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One of these days i'm actually gonna post something

[Cas 🏵 @Casver_W]

More signal spires

#rainworldart #rainworld #rainworldwatcher

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@werepigism Even ignoring logistical issues (how does carol reach the church before the fun gang in the instance where the player goes straight from the holiday manor?), carol knight comes across as a red-herring knight, especially as chapter 4 makes such a big deal about her use of katanas.

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@werepigism In my experience, dess knight is still more popular among loreheads, and even though I'm not too loyal to a particular candidate, I'm personally more partial to dess knight.

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@7starsmessenger That's probably part of the reason, but it's also notable that Matsura Seizan used "white wolf" (白狼, the same kanji used in Touhou) as another name for the Konoha-tengu (木の葉天狗) in the Kasshi Yawa (甲子夜話), specifying that they are old wolves that became tengu.

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@pat_1356 the fact that they come in a good and evil pair, with Parsee also splitting into two during one of her spells.

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@pat_1356 That's a fun idea, makes me wish the Zoroastrian influence was leaned into a bit more with Parsee. I'm partial to the idea or her being a daena due to their role in escorting the dead across the Chinvat Bridge, which fits her own occupation, and...

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@YOKU_YUKIHIME Honestly, it doesn't surprise me that the kind of person to write all of that up would be obsessive enough to hound people over it.

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@YOKU_YUKIHIME As an example, their argument against trans Miko is pretty dumb, as Sanae's ending makes it clear that Prince Shotoku is still conventionally understood to be a man in the Touhou Universe, and so it's reasonable to assume that Miko chose to become a woman.

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@YOKU_YUKIHIME I remember you alluding to this on tumblr, god, this is even worse than I expected. Hell, I have my criticisms of ZUN, but this is just pathetic and flat out wrong from what little I could stomach.

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@Throudon I entirely get why people dislike Artificer, and admittedly I still have my issues with it (namely how much it clashes tonally with the base game), but after playing through it several times, and going out of my way to collect echoes and pearls, I think its one of the most fun...

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[ INSPIRED BY "東方天流宮 ～ Heavenly Gathering of Clouds" ]

東方平行経　～ City Built on Gravestones

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@8turuinaja @capes_kid role towards Buddhism before being subjugated by Vajrapāṇi (notably one of the Chinese/Japanese renderings of his name, Makeishura (魔醯首羅), uses the same kanji that are used to spell Mara (魔羅), perhaps demonstrating an intent to identify the two).

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@8turuinaja @capes_kid To be fair, Mara can also claim a connection to Śiva through an association with Maheśvara (the Buddhist form of Śiva), as the latter was also characterized, via Īśāna, as the ruler of the Sixth Heaven of the Desire Realm, and is similarly portrayed as taking up an antagonistic-

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@roaringwish Coincidentally I'm working on a tumblr ask response about Okina, and her fandom reception is one of the subjects I'm covering. Yeah this really validates a lot of the grievances I have.

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@7starsmessenger Hattori Yukio's views surrounding Matarajin and Shukujin/Kawakatsu have also received some pushback as well.

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@7starsmessenger Admittedly I really don't like how misleading Faure is in this section, as Matarajin is never mentioned in the Fūshikaden or Meishukushū. Rather, this hinges on Hattori Yukio's interpretation of the Meishukushū as implicitly identifying Matarajin with Zenchiku's idea of Shukujin.

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@7starsmessenger @Numbername88 Due to the association however, the name Tachikawa-ryū came to be used as a catch-all for heretical or otherwise perverse practices.

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@7starsmessenger @Numbername88 came to be identified with the Tachikawa-ryū, a peripheral branch of Shingon Buddhism that incorporated elements of Onmyōdō. Its questionable as to whether the ritual was ever actually performed, and there was seemingly nothing out of the ordinary about Tachikawa-ryū itself. ...