Yuri Shipping Olympics...is back. And so am I, and as well as Team Touhou! This will be our third overall season, and we've got some old blood and new kids on the block to join us. If you want to assist in this effort, make sure to sign up with the links below!
Sign up sheet: https://forms.gle/tNTNjDKRtks16FRu5
In the verdant delta of the Animal Realm naught is wasted, especially not clay. When a certain Haniwa sword instructor finds herself defective, there is little else she can do other than turn herself in for materials… if only a peculiar girl wasn't there to stop her.
After almost a year, the Touhou Crack Month is back for a second edition, hopefully filled with many more fun pairings and fun fics!
What is this event?
This is a month-long AO3 event where writers 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 fics 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 write a single fic, but if you are really determined, nothing stops you from writing even more than that! There are never enough crackships.
Guide for potential participants (keep reading)
To participate, simply sign up using the form provided near the end of this post. In there, you can select different options to customize your event. 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 write ship content involving them.
Completed fics are to be published to the official Touhou Crack Month 2025 collection.
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 fic 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 me an ask and I'll try to answer the best I can.
Merry xmas and happy holidays to @goshatheparrot I was your secret Santa for this year's exchange. Hope you enjoy the little bit I wrote and complementary art my wife made. We had a lot of fun working on this! And thanks to @amemenojaku for hosting.
Have a lovely day and a wonderful new year!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
What it says on the tin! I'm hosting a little secret santa/gift exchange focused on Touhou yuri pairings this year. Feel free to join if you're interested!
Edit: applications are now closed!
↓ Guidelines & schedule & application form under the cut ↓
GUIDELINES:
SFW only (serious/darker works are OK, but nothing R18)
your wishlist & the gift you create must be focused on yuri/GL pairings from Touhou (this isn't a general Touhou secret santa)
no AI, what you create must be yours
if you have to drop out and can't finish your gift please contact me ASAP! emergencies and the like are absolutely okay, but try to make sure you'll be able to complete your gift before you consider joining
SCHEDULE:
nov. 7th to nov. 17th → applications open, use the form to join!
nov. 19th to nov. 24th (at the latest) → you'll receive someone else's wishlist to work on, by ask or DM
dec. 25th to jan. 8th → post the gift you created on your blog! don't forget to @ the user you made it for and, if possible, to tag it with #thyurisanta (or @ me) so I can keep track of who's already finished
APPLICATION:
Fill this form to join!
If you have any question just send me a message or comment on this post. Let's make this end of the year a fun one!
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