#I think its fun at times. and the popularization of Yuri because of it has been AMAZING I'm so happy for that
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p2ii · 1 year ago
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i think we should soft-retire the whole 'this too is yuri'/'yaoi', just like, a little bit 🤏. and maybe consider that characters of any gender can be multifaceted or preform gender non conformity in a way that doesn't inform their sexuality or relationship dynamics. aswell as stop pretending there is an inherent difference between the two as genre's from ppl who aren't actually emerced in that kind of fiction. any gendered relationship can and and probably HAS played out any trope. they're the equivalent of f/f and m/m catagorise on ao3, please.
this is mostly because if I have to read about another het/ m/f couple being 'both Yuri and yaoi' or 'half Yuri half yaoi' I'm going to go ballistic. it's giving 'half gay half straight' 😭
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stardustizuku · 6 months ago
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So, Gushing Over Magical Girls Is The Best Thing To Happen to Magical Girls
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Gushing Over Magical Girls get this bad rep. For all the wrong reasons. I’ve seen it be called an insult to Magical Girls, I’ve seen it be called “gooner bait” a term I absolutely despise but that’s a thing for another day. I’ve seen it insulted for everything and anything under the sun.
I first got acquainted with it when I was scrolling through Twitter and I saw someone complain about the PV. However, as an avid Magical Girl Fan, I wasn’t disgusted. I was intrigued.
I decided to read the manga, and oh god.
This is one of the best things I’ve read.
The story follows Utena, a shy girl that loves Magical Girls, tricked to become the evil general that will defeat the Magical Girl team “Tres Magia”.
And it’s a delight.
I binged all the episodes available to me in the manga, and had fun in each and every chapter.
The same, however, couldn’t be said by half the people who watched the anime. And I was extremely baffled. As a queer woman, this was the first time in my life, in which I had seen something so deliberately catered towards me. I saw tell-tale signs of someone who genuinely admires the genre, and is simply using it as an outlet for exploring deeper and more interesting topics that a SFW version of it would not be able to.
Yet, I turn around and I see people calling it the most horrendous stuff, and accusing everyone who likes it of being monsters or men.
Genuinely, I’ve had enough.
Gushing Over Magical Girl is not the Devil. In fact, I think it’s the best thing to come don’t even like Magical Girls AND IT SHOWS.
PART 1: “Magical girls are for little girls!”.
The first criticism you’ll see aimed at “Gushing over Magical girl” is the amount of sexually charged content it has. And it is true. It borders on straight up porn in many instances and it just gets wilder as you go on. By chapter 30, we’re way past PantyShots. Like, I’ve seen some of these girls’ vaginas, and I’m not joking.
Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with it, but there’s people who might disagree.
“Magical Girls are for little girls” some people say “and you’re corrupting it!”
Which genuinely makes me laugh.
This is because this type of argument could only be done by someone with no real concept of Magical Girls aside from maybe Sailor Moon and Sakura Card Captor.
out of the Magical Girl genre in a WHILE (Ignoring Precure, because they just gave us a magical boy and that’s my win of the decade).
People are just, you know, stupid. And reactionary. Enough that they see a boob and lose their minds like a Karen at a Christmas Eve Mall.
My point is, I love this manga. And I’m willing to risk my reputation to defend it. Cause genuinely, half the people who are clutching their pearls over this show - Magical Girl Anime haven’t always been PG, or aimed at girls.
Cutie Honey is a great example. It’s one of the most famous Magical Girl Anime you will find - and it’s a shonen. With the protagonist, Honey, being constantly naked, groped, put in suggestive situations and have outfits that show her cleavage.
And it’s one of the most famous, most popular takes on Magical Girl there is. Yet, I never see any amount of outrage towards it. (Part of me wonders if it’s because the fan service is aimed at men, rather than involving yuri).
There’s also Lyrical Nanoha, one of the most popular serial franchises there is. It spans several seasons and spinoffs, and it’s beloved by many.
And it’s aimed at older men. Yes, it’s a Seinen.
In fact, its origins are far from PG. It’s actually a Spin-off of an erotic game named “Triangle Heart”. It was most definitely not created with little girls in mind, and themes it tackles reflect as much.
There’s Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya too, a spinoff of the Fate/Stay Night VN, very obviously aimed at older men, it’s a Seinen. It has a lot of fanservice and scenes where the characters are half naked.
Day Break Illusion is also a Shonen.
And as much as I adora Madoka - I’ve been stating for years now that it isn’t a show meant for little girls. You could argue it’s for everyone, regardless of gender, who’s a little older. But it most definitely wasn’t for little girls.
So, no. This was never an “only girls” club. Trying to paint it as such, is not only wrong but ignorant.
Magical Girl shows can be for anyone. Men, boys, girls, women and I find it infantilizing to consider it “only for little girls”.
No one says “super heroes are ONLY for little boys”
Well, some do. But they’re, you know, bigots. Who don’t want girls playing or adults o have fun.
So no, Gushing Over Magical Girls being a sexually charged anime in the Seinen category isn’t “corrupting the genre”. In fact, I would argue it’s doing exactly what the genre has done in the OVA shadows for a while.
Not to mention, many people have screamed from the rooftop how they want “more mature Magical Girl shows” referring to the success of Madoka. But as soon as an actually mature take on Magical Girls shows up, tackling issues of sexuality and love, you all don’t want it anymore.
(We all know why, though. Americans, and western culture in general, considers mature themes, only that which involves violence. Anything close to discussing issues of sex is no longer “mature” but “Pornographic” and deserving of being shoved into a corner. With all queer themes, gender studies, and any nuance that could be had regarding these issues).
And speaking of sexually charged, have you watched so called “wholesome” magical girls? They’re still very much sexy. Not in the “on the nose” ecchi way Seinen and Shonen are - but they still are.
You’ll find transformations were the girls are naked, zoom in to their breasts, you’ll have panty shots every now and then. Even themes of growing up, having crushes, and innuendos about sex. Inappropriate relationships, taboo romance, and the likes.
Sakura had Rita and a professor’s relationship (mutual in the manga), Sailor Moon had Chibiusa and Elliot’s romance, Sugar Sugar Rune even having an element for ‘lust’ and other different types of love, and let’s not forget Mermaid Melody which has several instances of the girls naked, in compromising positions with other men. And I’m pretty sure Tokyo Mew Mew likely opened a whole bunch of doors for girls to be into CNC.
This is, by the way, normal.
Completely so.
These stories often talk about the girlhood experience. And girls and teenage girls are interested in all of these things. They’re interested in sex, romance, their bodies growing up, their own sexuality and the likes. It’s no wonder same-sex relationships and romance get included, they’re part of what experiencing the world through the eyes of a young girl is like.
And subsequently, it stands to reason that as people who engaged with MG grow up - they find comfort in exploring their sexuality through Magical Girl themselves. There’s a reason why there’s a growing section of “Magical Girl” in your local hentai site.
“Men get off on corrupting this wholesome girl targeted genre” is actually TERF rhetoric sneaking through the mainstream. It ignores AFAB ppl and gender nonconforming people, who grew up with Magical Girls, simply using a medium that originally started their journey of sexual identity, to explore more “grown up” aspects of that same identity.
In particular, I’m a Cis AroAce Woman. I wrote a lot of Magical Girl NSFW when I first started writing NSFW Twitter threads. They’re bad and they’re cringey. But it was something I needed.
Magical Girls were a huge part of my childhood and early teens. When I was mentally in the space to want to engage with NSFW content: it was obvious I would turn to what first sparked excitement.
So this idea that “men are corrupting Magical Girls with their sick fantasies” is nothing more than TERF-lite propaganda. People, including women and men, have been doing this for ages; for a variety of reasons. And doing so, doesn’t rob children of their spaces - but the gentrification of the internet is a story of another day.
The other argument I have heard is that GOMG is a mockery of the genre. Which is even more laughable in my opinion.
PART 2: Parodies and why I hate Earth Defender’s Club.
Gushing Over Magical Girls loves Magical Girls. It’s a parody, in a way, but it knows very well what it parodies. It’s not surface level in the slightest. And it absolutely is not mean spirited about it.
A lot of the time, shows that reference and parody the Magical Girl genre, do so in ways that feel like they view it as a lesser genre. They take generic images of cute girls in frilly outfits, swap the colors around, and have them chant over-the-top spells. You’re meant to laugh, not only at how silly they look, but people who would love it. Especially if they’re grown ups.
