"We no longer dream… We just want to live another day without bombing, without hunger, without fear."
I am a university student from Gaza. A young man who used to carry his university bag, and today he bears the burden of survival in a city that knows nothing but pain.
My home was destroyed. My land was seized by the occupation. My family lost everything.
Even water, bread, and medicine… became unattainable dreams.
We live days that don't resemble life… There's no enough food, no electricity, no clean water, not even safety. We spend the nights surrounded by the bombardment's lights, and the day searching for a morsel of food to satisfy our hunger or medicine to save a sick person.
Despite all this, I'm still trying to complete my studies. I still believe that knowledge has a louder voice than bombs, and that the pen is mightier than a bullet. But I can't afford university fees, and I don't have money for books or even internet access.
That's why I'm writing to you… Perhaps this appeal will reach the heart of a person who knows the meaning of mercy and feels the weight of the pain we carry.
💚Easter💚 and 🩵Iggy🩵 !!!
What an interesting conversation 🤔
Easter; *Telling Iggy about the things he had done to his friends and the things he had witnessed.*
Iggy; "...I only asked you for the carrot cake recipe..Ar...Are you okay?.."
Easter; "Your mum."
Iggy; "What?" 🤨
Easter; "What?" 🙂
OMFG.
When I first played Our Wonderland and when this magnificent scene had begun, it was another thing that touched my heart. Got me a little bit of Deja Vu.
The barbeque, I mean. When I was a little demonic gremlin, me and my cousins would run around the backyard while the adults talk and smoke. Often, me and my cousins would jump on the trampoline or would often make horror stories (One of them managed to convince me that old porcelain dolls lived in the walls. Hah, the memories).
Now, all (totally) matured teens we are, we still talk. Not that much as I slightly lost connection with them but still talking.
Anyways, enough of my memory lane. I guess that the Barbeque scene was just- warm- touching to my weird heart. Maybe because the barbeque was a nice reunion for the group. Huh. Reunion. Maybe that's why it touched my heart.
That and also why I felt...envious?? Jealous, that despite what they're going through, they reunited over some nice barbeque. I can't even reunite with my friends without them bringing up past problems, without me being the middle of their shit. Whenever I try to reunite them over anything. Even after my group had broken up into two, whenever I talk with one of them they would just say; "Oh, are you that selfish?" or "Do I not matter to you?" or "You can do way much better than hanging out with them." It's my decision on who I hang out with and who I don't hang out with. It's my choice if I want to stop hanging out with one or not. Like, I don't fucking care, it's my choice, why can't they fucking take a no for an answer? That I'm my own person and not some character from some twisted drama show?
But besides my enviousness of the barbeque scene. It really gives a nice introductions to the characters, how they act to one another but what I like most was the presentation of Hunar(Humar? Sorry for my misspelling) and Bucks relationship and how both of them react/deal with their unready . I love how Carrot had showed that Bucks wasn't ready or ready to be a mother (yet), showing how Bucks had dealt with the situation, which and sadly, she dealt quite negatively, neglecting Saydie and avoiding the problem. When arguing with Hunar, she had suggested giving their infant daughter whiskey to shut her up but when her friends were coming over, she had bought a new grill for the barbeque reuninon.. Hunar, who, even though wasn't prepared nor ready to be a father (just like Bucks), took the responsibility of taking care of Saydie, which in my point of view and my opinion, was the only one taking care of Saydie and also the only one trying to keep their marriage upgoing and stable. Instead of Hunar staying silent and letting Bucks do her thing (which I sadly keep seeing on SOME visual novels/books *cutely sighs*), he confronted her about the problem, telling her off for her irresponsibility, her neglection towards Saydie and how she rarely been at home for dinner and shit.
Honestly, if @just-a-carrot didn't add the barbeque scene after the small prologue, I would've gone;
'that's a wrap. I'll play this tomorrow!', then would've proceed to not play it for a week- (totally not me who spent one whole day on ARC 1 and balling my eyes out at the end)
LIKE SERIOUSLY THOUGH. How they expressed the types of relationship the group has for each other in their 30s, it's like fucking icing on a rich red velvet cake. (YES RED VELVET IS MY FAVOURITE FLAVOUR SWEETS, BITE ME). Like how Genzou still bullies Orlam, how Orlam improved his game (by game I mean getting laid-), how Gidget is trying to be perfect, Bucks becoming a momm- I MEAN, becoming a tough (anger issue??) woman. I WOULD CONTINUE RANTING BUT IT'LL FUCKING BECOME LIKE THE FNAF LORE BOOK. Ty, for whoever read this.
