#but my dearest friend is a guy

[toonaviv]

jumpscare grip

[ladyloveandjustice]

Yuri Manga for New (AND Not-So-New) Readers

I was talking on discord about some good yuri for beginners, and figured I'd repost here.

I get way more detailed some of these recommendations in this post, and there's great recs from another person too! Check it out!

I'm doing this accounting to various tones and tastes, so what works as a beginner yuri for one person might not for another, just read the info to figure out what your jam is.

I'll put a star by the ones about adults (which is the majority of them) since I've found that's always something people want.

Goodbye my Rose Garden (Victorian yuri w/ beautiful art, just beautiful all around)*

How Do We Relationship? (messy adult relationships and lots of actually realistic intimacy)*

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat- (A woman loves to cook but doesn’t have a huge appetite, only to find the woman next door to her does! She cooks for her and they really start to bond over food and the trials of being working adults. Yes, this is the one where the woman googles lesbian. It's really good)*

Bloom into You- a common go-to yuri for beginners for a reason, about a girl who believes she can't fall in love meeting a girl who wants to date her specifically BECAUSE she can't fall in love. Find out more about it and hear my thoughts here. It has a gorgeous anime that doesn't cover the complete story.

Doughnuts Under the Crescent Moon (sweet office lady romance, ace rep) *

Catch These Hands! (These two women were delinquents and rivals in high school, they meet up again, one reveals she was always into the other, she challenges her to a fight on the condition that if the other woman loses she'll date her. Lots of slapsticky fun and great for any lover of girl delinquents)*

Run away with me, Girl (there's some abuse shown in this one, but it's a story about healing, the premise is these girls dated in high school, but one of the pressured herself "normal" and marry a man, that man turns out to be abusive, so when the former lovers reunite, they decide to run away together. It's got beautiful art and a well done story)*

The Moon on a Rainy Night (absolutely spectacular, explores the relationship between a hard of hearing girl and her closeted classmate, the characters are complex and the writing is so good!)

Kase-san And...- Starting with Kase-san and the Morning Glories, this is a very fluffy and sweet high school romance. It also has a short movie. (as the manga goes on they become college students, too)

The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (slice of life about a voice actress and anime screenwriter who live together as a couple. Unfortunately the ending is a bit abrupt (and likely premature) but I love their relationship)*

My fave Otherside Picnic is great for scifi and (mild) horror lovers. It's Scifi creepypasta adventure yuri. It's a slow burn but does truly spectacularly deliver on the gay. Has an anime, it's not great, you should start with the novels. Wrote an article here. https://www.animefeminist.com/how-otherside-picnic-masterfully-uses-horror-to-explore-abuse-and-show-healing-queer-love/ *(v young adults, college students)

The Guy She was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All: (A web manga about a girl who works at a record shop. Her classmate , Aya, wanders in but doesn't recognize her because she has her hair hidden with a hat and is wearing a face mask, and Aya assumes she's a guy. They bond over music and slowly start to get closer...and Aya's finds her heart is fluttering not only over this mysterious boy, but her female classmate that seems a lot like him...) It's going to get a physical release soon.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me: (A depressed girl who's been searching for death gets approached by a mermaid who wants to eat her...but the thing is, our monster mermaid is a gourmet who wants her to be as delicious as possible, which means she's going to make her happy first (as apparently that enhances her flavor), and fight off all the other monsters who want to kill her. This is TOP TIER yuri horror and a must read for any lover of monster girls, especially monster girls drenched in the blood of their enemies, it's so good)

I Married my Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up (girl and her friend get married simply so her parents will stop bugging her about being single. You can probably guess where it goes from there) *

I Married my Female Friend (similar premise, except no parents involved, it's a platonic marriage they both agreed to with the promise they'll divorce if one of them falls in love. But one woman has decidedly not platonic feeling for the other that she's hiding from her, so It will likely turn romantic, it hasn't all come out here yet so I haven't finished it)*

Whisper Me a Love Song: (A girl named Himari sees her upperclassman, Yori, perform with her band and falls in love with her music. She confesses her love of Yori's music, and Yori mistakes it as Himari confessing to being in love with her. Yori falls head over heels at first sight. (if you don't like miscommunication, dw this is cleared up fairly quickly and new drama ensues) Has an anime covering early material)

