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Crazy how quickly playing the lyre made me better at fingering

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every time I see screenshotsofdespair's icon it's so small that I assume it's supposed to be the Keyblade Graveyard with the blue person being No Name sticking out of the ground. like

do you understand me

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kanak

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headcanons

i don't really have headcanons in general (hah, baited), because i think that runs against one of the biggest reasons why i enjoy Touhou. I enjoy Touhou in part because it's a giant sandbox of cool characters (with cool designs), dynamics and ideas; "dynamics" includes yuri, naturally. It's a big fantasy world, but constraining the stories it tells too hard is stifling to me.

So for that reason, there is no "true version" of the world of touhou beyond/adjacent to canon inside my mind. What does exist, however, is a big assortment of ideas and themes for characters and relationships that I find cool or interesting or sweet and that I like to explore. I may find some much more interesting or fun than others, but there is no ""true"" one to me.

They may disagree with canon, or with one another. Generally I'm more comfortable staying close to canon because I enjoy the stories ZUN tells. And sometimes other people imagine something different that I find interesting, and so I go along.

For example take ReiMari. I don't have an opinion on whether the ship is ""real"" or not. Canon says they have a very strong platonic bond, and that they're probably not romance-repulsed, and that's about it. IMO you can reasonably imagine Reimu to be aroace. And that's the wonderful thing! You can take this so many different ways, and there are so many interesting stories to tell even when the paths diverge!

They can be hopelessly pining for one another. They can be a married couple. They can be madly in love with each other. They can be star-crossed, with their love never meant to be. They can have a purely platonic relationship; I imagine many aro folks would enjoy it not just being a stepping stone towards romance. They can be complete freaks. Personally, I find them interesting as a way to explore the blurry line between deep friendship and romance.

Whether something is ""real"" doesn't matter, what story do you want to tell?

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some quick draws inspired by a certain something by vik that made me feel a few emotions!

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u ok there rox

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The Beast that Bothers

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lovely gnome hatching from egg

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Flag Wars Bonus Round

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this looks like actual Salvador and actual Yuna which means that theoretically in this universe Sinclair is chasing after a woman over a decade older than him. he is now book accurate

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I was having writers block and so I took a break and soon enough it was 3 in the morning and I had impulsively sewn together a tiny mouse you’re welcome

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literally all i can imagine seeing ryoshu's new ID:

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when i started dunmeshi considering the theme of consuming and being consumed and a sort of coy welll what do YOU consider cannibalism tone were both immediately established i was just like ok so before the end of this a party member is getting torn apart and eated. and considering chilchuck doesn’t get characterised until a little later the early party is 1. guy who cooks 2. girl whos reticent but likes the food 3. guy whos extremely hungry and 4. Fourth Party Member. Other. i was counting his days

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Yesod already told me I was a terrible manager all the time in Lobotomy Corporation bc all my biggest blunders happened to involve the Info Team but now I need to hear him do that with voice acting

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divinity kink in less of a "fuck me in a nun habit" way and more of a "put me on my knees and rewrite my understanding of faith and show me what a loving god's hand feels like and give me mercy and wrath and splendor and leave your communion dripping from my lips and teach me how every part of my body was meant to worship you"

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being obsessed w a piece of media is so scary. what if my mutuals see how insane i go about it and think oh i gotta check out what this is about and then think it sucks and kill me with rocks. what if they hate my favorite characters