#the runagate

[theamazingloki]

@thefrigga

He shouldn't be here. But things were different now, were they not? The laws of time were shattered, and the timeline with it. Being here, seeing her, it would create a branch of its own - there would still be worlds where the last words said to her were ones of anger, where he never got to say goodbye. There was no changing that. How was it that having more freedom made some things all the more inescapable?

He hadn't told Mobius about this excursion - he was sure to disapprove - and had simply borrowed a tempad and slipped away into a day long ago. Before everything had gone wrong, before he had lost his family. With his hair slicked back as he used to wear it and wearing the likeness of the prince he had been, he made his way through the familiar old hallways towards his mother's chambers. A gentle knock at the door pushed it open slightly.

"Mother," he said, unable to keep the catch from his throat nor the tears from his eyes. "May I speak with you?"

[thezediwonder]

Had an incredible urge to animate today so here’s a Toyohime.

[occasionaltouhou]

what woudl be the cause of death on the moon

go and read silent sinner in blue and if you tell me it's bad you have to read it again. every day until you like it

[inversionimpulse]

You know, I don’t think the narrator’s suggestion really holds up. If Yorihime’s only interest in Reimu’s stories was the possibility of Eirin’s involvement, her enthusiasm would dip when it became clear Eirin wasn’t involved in a given story and run dry when it became clear that almost none of Reimu’s stories involved her at all.

With that possibility discarded, I think what we’re left with is that Yorihime is just really fascinated with the Earth and/or Reimu

and I think that’s very endearing.

(we already know Toyohime is fascinated with the Earth from her narration in Runagate chapter 3, but we don’t get Yorihime’s perspective on that incident, so her opinion is more difficult to divine with certainty)

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[packofstereks]

Gentle Reader, it is common knowledge that Lord Hale and Viscount Stilinski are both inseparable friends and the most tempestuous and implacable of opponents about every issue under the sun. Many times, their quick-witted debates and japery have nearly ended in blows, and at least on one occasion, on the dueling ground.

Nevertheless, it is well-known that they have saved one anothers' lives many times at great risk to their own, both on the battlefields of Europe and during picaresque and occasionally macabre adventures closer to home. Lord Hale, generally a melancholy young man of somewhat Saturnine disposition, becomes very nearly Jovial at the mere mention of Viscount Stilinski's name, while Stilinski, considered a flighty and Mercurial youth, even something of a runagate, transforms into a valiant and steadfast boon companion in the presence of Hale. Together with, if I may say, forms as fine as may be found this side of the Hesperides and fortunes worth ten thousand and tuppence a year, each is a great prize for the troops of eligible young ladies entering the lists of the marriage hunt each season, but as yet, the prizes remain unclaimed.

What is less well-known is that they first met when Stilinski, then still a gangling boy weighing scarcely ten stone, went in search of a body on the grounds of Lord (then Master) Hale's family estate...

Jane Austin/Regency/Bridgerton Sterek AU

[sukimas]

Hello! I wanted to get into reading the Touhou official manga, but I don’t know what order I should read them in. Do you have any suggestions?

Wild and Horned Hermit: up to and including chapter 14 -> Forbidden Scrollery: up to and including chapter 25 -> Wild and Horned Hermit: finish it -> Forbidden Scrollery: finish it -> Eastern and Little Nature Deity: finish it -> Strange and Bright Nature Deity: finish it -> Oriental Sacred Place: finish it -> Visionary Fairies in Shrine: finish it -> Silent Sinner in Blue/Cage in Lunatic Runagate (must be read concurrently; the latter is a proper book): finish them -> Lotus Eaters' Sobering

This is if you want to only read the manga. There are other print works I highly recommend if you don't but I understand that some people are allergic to books.

(Read Cheating Detective Satori after this if you want and don't read it if you don't.)

[theamazingloki]

@dr-foster​

“Married, you and I? Why ever would we do that... some jest played on my brother?”

[toskarin]

Ms. Rin, I recently noticed that Ootori Kanae has clothing style similar to Watatsuki no Toyohime. Do you think Namaniku ATK was inspired by Toyohime when designing Kanae?

I don't think so, mainly because Cage in Lunatic Runagate (where the design with the dress you're thinking of first appeared) came out in 2009

we have a pretty good outline of the design process of kanae's outfit, so we can trace design elements like the belt along it. note the equivalent belt in the uniform designs!

one interesting example of this is namaniku mentioning the open front of kanae's skirt being a choice influenced by the medium, since he wanted to show her legs but knew they'd be offscreen with a long skirt

[eleemosynecdoche]

Hecatia and the Lunarians

Blame/credit @sukimas for expressing interest in this...

