OMG! I'm so glad I could make your day <3 I hope you have a wonderful birthday and year ahead of you!
Oh, I didn't write this earlier bc I forgor but it was also nice to see a portrayal of ED that isn't tied to weight loss. Aiyana's general disinterest/sensory difficulty around food was very, very close to my own. Sometimes, that's hard for other people to understand, and sometimes, it almost makes me feel like I'm just making shit up, but no! We're real..... ty................
My friends and I loved this VN!! I think there's a fundamental kindness at the heart of it that reminds me of Naoko Yamada's work or the anime move Look Back. I think you need this quality to appreciate the ephemerality of the world and to love other people so wistfully. I think that kindness makes it so different than all the other yuri games that I've played for this jam. It's not to say that I didn't enjoy the rest, but I think your perspective was refreshing.
Also, we spent so much time in Aiyana's house, that I felt like paying special attention to all the times we spent outdoors. For whatever reason, it reminded me of the South, or at least what I know of it from the time I spent in Virginia when I was younger. (I live in a major NE city now). The way the backyard was so overgrown and choked with the past, the rapeseed field, the rural emptiness, the fact that there's nothing to do and nowhere to go except to sit outside some store. The way that life and love persists in spite of it all.
