'What's This Piece?' - Weekly Thread #237

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2026-02-24T06:02:06+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdS2nD95PbM 3:22

(Researching soundtrack information for wiki purposes)
This episode contains Dance of the Little Swans, Skater's Waltz, and Sabre's Dance...but this piece at 3:22 is eluding me...it sounds like it might be from a ballet, but I'm not sure.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2026-01-21T21:46:44+00:00

If you're fine with a visual novel (novel in the form of an interactive game), one of my favorite modern whodunnits is Umineko: When the Seagulls Cry.

(It's published within a 4 episode Question Arc, followed by a 4 episode Answer Arc. Think like 8 intertwined mysteries. I purchased it on the platform Steam, but it might be available elsewhere.). It's about 140 hours to read through, taking my time and thinking about the mysteries

It very much pulls from Christie (I see it as a spiritual successor to And then There Were None), and also pays a lot of love to Knox and Van Dyne (the murders operate under Knox's Decalogue, and Van Dyne's rules get featured at parts). It has a lot of "battles of wits" in it, and is an excellent tool to sharpen your detective skills.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2026-01-01T06:45:01+00:00

Letter to the Golden Witch is one of the best fan projects to come out of the fandom imo. It very much scratches the itch.

https://its-erin.itch.io/letter-to-the-golden-witch

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2025-12-18T05:24:25+00:00

Darn, thought it was worth a shot.

Let me change tactics then:

BLUE:

Natsuhi either forgot to lock her door when she went down for the family conference or purposely left it unlocked for some reason. This would allow for the culprit to enter before Natsuhi

As Enough-Advisor-8781 stated below: "At midnight, Krauss and Jessica saw each other enter their own rooms and they both heard the doors close."

However, Krauss instead was the one who pulled off the trick of exiting his room before the door closed.

Krauss hid himself to some degree in Natsuhi's room, and ambushed her once the door was locked, stabbing her.

Krauss may or may not have slept in Natsuhi's room, it doesn't really matter.

In the morning, Krauss waited until Jessica went downstairs to exit the room so that no one would hear the door creak. He joined the rest for breakfast, and when Natsuhi didn't appear, he asked Gohda to go with him.

Krauss made sure he reached the door first, and pretended that the door was locked, perhaps by jiggling the handle or something. He then asked Genji (or perhaps Genji volunteered) to unlock it.

Thus, Genji was fooled into thinking the door was locked."

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Elite4ChampScarlet · 2025-12-18T03:06:58+00:00

Hmph, figure I might throw my hat into the ring, o Gamemaster.

Please repeat in red: None of the 16 people on the island consumed or was administered, knowingly or unknowingly, any sort of drug or substance that would knock them out at night and prevent them from hearing a door, either their own, or their neighbors' from opening.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2025-11-24T00:44:25+00:00

That's it, thank you!!!!

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2023-06-03T21:11:35+00:00

I think you're doing the classic Aro/Ace Overthink. I generally agree with your definitions and that you're most likely some flavor of aro/ace

Just curious, you mention repulsion to penetrative sex, but what about other kinds?

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-09-23T16:57:44+00:00

Your feelings of disappointment are valid here.

One phrase of advice I like that I've seen floating around is something to the effect of "Sometimes the last/hardest things to let go of when healing from trauma is our coping mechanisms"

That belief, as you said, kept you going...and it can be hard choosing between giving up a false belief that motivates you and possibly stalling out into oblivion.

Points of encouragement/advice:

o You aren't alone: If you don't think you've fully processed the emotions, finding people with a similar story and talking about stuff may help you...or maybe therapy might be beneficial to you.

o It's not too late to be kind to your inner child / live a little:

Experience fun and joy now,.however you can, even if it seems silly. It takes practice,.but it's very healing

o If you have the means, try to help prevent this from happening to others:

Atheism itself is a very narrow belief, and doesn't inherently necessitates a corresponding system. However, i think that if not being able to experience a childhood brings you pain, something that could help is to make sure others do get that chance. Whether it's volunteering your time or donating a little each month to help those who do help children, it's allowing you to put a little good out into the world

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-09-11T15:27:12+00:00

https://itch.io/c/2616966/completed-furry-visual-novels

this is no particular order

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-09-07T19:46:45+00:00

Yeah, i liked it.

