I feel like I don't have enough Canon Knowledge to make touhou fanwork. which is nuts because I've been a fan since i was 12 played all the games up to wbawc and read all the manga and yet every day is like who the hell is renko where did all these other ladies come from what the fuck is oil fire

hey, we're talking about a series that, judging by the age stated on your blog, has been getting regular installments for about as long as you've been alive. I think it's pretty understandable to be a bit daunted by the sheer pile of stuff that ZUN has managed to make over the past 26 years of fairly constant output. and that's not even getting into fandom stuff like the ol' Oil Fire.

point is, it's a lot. The good news is, this is a series where the answer to a question like 'what does the Hakurei shrine look like?' is 'it depends on who drew it.' You've got a lot of wiggle room, and that's before getting into things that have changed over time, or places where different sources show different takes on things. If there's a particular official work that you like and you want to write something with its characters, odds are about 95% that you'll get all the details you really need if you read the characters' various profiles and read/play the main works where they've appeared. If there's some bit of canon you want to include but are unsure of, TouhouWiki can probably point you to a good source for it at worst. Even with Reimu and Marisa, it's less about discerning their True And Eternal Unchanging Nature and more about picking which canon take on them you wanna focus on.

and personally, between

a story that contradicts some fairly concrete canon bits, by someone who's into the series and interested in getting into the characters' heads

vs. a story that doesn't contradict canon on any firm factual stuff, by an author who isn't really invested in the characters or setting. (A person who probably has a lot of power level arguments, in my experience.)

I'd rather read the former every time.

touhou music slaps so much i am never going to get into the games ever

"Can it run DOOM?" - boring, of course it can run DOOM, I've seen everything run DOOM from a knitted blanket to a pregnancy test to DNA

"Can it be used to recreate Bad Apple?" - exciting, imaginative, ALWAYS blows me away with the execution, an eternal banger, I am never expecting it and I am always pleasantly surprised to see Bad Apple in a new medium

wore my danmaku shirt to airport security

there's something weird about this place....

Look I only want the best for my favorite touhous I went on a rant the other night and so i present to you a glimpse into a world where Flandre Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Gengetsu Lotus Land story are best friends (and this is where the picture with the flying cars utopia should go to prove my point)

post this touhou when they least expect

Art of the day!

...Technically not seto taisho?

These two feel like such a random mishmash of themes if you don't know what they're referencing lol.

I was going to have it so that Dishsciple and Apotstle fuse to make Phanturn, but... Taking Dishsciple to the place where you fuse yo-kai is. A really bad idea.

Dishsciple evo later (?)

i still haven't perused UDoALG in any form, and at this point I'm kinda enjoying trying to figure out what the game is about based on Tumblr posts

as near as I can tell, the game's plot is mostly about some kind of polycule of terminally swagless foxgirls enveloping Gensokyo

reimu. btw.

"Don't worry, Merry! I'll beat the horrors for you!"

got called out by japanese elementary schoolers on my way to work this morning

currently going insane over miko's design and backstory. she's actually so cool wtf.

She is the reincarnation of the legendary Prince Shoutoku, which makes her one of the most unambiguously trans touhou characters.

She has the ability to listen to 10 conversations at the same time, but this is very overwhelming for her ears on the daily, so she wears earmuffs to reduce noise which, although it's not the same thing, can be easily interpreted as audio processing issues/autism.

Finally she isn't quite a catgirl but her hair is always cat ear-shaped which is the next best thing.

Also she looks so cool??

trans autistic catgirl-adjacent stateswoman/religious leader? get outta here