If you're talking about ARC 1, yes. Very relatable. Honestly, when I played OW for the first time, when they were eating I was like, "Ah, unlimited food? No need for payment? SIGN ME UP!"
then later on, when Orlam revealed that they were actually eating other people, I was like; "I take back what I said.." ;-;
My friend (who had introduced me to OW) smiled at my face of utter disgust and gave me a gentle pat on the back.
Oh dear god im having a physical adverse reaction to the tasting scene. I forgot just how bad this was. Ough. Augh. I am visible making a face of complete disgust. Im even tearing up a little
Hm. Very good question. If I somehow had unlimited resources, I would make a side game about the alternative ending of OW or a side game focusing around Jerry, like his own perspective of the cast.
The alternative ending of OW. Honestly, Idk how that'll work as a side game. Most likely would just base around if Iggy didn't make his choice, or if he wanted to do it right this Time, restarting the cycle. I often think of what'll happen if Iggy didn't make the right choice, if he chose to restart the cycle all over again. Would he remember that he made that choice or would he not?
I honestly would love a Jerry side game, to see through his perspective on Wonderlan
Another idea if I had unlimited resources, I'd probably make another crossover side game. Since DD2 x OW was so fantastic (that I literally had to search up the gameplay and wishing that I have it-), I want to make a small crossover of OW x The Witcher. The Witcher is a TV series/Game, about a Witcher, Geralt, a mutated man trying to find his place in the world in which often made the people think it's more wicked than the beasts. The Witcher is a Mediaeval (dark?) fantasy series which I quite enjoy. I already have a few roles, which I think Genzou would fit perfectly as The Witcher and Iggy as a trainee wizard. (I have so much angst idea-).
"I wish I could make my friends this happy forever."
When I first watched that scene. Read that text. Seeing how Iggy only wanted his friends to be happy, putting their wants and needs above his own, seeing how he only thinks about them...It made my heart ached. I didn't even notice that I was crying myself until I saw my keyboard getting wet lol.
After watching that scene, that aching in my heart and the confusion on why I cried didn't fade away. I think it took me about a week or two to know why. Maybe because I felt that familiarity and similarity of wanting to put others happiness before my own.
Before 2025, before finally breaking the walls I've created, I've always felt the need to put others happiness before my own. My family's and friends'needs and wants over my own that I forgot what I had wanted. Until I went to High School and reality punched me in the head. When my old friends drifted away, the connection I felt broke from my grasp. I was lost.
Lost, confused, scared and isolated for one and a half years. Pretending to be someone that they wanted me to be, hiding away the person with their own dreams. I've always been so fucking anxious on what my future will be, on what others think of me, and scared on what my friends think of me. It's hard to explain how I finally escaped on the cage I've built but I think the realisation that what I was doing isn't what I wanted but what others wanted me to be, finally broken the shell.
Now, I'm happy. Grateful for my life, grateful to be around people who understand and care about me for just being me, for understanding my own needs and wants, for putting up my weird ass humour.
I think the reason why that scene, that sentence, stabbed my heart was because I was just like Iggy. Wanting to please others, wanting his friends to be happy despite himself. I never thought that I would have a connection to Iggy. And I never read/played a visual novel that kissed a brick and bash into my heart repeatedly. Which, I meant was, I never played a visual novel that touched my heart...
I'm happy that Iggy got to find his own happiness and make his own choices.
I'm happy that I found my own happiness and made my own choices.
Life is precious. Cherish every single moment of it. Make your own choices. Find your own happiness. ♥️
Gosh. Our Wonderland really is an emotional rollercoaster. 🌹
Bro, your art is so scrumptious, I cannot- 🤩🤩🤩😋😋
(Tbh, I almost had a second heart attack from that CG-)
i like this cg
Relatable 😞
(I'm already running out of pages....)
Me: I'm bored, I've done all of my school work. 😞
My brain; Draw 'corrupted' Genzou and Iggy.
Me: HELL YEAH.
Notes;
Yeah, in Genzou's Corrupted form(??) in the rough sketch, he's wearing a very fluffy yet silky sleeping robe(?), which is a little transparent (still a w.i.p). I was trying to go for a 'sleepy-forest-depresso-man'.
While, Iggy's Corrupted form in rough sketch, is supposed to represent the White King in the chessboard (but, didn't really. So. Yah). I was conflicted on giving Iggy a cape SOOO, I gave him a big ass jacket!!
I might colour these two rough sketches digitally soon or later lol.
+ Might draw a canonical version a-like for the two corrupted woobles.
++ Draw their small servants...
Hello! I am a 15-year old drawer who loves to draw her own Ocs and other characters from different fandoms! :) (and also likes drawing/making random things haha ;3;)
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