#the concept of grandma ushiromiya is weird to me

[pochapal]

another grandma ushiromiya mention. hm.

#umineko liveblog #ep1 reread #the concept of grandma ushiromiya is weird to me #because she doesn't occupy an absence within the narrative if that makes sense? #like nobody seems to be haunted by her not being there #and yet she receives more narrative mention than the actually alive ushiromiya who is absent from the conference #again i feel like there's a slippery point about ange and grandma that i'm not quite grasping yet but i know is there #maybe put them in a trifecta with beatrice? #the two literal absences do not haunt but the one metaphorical figure does nothing except haunt #in this case the youngest and the oldest female members of the family become another mirror for the golden witch #because the rule of umineko seems to be 'when in doubt make it about beatrice' #btw this is funny because this is like the second metaphorical trifecta i've put beatrice into #we've got the ange-beatrice-grandma triangle of absent and haunting figures #and then we have the beatrice-shannon-kanon triangle of active/passive involvement in the construction of the witch narrative #beatrice is a fractal. this is what i have learned today