I already posted my story on the other thread BUUUT I don't see why can't I post it again here, so lettuce begin.
My good old friend that I still talk to frequently to this day randomly came up to me late 2010 talking about this "Touhou" thing. He showed me some videos, and that Summer day anime (which somewhat impressively, the very same video he showed me STILL IS UP on youtube, I'm just too tired to go and get it now) and tried to convince me to play the games. It wasn't until March 2011 that I actually did it. I liked the game (specifically, EOSD) but frankly I didn't think it was worth my time to actually get invested into it, so I forgot completely about it.
UNTIL OCTOBER 2012. Let's say I was wandering about some... dodgy site we all know of, and I was noticing too many images had the tag "Touhou" in them. "Huh, I know this series!" I said. I then clicked on the name tag of the girl on the picture this tag was in, which was "ibaraki_kasen", and that's how I met mai waifu.
After that, I decided to go back and play the game again, and really enjoyed it! This time around I actually decided to stick around and play this game more seriously, especially because at the time, Black Ops 2 was near and anything that would make time pass by faster was a godsent to me.
The rest is mostly history, and is either stuff unrelated or unnecessary detailed.