I do not like “Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!” For this exact reason - even tho many people praise it to all heavens.
Because
1) It feels surface level in its commentary and depiction of Magical Girls and
2) More mocking towards the genre than paying homage or doing anything with it.
The continuous use of the word “Love” is a very obvious jab at Magical Girls using these words, which feels mean spirited just for the sake of it. Their outfits are almost exactly the same, save for the colors. And they all use the same sticks as weapon, with no thematic link for the shapes of the scepters. The mascot too (a wombat for god knows what reason), I think it’s meant to be a joke of some sort for how ridiculous some of the mascots for the girls get, which rubs me the wrong way.
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In general, it feels shallow and mean spirited. But no one calls this an insult to Magical Girls. Because people who like it don't actually care about Magical Girls. They see cute boys doing silly things and love it. Which is kinda sad.
Now, Gushing Over Magical girls has sort of that same problem on the Tres Magias…But they’re not the protagonists. And even then, in later chapters, they get power ups that are different in design, and thematically linked.
The protagonist, and the ones we follow, are Utena and the girls. And they all have very distinct outfits, all with motifs that are tangentially thematically linked, and speak of each character’s personalities in interesting ways.
Utena in particular has THIS outfit. Which a lot of people don’t like, but I actually do.
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It’s very obvious it’s taking inspo from other iconic Bad Girls in the genre. Namely, Utau, Kraehe and Devil Homura. All “Enemy characters” that have unhealthy obsessions with other characters. In particular, I think the wings and the feathers resemble Homura - THE character known to have a massive obsession with a Magical Girl (Madoka), to the point of insanity.
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There’s also Magia Azure. Who’s a clear reference to the Mean Tsundere girl that is iconic to the genre. She’s also a Miko. Which is a callback to Sailor Mars, arguably THE girl who popularized this archetype.
I also love what they do with the mascots. Unlike Earth Defenders, where the mascot is you know, a mockery of the archetype of a mascot - useless, only there to give power ups, and obsessed with food - the mascots of GOMG is taking a book from Madoka.
It considers the mascots both all-too-powerful and yet limited in their reach. Which is exactly what the mascots have always been in Magical Girls. Beings so powerful they can give mythical powers to girls, yet helpless to do anything on their own. So, they use magical girls as a vehicle to achieve their goals. Most Magical girls try to paint this as a good thing, but newer genres shine light on how dangerous that can be too.
Madoka tackles it with Kyubey as the main initial mascot, only later to turn out to be the villain of the series.
And in a Post-Madoka world, trusting the mascots is just the slightest bit more difficult. That’s why, from the get go, GOMG portrays their mascots as morally corrupt. He’s not a good character, he’s malicious and doing more harm than good. But for the majority of the series, he’s painted more as a useless harmless evil than anything genuinely terrifying or worthy of concern. The attention is focused on other things.
But I love the way that it’s heavily implied that they’re not good. It’s a very interesting take on the mascot and it helps with the themes of the series. Which yes, by the way. Gushing Over Magical Girls has themes.
Which lead me to-
Part 3: Yeah, uhm, Gushing Over Magical Girl has themes.
There’s this idea that Sex is an inherently violent act. In which a man humiliates and sodomizes a woman, and therefore the woman is exploited in some way. And 10x worse is any act that involves BDSM. It’s violence; born out of hatred.
This is TERF rhetoric. I’m not joking. This line of thought leads directly to TERF ideas.
Many on the internet have pointed out as much, and BDSM members have gone to be very vocal about it. In particular, people on the role of the submissive (or the bottoms) are loudly trying to explain the contrary. How they like the act of sex, like the idea of being vulnerable, or being humiliated. There’s also plenty of LGBT+ stories that talk about it, both in western and eastern spaces. Just jump into the section of dom/sub verse at your local manga browsing website, and you’ll find something.
That said, the same is not as common for people who like to “dominate”.
I can only think of two pieces of media that argue that, whoever is the dominant or the sadist, is also a human being. That whatever they’re doing is done, not out of hatred for the submissive or an act of violence, but love.
One, is the husky and the white cat. In which Mo Ran, among other things, has to come to terms that his love isn’t “pure”. That he cannot love someone without the want to have sex, and to completely dominate that someone.
The second one is Gushing Over Magical Girls.
It’s very clear to me that Utena’s sadism isn’t a violent act. It’s an act born out of love. She genuinely loves the Magical Girls, and most girls for that matter, and whenever she is inflicting pain and fighting with them - what she wants is to ultimately help them in some way.
She wants them to “be the cutest version they can be” and wants them to shine brighter than ever.
There’s this one scene I love, around chapter 20, in which Baiser (Utena) is fighting Magia Azura. And due to Baiser going a bit too far, Azura ends up being Mind-broken. She crawls towards her, calls her “mistress” and begs to become her servant.
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In any normal Hentai you’ll find, this is a good thing. This would be the ideal outcome. A character being turned into nothing but a sex slave for the enjoyment of the dominant.
Which is why I found it breathtaking when that didn’t happen.
Baiser is horrified by this. She does not want to break the girls, she wants them to be powerful. She wants them to win. With her, the evil one, being nothing more than a vehicle for them to be even stronger than before.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen dominant or sadist characters being presented both sexually, and in such a positive light. Much less a queer woman in the same position.
It doesn’t treat BDSM sex as a disgusting taboo act, but something born out of genuine love - and a want to see the other person be or feel better.
This is reinforced around chapter 25 where Leberblume and Loco Mùsica are fighting Baiser. For context, Loco Musica wanted to be an Idol, but had terrible singing. She uses her evil power to basically force everyone to listen to her sing (which is so reminiscent of Mermaid Melody btw). When they fight, Baiser wins, and is then set to use her new found power to “punish” Loco Musica.
Originally, Loco Musica points out how Baiser’s sadistic tendencies are “the same” as Lord Enorme, who we’ve seen uses sadism as a genuine form of punishment. Something to avoid. You behave well, because you don’t want to get hurt or humiliated by her.
However, when Baiser uses her own unique type of sadism on Loco Musica, something happens. Instead of causing her physical pain by beating her or using violence, she forces her to get naked and perform her idol song like that. This causes her to get extremely embarrassed. And in the process, she actually starts to sing really well.
This is important for two reasons
1) Baiser is actually taking into account who Musica is. It’s later revealed that Musica wanted a more frilly idol-like outfit but Lord Enorme shut it down, for the sake of a more ‘unified’ aesthetic. Baiser is not just throwing around the same treatment and punishment for all girls - what one might like, the other might hate.
2) At the end of the day, while she did the punishment, it was both embarrassing, but ultimately something that helped Musica and made her feel better.
And that’s really the key here, and why I love the series.
Sadism, sex and kinks in general are not tools of degeneracy. They’re treated as part of our experience.
Also, it’s just fun?
Part 4: Gushing Over Magical Girls is just extremely fun when you don’t have a dumb bitch yapping abt how unholy it is to see tiddies on a screen
Yeah, GOMG just has one of the most creative depictions of the most insane of kinks you’ll see - I could spent hour gushing over Nero Alice.
Seeing all these different kinks being depicted as powers and abilities that these characters have - and seeing how they interact with other people is just interesting.
The sex scenes are both hilarious and kinda sexy. Specially if you do like to see women all hot and bothered. Personally I’m not into girls (or anyone for that matter) but I have to admit the scenes were pretty hot. And there is no shame in admitting as much. No matter what the puritanical Christian on Twitter crying abt “god honoring lesbian sex” Will tell you.
I cannot begin to explain just how hype and relatable it was to see Magia Baiser defeat Lord Enorme with the power of straight up delusion, we STAN.
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So, yeah.
It’s been a while since I last saw a Magical Girl Show so unashamed of being a Magical Girl Show. Unashamed of being weird, of praising the genre and just enjoying it.
My essay is titled, in part, as a joking reference to my much more popular series “MLB is the worst thing to happen to the magical girl series”. Which I still think is true.
And while, yeah, maybe GOMG isn’t the best thing to come out of the genre…I still think it’s good that it came out.
A lot of people say they want a more “mature” take on Magical Girls but - this proved to me that just isn’t the case.
