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I think we should have a good talk about this topic. I have had a lot of thinking about this topic for a long time. Recent twits by nmlgc and aggressive2hu inspired me to do more research to finally build a full picture. I understood that we should act now until it is too late. The more info I found for this post, the worse the situation became. And it is not just about Touhou, problems are much more serious, but mostly I will talk about Touhou because I really love Touhou and I hope to change situation for better at least for Touhou. The goal of this post is not to bring hate towards anybody in the fandom or ZUN, but to help people understand the roots of the problems to resolve them. CAUTION!! CAUTION!! CAUTION!! If you still want to believe that there are no serious problems in Touhou fandom, and still want to believe in Touhou and doujin magic, well this post may bring you down. You have been warned. CAUTION!! CAUTION!! CAUTION!! Before we start, I hope to see criticism which will explain where I am right and where I am wrong, because this topic is rarely discussed. Thank you. Have you noticed that something is not right? Have you noticed that there are much less new Touhou fangames, doujinshi and doujin music than for example 8 years ago? Have you noticed that a lot of new fan content is nearly unnoticed? Have you noticed that fandom is not united and split? Have you noticed that last Touhou games are rushed and story is less well-written? Doujin events examples: I suppose that everyone noticed at least some of those problems but I am surprised that nearly nobody tried to analyse why these have happened. Well, there are two main causes of the problems: the fandom and the franchise itself. Fandom: But there are other problems that may make people haters of not just fandom, but of Touhou itself. Franchise: But what I can say for sure if this topic is unnoticed and left undiscussed we won't be able to change the situation for better. I thought that Touhou was an islet of safety in current sea of crisis of mass culture, but alas it is already under the water. But wait, let's be clever and take a step further (unlike those haters): what about non-Touhou doujin scene, what is happening there? (Spoiler: the situation is similar there): But everything is not lost! We can change the situation for better if we will stop being scattered and will work together. The worst thing now is just giving up. Thank you for reading this. I would be really glad to receive criticism, corrections and proposals. I know this topic is controversial, but I think that it must be discussed. I just want Touhou fandom to become better. If you have any good ideas how to change the whole situation for better feel free to share them. Also feel free to share this post. There are also some other related thoughts about this topic: Afterwords: If after reading this post you want to hate ZUN or anybody else then I think you didn't understand this post. This post shows that hate didn't change the situation for better and only made it worse. We don't need to hate, We need to act. For the fans who are Still with us.

And the winner is...Flandre is gooboo. Sorry, executive decision. The runner-up though, Flan is a loving but playful little sister. Humanity has hope after all. Next Bad Touhou Opinion! "Hey, mister..." = "Do you want to have sex?" = "Yo man. Fuck?" = "Do you want to have Fumo?" = "Do you want to eating hamburgah and potato everyday?" = "Did you know the average human body has 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood? Wow, that's a lot. You probably don't need all of it, right?" = "There is no meme. Give me your wallet."

request 2 from @ReisenFanatic17 omgomg mathilda?????? next: toutetsu yuuma (@Mr.Kitsune)

it’s koakuma! i love this pose frfr i guess i can open *traditional* art requests, so throw in your requests and first come first serve!

sorry im late, was heavily procrastinating a bit but finally dropped it too lazy to add text was in a rush request by: @ReisenFanatic17 next: koishi (@Lyza)

Who are you? I'm Lyza and i go by she/her! What are you doing here? I've been a very big fan of touhou for 4 years, my favorite character is koishi but i love all of them! I've played most of the games but I've only 1cc'd 6, 7, 8, and 10 Besides the games I've read a few of the official manga Touhou has been a really big part of my life for this last little while I love the official works but what really has kept me sucked into the community is the ceaseless downpour of amazing secondary works. Games, animations, hand-drawns, comics, and especially the music (i have 200 gb of touhou music downloaded :3) What else do you like? Manga and gaming mostly! My top 3 manga are Girls' last tour, Dorohedoro, and JoJo part 7 My favorite game of all time is either Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 2 I really like history and geography (yes i have 1000 hours in hoi4 how could you tell), and a lot of other things that my adhd brain can't rember rn. What are you gonna do here? I don't really know, i kinda just wanted to say hi and see where things go from there! :3 Hope y'all have a lovely day!

took a bit more time here. request by: @suyu_ next: misumaru murasa and mathilda (by: @ReisenFanatic17)

kinda rushed kana thing here request by: @BlitzEnforcer next: cirno (request by @suyu_)

OMG KOA'S GOT THE SAD EMO POSE BUT HARDER AND BADASS-ER jk but this is so absolutely awesome you deserve the awesome card also can you draw the touhou oc i made and won't stop talking about aka mathilda dabest misumaru please?

