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Hello. I guess I've technically had an account for 3 years now but I've never actually used the forums. I started playing Touhou around 10 years ago and think I have some decent accomplishments at least as far as clearing every game/extra stage, as well as a few successful Lunatic and NN runs. Here are my exact records in case anyone is curious: I don't know if that's gonna impress anybody here but I'm proud of some of those and hey the most important thing is I had fun over the years. Main reason I'm posting here now is I decided to upload some of my runs to my YouTube channel to show some of my friends and to see if anybody else is interested. For example this NN run of Flandre. If that sounds like something you might be interested in then by all means stop by my channel and take a look. Feel free to leave any feedback on my gameplay or suggestions if you have any.

Wow, another year for this thread huh? Hello, I'm finally back, again :( , I got caught up with exams and all that so didn't really have time for Moriya shrine. But that is no excuse! Because I really really have to make time to do the things I wanna do (like going to this place and much more!), otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it and you'll be inactive for 2-3 months... like me lol. Anyways I just wanted to say I'm back! And I'm going to make it possible to have time and space for this site, besides doing stuff in my day to day life! Well, lets get back to metal gear!!! There's so much other posts 2, ah... OH, hello Ken, I just saw you made a post. I was going to sent this post too! Lol, what a coincidence (I spelt it right :D).

Oooh, so many words, so many people! I'm glad I decided to be a bit more chaotic with how I approach this place or else I would probably just stop by Sunday and miss all the fun. Truthfully, I never expected people would promptly return here so fast after New Year and everything but here we are. Let's start then, I had to plans to adress Yumetou first but since ally is here then K-mon will have priority due to Ally reasons. Hehehe, don't make me blush! This was just me being goofy and trying to lighten the mood since everyone seemed so tired back then. I'm glad it worked, in fact, it worked so well that we had the most visitors here since a month ago I believe. Should I start posting more memes? Oh? Still adressing me are you? Did you really think I hadn't considered that my ally? Please, I did consider that! But then what about you? Let me show you my thoughts then. Think about it. In a medicine stall, we have both the people responsible for it (those who sells medicine) and people who wants to use their services (those who buy medicine). In another words, as Master Gri sucessfully deduced, there is no set character for any of these choices but instead we have a pool from where Yume will decide from. With that in mind, the chances of meeting the Eientei crew would be 50% and the chances of meeting a patient represent the other 50%. Said patients would most likely be humans who get sick in the first place, my mind immediately thinks of Akyuu, considering she is physically the weakest human in the series due to being a child of Miare but Yume also mentioned a "kitsune boy" which means the chances of getting a forgotten side character is also very high. On the other hand, the temple options offer us a wide array of youkais and humans who frequents the temple, either the ones affiliated to it or believers who are nonetheless also affiliated to it. So, the chances of getting Oscar acquainted to Myouren Temple SHOULD be 100% unless Yume decides to pull a fast one on us. I think you have made the connections by now, My dear ally but if you hadn't then let me clarify it to you. Yes, I am being unpredictable because I'm making a gamble with myself! Think of a gacha, I can either get the legendary 6 stars Reisen Udongein Inaba or the common 3 stars Heida no Akyuu and if my luck is that bad then I get the off-meta unit "side-character". The end goal I have decided for this choice is getting Oscar into Eientei or at least get him to know about it and that would probably only be accomplished if I'm lucky enough to have the medicine stall to be picked and then be lucky enough to have someone from Eientei to save Ozzy. The optimal and safe choice is the temple since the Buddhists would probably offer shelter at any moment (they surely want more followers after all). On a side note, Akyuu is really a common character, she has a reasonable chance to appear in the library, in her own temple, in the medicine stall and I even read somewhere once that she might be a Buddhist. Bruh, why you never told me you worked at Eientei? Do you have any idea what I would do the get a job there? Give me my worries back! Jokes aside, I understand your situation now lol, actually, I think you even told us about your job before, I guess I was just being stupid and forgot about it. I can surely tell you are doing what you love because hospitals can make a person understand if they are cut for their job really quick, I can tell you this because my mum had a dream of being a nurse but wasn't able to realize it due to becoming a housewife instead after I got my first job, I helped fund her studies so she could finally work on her dream job... Guess what? She didn't last a year in a hospital, nowadays she takes care of an old lady who suffers from dementia. I don't regret helping fund her studies though, I can rub in her face that I paid back the effort she made to secure my own studies. Take your time sorting things out, as you can see, we will probably be here to welcome you back whenever you feel like it. Just don't take too long Lastly, before I go, I decided to make a little sketch to help understand Ozzy's current predicament.

Status Update: i am sleepy

the fact i became a touhou fan on jan 8th (yes thats true) thats tomorrow for me, this is my 3rd year as a touhou fan

WHAT- 100K PROFILE VIEWS??? YALL ARE INSANE, TYSMMMMM

mini twisted astro hi once again

Merry Christmas to everyone in gensokyo who believe in the right God of this world! I wish you very merry! m2-res_270p.mp4

I figure 2024 is over for everyone by this time, so here's the annual OGM record.

