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Also, it's kind of insulting to her to imply that letting him do anything for her is to "debase" herself. Is she not allowed to seek solace like anyone else? I don't think she is debasing herself deliberately. She's broken, and in that sense 'debased' I suppose. Hisao is seduced, but not because sh...

forgetmenot wrote:This isn't finished, not by a long shot. I'm just putting the finishing touches on the next chapter now.

This makes me very happy. I don't know if you know how happy. But very.

Uh... no? So do Hanako, Emi, Rin, Kenji, Shizune and Misha also see this vision in your version? They all interact with Lilly over the course of the story. Lilly guides him to places he's never been to before. She invites him to her summer home. Not really stuff you can explain with "unreliable nar...

“I started painting it last year. Just before Lilly died.” ... So... Everyone interacted with Lilly's ghost all the time? I was just playing with the idea that since we see only Hisao's viewpoint, he might have seen things... differently. It all begins when he walks into the deserted tea-room and s...

In my last playthrough (taking it slow, no more than an hour a day) Rin's good end hurt bad. The A#1 rule of Yamaku os that you're not helpless, you're not your disability, but in the good end Rin seduces Hisao by making herself helpless. It hurt to imagine how lonely she must be in order for her t...

This vignette is from the second summer that Hisao, Shizune and Hanako spend at the University of Tokyo after leaving Yamaku. It comes shortly after this part of Hanako's arc, and is the second in Hisao's own 'arc'. This part of Rika's story also takes place around that time. Hisao 2: Paperwork (T ...

I've already stated my opinion of sad stories before, so I won't again. Unfortunately, that holds true for this one. It's well written and everything, just not to my taste. Thank you for appreciating the writing, anyway! Hopefully some other later pieces will be more to your liking. Very interestin...

As I once told dewelar, I considered Lilly's 'neutral' ending to be the most useful for writing, since it ends in August and Hisao has some time to get his life back together again before graduation. Or not. Cold Iron Even after that black, shiny car goes down the hill and disappears into the dark ...

Definitely better. I also didn't get the references, and was a little confused on why two of them were friends with Meiko and Yuuko, but overall I liked it. I thought the way they described Lilly, Hanako, Shizune(through Misha) and Hisao was clever. Makes me wonder how they would describe Emi and R...

A lot of buried sadness and untold secrets in that neat little slice of Hisao's life there. Well-written, ambiguous, a window into a world that's lost. I like how Yuuko is once again the adult in the room, whatever her flaws might be. If there were some sort of index it'd be easier to find the stori...

That was... interesting. While I got the references to Shakespeare, I'm afraid I'm not sure about the one about Kurosawa, and his filmography is too lare to look up all of his works. Also not 100% sure if the "lady of two voices" is supposed to be Shizune or someone else... Thanks! Kurosawa's 'Thro...

Wow . What. I liked it, but I'm going to have to read it again tomorrow. [I score myself a few points for triggering a 'Wow' and a second read from Leaty.] :) Neat. Must have been a hell of a revision if the first version just flat-out didn't work. This definitely does. Thank you! Yes, I threw the ...

The rewrite is up! Just a one-shot, for the month of October ahead of us. Three critics (for want of a better word) review Lilly's neutral ending. ===== Scottish Play “No respect,” I mumble to myself, gaptoothed, one-eyed, half-blind, half-deaf. I am Atropos, inevitable, formidable. I cut the threa...

d2r wrote:Could someone explain what the library anniversary is (that is, what it is for the purposes of this thread)? I can't figure it out from context.

It's been a year since the Yamaku Library sticky thread was set up. These stories commemorate that.

Kenji? That's Hikikomori, a different kind of syndrome not related chuunibyou which usually starts in middle-school. although we can argue it's the same, but hikikomori usually 'appear' due to overwhelming social pressure that someone can't cope with to the point it drove them into isolation, somet...