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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 (lets-fucking-go).

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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  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    4 months ago
    hallo!

    yeah, sink denmark tbh lea-why cant turn down free drinks though knight-nod

    finnish is interesting because you just make the words longer instead of adding words lea-finger-guns germans still got us beat on that though lea-wasnt-me

    we used to have a popular god of love called Lempo, but the fuckers got to him and now it's an old timey swear marisad

    hell yeah month from now lets-fucking-go

    awh poor little kitty meow-petted internet is great, but distances suuuuuck virtual hugs will have to suffice meow-hug

    sweetness

    crush heeeee

    shy

    i might own a home solely because my brother already owns one and my parents have one, what a great system we live under lea-breakdown

    massive headache the whole day, but aunt had some painkillers to give meow-melt i got to make my own vegan pizza and the area is beautiful, might go do a little walk at the seashore tomorrow lea-blush

    she called me a boy once but it wasnt out of malice, overall things are pretty good aubrey-happy except that i suck at writing on the phone and the sweetheart who resides in it would deserve faster responses lea-blush

    • lilypad [she/her, null/void]
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      4 months ago
      anti-dansk aksjon

      yeah, sink denmark tbh

      Brb, gonna go make atlantis 2: denmark edition sicko-lea

      finnish

      I love that! Compound words are just really neat ^^ ive always had a bit of an interest in the uralic language family. I wanted to learn northern sami but the course that was available was only for sami people, which, while frustrating for me, is understandable and imo good.

      Lempo

      Aww tell me about Lempo, what kind of god of love was he?

      Can Lempo be reclaimed? Perhaps similar to how Lilith was changed through midrashim? (Although i have big issues with a lot of her modern representation). Idk the attitudes and relationship between finnish culture and pre-christian gods side-eye-1.

      distances suuuuuck

      They doooo kitty-cri-screm

      virtual hugs

      cuddle I love them keep sending them meow-bounce

      crush heeeee

      shy

      Well what can I say, youre just a big ball of sweetness meow-melt

      own a home

      Im in a similar boat; my mother has talked about giving me her house when she dies. Its my one non-maoist path to homeownership. Its also insane. What she pays in property taxes, etc., for her home is 60% of what we pay in rent for our apartment. Her home is far larger, far cozier, and far more functional (also she doesnt live next to a damn highway). She doesnt have people living above and on either side of her either. The system is so broken. Her utilities are probably cheaper as well, but we havent compared those prices.

      massive headache

      Oh no! ohnoes im glad she had some pain meds for you <3 gal as sweet as you shouldnt be subjected to headaches.

      got to make my own vegan pizza and the area is beautiful, might go do a little walk at the seashore tomorrow

      Ngl this sounds so delightful and idyllic, i miss being able to just go out to the middle of nowhere, unbothered by people/society. I used to live in a place with few people, where you could just walk out your door and be in nature, and it was so lovely. I wish I could have enjoyed it more while I had it (i was deeply dysphoric and lowkey an alcoholic during that part of my life sadness).

      wasnt out of malice

      Yayyy \^^/ at the first family reunion we had after I came out, the only person to misgender me was my mother who id been out to for ages lol.

      i suck at writing on the phone and the sweetheart who resides in it would deserve faster responses

      crush thats ok, im just happy to hear from you meow-melt im also slow at phone typing

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        4 months ago
        tanskan upotus

        atlantis 2? no no that's terf island lea-finger-guns denmark can be atlantis three.

        yeah, the sami have suffered enough tbh, still kind of a shame cuddle

        finnish word of the post: luonnonvarainen, it means to exist on it's own in the wilderness aka wild.

        Lempo

        the thing is, we dont really know madeline-sadeline the christians were very too good at their jobs, all the witches and shamans were either murdered or banished into wilderness. that combined with our own brand of christo-fascism in the 20s to 40s means that we are the most conservative of the nordics kitty-birthday-sad

        have some more hugs, sweetheart: cuddle Care-Comrade meow-hug

        big ball of sweetnes

        you're one to talk about sweetness, sweety. cat-trans

        home

        i was toying with the idea of a houseboat when i was younger, wouldnt have to pay rent nor property taxes lea-finger-guns

        delightful and idyllic

        it really is! maybe you'll live around nature again one day lea-blush without the alcoholic downsides meow-petted

        misgendering

        oof that sucks, but atleast she was the only one. lea-bounce My dad still sometimes fucks up, but he gets so sad about it that it's kinda endearing.

        we can be slow phone posting girlies together undyne-owo

        do you have any more grass touching in the future? or can you keep nesting like the cute kitten you are? meow-petted

        • lilypad [she/her, null/void]
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          4 months ago
          ^^

          tanskan upotus

          Is tanskan dane/denmark/danish in finnish? Its close enough to "dansken" that maybe it could be? No idea on upotus tho lea-sweat

          sami

          Yeah, idk what/how everything happened in finnland but fornorskning was pretty fucked. And norway is still pulling shit like in fosen.

          luonnonvarainen

          This is so cool! My grammar brain is very interested, im assuming its a compound word?

          we dont really know

          That sucks sadness christian missionaries really fucked so much up.

          most conservative of the nordics

          yea

          have some more hugs, sweetheart: cuddle Care-Comrade meow-hug

          anarkitty eeeeeeeeeeee niko-speen with this lovely lady giving me all these hugs im liable to niko-sleep from coziness

          you're one to talk about sweetness, sweety

          meow-melt brb darlin just gonna curl into a happy kitty ball

          maybe you'll live around nature again

          I hope so lea-happy i live somewhere with a lot of nature right now, but its hard to access and is full of people. Its just kind of a touristy area ig.

          he gets so sad about it that it's kinda endearing.

