Review Review: Class Review: Gorinich's Completely Normal Girl With Too Much Blood

Still from Dracula (1931) featuring Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra and Count Dracula as himselfFulfilling my own prompt, reviewing another's blogpost, for Glaugust 2026. I actually found it difficult to find the right sort of post to respond to, since there's many great posts in the glog scene that I just have unvarnished appreciation for, and so there's little engaging in my review of it. Vivanter's December 2024 review of a class by Zmia Garina, the Completely Normal Girl With Too Much Blood, is actually interesting in itself, and certainly worthy of comment, even at a remove of over a year. It takes a certain amount of bravery to turn a legitimate analytical lens to someone else's blogpost. This is someone you know in the remote-yet-personal way of being fellow netizens of a discord server. You might play games with them or chew the fat, and any criticism seen as being negative feels way more personal than reviewing a movie by some famous director you'll never meet.And yet even the…