Okay, so, Hecatia gets to talk for a few paragraphs in Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia about Hell's history, and by implication, her own. Eirin and Toyohime each get a full chapter in Cage in Lunatic Runagate and they convey quite a lot of things about the Lunarian mindset and worldview. One thing that's struck me recently is that, although Hecatia is explicitly anti-Lunarian on a far deeper level than any other character who's gotten dialogue (Yukari's probably equally anti-Lunarian but she's less talkative about why), Hecatia is also positioned as a similar kind of entity to the Lunarians.

Firstly, they both tell origin myths about their associated locations which are straightforwardly contrary to both the familiar mythology and a more secular historical analysis. Hecatia talks about Hell originating not as a place of punishment and rehabilitation, but as a construct by powerful people who were uninterested in living according to conventional virtues.

What Hecatia probably means by Hell here is the Greek Tartaros (or Tartarus), which undergoes a historical transformation from an abyssal realm where defeated godlike powers are imprisoned indefinitely (eg in Hesiod) to a place where mortals and some minor immortals who transgressed against the gods were condemned to ironic torments in the more Classical Greek mythological writings.

But Tartaros is just a primordial place in Greek myths at every point. Like Kaos, or Gaea, or Aether, or Ouranos, it's both a deity and a space, part of the early structure of the universe before there are really personalities. Nobody built it.

Similarly, Toyohime tells a story about how the Lunar Capital was created by the great sage Tsukuyomi and their* desire to avoid the spread of impurity and death, and also tells a story identifying the Lunar Capital with the undersea Dragon Palace of Japanese folklore. And this is, in its way, consistent both with the textual tradition in which Tsukuyomi is the killer of the food goddess Ukemochi out of disgust with how she vomits food out, and also the fact that Tsukuyomi is a god without much cultic presence, a figure mostly in primordial mythology, unlike their very active siblings Amaterasu and Susanoo. (There are a couple shrines to them, especially as subordinate parts of large Amaterasu shrine complexes. But not many.)

But it's also not really derived from the mythology directly, and it's not quite drawing upon a clear historical transformation- Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto seems to have always been primarily a literary figure, distant from practical religion.

Now, the Lunarians reject divinity, in the sense of rejecting the obligation to humans that being a kami in a shrine requires, the interactions and subordination to ritual. Hecatia also describes her original Hell as a place where people reject rules they don't like. So we also have this interesting convergence- these two sets of figures who assert a separate history of their own existence, disconnected from what ordinary humans thought then or now, also share in this kind of symbolic disconnect.

So one way of looking at their alternate histories is to treat them as assertions about the world and the universe more than statements of plain fact, which is definitely workable within the fictional context as well- Hecatia is manipulating Aya in her interview, Toyohime doesn't know the full details of the "history of the moon" and is to an extent repeating what she's been told. There's been quite a lot of good meta about those worldviews you can go read.

But another similarity that falls out of this analysis is that both sides of this pair exist in a state of relative freedom within Touhou cosmology, because the Lunarians are figures of literary myths who don't have to be reconciled with their behavior at the shrine, and Hekate is a famously confusing and difficult figure within the Greek and later Greco-Roman mythological complex- Hesiod presents her as a kind of universal helpful figure, as does the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, but other sources from early periods present her as sketchy or hellish. Still later, she would become treated as a nearly-omnipotent goddess in some of the Greek Magical Papyri- but what we know about her cult and position today is limited and even contemporary writers seem confused.

Hecatia is thus free in the cracks, because human imagination and human history have left her with great latitude, just like the objects of her distaste, the Lunarians. I suppose in a way it's the contempt bred of familiarity- you have all this freedom and this is how you use it? etc.

*Tsukuyomi's gender is unclear, according to Wikipedia in English, even given early poetic sources that refer to them in masculine terms. So I suspect there's some real uncertainty going on in the scholarship too.

[obihiro-division]

Veiled Vanguard as Cocktail Drinks

Hisoka - Runagate Derby

Daiki - Justice Punch

Jack - Secret Sours, Sweet Sincerity

[neonixcon]

For a little background, these guys belong to a jazz band called The Runagate Four. They play in Archer's gentleman's club . Found in the West side of Ultra Metropolis

[occasionaltouhou]

i would say that in order to attain a modicum of the yukari expertise i possess you should read "cage in lunatic runagate chapter 5 from the infinitely low earth" and "seasonal dream vision a beautiful flower blooming violet every sixty years" as those are both written by zun from her perspective. they will help you to understand

[zaranthropy]

touhou bougetsushou ~ cage in lunatic runagate chapter 3 in a nutshell