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Healing-punchiiiii
joined Jan 21, 2016

This so freaking depressing when you think of their future.

I don't think so, Meg had a tough life, at least now she will have some years with someone that really care for her.

If we forward that to when Eli dies, I guess rather than sad it becomes bittersweet, lack of better terms.

Anyway, I really love this! So much tags I didn't think would work well together but did. I also like the art and I find it satisfactory overall.

Favorited.

Healing-punchiiiii
joined Jan 21, 2016

So can anyone explain why "Tapestry"...?
I can't seem to connect it to the story. Just thinking of a textile variant like "veil" as in Maggie keeps on "hiding her real self" but what do you think...

joined Jul 26, 2016

I said "the weight of memories". How can you remember everything that happened in your life if it is endless?

That really depends purely on how you assume human memory to work. Is there some kind of "storage limit"? Who knows? Empirically speaking people certainly appear perfectly capable of retaining about a century's worth without problems (barring outright degenerative diseases or injuries), it's just that the gradual cellular decay of aging sooner or later starts eating at that too.

But someone whose biology remains perpetually vigorous? Who can tell, not like we have case studies to draw on. An sich there doesn't seem to be any particular reason to favour or dispute any specific assumption a fiction author may want to make about the matter.

And in the same fashion that you become numb to the loss of people, because they are just passing in a flash, you become numb to life itself, because at some point, you'd become bored. If you're eternal, there's no point to anything.

I suspect you're selling the robustness of human psychology very short here. Do remember that the overwhelming majority of human beings who have ever lived led, frankly, dreadfully monotonous and repetitive existences generally revolving around the agrarian cycle and their particular little field; they seem to have managed well enough though festivities and holidays have been universally highly appreciated to liven things up a bit.

Likewise you've had mystics effectively abandoning society for a life of solitary contemplation in the howling wilderness, barely above the subsistence limit. Just for one example the first human inhabitants of the Faroes and Iceland seem to have been Irish monks seeking to commune with God in isolation.

Eventually, having a really long life would be interesting if you can explore the universe and find new things? Alien sex may be a thing, who knows.

Sheer curiosity about what the future brings ought to be a pretty safe bet for an immortal's reason to keep going. Maggie's fairly well off in that regard as the story is set in a period that might be unironically described as interesting times - the world had already undergone momentous changes in only about two-three generations, more of the same was right around the corner and the heady days of the Space Age were just dawning...

The fact that she's now bedding with someone "independently wealthy" also means she is for a change free of the drudge of earning a daily wage and has unusually open opportunities to see where the world is going.

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Sena
joined Jun 27, 2017

Agreed. Humans are creatures of routine. No doubt immortals would get bored with some things and annoyed with others, but if you enjoy a nice cup of coffee on a mellow spring day for half a century there's really no reason why you wouldn't do that for ten centuries, too ...

So can anyone explain why "Tapestry"...?
I can't seem to connect it to the story. Just thinking of a textile variant like "veil" as in Maggie keeps on "hiding her real self" but what do you think...

Tapestries were often used to record stories or memories so sometimes they are used as symbol for remembrance and such in fiction; I'd personally have suspected that the title comes from that direction, but, who knows ...

e: also page 2 has a bit of an explanation in the top panel ^^

last edited at May 4, 2018 11:13AM

01
joined Dec 13, 2013

OK ELIZABETH IS SO GORGEOUS????? LIKE???? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A WOMAN SO BEAUTIFUL YOU STARTED CRYING????

ok but now seriously
the supernatural part of this was totally unnecessary..... couldve went with whatever (the maid in her teens when working in da house so we would avoid the eventually angst end with not aging up and seeing your lover die and the liz a lil bit older so the age gap wouldnt be too scandalous) but hehhhh also the sex scenes reminded of THAT ARTIST whom rlly likes wet stuff.

but it doesn’t matter bc elizabeth makes up for everything.......

