Thursday, August 11, 2011

Comiket is soon

The next Comiket should be starting soon. Tokyo is 16 hours ahead of the time zone I live in, so I expect that piracy new doujin releases should be unleashed upon the world later this evening. Personally, I want to wait until Monday before I check any Touhou fansites from this point. I want to give the fans a little bit of time to uncover the new music, artwork, and characters before I look anything up. Also, if any of you are reading this, don't tell me anything Touhou-related until Monday. I want to find out everything by myself.

But before I start my wait, I have two Touhou fanfics to recommend to you.

One of which is by someone named HakureiIllusion entitled Relentless Eastward Wind. It's an origin story for the Moriya Shrine, and it's currently only one chapter long. And it's the author's first fanfic. However, I was quite impressed for a new writer. So much so, I even wrote a review for it, (a critic coming to the defense of new talent; I must be crazy!) and only found one small thing wrong with it. I'm expecting an update in the future, for I foresee good things.

The other one has a little more substance to it. It is The Grimoire of Patchouli. It's basically Patchy describing people and things in Gensokyo. It is well-written, with some interesting fanon behind it.

But getting back to Comiket, I just realized that the original ebooks I will eventually self-published are technically doujin, for I will be releasing them myself to the public for sale. And also, some of my personal inspirations include ZUN, Type-Moon, and 07thExpansion. But Comiket includes self-published Touhou products, which would make them doujins of doujin. Do you think that would happen to my original works eventually? That people would make fanfics, fanart, and whatnot of my own works? I can actually picture people writing fanfics for my more elaborate ebook concepts. But if that ever happens, do me two favors:

1: do not sell your fanworks without my permission first.

2: If you have Rule 34 of my original characters, don't send them to me. Most of my ebook concepts don't even have sex to begin with, so why do it?

I will now wait warmly for the next few days.