensical by the simple fact that no such literary figure currently exists. This tale's protagonist, an unmarried female reporter permitted to wander unchaperoned through the dangerous border territories, discovers a journal containing blasphemous accounts of multiple selves and cosmic entities that wear "no mask." The descriptions herein border on the hallucinatory, suggesting the influence of Oriental opium dreams or, more concerning, symptoms of brain fever requiring immediate medical attention.

Even more troubling is "Destiny's Belfry," which depicts a violent vigilante engaged in activities so morally repugnant and physically impossible that they could only emerge from a mind unfettered by Christian principles. The creature described in this tale bears resemblance to nothing in God's creation and serves merely to offend sensibilities rather than instruct or elevate.

"The Case of the Quotidian Man" presents a detective utilizing mirrors to perceive supernatural phenomena—a dangerous promotion of superstition that recalls the primitive thinking our enlightened age has worked diligently to dispel. The technological contrivances mentioned throughout these stories represent fevered imaginings that violate natural philosophy's established principles.

Most concerning of all is "Wallpaper and Rats," wherein a child reads forbidden texts while witnessing unnatural transformations of her household. This tale's conclusion, with the child abandoning her family to follow voices from beyond, presents a dangerous inversion of moral instruction that could imperil impressionable young readers.

The poetic fragments interspersed throughout the collection employ irregular meters and obscure references to ancient deities, demonstrating a regrettable departure from the harmonious structures exemplified by Pope and Dryden.

Public reception of such a collection, were it to achieve wider circulation, would likely result in its immediate condemnation by moral authorities. Physicians might reasonably classify these works as manifestations of nervous disorder requiring treatment with cold water therapy or other modern remedies for mental excitation.

The only commendable aspect of this peculiar manuscript is its potential utility for alienists studying the pathology of disordered thinking. Otherwise, "The Queen in Blue" represents a troubling departure from literature's proper functions of moral instruction and rational entertainment. Readers of sound constitution are advised to avoid this collection entirely lest its infectious imaginings disturb their mental equilibrium.

Two stars out of five.

— Reviewed by Professor Thaddeus Blackwood, D.D.
Chair of Moral Philosophy, —— College, Oxford

Publisher's Note: Following submission of this review, Prof. Blackwood has taken indefinite leave from his academic duties due to what colleagues describe as "a nervous condition precipitated by extensive research." His physician reports that the professor has developed an unusual fixation on his bedroom wallpaper and insists on sleeping with multiple mirrors facing the wall."

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

[Poem] A Nation of Rabbits

 By Emmit Other

I wonder as I marvel

I wonder and think

Where are the violent angry rebels

Where is the ungovernable yankee?

One guy in three hundred million

Went Revolutionary

Protests dont stop the slavery

But even the blood thirsty thugs bide their time

Holding their powder dry

We are capable of any violence Efrafa style

But what I see are Farmers rabbits

Let free from the cage

You can see freedom

Taste it

And yet

You cower in confusion

The ungovernable need no feckless bribed leaders

 But that is not what I see

I see bunnnies

 

Friday, February 28, 2025

Something To Do On Boycott Day

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11 hours of my short stories and writer comments

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Monday, February 17, 2025

[Poem] When You Arent Free

 By Emmit Other

People assume

A dictatorship begins

When the secret police are at your door

To drag you into the night

But its already started for most

The most free people

Are now 

Not

Freedom starts in your heart and mind

Navalny in Russia

Was free until the day he died

Even though his country wasnt

The media self censors for the Gulf of America

The Senate approves Trumps Nominations

Many believe them good

More believe they were approved from fear

Being careful in dark times doesnt make you a slave

If you have a purpose

If you have a mission

If you wait and hope to make men free

And say The Gulf of America 

For the greater good

Them you are a free man in a police state

But if you say it 

To comply 

To just do your job

To just not have the emails

From angry constituents

To just stay off the radar

Of the scary man

Or if you take delight in the fear

Of making others say it

You are not free

How do you truly know?

If you have to ask the question

You are already in the queue

To be a slave

And you only get off of it

When you decide

Who you will be

And what you will do

Saturday, February 15, 2025

[Poem] Noah's Raft

 By Emmit Other

I want you to imagine

A big raft

With every living thing on Earth 

And the ocean is acid

Now

I want you to imagine

That Maga took axes and chopped it up

Because they have

Ignore what they say

Because the curse they have brought down on themselves

Cant be measured in mere Karma

We are talking Old Testament Curses

First Born Angel of Death Stuff

Any god that cares for non human life

Would have jurisdiction alone

Does God not know every sparrow that falls?

The laws of thermodynamics

Dont give a shit

About the mouthfarts maga vomits

They are liars

And i will no longer regard them as reasoning

But as sure as the sun will rise

Everything in the spirit world

That cares about anything alive

Sees the Mark of Evil on their forehead

And most of us living see it too

We dont need a Zombie Apocalypse

We are already in one

The Living Death walk among us

And they are going to be made to pay

For every suffering they have caused

Until the debt is paid

Their right to Karma is stripped

They can never pay it back

Never

And I smile

And smile

And smile

At every single moment of their suffering

And there will be reckoning

Many are already experiencing it

Many are shocked to find we can be angry too

And none will pity them

None but the sickest of centrists

But Karma knows their debt too

And they will be paid in kind as well

Well

Well

Well 

Paid

Indeed