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i really love that ciconia engages so much with gender fluidity and the option people have to not have to disclose their ‘assigned at birth sex’, and how much that has the potential to help everyone. it’s ryukishi continuing to engage with gender issues further after everything in umineko and higurashi.

it’s also why i hate seeing people constantly say that yasu/lion is actually X because “that’s definitely what ryukishi intended” when ryukishi has gone out of his way to not be overt about many aspects of gender with them and across other characters (zepar and furfur are meant to read as ambiguous for example).

people want to pretend that “lion is a no bullshit sort of girl” or “lion is a feminine man”, and if that’s truly the case why is it that ep7 emphasized their distaste for such gendered expectations and demands of other people?

why is it that there is no Certain Answer the manga gives like with the episode 8 stuff? why is this not something confession of the golden witch ever clarifies? if this were something ryukishi thought was so obvious and important, why doesn’t he tell you straight up, such as how he does with so many other things? ryukishi is always very overt with things he believes are important for the reader to know and it’s why he’s called “preachy”, so if he wanted you to know this he’d say it, but it’s hidden in the catbox for a reason.

umineko is about cishet male as a default power status and how the abusive patriarch is responsible for the family’s problems which is something reflected in every facet of the story (yasu in particular reflects the abuse of all beatrices by kinzo including the sexual trauma but that’s something the game is respectful and tactful about so it’s never too explicit about it and it even obfuscates it), because that still addresses misogyny and misogyny isn’t only about women as it affects everyone, and it’s a discussion that includes patriarchal privileges and systems, things that constantly affect queer people across all divisions just as much as it does women. umineko centers the women’s struggles before the men’s through the aunts, ange and maria but yasu/lion don’t have to be boxed into something specific for their struggles to be equally valid. caring too much about their agab is very creepy and invasive, because it’s always either for shipping purposes or someone wanting to insist that their idea of trans is The Most Correct and any other way isn’t valid. the statement of “yasu’s gender is in the catbox” works really well. they’re confirmed to not be cis and the specifics are left without much elaboration, because umineko is a story about multiple truths coexisting with one another, and i think yasu is the most queer character of all time for encompassing a wide range of gender experiences and being relatable for so many people. yasu is yasu. they’re one yet many.

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One of the things about Natsuhi that really gets me is that she’s trying so hard to be a tradwife to cope with her situation but like. She’s bad at it. She’s really really bad at being a tradwife. She’s short tempered, belligerent, easily baited by basically anyone trying to get a rise out of her, and constantly makes her husband look worse in her attempts to defend him. She never sits quietly at his side, she never listens when he’s trying to get her to stop and let him do the talking, and she’s constantly taking charge of situations in his stead. Honestly, she just doesn’t have the temperament to be a tradwife, even if she thinks that’s what she is and what she wants.

And what’s the craziest about this is that Sayo figured this out before Natsuhi herself did. Natsuhi is someone who tries to cling onto power in any and every situation she can, in part because she ultimately doesn’t have any agency at all. She tries to find an angle through which to look at her life where she’s the one calling the shots, where she’s the one in charge, because in her super traditionalist framework that’s what autonomy is— it’s always just been punching down. In her mind, punishment and power might as well be synonymous; you’re either being told what to do or telling others what to do.

Natushi could never be the proper, submissive wife that she’s trying to be because she’s just not that good at lying to herself. She’s constantly trying to power grab in petty situations, to overcome the lack of autonomy she’s so frustrated about by throwing her weight around whenever she can. And I think that’s exactly why Sayo gave her the unloaded gun. Natushi immediately becomes bolder— she lashes out, she takes command of situations, she’s confident— because to her the gun is just the physical manifestation of having the agency to be those things at all. She can take charge of situations because in her mind she’s gotten the power to do so now— agency over herself is always coupled with power over others to her. But the gun was always empty and the promise was always false.

It doesn’t matter how Natsuhi feels or what power she wields over the people beneath her, because she never really had any autonomy so long as she was Ushiromiya Natsuhi. She was and is only ever allowed to do what they permitted. When she fights with Eva in the family conferences, it’s because Krauss is wiling to sit back and let her be the scapegoat. She can bully the servants because the people in the house who are actually supposed to be in charge of them don’t care. Natsuhi fights like a dog for any semblance of power or choice in the narrative, not realizing it’s still within the confines of what the people who have stolen her agency are allowing her have. She’s given a metaphorical gun to wave around, but even though it smokes and fires and makes noise, there was never any real threat to the people who gave it to her, because she was given the gun unloaded. Perhaps more importantly though, she doesn’t know the difference

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face reveal in case y'all wanted to know

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This pic is so fucking silly like Rika literally makes that face like what even this is literally insane how is this real

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This is stupid…

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Everyone talks about Higurashi as a horror VN or a drama VN or w/e but honestly living in Himinizawa must be the funniest shit in the world. Can you imagine going to ur local hooters and there's a cop there trying his absolute damndest to convince a 14 year old that his best friend is the head of the local yakuza

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one of the funniest parts of Higurashi to me is Mion being in the wrong genre of VN. She’s supposed to a romance protagonist balancing her love with her duty to her family and trying to grapple with her inner femininity while getting her crush to like her back, meanwhile she’s stuck dealing with her very single one of her friends have a category 5 Woman Moment

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i knew you first, i knew you best

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monastery take on keiichi maebara

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i've got new hyperfixation hellp

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I am here.

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All sprite comparisons between Remote Island Syndrome Part 2 from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Ace Attorney.

Only specific frames in the animations from Haruhi were selected to more accurately match the animations from Ace Attorney.

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Hinamizawa Gang, 2024 edition

This is a redraw of my 2020 piece which is at the same time a redraw of my original 2015 piece, which was a meme.

Sometimes you have to redraw your old art to see your improvement and this is my favourite thing to redraw haha