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>>764
let the good times roll i guess

An auspicious event for sure, but an opportunity is only an opportunity if you don't capitalize on it. So post more cool! and awesome! birds. Dogs are welcome too I guess.

>>772
>So post more cool! and awesome! birds.
I will try.
I need to finish completing spellcards as Hatate in DS…

>>1035
I haven't touched DS much. StB feels better to play, and Ayaya is cuter than Hatatertot.

>>1038
>StB feels better to play
I generally agree, the slight changes between games compound into something noticeably better on StB's end. But DS still plays decently and has few fun spellcards that StB doesn't have. I wonder if anyone ever attempted porting spellcards from one into another.
>Ayaya is cuter than Hatatertot
Was there ever any doubt about that? But there is some value to having Hatate as a contrast, it highlights Aya's competence.

I recently found a backup of my Aya folder so I have lots of pretty crows to look at again

>>1143
Splendid. Best 10gu needs all the love she can get.

I've been hearing crows outside all day, but they're too far away or too high up in trees to go feed.

>>1160
That's because they've already been fed by their t*ngu overlords, and they've been assigned to keep an eye on you. Lock your doors. Lock your windows too, even the ones on higher floors. Only go outside during daylight hours when everyone can see you. And under NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER should you open the door for any newsboy with weird-looking ears.

>>1160
You could try setting out a bowl with peanuts or walnuts or something, somewhere that the squirrels don't try to raid. Could also do mealworms since they're carnivorous as well.

>>1161
>That's because they've already been fed by their t*ngu overlords
Crows 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.

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.

She was always easy to love, but it kept getting easier as I played Shoot the Bullet. Each "eureka!" of figuring out a scene, each wave of relief when it was done, the excitement of moving onto the next, and the continual improvement in dodging, it all happened with Aya by my side. And the reward for each scene? A few of her words, another tiny glimpse into Gensokyo, quite literally through her lens, and if I was lucky, her smile, her pure glee at whatever fascinating scene she had happened upon. Loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.

Even so, I didn't want to admit it. The more I focused on her over anyone or anything else in Touhou, the more I realized just how much she would bother me. All of her traits that make her funny, but only when they're directed at her fellow Gensokyoans, would be turned towards me. She's too outgoing. She would question me, correct me, photograph me. She would be flying around all the time. Her work ethic is too high, and I would always be second to the newspaper at best. She really does have one of the most annoying types of personality conceivable for a man of my own temperament. And yet, and yet… She was exactly what I needed and inside I knew it. When I fell in love with her, I wrote out how and why, and it would be nice if I still had that short file. It grew deeper and deeper until I didn't care anymore, and was absolutely hopeless, writing songs and poems and stories. And now, with any picture I take, or anything I write with an ounce of intent, with use of rhetoric, I can't escape thinking of her.

>>1276
>>1277
While Aya isn't my 2wife (though she's certainly up there), you put into better words than I could some of my thoughts on her. Her design, personality, and the bombastic ZUNpets of Wind God Girl, she's a fantastic character, and one that's hard to go wrong with when writing fanfics. Whether she wins, or more likely loses, she's fun to read and watch.