And here I am trying to write something to the blog showcasing new games (both fanmade and Zuns originals)... E.g. This week I am writing about the Hollow Song of Birds.
Edit: I am not either the right person to answer this either as I mostly spend my time lurking on MoTK, but let me tell you about my perspective.
I found Touhou by accident after seeing some gameplay videos of PCB of it and though I wanted to try them myself... I think this was around the release of Mountain of Faith as I remember playing EoSD, PCB an IN a lot before going to army (beginning of 2008). During army I got from the games to the fanmaterial (e.g. my old ipod still has a lot of Touhou remixes that I used to listen back then mostly from Iosys, Cool&Create, ALiCE's EMOTiON and Silver Forest) and also actively started searching places where I could sharing my own views of the series leading to joining the MoTK forums.
This forum I joined bit later in the end of 2011. Just like the game series I think I found this forum by accident by searching for Touhou Suomi and in the beginning I used to be really active... I even got several fangames done (
Voile Invaders,
Voile Invaders II,
Perfect Youmu and
Perfect Youmu II -demo and several others started (
Winterheart,
Imperishable Odyssey and
Great Gensou Card Tournament) that were never finished.
Heh, as a sidenote there was also a Touhou inspired smup made by this forum on the works know as the Pohjoinen projekti but unfortunately that never got done (maybe one day).
However due to real life interfering I stopped being active at the forums though I did keep playing each official Touhou game that was released and at least trying as many of the fangames I could get my hands on (and I still do so). Music and other derivative works like manga I also kept and still keep consuming. Then at the end of 2016 I came back to the forums and as they were searching for people to keep the mostly dead Touhou blog alive I decided to give it a shot and contribute. Now for the past two years I have been trying to write every other week about Touhou games and other things Touhou related (
Blog can be found here, list of my articles can be found from
this post).
Also I am still planning on finishing couple of fangames (like Wakasagis adventure) that I have designed.
As for the Touhou Discord, it has some Touhou related images and music shared but mostly it is just a hangout place for the members. As for the Touhou material shared there that was not posted to this forum, there has been a small project about creating an interface that would allow dumping it to this forum so it would be in easily accessible format (e.g. so that you don't need to go through 100 pages of daily comic -thread and try to find among the comments that one series you really wanted to read). However that is still at design phase and slowly coming along (again, one day).
As for con scene, there are several cons here like Desucon, Hypecon, Kibecon, Mimicon, Ropecon, Tampere Kuplii, Yukicon and several other local cons. I personally have been attending only to Desucon so I can only tell you about that but based on my observations every year there are several Touhou cosplayers but also Touhou merchantice sold.
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