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being reductive for the sake of a joke here but it's actually crazy how in episode 4 you have conflicts like 'ghost of a nine year old girl arguing against the reality of her mother's neglect and abuse to a living traumatized teenager arguing against any genuine love having existed between the late nine-year-old and her abusive neglectful mother' and 'breaking up the attempt of a scorned and forsaken girl (for whom we have repeatedly gestured at sa trauma) to completely isolate herself from everything to sink into a codependent relationship with the aforementioned 9 y/o in a thin and empty paradise of their own shared creation, prompting her to IMMEDIATELY attempt suicide-by-proxy' and then in episode 8 it's like. 'if we don't lie to ange about our entire extended family and associated servants actually having been happy and not-dysfunctional before we all died in an explosion she's going to kill herself' 😭

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ALSO. gem asking etho if she's the boogey and etho turning to bdubs and bdubs telling her she's spent enough time with gem. what's their fucking problem

MY EYE WON'T STOP FUCKING TWITCHINGGGGGG anyways scott trying to tell etho that he's the boogeyman because etho's his favorite this season and etho ignoring him in favor of horse time with bdubs. lol. lmao.

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MY EYE WON'T STOP FUCKING TWITCHINGGGGGG anyways scott trying to tell etho that he's the boogeyman because etho's his favorite this season and etho ignoring him in favor of horse time with bdubs. lol. lmao.

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"i'm on [bdubs] team almost every season and i don't think he's ever gotten his own diamond armor" etho i hate to break it to you but this is literally the 3rd time. out of seven. third life double life limited life and secret life don't actually count. to anybody but you. and i guess bdubs maybe sort of kind of but. well. whatever. sicko

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doing another umineko LP thread this week on twitter, which means, you guessed it: more umineko photoshop work

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etho isn't "washed" he "died and was replaced by a lookalike" in "2013"

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etho isn't "washed" he "died and was replaced by a lookalike" in "2013"

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etho isn't "washed" he "died and was replaced by a lookalike" in "2013"

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shes doing a cost/benefit analysis of whether you’re worth keeping around (shes already made up her mind)

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like the first time around i erm. kinda skimmed through a lot of the romance scenes because i found them flat and boring but with the whole. gestures. they make so much sense and are also perhaps some of the biggest clues you get throughout the whole story!!!! and also they say. so much about lion and their motivations and the horrors of family and romance. it's good. i like it a lot.

anyways the GOOD news is that i am no longer a unimeko romance hater ^_^

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anyways the GOOD news is that i am no longer a unimeko romance hater ^_^

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it's genuinely really sad to me actually because the first 7 chapters while imperfect were still really really good in ways 8 just... isn't. i think the biggest problem 8 runs into is the slight shift in the framing of magic vs reality... prior chapters felt a lot more nuanced in their portrayals, trying to show that escapism isn't always entirely bad and that re-framing our perceptions of reality can have some positive effects, but that the truth remains and also still must be reckoned with. chapter 8 sides with magic a lot harder and it does itself a disservice. i was actually incredibly disappointed by the moral white-washing everyone received it genuinely made me so sad.

i also think switching 7 and 8 would do a lot for the overall structure of things... i can kind of see why its arranged this way but also, just, tone-wise, 8 feels climactic and 7 feels like an epilogue. so.

i wish it was good :[ i really like ange and i think not wrapping up her story would have done her a massive disservice but... not like this.

devastating: umineko chapter 8 Kind Of Mid Actually

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devastating: umineko chapter 8 Kind Of Mid Actually

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I thought about your ethubs “I wish I was a woman so I could be your wife and tell you what to do” comic while tattooing today and it made me crack up so suddenly I almost botched a line BUT I SAVED IT

Thank you for the laffs

lmao????? that's so funny to hear glad you were able to save it

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if etho likes redheaded girls so much than why doesn't she just become one

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congratulations on getting me to download umineko in effort to find out what the hell a "witch" and a "piece" is and how they connect to the murder mystery umineko was advertised as.

NICE. umineko really is so so so good i'm glad i've been able to introduce people to it ^_^