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Azulia
@azulia888.bsky.social
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#1 Benzaiten fan
Yet another Touhou fan
Also currently obsessed by LobCorp and SIGNALIS
I have a celeste🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 202, and I spend my time reading, writing and researching stuff
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i was rereading the omake from WBaWC and like, since when has there been a fourth family ???? am i stupid ?? do i have memory issues this is genuinely the first time i see this being mentioned, canon or otherwise

if anyone has any info on this please tell me im so confused lmao
#touhou
July 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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im living at a relative's place and wtf i never noticed okina is watching me sleep
May 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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really didn't expect kiyo in kyoto to end like that, but, at the same time, it does feel like it couldn't have ended any other way
April 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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i've been bawling my heart out for the past 25 minutes WHAT DO YOU MEAN A MOBILE GAME CAN HAVE A STORY THIS GOOD
March 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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MIMI-CHAN
March 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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anyways tengu can probably lay eggs sorry i went too far i spent too much time thinking about this
oh and lol here's a diagram i made back then for future reference if needed
everything is *basically* canon
(mistake on the yaoyorozu no kami part, they're inside everything physical im dumb)
March 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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lmao
(entire list : tosdr.org/en/service/195) (it doesn't get better)
March 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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how much of a touhou nerd are you ?
A physical copy of a complete translation of the Kokin Waka Shū, the first Japanese Imperial poetry anthology (it's super important) Poem 466, by Miyako no Yoshika (the one behind the Touhou character yes everything is connected)
March 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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just love touhou
February 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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mountain
February 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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@dizzylion.bsky.social look what i bought at the library
A book called "Sei Shônagon, Choses qui rendent heureux [Things that bring joy]"
February 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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1 vs 1 when ???
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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i swear i tried hugging it and like

it's so big

im so happy
February 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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today i hugged a giant reimu and now im currently sitting with her behind me resting and chilling it's the bestest thing ever i am insanely happy o m g
February 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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YES
February 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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An image of two astronauts looking at the Earth from space. The Earth has the images of the biggest papier mâché tiger in the world, Shou Toramaru (Touhou) and Hijiri Byakuren (Touhou). The astronaut closest to it is saying "Wait, it's all Miko lore ?" The astronaut behind them hold a gun to their head and says "Always has been". That astronaut is also Toyosatomimi no Miko (still Touhou) (i mean yeah it's a touhou meme)
February 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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when the company you have an internship in isn't transphobic
February 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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8D (x3)
From left to right : Lunasa Prismriver, holding her violin like a guitar Merlin Prismriver, playing the trumpet Lyrica Prismriver, but her keyboard is a cat one smh They are all wearing sunglasses and the background is the galaxy Image is from "Kaguya: 50 dumb ways to die" a Touhou parody of a song (oh yeah all the characters are from Touhou Project in case you didn't know)
February 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I got these from @seoska.bsky.social and OMG I LOVE THEM SM?!?! i ordered the badge alone and got everything else as a surprise im gonna cry this is so amazing!!!
A badge, a sticker and a small illustration or Yuuma Toutetsu (from Touhou Project) (the best character ever she's so cool)
February 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Loot i got from 2 days of volunteering at a tech convention lmao (there are also 2 t shirts and a sweater but they're in the washing machine)
February 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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can we talk about how reimu reacts to Marisa's Spell Card in SSiB OMG she's so cool i love her
Panels from Chapter 15 of Touhou Silent Sinner in Blue. Stars are raining down from Marisa's Stardust Reverie Spell Card. Reimu gets hit by some, and she looks very bored and flaps them away with ofudas
February 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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If anyone is still reading this, congrats! You've found the bonus, hidden knowledge! Sources are after this!
"The main element ofliterary continuity between the ancient period and the Heian period is Japanese poetry, the thirty-one-syllable waka or uta, which was composed extensively in the seventh and eighth centuries and became even more important in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Indeed, in Heian aristo- cratic society it was impossible to function, in either public or private, without the ability to compose waka. Furthermore, a significant number of literary di- aries (nikki) and poem tales (uta monogatari) in the Heian period grew out of private collections of poems that had been exchanged between the author and his or her acquaintances. The Kana Preface to the Kokinshd, the first imperial collection of waka, reminds its readers that giving voice to one’s feelings through poetry is an inevitable response to experiences of seasonal changes and human events. Much of the kana literature by women, which blossomed in the mid- Heian period, is highly lyrical, with stress on emotions and private thoughts, often encapsulated in the waka that emerge at climactic moments in the nar- rative. The Tale of Genji, with more than eight hundred poems, is a good example of this phenomenon." "Historically, Japanese poetry evolved from the choka (literally, “long poem”), which is found in the early Man’yésht; to the thirty-one-syllable waka, the central form ofthe Kokinshi and the Heian period; to linked verse in the medieval period; and, finally, in the Tokugawa (or Edo) period, to the seventeen-syllable hokku, later called haiku, probably the shortest poetic form in world literature. A similar condensation of form can be found in no drama. As it evolved under Zeami (1363?-1443?), the greatest nd playwright, nd was a drama of elegance, restraint, and suggestion. Human actions were reduced to the bare essentials, to highly symbolic movements such as tilting the mask to express joy or sweeping the hand to represent weeping. In AMirror Held to the Flower (Kaky6), Zeami writes that “if what the actor feels in the heart is ten, what appears in movement should be seven.” He stresses that the point at which physical movement becomes minute and then finally stops is the point of greatest intensity. The physical and visual restrictions—the fixed mask, the slow body movement, the almost complete absence of props or scenery—" "create a drama that must occur as much in the mind of the audience as on the stage. In Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa, 1329-1333),often considered the ulti- mate compendium of Heian court aesthetics, the aristocrat-priest Kenké argues that what is not stated, cannot be seen by the eyes, and is incomplete in ex- pression is more moving, alluring, and memorable than what is directly pre- sented. Since ancient times, the Japanese have prized the social capacity for indirection and suggestion. Poetry was recognized for its overtones, connota- tions, and subtle allegory and metaphor rather than for what it actually stated. In large part, this particular literary and social mode depends on a close bond between the composer and reader, with their common body of cultural knowl- edge, which was absorbed through literary texts."
February 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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And the one Kanako quotes is this one :

sakashimi to
mono iu yori wa
sake nomite
einaki suru shi
masaritaru rashi

Rather than preaching,
and playing the wise man,
it is far better
to drink some saké and
give way to drunken tears
(120/129)
Kanako saying : ""Rather than making pronouncement with an air of wisdom, it's better to down the wine and sob drunker tears" Ootomo no Tabito (*8) wrote a song like that" The (*8) is Akyuu commenting that he's a poet known for loving sake a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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and this is exactly what happens in Touhou. The one Reimu quotes is this one :
ana miniku
sakashira o su to
sake nomanu
hito o yoku miba
saru ni ka mo niru

How pathetic!
Playing the learned sage
drinking no saké...
but just look at him closely;
doesn’t he look like a monkey?
(119/129)
Reimu from chapter 19 of WaHH saying "Oh, how ugly!" Page from WaHH chapter 19. Reimu is saying : "People seeking wisdom and not drinking; look upon them well, do they not seem like monkeys? It's an old Ohtomo no Tabito poem. Describes you perfectly."
February 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM