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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

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Mildly obsessed with Legend of the Golden Witch offhandedly mentioning Natsuhi’s marriage circumstances with a tone that makes the reader assume she’s talking about a bog-standard political marriage, only for Ryukishi to show up four episodes later and go ❤️ wrong! It was human trafficking

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Anyway I will forever defend the EP1 boob jokes because they establish so much, not just about the general group dynamic and Shannon's learnt helplessness but about Battler as well. Ya see the thing that strikes me the most here is that Battler does his thing under the assumption that the other party holds an equal social status as him, or better yet, he actively tries to set up himself and the others as equals through this interaction. But then the scene with Shannon comes up and it becomes evident that it never crossed his mind that Shannon's position as a servant could prevent her from responding to him as an equal. Like, it really, truly shines the light on how deeply oblivious Battler is of his own privilege despite all of his general fairness and ideals of social/gender equality that are made clear and discussed in the seating order scene that follows. I understand how it can be cringe and gross to some but in terms of storytelling and character portrayal it's undeniably pretty dang great, ngl.

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Thinking about Furudo Erika and the "without love it cannot be seen" quote again.

Many attribute Erika as a criticism on the Sherlock style sociopathic detective and to an extent that's true but she's more important as a symbol of the contract between the author and audience as elaborated in Chapter 7 of Umineko.

The author promises not to trick the audience with bad faith mystery writing and the audience must promise in return to approach the fiction with sincerity and accept the universe that the author writes.

It takes two to create a world. One to create it and one to acknowledge it. Without love it cannot be seen.

Erika is the munchkin rules lawyer at the TTRPG table who wants to "win" what should be a collaborative storytelling experience. She represents disrespecting the fiction and trying to "win" at the mystery by peeling apart the narrative at the seams. Refusing to acknowledge the imagination of the author and forcing them to engage with reality on their terms.

The Great Detective trope is just fine. But they have to be a part of the world they are in and play by its rules and respect both the fiction and the audience. Like Will does.

To engage with the story and have faith in the author is to love and with that you can see the story being told.

I feel this should apply to all storytelling. Approach all fiction with love. Go on a ride with the author and see where they take you. If they respect you, I promise it'll be more fun.

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i cant stand this motherfucker

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umineko episode 8 spoilers under the cut

i think one of the things that fucks me up most about the magic ending is how the construction of the murders through all of beato's games relied on battler not being able to tell that shannon and kanon were both sayo. but then in the magic ending when beato saves him hes pretty immediately recognizes her as shannon even though shes in her disguise & its an extremely stressful situation. like if we are interpreting the magic ending as the truth of what happened on oct 5 and 6 its such a gut punch. sayo counted on battler not recognizing her (understanding her, forgiving her, etc) but he did, immediately. but then never had a chance for anything else. theyre both such incredibly tragic characters

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beabato/battler drawingssgs

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made a ref for my girl battler design

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I want his gender

Farmer Dahliah (c) @exhaustedbluegacha

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