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[nesssy]

[thornrings]

[ouroborosorder]

because it’s Japanese now. I can’t help but feel that. when Deltarune chapter 5 comes out we’re about to get 5.6 million theory videos of people overanalyzing things that are clearly a touhou reference and it’s going to be So funny.

[ouroborosorder]

For non-Touhou head DR fans. Here’s my non-exhaustive list of phrases to avoid overthinking in chapter 5:

Phantasm

Reverie

maiden

lunatic

twilight

phantasmagoria

dream

illusion / illusory

paradise

boundary and any variation thereupon

Incident

feel free to reference this specific post. If it’s in this list. It’s probably a Touhou.

[ouroborosorder]

Do you know how frustrating it has been, as a touhou fan, to see people spend years overanalyzing the phrase “at the edge of shadow, where reality and dream meet, shatter the twilight reverie” and knowing in my heart that it’s all touhou. It’s just touhou. Toby is doing a touhou and probably changed all that because it’s Just Touhou Symbolism

[ouroborosorder]

my running theory is and always has been that all of those posts and shit were the original version of the Prophecy, but it was changed as Toby became a better writer. And realized that “at world’s end, three heroes appear to shatter the angel’s heaven” reads clearer than “at the edge of shadow, shatter the twilight reverie” does. More actionable. You can picture what it looks like. And also it’s not Just Touhou References

[ouroborosorder]

anyway structurally deltarune chapter 5 is 6 bosses with an extra boss, and a hidden phantasm fight. i'm just fucking saying. it's all touhou. it's all been touhou. it's all been fucking touhou since minute one.

[shuq1e]

[thecrownedgoddess]

The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a full report with names, ages and IDs of those who were killed – maybe at least in part as a fuck you to Western media and the US president who suddenly cast doubt on the number of fatalities. Over 7000 people died. Whole families wiped out forever. It's beyond comprehension. May their memory be eternal.

[ghelgheli]

The decision to release the names was made in explicit response to the skepticism of US admin:

The Ministry of Health announcement is here, and ends with a link to the 212 page pdf [both in Arabic]

[satalight]

The Palestinian Ministry of Health site is down after Israel cut all connections from them.

Here's web archive links of the announcement and pdf. Don't let these be erased.

[satalight]

hey why would you do this

[perception check passed]

[powerburial]

instead of watching the fast and furious you should be meditating on why the earth is so vast and curious

[parakeet]

one of the characters in harvest moon DS that u can marry is a mute woman who’s always asleep on the 255th floor of the mines. u literally have to make it to the 255th floor of the mines every time you want to see her or give her a gift. her favorite item (the only item she loves) is golden lumber which is the most expensive item in game. here’s a picture of her asleep in the mines (which are full of monsters btw) i dont understand anything about this tbh. complete respect to anyone who actually manages to marry her i don’t think i ever bothered to meet her once 

[snubbin]

[satalight]

in the flcl director's commentary, tsurumaki describes how he split all the characters into "is a child / adult" and "acts like a child / adult" categories to characterize the contrast btwn naota and haruko

but i realized u can apply this rule to basically any good coming of age story. here's a cat in the hat (2003)

[centrally-unplanned]

If anyone is curious we have a copy of Tsurumaki's "adult/child" chart from the FLCL Archives. It was very early in development so not everything lines up with the final product, but if you want to see it:

Which translates as:

Mamimi in the early drafts had several plotlines around friends or other people (like probably that second teacher) in her own social circle, those all got dropped as things went on. The core of it mainly stuck, though I think Haruko eventually became a bit of a force "outside" of this entire framing and Amarao definitely got more than one chink added to his adult armor.

[satalight]

americans, trying to understand pasta: "think of it like a hamburger's helper"

[satalight]

im expensive in the knowledge economy cuz i know facts like that whale milk is the texture of toothpaste (value starts decreasing) come on guys

[soundtestmenu]

shadow link is the world's funniest girl

[soundtestmenu]

she has a blog

[soundtestmenu]

[satalight]

none of these are right

[toskarin]

ah... your secret technique... in normal circumstances, such a bullet would have no effect on me, but you certainly knew that, my rival... and so, cleverly, you accelerated it with a gun

[satalight]

the death note manga includes extra death note "rules" at the end of each chapter, which is pretty neat cuz it fleshes out the whole idea of the death note and how someone could theoretically abuse it. the earlier rules focus on more practical ideas of using the notebook, like writing in the cause of death, but eventually i think most ppl begin to skip these just to get back to the story and u can tell the mangaka is running out of ideas towards the end of the series

this leads to rule 36 of the death note:

[satalight]