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loose sketches of my comfort food 😇

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ended the decade how i started it, in love with pandora hearts

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absolutely destroys me that ange spends so much time in the story of umineko being annoyed with featherine and not wanting to engage with her role as a reader, not understanding the love between writer and reader and being frustrated with being asked to participate in that. and then, ultimately, deciding to become a writer herself. to share her heart with the world in whatever way feels right, after everything

especially a children's book author. after everything her life has been, who knows better than ushiromiya ange the ways a story can impact the life of a child? she was denied the story of the single truth, she was told a thousand stories about her family, her world was warped by the stories she was given and the stories that were kept from her. maria's stories - and her interpretations of them - are one of the closest ways she's able to cling to any kind of warm feelings towards her extended family

so of course she writes fantastical adventures for children, full of love and whimsy. the adventures of sakutarou very blatantly honors the legacy of maria and her stories! it's her finally understanding how maria chose happiness and choosing to believe in maria's stories to be the second person that makes them real - and to find thousands of other people to believe in them and give those stories power, too

she spends so much of umineko fighting and fighting against stories, rejecting all magic as useless delusion and pursuing the single truth, and only in the end is she able to realize how ridiculous it is to even believe that absolute truth exists let alone holds inherent power over the stories we tell ourselves and one another about the world

of course she would become a writer. of course of course after hating stories and getting pissed off at featherine and being annoyed at being asked to act as an active reader, the conclusion of her character arc is to make stories herself. in a story about storytelling, about the raw, soul-baring love inherent to writing any story worth reading, of course that's how they show she has finally come to understand what everyone was trying to tell her. UGH

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Umineko is going to make me an alcoholic

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Thinking about how the IRL narrative of Umineko is literally just about a suicidal girl and her crippled amnesiac writer brother trying to endure in a world where their shitty grandpa, conservative relatives, criminal parents, and a suicidal trans witch basically changed the course of their lives in an awful way with a single unsolved murder mystery.

Underneath all of that fantasy is just these two enduring the aftermath of a horrific incident.

The Golden Witch is the undeniable titular figure of Umineko's narrative, but that's mainly because she's the scapegoat for problems that began with a shitty old man, continued through the negativity that was implanted in his children (she's one of these children BTW), and ended with mass death. Yet even though the witch's story, the mystery she set up, and the consequences of their family's actions continues to haunt these two in different ways, in the end they manage to endure into the future with new lives and names.

As a result, the siblings find the peace in life that the witch unfortunately only found in death.

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former adventurer and future adventurer...

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Olric and March 🔨

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The infinite cycle

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More style practice~

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i actually hate umineko

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another one

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really strange how you can be almost at peace with something that happened to you but it will continue to be a defining moment of your life for the rest of your life. you wont think about it much anymore but in a conversation about a film someone will mention the year it was released and you’ll think to yourself, “that was before it happened” and you’ll see an old photo and think how strange it is to have existed before it happened and somehow it’s like living a life in two acts

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Hi umineko fans is this anything

I considered doing this with evatrice instead but this works

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( a failure )

( a fraud )

( nobody, at best. )

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gaap and furfur