umisuzume: a disability thesis on the impossibility of translating trauma

i've been meaning to play/read this in awhile and it's so moving i don't find words to explain it (lol lost in translation) so i will try to find them... while i don't claim to fully understand this violating nature of everything i feel i got closer to that in a recent experience i've had and this comes close to what I ended up finding out ... it feels relieving, through foreboding too, to have this written out and spelled out more clearly, contrary to the way the world leaves things masked and having us be forced (willing or unwilling) to pretend we live in islands of our minds and bodies. the bit in the 2nd chapter wip too, about translation and language, is also very nice.. to speak a new language does not mean to be immersed or any more knowledgeable in a culture but to speak a new language also must mean escaping somewhere else... if there is not real and consistent safety in my native language or in another language where am i to find safety if it does not exist at all? really excited for the next chapters and curious to see what you will write!! :O