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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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::: spoiler vulnerable I want you to run your fingers over them, in that soothing manner
Ngl ive gotten pretty vulnerable with you
Not the hatchback one, but I still can hear the music from the show where i split myself on someones spiked jacket. It was a metsatöll and finntroll show (I used to listen to metal a lot (and pretty indiscriminately tbh 😬 i didnt vet bands like I do now (tho i havent looked at either of those bands in a long time. But its metal, so like theres a nonzero chance theyre reactionary nazi-adjacent mfs))) and i got hit in the head during metsatölls set.
Im so glad you like them
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thank you for sharing these thoughts
I'll try to be worthy of that trust
I get how hard it can be, like I can share all kinds of stuff all day long, but getting into the deep dark of your own head is scary, even on here while being fairly anonymous.
Whatever scar you feel would need the most soothing, hun. ~for~ ~what~ ~it's~ ~worth~ ~both~ ~of~ ~those~ ~bands~ ~seem~ ~to~ ~be~ ~nazi~ ~free~. But look, your body is a beautiful book filled with stories and that is nothing to be ashamed off
it always amazes me when people can just, you know, write things. without having to puzzle over every word and create something pretty from nothing. I can barely articulate my own thoughts much less make something poetic
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Im sure you will be
Just to lay back, fingers on my forehead, tracing and tracing...
youve got me blushing and feeling safe
Thats the trick, i do puzzle, ive just gotten very good at it over the years
I need to sleep now, so im logging off, ill be back tomorrow ^^
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thank you
i try
artistic things are too far beyond my scope of brainpower sad to say
Sleep safe and sound, sweetheart
I'll see you tomorrow
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Aww but art and creativity are a muscle! Dont confuse small muscles with a total lack of muscle <3
Aww ty i did, and now its time for
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~heeeeee~
good morning, enjoy the coffee.
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:3Coffee good... But i miss the löfbergs i used to get :/ now i have very mediocre coffee :(
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all coffee is too diluted for me nowadays. I used to eat handfuls of espresso beans while running longer distances. That's why I enjoy tea, because if it's going to be diluted, it might as well taste like strawberries or some such c:sorry about your coffee quality though, sucks to get worse after you're used to something better
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Eh, caffine is caffine lol. I just no longer drink it for tasteBut tea is so gooood! I have some rose petal black tea that is absolutely divine
I love some choclate covered espresso beans, theyre dangerous! Ill eat an entire bag in the blink of an eye.
What kind of teas are your favs?
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Id love to make you tea in the morning, just watching out the window, drinking tea 
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oh nooooooooooo, i bought a 2,5kg box of those when me and the brother were really into running marathons and longer, ate that shit like candy, wired to hell and back
There's so many good ones! I used to drink a lot of green tea, but these days I've gone fully into black tea. Used to like chai a lot, but it's bit too christmassy to drink all the time, I have some loose black tea that tastes like liquorice and one that tastes like like rum with creamy aftertaste Irish Morning i think it's called
they're so gooooood i brew a 1,5litre pot daily unless i'm too busy and forget.
That rose petal one sounds amazing though, any other kinds you like?
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I love most teas tbh. Black tea is my fav, everything from classic pg tips to fancy lapsang suchong (bbq tea lol). There was this incredible "crem de la earl gray" that had blue cornflowers in it and was so pretty and smooth and tasty
i really like sweet chai when im at a cafe or something, its just a nice little treat :3
I was never super into green tea tho. Like ive had green tea thats good, but it never was like "omg i love this".
I need these in my life, desperately! I love liquorice, and irish breakfast teas are just delish :) but i just make my tea in the cup. i want a big teapot but dont have space for it in my apartments kitchen
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excuse me???
i was one of those freaks who drank plain green tea, it's an...acquired taste, takes a while to start tasting anything besides grass
i bought this one from ikea, and it's just really great, but yeah this stuff takes it's space.
although you could boil the water on the stove if you don't have space for a dedicated kettle.
::: spoiler spoiler Yeah the issue is that we're 5 people sharing a tiny kitchen, we just dont have space for stuff
Thats ok, i like freaky people with strange taste :3 Theres a tea house around here thats really sweet (if often a bit busy)
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oof that sucks, but atleast you have the tea house
hmm my go to shop has this, might have to give it a go. Thank you
~well~ ~uhh~ ~i~ ~do~ ~have~ ~some~ ~weird~ ~niche~ ~tastes~ ~at~ ~times~
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Tell me about them cutie!