Gushing over magical girls proves that the Magical Girl Genre Can Be so much more than what people think. More than glitter and sparkles, more than vapid action scenes, or what little girls want.
Much like any other genre, it can be raunchy, it can be messy, it can explore things outside of the status quo. But it can still deeply respect the source material, and the origins of it.
GOMG proves Magical Girls can be fun. Just. Straight up fun. Regardless of your age. They can serve and connect you to parts of yourself you didn’t realize you could connect to.
I hope it proves to more people that the genre can be so much more than “just for little girls” that parodies can be more than pointing and laughing, and that it can have themes beyond just, “friendship”.
Magical Girls can be so much more. You just, have to have an open mind about it.
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f-imaginings · 4 months ago
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I took a break from writing billford to colour in my billford comic that was just sitting in my drafts lmao. The grind never stops.
This is based on the gender swapped college au that has been rotating in my head for years. Here's the last comic I did for it, so folks can see the vibe I was going for.
Basically if we did a gender swap to achieve peak toxic yuri, I can't see older woman Stanford falling for Bill's tricks but if she were younger and more insecure, say at college, it could be an excellent setting for manipulation, since Ford might still crave social acceptance while acting like she doesn't need it. Major 'I'm not like other girls' vibes from young girl Ford.
Then if you throw in cultish sorority nonsense it would shape up to be a pretty interesting AU. Think Mona Awad's Bunny meets Gravity Falls.
Other fun facts about this au (that I may have a few pages of a fanfic already started in my drafts for haha) are as follows:
Bill is a second year transfer student who somehow within the span of days rose to power as Tri-Delta's sorority leader!
They introduce themselves to everyone as Bill Cipher, but because its the 70s and they're a girl all the other pledges call her Billie to feminize it a bit.
Bill offers to be Ford's first friend, but Ford rejects her on principle as she finds sororities to be vapid popularity contests and assumes Billie is no better. Ford's actual first friend is Viola McGucket who was named after the fancy word for her Pa's fiddle.
Occult phenomena has begun increasing ever since Billie usurped Tri-Delta's old leader and pledging rituals have involved dark magic, summonings and mysteries galore (a bit like the campus in Carmilla) which Stanford is keen to investigate.
Stanford has to prove to her father that she can be successful as a woman in STEM and is looking for something that will put her on the map as a scientist and change the world. Her idol switches from Tesla to Marie Curie.
She seeks comfort in the occult and thinks that her weird features and her intellect make her better than other girls (residual internal misogyny from Filbrick) but she learns solidarity when she has to save the sorority pledges and the rest of the world from Bill's machinations when she realises what the portal is for.
She is very gay, but acts like all women in STEM have to embody more masculine qualities, which is how she denies how gay her thoughts are all the time lmao.
She only starts stalking/obsessing over Billie after peeking at her essays to see that Billie is scoring higher than she is and is a certified genius.
She falls in love with Billie though once she realises that she's not human, and desperately seeks the acceptance in the occult she always envisioned. Bill makes her feel special too, often confirming Ford's biases against the pledges bc Bill thinks the sorority girls are braindead pawns.
Stanley didn't get kicked out, however she left home to make it big on her own while Stanford went to college. Right now she is dabbling in multi-level marketing schemes like Avon and tupperware parties, wanting to prove to her dad on the other side of the spectrum that a woman can make it big in business.
bonus Billie for the folks who read this long haha.
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whateversawesome · 5 months ago
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Fandom Wrapped + Some SxF Fic Recs
The year is almost over so it's a good time to reflect on all the wonderful fics we read and all the fics we wrote as well. I'm sure you have your favorites 😃
Here's my fandom wrapped plus a few fic recs and reflections:
(Special thanks to @katty-king-elfans for creating these templates so we can all have a fun fandom wrapped)
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It's always hard to choose a favorite but this year, there was a clear winner in my heart:
After Peace by @unhappy-sometimes : To me, this fic is a masterpiece. I could talk about its interesting premise, the development of the characters or even the use of beautiful metaphors, however, for me, the most important thing is how this story just reached the deepest part of my heart.
Do you sometimes feel like you can't make any mistakes? Do you feel like if you do, you could derail your life forever? Well, this story shows us that's not true. It's a story about second chances about rebuilding life after huge mistakes, after being hurt, after thinking life is over.
And it's also a story about how unsettling "peace" can be after a lifetime of fighting. Here, Twilight is retired, he has "won" and there's finally peace between East and West, but his life is now meaningless. It takes place after the hero reaches the climax of his story and wonders 'now what?' Enter Anya and Yor to revive this man!
I won't say anything else to avoid spoiling it for you. If you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and read it here!
Other amazing piece this year that I loved in the visual art field was:
Bad Omen by @buf309-art-binder , which is not a fic per se, but a fancomic that uses both visual art and written language to tell an amazing (and angsty) story about wanting to protect what we love the most by becoming "hunters".
Here, we see Yor's perspective through a memory. She protects Yuri's innocence from death and pain by hiding both from him. In the present, Yor reflects about how fragile life can be and we learn how she views herself: as someone who stole her time from others.
However, Twilight tells her otherwise. To him, she's more than someone who just fights and destroys. To him, he's the reason why he's been able to heal 💖
The fancomic wraps up in a spectacular way, right in the middle of an action scene, where we see Yuri as an adult but at the same time, relying on his sister's wisdom, just as when he was a child, because of a dire situation. In this scene, Buf warps up everything and tells us that Loid and Yor were right about referring to themselves as a canary and an owl.
And the story's cliffhanger at the very end is to die for!! 😱 If you haven't read it or if you want to read it for the 100th time like me, here it is.
I would also like to send a ton of love to Ari_Gateau @lpham2525 for her amazing stories that never fail to lift my heart; to @rachellysebrook but writing the most emotional fic I read this year: Pink Sakura (Rach, you owe me a box of tissues.) And to Puolain @loveroma whose fics are truly magical (and that kiss scene in Hide and Seek was hands down my favorite). Honorable mention to Talik_Sanis who is not on tumblr (not that I know) for writing some of the funniest sxf fics I've read.
I want to thank all the authors who kept writing and contributing to the fandom. Thank you!
Now, if you're also interested on my Writer Wrapped, here it is!
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As you can see, My Enemy took almost all the categories in this wrapped. It has been very challenging but also very satisfying.
As some of you may know, I love reading and writing AUs but before writing this AU, I thought AUs were not very popular among readers. That's why I'm so grateful this fic has had such a positive answer. Thank you to all of those who have read, commented, and supported this story 💖 And for those who have no clue what I'm talking about 😆 you can read it here.
On a personal note, this fic has helped me understand a lot of things about life. My favorite scene this year (the blessing) felt so cathartic to me, because we're so conditioned to think that we must be useful for people to love us and that's not true. The people that love us do so because of our simple existence. Writing that, seeing those words on the screen, made me feel relieved. If you're interested, I explained it in detail a couple of weeks ago here.
Although My Enemy has taken most of my writing time, I've also had the opportunity to write other one-shots. My two favorites this year are:
Birthdays: A tooth-rotting fluff fic about all the Forgers' birthdays.
Deadly Encounters at the Department Store: A comedy in which Yor faces an embarrassing situation at the department store.
Also, I got to write a small one-shot sequel for Love Is... called I Choose You.
In addition, I also wrote for a couple of different ships besides Twiyor. Given my strong twiyor brainrot, I considered these two fics a fun challenge. Both fics were written as birthday gifts for two dear friends and I'm happy with the result:
Yuri and Chloe Big Daycare Ordeal (Yurikuro)
A New Dance Partner (Franky x Fiona)
AND to top it all, I did my first collaboration in the fandom with the amazing @unhappy-sometimes This collab was a gift for our friend @buf309 , who actually gave us the prompt for it. Unso was in charge of creating the art for this prompt and I was in charge of writing the fic. The result was fantastic!! You can see the fancomic here and read Sleeping Beauty: Twilight's Version here on ao3.
Well, that was a big wrapped but it was also a big writing/reading year. Thank you to all of those who read my stories, commented and left kudos. Thank you also to @twiyorbase for organizing so many wonderful events that kept us writing. And special thanks to my friends, who listened to me, encouraged me, and made me laugh. You make my life beautiful 💖Thank you!
