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really cute inanna and ninshubur!

Funnily enough I was planning to make my own short-ish post about the messy themes of HSiFS, and how Okina wound up becoming an unflattering copy of Yukari, rather than embracing the historical inspiration that actually makes her interesting. Will probably wait on that now lol.

I've seen some of the uma stuff at least, and even as someone not into FDS or Uma Musume, it's very hard to take her seriously. Above all else, she really comes across as someone who feel the need to seize the moral and intellectual high ground by whatever means necessary.

Never interacted directly, perhaps for the best, but part of me worried about attracting her ire for daring to criticize ZUN without her approval, as she's pulled the same stunt before.

Every time I am exposed to something from Sukimas they somehow manage to make themselves seem even more unpleasant, it's kind of impressive.

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7932506... My new blog article, "Tribulations of a “tomboy goddess”, or why you should care about Anat" is out. It's not strictly speaking a Megaten article but I cover Megaten in it because Anat has no other notable modern adaptations for some reason.

Shōtoku at all with the Honchō Shinsenden, but it's definitely an area where ZUN's lack of familiarity has wound up leaving a sour taste in my mouth. Probably could have brought up simpler issues I have with world-building etc. but I also just really wanted to talk about Daoism in Japan lol.

I was aware, but if anything it just makes Prince Shōtoku an even weirder figure to take that approach with, someone like Xu Fu would've fit better for a more straightforward Taoism rep. For the record, I still like Miko and the TD cast, and it's cool that there's a precedent for Taoist Prince...

Thank you! I do feel that there needs to be more meaningful criticism of ZUN, as he's far from an infallible creator. Given my own interests, I can't help but feel dissatisfied sometimes with how ZUN touches on very interesting ideas, without realizing their full potential in the series.

#thshipweek – stars + ambition
#touhou

#thshipweek day 1 (stars, ariyui)
I saw another dream; or was it a dream within a dream?

Connecting the Mountains and the Sea: Exploring the Full Release of Touhou Kinjoukyou ~ Fossilized Wonders, Part 2 This is part two of a two part post covering the origins of Fossilized Wonders' characters, if you haven't read part one, then check it out here. Ariya Iwanaga Picking up from where we left of, our...

part 2 here
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Finally got around to writing about the new characters in Fossilzed Wonders with this two-parter.
#東方Project
#東方錦上京
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touhou 20 spoilers // 錦上京ネタバレ注意
help! my wife and I just reunited after 1000 years but she felt so comfortable that she fell asleep right away

touhou 20 spoilers // 錦上京ネタバレ注意

and yet you yourself, I'm not sure why, but I still can't remember you

🛩️Yanmega + Yanma💚 #Pokemon #CopicMarkers

I assume the character Yuiman Asama is meant to be a reference to Yuiman-hime from the legend of Kōga Saburō. The legend notes her as becoming the deity Asama Daimyōjin (浅間大明神) after she followed Kōga Saburō back to Suwa.

was not expecting possible koga saburo rep in touhou 20, but i'm all for it

A relatively short tumblr post on the subject of Bishamonten in Touhou.
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Visitor from the Land Hidden by Gods and Immortals - 神仙の隠れたる国の客

但馬 菓（たじまのこのみ）
Tajima no Konomi

Species: Ancestral God of Candy - 菓祖神
Ability: Capable of crossing countless waves and fording distant rivers - 万里の波を踏み、遙かに弱水を度る程度の能力

A Touhou OC I made for a contest, based on Tajimamori.
#東方Project

The creature she is accompanied with is based on a depiction of the White Tiger from the Kitora Tumulus. A statue based on this depiction was notably also installed at Chōgosonshi Temple, which is the irl basis for the Myōren Temple.

Shou Toramaru
#東方Project

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Some of this I was aware of from reading "The Mystery of Wealth and the Role of Divinities", but I hadn't checked this out directly. Interesting stuff in any case, definitely goes a long way to explaining what Chimata's deal is.

Okina Matara from Touhou Project holding a purple origami star and a blue/red origami star between her fingers. Grey background littered with big, yellow origami stars on red strings. Collage style.

Okina Matara: Grandma Edition
Can you spot all of the fun tidbits?

#touhou #okinamatara #collage

Post by @yamayuandadu · 17 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Oldest or greatest? Gilgamesh before, in and after the epic(s) · Gilgamesh and Enkidu by Marek Żuławski (via University Museum in Toruń; reproduced here for educational purposes on…

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/786275029505... The long awaited Gilgamesh article is finally up. 16k+ words, complete with sections of every major period in Gilgamesh's history, sub-sections on other characters, and more!

paradise, paradise

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingu can you believe it took 21 years for this to be brought to an acceptable level. Given that Qingu is, if anything, overrepresented in scholarship given his incredibly limited relevance this is just hard for me to process.

a title referring to Mahakala (and possibly Vinayaka and Yama!). So depictions that play into that are still really cool to see, there's apparently an identification of the seven mothers with the seven stars of the dipper in Japanese Buddhism too, which would be fun to see in a depiction of Okina.

Thank you for checking out my post too! It's was a bit off the cuff, and I am needed to write up something more thorough eventually. For what it's worth, while I do err on the side of caution a lot with the post, I personally think it's pretty damn likely that Matarajin fundamentally emerged as...