Donmai

Is it fair to make a new pool for these particular Touhou pictures?

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While looking through the whole site, I found the following posts from 9 years ago:

post #1200376
post #1200379
post #1200405
post #1200383
post #1200389
post #1200407
post #1200393
post #1169711

I wonder if a pool for these would be necessary or useful, because of the following reasons:

  • It seems like these eight were a collaboration between two people in less than 5 days (May 20th to 25th, 2012).
  • There's a consistency among them all, despite all eight being uploaded in different Pixiv posts. Not directly tagged as responses to each other, though.
  • The order they were uploaded to Danbooru is different to both the original order the artists uploaded them to their respective Pixiv accounts.
  • Look at them the way they are ordered above. Don't they look like a rainbow? I believe it would be nice or cute to order them in a rainbow pattern in a new pool.

Since the artists themselves didn't give a particular name to such a pool, I would propose either something like Touhou Rainbow Liquefaction (from the tag common to them all in Pixiv: 東方液状化) or Touhou Slimy Rainbow, or something like that, we can still come up with better names. Not sure how could the name could go according to the howto:pools guidelines though. Maybe something like "Touhou - Rainbow Liquefaction (Safurantora & Meganemausu"?

Cons would be:

  • Users can just write touhou slimification in the search bar and find them fairly easily (though not in any particular order).
  • It would be yet another Touhou fanwork stuff pool.
  • Not explicited at any point by the artists that they were making a collaboration at any point.
  • Absence of an explicit response among images when uploaded in Pixiv.
  • The original order they were uploaded on in Pixiv is different to the rainbow order proposed above.

If approved, I would propose it to be a closed pool to avoid mistagging from future uploaders and other similar concepts, and to keep the rainbow aesthetic (maybe only adding post #3761822 despite being uploaded to Pixiv 2 years later and here a year ago, but made by one of the same artists).

I understand there are plenty of useless pools already, thus I'm asking here for feedback before doing an unwanted action.

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