>>18173
No, they're not required. But as >>18174 pointed out, it makes talking about the story easier. Referring to Untitled story 1, Untitled story 2 etc. could be needlessly confusing.

>>18173
There's a lot that could be said about titling stories, but my go-to (because I'm bad at titles) is just picking a single word that has something to do with something in the story and going with that.

>>18176
I'm concerned that a title will look excessive. I'm not done yet, but close, and it's pretty short even within the limit. Well, whatever, I'll figure it out, it's my own personal hang-up, haha.

>>18163
>>18164
Ah, shoot. That's what happens when you, ah, over-focus on, er, certain areas of the picture over others. An easy fix at any rate, if you at all care:
https://files.catbox.moe/el7p3u.jpg
>I had a more silvery hair colour in mind while I was writing it
My thought process went: eagle -> bald eagle's the popular depiction, innit -> so, a smoothed-down, white-ish dome with some kind of yellow/orange accent to evoke the beak. Come to think of it, perhaps looking at bald eagle pictures stuck him with yellow eyes in my head.
>August/September
I'll drop a note and pop the question somewhen closer to that time, then.
>AO3 version
Planning on that soon? I'd like to include a link once I chuck these up in the usual places, some time, finally, eventually.

>>18167
>an interpretation of the peanut trees
Admittedly a bit of an afterthought on my part, and I realise those nuts are the size of award-winning apples, but I wanted something visible there. Yanno?

>>18170
Human I remember your
>interpretation

That Doremy cosplay pic is almost criminally cute.

>>17980
Best story on the site, in my opinion. There's nothing quite like it, and I wish there was more. If only The Kinu Yasumi Almanac got finished...

>>17987
Speaking as a collaborator on that one, it would have been hard for Kinu to finish since the writer, uh, didn't plan much and lost interest in figuring it out after a while. Rural Concord ended up being something like a spiritual continuation, even if it wasn't strictly the same.

Here's another story I haven't seen anyone bring up:
>>/border/31609

The premise is pretty interesting as far as "walk around and survey Gensokyo" stories go, and it's short and sweet. No need to artificially heighten stakes for the sake of a forced plot or neatly tie up everything with a comprehensive conclusion, just a quick, cozy stroll with some fun character interactions. There's not too many stories that (tangentially) touch on the gyrations of the afterlife, so there's that too. Reading it shouldn't take that long for most considering it's pretty short, so there's not much reason to not. More CYOAs ought to be as small-scale and focused. Maybe more would finish like this one.

>>18074
Interesting site you've linked there, although maybe the author is a little more credulous regarding the solidity of spiritual beliefs and influences than a sceptic like myself...
But it seems like there's a good amount of useful information nonetheless! Certainly there's material that can be taken into account, or topics and names mentioned that can be springboards for further reading.

>>18080
It really is interesting to read and is a good collection of ideas to build on, but I don't entirely agree with the author's approach in Archive of the Sealed Gods. I'd say it's most prominent in the "Why are they girls?" post. (https://archive-of-the-sealed-gods.neocities.org/the-esoteric-in-touhou/part3/animegirls) It's, like, I get it, it just treats their appearance as diegetic, but... They're anime girls because ZUN is a bishoujo-loving otaku. That's just the way it is to me. They're bishoujos, it's a bishoujo work.
Of course, neither approach is "correct", there's no such thing, but it seems... short-sighted? Especially when looking at references, allusions, influences and things like that.

I'll throw this out there too.
We've all probably seen that maid with braids and glasses that looks a lot like Sakuya - her name is Nudge, and she's a robot-maid from a manga called Sarai. ZUN's Sarai borrowings in Touhou are kind of superficial, being just visual elements and a few character names (Patchouli, for one, is one of the robot-maids too), but Seihou seems to have been much more strongly influenced by it. https://touhou-gakusei.hatenablog.com/entry/2021/04/18/150918 outlines the references and parallels, but really, it's pretty obvious just by looking at VIVIT. I think you can get a lot out of Sarai if you're writing Seihou fanfiction, of at least incorporating Seihou elements. https://archive.org/details/sarai_202209 You can read the manga here, but it's raw.

>>18091
>You're not forced to mimic the same kinds of conflicts that you see in the mainline games; you're not forced to assume the same scales, the same stakes, or the same pacing and attitude towards conflict that people tend to reach for as like a fanfiction-ey default.
Not to pile on too much, but I'd say that the the official manga actually illustrate that point pretty well. Most of them (a recent shonenshitty exception aside...) don't amount to anything on the scale, urgency, or basic character of the games. It's not even that contingent on the reader to know much of anything about the characters involved or the setting, since that's not really the point. Knowing nothing, you can probably surmise, say, that Sanae and Reimu are supposed to have a rival-adjacent sort of relationship within the one chapter of Wild and Horny Hermit where they get in a little playground fight over alcohol — one of the few times it's that relevant to anything going on. Does it matter that they're miko? Not really. Does it matter who Kanako and Suwako are? Not especially. Do we even have to know why Reimu is throwing parties? Not at all. The focus is largely on Sanae trying to pull out a zinger on Reimu. And a lot of the manga are like this; they're practically fanfiction of a sort already.

>>18093
It sounds like everyone agrees that the official manga has the right amount of background explanation to put in your fanfic, we just disagree about how effective it actually is for readers unfamiliar with Touhou. The manga doesn't do what I would consider the main thing to avoid, which is going into background explanations that just rehash what a tuned-in fan would already know. If you think unfamiliar readers can figure it out even if you don't do that, great.

>>18094
That's... not the point of what I said? I was agreeing with much of >>18091, in particular the quoted portion.

Just realized I forgot to say what it even is, Gensokyo D20 is a Touhou D&D 3.5 conversion.

