29.01.2025 Year of the Snake update.
Wrote the Year of the Snake Letter where I take a look at some things going on in Japan surrounding Buddhism, Shinto, and their strange intersection with Touhou.
In particular, I highlight the very unusual situation surrounding the Shika no Kuni documentary, where a Shinto ritual that had not been performed for 600 years was reconstructed.
The purpose of this ritual was historicaly to establish a line of communication to the kami of Suwa, which Touhou fans know through the Moriya Shrine characters.
The timing and certain events relating to Touhou, Suwa and Moriya Shrine (both the real-life and fictional) both in Japan and outside of it are quite fascinating to say the least.
A throughout article on the rich Suwa mythology is on my agenda.
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25.01.2025: Great Work Re-Worked update.
Thanks to the efforts of Apollo Darkside, the Archive has taken another leap towards looking like and acting like an actual website. Huge thanks!
There is now an actual navbar.
Images are now highly responsive to re-sizing.
This should theoreticaly now load in a legible manner on mobile devices, old computers and consoles and whatever Rasperry Pi powered potatoes you might have.
Invisible to users but very meaningful to me, there is now an actual folder structure and the Recent Updates section and navigation bars can be updated from a single source.
Please note that there is some residual jank remaining. If the site looks broken, force reload (ctrl + f5 or shift + f5) on your browser.
The old structure will exist in parallel for a while...a liminal trace of the old world...soon to slip away...