Meera Is Writing

“Deny nothing, doubt everything.” – Lord George Byron

Our intentions make blackguards of us all. – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. – Lord George Byron

The Author

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”

— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

Archive

Read All

Pos

  • The Witching Hour (1990) & the human necessity for faith in change and in will and in accident

    “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.” – Petyr Van Abel, The Witching Hour (1990), by Anne Rice Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of…

  • Anne Rice, five years later, memento vivere, and ‘evil as food for genius’

    the necessity of the dark and remembering that the only power that exists is within ourselves Alternatively titled: Anne Rice and the fallacy of acting well enough to be ‘one of the good ones’  “Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we…

  • Dangerous Liaisons, a study on the trouble with decorum, power and control 

    “perfections are chimerical and exist only in… imagination.” – Les Liaisons dangereuses,  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782) Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: (Exceeding) 10, noteworthy only because until recently I knew very little in the way of plays as opposed to musicals and other forms of theatre, and because the 1988 movie and the…

  • Beetlejuice the musical and the subversive yet timeless wisdom of ‘memento mori’ 

    All in all, it is safe to say humans have grappled with this inevitably many different ways, artistically and otherwise. So, I find it very reasonable to ask how one would explain the universality of death to a child. I think Beetlejuice the musical, as Beetlejuice the film (1988) it answers this very well. As…

  • Blood and Belonging: Sinners (2025) and the Marginalized Body

    “You Twins?’ ‘Nah, We’re Cousins.’” – Twins Smoke, and Stack (Sinners 2025) Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: 10. If I permit myself to rank it above 10, it would be far higher, as it truly deserves.  Likes: The world building, the casting, the sets and costume designs, and I deeply appreciate the fact that…

  • Censorship: Philosophical Thought and Modern Examples

    Throughout history, many examples of societies benefitting from a better idea of the truth exist.  As an example, take the protestant reformation and Luther’s rather loud and, at the time, controversial criticisms of the Catholic church. It was not popular then but necessary because of church corruption. The main idea behind freedom of speech is…

  • The Vampyre: A History.

    An incredibly brief history of vampires as it relates to The Company of Death by Elisa Hansen. First written in English as John Polidori’s The Vampyre: a tale in 1816, The earliest recorded folklore we have of vampires in the western world are from Europe, what is now Romania and Transylvania specifically. That said bloodsuckers…

  • What Constitutes Evil?

    What makes one evil? “Evil is a point of view… God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we.” (Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire, 1976) Well, in real life, that is simple, “harm none, do as ye will” (the Wiccan rede). In fiction, it is complicated. In the first three Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, the…

  • TURN: Washington’s Spies (AMC) – You’ll shine where you stand

    I believe we should ask for this kind of intellectual work put into our media to have media (like TURN) that presents nuance and asks (but doesn’t answer for you) tough questions and sets one on a path to looking into history, historiography and the stories that have shaped the past and the stories we…

  • Wicked (part one): A Celebration Throughout Oz 

    Let us get the obvious out of the way first… if you already enjoy Wicked the Musical or cast recording, you will love this movie, it is one of the best films I have seen in quite a while. The cinematography is brilliant as is the score and the vast majority of casting decisions. But,…

  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire: the ‘after’ of an aberration

    The cast of characters is diverse and compelling even for a grim dark fantasy, some people say the novel, Wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west makes them sad and whilst I can see why, I think Elphaba’s persistence til the end despite her tragedies and tragic life, and later…

  • AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, season 2: a most quiet & underrated TV show

    Let’s get the record clear, and out of the way. This TV show is brilliant but is neither the book nor any adaptation that came before it, and frankly, I wouldn’t wish it to be.

  • WICKED: a timeless adult fairy tale

    Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: 10  Likes: casting, acting, costuming and set choices, and the music, also I should give it another point I grew up on this show but I won’t cause that isn’t this kind of article. Critiques: I wished they’d get more political, they could definitely get away with it, the…

  • Twenty-One: A Brief Reflection 

    Hello, my name is Meera, I use they/them pronouns, I identify as genderqueer a “quaintrelle” in the gender = not applicable sense, and I am bi. I am also South Asian and white, to explain my identity beyond that is irrelevant to this particular conversation and people are people, I will not get into specifics…

  • Anne Rice: a queer complexity of legacy 

    “The only power that exists is within ourselves.” – Anne Rice Legacy is a thing that many people have questioned since the dawn of humanity. It continues to fascinate us because there is no one singular or correct answer. People are complicated, all of us are. We would do well to extend the grace of…

  • One of a kind no category

    Welcome to the show to the histo-remix! — Ex-Wives, SIX Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: 10  Likes: Casting, set design, costume choices, the musical’s self-awareness and the way it embodies its themes. Critiques: As much as I enjoy the set I wish we spent more time with the Six Queens as a unit, I…

  • Les Misérables: a brick of a novel that holds up… mostly

    “If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.” — Victor Hugo  To review Les Misérables by Victor Hugo we first have to figure out what it is about. There is no right answer to this question such as the joy…

about
Fiction
Nonfiction
Current Events
navigation
Most Recent
Associates
see more