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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.

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!