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vandermorgans · 7 days ago
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Favorite yuri dynamics within the gang?
this is so funny now that I know who you are hahahhsdhafh YURI BE UPON THEE
OBV MY FIRST VOTE GOTTA GO TO THE TOXIC YURI MISS GRIMSHAW AND MY GIRL KAREN MMMMM THEYRE SOOOO DELICIOUS THEYRE SO GOOD I JUST CANNOT NOT THINK OF THEM I THINK THEY FIGHT PSYCHICALLY AND DO ATROCIOUS THINGS TO EACH OTHER AND SUSAN WOULD BE AWFUL TO KAREN SMACKING HER ABOUT AND THINKING HERSELF ABOVE HER BUT KAREN HAS BALLS OF STEELS AND SHED STAND HER GROUND AND SMACK BACK AS MUCH AND THEYVE PROBABLY STABBED EACH OTHER BEFORE AND THEN HAD NASTY LESBIAN SEX ABOUT IT AND THEN SUSAN LEFT THE PLACE DISGUSTED BECAUSE HOW COULD SHE LET THAT VILE GIRL TOUCH HER LIKE THAT SHE WAS A WOMAN OF CLASS AND GOD AND SHE GOES TO RIVER TO WATCH HER OFF. HERSELF AND KAREN IS SO ANGRY OVER THAT UGLY OLD HAG THAT KEEPS LOOKING DOWN ON HER AND SHE PROBABLY LET SEAN HIT JUST TO BE A THORN IN SUSANS SIDE SHES LIKE SEE I CAN GET SEX WHILE ALL YOU HAVE IS THIS UGLY CAMP AND A MAN THAT HASNT LOOKED AT YOU FOR YEARS LOL EVIL AND BITTER AND NASTY THEYRE SOOOOO DELICIOUS I AM SALIVATING AND SUSAN CALLS HER A WHORE AND FILTY ALL THE TIME AND KAREN IS LIKE WELL IF YOU WERE HOT YOUD ALSO WHORE AROUND AND WHAT CHOICE DO WE HAVE?! AND ITS ALL SO BITTER BC SUSAN IS NOT NICE NOR UNDERSTANDING AND KAREN IS SO ANGRY
I KNOW SADIEABIGAIL IS POPULAR BUT IM SORRY I SEE VISIONS I SEE THE FUTURE I SEE THE BEAUTY I KNOW MOLLY AND ABIGAIL FUCKED I KNOW THEY DID I KNOW THEY DID I HEARD ABIGAIL SAY SHES SUCHA. GOOD GIRL ABOUT MOLLY AND MY BRAIN ASCENDED I REACHED NIRVANA I SAW GOD I SAW THE FUTURE I SAW THE PAST I SAW THE UNIVERSES CREATION
ABIGAIL GETTING TREATED LIKE SHIT BBY HER UGLY RAT HUSBAND AND MOLLY GETTING PAID DIRT BY UGLY CLOSETED DUTCH????????? MOLLY WAS CRYING BECAUSE SHES SO ALONE AND SHE HAS NOTHING AND SHE LEFT HER LIFE FOR THIS MAN THAT DOESNT CARE AND EVERY NIGHT ABIGAIL BRINGS HER TEA TO DRINK AND SITS WITH HER WHILE JACK SLEEPS AND ONCE NIGHT MOLLY IS SEEKING REASSURANCES AND ABIGAIL IS TRYING HER BEST TO BE THERE FOR HER AND THEYRE SO CLOSE AND SHE PUTS HER HAND ON HER KNEE AND SHES TELLING HER ITS OKAY AND MOLLY TILTS HER HEAD AND KISSES HER
OGJFAJFLKJALSKFSGKLFGNKLDSFKLJASFKAJSFKFHGDJGND I LOSE MY MIND I NEED THEM TO CHEAT WITH EACH OTHER SOOOOOOO BAD I NEED THEM TO CHEAT I NEED THEM TO CHEAT I NEED THEM TO CHEAT AND ABIGAIL SEES MOLLY WITH JACK AND HER HEART IS POUNDING BECAUSE THEYRE SO CUTE TOGETHER
AND I DONT ACTUALLY SHIP SADIE WITH ANYONE I THINK SADIE IS SEXIER A WOMANIZER GOING AROUND FUCKING WORKING GIRLS EVERY NIGHT IN ANEW TOWN BUT I THINK IF WE EVER GOT IT HER AND THE BLACK BELLE COULD BE SO SEXY...........................MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GOOD FOOD
and Mary is mine <3 im poisoning her father and her brother and im taking her to see the sights everywhere and she's letting her hair down and we have sex every night under the stars Mary Linton THE WOMAN YOU ARE PLEASE GIVE ME A CHANCE
and I kinda hard key ship all the girls with Grimshaw, kinda like how dutch groomed the boys but even sexier cuz its Yuri and they hate their fate unlike the boys who think its fun
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mostlymilkwood · 4 months ago
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The old year is dead. Long live the new year. Tell us about some stuff you liked in 2024 (music, TV, movies, cool things you did, whatever!) and some stuff you're looking forward to in 2025
Happy new year! I continue to love yuri!! (and also... sonic the hedgehog... which has yuri in it now so really lucked out there)
2024 saw the end of one of my fav new(er) manga to come out recently, Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord! It really crept up on me for how much I've ended up liking it but dang, what a good ride! Sad to see it go but I'll defo keep up with the author's future works!
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I've been doing a lot of catch up this year as there are plenty of longer running series' I just hadn't dug into, such as How Do We Relationship? Delicious in Dungeon and This Monster Wants to Eat Me.
Delicious in Dungeon is now so easily in my top 5 favorite manga of all time. Love the group dynamic, love the funniest morally grey elf Marcille Donato, love that its doesn't feel like it drags or goes too quick within its 14 volumes, just love it!! Also wild to see so much Farcille merch in the artist alley this year, it felt like every other table had something and I can't really think of another f/f pairing that's hit that level within the con circuit merch scene. It was a lovely to see!
On the more textual yuri side of thing: How Do We Relationship? Oh geez, of man, and what god damn read! It took me a few volumes to really get into it but the reveal that it's not “story about what happens after you start dating someone” but is actually “a story about what happens after you breakup with someone” is devastatingly good!
Rip to all the college yuri I'll read going forward because every one of them is going to be compared to HDWR, its set the new standard for me haha. It was so good I had to go and buy the whole thing in print as soon as I finished.
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Speaking of which, this year I went back to buying manga in print and I'm really glad I committed to that! At first it was more a reaction to the waves of delisting we've seen but It was a lot of fun hunting down deals to populate the Yuri Tower. This corner of my room now legit makes me smile when I look at it, even if I'm going to have to work out how to fit more books on there soon.
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(if you're a UK book/comic/manga buyer than I rec scifier.com and worldofbooks.com, they have good prices and if you google for discount codes you can always grab one that's at least 5-10% off)
On the video game side of things I played an old SNES RPG called Eternal Filiana and was sooo charmed by it. The game is based on a 80s light novel that is very much influenced by Lady Oscar's popularity at the time, having its own protag also be a blonde haired women who was raised as a man for plot reasons.
The part that was most interesting to me though was that the André to Filena's Oscar ended up being a woman she marries within the first 30 mins of the game. Filena and Lila can be a bit goofy in the games (b-b-but we're both women??) but they still have some legit sweet moments and having watched the OVA first, which is tries to take itself more seriously, I now have a real fondness for the pair. Here's to the first married yuri couple!
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And finally... Sonic. It's been another good year for Sonic! The comics continue to be a fun read and I really liked Sonic X Shadow Generations despite being apathetic toward Shadow lol. He was good in it though and all his levels ripped! Great game! Third film also fun! Very excited by the characters who show up in the stinger :) I also got into making custom figure with my brother this year so that's been a fun hobby for us to do together.
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and that's it!! I mean there were other things I played and read, places I went to but whatever!! the post is long enough!!
For 2025 I'm looking forward to the anime of This Monster Want To Eat Me and suuuuper looking forward to The Moon on a Rainy Night! I need them to break the yuri anime of curse of having trash budgets though..... we cannot have another Whisper Me a Love Song situation..... AND WE WONT!! IM MANIFESTING GOOD THINGS!!
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lavenderprose · 2 months ago
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20 Questions for Fanfic Writers
Thank you to @emmg and @aldisobey for the tags on this meme! There may have been one other person, I'm not sure--if you're reading this and you tagged me, let me know and I'll tag you back! <3
I'm not sure who to tag and who's done it already and tagging people makes me nervous but I'll tag a couple: @pseudospaceship, @mageofquandrix and anyone else who wants to participate!
