/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>48299873
To say it's a complete disaster is over exaggerating, but I won't sugarcoat that it's messy. It was fun to be apart of and write for, but I checked out about a year ago and I'm waiting for it to finish so I can catch up on it, if they ever finish that is. There's only so many walls of text I can read before I get tired and I was really only interested in a few character's plotlines. You can read the threads as they are in the archive or hit up the AO3 and read it there. The webms, art, and memes of it are fun and I was happy to contribute a few, I hope they get reposted at the end since I missed a lot. Others have bigger gripes with it and I can understand their point of views even if I don't agree with them.

For elaboration's sake there's a few issues that I can see with it and from what others have said. I don't believe in all of them, but I can see where it comes from.
1. It was never intended to be this labyrinthine plot encompassing nearly every character in Touhou and went way off on its own direction. It started as a funny prompt to keep writing going when the Hana story was put on hold (due to IRL vacation) where anons wrote posts of visitors to the HSE. At first it was disconnected, but then anons wrote nods and callbacks to other anon's entries and from there a narrative emerged and suddenly a bunch of writefags are trying to coordinate a coherent plot that was never planned for.
2. It's taking too damn long, being almost a year overdue from the original anticipated finale.
3. It's put the OG Hana story on pause until it finishes, with it being a spin-off of that fic and the writefag for that also working on the HSE (haven't checked in a while, no idea if this remains true)
4. It's sucked other writefags into it and put their stories on hold, the Sekibankifag being one I can recall off the top of my head.
5. It's an eyesore on the catalogue and is just a writefag general circlejerk.
6. Too many cooks in the kitchen without a solid leader or arbiter leads to writefag drama like with cirnoanon (and maybe other's since then, someone correct me)
7. Some character interpretations did not go over well with others, both readers and other writefags. Ran for example with her relationship with Anon. Anon the character also had the issue of being both everyone's and nobody's character, he was too centric to have a dedicated -fag and everyone had a different idea on his character. There is an uncanny resemblance to the Horus Heresy novel series in how it's written, except with more amateur writers.
8. It's a giant glorified and tasteless rape story jam packed with incest and sexual violence. Icky!
9. It is trashy fanfiction with dozens of conflicting headcanons and more fanon and memes than anything resembling canon. It is disrespectful to the source material.
10. Writefags are burned out; writing out of obligation to get it closer to over with rather than passion and interest.

That they ever got this far into it and kept it up for as long as they did is a huge achievement, but there were a lot of mistakes made that should be learned from. I can see why people would dislike it as I've listed some reasons above, but I would hate to see any big writing projects or writefagging in general to become verboten because of some butthurt faggots making a stink about it. All that would do is hurt /jp/, writefags would just go elsewhere like AO3 and THP. I'd rather have trashy fanfics written by anons than another 3dpd general, flavorless booru dump, or grimfag thread #986 - why Gensokyo needs to die edition, but that's just me.
As for my own opinion on it, I think it's okay as a whole. It's not terrible and there's certainly way worse fanfics out there, but the organization (lack thereof) is a killer. It's why I said earlier in this thread that the anonymous format does not do this any favors; it's not impossible, just painful to work in and navigate forward which only compounds the more retards and autists you stick together (and the culture against namefagging and tripfagging is actually detrimental, the work arounds' are not cute, they're tedious). The amount of writers means that some parts are really good and got me emotional crying over a fucking spider and other things, while others are painful to read due to either poor handling, poor prose, or poor interpretation of what the setup on the previous post or plot hook was trying to do; and because some writefags disappear on occasion it means that someone else needs to pick up their plot thread (or kill it) just to keep the story moving.
I hope they finish it and learn their lessons for next time: a shared design document or scratchpad would solve 90% of their problems, and do it from the start.


TL;DR it's fine, but they could've done a lot better at handling it.

>>48020560
get back… in you're kennel dog…

>>47937034
Your crow tengu wife will come home stressed and frustrated after another day of getting snuffed by her boss and accomplishing nothing at her dead end job. It's a 50/50 chance whether she takes it out on you. God help you if dinner isn't ready or the chores aren't done.

>>47843892
>I thought these threads were for bullying and slandering Aya.
id say that implicating that all crow tengu are femcel cuckqueans would fall under that.

>>46489519
>clean, feathery bird with a stable white collar job, good income, and propensity to always uncover the truth
you forgot to mention she'll be married to her job more than married to you; enjoy the 10 minutes you got to talk to her through the week (about happenings in the mountain and the Village, never about your relationship) and sex once a blue moon. And no kids, she doesn't have time for that and it'd be too burdensome to her journal if she'd to take a maternity leave.
marry a white wolf tengu girl. You'll too will be a humble family, but it'll also be a happy family with constant connection to your wife and many children!

>>46113595
Not really, 1-6 were from September/October, 7-10 October/November; though the slow updates are because I'm either busied with life; writing/editing and now archiving the other 11 threads. Will try to update tomorrow!

>>46010593
only 12 hours per day?! Are you seriously trying to piss off the Great Tengu by being that much of a lazy fuck?!

>>45799000
Her dead vacuous eyes. She had another manuscript rejected after nearly working herself to death.