#i am coping with this knowledge uh. fine

[sollucets]

i am safely at my parents’ house and. i caved almost immediately and straight out told both of them im reserving the morning of august 12 for going insane in my room. i think all will be well

[bunbeeplays]

Ophelia signs her Tartosa friends up for a 6 AM yoga class at a spa in a neighboring town and, because they're the best friends on earth, they agree to go. They've got the Pizzazz wedding gig coming up, so they need to be in the zone!

Ophelia has a little more experience than her friends.

Drew is a pretty confident person, but they're not confident they won't fall flat on their face during some of these moves.

Instructor: Just follow at your own pace.

Moses: If I was at my own pace, I'd still be in bed.

Being ambitious, Ophelia sometimes struggles when she's not automatically the best at something.

Ophelia: Must… be zen… even if… it kills me.

Moses: muttering Or us. Ow!

They're all really good at child's pose, at least.

Despite not being the best at it yet, they do have to admit that they enjoyed themselves. Maybe Ophelia was right, this wellness stuff could do them all some good.

Ophelia: Oh, what now? Face mask or workout?

Drew: Uh, wasn't the whole point of this to relax?

Ophelia: Self-improvement IS relaxing!

Ophelia is efficient and decides to go with a face mask AND a workout.

Ophelia: You're a strong, confident woman. You have great friends here and in Willow Creek. The awkwardness with Libby will pass someday. Right now, focus on being the best you! You're gonna kick life's ass!

Xander: What up, Casper? Drew: Haha. I need a mask, and a drink, to make me forget how tired I am. Ophelia's self improvement kick is great and all, but that yoga class kind of kicked my ass. Moses: Don't act like you also didn't click yes to that Wellness liking popup

Xander: Should we be concerned? Seems like she's hardly let herself have a free moment since the break up.

Drew: I think Ophelia's just like that, dude.

Moses: You know how ambitious Sims are, mate. Keeping busy is how they cope.

Xander: I guess you're right.

Xander can't help but interrupt her boxing.

Xander: Come on, Lemon Cake. Time to take five. Don't want to wear yourself out for tomorrow. Ophelia: I don't want to. Xander: What if I said please real cute like with this face? Ophelia: I'd say no, real ugly like with this face.

Xander: I might have to start calling you Sour Lemon with that mean mug.

That gets Ophelia to cut the act and let out a laugh.

Xander: I knew you couldn't resist! No one can resist this face!

Ophelia: Shut up! Fine, I'll take a break, you dork. Let's check out the pool.

Before they can swim…

Xander: Listen, you're doing okay, right?

Ophelia: Why wouldn't I be?

Xander: You've got the garden you told us about and all this wellness stuff you're getting into. That's great and all, I just want to make sure you're not using it as a distraction.

Ophelia: Distraction? Xander: I know some Sims throw themselves into new projects to distract themselves when life gets rough. I know that because I'm one of those Sims. If you need someone to talk to, we're here for you if it's too weird to talk to your other friends about.

Ophelia: I appreciate it Xander, but I'm really just trying to better myself. Two of my friends had a baby recently, and it really put things into perspective. There's so much I want to do before, and after, I have kids, so I'm trying to become the future mom my kids deserve

Xander: If my parents and Hilary had your wellness knowledge, they would have probably had an easier time dealing with me as a kid.

Ophelia: Ha!

Xander: For what it's worth, I think you'd be a great mom now, but you've got plenty of time to get even better.

Ophelia: Thanks.

Ophelia: One thing about me, when I get knocked down I don't stay down for long.

Xander: That makes one of us. When things ended with my last partner-

Ophelia: Oooh, I'm getting some exclusive Xander Lore?

Xander: Not anymore, Lady Interrupts-A-Lot.

Xander may be a goofball, but he's clearly a good guy, as well. Ophelia's glad she has someone like him in her corner.

I didn't manage to get screenshots of it but she stole two things during the time she was at this spa. Look at her smug face. You can't keep getting away with this forever, young lady!

[whenthechickencry]

Umineko EP4. Replay Part 2

He, uh, did of course. Of Course, part of Ange's arc is learning to not assume the worst out of everyone, but.... I suppose the truth is more complicated than a simple he sold me out, though. I think you are

You can see Ange knows that the truth isn't really something definitive, something she goes back on during EP8, but I don't think you can really blame her considering the surrounding circumstances but more on that later.

In other words, Endless magic is writing an infinite amount of truths to a space where the truth can't be determined, you then have to start considering why someone would want that, and the answer is the depressing answer that someone thought an endless amount of lies was better than the truth of their life.

