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hi everyone if you are following my blog you probably know that i like umineko. however you may have also realized that umineko is very prone to having spoilers! so to alleviate this ive decided to start adding tags for each episode of umineko.

what this means is that if something shouldnt be read until after, say, episode 3, then there will be a tag #episode 3 on my reblogs. ill go back through all my posts at some point and retroactively add similar tags to everything as well

so PLEASE block all tags for episodes you havent read yet! ill try to avoid reblogging spoilery stuff for a few more days, but after then... ill start reblogging things that wont be safe if you havent blocked those tags

remember: only unblock #episode x once you've FINISHED episode x, not started it

ok thanks for reading and blocking the tags. i hope this can help us all enjoy umineko more

#when they cry #umineko

"Perhaps then, if we look down at something very small and close and familiar, we shall find sympathy. Let us examine the rose. We have seen it so often flowering in bowls, connected it so often with beauty in its prime, that we have forgotten how it stands, still and steady, throughout an entire afternoon in the earth. It preserves a demeanour of perfect dignity and self-possession. The suffusion of its petals is of inimitable rightness. Now perhaps one deliberately falls; now all the flowers, the voluptuous purple, the creamy, in whose waxen flesh the spoon has left a swirl of cherry juice; gladioli; dahlias; lilies, sacerdotal, ecclesiastical; flowers with prim cardboard collars tinged apricot and amber, all gently incline their heads to the breeze—all, with the exception of the heavy sunflower, who proudly acknowledges the sun at midday and perhaps at midnight rebuffs the moon. There they stand; and it is of these, the stillest, the most self-sufficient of all things that human beings have made companions; these that symbolise their passions, decorate their festivals, and lie (as if they knew sorrow) upon the pillows of the dead."

- Woolf V. (2012). On Being Ill.

#on being ill #it's a banger quote #it's a still life and a commentary on sympathy at the same time #190 words and seven sentences #and the prose truly makes you come for a journey through woolf's mind #it's just so excellent

tabris-the-seventeenth-angel

like actually why does no one talk about this. like the actual implications of this.

#evangelion

optical-trapping

hinamizawagrrl

Higurashi (2006) production art I received today! I'm thrilled with this one because it's from one of my fave arcs and Mion and Shion are my fave characters (if I remember rightly, this was Shion masquerading as Mion)‪‪ ❤︎‬

Also something interesting about it: this is the only bit of production art I've ever had that has more art on the reverse!

#when they cry #higurashi #sonozaki mion #sonozaki shion #im going to be so real #after the stuff in like higu6 or higu 7 #(i forget which)#ive really started confusing the two in my head #so i think that ill figure it's just better safe than sorry

sinlizards

Turn of the Golden Witch

#when they cry #umineko #beatrice #ushiromiya battler #episode 2

when-they-meow

#when they cry #umineko #beatrice #ushiromiya battler #episode 4

emnesoi0

the problem with visual novels is that they are novels, but they are almost exclusively sold on video game distribution platforms, which means that they're novels being read by gamers who are by and large entirely unequipped to critique that medium

emnesoi0

small but still worrying number of people are reading this and coming away with "... and that's why visual novels are a bad medium" and not "... and that's why gamer blood should be flowing in the streets"

batgirlsmell

theoryslop. you only believe in it because it has evidence supported by and relating to the narrative and themes of the work

zzzanzzz-deactivated20201124

old people were right putting ellipses after everything you say actually rules….

cawaiinixster

cat girls and dog girls. hopefully i can draw a full jade design ref soon :-)

#homestuck #jade harley #meulin leijon

meuofhearts

JADE HARLEY!!!!!

I love homestuck so bad….

I found this one too!!!!! I have so many photos oops

#homestuck #jade harley

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)