I Once Passed A Chainsaw Shop, And There Was Chainsaw Bill Buying A Chainsaw.
Over the weekend, my uncle told me the story of his application to Cardiff University. He got an interview, spoke to the interviewer for a while, and then the interviewer gave him a folded piece of paper and said, 'Could you take this to the professor down the hall?'
My uncle did so. The professor unfolded the piece of paper and read it. Looked at my uncle. Looked back at the paper.
My uncle could see the note from his vantage point. It said 'CANDIDATE IS ROARING DRUNK.'
He did not get a place.
(If you're wondering: yes, he absolutely was.)
I listened to the ending song of Umineko again and got SO EMOTIONAL about this stupid visual novel series. It's so beautiful and agonising and deeply, deeply weird. There's nothing else like it. It measurably changed my perspective; at one point it presented me with a question, and I went 'well, the answer is obviously this, but I'd have said the answer was obviously the opposite if I'd seen this question before playing this game.'
(The question, if you're curious, is this (it's best not to look if you're planning to play Umineko). It's got a very simple, very obvious answer, but which answer that is depends entirely on whether you've been through the journey that leads up to it.)
I'm sad that Umineko is in such an inaccessible medium and I can't get everyone I know into this odd thing. Everyone loves paying to read over a million words superimposed over dodgy art on their computer screens, right?
A part of me wants to try to write fanfiction, but I wouldn't know where to start. The canon's just too weird. And it gave me an OTP that's equal parts 'beautiful and romantic', 'juvenile and ridiculous' and 'colossally fucked-up'; it's hard to know how to strike the right balance there!
My uncle did so. The professor unfolded the piece of paper and read it. Looked at my uncle. Looked back at the paper.
My uncle could see the note from his vantage point. It said 'CANDIDATE IS ROARING DRUNK.'
He did not get a place.
(If you're wondering: yes, he absolutely was.)
I listened to the ending song of Umineko again and got SO EMOTIONAL about this stupid visual novel series. It's so beautiful and agonising and deeply, deeply weird. There's nothing else like it. It measurably changed my perspective; at one point it presented me with a question, and I went 'well, the answer is obviously this, but I'd have said the answer was obviously the opposite if I'd seen this question before playing this game.'
(The question, if you're curious, is this (it's best not to look if you're planning to play Umineko). It's got a very simple, very obvious answer, but which answer that is depends entirely on whether you've been through the journey that leads up to it.)
I'm sad that Umineko is in such an inaccessible medium and I can't get everyone I know into this odd thing. Everyone loves paying to read over a million words superimposed over dodgy art on their computer screens, right?
A part of me wants to try to write fanfiction, but I wouldn't know where to start. The canon's just too weird. And it gave me an OTP that's equal parts 'beautiful and romantic', 'juvenile and ridiculous' and 'colossally fucked-up'; it's hard to know how to strike the right balance there!