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i like to read tarot when the mood strikes me
i have a collection of cat ears, with different colour combinations and beautiful thigh high socks that look like kitten paws
i love keffiyehs and i try to incorporate them into all my outfits
i think i'm collecting plushies at this point, can't leave those lovelies into their shop prisons
i used to run ultra marathons before my achilles tendons decided to both get fucked beyond what rest can fix
and i love reading all the gay slop the internet is willing to give me
spoiler flirt how about you, sweetheart? anything interesting on the horizon?
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Fucking samesies! I need to have the files!
Omg i have such a love/shame relationship with tarot. I havent touched my deck in months, but its also been scarily accurate at times. Part of me really wants to get some of the stranger decks, they have such cool and interpretive art! But then i get ashamed of liking tarot cause idk people always say its shlock and whatnot 🫣.
I dont have any keffiyehs, theyre really cool tho! The one shop i was looking at was backordered and i havent looked since then.
One of my girlydreams is to have the hammoc full of plushies, they can watch over me and get cuddddllleeesss! Ive got some plushies already (wait i wrote about that already didnt i? And you called me adorable
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Woah! Thats intense! Ive never done running like that, i dont think my knees would like it. Ive done a lot of ocean kayaking tho!
And sharing it with all the cute girls in your phone
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Unfortunately no, my big horizon things are boring stuff like "find a job that doesnt destroy my body".
I really like photography, ive thought about offering free photography to trans people so I can hone my skills and hopefully give people images of themselves that they like :3
I love knitting! Its the best thing cause it lets me stim in a socially acceptable way that also ends with an end product! Right now im knitting some cute scrunchy orange legwarmers :3
Im going on my walk now, ill look for your response when I come back :3
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first off, smiling like a goof.hell yeah, sis. fuck these streaming platform losers
yeah, it's interesting how accurate it is at times, like I'm too much of a commie to fully buy into it, but you need some form of spiritualism and i'm not going back to church to listen to their israel loving sermons. i was given some cute deck suggestions by magi and i cant wait to get more money to actually get them gothic (this one really speaks to me it is so extremely everything i love that it's almost scary)
oh me too, i'm not a full furry or anything, but when i wear the ears i have this sense of completeness. not really interested in the kink factor
i have a lot of thigh highs, most of the truly thigh level ones look pretty meh because my thighs are too thicc, but that's not the worst problem to have 
i had a bunch of fake ones that i tossed away and managed to order three actually palestinian ones (one of them is a rainbow) before they ran out of stock.
oh my god YES, also yeah i called you adorable, sweetheart. cause you are
yeah it used to break my knees, that's the thing about running you HAVE to have strength building exercises too, otherwise your leg muscles wont be able to support you properly and your knees pay the price. Oh kayaking is great! I've done it only once though and i didnt really know what i was doing, but i didnt drown so it's a win
how could i not share the slop when the girls are this cute
spoiler flirt hm too late for this spoiler i feel 🫣 i was without a job for a few years, thanks to burning out, so i understand the struggle.
oh my god, sweetie! you're a poet, an aspiring photographer AND you can knit!! leave some skills for the rest of us
do you have any hobbies besides taking walks? by the way, enjoy your walk, sweetheart.
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lets be honest, its just all flirt at this point :3
That deck looks so cool! I really like the abstract ones, and theres an abrahamic one i kind of want, but really would prefer one based on more of a feminist midrash or something. Right now ive just got the basic rider-white (spelling?) deck.
This is what keeps me away from trying to find a shul. That and judaism having some really interesting beautiful stuff right alongside some horrible bullshit. But its really dialectical imo, and finding people following the rabbinic tradition to e.g. reinterpret devarim in a trans and gender expansive affirming way is so beautiful. Sometimes i feel like my beliefs are too specific and weird to find any group that fully expresses them or can join me in my weirdness.
Me neither, but also all the furries ive met have been absolutely wonderful people ^^
Darlin i bet youre adorbs in your ears, cute little kitty
Theres a company in the US called sock dreams that ships worldwide and makes sizing-inclusive thigh highs :3 they also make long thigh highs, like, on me they go all the way up, and i have really long legs (srsly, finding clothing is hard).
