Today sees the start of the 2013 Imperial March.
What is the Imperial March?
It is, for one, a brilliant piece composed by John Williams as Darth Vader's leitmotif in the original Star Wars trilogy.
It is also a month to be spent exploring evil characters and deeds in fiction and other forms of art, as well as reconsider what evil supposedly is and does, and whether what you or anyone else considers to be evil is evil at all.
Who invented the Imperial March?
As said, the symphony was written by John Williams.
Imperial March as an event first celebrated by EvilCo in 2012.
What is EvilCo?
EvilCo is a group of people looking to celebrate villains in art and fiction, it has existed since 2011 and at any point in time holds a maximum of 13 members.
Can I also celebrate Imperial March?
Yes, please do! Life would be terribly boring if morality was static.
Even if I'm not an EvilCo member?
Especially when you're not an EvilCo member!
How do I do it?
Any way is possible. There are no rules. However, EvilCo and myself specifically do not endorse harming other people or animals or property in any way.
In fact, that is one of the reasons to celebrate Imperial March - we hold the opinion that violence, gore and immorality in fiction and art - this includes films and video games - removes the need to carry out harmful acts "out there". Imperial March offers a safe and harmless way to explore such things in a manner that has no impact on others unless they choose it for it to have an impact - but, as with all things, if they choose for some expression of evilness in art to have an impact on them, those people have no right to complain.
If, however, you wilfully exert an evil influence on other people, those other people have of course every right to rebel and retaliate as though you were actually Darth Vader/Lord Voldemort/Sauron.
Do you promote immorality and evilness?
Only to express in fiction and art.
As a sort of carnival so evil impulses don't need to be expressed in real life.
And now, for this year's first contribution, a poem:
The Malevolent Muses
Nine in total, Muses of art
And nine in vicious counterpart
The Malevolent Muses
To whom Everyone loses
Nine in total, Muses of wrong
Muses as evil in life's epic song
One for villains of the writ
One for truly painful wit
One for stage and silver screen
One for things that once have been
One for light and paint and rock
One for slowing down the clock
One for song and rhyme
One for wasting time
One for wasting time
One for life's regret
These Muses hold to us terrible debt
And regardless of their wrong or right
They are so very much a plight
When things go wrong and one so chooses
One should blame the Malevolent Muses.
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