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NWSiaCB said:

So, is Ido setting us up for recruiting Gotland via Surstromming?

inb4 she becomes Ark's confidant in her endless pursuit of Bismarck...

Why is this Harsher in Hindsight?

OmniGManJr said:

Why is this Harsher in Hindsight?

There basically brainwashing people with the excuse of it being war.

You_Will_Fear_my_Laser_Nipples said:

There basically brainwashing people with the excuse of it being war.

There's... no real "in hindsight" with that.

Besides, the so-called purification/"brainwashing" process only uses food from the person's home country. I don't know about you but that sounds more like "giving a mental health patient vital medicine" to me. I may be completely incapable of concentrating and liable to assault people given the slightest provocation without my medication but that doesn't mean that the real me is a psychopath with ADD. In fact, the way I see it the difference between the "real" and "fake" personality is so subjective as to be meaningless when talking about mental issues so severe that someone, I don't know, sees all of humanity as her mortal enemy? Point being, I don't see this as brainwashing people, I see this as curing them of their Abyssalization.

Purification log:

Kasuga Maru - Baked Potato
Ark Royal - Bismarck Love
Shin'you - Bratkartoffeln (Clockwork Orange)
Maestrale - Spaghetti (You killed my friend!)

Adding to Quotable Dialogue pool due to Roma's dialogue about what's right in war.

I like how the genderswap is almost undetectable

Bunny Nun, don't go professional wrestling Heel on that poor duck.

The two figurines on the top of the cake are just perfect!

*See the message on the cake*

:CatCry:

Egad_Hedgegard said:

Bunny Nun, don't go professional wrestling Heel on that poor duck.

The two figurines on the top of the cake are just perfect!

The duck she's about to hit has icing on its foot, which you can see came from the right side of the cake, where it left a footprint and tracks. That being said, the icing on bunny's face suggests she took the bite out of the left side.

Egad_Hedgegard said:

Bunny Nun, don't go professional wrestling Heel on that poor duck.

The two figurines on the top of the cake are just perfect!

BUH GAWWW!

Here's post 700 for Shorekeeper. :Heart:

...I'd like to interpret this as happy tears, if you don't mind.

🦋🎉

"-because they are dwarves."
very succinct

"Stomach of stone, dwarf strong"

This will be my new insta bio

"I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda."

Luce looks like she's about to say, "Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō!" haha, so cute.

I could have sworn she was nopan from the thumbnail.

in touhou lotus eater (i think), marisa user her hakkero as a portable stove at the snowy mountain

"The dress is complete, sure... But why do I look so unhappy with it?"

The best artist

Yuuma: Gatherer and Absorber;
Miko: Hata no Kawakatsu;
Cirno: Earthly Mother Goddess;
Satono and Mai: Goddess of the Backdoors;
Larva: God of Sericulture;
Marisa: Star God;
Yukari: Sage of Gensokyo;
Kokoro: Shukushin God of Noh Dances (The only one I am confused on, I tried googling what Shukushin was with the exact Kanji used here and found multiple different definitions);
Flandre: God of the Discriminated;

OakWoods said:

Yuuma: Gatherer and Absorber;
Miko: Hata no Kawakatsu;
Cirno: Earthly Mother Goddess;
Satono and Mai: Goddess of the Backdoors;
Larva: God of Sericulture;
Marisa: Star God;
Yukari: Sage of Gensokyo;
Kokoro: Shukushin God of Noh Dances (The only one I am confused on, I tried googling what Shukushin was with the exact Kanji used here and found multiple different definitions);
Flandre: God of the Discriminated;

About the God of Noh and Shukujin: if Wikipedia is to be believed, both of those circle back to Hata no Kawakatsu, who has a connection with Prince Shoutoku (and thus, with Miko).

As to what Shukujin is... the answer seems to be "Nobody Knows™". The answers seem to point towards two completely different directions: 宿 as equivalent to 夙 or 守宮 —which is a designation for a group of outcasts—, or as the 宿 in 星宿 (constellation). So, either a god of the outcasts or a god of astronomy (maybe both?). Funnily enough, what would be expected by the modern usage of the kanji (宿 = inn, so probably some sort of god of hospitality) doesn't seem to factor in at all.

All things considered... maybe leaving it untranslated would be the right call here?

EDIT: The rabbit hole goes even deeper! Apparently there may also be a connection between Shukujin and Mishaguji (so, Suwako's curse god in Touhou) and in fact, if you search for 宿神 in Wikipedia, it redirects you to the entry for Mishaguji. God damn, ZUN really made the right call making a character based on Matara-jin.

Bober! (cf post #8051990)

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