#Welcome to gensokyo zine

[doppiohearn]

The @gensokyozine “Welcome to Gensokyo” zine has officially released!!  Please check it out here, everybody did a fantastic job!! Here’s my piece, I did a comfy Yakumo and Hakugyokurou get-together! 

[william-o]

Doremy's Pillow Advert

For my second piece I wrote for @gensokyozine, I came up with lyrics for the an advertisement for Doremy's Sweet Sleep Pillow From Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia. If you haven't already go check out the fanzine full of touhou fanart and fanfics!

Click the read more to see my writing along with some comments on the creative process for the lyrics.

Don't you miss the dreams you’ve had at night? The fervent feeling from sleeping tight? Well I got the perfect thing to show! The amazing Sweet Sleep Pillow! Throw away that lump left on your bed! What I have is better for your head! You’ll feel like you’re sleeping on a bubble! My new pillow brings no trouble! Ahhhh… Just one warning… You may feel there’s no need to wake up again! To avoid such depravity Dreams are born of reality Don’t neglect your physical body Lest your dream-self turns quite naughty Oh but the kids will love it so! My design makes their eyes glow! With a cute tapir and a comfy frill, Yes this pillow’s all the thrill! Your dreams will be an exquisite delight! And you'll rise feeling just right! With my loving care, I’ve woven and spun, Sweet Sleep Pillow, number 1!

First off, the Illustration was wonderfully dreamt up by one @lemon-dokuro who also goes by Hanamarupoko! It's quite the vivid imagery wouldn't you say? He also drew his own fanart for the zine so make sure you check it out!

In case it wasn't obvious, the lyrics are meant to be sung to the rhythm of Doremy's theme, Eternal Spring Dream. (Starting around the 20 seconds into the song and I did take a few liberties here and there.) Believe it or not, the first and last part of the lyrics were what was written first. I tried to put in as many references I could find, such as stating the pillow is "number 1" being a reference to the questionnaire doremy did for her customers how good the pillow is at a range of 1-5 with 1 being the best ranking. I'll leave it a mystery what the other references could be, some are obvious, some not, but I don't think there's anything that could be too hard to figure out.

If there's anything anybody wants to ask or make a general statement about my zine pieces please do not hesitate to do so! Oh! And if anyone suddenly has the urge to sing and record these lyrics I'd love to hear it!

[mimicteruyo]

My Touhou fandom accomplishments:

Somehow still writing fics after a decade

Being the first person to post Shizuha/Letty on AO3

Uh give me a few hours and maybe I’ll come up with a third one

[chuupichuupi]

[OLD ART] my piece for the welcome to gensokyo zine back in 2023

[roaringwish]

This is my entry for the Welcome to Gensokyo zine!

Be sure to check out every work via this link:

[beckbomber]

Frozen Flower Redemption

This little comic was once part for the Welcome to Gensokyo (@gensokyozine) zine but got removed after issues regarding Yukkuris and shit lol.

Anyway, it's not my magnum opus or my best artwork but it's a cute comic overall.

[rabbiteclair]

boop, new (ish?) fanfic

Down to Earth

AO3 blurb:

Tenshi is challenged with a simple task: Work a single day in Suzunaan, passing herself off as a normal human being. How hard can it be?

my entry from the Welcome to Gensokyo zine, which you should still check out if you haven't.

[brattytenshi]

I was part of the amazing and huge Gensokyo Zine! Here's my contribution to it, featuring some taoist cooking. @gensokyozine You can find it here:

Taoist gang rise up

[cinnawas]

Ringo teaching how to make dangos to Eientei girls!

This is a drawing made for Welcome to Gensokyo Zine, put a lot of effort in it, I hope you like it:3

You can see the complete zine here!

[acupoffelicity]

my sakuya piece for the touhou zine, welcome to gensokyo / @gensokyozine! it was a wonderful pleasure being a part of this project with over 100 contributors! please go check it out! it's free to download and support all the amazing artists involved!

link to zine: https://gensokyozine.itch.io/gensokyozine

[aly-kuro]

My artwork for @gensokyozine 's "Welcome to Gensokyo" Zine is finally here! Please check out the zine as a whole and check out everyone else's amazing pieces as well!