Welcome back to the Moriya Shrine, CountVonNumenor. I can't speak for the entire Touhou community, but I say the state of the Touhou community is not different from 2023 in that the community is growing slowly, and new fanworks are created on a regular basis. Nothing major happened within the Touhou community between 2023 and 2024, so let me present my slice of Touhou news from 2024 as an update on what ZUN and the community has done this past year. Official May 3 - Taboo Japan Disentanglement It is another Hifuu Album with a story. https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Taboo_Japan_Disentanglement May 31 - Touhou Guideline Changes The big change is that "indie game websites" are allowed on the acceptable list, meaning a website like itch.io is now allowed to sell Touhou fan games. The second change is mention that crowdfunding is not allowed without ZUN's permission. https://x.com/richard_effendi/status/1796539548287336605 July 8 - Touhou 19 v1.10c After one year from its release, a balance patch is released that made balance changes to every character and fixing a number of bugs. The includes nerfing Chiyari’s to have clearable wisps and bluffing Nazrin’s scope speed to name a few of the changes. Safe to say, this is more balanced than the initial version of Touhou 19. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2400340/view/4220517501592769690 July 29 - ZUN Manuscript In a radio stream back in July 29, ZUN commented that he been busy writing some manuscripts. It been speculated that this could be a future Touhou printwork. https://moriyashrine.org/forums/topic/6276-a-new-livestream-with-zun-kind-of-a-interview-too/?do=findComment&comment=20165 Community February 8 - Touhou Danmaku Kagura Release After the successful crowdfunding campaign back in 2023 to revive Touhou Danmaku Kagura, this rhythm game got its release on Steam. https://danmaku.jp/igG3s3wtMyN0R1Oa1x7CQ/ June 5 - Crowdfunding Permissions On this day, Kyoto Fantasy Troupe is accepted for fundraising its 3rd episode of The Sealed Esoteric History. At the same time, the Korean Touhou orchestra got declined for fundraising, forcing them to change their funding strategy. https://x.com/fantasytroupe/status/1798323908669755837 https://x.com/THorch_KR/status/1798324092812353971 May 10 - TouhouFest 2024 News Report TouhouFest 2024 is broadcasted on Torrence’s cable network on a report that showcases the aspects of TouhouFest while TouhouFest attendees talk about Touhou and the convention. https://youtu.be/X_TCJbXei_o?si=73xjg9mcNDfApXNK Summer - Cyberattacks on Touhou! On June 8, Niconico went down for about a month after a ransomware attack occurred on Kadowara’s servers. Then, during early July, a wave of DDOS attacks occurred on multiple Chinese Touhou websites, shutting down services like the THBWiki. Thankfully, all of these services have since recovered, and it does not appear any permanent website migrations occurred after this incident was said and done. https://moriyashrine.org/forums/topic/5870-chinese-touhou-websites-are-under-attack/ July - Seasons of Gensokyo Seasons of Gensokyo is another Touhou zine collaboration after Welcome to Gensokyo that once again features art, stories, and comics from over 100 contributors. https://gensokyozine.itch.io/gensokyoseasons August - Mystia Izakaya Anime Announcement Its release is aiming for summer 2025. Concept art has also been released in the meantime. https://moriyashrine.org/forums/topic/6495-touhou-mystias-izakaya-anime-seems-to-be-on-the-works/ August 15 - Imperishable Night 20th Anniversary Across the Touhou community were fanworks related to Imperishable Night to celebrate its anniversary. There too many fanworks to cover in this post, but the tag fanworks used for the anniversary is #ImperishableDay. https://youtu.be/UHwbk9fgs9w Winter - Riverside Wonders A charity zine where all profit will go to Care for Gaza in helping the needs of Palestine families. The zine is planed for preorders by the end of the year. https://thriversidezine.carrd.co/ December - BBEX International On December 31st, 2023, the Hispanic community magazine BBEX, releasing its first international issue, showcasing community works from the rest of the Western Touhou community. With the success of the pervious event, BBEX international is running again this year and has announced that the premiere of the next issue will happen on December 29th. https://x.com/POfBoundaries/status/1865896113573617779 Vanyk's Japan Touhou Circle Research Teaser Vanyk has been building an extensive data table on Touhou circles and Touhou events within Japan to analysis changes in the Japanese Touhou community. Currently, he is in the progress of writing an analysis piece based on his data. https://moriyashrine.org/profile/38795-vanyk/content/?type=core_statuses_status&change_section=1 If you need more info on what happened in 2024, I recommend Suzunaan's monthly news videos. Despite the commentary being Spanish, their videos are still watchable as each news item has images. Plus, every video has a source list down in the description or comment section. If you have any more questions on the Touhou community, feel free to ask.

update! it's getting worse i barely have any friends (pretty normal actually) also there's this guy who keeps stalking me in-between classes (for context i dumped him a year ago because he was really mean to me ;-;) (like bro it's over just let it go, plus you're ugly) and almost everyone keeps saying the same annoying things over and over again (STFU NOBODY CARES ABOUT THICK OF IT!!!!!!!) btw i'm actually considering doing it ifkwim

High school has been very all over the place, its where I've had my worst times and best times, but I guess that is to be expected considering how much years we have to spend there. But right now I'm just grateful I finally got out this year and now I'm free to make my own choices in life. But anyways here's the rest of the story.