Hello there. My name is HisMagicTrick (as you probably already knew). I'm a huge fan of the Joker, my favourite version of him being Heath Ledger's. I generally stick to reading fanfiction that centres entirely on him (that includes fanfiction which is about the comic book Joker). There will most likely never be any stories by me on this page, as I don't write often and don't plan on ever putting anything up, but I will review stories (or, at least, I'll try to review as many as I can).

Favourite films: The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Fight Club, Inception, (500) Days of Summer, Easy A, the Jackass films… and many more.

Favourite books: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Gretchen Lowell Series by Chelsea Cain, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson, Gerald’s Game by Stephen King, Immoral by Brian Freeman, The Simone Kirsch Series by Leigh Redhead, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, Fishbowl by Sarah Mlynowski, Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling… and many more of those too (I read a lot).

Favourite type of books: I like novels that are dark and deals with the harsher side of life. I usually like books that are fairly realistic (I strongly dislike science fiction and fantasy - excluding Harry Potter) and ones that really make you think and question things in life and society. I do, however, have a soft spot for chick literature - it's my guilty pleasure ;)

Favourite music genre: I'll listen to any genre really. If I think the songs are good, then believe me, I'll listen. Some of my favourite artists include HIM, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Emilie Autumn, and Lana Del Rey.

Favourite quotations (just a warning - there are a lot of them):

If you're good at something never do it for free - the Joker

Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savour all the... little emotions. In... you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I knew your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards? - the Joker

In my dream, the world had suffered a terrible disaster. A black haze shut out the sun, and the darkness was alive with the moans and screams of wounded people. Suddenly, a small light glowed. A candle flickered into life, symbol of hope for millions. A single tiny candle, shining in the ugly dark. I laughed and blew it out - the Joker

You see their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble - the Joker

I wanted to see what you'd do. And you didn't disappoint. You let five people die. Then, you let Dent take your place. Even to a guy like me, that's cold - the Joker

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just... do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So, when I say... Ah, come here. When I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know that I'm telling the truth - the Joker

Better to have never been born, and next best to die soon - Silenus

I often laugh of how ironic it is that here we are; all of us, eating, drinking, and working to preserve our precious existence and really there is nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing - Jean-Paul Sartre

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy - Bruce Wayne

That's part of the rule. Never quit. Never let them see you're afraid. Above all -- never let them see you're hurt. Never let them see you cry. Never - Catwoman

I put the fun in funeral and the laughter in slaughter - the Joker

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. Americans talk so much about being individualistic, but they don't want you to be an individual because if you think for yourself then you're not going to be a part of any trend that they want you to be a part of. They don't want you to think for yourself. They tell you they do so that you're happy and you're stupid and you're sheep. Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed. These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way. The rest of the world, who are just willing to accept it, are gonna be doing their everyday jobs, and they're going to be trapped in a rut, and they're never gonna see it until the day they die, and they're gonna be disappointed when they don't go to heaven anyway 'cause they were too stupid to realize that it's not going to happen - Marilyn Manson

I did it! I finally killed Batman! In front of a bunch of vulnerable, disabled, kids!!!! Now get me Santa Claus - the Joker

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you - the Joker

See, I'm a guy of simple tastes. I enjoy dynamite, and gunpowder, and gasoline! And you know the thing that they have in common? They're cheap - the Joker

Faith: Not wanting to know what is true - Friedrick Nietzsche

You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you? Huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever - the Joker

It's too bad stupidity is not painful - Anton LaVey

I don't want to know what goes on in the Joker's head. I have to know. But when I imagine how it must feel to be him, I think of a snake with a broken back, flipping and tracing intricate, agonized arabesques in the dust - Batman

And he didn't die all at once. It was hours before the screaming stopped. I almost didn't get to sleep that night. That was the last time I'd used crushed glass - the Joker

When a blackout happens most people's first thought is 'Better light a candle.' Mine is 'How many alarm systems just went offline?' - Catwoman

Because there's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills - Marilyn Manson

It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games, or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel’s brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence - Marilyn Manson

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter - Friedrich Nietzsche

So... I see you received the free ticket I sent you. I'm glad. I did so want you to be here. You see it doesn't matter if you catch me and send me back to the asylum... Gordon's been driven mad. I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... Only you won't admit it! You have to keep pretending that life makes sense, that there's some point to all this struggling! God, you make me want to puke. I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger? Something like that, I bet. Something like that... Something like that happened to me, you know. I... I'm not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! Ha ha ha! But my point is... My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? I mean, you're not unintelligent! You must see the reality of the situation. Do you know how many times we've come close to world war three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed it's war dept creditors! Telegraph poles! Ha ha ha ha HA! It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing? - the Joker

The guy goes into the hospital, okay? His wife's just had a baby and he can't wait to see them both. So he meets the doctor and he says, 'Oh, Doc, I've been so worried. How are they?' And the doctor smiles and says, 'They're fine. Just fine. Your wife's delivered a healthy baby boy and they're both in tip-top form. You're one lucky guy.' So the guy rushes into the maternity ward with his flowers. But it's empty. His wife's bed is empty. 'Doc?' He says and turns around and the doctor and all the nurses wave their arms and scream in his face. 'April fool! Your wife's dead and the baby's a spastic!!' - the Joker

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love - Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality - Friedrick Nietzsche

Life would be so much easier if I didn't have this conscience - Catwoman

There's nothing to fear, but fear itself - Scarecrow

We really should stop fighting, otherwise we'll miss the fireworks - the Joker

They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper - the Joker

The passion of destruction is also a creative passion - Mikhail Bakunin

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing - Friedrich Nietzsche

'Our real discoveries come from chaos,' Brandy yells, 'from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish' - Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned - Tyler Durden

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality - Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk

Oh please, Batman. If you had the guts for that type of fun you would've done it years ago - the Joker

Lady, you're harder to kill than a cockroach on steroids - the Joker

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation - Anne Rice

Attention maggots. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else - Tyler Durden, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

It's a funny world we live in. Speaking of which, do you know how I got these scars? - the Joker

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha oh hee hee ha ah ooh hee ha ha, and I thought my jokes were bad - the Joker

I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmm? You know... You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair - the Joker