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A bunch of unfortunate events happened one after another, so I will not be making an reading log entry today. I need to sort out some stuff, but I should be fine by tomorrow.

@bulgariansalad@スカーレット大鎌@ReisenFanatic17@Idioms21@Pinky Cat@nitorii Confirming November 10 at 15:00 GMT, hope to see you all there! Looks like most of us agreed on an RP, -which I have zero experience with- but hopefully all goes well >.< Anyways, we'll also chat about other things and probably play some other activities. We'll see what happens! Hmm, I've listened to a nice speedcore song or two, but it's usually a bit too fast for me. Personally, I prefer "speedcore without the speed." Genres like hardstyle or gabber :) Don't worry, I haven't played the games much and it should be fine if you have a general idea of most of the characters. The plan is to let everyone roleplay their favorite characters, and I'll sort of play as a narrator to guide you all through the world. I'm excited to see how this goes! Alright, see you guys on Sunday! :D

Captain Murasa’s Stories Genre: Naval History | Artbook Release Date: August 27th, 2013 Language: Russian By: U-Joe Book Source: Deviant Art =========================== A foreign man goes for a walk to Xavier Park and rests at Sakai Lighthouse. He find a girl in a raddled sailor uniform laying on the ground who, in a drunken stupor, begins to tell the man her sea worthy stories. She leaves with an cat eared affiliate, but not before the man guesses the uniformed girl’s name to be Murasa Minamitsu. In light of this confirmation, Murasa leaves an annoyed comment about Yukari, while the man begins to write down from memory the stories of Murasa as a record to compare with naval history. This intro is the framing this book uses to contain two different subjects in the same book: Naval history and Touhou artwork. Of the former, Captain Murasa’s Stories is a naval history book that features the ships of Great Britain, Germany, and Japan, all accompanied by photos and artworks. For my personal feelings, the writing intrigued me as much as a good history book knows to tell historical facts as part of a narrative. Reading the reason behind the ships’ creation, seeing their action out on the war operations, and having geopolitics context for their movements made feel a rich connection to essentially the life stories of ships. This is all aided with U-Joe’s rich artstyle, where the sea endlessly waves, the sky setting great color balance, and the ships acting as the focal piece. These artworks serve to highlight the ships for these present times. Of the latter, Captain Murasa’s Stories is a Touhou artbook that carry heavy Western inspiration in both style and subject. As mentioned before, U-Joe is rich in his artstyle as the environments are wonderfully lush of nature’s eccentrics, while Touhou characters outfitted in far more fashionable style. His subjects can vary where one can see Aya flying over the stormy sea, while another artwork depicts Alice serving tea to a blond child sitting in a well-lit living room. U-Joe also wonderfully mixes Western subjects with Touhou in both environment and clothing, such that artworks still look like a dream more in line of the a past European era not fettered by the fright of recent invasions. To think that a Touhou fanwork would make me interested in reading the life of British air carrier for the past hour is indicative of how Touhou can connect vastly different subjects together. Perhaps the true subject of Touhou is something less material, liken to a dream or spirit. Perhaps the art of U-Joe was how the book created an unimaginable marriage between the sea and Touhou. =========================== Before leaving this entry out to dry, I like to mention a quote this book uses under ЁКАИ И ФЕИ (YOUKAI AND FAIRIES): The name Cendrillon caught my eye, for that doujinshi is not a typical Touhou doujinshi. While its author, FelisOvum, is certainly inspired to add Western subjects in the same way U-Joe does in his art, the narrative of the doujinshi stands out for trying to tell a theme that extends beyond its roots of a Touhou doujinshi. I recommend checking out the doujinshi, if not but to see the sort of artwork that could be created back in 2008.

woah you're telling me you gotta talk to people and interact with others to make friends? that's fucked up man. truly dystopian.

I'm sooo sorry but I have an exam this saturday so I won't be able to join :< I'll also be busy on the 17th, but after that I'll probably be free for the rest of the year tbh I have a love hate relationship with Kobaryo, but usually I don't mind them. it just has to have the distinction between annoying speedcore and cool-ish speedcore as for RP, I kinda suck and I'm not thaaaaat into it but I can try regardless