Ewe
joined Jan 22, 2017

I agree with the supernatural and the wet stuff. First one wasn't really needed and the sex scenes weren't pleasant to look at. It felt a bit...alien to me. e_e

Meg and a slightly older (child)Liz would have been way cuter.

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Soo%20nice
joined May 10, 2013

Perfect this is so perfect I will die!

Yurikosmaller2
joined May 28, 2011

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Yurikosmaller2
joined May 28, 2011

Tapestry
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joined May 13, 2017

Wait... So that 'Meg' is 60+ years old already? Or what?

joined Jul 26, 2016

Wait... So that 'Meg' is 60+ years old already? Or what?

According to herself her long-term memory only covers about the most recent hundred years so how long she's been around is literally anyone's guess.

ypassionnate
joined Apr 29, 2018

This so freaking depressing when you think of their future.

you're right the immortality think ruined it all. elizabeth will die and everything will be as it was at the begining. nothing has really changed. except that the mc will see the one she finally love die and will suffer more than ever for the "rest" of her eternal life.

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joined Jul 26, 2016

Eh, she'll forget about it after circa hundred years anyway. Would also point out that normal people seem to deal with the passing of loved ones well enough; couples basically never die simultaneously barring unnatural causes, and children normally survive their parents by a rather wide margin (same caveats).

And unless they have a major falling out during the 60-70 more years Elizabeth is likely to live she'll probably be inheriting a meaningful estate; the continued freedom from having to engage in wage labour ought to make it rather easier to keep her unchanging appearance under wraps without having to resort to such a "nomadic" lifestyle and conversely allow her that much more freedom to form lasting connections with other people.

All in all besides the obvious emotional fulfillment for the length of the relationship I'd say this ought (or at least has real potential) to rather improve the enjoyability of her existence in the long run.

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Zefiberyl Translations
joined Apr 11, 2011

Well happy end I guess, though no real closure on her immortality problem.
She doesn't even remember what she was doing more than a hundred years ago, so although she found love and understanding for the moment...

She does say she hasn't tested suicide yet, so ironically, the best ending may be her doing that after her life with her lover comes to a close. What a statement on the human condition that that's the best that can be hoped for, dying rather than living so long you lose who you once were, the feelings that were once everything to you, the time in which you belonged. You hardly have to live hundreds of years for that to happen, though. I doubt I'm the only one among the more aged yuri fans among us that feels like it already has.

Thanks for your efforts, hentropy.

joined Jul 23, 2017

That was hot and like she said its Tender still this was beautiful (❁ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)

joined Jul 23, 2017

Well happy end I guess, though no real closure on her immortality problem.
She doesn't even remember what she was doing more than a hundred years ago, so although she found love and understanding for the moment...

She does say she hasn't tested suicide yet, so ironically, the best ending may be her doing that after her life with her lover comes to a close. What a statement on the human condition that that's the best that can be hoped for, dying rather than living so long you lose who you once were, the feelings that were once everything to you, the time in which you belonged. You hardly have to live hundreds of years for that to happen, though. I doubt I'm the only one among the more aged yuri fans among us that feels like it already has.

Thanks for your efforts, hentropy.

Your right if the whole suicidal thing ruined it she has a choice to kill herself along with Elizabeth still why immortality why not the both of them have it ugh it makes me feel really sad whenever i think of that but still i want them to be together even in the afterlife ヽ(;へ;)ノ

joined Mar 15, 2017

I'd take the story to have implied that the person who called her Maggie was a lover. If Maggie had killed herself back then after losing that lover, more than 100 years ago, she wouldn't have met Elizabeth and Elizabeth thinks she probably wouldn't have become aware of her sexuality and would have ended up unhappy like her mother.

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joined May 4, 2013

Meg×Elizabeth are such Transbian goals.

Fennec
joined May 28, 2012

That fat lady reminds me of typical characters from world masterpiece theater.

Nodoyue_avatar1
joined Aug 7, 2017

Since it's from Towako (basically "eternity-girl"), Comic LO's loli bba specific anthology series, it kind of is.