Thank you for your reply. Yes, Touhou fandom has not fallen yet, and the more people will be aware of those problems the more chances we have to make Touhou fandom blooming again. Sadly, yes. Because this is a pirate site, and after DMCA /r/touhou and Touhou Wiki decided to support Ruw's decision. There is even a group who wrote doujin circles to help them with DMCA. They even created hakureishrine.org (it is just redirect to Steam, and yes they still pay for this domain just for joke). Thank you too, for your reply. You understood it correctly. Just one more detail, there were dramas between main Touhou websites even between main websites. Not only that but also some strange limitations from ZUN and Ruw. You understood it correctly. Somewhat yes. The first solution also include forgetting about dramas at least between creators, so they could work together. Those are just my proposals and they maybe not ideal. I want to bring up this topic for discussion to find the best solution from realistic ones. Thank you for your reply. I also think that persuading ZUN now is nearly impossible. Touhou is mostly made for Japanese fans and ZUN mostly listen only to them, so without their help it would be impossible to do it. I understand it, but I don't have better solutions for now, I am sorry.

That would be near impossible. Most Fandom/Community/Whatever attempts at making a company (although you can hardly call Team Shanghai Alice a "company" as it is just one person, but I didn't have any other term to use here) notice them fail.One example I can think of is #Savetf2, which ended with TF2 team responding with a tweet and then returning to radio silence. Although because we aren't dealing with an AAA company here, we have higher chances of well.... I guess you can say "speaking up"? However the issue is that we probably would need at least a pretty sizeable minority with us and a way of persuading and forcing ZUN to stop working with Ruw, however the second part would be much easier to deal with. Other than that I'm also quite pessmistic towards other solutions, however I don't know why as I can't really explain it. It might just be a gut-feeling though. Also I apologize if I misunderstood something or didn't read something.

You've... scrambled my brain. I don't know what to say. At first I just want to get clarification on your main points, because honestly, your post is huge. Is this interpretation correct? -Problem1: Bigger websites (discord, facebook, etc.) get more popular -> fans leave main touhou websites -> fans are in smaller divided circles (ex: discord servers) -> more divide/drama -Problem2: Touhou getting enfranchised -> lower effort games -> more negativity towards the series -Outcome: Combining outcomes of problems 1 & 2 -> harder for newcomers to get in -> less fans -> entire fanbase begins to degrade (fanworks and events) -Solution: Everybody going back to centralized touhou websites OR creating a huge website list containing all fan circles I'm really not too sure if I understood everything. Please let me know if I misunderstood anything.

i'm impressed with your analysis. Well, I understand the pessimism and all of the unfortunate situations, but I still believe that touhou fandom have not yet fallen. I can't be considered an avid touhou fan (i entered the fandom 1 year and a half ago) but i guess we still have a chance, but, knowing how things happen, it's very unlikely that it'll occur (at least based on the fandom actions themselves, cited by you). Anyway, great point being brought here (i'm sure most people won't even read the first lines) and thanks for making me(us) aware of the whole thing. and also, for some reason it hadn't yet sunk in for me that we are considered the black sheep of the fandom

coming soon... a tale of romance... (teehee... how can i even thank you?) betrayal... (i thought you wanted to commit your entire life to me...) and BUTTONS... (OF COURSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHICH IS WHICH!!!) THE SANAE PARABLE/PROJECT or SANAE SAVES YOU FROM SUCCUMBING TO THE BUCKET available on 4/27!!!!

