“Who are you and why are you creating a fansite in the current year?”
A username I frequently use is junebug, so you can call me that if you want. This site is a combination of a couple of things. First, I have been wanting to practice website building and finally had an excuse for it when I decided to put my Vanitas thoughts all in one place. This leads to the second reason. I’ve been reading The Case Study of Vanitas since about 2018, and since then I’ve come up with a pile of speculations. Pandora Hearts had taught me to treat Vanitas like a puzzle, and I had spent months combing through the story for deeper meaning. With every read-through, there’d be something new to discover. After a while, I began wanting to go about this more systematically. And it’d break my heart if my writings were to disappear off Discord from a server failure or something, so I figured I’d consolidate all of them here. If you somehow found this website, I hope you like what you found.
If you'd like, you can use these buttons to link my site. As per usual, please don't hotlink.
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Cool Links
Since you're here, I'm going to give you some cool links. No promises that they work. The unending annihilation of web media is just the world we live in. Our Library of Alexandria just never stops burning.
My face when I ponder the ephemeral nature of the world wide web.
Station Arcadia is a nifty fansite for the works of Leiji Matsumoto.
Together Forever, Evilicious' goofy as hell music video for the boys' jaunt through Paris in the anime's opening. It just makes me smile every time I watch it.
Pandora's Box from Twilight Visions is the reason I will never consider giving Pandora Hearts the same analytical treatment. You can't really do it much better than this. Gives detailed explanations for the forshadowing via flower meaning in PH's covers, which is a practice Mochijun has kept at in the present day. I will be very sad the day I go back to this site and see its domain name for sale.
My Vanitas hoard: contains 1,519 files collected since 2018. There is some organization but it may not be very accurate.
The Vanitas no Carte Stageplay from Vanillitas. It's a live action adaption for the stage, kind of like a musical.
Divisor Plot is a mathematical journey. What if the prime numbers were the gaps in patterns? This site has some cool visualizations of common math concepts. More interesting than it sounds.
Gwern.net, the website of Gwern Branwen. Essays concerning various topics with a distinct mathematical and rational bent. Ranges from complex problems involving advanced statistics to straightforward speculation on why people collect stuff.
Feanorian-The Silmarillion Fan-made Animation: a fan made music video for The Silmarillion in the style of manga. Yes. I'm not joking.
Bodacious Space Jeanne: my buddy's Vanitas/Bodacious Space Pirates crossover fanfiction, a fun and pulpy space adventure, reminiscent of the anime Outlaw Star. Recommended for sci-fi fans.
Thanatos: a requirement imposed by my friend for including the above link is to include my own fanfiction. This is, uh…hard to describe. It's a mystery story inspired by the writings of Sir Thomas Browne, specifically his seminal essay Hydriotaphia or Urne-Buriall or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. You can read that if you're into that kind of thing. Rather inconsistently updated. I can say with confidence that there is nothing else like it among Vanitas fanfiction.
Hydriotaphia: actually, you should definitely read that essay by Browne too. Haunting, ornate, and strangely sublime, it is my favorite piece of writing in existence.
Floornight, in the words of its author Nostalgebraist, is "Evangelion, except it takes place at the bottom of the ocean." Scientists discover the existence of the human soul. They exploit it for fun and profit. Read for some rather trippy sci-fi.
The Northern Caves: a loving period piece of the forum era of internet fandom. Also written by Nostalgebraist.
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Contact
Have something to say to me? Email me at juneb1632 at gmail dot com. I don't check that inbox all that frequently, because I don't expect too many visitors. However, I'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback at all.
I look forward to the story ending in ten years. See you then.