this post is a good litmus test for whether someone is actually normal about teenage girls being messy characters or not. so many qrts are like "BUT WHY ARE MURDERERS THERE" when the title was never "girls who did nothing wrong."
I don't like the way so many people talk about the queerness in Rose of Versailles because to me there's a lot of stuff within it at large which is so heavily rooted in the space of tragedy and how much this allows for an explicit exploration of queerness.
gousotsu is peak but don't talk about it with higurashi fans who think it ruins the themes of the vn bc their idea of the series is "the power of friendship always wins!" and nothing else
i love happy and sweet gay representation in media but i also want to see two nasty bitches become so obsessed and codependent that they end up destroying everything and everyone including themselves
no offense but this is such a disingenuous take bc sure rika's lived a very long time, but the entire point is that she’s been having different variations of the same childhood experience every time for about hundreds of years-
one of my favorite aspects of umineko will always be the fact that it's super critical of heteronormative standards which includes the mindset that romance is necessary and it's something you can see in so many of its characters but especially yasu who couldn't be saved by it.
some people are misunderstanding this, but i'm not saying any of these girls are evil. it's the opposite. the title is satirical. i'm making fun of fandom's misogynistic attitudes and how people scrutinize teenage girls / act like they're the worst for having normal issues.
ange haters are literally the weakest link because umineko would literally not be umineko if it weren't so heavily invested in the tragedy of the one teenage girl who was affected by the rokkenjima incident in the present more than anyone else
A girl took the school hostage after pouring gasoline all over the classroom's floor then she threatened to blow it up if the police didn't investigate and find proof for her alien conspiracy theory but she came to her senses after fighting her boyfriend on the rooftop
anyone who hates satoko, ange, maria or yasu can't be trusted and their wtc opinions should be disregarded bc this is literally the series about how the perfect victim doesn't exist and you don't get to cherrypick who's worthy of being saved and who isn't
finished 'senpai is an otokonoko'
i hate it bc it's totally a transfem manga except it's the type which is too cowardly to commit to being transfem. i've seen some enbies say that it resonated with them, but i don't think it's engaged with non-binary identities either.
you don't become true found family until you help your friend bury two bodies or make the whole town protest to save your friend from abuse. they're like my actual besties you wouldn't get it......
Make your gay characters complex. Problematic. Nasty fuckers who do bad things. Unapologetic. Evil. Manipulative. Unlikeable. Three dimensional. Villainous. Not just the ‘cute’ teens holding hands.
all the umineko women are good even the ones i don't brainrot over much i'm thankful they exist and i love them bc it's nice to have a series so interested in the complexity of women's struggles and isn't afraid of depicting them at their worst while still being sympathetic
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i've read the VN + i think it says so much more about you as a person that in your mind lesbianism is STRICTLY sexual. there's nothing weird about two girls who are children having a crush on each other just like how it's normal for boys and girls of the same age.
girls will be like "i know a spot" and then take a boy who misguidedly believed he was saving them to their house where they killed their abuser and beat the ever living shit out of him as a representation of their rejection of the idea of a prince as a symbol of the patriarchy
I love that Satoko's two outfits together have the same color scheme as Takano's casual outfit. Green and pink girls. They're inherently connected. Also Takano's iron cross is incredible and my favorite foreshadowing about her.
when they cry isn't perfect but a huge part of the reason it's one of my special interests is bc the writing is constantly begging you to care about the plights of the vulnerable and marginalized especially girls and women.
one of my favorite things of all time. i've always had gripes with how the original handled satoko so i'm glad ryukishi decided to revisit her. i'm glad there exists a story from her pov that gives her agency. a story about her. a story for her.
this is higurashi fans when in gousotsu mion said she loves keiichi vs when satoko said she loves rika. when mion did it it was romance. when satoko did it was platonic friendship even though satoko used the exact same wording mion did in her confession.
a certain trope happens between characters of opposite sex, everyone will claim it's romance and that they're def in love. same thing if not even more explicit happens in between two characters of the same sex, and it's suddenly "can't two people just be friends ?"
do you ever think about how sayo created a "male" side that is so much of her own self loathing and yet kanon exists to love jessica who loves the most unpleasant sides of sayo, but shannon only exists bc of societal expectations and of course that's what "attracts" george?
everyone in the replies acting like the incest ruined this garbage manga as if that hasn't been the case since aka akasaka went "let's exploit this one girl's actual suicide by plagiarizing all the mean comments she got" and all the other instances of misogynistic writing lol
i talk about the mirror/glass motifs all over gousotsu all the time, but this is one of my favorite instances of it. it's satoko literally looking at a projection of rika! the rika she wants back and not the rika that is present right there! her rika is the rika at hinamizawa!
