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Toyosatomimi no Miko is a character in the Touhou Project series introduced in its 13th installment, Ten Desires.
Miko was once Prince Shoutoku, a Japanese leader in the 600s known for promoting Buddhism and streamlining the Japanese government. In the Touhou lore, she was visited by Taoist hermit Seiga Kaku, who had heard about Miko’s longing for immortality. Seiga introduced her to Taoism, but she rejected it as a religion unfit for placating an entire country. She was intrigued by its promise of immortality, however, and privately converted to it, advocating for Buddhism to keep Japan stable. After drinking an “immortality elixir” (mercury sulfide), however, she was forced to let go of her body and become a supernatural hermit like Seiga, notably taking on the form of a woman, making her a canonically trans character (
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After convincing a hermit from a rival clan (Mononobe no Futo) to sleep without decaying, Miko followed in suit, waiting for a time where a Taoist Japan would revive her in search of guidance. However, Buddhist monks were able to keep her mausoleum sealed, and the legends surrounding her were slowly brushed off- which led to her transportation into Gensokyo, where the folklore of old is a reality of everyday life.
When she awoke in Gensokyo, it was right after Buddhist monk Byakuren Hijiri opened her own temple, however, leading to a surge of divine spirits across the realm, setting up the events of Ten Desires.
What look like headphones on her are canonically earmuffs- Shoutoku was allegedly able to discern between ten questions asked at once, an ability carried by Miko (although with her enhanced abilities, she can also analyze each person and determine their inner desires (thus the title of the game))- although it means her hearing is highly sensitive and has to be muffled to prevent pain.
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I have this
nastybased as fuck habit of writing a long sentence, binding it to the next sentence with a comma, then terminating that sentence with a semicolon because the following sentence is directly related, and so on. One day ill write an entire chapter of something that is technically one sentence full of commas and semicolons.The semicolon is criminally underrated and underused imo. Its used to bind two sentences together that are related but are full sentences in and of themselves.
Do you use longdashes--like this--as well? Used to be a big fan of those myself :3
I am a mild semicolon user as well, although I probably use it wrong like a dirty criminal lol
I dont use long dashes often because im on my phone most of the time where theyre not super accessible. But on my computer its just an alt graph modifier away so i use them all the time :3 (something about the doubled up hyphen really bugs me, ill still sometimes use it, but i prefer just using a hyphen instead when the en or em dash isnt easily available).
Also, semicolons are the most vibes based thing ever, in part because most people dont know how to use them! Also just like language is descriptive not perscriptive and however you use the semicolon is fucking valid and legal as long as people can mostly understand what youre saying. I have a whole anti-perscriptivism rant i go on sometimes when people start talking about "wrong grammar".
I sure wish I'd been told this before now, so thanks. I'm pretty sure like, teachers or whoever have griped about the way I write in the past, probably. Shoulda figured the bearsite would be cool with antiprescriptivism!
Fuck prescriptivism! I remember getting yelled at for putting the period inside the quotation marks when ending a sentence (like so: «soandso said "blah blah.".») and its such BS.
Also the french language institution people are super prescriptivist and in general if you just do the opposite of what the french institutions are doing youre gonna be on some kind of right track lol
It really is such BS, like the smug grammar nitpick shit from leddit is how those fucks actually operate. Also lol, that's fascinating about french institutions, TIL. Makes sense though,
and all!
Lol yeah one of my friends from france would complain about it a lot, especially about degendering the language, adding non-gendered or neutral-gendered endings and pronouns and whatnot. Its not like germanic languages where gender doesnt really do anything but tell you what in/definite article a noun takes or how its inflected in the nominative/dative/genitive/etc case; french truly genders the speaker (weirdly enough i think slavic also does this? I remember someone complaining about it because it basically turns the misgendering up to 11).
I use semicolons ;.;
just like Lenin intended
She just like me fr fr
Sometimes i dont use semicolons, but theyre so good at what they do; they really tie the sentences together ^^
Fr, I try not to use them too much cause I’m worried about it coming across as weird, but they’re so useful!