God. I love s2 Amity, don’t get me wrong, but. S1a Amity’s vibes are just sooooo fucking iconic. This girl hasn’t had more than four hours of sleep in three years. She won’t call you out for cheating in the classroom but she will jump on top of the lunch table to catch you in the act. She is constantly surrounded by people but she has no friends. She dislikes her siblings and they genuinely loathe her in return. She has a mental breakdown after accidentally cheating in a competition. Her slowly worsening crush on Luz is one of the best-written growing-in-the-background crushes of all time. She is one of the most talented witches in her class but she’s also not talented enough to be in a class other than Abominations 101. She is the funniest character in the show.

i miss the crab war

oh to be 12 years old discovering fanfic for the first time and wondering why there’s barely any dean/bela or dean/jo fics

*sighs wistfully* I miss the days of pink light and bokeh effects...

remember when we were like what if they play doldrums at tourdust

Why do we have to see SNS and Spirk fight twice in less than a year. It doesn't have to be like this. We knew peace once, we can coexist once again...

where were you on october 4th 2019 when this video was posted and renee rapp pioneered the opt up at the end of this song

“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” ~JRR Tolkien

Just re-read Symposium of Post-Mysticism. Man, it's such a weirdly timeless book, and equally insightful no matter whether you read it as a simple lore book or purposeful commentary on real life.

Also, Miko is really mean, and Kanako is really sassy. Poor Byakuren.

The only thing I ever had complaints about - and still do - is how the three big leaders define religion. Both Miko and Byakuren define it as a philosophy, whereas Kanako defines it as a system of understanding the world with its own internal rules, much like science and magic/the occult. Kanako gets it closer than the other two imo, but all three focus on the idea of religion as being an individual pursuit, rather than also being a system that creates and structures cultures. Which is ironic, considering how much Kanako keeps talking about the transactional relationship between humans and gods, and how all three keep talking about how their presence determines the fate of humans, youkai and Gensokyo!

ZUN is both a STEM guy at heart and as far as everyone knows non-religious, but he always has a lot to say about our modern world's relationship with the unknown and the supernatural, and that's what makes Touhou so strangely insightful. Nevertheless, the dichotomy between the individual and the collective in what constitutes religious practice is a very modern idea, and equally reflective of the new ideals of contemporary society. It feels a lot like SoPM is just as reflective of ZUN's (and our own) modern ideas of what religion means to us, or what the supernatural means to us now in an age of rationalism. I could be talking nonsense here, given that I'm not the Japanese-born person making video games about Japanese culture (and come to think of it ZUN is not wrong in describing general trends regarding the supernatural in Japan). But it still seems like ZUN/Kanako almost underestimate the power of belief in people when they mention humans' wish for the supernatural despite no longer "believing" in them. New religions/cults exist, and are powerful. Belief itself is no longer a straight dichotomy of "I believe/don't believe this is real," especially not with youkai and other supernatural creatures which have created such popular followings and ways of consumption.

Or, you know, the three leaders were purposely written to be arrogant and not really understanding humans. That's also a running gag in the text.

found another playlist that i actually made *in* 2021. half of it is lemon demon. the other half is cg5 and derivakat lol

I could see a bidding war over this relic.

was going through old pictures in my drive and found a spongebob splatfest picture i took!

Feeling shit, just wanna go back to when Detective Inspector Me and Detective Her were thriving and well

found this bag my uncle gave me when I was 10 cringe or swag

not youtube video essays about discontinued doll lines and old flash games getting me to find an old dollmaker I used to make outfits on religiously back in middle school

one of my favorite things i used to do was watch the first avengers film on the tv displays at my local costco wholesale & you know what i miss those days