ZUN have done so much for feminism when he made both villains of SHoSS achieve their respective goals, develop a weird partnership in the process, and have some the most lesbian dialogue of any Touhou games

Misogyny is as usual the root cause; all Touhou fans ever do is try to make powerful, complex female characters into non-threathening stereotypes they can laugh at and sexually objectify. Female and LGBT fans are absolutely not exempt from doing it, and it applies to how they approach shipping too.

Semi-related to my previous thread bc all the reasons I listed are also why okiyuuma has no chance of getting popular or even acknowledged by more than like 3 people for what it truly is, despite being one of the most canon ships in the franchise.

For anyone who doesn't already know, touhou lore is super worth learning. Go read Yuyukos backstory or Mokous part in cage in lunatic runagate. Zun puts a lot of work into touhou's lore. There is a lot of complex stuff going on with basically every important character.

I'm also thinking about how one of Land of Oracular Zeitgeist's artists was getting blasted on twitter a week or two ago because Reimu's alt palette in that game is black and the language the assholes harassing him were using was vile

Everyone is lambasting the bigots and shitheads of the Touhou fandom, eh? Excellent. Good, very good. I'll never forget getting randomly dogpiled by racists for black edits, esp since I wasn't really "in" the fandom at the time and on a side account with low visibility and followers.

There's more I wanted to do here but it wasn't coming together as I hoped, so I took a break. This was supposed to be quick portrait practice after all! Youmu Konpaku remains one of my fave characters in the Touhou project #youmukonpaku #魂魄妖夢 #touhouproject #東方Project

I will never forget that time *those* ppl dogpiled a Brazilian artist for giving Reimu very slight melanin to which, funnily enough, wasn't really much melanin at all, it was just the colors chosen for their artstyle and they drew Reimu like that before many times.

Shit was so bad for me cuz nearly every post I made, whether it was art or pointing out the issue, I had racists, fence-sitters and weirdos congregating like flies with unasked opinions and unfunny antiblack "memes". It was like my account was cursed, they somehow kept finding me :/

Yeah god I didn't even mention the amount of people that turn out to be creeps and groomers, bc that too is a huge problem.

not that the canon material is flawless and perfect but if you only ever interacted with the shallow and stereotype-ridden fanon material youd forget that this is the same franchise that had a book where aya gets called out by hecatia for trying to push a trump-style anti-immigration moral panic

i spent a good few years avoiding touhou and just flatout rejecting it altogether because i could only ever associate it with the same type of 4chan users who would go around twitter with k-on pfps saying the most heinous racist shit possible

if i had a nickel for the sheer amount of racism i experienced in just 2 years alone, never mind the entire time i've been a fan, i would never have to worry about any monetary related problems ever again

uninteresting at best and *slurs in my inbox* / "encouragement to become an ecchi artist as a minor at the time" at worst

i think the best tldr i got is when i got into touhou i expected a lot of people carrying the hashtag feminist energy touhou kinda has with all the girls being walking danger signs only to find out people do not actually gaf and most discussion i had with casual touhou fans being

people were willing to jump me for not really fucking with hong meiling conceptually and making a thread on disabeled touhou characters but god forbid u don't wanna appease to everyone and the disconnected humor of the fanbase at large

2 add i remember a good portion of how people reacted to me just "playing touys" was often just met with people being bullies/ bigots to the point i had a folder on my laptop dedicated to how many people called me slurs online for just drawing or talking about issues relevant to touhou project

My own thoughts about the Touhou fandom as a Black queer *Note: I will make a small(ish) mentions about other grievances from people who hate the old jokes in the fandom as well, but as for the first few things, just grievances as a Black American, as a queer, and as a disabled person

Touhou fans refusing to engage with official material and lore doesn't just begin and end at "oh but we're just playing toys", it actually feeds into and perpetuates the bigotry that this fandom was created in and it's one of the leading reasons why it's no less bigoted than it was 20 years ago.

This whole situation sums up the touhou fandom so well. Unlike OP I have a way less polite and calm essay I wrote about the fandom and since a measured tone of voice doesn't do anything to stop you from getting hate and your post deleted I'm seriously considering dropping it.

orin design #touhou instead of only having her tail split in two, she went the extra mile and split the skin from her flesh down to the tail. also she makes jewelry out of human bones from bodies she scavenges

Drawing Touhou Characters: 15. Eirin Yagokoro 💫🌠⭐✨🌟 #EirinYagokoro #東方Project #Touhou #TouhouProject #Art #DigitalArt

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the kiss #touhou

the highly responsive to prayers

Good news, everyone! TDPD have made all of the videos on the Team Shanghai Alice channel available for everyone! You can now listen to all of the ZUN-made Windows game OST (and 2 of the music albums) on the Team Shanghai Alice channel! Link below! www.youtube.com/channel/UCYi...

static version of the main menu check it out ! ! ! iratebovine.itch.io/gamble-of-a-... #東方 #東方イラスト #東方project #touhou #art

Fun fact: Ground cherry (edible) and bladder cherry (poisonous) are often mixed up bc they are similar. For the Hungarian patch I translated it as bladder cherry anyway bc we call it ördöglámpás (devil's lantern). It's more fitting for the game and it doesn't alter lore and characterization.

Hello Gamers! We are happy to announce Touhou Pride Game Jam 8! It will run from June 25th to July 12th. Work alone or with a team to make a Touhou Fangame (fan-gayme?) in the short time period. Happy Jamming! 🌈 Itch Jam Page: itch.io/jam/touhou-p... Discord Server: discord.gg/touhougamejam

Headcanon that im quite fond of, happy pride month

I have drawn exactly one touhou character

love🍡forever

Flandre is a character whose personality and characterization has seen multiple interpretation. The most common one being that she's a violently unstable psychopath. However, I'd like to propose a different interpretation : Bored, yet unmotivated. A thread 🧵

there she is. greem himejoshi tengu #mercuriikart #東方project #OCsky

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Artists, QRT with your dragons! 🐉

If you guess mine you're entitled to a free cookie tbh

Get komakasened, idiot! #touhou #touhouproject

zanhisa🧍‍♀️ #東方Project

🏙️🐉 INTERTWINED Original artwork, made with posca markers and a thrifted wood piece #Formline #TelekitneticArt #IndigenousArt

bubny #Ringo #RingoTouhou #BunnyGirl #Rabbit #鈴瑚 #東方Project #東方 #LOLK #東方紺珠伝

benben sister and minoriko sister. in yuris #Touhou #TouhouProject #YatsuhashiTsukumo #ShizuhaAki #TsukumoYatsuhashi #AkiShizuha #ShizuHashi #秋静葉 #九十九八橋 #東方 #東方Project

My entry for the Riverside Wonders charity zine by @thriversidezine.bsky.social ! Check out the zine here: thriversidezine.bigcartel.com

i drew ichrin and unzan for @thriversidezine.bsky.social !! thank you so much for letting me contribute to an amazing cause! 🍉 #mercuriikart #touhou #東方Project

It's finally happening, I'm reopening commissions! 🌟🍃🌱 Lots of options to choose from this time! (Limited slots available) I'm also soft launching a membership tier that i hope to expand on in the future. Times have been rough lately, so any support and shares are super appreciated! 💖

Honestly, I had thought about Toyohime with a Tail before. But now that I revisited the idea thanks to @Suzuna_Kagura on the other site, I think she looks nice! (The tail is based on a dragon Toyohime I made a while ago. It's inspired from the different meanings of "Wani", and some other critters)