Mel
@melancholiholic.bsky.social
She/They 23 ace 日本語勉強中
Visual novel enjoyer | Made some video essays | Higurashi Sotsu apologist
https://melancholiholic.straw.page/
Currently (mute tags to hide spoilers):
Playing - Sora no Kiseki the 1st #melnokiseki
Visual novel enjoyer | Made some video essays | Higurashi Sotsu apologist
https://melancholiholic.straw.page/
Currently (mute tags to hide spoilers):
Playing - Sora no Kiseki the 1st #melnokiseki
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Mel
@melancholiholic.bsky.social
· Jan 10
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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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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Pinned!!!
You can call me Abu!
College student, so i post rarely about what i feel like atm, but i stick to interacting in comments with oomfs.
Main intrests :
🍃Umineko
🍃Pjsk
🍃AveMyGo
🍃Life series
🍃YTTD
🍃and many more.
I'm a bit slow so tone tags would be nice, but I'd love to interact w/y'all!
You can call me Abu!
College student, so i post rarely about what i feel like atm, but i stick to interacting in comments with oomfs.
Main intrests :
🍃Umineko
🍃Pjsk
🍃AveMyGo
🍃Life series
🍃YTTD
🍃and many more.
I'm a bit slow so tone tags would be nice, but I'd love to interact w/y'all!
a girl with pink hair and blue eyes is wearing a black jacket and red cuffs
ALT: a girl with pink hair and blue eyes is wearing a black jacket and red cuffs
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Pinned!!!
You can call me Abu!
College student, so i post rarely about what i feel like atm, but i stick to interacting in comments with oomfs.
Main intrests :
🍃Umineko
🍃Pjsk
🍃AveMyGo
🍃Life series
🍃YTTD
🍃and many more.
I'm a bit slow so tone tags would be nice, but I'd love to interact w/y'all!
You can call me Abu!
College student, so i post rarely about what i feel like atm, but i stick to interacting in comments with oomfs.
Main intrests :
🍃Umineko
🍃Pjsk
🍃AveMyGo
🍃Life series
🍃YTTD
🍃and many more.
I'm a bit slow so tone tags would be nice, but I'd love to interact w/y'all!
RGG either needs to stop gender locking jobs or make the female party members more than less-than-a-third of all members. Preferably both
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
RGG either needs to stop gender locking jobs or make the female party members more than less-than-a-third of all members. Preferably both
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Making a pinned post!!
I'm mossrey and I love yapping with people
General interests include:
🌟 Visual Novels!!!!
🌟 When They Cry
🌟 Saya no Uta
🌟 Anything by Key, but particularly Little Busters and Rewrite are the top 2
🌟 Vsynth!! - Kasane Teto & Adachi Rei
🌟 Yakuza?? (still going through!!)
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I'm mossrey and I love yapping with people
General interests include:
🌟 Visual Novels!!!!
🌟 When They Cry
🌟 Saya no Uta
🌟 Anything by Key, but particularly Little Busters and Rewrite are the top 2
🌟 Vsynth!! - Kasane Teto & Adachi Rei
🌟 Yakuza?? (still going through!!)
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December 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Making a pinned post!!
I'm mossrey and I love yapping with people
General interests include:
🌟 Visual Novels!!!!
🌟 When They Cry
🌟 Saya no Uta
🌟 Anything by Key, but particularly Little Busters and Rewrite are the top 2
🌟 Vsynth!! - Kasane Teto & Adachi Rei
🌟 Yakuza?? (still going through!!)
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I'm mossrey and I love yapping with people
General interests include:
🌟 Visual Novels!!!!
🌟 When They Cry
🌟 Saya no Uta
🌟 Anything by Key, but particularly Little Busters and Rewrite are the top 2
🌟 Vsynth!! - Kasane Teto & Adachi Rei
🌟 Yakuza?? (still going through!!)
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I wouldn't change a single thing about Zero Time Dilemma I'm so serious. It is a magical game
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I wouldn't change a single thing about Zero Time Dilemma I'm so serious. It is a magical game
The metanarrative aspect of the JRPG system in Yakuza is so good. How it turns it into a worldview made manifest. A JRPG hero is someone doesn't shoulder everything alone, who relies on and finds strength from others even though they could get hurt because that's trust
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The metanarrative aspect of the JRPG system in Yakuza is so good. How it turns it into a worldview made manifest. A JRPG hero is someone doesn't shoulder everything alone, who relies on and finds strength from others even though they could get hurt because that's trust
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The best way I would describe the philosophy of When They Cry is "radical kindness". It's uncompromising on this view to an extent that many can't stomach, but its sincerity certainly reached me and has affected who I am to this day.
September 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The best way I would describe the philosophy of When They Cry is "radical kindness". It's uncompromising on this view to an extent that many can't stomach, but its sincerity certainly reached me and has affected who I am to this day.
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428 won the coin flip so I'm making it my next vn !!
mute #mossrey428 to avoid minor spoilers in case I decide to share anything (I learned from my past mistakes that I tend to not tag things)
mute #mossrey428 to avoid minor spoilers in case I decide to share anything (I learned from my past mistakes that I tend to not tag things)
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
428 won the coin flip so I'm making it my next vn !!
mute #mossrey428 to avoid minor spoilers in case I decide to share anything (I learned from my past mistakes that I tend to not tag things)
mute #mossrey428 to avoid minor spoilers in case I decide to share anything (I learned from my past mistakes that I tend to not tag things)
More stories need to be weird and unsatisfying until they haunt your consciousness for years with the implications and themes
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
More stories need to be weird and unsatisfying until they haunt your consciousness for years with the implications and themes
EmaHiro is so SatoRika......