If 2hu is so great, why haven't they made 3hu? Checkmate, weebs.

the problem with being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness context : OMG IT'S THE DEPRESSED SONIC KID!!!! SAY THE LINE!!!!

my tsp hyperfixation is getting out of hand i can't even read fanfics without thinking about it now i can't continue the ERORMAM series please help

I JUST GOT 19/20 ON A NATIONAL EXAM WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hey there shrine members! I was curious about what kinda of game OST do people like here, i like talking about music (although the topic does get a little out of hand at times) but that's beside the point. I've recently been listening to two OSTs the most, that being the Trepang2 and Postal redux OST. Here are the links to one song i like from each OST: If you would like to show OSTs you like, feel free to send them here!

hmmm (WARNING : kinda nsfw)

i have an idea for a game dr andonuts or professor poopoopants

I'm your Grandma

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ask to friend me on roblox made a bunch of touhou cosplay, im open to suggestions then i’ll post them here (istfg if people question tenshis pose bc someone on discord already did)

me when there's seggs in my fluff

And the votes are in! A well-meaning fairy and her friends win out with their uncooked eels. Hopefully Mystia will recover from the lawsuits in the next thirty years. Today's Bad Touhou Opinion is a simpler one. Flan. Flan is... = Remi’s loving and rambunctious little sister. = The comfy basement NEET who games all day. = A troubled youth who needs a friend in her life. = A homicidal maniac kept in check with constant treats. = Flan broke under the weight of her fractured psyche a long time ago; everyone else in the mansion is just her clones standing on one another's shoulders, living out the happy pampered life she always dreamed of.

A proclamation from Princess Kaguya of Eientai: Gamers Rise Up! That is all.

saw one of those generic touhou bingos today and decided to waste some time going through the effort of actually doing them so here you go

touhou is love touhou is life, mostly 80% of the day, especially when i zone out its also the fact i have 5 fumos, 2 figurines, the entire forbidden scrollery physical manga, far too many touhou drawings and doodles, a reimu cosplay, my phone wallpapers with rumia and reimu (home and lock screen respectively, osana reimu reference????) an entire category dedicated to touhou on safari, how filled my recommended is with touhou, i have moriya shrine, i am building GENSOKYO in minecraft (all of it), and especially im based off of koakuma. it’s gonna take a long while for me to not get interested into touhou anymore and also to stop thinking about it, it’s just like how i can’t survive a day without drawing

YO ART DROP AGAIN, I DID THE FUMO OF MINE!!!!!

https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/stanley-parable-the-ultra-deluxe-soundtrack-2022 self explanatory hehe >_< and also https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/friday-night-funkin-ost-flash WHAT EVEN IS A KLASKII ROMPER????

teehee

Been going down the rabbit hole of some old and relatively old games, these are a few that I currently have stuck in my head

OH SHI- I MISSPELLED THE REFERENCE SEARCH- but eh i did a pose practice anyway ty!! i could do that girl again if you want YWWWWW!!!!!!

kinda rushed as well request by @Mr.Kitsune next: koakuma + patchy (@Fuuka_)

request 1 from @ReisenFanatic17 minamitsu murasa!!! pose practice??? request 2 is below lol

Not sure if anyone saw quiet on the set but that documentary was a real eye opener. I always expected there to be abuse that would likely occur in the production of childrens television. However, i didnt expect it to be to so bad. I still believe firmly that we should stick to animation and drawings for kids shows and not employing underaged kids to work fulltime jobs

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what about misumaru? where does HER rainbowy stuff comes from? oh boy, here we go again... *let's ask misumaru!* ...i changed my mind. misumaru: well it comes from my orb and my accessories! look! *misumaru refuels her power!* it's actually made out of positive energy! wowie!!! ...that's weird, for some reason i'm feeling... good. well, i bet you didn't know this but i can distribute my energy to others!! i guess that's good... *laughs* and then they felt overwhelmed by happiness (which isn't a bad thing :D) and got to the forest of magic ahh... that was fun. you name it!

he can see 3d movies without 3d glasses - donkeytf2

i'm doing something very special for 4/27 day (the you-know-who parable day!!) here's a hint : bah babah bah bah bah baaaaaaaaaaah

it's kinda dark-ish maybe sort of might possibly likely able to in all seriousness, unless you're really sensitive to psychological horror, you'll be fine. if you are tho, all I can say is: get better nerd lol

im tired so here’s this random eiki doodle