          Aww hes trying at least lea-smile

          we can be slow phone posting girlies together

          Yayyy bridget-smug

          do you have any more grass touching in the future? or can you keep nesting like the cute kitten you are? meow-petted

          First off, melting at pets meow-melt this kittens curled up in her bed right now, all cozy and blushing crush

          But i dont have immediate grasstouching, just normal life stuff i guess. I need to buy food, i forgot to eat yesterday, and only had a small snack the day before that, so im really pushing it. But i just got my car insurance sorted out and its half of what it was before, so im less anxious about money now ^^

          So i guess aside from food im gonna stay curled up and cute in my little kitten nest cuddle

          • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
            ·
            4 months ago
            heippa :3

            dansken

            pretty close. it means "the sinking of denmark." tanska is denmark. tanskan means it's happening to it and "upotus" is a verb which means sinking. theory-gary

            luonto is nature and varaisuus is wealth, luonnonvara means national resource, it's fun like that. lea-smug

            sami

            it apparentely wasnt that bad, we mostly just intermarried a bunch and forced them to travel north, being racist against them was still cool and good in the 90s madeline-sadeline

            nature

            i've heard that burgers take their grills with them into those "nature" parks disgost

            happy kitty ball

            you are adorable, sweetheart cat-trans

            awh cute kitty lily curling up in her nest meow-petted i'm curled up in my own room now too, reading gay slop, and chatting to this cute gay on my phone, you might know her lea-smug

            forgot to eat yesterday

            awh, sweetie, you need to eat so you dont waste away. doing food runs is such a chore though lea-think, but still, try to eat, sweetheart cat-trans

            finnish word of the post: ukkonen

            it means thunder, stems from the old god of thunder Ukko, which also means "old man"

            • lilypad [she/her, null/void]
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              4 months ago
              food

              Im making rice ^^

              I might make some beans, but that requires the stove and not just the rice cooker...

              • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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                4 months ago
                foood

                rice is fantastic tbh, top em with some soy sauce, or just salt & pepper and it's already pretty decent. maybe some cumin and sriracha meow-melt

                  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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                    4 months ago
                    slight disappointment

                    but i get it, been eating a lot of finnish flatbread (rieska) without even butter the last few days, sometimes you just wanna be basic lea-finger-guns

            • lilypad [she/her, null/void]
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              4 months ago
              :p

              Im loving the mini finnish lessons ^^

              burgers + grills

              yea ... Its not great. Theres some good hikes away from people but theyre all an hour+ drive away, and my car cant go above 30 (50kmh for you sane people)

              awh cute kitty lily curling up in her nest meow-petted

              meow-melt

              i'm curled up in my own room now too, reading gay slop, and chatting to this cute gay on my phone, you might know her

              Aww darlin i bet youre super cute all curled up, readin and chattin undyne-owo but whose this cute gay gal? Tell me about her ;p

              try to eat

              Im trying, i just get distracted a lot lea-resigned my mama thinks i have adhd, but i remain unconvinced. But ill go get some food now when i post this ^^

              ukkonen

              I love this! Please keep them coming meow-bounce

              • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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                4 months ago
                ^^

                hey, atleast you have a car, sweetie lea-finger-guns burgers do be making everything just wildly weird.

                mini lessons

                well learning one of the harder languages is one thing that this country gave me, might as well spread it around to an attentive audience kril-bashful

                cute gay gal

                well first of all, she's great at summoning butterflies in my stomach, secondly she has great opinions about life (and me crush) thirdly I think about her a lot and want to give her a hug and just hold on for a while lea-blush meow-hug

                finnish word of the post: runoilija

                it means poet (crush) runo is poem. it's a lovely gender neutral term

                • lilypad [she/her, null/void]
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                  4 months ago
                  happy lesbian sounds

                  hey, atleast you have a car, sweetie

                  This is true lea-finger-guns i can at least escape this city ^^

                  well learning one of the harder languages is one thing that this country gave me, might as well spread it around to an attentive audience

                  My rapt attention is yours cat-trans

                  I think about her a lot and want to give her a hug and just hold on for a while

                  Believe it or not, I have a similar situation with this cute gal in my phone maya-devious i just want to snuggle up in each others laps meow-melt

                  runoilija

                  Did you... Did you choose this word because of my poetryposting? shy

                  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
                    ·
                    4 months ago
                    :3

                    cute gal in my phone

                    oh interesting, interesting anyone i would know? what's she like? emilie-smug

                    snuggles

                    wistful sigh yeah lea-blush

                    poetry

                    maaaaaybe.... lea-wasnt-me yes

                    finnish word of the post: kissanpentu

                    it literally means cat's cub, kissa is cat and cub is pentu