Considering we know the Rudolf/Kyrie murder theory is becoming popular at this time Ange is hard coping here considering that kind of theories strange superstitions.

Again, Nanjo is an awful liar. Which is funny bc he's the one that has to lie the most out of everyone.

It's Natsuhi who falls into the trap first, which makes sense, I don't think Natsuhi is dumb or anything but she wasn't raised in an environment where she had doubt about everyone around her like the others were, I think.

It's kind of interesting how in early chapters Rudolf would shut up Kyrie before she could say much but in these later chapters Kyrie is a very active participant in the events, she was the one who tries to bait Hideyoshi last chapter too. I wonder if Yasu kind of projected the Natsuhi Krauss dynamic to them, and Tohya maybe had a different view of it? But we do get information that Kyrie isn't completely aware of Rudolf's situation, so it's not entirely made up, but it seems Rudolf is fine with letting her talk once she starts. I guess it might be a thing of "Rudolf knows Kyriie is incredibly sharp but is embarrassed by it and can only sometimes swallow his pride

I thought it was Battler who figured this out, but uh I guess Kyrie and Krauss spell it out for him and he just takes credit afterward.

Still though, you can tell Battler has gotten rid of a lot of his ep2 and 1 naivete, he would have cried and said Krauss wouldn't do that at that time, I think.

Beatrice obviously had to do this eventually, a game where you ask the person with the answer enough questions until they give your the answer isn't exactly a game that proves anything.

Ange already caught on to how te catbox works, no Virgilia or braun tubes necessary!

If you argue like this you are just throwing shit at the wall though.... you aren't trying to understand what the other person is getting at at all. The contrast between the triumphant music that plays while this is being said and the knowledge that this will lead to the ep4 tragedy is interesting....

Everyone deciding how to team up against Krauss without even needing to discuss how they were going to corner him is pretty interesting, I think it shows that they have done this before from their awful childhood.

Hideyoshi here is taking the role of making sure Krauss doesn't just say fuck all of you and hole up in his room or whatever. Krauss doesn't really have an option but to take the deal but if he gets stubborn....

Forgot how hammy and insane Kinzo gets on this chapter.

He's really misogynist though so maybe it is a more accurate Kinzo than Natsuhi!Kinzo

Yeah George you are so fine and not affected by it at all we won't get a scene 2 episodes later about how not fine you really were with it, just rub it on Jessica's face her concerns are so small for someone as great and mature as you.

Ange's really angry at this fake display of Rosa and Maria's bond... it is mostly written in a way to satisfy Maria I am sure but still, I would probably not react that differently if one of my friends abuse was written out like this....

Maria is not like, wrong, that Ange tends to think what objectively happened = is what she wants to have happened. You can see this with how she refuses to believe Eva was not the killer, but still... She's obviously right in this situation but yelling at Maria for it is definitely not the answer.

The VA did a good job with Rosa here... you can tell Rosa knows that what she is doing fucked up. The fact Maria knows all the sites to hide her neglect from memory is really, really fucked up. Rosa knows she is fucking up. But that isn't enough to stop her...

I am crying again, I think what makes these so much worse is that I am pretty sure if Maria told Rosa any of these she would get really fucking angry...

Maria pretends so hard to not know what's going on but Sakutarou breaks the illusion "If she thought you were a pain or annoying" that's not what anyone so far has said!

Even when tries to force herself to think she is happy, she can't stop hoping and begging for her mother to come back.

I used to have really tough conversations not completely unlike this when I was getting abused... in the long run, I think it was very important that I heard these tough truths even if I rejected them at the time. But I think you can tell Ange isn't coming from it from the right place, she's mainly angry Maria isn't suffering like she did....

Imagine abandoning your child for many days and your first worry is if they were happy in the wrong way....

The real issue here is that Rosa felt embarrassed, if you think about it the chances of a 9-year-old connecting all the dots would be pretty hard, and even if she did she can dismiss it as a business trip or whatever, but Rosa feels deep embarrassment at herself and what she has done, so having Maria even be kind of aware of it causes her to lash out.

To be honest, it's hard to not feel like the bad guy here with Maria insisting she was happy and me pointing out that her abrupt mood changes and seeking consolation from her child are both also abusive.... but it's important to know that in the end Maria was so pained by all of this she chose suicide.

It's kind of funny Maria can't keep up considering how much she has mastered the terms by 1986, guess this is a year or 2 beforehand.

In other words, Kumasawa can get the other servants to play along with Sakutaro, lmfao.

The description of a diplomat in Sakutarous's profile is very funny to me.... I am just imagining him as a country representative at an embassy.