Touhou

Seems an invited guest's private hotel room was used for a drinking party. In true Touhou manner.

LINK

edited 21st Sep '14 8:07:39 PM by atrican

Unless the people directly involved have said something, I'd take all this with a grain of salt— the internet is not known for accurate reporting

I've added a link.

The Con of course, has noticeable problems just from a glance at their home page. There're presumably not enough Touhou creators in America who would come to South California, so they invited a lot of unrelated cosplayers and such.

EDIT: They apologized.

edited 21st Sep '14 8:23:30 PM by atrican

Anyway, never heard of this con until just now.

i heard about it on tumblr from an artist i follow but other than that nothing

Also, it's hard to get to Southern California because we haven't even started building the high speed rail yet.

I miss my local con and wish I knew Touhou back then. Wonder how many cosplayers were there that I never recognized.

Wow, that's a weird story with that Western Touhou Con. That... is not a super good start for what sounds on paper like a good idea. Although... now that I say this, there probably is no way to make a Touhou Con really work outside of Japan. While there may be several Western Touhou fans, they're just spread out over a muuuuch larger area, and therefore would have to travel faaaaar further for such a con. The usual issue of small, crowded Japan, and the differences with the rest of the world. Have often heard about this in regards to video games/consoles.

@Liver: the liver was also associated with courage and bravery in the West in Shakespearean times. Mac Beth insults a servant as "lily-livered", meaning cowardly.

So, those Pony crossover things were OK. I liked the Twilight/Patchy one, that was very much in character ^^. Also loved the implication from the Dashie/Aya one, that Touhou characters can only dodge stuff in two dimensions , quite amusing.

EDIT: Hahaha, speaking of amusing, I just have to share this amazing quote from the blog that was shared here a while ago, regarding first experiences with PCB:

edited 22nd Sep '14 6:06:13 AM by FellDeedsAwake

Reimu jelly

what flavor

Jelly flavour

Minty green.

I always thought she would be a Raspberry, because she's so sour.

^ I would have figured Lime.

But a lime is green, Reimu is red, like a raspberry.

But a lime is just as sour as she is.

Not like red and sour is mutually exclusive. Gooseberries, currants...

edited 22nd Sep '14 10:37:13 PM by Hylarn

Cranberries. They are red and bitter and their name evokes crankiness.

Made some good music, though.

Personally, I think even strawberries are too sour.

Berries sound awfully expensive for someone like Reimu. Pretty sure any Reimu Jelly is gonna be made of dirt. Is dirt Jelly a thing? Eh, she'd try to convince you it was, probably.

Unless its made of Reimu, in which case it'd probably taste like whatever people taste like ^note pork or veal, apparently. Thanks for that, google.. You'd probably have to grind her up pretty well to make the bones match the consistency of Jelly. I guess if you just stripped the meat off her bones before making it jelly you'd probably be alright. But then you're missing out on the brains and marrow. Hm.

Unfortunately, I have little to no experience turning people into jelly, so I'm mostly just guessing. Of course, if it's being served to youkai, that's a whole 'nother mess, since they might -like- the bones. Not to mention it's going to be like The #1 selling item from the Hakurei Shrine ever, and supplies are going to be so limited a riot could start.

edited 22nd Sep '14 10:45:35 PM by Antimatter625

Oh, I know what Reimu jelly is. It's that areospace barrier cream I mentioned a year or two ago, under a more marketable name.

Or a derivative formula, she markets it to the village and they inadvertently help her maintain the border.

edited 22nd Sep '14 11:04:15 PM by Rotpar

Gelatin is made from bones. That's... that's just what it is.

More typically ligaments/tendons and other connective tissue, I thought? Well, whatever the exact case, the point is that some processing would be required to make proper Reimu Jelly.

And I suppose for some reason she might not want to be made into a jelly for convenient home consumption, which could complicate processing. I'm not gonna be the one to ask.

Made from collagen, yes

edited 23rd Sep '14 4:09:08 AM by Hylarn