"Gretel and the Witch"

Instead of Tenjou Utena, another orphan transfers to 8th grade class A.

Instead of St. Lucia, Ushiromiya Ange attends Ohtori Academy.

Crossover fanfiction, an idea that someone else came up with that wouldn’t quite leave my head. Spoilers ahoy!

Jordan Rates Umineko Songs

I’ve had two “daily” Twitter projects for a while: @hypertalk_txt, which tweets excerpts from the HyperTalk manual, and @whatyournamebot, which finds Wikipedia articles that match the song “Alexander Hamilton” (inspired by a similar bot for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”). Today I’ve started another one: @RokkenjimaRadio, where I rate and review every song in the amazing soundtrack to Umineko: When They Cry. This is also inspired by someone doing it previously. It’s admittedly a pretty niche project, but it’ll be fun for me to go through every song with more attention than I might pay otherwise.

Movie Review: Knives Out

I’m not going to movies in theaters much these days, which means I don’t know what movies are playing these days. But Knives Out caught my eye when my colleague Cassie let me know that I should in fact be interested.