No.764[Reply]
April 22nd, 2025
Wapanese Channel creates /djn/ offshoot: Touhou, Visual Novels, and fanworks
Following the Vanishing Imageboard in Digital Paradise incident in the middle of this month, Wapanese Channel has been a place of refuge and reorganization for many affected. The administrator, figamin, has been making efforts to welcome the new arrivals, and also to help them assimilate to local culture. One large class has been categorized as those users who post primary and fan-made content for shmups, VNs, and other doujin works. At the time of the incident, this discussion was relegated to a board it shared with general computing and gaming, but it was quickly made apparent that one board could not hold both topics comfortably after the increase in site activity. It was this fact that spurred figamin to create a new board, /djn/, specifically for this type of discussion.
The decision has been accepted and even hailed as good by many. Still, it is not without controversy.
Most grievously, after it was announced that the board would allow character threads, several readers contacted me to voice their opinions that it was ridiculous that no Tengu threads had been made.
Furthermore, it has been alleged that figamin is working with a local impoverished shrine maiden in exchange for a cut of the donations she hopes to receive from these new users.
This article, as always, aims to spread awareness, but my work does not end here. Rest assured, I will continue personally monitoring this incident, as well as reaching out to figamin for comment.
(Shameimaru Aya)
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>>1161>That's because they've already been fed by their t*ngu overlordsCrows are always pining for more food if they can get it safely. If they can't stomach what you give them at once, they will take some bits, leave, hid that food somewhere and then return for more in few minutes.
Once crows recognise you as a food dispenser, something must pique their curiosity enough to distract them before they stop coming. And they will surely be back sometime later.
>>1176>You could try setting out a bowl with peanuts or walnuts or something, somewhere that the squirrels don't try to raid.Depending on the composition of birds in your area, you could also try leaving some bigger chunks of meat (giblets are cheap) just high enough so vermin and stray cats won't spot them immediately. In urban areas crows are one of the few birds that will go after bigger carrion (only other birds that I've saw eating from my spot were magpies) and they tend to notice it quickly. If there is a body of water nearby, then there could be competition from various gulls, though, and it can turn nasty. And in rural areas there are many other birds that will be interested too.
No.1276
Aya was one of the first Touhou characters I saw after I finally gave in and decided to get into the series. This is probably the first picture I saved of her. It was too cute, too silly, and yet so honest. She barged right into my mind just as you'd expect from her, and right away I knew who she was, which was more than I could say for most of the cast, even in the games I was playing every day. Her occupation was incredibly charming, of course. The idea of a photographer and journalist running a modern newspaper in an otherwise rural Meiji setting, and zipping around at the speed of Tengu to gather or deliver information was just too good, and it allowed her to interact with every single character believably. With Bohemian Archive, she did a lot to make Gensokyo realer and yet more dreamlike at the same time. In that way, how she is a mix of tradition and modernity, and what she reveals to us, she has to be the quintessential Touhou character, only behind the two protagonists, but just barely. And that's not even touching on her personality. She's earnest and forthright—I'm not talking about her articles, but herself: at every turn, in every game, in every manga, with every bullet she fires or dodges, she was Aya. Wholly, unapologetically, with her own mix of intelligent and obliviousness, but she was always Aya.