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If you haven't seen it already, I made one last shitpost to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of my Youtube channel! Including 30 minutes of assorted gags that are probably funnier than what I could come up with as a teenager! A lot of effort and stupidity went into this one, consider it a little thank-you for encouraging my memes all those years <3

#ciryes #touhou #Youtube

An Arbiter of the Head (Project Moon games) vs Marisa Kirisame. Who's winnin'.

I like that despite me not posting for like, years, you have correctly assessed that I've played the entire project moon trilogy somehow so I'm compelled to answer this

Highly situational, an arbiter isn't going to give a shit about danmaku or spell cards, so in this instance Marisa is going to be forced to fight at her full power, but considering she's just an ordinary human she probably relies on the spell card system to be as powerful as she is? In an all-out fight I don't think magic is going to give her enough advantage over a basically superhuman with magic-equivalent technology.

On the other hand, Marisa would probably figure out some kind of way to avoid having to fight in the first place or steal some crazy powerful Singularity to give her the edge.

Also, Marisa is probably going to be able to use E.G.O. fairly easily. Carmen tries to distort her and she just says some kind of casual comeback like 'sorry, i don't have time to turn into a monster because i only get weekends off' and gets a giant fuckoff suit of armor and that is going to level the playing field.

So really I think the answer here depends on how much setup time Marisa is given, how little security is guarding the nearest Wing's singularity, whether or not she can experience enough of a despair event horizon to get contacted by the City's resident intrusive thoughts milf for a limited time offer of FREE SOUL WEAPON, and how bad the head wants her dead.

Unless the arbiter we're talking about is Binah, in which case throw everything I just said out the window, Marisa is going to be lucky to get away from that one with her life. That woman can tank a master spark and frankly I think she'd enjoy it

i know the post she's from is like several years old at this point but i was just mildly curious if you were aware r/pc98 is using your pc98 (oc? gijinka? etc?)

yes! one of the mods from that subreddit iirc asked me about it and it's cool. i think it's neat a community of retro japanese computer enthusiasts liked my character design :D

also in regards to the videos: i’m flattered some memey stuff i made years ago is able to bring you joy, but like. i don’t even use any of my accounts (tumblr, youtube, twitter, reddit, all of which people actively try to message me on still??) so begging me to make more isn’t going to get you anywhere. like it doesn’t bother me because i don’t use the accounts anyway but just a heads up since people are evidently going to try.

it’s also not that i think they’re offensive or want them censored or something, that was just me being a teenager and panic-unlisting them all after seeing someone make a callout post about me for the first time. maybe could have picked a better word than faggot to overuse (but hilariously, after a personal journey of self discovery it turns out I can actually reclaim that one now, go figure.)

but like seriously, glad you liked my content! hope y’all are doing well! i just don’t know how else to say that it’s been 6 years, it is now 2022, and i have long since lost interest in making highly specific touhou shitpost videos? also isn’t it literally just like, fumo memes or something that are popular now. i don’t have a clue what this fandom’s been up to but i know fumos are involved. why are the fumos not good enough for you.

What did she do to hurt you.

#kidding about the fumos #ciryes

logged back onto tumblr for the first time in a while and noticed i’ve got a couple of asks asking if it’s ok to use clips/concepts/the general format of my videos for stuff and this is just me saying yes to everything. i sure as hell don’t own the touhou slideshow meme format, and based on the rest of the asks i’ve gotten there is still one hell of a demanding market for touhou video shitposts.

#also which one of you called me dad in an ask ._.

#touhou #junko

So yesterday i realized i had a half-finished remix of Tommorow will be Special shoved away in a folder that I forgot about when i sorta-left youtube, so now it’s a finished remix! Just a sudden burst of inspiration, no idea if or when i’m actually making more stuff. But enjoy!

#Touhou #Suwako Moriya #Touhou 10 #Mountain of Faith #My music

mariakono

In light of recent events, an important photoset for you all

#HELL YEAH

Desire Driven Miko is trans and awesome and nothing can stop her!

#Touhou #Toyosatomimi no Miko #Desire Driven #desiredriven #my art #in light of recent events i feel the need to remind everybody of this extremely important fact #also desire driven is a great fangame!#if you like touhou and you like homestuck you should absolutely play it #even if you dont like homestuck you should play it #and have plenty of trans headcanons for it #just to spite the creator of course

Gensokyo Festival 2020

If anybody’s interested in running it next year, send me an ask or IM, because i’ve pretty much left this blog behind and i doubt i’ll be doing it next time, but i don’t want it to just die off so it’d be great if somebody more interested could take it up. I can give you the blog and also some of the design assets i used for the theme!

If i get more than one person interested i’ll probably just have to pick one, but if you get in touch let me know if you’d be ok with sending your url to whoever i do pick if it’s not you, that way they can consider you if they decide they want to have additional mods.

feel free to reblog this to spread awareness, and again get in touch with me if you’d be interested in keeping it going!

#ciryes #gensokyofestival #gensokyo festival

yamayuandadu

Something I occasionally see in fanworks is depicting Keine as distrusted by the villagers and self-loathing as a result, which seems odd to me; there appear to be two misconceptions behind it, one about the school from Touhou itself and one about the historical institution. The school she teaches at is specifically supposed to be a terakoya – a so-called “temple school”, which is a bit of a misnomer. While the oldest historical ones were indeed founded as an extension of temples (usually Buddhist ones, Shinto terakoyas were extremely uncommon at less than 10% of the total number according to most estimates), and Buddhist clergy remained numerous among the teachers, with time all kinds of public educational institutions started to be referred with this name. In the late Edo and early Meiji periods (before the education reforms), when terakoyas were the most numerous, only one in five was strictly speaking a temple school. The teachers were usually commoners who themselves received some degree of education previously (eg. through another terakoya) or attained a certain degree of success thanks to education (the freshly emerging merchant class was a good example; additionally about one in ten terakoyas was ran by a doctor). Most teachers were men, though we know from both documentation and depictions of terakoyas in art that female teachers also existed, especially in the final few decades of terakoya activity. Regardless of the background, the work of the teachers was viewed as a prestigious public service (some of them operated strictly for profit, but most were already well-respected members of society working pro publico bono). Thus it seems weird to me to assume Keine wouldn’t be respected in the village, or that she’s hate her life. Canon appears to support my interpretation – PMiSS makes it sound like Akyuu not attending the school is seen as something unusual so the turnout ought to be reasonably high (irl the turnout in terakoyas is estimated to be at 70-80%, but many areas lacked them so literacy at the dawn of the Meiji era was at around 40% for men and 20% for women). The mention of it being unpopular, prominently displayed at the wiki, comes from BAiJR which supposedly describes the situation right after the school was opened rather than in the present day (plus Aya is a less trustworthy source than Akyuu, arguably). An additional argument that the school must be doing well in the present day is the fact that it has its own building in Forbidden Scrollery (and if I’m not mistaken there were more teachers shown?) – something very uncommon irl for economic reasons; most terakoya classes took place in borrowed temple rooms or at the houses of the teachers (or particularly affluent students). I don’t really think Keine’s status as a part hakutaku would impact this in any capacity – even taking into account that the hakutaku is a youkai, it is portrayed uniformly as benevolent and an omen of good luck and prosperity (hakutaku charms were very popular through the Edo period before the baku replaced it as the default symbol of prosperity), in a way a completely different kind of being to the spooks and boogeymen most youkai are in folklore. If anything it probably would boost her social standing.