Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Mel

@melancholiholic.bsky.social

1.1K followers 860 following 6K posts

She/her 23 ace 日本語を勉強しています Visual novel enjoyer | Made some video essays | Artist sometimes | Bachibro | Higurashi Sotsu apologist https://melancholiholic.straw.page/

melancholiholic.straw.page

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Jan 10

📍

I'm Melancholiholic, or Mel for short! Stories & storytelling are my passion. I enjoy writing, reading, writing about reading, and there are rumors of me being an artist too.

Visual novels are my muse.

Learning JP & annoying about it (it's too much of my life not to be).

Other links/socials ⬇️

Things I often yap about:

When They Cry
Chainsaw Man
Sonic the Hedgehog
Your Turn To Die
Yakuza/Like a Dragon
Final Fantasy XIV
Kagurabachi
Rewrite

7 9 61

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1h

His tendency to infodump otaku shit, how he overthinks everything but overlooks the obvious, etc

Rings very true to my experience and some scenes read like Ryukishi is reading off a symptom list

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1h

There's a lot of overlap but I think autism in particular just has so much textual evidence. The way he's so bad at hiding his emotions that people can read his precise thoughts from his face, his struggles with empathy and reading others yet his deep care for his friends

1 1

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1h

Autism headcanons are common for any Higurashi character which makes sense but the one I'm convinced was legitimately intended in the text is actually Keiichi

1 7

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 2h

This isn't the arm thing btw if that's what you meant

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, it's EDS type 3. Birth condition

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 2h

I really want to finish making a VN someday so I think I'll still try to draw now and then but it's rough. Once the learning Japanese hyperfixation doesn't take literally all of my free time maybe I'll focus on honing my writing

1 3

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 2h

I honestly might not be able to get back into drawing, not regularly at least. My condition has gotten worse and I worry about what might happen to my hand, it was honestly scary even last year. It fucking sucks but maybe it just wasn't for me

2 3

Reposted by Mel

fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 2h

god I’m so overwhelmed with joy and excitement knowing I’m going to go see akiangel gay the fuck out on a theater screen

3 1 17

Reposted by Mel

ゆうき @higuyuuki.bsky.social · 3h

2 16 37

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

Finding out Hundred Line is longer than Higurashi and wondering how I did even that. Why I even did that

1 5

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

Not down for me

1 2

Reposted by Mel

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

87 1.9K 5.5K

Reposted by Mel

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 7h

Yakuza (Steam) sale on Gamebillet buff.ly/7sL7Gvv

Like a Dragon buff.ly/2XtNLyT

1 8 26

Reposted by Mel

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

38 1.1K 5.5K

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 17h

Why are Atlus fans like that

1 4

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 18h

#MelPockets

Shiroha is literally me irl

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 22h

Doing god's work

1 13

Reposted by Mel

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

59 880 4.9K

Reposted by Mel

the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 1d

evil witch pulled me aside on my way to the costco and told me "check this shit out gay boy" before hitting a vape and blowing the smoke directly into my eyes and the last thing I saw was her on her broom cackling away and nobody else there saw it

6 71 170

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

The true immersive Umineko experience...

1 2

Reposted by Mel

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Aug 9

Isn't that all of them

2 2 11

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie, he couldn't dodge it, so sad, but I could. I've been told I'm the best at dodging bullets. They say sir, you've never taken a direct hit once. If I was on that stage it never would've happened, let me tell you, never would've happened

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

2 14

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you too oomfie~

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon girl with yellow hair is holding a red object in her hand

ALT: a cartoon girl with yellow hair is holding a red object in her hand

media.tenor.com

1 1

Reposted by Mel

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 11d

If you've heard about a VN and you're kinda interested just read it. It's probably kino. More than other mediums the chance you stumble on peak is extremely high

3 8 20