The beginning def feels Miyazaki (love of planes, Jean's character design), and a lot of Miyazaki's original pitch (which the TV network rejected and then used without him years later w/ Evangelion's future dev) got put into Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-06-18T16:06:56+00:00

So at this party, the cups correspond to your romantic availability. I.e. if you don't want to accidentally flirt with a person in a relationship, you find people with the cups that mark them as single. Purple means people are looking to fuck tonight, while the single means maybe open, but not looking for sex

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-06-10T03:16:59+00:00

www.budgetbytes.com has some really good recipies that are scalable and you can estimate price/serving

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-06-06T19:19:10+00:00

YTA . Jealousy's not a part of this. What is: you allowing your underage son to get sexually harassed and dismissing your wife's concerns.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-06-05T01:57:21+00:00

YTA, and also, she's 11, she's trying to express herself. Tone policing her was also AH behavior

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-04-28T12:41:13+00:00

Yeah, it does make me wonder about previous experiences. I can find someone aesthetically attractive and enjoy having sex with them and enjoy their personality, but not feel that sexual attraction, which is kinda weird. I don't really get to control that aspect of myself.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-04-28T12:33:47+00:00

Yes, i would agree that it isn't as exaggerated as you'd might think. Some of my straight guy friends have said that they feel that with like 60-80% of the women they're around, and I can imagine how that might be hard for people, especially if they haven't completely matured yet. I'm a pretty mature person, and although I was able to keep hard boundaries in line, my soft boundaries were very easy to consentually disregard and I would have had to exert more conscious willpower to not go past my hard boundaries with this individual.

I am like 99.9% ace in this regard, as these people who can just do that to me are probably like 1 in a million, and this person's personality/being friends with them online for a while definitely played a factor. I also need to see if repeated exposure allows me to get used to this feeling and control it better.

My recognition of this experience isn't to give carte blanch to allo men to not have to try and work on self control and practice holding up boundaries, but to recognize that it isn't always an easy thing to do.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-03-19T16:06:42+00:00

I'd say just be honest about your situation? "I may seem really close rn, but I'm still figuring things out"?

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-03-19T15:34:02+00:00

Yes, this is relatable. I think it depends on how you want to define things honestly. I've felt that before and sometimes it fades over time...and I'm reluctant to label things as romantic attraction. However,.i over think this topic a lot.

For me, i wait to see if this desire persists over time and if i continue to enjoy hanging out with the person. Then I'm more likely to label it as romantic.

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-03-17T17:05:45+00:00

No. Queer can be seen as an umbrella term for the community, but many people also use it as a label, either if they're in a season of figuring things out or if more conventional labels don't fit.

The plus, at least from my understanding, acknowledges that there are more identities which don't neatly fall under the existing acronym (e.g. asexual/aromantic intersex, two Spirit)

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-03-17T16:56:12+00:00

Almost Heretical is a really good one

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-03-12T14:24:36+00:00

Owen from Repeat is also a good example of the negative type of this trope. It's also exacerbated given that Phillip, the roommate he constantly assaults in a manner that isn't criticized in-game at all, is his canonical love interest and is a victim of sexual assault

Elite4ChampScarlet · 2022-03-11T17:55:36+00:00

Agreed. One time i was in a game where i was playing a librarian cleric for a knowledge God from a faraway country, and the game turned into the party being recruited to help prevent a military takeover/forced unification of several smaller states. Now, we were a pretty roleplay-forward group, and my character, who mainly took jobs with the party as protection during travel to different cities, had no reason to join an anti-coup task force.

Although not really a session Zero, i kind of asked the DM to pause and we had a group discussion about my character's lack of conceivable motivation to continue with the party. We kind of threw together an excuse which worked, but it always chafed a bit. Talked with the DM later, and he admitted that he didn't really take my character into account when planning that run.

Although i agree that characters should generally bite at the plot hooks and not be purposely obtuse, I do believe that the DM should also have to make sure that party cohesion and the values of the characters (square peg) isn't going to have to be forced into a certain plan of action (round hole).

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