For the last year I have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to respond, "there's an app for that" to someone, where it's both timely, funny, and moving, and the opportunity hasn't come.

Note: this is the first part of a translation of Gurren Lagann into medieval style alliterative verse. I've written poems for three episodes so far. Maybe I'll finish it! This one first appeared on

Intro note: I'm always anxious about 'first posts' on a platform, as I have no idea how to brand myself. So instead, I'm just going to write a bunch of stuff about philosophy, media, poetry, science fiction,