Always being forgotten
You're welcome. I just feel like it's such a waste for this doujin to not get uploaded so I took the chance.
I want to upload some new stuff but I've got to take care of the YoumuvsByakuren by kage houshi that I uploaded. But it's just too hard for me to translate. I think I need some pro like Moonspeaker or glasnost for that. I wonder how I can ask them for help...
Shou may be the catalyst for this comic, but Byakuren is the centerpiece.
I was confused at first. While using corpses as fertilizer undoubtedly altered the biology of the crops, they were only vegetables and fruits at the end of the day. How could they satisfy Shou's biological and spiritual need for flesh? But then I read to post #1246597 and it dawned on me. It wasn't just about Gensokyo running on symbolism and fates and such. Byakuren actively put her magic into the soil and the plants. This should be seen as an extension of her bizzare and confusing doctrine. Though you'd think that she had stopped obsessing over immortality and prolonging her life after being unsealed from Makai.
(After going through Ten Desires and Symposium of Post-mysticism, I can't help but to feel that Miko and Byakuren, despite their hostility to each other, are similar in so many different ways, not least their double standards. But I guess that Miko's ability to hear people's desires also somehow makes her own desires and ambitions more "understandable" to a normal person than Byakuren's dream.)
As for Shou, I know that she and Byakuren are neither hermits nor ordained monks but act more like Buddhist priests who follow the middle road, you'd think that after centuries of meditation and acting as the avatar of Bishamonten, she would've had a better handle of her carnivorous instinct. She is not that different from the yakshas of the Eight Legions who serves Buddhism under Bishamonten. These yakshas can't reach enlightenment in their current lives -- only humans, devas and brahmas can -- but they still have to observe the five precepts so that they will eventually reincarnate as humans. I don't know if what Shou and Byakuren did count toward that, or was it a case of skimming the rules?
Though like Nazrin said in post #1245533, it may well be the case that Gensokyo itself brings out the primal beast in all yokai. It makes for an interesting implication to how other yokai like Mamizou might've had acted differently and had different temperament when they still lived in the outside world.
Joutoku-ji temple in Nara city, Nara prefecture
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7zBCBmE1n4Fy5yG4A
Need help tagging: What is she wearing on the bottom? is it a skirt or pants? Are there special tags that would relate to her topwear as well? And what color is the background? It's not white but my vocabulary is too limited to appropriately describe it.
edit - thank you nervecontrol, praise be
Updated by tdp204
n3wtype said in comment #2568202:
Oh, so it's like a virtual boy
And just like a virtual boy it hurts your head in less than a second of playing
Razorback20 said in comment #2564810:
"Front Toward Enemy"
I forgot, is the side that says that the front or the back?
Ricky_Daddy said in comment #2595602:
I forgot, is the side that says that the front or the back?
The side that says"FRONT" is the front
Moonspeaker said in comment #1427391:
Perhaps, but she's not saying so in the image, so out of the "Haruna Is All Right" pool it goes.
It is in the commentary, fwiw.
Goldva said in comment #2595535:
I have never felt it so strongly before: the overwhelming desire to brush someone else's hair.
I said the same thing on reddit and for some reason, people decided it was some kind of pedo code. This game is making people insane.
FRien said in comment #2595539:
I said the same thing on reddit and for some reason, people decided it was some kind of pedo code. This game is making people insane.
I wonder if the game is making people insane or if they always were and all it takes is an outlet for projection for it to come out.
Goldva said in comment #2595554:
I wonder if the game is making people insane or if they always were and all it takes is an outlet for projection for it to come out.
Remember: if they make accusitions, great chances they are actually projecting.

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