#thcrackmonth2025

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Hold Me Until It Hurts

My contribution for Touhou Crack Month 2025 (@touhoucrackmonth): a little Kaguya/Enoko, straight from the sketchpad to you, with love.

Full version under the cut, due to cartoonish blood splatter.

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The Guest and the Guardian by ThenPerishFool

Rin Kaenbyou, aka. Orin, finds Aunn Komano very, very irritating. Unfortunately for her, there's nothing she can do about it. However, when a routine clash between the two offers her a sudden bit of insight on her foe, Orin is forced to reassess her opinion and switch up her approach.

Pairing: Rin/Aunn

The month's never truly over! Please enjoy the animals in this late submission for crack month!

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We're back!

After almost a year, the Touhou Crack Month is back for a second edition, hopefully filled with many more fun pairings and fun fics, and for this second edition, artworks as well!

What is this event?

This is a month-long AO3/Tumblr event where artists are given randomly-generated crackships, and have to desperately wrangle with whatever absurdity the RNG has wrought upon them. This event is meant to celebrate creativity, originality and adaptability in shipping.

If you're looking for a challenge, something to break your routine, a breath of fresh air, or want to experience with never-before-seen interactions and dynamics, look no further!

Proceedings

The event lasts the whole month of March 2025, starting on March 1st at 00:01 and ending on April 1st at midnight (both CET), ideally all works should be published before that deadline (not that it's a huge deal if they aren't). Each participant will receive their pairings on March 1st, each distinct from everyone else's.

You are only expected to make a single fic or artwork, but if you are really determined, nothing stops you from making even more than that, of either kind! There are never enough crackships.

Guide for potential participants (keep reading)

To participate, simply sign up using the form provided at the end of this post. In there, you can select different options to customize your experience. First is a 'difficulty' setting:

Easy: 4 randomly-generated pairings, with one to choose from for your fic.

Normal: 3 pairings.

Hard: 2 pairings.

Lunatic: only 1 pairing, so no choice!

You also have options to exclude some characters, for instance if you know them too little, or if you don't want to make ship content involving them.

For writers

Completed fics are to be published to the official AO3 Touhou Crack Month 2025 collection.

For visual artists

Completed artworks are to be published on Tumblr, under the #thcrackmonth2025 tag.

Eligible pairings

There are some restrictions put on the pairings, both to avoid uncomfortable ones, and to ensure the "crack" in the name isn't cosmetic.

Generally, eligible pairings are those where the two characters have no significant canon dialogue, interactions or strong backstory links (the latter case covers pairings such as Miko/Saki). Generic, one-off fight banter generally doesn't count (especially relevant for playable characters), nor does VS mode-exclusive dialogue (not counted as canon), nor do very brief manga/print work scenes (e.g. the big banquet of Silent Sinner in Blue).

Also excluded will be ships with strong fanon presence despite little canon basis, such as "successive bosses" ships (e.g. Wriggle/Mystia, Doremy/Sagume).

This event is yuri only, so male characters are excluded. Non-humanoid characters are also excluded unless otherwise specified by individual participants.

Note that these rules aren't exhaustive and I may exclude some other pairings in keeping with the general spirit of the rules above.

General rules

No NSFW, no intense depictions of abuse be it sexual or not (e.g. pedophilia, child abuse, etc), no incest (though all such pairings are already ineligible). Beyond that, there is no issue with delving into more mature themes, as long as they are tagged properly.

FORM LINK

The sign-up form is available here. Make sure to read all the instructions properly.

In case you have any additional questions, just send an ask to the blog and I'll try to answer the best I can!

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A bit under an hour before I send out the assigned pairings, remember that tomorrow is already March 1st!

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Fallen Fortune God’s Beloved ~ Steadying Breath by @toleratesurbs

Mike’s preferred forms of business take a sharp downturn during the winter months, and Mike has never been good at standing idle. The remedy? A dangerous expedition to arguably the most guarded and dangerous place in Gensokyo: The Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Ship: Flandre/Mike

Thank you for your participation!

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Festivals and Flowers by SilvarusLupus

Festivals are a great way to bring people together, huh?

Ship: Koishi/Konngara

Thank you for your participation!

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The "End"?

April 1st has rolled around which means that Touhou Crack Month 2025 is officially over, after a whopping 17 works submitted, three more than last year! I want to give a warm thanks to everyone who participated this year, it's been fun seeing what you all managed to come up with!

Now, as you can tell from the wording and the fact that this post is roughly 17 hours late (i forgor 💀), I'm not putting a hard stop on anything, as I dread deadlines too much to impose them on other people.

If you aren't done with your own work and need more time, by all means, do finish it and I'll gladly relay it! Though the Month may be over, we always have more time for Crack!

Thank you again to everyone who participated, and good luck to those who still wanna finish something!

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Why Are You So Scared? by Lottery57

Warning: this work has themes that could be upsetting. Heed the tags and proceed with discretion!

After her last symposium, Akyuu decides to entertain one of the requests she received for an interview. In doing so, she learns a lesson about fear she'd rather forget…

Ship: Akyuu/Kisume

Thank you for your participation!