Super Mario Bros.: A Literary Criticism

Shigeru Miyamoto’s masterpiece Super Mario Brothers is truly a classic work of modern literature; borrowing heavily from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and an obvious inspiration for Trainspotting, this work of unadulterated genius demonstrates the initial joy but the eventual mental and moral decline due to heavy drug usage.

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I Before E

I before E, except after C
And in special words like Neighbor and Weigh

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Hypnagogia Short stories

Herein lies a novel I did for NaNoWriMo back in Ye Olden Days.

It’s, um, about as good as one might expect for a novel written in a month, by a stressed computer science grad student who was still fighting off Big Gender Feels.

Content warning: This contains some pretty weird attempts at erotica, quite a lot of body horror, and some terminology that hasn’t aged particularly well. Also, angst. So much angst.

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A Certain Chemistry Bad Poetry

Dipole-dipole bonding tight
From more charge on left than right
How your bonding strength is high
Due to charge asymmetry

With apologies to William Blake