I'm extremely verbose, which comes out in memes like this. Do NOT feel like you have to read the whole thing.
1) How many works do you have on AO3?
38 on Ao3, which are the only ones I’m willing to acknowledge. If we’re talking about the fics on [redacted], then I’ve published 115 fics over the course of the last eighteen years. But again, we’re not talking about anything other than the fics on Ao3. I also have a few orphaned fics floating around, which we’re not talking about for obvious reasons. I’m now noticing that the question only asked about Ao3. Oh well!
2) What’s your AO3 word count?
511,846, somehow. I have soooo much fic that’s never seen the light of day, and so much fic on only Tumblr. I’m curious about what my word count would be if I was able to factor all of it in.
3) What are your top five fics by hits? (This was supposed to be kudos but I read it wrong 😔)
OKAAAY well these are all fics I wrote yeeears ago for two fandoms I’m not involved in anymore, but here we go:
All Those Things You’ve Always Pined For (Captain America, Stucky) – 113,224 hits. This fic just had its tenth anniversary and I’ve been playing with the idea of rewriting it, despite not being involved in the Marvel fandom for years and having no idea how it works anymore and having no WISH to. Idk. Still thinking about it. If I did it, I’d probably drop it all at once sometime in December.
Nikiforov’s Law (Yuri!!! On Ice, Victuuri) 42,566 hits. Somehow my post popular YOI fic even though I wrote it in two days and I spent WEEKS laboring over others. Mixed feelings about this one.
Take Hold (Yuri!!! On Ice, Victuuri) 35,278 hits This fic will always have a soft spot in my heart. I’ve spent the last six years of my life trying to recreate the high of writing it.
A Sad Sort of Clanging (Captain America, Stucky) 26,301 hits. First Captain America fic I ever posted.
Your Breath, My Skin (Yuri!!! On Ice, Victuuri) 18,642 hits. Fun fact: I HATE and LOATHE the title of this fic but I like the fic itself. Wish I could go back in time and rename it.
4) What fandoms do you write for?
Currently, Dragon Age. I hop around fandoms a lot and prior to last March I had been on a prolonged absence from fandom. I’m glad to be back, glad to be part of a fun and engaging and friendly fandom again! The Dragon Age/Veilguard/Emmrook fandom is the most fun I’ve had in fandom since YOI. I also frequently come back around to reading old favorites from the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Star Trek, and Legend of Zelda fandoms. You may occasionally see those on my blog. :3
5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I didn’t used to—mostly because (and this is such a champagne problem that I hesitate to even mention it) I used to get SO MANY comments all at once that it was overwhelming. Like, 50 comments in a day. The Dragon Age fandom is smaller than the Captain America or Yuri on Ice fandoms, and people seem less inclined in general to comment nowadays, so I’m more capable of responding to them. I try very hard to do so. If you ever comment on one of my fics, please know that I appreciate it so much and I love you very much for doing so!! Comments make me so so happy and drive me so much to continue writing. My creativity is hindered by lack of engagement, unfortunately, so comments and kudos really help motivate me.
6) What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
So I don’t DO sad endings. The most I’ll do is bittersweet. If I do a sad ending, it’s because I fully intend to write a sequel that has a happy ending. They have to be AT LEAST hopeful. That’s just a preference of mine; I’m weak. That said, the most bittersweet ending I’ve ever written was probably the end of Into That Good Night, which is at its core a fic about death and dying that I wrote to work through some of the trauma from my parents’ deaths. I would love to write an Emmrook version of it, if I can bring myself to recycle the plot without feeling like a total fraud.
7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
All of my endings are happy, so I don’t really know how to answer this question! The ending of Body and Soul is pretty openly happy. They’re falling in love :)
8) Do you get hate on fics?
Sometimes I’ll get a snarky comment but in general, no, and not for a while.
9) Do you write smut?
Oh all the time. My most exquisite emotionally waterlogged pornography, lovingly presented the perusal and approval of my internet darlings. I did NOT used to be this kind of person, but I have evolved.
10) Do you write crossovers?
The Marvel fandom made crossovers very easily, so yes, but not for a long time.
11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I know of!
12) Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes! Firebird was translated into Mandarin and I’ve had a few Tumblr fics translated into Russian more recently. I believe one of my [redacted] fics was translated into Spanish way back in the day.
13) Have you ever cowritten a fic before?
Yes! A friend of mine and I used to write Gravitation fanfiction together. God the way writing that sentence made me feel about a million billion years old.
14) What’s your all-time favorite ship?
Kirk/Spock. I’ll never forget about them. Very very close second is Sam/Frodo. It’s about the DEVOTION it’s about the TRAUMA BOND it’s about the EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE relationship, apparently.
15) What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
Oh god. Probably the Modern Royalty fic. It’s switched fandoms with me half a dozen times and I’ve been working on the outline off and on for a decade. Maybe someday I’ll make it into a true novel.
16) What are your writing strengths?
Hmmm this one is hard for me but I’ve been told that my works are very tender and emotional, which is I think my goal in like 90% of cases. I fear that too much emotionality can overshadow the tone of the whole piece at times, but I do enjoy being tender. I’m pretty standoffish in real life, I think, but I have a very tender heart.
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
I get very caught up in small details. It takes me a long time to write even short fics at times because I can’t resist going back and editing as I go. When I was writing Chasing Stars I had to MAKE myself write at least 1000 words an evening before I was allowed to go back and edit any of it.
18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?
I can passably speak German, so that might crop up in my Dragon Age fics soon (Nevarran = fantasy German, IMO) but in general I just write something like ‘she said, in Spanish’ and leave it at that, ESPECIALLY if it’s a long phrase that I couldn’t possibly accurately translate. Single words I will sometimes insert if I’m completely sure I know what they translate into.
19) First fandom you wrote for?
According to [redacted], it was of course Harry Potter, unforchies, but I’m pretty sure Baby’s First Fanfiction was a Teen Titans fic circa like 2006.
20) Favorite fic you’ve written?
Right now it’s Body and Soul because my favorite fic is always the one I just got done posting. As said though, I’m still SUPER proud of Take Hold, and I consider Into That Good Night to be like. The Magnum Opus of my early twenties. Kind of a milestone in my creative journey.
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ddlcbrainrot · 1 year ago
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What are your ships in ddlc? I noticed you do all the ships- If you ship all then what’s your favorite ship?
Now, whoever you are how did you that i was thinking of talking about my ship opinions soon?? mind wizard
SO, here’s the thing : when it comes to ships in genera it takes a lot for me to actually have OTPs and stuff and this is especially true in ddlc for me. For me shipping is more of a “sure, i could get behind this” sort of thing, except if once in a blue moon i find that one ship that alters my brain chemistry but believe it or not that has not really happened to me with any of the ddlc ships. It has happened with the game as a whole, but not really with the ships. The only one that has come close i’d say is sayonika but that’s more bc they happen to be the characters that i think about the most
That being said, i’d say i ship every ship in the game, simply because i could honestly see all of them working out in one way or another. Sure, they’re are some i like more than others but generally all of them work. And yes, this includes the Mc ships even though i like them less bc the side stories blew it out of the park with the chemistry between the girls
Speaking of the side stories, they are the sole reason i got into the shipping side of the fandom lol. The base game, as influential as it was for me, never really ignited any shipping sparks ig. I actually could not care less for the shipping before the side stories, bc most of it felt kind of trope-y ironically enough. Like, Natsuri was the big one, which was only popular bc of the whole opposite’s attract thing (not that there’s anything wrong with that ofc, it just never really resonated with me). Sayonika was a victim of what i like to call the “leftovers syndrome” where two characters are shipped bc they are the only ones left to be shipped with.
