Asian Woolly-necked Stork (Ciconia episcopus), family Ciconiidae, order Ciconiiformes, Maharashtra, India
photograph by Ashish Sikka
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RYUKISHI07 IS DOING THE NEW SILENT HILL?????..?? ¿¡¿!?
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Damn we never getting Ciconia. Like I totally understand….. but also do we have to wait for all war to be ended before we get the next part? Regardless I wouldn’t feel comfortable releasing something like that right now either
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The longer it goes without Ciconia phase 2 having any hope of coming out, the more the factory scene becomes a complete non-sequitur. Like it's clearly setting something up, and it's genuinely horrific, but I can't help but conjure this image given that I have no clue what the deal with that was supposed to be
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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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Everyone say happy birthday ryukishi07!!!!!!
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Black Stork (Ciconia nigra), family Ciconiidae, Hungary
photograph by Erika Gombos
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hello hello hello should I reread ciconia and draw everyone and get brain rot again?
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A black stork (Ciconia nigra) in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
by Gary Faulkner
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