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
EmaHiro is so SatoRika......
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When you get a good night's sleep
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
When you get a good night's sleep
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God just… a person coming into his life whom he is undeniably drawn towards, whom he gradually sees himself and his pain within, who belongs to a group that he’s told himself over and over to categorically hate… and he can never touch him. it’s a queer narrative that stabs the heart.
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
God just… a person coming into his life whom he is undeniably drawn towards, whom he gradually sees himself and his pain within, who belongs to a group that he’s told himself over and over to categorically hate… and he can never touch him. it’s a queer narrative that stabs the heart.
I need to figure out a way to be even more serious about learning Japanese during this next year. I'm thinking about it and might limit my bsky time for this purpose soon
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I need to figure out a way to be even more serious about learning Japanese during this next year. I'm thinking about it and might limit my bsky time for this purpose soon
Listening *section was the hardest because
1. They played it from a crusty ass radio and the sound quality sucked
2. If I spaced out for half a second I could miss the answer & they don't replay or give you much time to read the answers
3. It was very robotic speech and I'm used to natural speaking
1. They played it from a crusty ass radio and the sound quality sucked
2. If I spaced out for half a second I could miss the answer & they don't replay or give you much time to read the answers
3. It was very robotic speech and I'm used to natural speaking
39. JLPT N3 [JP]
Honestly pretty tricky at points. Glad I went for this instead of N2 for now. The listening session was probably the hardest despite being one of my strong suits. I'm pretty sure I passed but this game takes a couple months to load your score so we'll see!
Honestly pretty tricky at points. Glad I went for this instead of N2 for now. The listening session was probably the hardest despite being one of my strong suits. I'm pretty sure I passed but this game takes a couple months to load your score so we'll see!
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Listening *section was the hardest because
1. They played it from a crusty ass radio and the sound quality sucked
2. If I spaced out for half a second I could miss the answer & they don't replay or give you much time to read the answers
3. It was very robotic speech and I'm used to natural speaking
1. They played it from a crusty ass radio and the sound quality sucked
2. If I spaced out for half a second I could miss the answer & they don't replay or give you much time to read the answers
3. It was very robotic speech and I'm used to natural speaking
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I was reading more Higurashi today and decided to doodle Rika on the side because there is something really silly about this sprite to me
#ひぐらしFA #higurashi
#ひぐらしFA #higurashi
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I was reading more Higurashi today and decided to doodle Rika on the side because there is something really silly about this sprite to me
#ひぐらしFA #higurashi
#ひぐらしFA #higurashi
I'm about to go ace this grahhhhh
Will be setting out this morning on a trip to the nearest city I can take the JLPT at, a state over. The test is on Sunday. Good luck to anyone else among my oomfies who might be taking it along with me!!
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm about to go ace this grahhhhh
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I think the best thing you can do to develop both your enjoyment and analysis of art is not to be prescriptivist ("What should this work be like, and does it succeed") but rather descriptivist ("What is this work trying to do/say, and how does it accomplish that")
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I think the best thing you can do to develop both your enjoyment and analysis of art is not to be prescriptivist ("What should this work be like, and does it succeed") but rather descriptivist ("What is this work trying to do/say, and how does it accomplish that")
2026........ the year where everyone will read Rewrite...... did you hear about that because you should............
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
2026........ the year where everyone will read Rewrite...... did you hear about that because you should............
WHERE IS THE REMIND ME NEVER OPTION
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
WHERE IS THE REMIND ME NEVER OPTION
Past and future. Regret and hope. Family and friends. Reality and fiction. Self-hatred and forgiveness. Settling the score and carrying the torch. Kiryu and Ichiban is one of my favorite dynamics ever.
a man in a floral shirt talks to a man in a car
ALT: a man in a floral shirt talks to a man in a car
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December 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Past and future. Regret and hope. Family and friends. Reality and fiction. Self-hatred and forgiveness. Settling the score and carrying the torch. Kiryu and Ichiban is one of my favorite dynamics ever.
If Kagari Rewrite has zero fans I am dead
December 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
If Kagari Rewrite has zero fans I am dead
I could never do polyamoury. I am far too susceptible to jealousy and overthinking. Hope you guys have fun out there though
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I could never do polyamoury. I am far too susceptible to jealousy and overthinking. Hope you guys have fun out there though
I am on a list both for proshippers and antishippers lmao these people are unserious
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am on a list both for proshippers and antishippers lmao these people are unserious
Yakuza writing is better than it has ever been imo since the release of 0 I don't fall into to the "Yakuza has lost its way" camp AT ALL but 0 Director's Cut dropped the ball soooo hard that now I'm slightly less confident...
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Yakuza writing is better than it has ever been imo since the release of 0 I don't fall into to the "Yakuza has lost its way" camp AT ALL but 0 Director's Cut dropped the ball soooo hard that now I'm slightly less confident...
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