Have you tried asking the Touhou Subreddit? Or maybe /jp/ now that 4chan is back online?

>>18013
I remember his posts. He's already been to both, as well as /tg/ and, IIRC, an altchan or two. From what I gathered, most of the rules were found saved elsewhere except for the ones he specified which unfortunately seem lost. About the only thing you could do is try tracking down the author for them, or do your best to homebrew up those monsters and magic items.

I think the only backstory Alice needs is Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit".

>>17991
>By the way, I don't have a concrete idea of how exactly Alice left Makai
My apologies, clearly, it was to work as Mima's maid. (Yes, I know it was just a gag...)

I really liked the Tewi discussion in the first character discussion thread so I wanted to bring her up again. Namely some of her dialogue that I liked
Starting from the top in PoFV, when Lyrica asks if Rabbits used to fly in the sky, Tewi answers that they did but evolved away from that. After winning, when answering why she flies, Tewi says that there wasn’t anywhere else she could go any more so she decided to go up.

When Youmu says it's strange for an animal like her to enjoy the netherworld, Tewi answers that rabbits are high class animals who exchanged a lot with gods in the past.

Finally in her story mode, She then tries to buy part of Medicine’s flower field from her, but gets poisoned instead.

After that Eiki scolds her for being a trickster, leading to her versus dialogue where she dispenses these fortunes.
If Reimu makes the Torii gate of the shrine face south instead of east she will have good luck
If Marisa moved out of the forest of magic she would have good luck
If Yomu stabs herself with her sword, she will have good luck
Tewi tells Cirno to go after frogs of higher rank, getting Cirno eaten by the great toad. This probably isn't a fortune and is just a prank.
Tewi tells Merlin she’s willing to help promote her as a solo act as some sort of business deal.
Tewi advises Mystia to open a new business, causing her to open her lamprey stand.
Tewi talk to Aya about improving how well her papers sell. Later Aya starts handing out free extra additions, it isn't successful due to Aya being dumb and not much happeneing.
Tewi goes back to medicine to ask if she's reconsidered selling some of the land in her field of flower. (Just speculation, but since Medicine and her flowers poison can also be used to create medicine, she probably wants to align her desire to see pretty flowers and secure a new source of resources for the Hourai Pharmacy.)
Tewi scolds Komachi for being wasteful with money and using it as a Danmaku (I find it funny, I've seen more poor Komachi's then rich ones, but in reality she's loaded just poor at handling money.)
When talking to Eiki in the versus mode, she says she’s giving people good a

>>17973
People said the same about several touhous with little lore, and yet Satono/Mai and Nemuno produced very interesting discussions in the end, leaning precisely into the personal interpretation angle.

>>17976
Exactly!
Also, PC98 characters have the benefit of there not being all that much to know in the first place. Their in-game appearances are basically what they are, you won't even have to do a lot of reading or anything. Which is why I'm suggesting it! The barrier to entry is lower for people who may not really engage with the cast outside of a few favourites, but may still want to comment. And it's just fun! Old works are fun, th1 especially is very fun to talk and think about.

Well, are we going to get new characters to discuss? The irregular discussions thread seems to be active enough, even if people aren't writing huge posts every time. If Teruyo is fed up and doesn't want to run the discussion thread, should someone else take over?

>>17927
Yes? I didn't say it wasn't. But you're not supposed to sympathize with the master, he's cruel drunk who beats children. The boy killing him is him being repaid with the same kindness he gave onto the world, which is none. The boy then feeling terrible for what he did tried to confess, but the Tanuki covered it up since they feel bad for him.
Also the narrative clearly signals, that it's supposed to be a truthful story, if it wasn't meant to be truthful it would have been framed differently. Probably starting out with the myth having the Tanuki, only to reveal they're more underhanded or weren't involved at all and the story has a perfectly normal explanation.
Also I don't understand what the Tanuki being self serving has to do with anything here, the question that's being asked here is.
1. Do the Youkai have an interest in keeping humans alive and the human village stable?
Which I think is yes. The human village is constantly highlighted as being important to maintaining Gensokyo in its current state.
and
2. Would a Youkai help deal with problems like crime in the village?
And I think that depends on the Youkai, in Mamizou's case, I think she would if it could benefit herself and kept the village stable.
Neither of these questions take into account if the Youkai is acting in self interest or now, and I'm not really concerned with the motive. The Questions are asking if a course of action could be realistically taken, which there can be any number of motives for.

>>17928
I'm not arguing with you about anything? I'm just making a whatever comment, dude. The subject's kind of run itself out.

>>17086
I think you're thinking of Zanmu's ending where it reveals Zanmu's real goal was to take over Gensokyo, but after she found out about Reimu and recognized her as the absolute power in Gensokyo gave up on her goal.

>>17507
As I said before, it's fine if you can't. While I'm interested in what I'm interested, the simpler idea about the aftermath at the Hakurei shrine is also ok. I'm partial to a series of short notes/articles by Aya following attempts to interview the involved parties as a style and/or framing device. Though, perhaps, that might end up being more about Aya and her pushiness rather than the interview subjects (Reimu, Aunn, Marisa?, others?) themselves. Dunno what the other anon might think.

https://www.thp.moe/th/res/183417.html#183938

Kind of late, considering spring's already begun, but I feel the need to bring up the above post because it's something that's stuck in my head for years. I honestly can't get rid of the concept of Lily White automatically going from a sedate, perhaps intelligible individual to a babbling maniac upon the transition to spring. Something about it just makes me giggle endlessly like a schoolboy.

Posting this here because I don't feel it's right to necro the thread even if the board won't block me yet.

I really want >>/others/69170 back. There's not much running currently that's as fun to me. Yeah, yeah, I know, the usual barriers. Doesn't stop me from wanting.