And Mc.. well let’s talk about that actually. Mc x Yuri is well… how do i put this. They have absolutely nothing in common. I don’t necessarily hate this ship however, if i see it done right i can like it. Mc x Natsuki was alright, the banter was fun, they actually have things they can talk about, it’s overall a nice ship. I will say i prefer them as close friends, but if i was to see media (fan art, fics, mods etc) where it’s done right, i can appreciate it. Mc x Sayori is also a ship i can enjoy from time to time, probably the most out of any Mc ship. Again, i do prefer talking about their friendship more though but now that i’m writing this down i realise i’m just a slut for male/female friendships. Mc x Monika truly depends on what context the characters are given. Are we talking about non-sentient Monika x Mc? Bc that can be pretty fun. If we are talking about sentient Monika x Mc, i see a very interesting dynamic (not a particularly good one) where Monika is basically using Mc as a vessel for the player in her desperation. Can Mc feel this dynamic? Does he understand in some way that he’s the second choice, even if he doesn’t know the truth about their world? How does it affect him? Its fun to ponder about this ig, but it doesn’t really make for a healthy relationship
Then the side stories came out, where the characters evolved from their one-dimensional tropes into actual personalities with enticing dynamics between them and i was immediately sold. That being said, i still don’t really have an OTP per say, bc as stated before all of them could work out. Which is definitely bc of how we get to see each of them interact individually in each side story. In every side story, we see each character interact with the other and learn how to grow as individuals because of it. I could see each pairing happening individually, i could see them being a poly couple, maybe even a qpr, or just a very close friend group too! There is a lot of love between the characters, whether that is romantic, platonic or something in between im not 100% certain on, but the love is definitely there.
Anyway, you also asked what my favourite ship would be, and i’ll probably say Sayonika since most of the media I consume tends to be with them
WOW this was a long post. Hope i didn’t bore you too much. Thank you for the ask!!
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xiaovein · 2 months ago
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🌻 for you!
ouhhh hiii! been very into link click recently . prepare for a long ramble under the cut
I LOVE LOVE LINK CLICK 😭😭😓😓😭😻🩷😻😭😻 it’s like my new spinterest i think i dk i think about it every minute of my life “ok but what’s link click about” doomed yaoi time travel bro . in all seriousness ill go through what it’s abt in a minute
sometimes it feels like a attractive male factory but that’s ok i forgive them 🩷 blargh look at them
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my favourite is the blonde one btw her name is xia fei i think she’s transfem btw hence the she/her pronouns. she’s just a conventionally attractive broke college students doing modelling as a part time job i love her i will save her from her possibly cannibalistic boss (red hair) and annoying client who apparently has a god complex (purple hair)
aaanyways listen up. the white hair guy is lu guang the black hair guy is cheng xiaoshi the girl with the bob hair cut is qiao ling 👅👅👅 i like them a lot they are the main characters of link click Lalala. though it’s more of cheng xiaoshi and lu guang. btw cheng xiaoshi and lu guang are heavily heavily HEAVILY queercoded and cheng xiaoshi is literally canonically bisexual. the studio that animated them retweeted fanart of them kissing if it’s any indication. also they work in a photo studio and qiao ling is the landlady
ok so BASICALLY to like really strip it to its barebones link click is about cheng xiaoshi and lu guang going back in time with their powers. it’s essentially cheng xiaoshi can enter photographs and lu guang can see what happens in the photograph, so their powers are complimentary and they work together to go back in time and do what they’re paid to do by clients WITHOUT changing anything in the past that could affect the future.
back to characters . 2nd row - red hair guy is Vein like the blood vessel. i think she’s transfem too my bad. she does have a chinese name but it’s Spoilers sorta so i shan’t spoil. purple guy is liu xiao. he’s 😭😓😓😓 he 😭😓 yeah. 👍🏼 yeah he’s . ok and XIA FEI 😻😻 LALALALA . anyways i put them all in a row because they’re the antagonists of yingdu (aka bridon arc) which is the prequel! awesome right. have i mentioned xia fei is a pawn yet. she doesn’t mean any harm 😓😓😓😓 so well i wouldn’t SAY she’s an antagonist exactly? but she’s supposed to be on their side
third row - siblings, li tianxi and li tianchen, prominent characters in season 2. there is some grown as man guiding them to make some not so great choices but he’s ugly asf and not worth my 10 pic limit on phone so idgaf abt him. they’re lowkey doomed siblings to me in a way
also here’s my yuri i like them i miss them no one likes them the way i do
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ya well technically xia fei and vein are a more popular ship but i think it sucks? it feels forced and most of the time it’s portrayed as bottom xia fei top vein + xia fei is extremely needy and reliant on vein for protection while also being innocent and naive . idk . they make xia fei way too submissive sometimes like that is a 21 year old
xiaovein is fun though because it’s freak4freak … and i can actually see it happening even though they have like 3 interactions in canon
hmm there was more i wanted to say but i forgot… some people also call link click shiguang dailiren or sgldr or even time agents, which is the literal translation of sgldr . i use link click personally because it’s most common and what im used to
also you’d think that since link click is a chinese anime (donghua?) i’d be great at my chinese from watching it over and over again. no actually . unfortunate
anyways a fun thing to point out is the ship name for lu guang and cheng xiaoshi is shiguang which is literally in the shows title . like alright we know what you are
alright i think im done for this topic because i don’t want to spoil too much and also i don’t understand 100% of it so i wont embarrass myself …. Ya. go watch link click on youtube.
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goatboard · 9 months ago
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I’ve. Known about precure for awhile and would like to check it out. what would u rec for a beginner of the series :o
i still have 6 seasons left to watch so my reccomendation might be lacking but! i do love precure so
reccomending precure is kind of difficult actually because every season has a different concept and a different director so it really depends on what you want to get out of watching it
i think futari wa is a pretty good start if you want to see what most of the noise is about, it's the first season and is usually the one that i saw referenced in other media before i got into the series. you can also see why this series has so much yuri fans,,, there's little of an overatching plot, (there is more of it in Max Heart but still not a lot), most of it is about the relationship between the two MCs which is written so well,,,
Heartcatch is also popular because it's most unique in terms of style and world building (well,, except for happinesscharge but that's because it's the same director), i'd say it has the best developed world and magical powers for the girls, personally i like singular episodes more than the season as a whole. the overall theme is about growing and changing as a person and they do it justice
but but but if you don't care about being chronological or watching heartcatch then Mahoutsukai would be my go-to, it also has a pretty great world building and magical power system, i love the concept for it (there being a magic world and a non-magic world), the writing is pretty seamless, it feels like most episodes have something to say, the characters are so enjoyable (at least to me) and there's just something so comforting about its positivity... it's silly and honestly just a fun time
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taxkha · 11 months ago
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I absolutely ADORE your art you are so talented!!! The way you draw people / characters has really incredible emotion and like a sense of character omg I really enjoy your work. can I ask a q about reccomendations, you can do one or the other or both or absolutely neither LOL up to you and just for fun!!! Do you have any favorite sports animes and/or klapollo fics??? I was CRAZY into klapollo a while ago and I miss them sm! Also was looking at ur posts and saw your bday was on May 15, mine is May 18 .so happy belated bday and let's celebrate being Taurus (sorry not to have stalkerish vibe LMAO) have an awesome day!!!
ahh thank you so much!! <3 this makes me so happy to hear! Regarding sports anime, I mostly watched the most popular sports anime but nothing too niche. I used to be a HUGE Haikyuu fan and drew a shit ton of fanart for it. If you havent watched/read it yet I recommend this one. I also like Kuroko no basuke a lot but its been so long since I watched it. I have a soft spot for Free! still and while I didnt enjoy yuri on ice when it came out I recently rewatched it to see if I would like it more now and I do! I watched Yowamushi Pedal up to a certain point and I liked it but I dropped it for some reason and I cant remember why. Knowing me, probably because I'm bad at watching shows :"D And for Klapollo fics: I actually made a big list a while ago here ! I have since then read a few more fics, a recent fave of mine is this one ! I have a lot of Klapollo fics in my bookmarks on Ao3, my username is Taxkha so if you feel like it you can browse through my bookmarks, I think. The recent 10+?? pages are all Klapollo fics lol
And hell yes, happy late bday to you too fellow Taurus! Also no worries, its not stalker behavior to scroll through my very public blog 8"D <3 Thank you for taking the time to send this ask and have an awesome day too!
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mahou-furbies · 1 year ago
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Closing thoughts on Gushing Over Magical Girls
Spoilers, and I think I'll just put the whole thing under cut.
…alright it's time. So the show is about a mousy girl who is a huge magical girl fan but is forced to join the evil team instead, and then discovers she has a sadistic side to her and actually enjoys tormenting them. Usually I try to be more vague with stuff of this nature because this isn't that kind of blog, but here I don't think it can be helped. So if there's any children in there do avert your eyes or something, because this is as close to bdsm porn that can be shown on tv as possible.