Oh... I didn't think Meg was a loli, I thought she was just short, lol

The term "loli" is apparently more "flexibly" defined in Japan, such that even high schoolers count as "lolis" if the one lusting after them is old enough to be their dad (see Kimura-sensei from Azumanga Daioh).

Meiavatar
joined Feb 9, 2017

I might chime in my with my polite 2 cents worth, apologies if this is slightly grim-dark.

You honestly don't get hung up on what's lost when the person that you loved dies. Instead it's all the memories that were created, the experiences the two of you went through; good, bad and otherwise. That's what matters. Entropy and time heals everything, after a while their absence doesn't hurt as much, instead you just smile, laugh, curse and cry over what the two of you created together.

And yeah sometimes it really does hurt, the pain gets to you. And you're happy for it, because that reminds you that you're human, that you can still feel and that person, though no longer beside you, still matters dearly. You move on, you find other people, you might even find someone else to love. The human mind pulls all sorts of weird tricks to survive. We're just a sack of water and hormones at the end of the day :P .

tl;dr Meg will survive Eli's death and move forward, I'm confident of that (call me a sappy optimist)

St1
joined Feb 17, 2013

^I agree - and I'm a total romanticist and believe we can have one true love for life etc (if we are lucky). It will hut her and be hard, sure, but only the same as it is for the rest of us if we loose a loved one - and most of us can carry on - and even fall in love again after enough years. It is sad to think on though.

And also, on the loli thing - I'm of 2 minds - you can call it loli from OUR external reader perspective in that the writer chose an immortal young girl for a specific reason - maybe to give some justification to the loli.

But from the perspective of if it was a real situation, then it would not be loli - though it would LOOK like it was. If the young looking girl was way older than the adult looking person, way wiser and more experienced in the world, then It would hardly be fair to say they can never have a lover just because they look like they are 12 - and you would certainly not be taking advantage of them.

The only remaining questions for me that I'm not sure of there is, would you have to be a lolicon to fall in love with them, even after getting to know them as a person who was very mature and intelligent? Would your knowledge of how old they really are and how mature mentally, let you ignore what they looked like or would you be unable to see past the little girl and be unable to desire them (if you were not lolicon). Or maybe if you fell in love with the person you would grow to like the body too even if you were not lolicon?

Lol - All kinda pointless questions that have no use in the real world - But I do think the idea of a young immortal girl / adult, relationship is interesting and would cause unique issues to think of. Whenever I see a young immortal girl like Maggie or Remilia I think on it.

Would you say someone taking a say 500 year old vampire for a lover - who looks like she is 13, is doing anything wrong? I'm thinking no - at least from her perspective.

Duke
joined Jul 29, 2017

More fifties era lesbian porn, please.

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The Golden Orchid
joined Jan 19, 2017

Before page 13, main thought was this had a surprisingly extensive story for what looked like a porn manga (based on the tags). Page 13 after, porn manga expectation confirmed with ridiculous plot twist and sudden sex. Despite that, this might be the second sex-heavy yuri that I've ever liked. More tasteful than expected. Communicating with each other during sex, teaching each other, and bringing up practical matters like how familiar somebody else is with their body, without seemingly attempting to be arousing? Shocking.

I'll forgive the splash-tastic artwork just cause I guess there's an audience it's aimed at, and writing execution's better than many others I've read of the same genre.

Would you say someone taking a say 500 year old vampire for a lover - who looks like she is 13, is doing anything wrong? I'm thinking no - at least from her perspective.

And I'm sure that her and her lover's perspectives are what matter here, just as it is for any relationship where involved parties have full autonomy.

last edited at May 8, 2018 11:40PM

Homura-devil
joined May 7, 2018

That was different to say the least.

Pretty sex-heavy, but still tastefully done as some have pointed out. Reminds me a little of Asagi Ryuu, though the art is obviously different.

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