The Touhou Crack Month is a month-long AO3 event
dedicated to celebrating and writing about crack pairings in Touhou!
Second edition: this March! Run by @d6b-onion
I'm running very late for this announcement, I've been rather busy this February. However, February is coming to a close, and with the beginning of March comes another Touhou Crack Month, naturally!
The rules and procedure are the same as last year, but I will state them again for anyone new to them.
What is this event?
This is a month-long AO3/Tumblr jam-like event where artists are given randomly-generated crackships, and have to desperately wrangle with whatever absurdity the RNG has wrought upon them. While this started as a fanfic event, visual art is also welcome! This event is meant to celebrate creativity, originality and adaptability in shipping.
Proceedings
NOTE: given the delay I had in announcing this, late applications are perfectly okay! After March 1st, just fill in the form and I'll generate and send your pairings ASAP.
The event lasts the whole month of March 2026, 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 2026 collection.
For visual artists
Completed artworks are to be published on Tumblr, under the #thcrackmonth2026 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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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!
okay my touhou crack month '25 submission is now considered complete
post-post commentary:
What the fuck am I talking about, you ask?
Well, you've been lead astray. What a fool you are. Those first 10,000 words making up the "first chapter"..?
(I dramatically fling away the cloak that has covered my appearance in shadow all this time. It reveals that I am Justin Bieber. Young JB, not his modern self. My voice doesn't match his.)
That was only the prologue to my actual work. You see, that prologue could not have possibly been my work, for it contained no shipping! No love confession or cuddling, no flirting (well maybe a little) or even any cannibalism!
With this newest addition, the true work has been completed! You can now finally read 2.5 thousand words of these two being homosexual! They even kiss at the end!
Jokes aside, I wrote this because I really liked what I did for this ship and wanted to write them being cute together. I'm not gonna do what Lottery did and come back a year later with an entire novel focusing on these two, I'm a simple man. I want fictional girls to flirt and kiss, I make them.
This chapter wasn't meant to be introspective like the first, or fun. It was literally made for the sole purpose of shipping them when I forgot to for the first chapter.
Enjoy! Especially the kiss scene at the end, where they kiss!
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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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Kogasa was overworked and accidentally sent Miko's sword to someone else! When Miko goes to get what's rightfully hers, she ends up with a bit more than she bargained for…
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.
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…
Leave the Pots and the Kettles Alone by @que-de-metal
In Gensokyo, there was a terrifying youkai of the highest caliber. In Makai, there was an all-powerful god who created everything from scratch. Everyone knew that. It would have taken a fool to question this.
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