I've been on the internet long enough that my deviantArt account can almost vote so none of this was new to me, but it was still quite a shock because I have already seen some horny mg titles and expected a similar level of fanservice, but this is in its own category entirely. Like it's not just that it's hentai, but having to sit through someone else's fetish hentai was the real challenge. Also while there was something entertaining about how the protagonist is a door mat for most of the time but sometimes switches into a dominatrix personality, a lot of the time she was just straight up rapey. Then again did anyone actually expect that a story with a premise like this was going to have all the characters carefully ensure everyone's consent and only engage in age appropriate activities? I was taken by surprise by the intensity but it was pretty clear that this was going to be a very pervy low brow show.
If you somehow make it past all the hentai, there is something of value in the character dynamics. Like once the characters take out the current leader of the evil team, they instigate the main character as the new leader, and that's kind of fun, and they do have some decent friend group banter with each other (or ""friend"", like the gun girl is very clear that she wants to bang the main character). Also they have alright relationships with the magical girl faction too, and I really hope we'll get more mg shows from the perspective of the villain team that aren't quite like, you know, this. Also the character relationships not being completely awful is not a recommendation of the show by any means, if you have any reservations at all about the sex aspect it's absolutely not worth it.
Final verdict is that I could find exactly one sex joke that was kind of funny.
So I don't know, If you're into bdsm and want to see yuri that's not just chastely holding hands then maybe this is your show, but in general I'd recommend anyone else to steer clear. I hear this was popular with its target audience so a season 2 will probably happen, but I'm pretty sure I won't be checking that one out.
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yuri-game-tournament · 2 months ago
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Yuri VN/Game Tourney: Round Three
Oshirabu: Waifus Over Husbandos vs Malcatras' Maiden
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Info and propaganda under the cut! Not guaranteed to be spoiler-free
Oshirabu: Waifus Over Husbandos:
Description/Propaganda:
Akuru, an otaku in her late 20s, lives a life devoted to her husbando from her favourite gacha game, spending most of her money on merch or for pulling items related to him in the game. She's never had any desire to date real men before, let alone girls! So when Ren, a popular and fashionable younger lesbian falls head over heels for Akuru, Akuru is bewildered by it, sure that she will never be able to feel the same way for another girl. But Ren knows what she wants and is determined to someday marry Akuru, no matter what! As time passes, Akuru finds herself learning more about Ren and about her own feelings.
This VN and its sequel are two of my favourite visual novels, and the first ones I think of when I think of yuri VNs. It's sweet, spicy and funny, and the art and voice acting are both beautiful. I really enjoyed seeing two very different kinds of sapphic women. Ren is a confident lesbian and has known this for years, which leads to a strained relationship with her family. Akuru on the other hand, has had no real attraction to anyone other than fictional men, and discovers her attraction slowly. It's so explicitly gay, and the second game focuses on their marriage, with all the drama that comes with wedding planning and more, as well as a fun side couple between Akuru's fujoshi friend and Ren's wedding planner friend. NSFW scenes are optional (as DLC) and you don't miss much story without them, but they are excellent too. I love this game so much and I hope others will give it a try as well!
Additional Info/Content Warnings:
There's some realistic homophobia. Ren has a strained relationship with her mother, and moves in with Akuru because she is currently not living at home. The age gap between Ren and Akuru might be upsetting as well, since Akuru is a career woman, while Ren is implied to still be finishing high school.
Malcatras' Maiden
Description/Propaganda: uhh super power battle maid.. the girls are so stupid becuase they are too gay.. puppy girl barfs in her childhood flashabck becauyse she needs mommy so bad.. yea gothic horror! or psychosexual thriller...? yes, this is malmaid
Additional Info/Content Warnings: Malcatras' Maiden is a game for adult audiences only. This work contains intense themes of toxic relationships, manipulation, child abuse, regular abuse, dubiously consensual sexual acts, incestuous themes and explicit bloody acts of heavy violence, including death and murder.
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truefrostedagony · 1 year ago
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Tell me more about Chia
okay so Chia
Personality wise she's kinda completely flat (less of a flat character she absolutely chqnges a lot) and lacks a lot of what we like to call happiness (lmao), she's generally snarky and seem to be unfond of people, he's not really trusting of people (but honestly based on his plot its proabably not to blame) and usually likes to hide in corners because people are scary, and Chia does not like people.
She was originally a lot happier, albeit in the past she basically spent half of her time rotting in her bed, texting her best friend and watching Lps Popular because that's what you do when you're a girlboy who hides in your room most of them,but still he had a lot of energy, personality wise, also obsessed with bugs, he loves bug, knows every single one of them and will not shut up about them, until it disappoints you in which she will crawl to the corner with guilt. She's a little sensitive, okay maybe a lot sensitive she abandoned one of her few other friends because of her family origins (Hi @citrusfruitbat thanks for the doomed yuri). She has many issues this is one of them he has the world's worst Black and white thinking.
Other things include the fact that he is a bottle of emotions, none of those ever come out.
Theres a lot about her she's a thingy called a zodiac (important people) however she personally doesn't like it but it gives him ghost friends so that's fun, (Girlie you're underutilizing your sun zodiac), he does rollerskating and art and can also Bend like a straw, does it to scare the hell out of her brother, Ethan (Owned by @citrusfruitbat) before realising he takes it super poorly.
The scar is due to some unfun things, very unfun things.
She also drinks Black coffee like its nothing. It's silly.
I love him he's my guy, he also kills a man but he deserved it he was a Monarch <3
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married-2-the-music · 1 year ago
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K-pop Discography Deep Dives: Girls Generation / SNSD (Part ONE)
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Girls’ Generation debuted in 2007, with nine members: Taeyeon, Seohyun, Yoona, Yuri, Tiffany, Jessica (who left in 2014), Sunny, Sooyoung, and Hyoyeon, and soon became one of the most popular groups of the 2nd generation of k-pop with their catchy retro songs and down-to-earth image. Also, I’ll be using the names Girls Generation and SNSD (Sonoshidae, their Korean name) interchangeably through this.
Here are my credentials: So, I’m absolutely a fan of Girls’ Generation, although I’m in that weird space where I’m more than a casual one yet not quite a SONE (a full fan), but just like with Sunmi, I have a feeling that this deep dive will make me one. I’ve heard almost all of their title tracks, and a decent amount of b-sides, but since they have over 100 songs, I’m sure I’ll find some new ones to love too. I’m also a fan of both Taeyeon and Tiffany’s solo careers.
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Their 2007 debut was Into The New World, and I honestly do not know what to say about this song. It was the reason I wanted to do this review in the first place, because in my opinion, it’s the best k-pop song of all time, and I’m not even a SONE. It’s upbeat and ultra-poppy, cheesy as hell, wonderfully hopeful, and has an instantly recognizable, soaring chorus that I can sing from memory (although not as well). I’ve probably seen this MV dozens of times, but I still chuckle at the dance break and can’t stop smiling at the take-off in the last bridge and how young they are, just barely older than I was when I became a k-pop fan. In the years after Into The New World was released, it’s become an important protest song in Korea, and to many now—myself included—it’s more than just what it was meant to be.
Full warning: there is no way that I could view any song fairly after this strong a debut, but I do really like the song Girls Generation, and actually didn’t know that this was a cover until this deep dive, since I can only associate it with them. It’s very bubblegum from its first moment, heavier on the aegyo than its counterpart, but the song’s slower pre-chorus, SNSD’s great voices, and that smash of a chorus manage to prevent the cutesiness from being overwhelming.
From the 1st album, simply entitled Girls Generation, I enjoyed the springy, vintage (somewhat Christmasy?) vibes of Ooh La La, the lovely harmonizing in Complete and Tinkerbell, the elegant classical flourishes in the background of Kissing You, and the guitar and excellent vocals in Honey. Overall this album feels incredibly 2nd gen, and gave me waves of nostalgia.
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Gee is probably one of Girls’ Generation’s most well-known songs, and it’s easy to see why. With simple but fun choreography, and a chorus that constantly walks the tightrope of being incessantly catchy and just a little grating, it’s a total earworm. It takes a lot to make me enjoy such a cutesy song, but I think it was the combination of nostalgia and humor or maybe just how much I wanted to dance, and enjoy this one I did. As an aside, I’d forgotten that Minho from SHINee makes a cameo in this video, so that was a nice surprise.
