Hey, anyone remember me? I'm not dead, funnily enough. Anyway, I was in the lengthy process of rebooting my website, which has been basically dead since 2007. While doing it, I decided to include a section where I just talk about stuff that I like (or don't), and Touhou became a very obvious subject for me to rant about.
http://www.antimatterzone.com/rants/2hu.htmlBasically the point of this thread is to not only shamelessly plug for my website (:3) but to give a link to what may be a fairly comprehensive "beginning point" for people new to Touhou. Send the link to your friends who don't get it, to your siblings, whatever, whoever. I wanted to do this because I realized that Touhou can be a really weird thing to a lot of people, especially those not in-tune with more Japanese things, and I wanted to explain it in a much more western manner, while not losing the core of what Touhou is.
Also, just a note, I have zero problems with swearing on that website, seeing that it's mine, so if cursing offends you, here's a preemptive apology. It's not -that- bad, but, well, it's there.