^ The sweat's important. Got to recover those electrolytes.

Are people really debating if 'witch' has gender-neutral connotation in modern English when it has a formally masculine counterpart?

That's what 'witcher' is, by the way.

^ Rudolph is everyone's sub, so she took the picture.

This is just so fucking pretty.

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Twitter post says "Daughter of Nabatea". Not really accurate to Byleth, and Rhea is a Nabatean rather than a daughter of one (Sothis would be Mother of Nabatea, instead, no?).

My money's on science/magic babies unless evidence is provided otherwise. Which would be pretty cool, has Gyarin done any art featuring a Rhealeth kid before? Or would this be the first?

Edit: Actually, reincarnation (of Rhea) seems plausible as well. It might make the pairing of the images make more sense.

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Huh. I think I've only ever seen the version of this where Tara has no pants. This is still good.

^ I don't know if it's what you meant, but now I'm imaging GLaDOS being moved from attached to the potato battery to attached to Chell's heart. And that's so disgustingly cute... I love it?

Edit: <H3artOS!

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^ The scrawny one's name is Tara. The amazon is Beverly.

^ The nice thing is that once you learn kana, it takes a lot to forget it. Of course, Kanji is a very, very different story.
Take it from someone who took Japanese for all four years of high school and has barely applied it since.

^^^^ It's not taking video, she's watching her orgasm in slow-motion.

(Current setting is "スロー"/"Slow", and "ビデオ"/"Video" is to the right; left is "タイムラプス"/"Timelapse")

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^ Or twatswatting.

^ My thought was Pinkie stayed over at her place and "borrowed" them, but same difference, I suppose.

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^ Upon closer review of the very jumbled timeline page, the games are generally in chronological order, but I think that's the only point I had outright wrong. I'll be honest, I didn't look very close because I don't really know what I'm looking for and, as I already mentioned, I don't care very much.

I assume you're already involved with the series, and so I'll defer to you on facts but my original points were really more about my subjective experience. In any case, this topic's really wearing on me and I'd like to be done with this conversation.

^ I mentioned Wikipedia specifically because it was brought up before. And I did mention sources more broadly as not being useful when attempting to break into Touhou as a series. Touhouwiki is easy to find and that's about where its positive qualities end in that regard.

I think if I were to reduce it to single issue, it wouldn't be the quantity of content, but how fragmented it is. Most large franchises have a core installment or linear series thereof that will give you all the basics, and Touhou lacks that. The games are the closest, but they're not in order, most of them seem very episodic, the emphasis on the story in-game varies wildly, and some aren't even translated. So, if there even is a good jumping-off point, it is very hard to find.

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^ I'm not an idiot.
Yes, there is a wiki, a repository of raw information that does little more than illustrate how vast the amount of content is and how incredibly hard to follow the structure of the series tends to be without prior knowledge. Does that solve any of the problems I mentioned in my first comment?

To be clear, I'm not interested in Touhou and nothing anyone says is likely to change that at this point. I was conveying my past experiences with thinking to try out the series and, metaphorically, finding myself at the entrance to a labyrinth instead of a clubhouse.

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^ I meant more "being presented to you constantly" in the sense of searching by keyword (or looking at a tag on this site) than sifting through daily/weekly updates. When there's as large of a content backlog as Touhou has, it can constitute a surprising percentage of what comes up in a single or double-keyword search. Regardless, I don't fully agree with HellAQA, but I was relating my personal experience with Touhou to play devil's advocate rather than bash on them like everyone else.

And your last bit is exactly what I was referring to Touhou having a problem with. Some people (myself included) have difficulty appreciating content without context, and in most cases the solution is simply to explore the context. For the reasons I specified above, that is very difficult to do with Touhou.

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In defense of HellAQA (barring the comment about the art style), the sheer, overwhelming amount of Touhou content and the relative lack of useful, easy to find and access English resources for the series (Wikipedia's pages on the franchise are extremely long and dry; basically, if you don't have a requisite level of experience with the series already, everything Wikipedia has to tell you will go in one eye and out the other, so to speak) makes the series seem nigh-inaccessible to those that aren't already fans, especially in the west.

There are too many possible starting places in too many different mediums, the fans are all already so deep they can't relate to newbs or casuals, there's a million characters and somehow all of them are important, and so on. None of these things are necessarily true, but it can certainly seem that way from the outside, which makes it incredibly daunting to try and break into the series.

And again, there's so much Touhou content that when you aren't interested, it can be very frustrating to have it presented to you constantly when you're not looking for it.

Am I imagining things, or does the gorgon have a snake coming from her navel and as a tail?

Holy shit Kei's a shortstack. I went 70+ chapters just assuming she had a petite boy body and small to middling tits and now my brain's short-circuiting trying to reconcile that assumption with that perfect hourglass.

LMAO I was expecting their “kissing practice” to end with Mayuki domming Akira like this.

I wasn't expecting her to go down quite that hard, but hoo baby if I didn't love to see it.

^ No, Rafaela is the one in that doujin that looks like a cross between Ursula and Sera. She's not the futa, she's the futa's girlfriend.

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Apparently, The Room does not support 3P's. A part of me is disappointed in The Room for being so traditional.

^ Huh. I don't know if anyone cares if I fix it since nobody seemed to like my......discussion, but I was honestly just trying to avoid showing Sankaku's bullshit by posting direct links to the images. It was the first place I could think of with few enough scruples that they post Fanbox artwork and the like.

The general term in the furry community is just "taur" (encompassing all species, there are some more specific terms but mostly stuff like "feline taur"). They are my favorite thing and I would not have expected to find one here. No so much into the mermaid, though. Just seems too inconvenient.

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^ In my original mention I was specifically talking about cis actors portraying trans characters, which is in fact, in most cases, a visible trait on the exterior body, as you put it, and which was also relevant to the comparison I was making at the time regarding the expectation of trans women to look perfectly cis.

I make no comment about straight actors playing gay characters or what have you.

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