[siliconcat]

My touhou designs master post

*creatures you*

The big 3 part 20+ page colored comic that’s killin me (Alice, Medicine, Eirin, Daiyousei)

Welcome to Gensokyo zine piece (Orin, Utsuho, Satori)

Bugs (Wriggle, Yamame, Eternity, Momoyo)

Animals + Satoris (Satori, Koishi, Utsuho, Mamizou, Tewi, Reisen)

Misc youkai (Nitori, Nazrin, Shou)

Tengu (Aya, Hatate, Momiji, Megumu)

Humans: lineart comic (Reimu, Marisa, Sanae, Sumireko, Nue if you have a magnifying glass), misc stuff (Reimu, Marisa, Sanae)

Tsukumogami (Raiko, Kogasa, Benben, Yatsuhashi, Kokoro, Medicine)

Animal Realm Matriarchs (Yachie, Saki, Yuuma)

Touhou 19 (Enoko, Hisami, Chiyari)

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Aunn Komano

Yukari Yakumo

Tsukasa Kudamaki

Suwako Moriya (+ Sanae)

Patchouli Knowledge (+ Sakuya, Remilia, Mamizou, Alice)

Cirno, 9 day

Keine Kamishiwasawa

Yuyuko Saiyouji lineart comic (+Reimu)

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Reimari, more Reimari, th08 reimari fight

Patchiali (GAY‼️), more Patchiali

[william-o]

I participated in @gensokyozine and wrote two small poetic pieces. Please go check them out! There's so many amazing fanart and fanfics for the touhou franchise made by amazingly talented people!

Below is my first piece I did for them, a Haiku written in the perspective of the character Reisen Udongein Inaba!

From pure lunacy To impure prison of clay Heavy are my sins Selfish my actions My comrades I’ve abandoned To die while I live The regret lingers Even after all this time I desire closure Yet I can’t return I’m no longer of that world This I understand Decades have passed Hiding away from the world But now things have changed I’m of the Earth now My home of fellow sinners And of my masters Together burdened Yearning for the way things were Just like humans do So here I shall stay Until the moment I die I hold this burden

I've actually been wanting to write something like this for quite a while and the zine gave me an opportunity to really push me to write it! While writing this I had the song "The Sea Where One's Home Planet Reflects" on loop. To me, despite it being basically a more calm version of Junko's theme, it represents the characters you play as in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, especially Reisen. Cause even though she's from the moon, the moon's sea reflecting the earth is reflecting Reisen's new home. I also took inspiration from Reisen's story in Touhou 9, meeting the Yama and barring her sin from abandoning her people despite how she was fleeing for her life. And lastly I feel a somewhat personal connection to Reisen's situation, I've had to move quite a lot in my youth so the friends I've made in the past I can't pretty much anymore and I've been stuff wanting to be with them again for a while that it's prevented me from making friends where I am now. But I've recently grown past that point in my life and I'm reaching out much more, and come to appreciate the gift that is my present!

[gluttondraws]

Hello everyone!

This is my piece for the Welcome to Gensokyo zine. I got to draw YuyuEiki, my favorite ship, which was a blast!

Curious about the zine? Want to look through it? Then head on over to @gensokyozine and download it ^^

As always, please reblog my art if you like it!

[sunshowerdandelion]

I wrote for a fanzine for the first time ever! It's this one -> @gensokyozine Please check it out!! Also check out the zine cos it's just Really Awesome and the community was aces and stuff!!

My fic's titled True History of the Bridge Princess and is about Hatate interviewing Parsee and making an article about it. Parsee, being Parsee, wants several revisions and she and Hatate letter each other back and forth. Shocking things are revealed, like Parsee's spirit animal and favorite color! (I am bad at summaries.)

It also features a really awesome portrait of Parsee trying to smile, as illustrated by @ohanessia ! Will be posting the fic also to my Ao3 in a week or so~

[roaringwish]

Here's the foreword as well which was a joy and an honor to do!

Big thanks again to the mods of this zine!