From the EP, Gee, I had two main hidden gems. Way To Go is very much the kind of inspiring, upbeat bubblegum that I love, and also feels very nostalgic. Dear Mom, as I expected, is more of a ballad, and reminds me a little of Chung Ha’s Goodnight My Princess, with a sweet, heartfelt message to the girls’ mothers that made me text mine and ask how she’s doing. (Love you, Mom!)
Genie (or in Korean, “Tell Me Your Wish”) is a song that I thought was released later into their careers, with the slightly more mature image it uses. While still very bubblegum, it’s more polished, with a 70’s / 80’s synth background that began SNSD’s long run of retro-inspired singles. This isn’t one of my favorites of theirs, probably because in the years since it’s come out so, so, so many more k-pop songs have used the same style and thus it doesn’t sound as unique as some of their other tracks. I do still like it though.
From the EP, Genie, I had a good time dancing to the electronic beats of Etude, and the hrd-hitting synths of Boyfriend. One Year Later is a collaboration between Jessica and Onew from SHINee, so I was drawn to it right away; it chooses an understated coffee-shop feel that eventually blossoms into a strong ballad that really suits the warmth of their voices, and serves as a great album closer.
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Oh! goes back on the somewhat more mature image that Genie established, going for a cheerleader concept, but sticks with the retro pop, this time pulling from a much more 80’s video game synth. It’s very much emblematic of the era it’s from with the nearly cloying aegyo, but unlike with Gee, most of that is in the MV and less so in the song. I like this one too, more than Gee, but I don’t find myself repeating it that much; I think it needs more of a bridge.
Run Devil Run is the second single from this album, and was highly unusual for the time since “cutesy” girl groups did not do this kind of hard-hitting synth. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still very much a pop song, but today it would be considered “girl crush”, like TWICE’s later-career pivot with Fancy and I Can’t Stop Me. I was worried the first time I heard this one that it would have an anti-drop, but thankfully the vocalizing in the second half of the chorus assuaged my worries. I actually showed this song to a friend of mine who enjoyed it so much that she bought it! And now “you better run, run, run, run” is stuck in my head for the foreseeable future, which I suppose is my own fault, isn’t it?
From the repackage album, Run Devil Run, I had a lot to choose from as a hidden gem. I enjoyed the choppy hook of Echo, the runway-ready confidence in Show! Show! Show!, the full-speed-ahead chiptune in Stick Wit’ U, and of course Key from SHINee’s feature in the youthful Boys & Girls.
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Hoot is next up, and besides Into The New World, is my favorite so far. For some reason, it’s not talked about much as one of SNSD’s best singles, which always boggles my mind, because it’s just so delightful. I mean, it’s a spoof of classic spy movies with a percussive 60’s retro beat and such good clothes! That vocalizing under the last chorus gets me singing along every time. I even had a poster of it on my wall in high school, and it was the first k-pop choreography that I learned (albeit, very badly; I looked like a dying chicken). My only gripe is that I have no idea why this song is called Hoot and not Shoot or Trouble, which both would’ve been better names, but I digress. From the EP, my hidden gem was the jazzy, ballroom dance inspired Snowy Wish.
The Boys, admittedly, is one of those songs that I appreciate more than I actually like. I respect that it’s a classic and an important moment for k-pop, but as one reviewer said, “it feels more like a spectacle than a song, but what a spectacle it is.” Though it’s very catchy and I do hum along whenever it comes up on my shuffle, I’ve just never been a fan of anti-drop choruses, and even when they’re done well (like here or in many BTS songs), I always find myself thinking how much more I would like the song if it was changed. It feels more like a 2NE1 song than an SNSD one, though they sell it pretty well and their vocals make it at least twice as enjoyable.
From the album, The Boys, I enjoyed the dancefloor beats of Telepathy, the interesting distortion and slowdowns in Trick, the roller disco of Vitamin, the classical flourishes in My J, and especially the jazzy super-spy influence in Top Secret, which was my hidden gem and feels like a natural successor to Hoot. I also enjoyed Mr. Taxi’s Korean version, but we’ll discuss that later.
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I Got A Boy, like The Boys, is a song that I appreciate more than actually enjoy. Also like The Boys, it’s a song that popularized what’s now not uncommon in k-pop: the trend of songs that are a hodge-podge of genres and tempos, and admittedly, pulls it off. I’m not the biggest fan of the hip-hop segments, but the 1st chorus, the bridge, and the hook of “here comes trouble” are pretty great. I find myself caught off guard by the breakdown and switch up every time, even though I know it’s coming, which I know is the point, but it gives me a bit of whiplash, truth be told. This is more a me thing than an issue with the song, though, because it achieves exactly what it sets out to do.
From the album, though I liked both the choppiness of Talk Talk’s chorus and the guitar breakdown in Express 999, my hidden gem was absolutely the super catchy Dancing Queen. Though it’s named after the ABBA song, its very specific instrumental really reminds me of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour.
Mr. Mr. is one of those songs that arrives, like many of SNSD’s best tracks, with a “let’s go!” and wastes no time going into its excellent chorus. It pulls from bonafide disco, and feels like the best combination between a ballroom dance in its slower moments and a club hit in its faster ones. Its bridge and last chorus’ high note is, and I don’t say this lightly, perfection, and I can never resist replaying it at least once (or mouthing along). From the EP, my hidden gem was the pathos-driven Goodbye, though I’m sure it connected more with me since this was Jessica’s last release with SNSD, and I’m sad to hear her and her great vocals go. It’s hard to make a ballad engaging, but this is a catchy, somewhat bittersweet one, which is a personal weakness of mine.
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We’re ending with Mr. Mr. for this week because as mentioned, Jessica didn’t renew her contract after the seven years were up, and thus this makes for a natural stopping point. Next time, we’ll be doing a boy group supplemental and part two of this Girls Generation deep dive. Tschüss!
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bluejayblueskies · 2 years ago
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9, 15, and 18 for the fic writer’s ask game :3
fanfic writer ask game!
9 - What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written?
Oughh I'm so bad at remembering these things >.< I'm sure I have quite a few in my older fics, but I can't recall them, so here's a few from my more recent stuff!
from my upcoming big bang fic (cw: suicide):
John lets Arthur slit his own throat, and he says, “I’m so sorry, Arthur. I love you. I’m sorry.” It’s the first time John tells Arthur he loves him. Arthur is never going to remember it.
from whiskey, the entire sex scene in chapter eight! i think it's one of the best sex scenes i've written, and i'm still quite fond of how it affects everything that comes after it.
from cicatrix (i don't care that this fic isn't very popular because i love it and it's still one of my favorite malevolent AU concepts that i've explored):
Arthur's daemon had been a seahorse named Nimh, held in a sturdy glass container that Arthur kept secured to his chest. The water had soaked through Arthur’s shirt as the container shattered and the shape within it distorted and stretched, and he’d blacked out before he could finish witnessing the corruption of his soul. Now, his daemon is a black dog with bright yellow eyes and sharp teeth who goes by the name John. Arthur’s not sure what it means for him, that the physical manifestation of his soul has not only changed its shape but the entire fabric of its being. It’s not like there’s any precedent for it. What does one do when one’s soul has been replaced with that of an eldritch god beyond our comprehension? One simply … carries on, Arthur supposes.
15 - Are there words, phrases, mannerisms or scenes you tend to use a lot?
Answered here!
18 - Recommend someone else fic! (And tag them if they have a tumblr!)
i have two!
The Next Level | azriona | Yuri on Ice, Explicit, 370k words
The skating season continues (as skating seasons are wont to do), while Victor and Yuuri negotiate the shifts in their relationship, their careers, and their home rink. Sometimes, things even go as planned.
If you're even vaguely familiar with Yuri on Ice, go read this fic! It's season two in my heart, and I think it's truly my favorite Yuri on Ice fic.
Remora | zuzeca (@lyresnake) | Malevolent, Mature, 11k words
While traveling the Dreaming Oceans, Arthur acquires a strange passenger.
This is a delightful Malevolent AU with sea creature John and Arthur and some very fun worldbuilding! The prose is beautiful as well--I highly recommend it!
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