Not drowning gang stay winnin :3 i used to do it a lot, i would go on week long trips, camping on beaches, eating lots of MREs. Kayaking is superior to backpacking tho cause you can bring a lot more stuff ^^
Yeah, ive been struggling with burnout on and off for years now. Dropped out of school and just kinda drifting right now, trying to recover functionality and address some mental health issues (anxiety, potential adhd, potential bipolar/cyclothymia).
I just like doing things! I can share knowledge and practice in exchange for headpats tho!
Yeah! I like programming (kinda) and the aforementioned photography and knitting. I want to solder up a sphynx, i play music (but have no one to play with right now
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My walk was really good! Except for the heat. The heat is evil and needs to leave. I miss walking home and its 15 minus degrees in my skirt and cardigan, the cold just speaks to me.
What about you lovely? Hows your evening (i assume evening cause youve mentioned finland several times) going? What hobbies other than gay slop are you interested in?
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rider-waite deck yeah, this is my current deck and love how they married simplicity and abstract art into a beautiful deck. what kind of abrahamic deck have you been looking at?so you're jewish? this is going to be possibly really weird, but like they just released a choice of games, game that's about trying to save your jewish village from an upcoming pogrom and it's packed to the brim with yiddish, and stuff from the books that I'm too goy to remember
. but that's so cool 
, wish it would be easier to find people who try to turn religions more inclusive honestly.
nothing against furries, i admire their convictions, but i definitely can't afford a full fur suit, and don't even want one really
yeah thicc and tall, don't forget
yeah been using sock dreams, but i have to pay customs to ship to finland and it's expensive when combined with shipping 
it took them a while to find the correct dosage of depression meds for my anxiety and depression, but they finally got it. you'll get through this, sweetie.
god you're just so multitalented, it's crazy. all i know is make food, bake, eat hot chip and read gay slop. i did got to school for 3 years that basically had programming and pc usage as a big part of them, but I remember nothing
tell me about it! the evil regime of the sun has had it's day, it's time for the autumn revolution already!
~heeeee~
yeah situated in finland probably for the long haul, doesnt seem like things are getting better in southern europe and....yeah. getting kinda eepy it's 1am.
i do like baking a lot still, even though my job almost crushed it out of me, i just love the whole process, of how you can see the bread through all of the phases and hold it in your hand and know that you made this. one of the best feelings. otherwise i'm just into reading and gaming, hopefully i can manage to get exercising in on a more permanent basis again soon. i dunno i think im kinda boring honestly
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Thats really pretty! I love black+white and monotone images, they just speak to me more.
The abrahamic deck i was looking at a year ago, idk if i can find it easily again. It was black cards with white lineart of abrahamic figures, e.g. moses.
Short answer: yes. Jewish answer: it depends on how you look at it. Like, i havent been to shul since I was young, but have beliefs rhat line up with it, plus the cultural everything, idk, its a big complicated topic lol.
Yeah i saw that! It looked really cool! Ive been very very slowly learning yiddish, but dont have anyone to speak it with. Plus the people who speak yiddish today tend to be hassidim :/
Its so hard. The people who stay in it often are bound to it close enough that any movement is small. Judaism has a lot of room for reinterpretation and i think that helps, but its still hard to find people.
I wont
I know the struggle of thigh highs and height, im like 195, and often find things i want that just wont fit me the way I want
Ty, its hard finding mental health help here
Im not sure, you might have to pat my head and figure out the math :3
Those are so cool tho!!! Like i can make bread but im not a baker, i can only do the basic stuff. Idk, i feel like im okay to good at many things, but incapable of being great at anything.
Awww cute eepy kitty
Im so glad theres an 'almost' in that sentence <3
its so important to have hobbies and joy-giving activities!
I disagree
i love hearing about you, tell me more about baking 
(or tomorrow if youre all eeeeeepy ^^
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it's honestly criminal how israel has mostly destroyed the language, by getting everyone on hebrew. the language is beautiful and doesnt have it's roots in a settler colony.
where is here, if i can ask?
oh i dunno, you're making butterflies flutter in me in a pretty great way to be honest
going to be visiting some family for the rest of the week to touch grass (
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This cute eepy kitty is going to bed though
. You have a wonderful day, sweetheart. 