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Hot damn that was some top-shelf praise. I'm vicariously glowing.

You know, I'd like to think I'm a pretty solid writer, but one thing I notice a lot is that I'm not really well-known for sublime takes on any character I didn't flesh out myself. Like it's easy enough for me to say that Forgetmenot's Rin and Hisao are top-tier, as are Dewelar's Emi and Rin, Blank's...

"Countdown" has been such an appropriate title for this whole act. Particularly since the last chapter—where Saki's cards were laid out on the table—there's been a rising sense of tension in the narrative. The inevitability of Saki's progressively dwindling quality of life weighs me down a...

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I don't think a story has ever before made me laugh and headdesk simultaneously.

Thank you for this. Thank you so much for this. I think I actually like this more than I like MTtB , which is a high bar. Not since the very early pre- Developments days of my association with this community has there been something that rewrote large chunks of my headcanon for KS like this one has...

Another book Hanako was mentioned reading in the VN was Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. According to the article, the novel (as well as several of Murakami's other books) deals with loss, abandonment and alienation. It's possible she read that book because it hit a personal spot. This is esse...

I love this discussion as much as I loved having Leaty around last month. We're seeing nuts-and-bolts, comparisons, learning points... wonderful! I'll just throw in a little question here: What short Hanako fiction do you like most, or has made the greatest impact (good or bad) on you—and why? A li...

I start to shake a bit, because at first I don't know what she means. Then it strikes me. "Ah!" I say aloud, then return to signing. [Desautels? In Tokyo? I think they only have a master's program.] [No,] she says, smiling and adjusting her glasses. [I'm talking about their home campus at...

It's a little sad, though, to see that unlike Hisao, Iwanako seems to have gotten a little colder in her interactions, and she was never all that warm to begin with. At this point, maybe I'm reading too far into the limited dialogue we get...? (Or I just love cold-yet-secretly-lonely characters.) I...

Thanks to everybody for the praise! I think Iwanako comes across here worse than Hisao ever did in the game. It's an interesting way to look at her and their relationship. I'm having a bit of trouble parsing this. Do you mean that Iwanako comes across worse than Hisao ever portrayed her as being? Be...