Azulia
@azulia888.bsky.social
#1 Benzaiten fan Yet another Touhou fan Also currently obsessed by LobCorp and SIGNALIS I have a celeste🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 202, and I spend my time reading, writing and researching stuff
update : alive, hurt, weak, crying in joy for the past 5 hours
Azulia@azulia888.bsky.social · 3w agobottom surgery today
🇫🇷 Je viens de recevoir mon exemplaire pour mon anniversaire, je vous le conseille chaudement. Très beau bouquin ! 🇺🇸 I just received mine for my birthday. I highly recommend it. It's a beautiful book, and also available in English! #touhou #lore #book anazel.sumupstore.com/category/liv...
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Azulia@azulia888.bsky.social · last mo.the book's here!!! it looks SO good like legit the paper is so high quality we lost our mind, im so happy and so proud and OMG
the book's here!!! it looks SO good like legit the paper is so high quality we lost our mind, im so happy and so proud and OMG
Azulia@azulia888.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur (@anazel.bsky.social and I) #touhou lore book is avalaible to preorder on anazel.net !! It's 144 pages of introduction to Touhou's lore and what inspired it! It was written in a way that anyone, no matter their understanding of the series, can pick it up and learn something.
dropped everything and drew this so fast to celebrate the touhou 6 news ✌️^_^
my half of an art trade with @modmice.bsky.social ^_^ we drew each other's favorite touhou ships. Plssss go look at the koiflan they drew for me!! it's so cute 😭💗
so you know how like we're making a book and stuff. so we ordered physical copies. the printer delayed like 4 times, but it was fine. until THIS MORNING WHEN THEY SAID THEIR FACTORY FRICKING BURNED
i rly liked the kagerou i drew for this so. is this anything #東方Project
emby 🦑 🍉 (shop open!)@mcsquiddies.serball.net · 2mo agoi'm debuting a shirt design at touhoufest!! it will be available at vendor table V3 with Artist Collaboration Experience!!!
someone asked to see one of the pages as an example and that seems smart so here's a random one (i lied it's not random at all it's yuuma's because she's the best and i love her)
![Yuuma Toutetsu is the chairwoman of one of the three37 big yakuza families of the Animal Realm, the Gouyoku Alliance. She and the other leaders38 are based on mythological creatures, and Yuuma’s is called the taotie. With roots found in Chinese mythology and known for its insatiable appetite, the taotie is a malevolent, chimeric, horned creature with piercing eyes.
While the first written mention of the word “taotie” can be traced back to the 4th century BC, in the Zuo Zhuan, the monster’s origin is much more ancient.
The taotie first referred to motifs carved on ding, which are Chinese ritual bronzes dating from the Shang dynasty. Some even think a more archaic version of the motif can be traced back to the Liangzhu culture39. Although what we associate with the taotie changed a lot through time, two things always remained: eyes, and horns.
Despite the age of the motif, it’s accepted that the myth of the taotie didn’t exist at the time and instead gradually developed. The form thus gained a name and attributes, the main ones being death and gluttony.
As time passed, water also started to be associated with it, and the depictions evolved to include a mouth which lacked a lower jaw to evoke its endless appetite. Its last major evolution took place in the Lushi, where author Luo Bi associates the taotie with Chiyou [蚩尤], a warlord known for his cruelty and greed. According to the author, the Yellow Emperor (a central figure in Chinese mythology) cut his head off and ordered his people to etch it on bronzes to warn against cupidity.
Yuuma manages to perfectly incarnate this mythological heritage. Not only her appearance—with her horns, her vertical pupils, and her dress's motifs (which greatly resemble those found on ding)—but even her personality is reminiscent of the taotie legends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:724ltcnim3i4k77auugh6btd/bafkreickr2ga25kverqsgebcv4tisiqjephycqeqp47elg4djoaa7zntla)
Azulia@azulia888.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur (@anazel.bsky.social and I) #touhou lore book is avalaible to preorder on anazel.net !! It's 144 pages of introduction to Touhou's lore and what inspired it! It was written in a way that anyone, no matter their understanding of the series, can pick it up and learn something.
Our (@anazel.bsky.social and I) #touhou lore book is avalaible to preorder on anazel.net !! It's 144 pages of introduction to Touhou's lore and what inspired it! It was written in a way that anyone, no matter their understanding of the series, can pick it up and learn something.
