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The more dark and depressing the Gensokyo, the better.

>> No.3528973

I'm starting to suspect you are an arcueid alias.

>> No.3528985

>>3528973
Lacks the made-up bullshit.

I like Gensokyo as a ridiculous parody of itself where ancient man-eating demons have tea parties with the very humans they once attempted to kill, made completely safe yet still very chaotic by a set of cleverly-designed rules that keeps no one bored.

>> No.3528992

>>3528968

Tristan?
GFB on Shadowsong, back in 2006? Is that you?

>> No.3528995

I like my Gensokyo to be a depressing grimdark place, where a small circle of youkai and human brought together by a powerful duo of shrine maiden and witch break the rules and become friends. Sort of like a cheetah making friends with a gazelle.

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>>3528992
Yes, yes it i- no it's just ponpo &c.

Anyway, there is some enjoyment to the more lighthearted Gensokyo, but picturing it as more human and "dark" is more enjoyable.

>> No.3529011
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Not even a necessarily "dark" Gensokyo, but more realistic is fine as well for some reason.

>> No.3529012

>>3529001
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK

That's some serious looking atmosphere there, Patchy. Com'on, I'll give you a hug.

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>>3529012
Too right.

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>>3529001

Aaah, now I see.
Agree with the atmosphere, but not quite with the "depressing" part. To me, depressing equals filling in forms, taxes and unemployment - I see nothing even vaguely depressing in Grimsokyo.

>> No.3529033

>>3529001
amazing picture

>> No.3529055

>>3529001
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's my favorite secondary Touhou picture. Final.

>> No.3529056

>>3529011
You can't have a realistic Gensokyo, because of Sakuya.

Sakuya and the horrid misuse of her "time stop" powers would destroy just about everything.

Time is fragile yet she just mucks about with it whenever she pleases. Everything that happens gets woven into the fabric of time and she just freezes it and removes/rearranges and goes on like nothing happened. Sooner or later Time will start to unravel and everything will go to shit faster than you can say "PAD".
Realistic Gensokyo would end the fucking Universe.

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>>3528968
I like my Gensokyo lighthearted and grimdark where ancient man-eating demons have tea parties with the very humans they are going to eat later. no malice involved, more like haw a small child plays with their food.

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>>3529029
Well, depressing for me seems to add a sort of apathy and quiet. Calling it "dark" without depressing just makes it sound too wild and feral which I don't find that appealing.

>> No.3529074

>>3529063
That artist is great. I'd just wish he made bigger pictures for me to put on the desktop. Luckily many of them looks great even when resized.

>> No.3529085

Realistic is fine, but I'm not a fan of the lesbian love stories (the serious ones, not ones where Marisa "borrows" a demon's penis and fucks Alice stupid with it.) Nothing really wrong with them, they just leave me cold.

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>>3529056

In a realistic Gensokyo, you could bypass that by saying Sakuya only appears to stop time - what she actually does is move outside of time, ie. only in the first three dimensions. She appears to stop time since from her point of view she remains at the same point in time, and from others' points of view changes occur instantaneously. But that's just a theory.

... and as Anon once pointed out, time isn't really the fourth dimension. It's only assumed to be for the sake of the example.

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Either way Gensokyo is a fantasy setting and should be fantastic, be it fantastically lighthearted or fantastically grimdark.

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>>3529085
Well, leaving out the overly sexual stuff that is more common is part of the more 'realistic' Gensokyo, I guess. If you want all the futa rape pairings etc then it's probably not for you.

>> No.3529117

Tim Burton could direct a film for Touhou stories. that will give you the grim dark stuff.

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>>3529117
Shudder.

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>>3529117

Think Pat Mills would be better suited for Grimsokyo visually, but at the same time I doubt his ability to write up a good plot that fits the setting.

>> No.3529142

>>3529056
>>3529101
Besides, unrealistic or uncertain scientific properties doesn't have to affect realism in the social dimension.

>> No.3529241

Grimdark? What the fuck, are you all angsty teenagers or something?

Moe Gensokyo is the only good Gensokyo.

>> No.3529250

>>3529241
are you a little girl or something ?

>> No.3529265

>>3529250
I wish. Why the fuck would anyone be interested in grimdark Gensokyo anyway? What's fun about it?

>> No.3529277

>>3529241
Actually it's the 15 year old girls on youtube who like the moemoe Gensokyo more.

>> No.3529288

>>3529277
Great, if I'm on one line with them, I'll have a better chance of bedding them someday!

>> No.3529292

>>3529265
it's more interesting than little girls just standing here and being cute.

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Touhou is a dark and magical place...where only the strong survive and triumph over their enemies. In Touhou...there is only never ending war.

>> No.3529305

>>3529292
I've found that mostly Americans seem to have some innate craving for violence. It's as if there's no fighting and despair, they feel like there's no point to their lives or something.

And they hate sex, which SHOULD be the point of your life. God, I hate those fucks.

>> No.3529308

>>3529305
Yeah fuck America man.

>> No.3529314

>>3529101

God damn there's something adorable about those fairies forging knives for Sakuya.

>>3529063

Skulls for the skull throne?

>> No.3529318

>>3529305
who told you that I was American? -.-

>> No.3529320

>>3529305
You can't understant the pleasure of pathos

>> No.3529326

The correct setting is moedark.

>> No.3529396

>>3529305

I need to stop coming here in the afternoon when all you Europeans are on.

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