#and yuri written by women

[thebestusernamepossible]

Literally going insane, might have to write fanfic for the first time in 2 years because the people™️ do not get my favorite female characters like I do and I feel the insurmountable urge to write her. I’m going to bite drywall why don’t ppl see her complexities. PLEASE STOP WRITING HER ETHIER AS DOMICILE MOM OR BITCH (or just for shipping) she is so so cool please guys please.

Also while I’m here, fandoms tendency to shove women in the ‘pure powerful goddess who can do no wrong’ box and then proceed to never give them an actual narrative role other than like ‘supportive’ or ‘took out a few background guys’. Like why DOES this incredibly badass and complex female character just get shunted into doinging some cool flips, getting praised about it (she’s the strongest fighter, so feminist wow) then never getting actnowleged as a 2 dimensional character.

I saw this a lot when I was in the Batman fandom, particularly with Cassandra Cain. She is a highly complex and interesting character, but in fandom she’s kind of shunted to ‘Badass therapy dog who takes care of the men’. Because even on the slight chance her backstory is brought up it’s always never delved into and mostly used to make her etheir more tragic and in need of support on a surface level or to let her be compassionate with the men characters who get their actual problems foucused on. It’s a unqiue kind of frustrating because it’s like almost letting the cool female character be cool, but it’s more like the idea of a badass women is shoved in your face, maybe joked about (or if we’re lucky she gets to beat up a few bad-guys), but ultimately treated like a cardboard cutout. Interestingly this actually isn’t entirely a female character thing, it’s also common with like old grandfather/grandmother characters and the elderly in general. But it’s usually badass women from what I see. :/ Why can’t fandom explore their stories (people do but why is it so much less), why can’t they be the prtags of cool AUs or time-travel fix-its, or crossover events

Idk I think I’m just frustrated, and I typed out more than I thought I would. Also Ive seen what happens to some other posts complaining about fandom misogyny, so please know if you’re a TERF, fuck off you have no place in this discussion. We will never agree, and frankly all of these points apply to canon Trans Women characters. Don’t say shit ill fucking end you.

[sleepyblr-heart]

ulipsofear beam GO !!!!!

[palukoo]

this is SUCH an insane thing to say in a random blog post/obituary especially as the author is ostensibly not a lesbian. like truly hello??? that said. well… points we’re made!! there WAS something vaguely dykey about her.

[stealthpotato]

Someone so obsessed with and worried about some man jerking off to lesbians they've lost sight of it all: Yuri is fetishistic porn made for men

Me, reading my yuri manga written by a woman containing wlw romance and erotica so fierce it's twisted my brain into forgetting men existed for the last 3 hours: what the fuck are yuo talking about

[germyjester]

yuri tomgreg you are everything to me…

[loveregrown]

All of the ensemble stars should be beautiful women I'm so mad

[yuri-is-online]

The nice part of liking history is that I can be genuinely helpful since a lot of people struggle with finding it interesting.

The downside is that sometimes you will see a take in a book and get so irrationally angry on behalf of a long dead aristocrat and start looking for more material about them specifically because holy shit why are you talking about another woman like this???

[spoopy-moose]

The town-on-gorkhon’s misogyny is counterbalanced by their love and support for yuri

[selamat-linting]

i should really hang out with more indo wrestling fans (they actually got other nia jax stans here)

[apotelesmaa]

Personally wrt characters from any form of media unless two men have an extremely odd and insane relationship that would only be more crazy/funny by making it romantic I don’t see the appeal of shipping them but two female characters could breathe in the same vicinity and I’ll be like ohhh this is so yuri. Also stop calling two random men yuri. The two male characters need to have the same unhealthy devotion and codependency a female friendship that changes their life forever (normally for the worse) if they even want to come close to being awarded an honorary yuri badge. & idk if that should even be permitted because some of y’all are just insulting wlw with what you call yuri.

[qqchurch]

knowing that the top 100 ao3 ships list maker started the entire thing in 2013 to show how underrepresented f/f and poc are makes it all the more bleaker 10 years in with only a tiny blip of difference...

and, like, the lesson here is basically ignore stats and just keep working on the yuri duty, but... man...

[gregkinz]

Tomgreg week 2023 day 6: genderbent/wlw tomgreg

Once, Tommy told Gwen that full-grown circus elephants used to be kept in place by a single rope on a small wooden stake. She said when they were babies they couldn’t pull the stake from the ground, and never realized they could uproot a whole tree, much less a pathetic stake when they grew up. These huge animals, big enough to fill an entire room and level the whole circus if they wanted to, still felt so small. And why shouldn’t they? They didn’t know any better.

“I don’t understand,” Gwen said, they were out at a restaurant, and it was seemingly unrelated to the story about her Mom that Gwen had just finished telling.

Tommy stared at Gwen, obviously upset, the beginnings of tears made her eyes glassy and tinged red, but she just shook her head.

“Forget it, Gwen,” she huffed and looked down at her plate. She sniffled. “Eat your food.”

Gwen isn’t sure how it happened.

[panvani]

Like while I strongly doubt that IZ was thinking in terms of LGBT Representation or Themes they are a brave yuri warrior and they read Umineko like there’s no fucking way they’re not thinking about gender

[aloeverified]

The reason yuri(wlw) ships are relatively less popular in anime that yaoi(mlm) is that more often than not the male characters form such nuanced, deep and meaningful relationships with each other but with female characters there's always more shallow comical rivalry than not. Compare Ino and Sakura's rivalry/friendship to that of Naruto and Sasuke in canon and you'll know what I mean. That being said, the scene in forest of death where Ino tells Sakura that she's blossomed into a beautiful flower is so beautiful😩😩

inosaku still solos narusasu any day of the week

[aparticularbandit]

so tsumugi goes to lesbian gay girl's academy, and that just feels so fitting

[autailome]

just downloaded a bunch of yuri vns on steam to fill the misericorde shaped hole in my heart