this tumblr post is literally just making a silly joke about ace attorney misogyny by saying umineko is kinda like it but if the writing prioritized women in a way so that the men can't overshadow them y'all are so unserious
but she hasn’t gone through puberty yet so her brain literally isn't developed like that of an adult's, she’s not growing, she’s not maturing, she certainly isn’t “practically an adult”, and she’s more of a deeply mentally ill child stuck a fugue of trauma which-
mfw the reboot does more with the concept of othering women and abuse than the original series was ever able to conceptualize, specifically bc it is an adaptation able to criticize its own history.
ryukishi originally made satoko for rika, so he made gousotsu rika for satoko. she's the only other real person and it's their private universe. their yuri purgatory. yuritory, if you will.
girls when they collapse under the weight of the expectations of womanhood and become witches, for a girl who cannot become a princess is doomed to become a witch
it's about how teenage girls are ALWAYS treated like the worst person ever no matter what their circumstances may be compared to their male counterparts. some of these are terribly written and are vilified by their own narrative, but that's also part of the point.
satoko literally went through the same thing in gousotsu so she's canonically about her age right now. anyway can we not do this dumb as fuck discourse. this is like saying madohomu is an age gap ship.
people learning the letters "ACAB" seriously hurt a lot of people's ability to engage properly with some media
like, you can critically recognize copaganda without going "ACAB includes Dick Gumshoe"
big fan of satoko houjou. big fan of how ryukishi realized he neglected her in the sound novels so he made an entire show where she's the main character. a love letter to the abuse victim, so to speak.
i haven't read csm part 2 yet but i think if fujimoto is going to do a meta reconstruction of chainsaw man where the characters collect all pieces of denji and put them back together he should have them put her back as a girl to symbolize her transition
the time loop is a metaphor for. i do agree that satorika isn't on "equal terms" in the original but that's not because of fucking pedophilia and even if we were to pretend you were right and rika is actually 100 years old and not a kid-
no umineko ost fucks me up as much as thanks for being born. the mere mention of it is enough to make me collapse ugly sobbing bc isn't this the one thing ryukishi (and tohya in-universe) wrote millions of words trying to convey? a love letter to sayo, thanking her for being born
ange being like "i should have died i'm trapped in a cage of flesh" and cage of flesh being an inherently trans metaphor that sayo uses to express her gender dysphoria... this is why transfem ange is the perfect engagement with the text
umineko incest is 'thoughtful, not wholly centered around incest as the issue, but approaches it well' vs tsukihiume incest is 'not centered around incest and thinks it's sexy'
it's not like 'love me for who i am' which is about being enby but engages with broad transfem identities or 'shimanami tasogare' which explores a person wanting to engage with trans femininity while also recognizing how trans girls and questioning transfems can be hurt.
it's so funny to me how the wtc fanbase is ignoring that umi ep2 stage play got announced WHICH IS THE BIGGER NEWS just to get angry at a dlc that presumably adds ryukishi sprites and the original arcs as they are on pc according to unofficial sources just because it's higurashi
ya know what? fuck you.
I like Gou/Sotsu, i like the plot, i like the characters, im invested in the story, ive bought merch, this show is close to me and i like it
block me, report me, whine how i dont follow your DNI's, whatever, i like this show, and ill unfollow easily.
ya know what? fuck you.
I like Helluva Boss, i like the plot, i like the characters, im invested in the story, ive bought merch, this show is close to me and i like it
block me, report me, whine how i dont follow your DNI's, whatever, i like this show, and ill unfollow easily.
umineko would be slightly better if in-between the scene of beato putting battler on a leash and ep3 she forcefemmed her then she turned up as a girl in the next episode and this was never questioned by anybody
yeah shiori has comphet but consider that satoko literally went to class s yuri school and came back with world shattering internalized homophobia that made her believe the only way she can be with her girlfriend is by trapping her in a murder time loop until she's convinced
it bothers me sm when people call satoko a yandere even though she's a teenage girl with abandonment issues or they're like "she did this bc she hates studying" which is ableist as hell she has the makings of severe ptsd and adhd and it ignores the commentary on the school system
the reflections here are good bc even though they say something about the person looking, the reflections are for the person reflected. utena can see herself as she is reflected by anthy and so can satoko, but the reflection is misunderstood, distorted, and distant.
utena incest is 'rooted in the abuse and pain of incest' vs fatamoru incest is like 'oh yes the pain of incest but at the most voyeuristic level possible'
It can allow sapphic love almost explicitly because it cannot 'come to be' because this was always a tragedy in so many ways and I think there's a lot of meaning in being able to explore the tragedy of sapphic realities in many contexts.
it's also so powerful that ange finds happiness and fulfillment and moves on with her life all while remaining single, rather the core resolution resides in the sibling bond she shares with her brother even if he's technically not the same person he once used to be.
It's so funny that Kodaka made the last Danganronpa game about how milking Danganronpa would be bad but then proceeded to do exactly this, only he changed the titles to something else