Monthly in the Garden with my Landlord* (it didn't really hit with me but I might give it a shot again, it's solid despite the terrible title, a woman moves into a house and finds she'll be cohabitating with an idol) (Some more titles I haven't fully read that could appeal: Still Sick*, Cheerful Amnesia*)

Hana and Hina After School: (a cute three volume about a gyaru and shy girl working together at a shop after school and catching feelings)

After Hours: (A cool punk girl meets a girl who's been abandoned by her friend at the club, and she introduces her to the world of DJ'ing...and romance!)*

My Cute Little Kitten (two roommates adopt a cat...and maybe fall in love?)*

I think all of those work as solid intro- though it does depend on what flavor you're looking for!

This article also covers some of these recs and some manga I didn't mention due to not having completely read it. so check it out: The Beginners Guide to Yuri Manga.

Here's some titles to try when you're a little more familiar with yuri (or you can try them now! I'm not your boss!)

SHWD (action yuri that's taking forever to come out over here physically, featuring extremely muscular women fighting monsters. I think it was forced to end prematurely too)*

Kiss and White Lily for my Dearest Girl: (I'm only three volumes in, but it's really enjoyable. The main storyline is about two academic rivals, where one is determined to rank first in class, and the other is an effortless genius who becomes intrigued at the possibility of someone beating her. Honestly they have the kind of messy combative sexual tension I wish we'd see more often in yuri because it's so good. The story follows other couples too. However, big warning for some nonconsensual kisses in early volumes, and a storyline in volume 7 that has implied incest and an age gap, though the older sister doesn't go through with it onscreen).

Sweet Blue Flowers/Aoi Hana- (This one is a little bit dated, and boy is the ending weirdly paced, but a lot still holds up imo. A painful and sweet coming of age tale, it also has an anime that's good but ends too soon.

One teenage characters backstory involves incestuous (older cousin) the perpetrator of which pulls the "oh no did I turn you gay? thing" but it's definitely framed as a bad thing. )

The Summer You Were There: (For tragic and doomed yuri lovers. A deeply depressed girl starts her journey to healing thanks to a girl who courts her and enjoys her writing. Unfortunately, said girl is terminally ill. The manga is a heart wrenching meditation on grief, redemption, and how being sick doesn't mean you can't still be loved).

Yuri is My Job- a story about messy lesbians in a yuri-themed cafe, and how their real relationships differ from the personas they put on. Read more about it here. Big warning for sexual assault of a minor (by an adult villain) in volume 12. Has an anime covering early material.

[mx-legend-of-faye]

Time: Wild, why do you sometimes use “we” when you’re talking about only yourself?

Wild: “We” but it’s me, my anxiety, the thoughts that plague my every waking hour, be they joyful or detrimental thoughts, and the ghosts of my dead and dearest friends.

Time: ………

Wild:

Time: Wild… are you okay?

Wild: Mmmmnope probably not, but we’re fine, it’s fine.

Time: *immense fatherly concern*

[technikki]

kids these days love falling into mountain holes

[mordenandmerry]

Oh so Clerval and Frankenstien were FUCKING fucking

[changelingart]

Love is stored in listening to your friends for four hours straight. Love is stored in the joy of helping your friend. Love is stored in your friend allowing you to participate in the divine act of creation with them. Love is stored in texts sent back and forth, for four hours, over the distance of two states.

[ftm-radio]

Today's gender euphoria was kindly delivered to me by:

brushing my teeth in my underwear, freshly showered and waiting for my T gel to dry

[tonguetyd]

MY SON HAS ARRIVED

AND HE BROUGH A FRIEND TOO

THANK YOU @copper-sands I ADORE THEM

[alaydbug]

realizing that, as someone who is aro/ace, i dont feel overjoyed when seeing confirmed aro/ace characters in media because of the inherit loneliness one may feel from this identity and not wanting characters I adore to have to feel such a way. love representation, very hard to face them when its a deep part of your own insecurity and it scares you.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Please I need to know 17 and 18 for the character asks for Hornblower. How would he do in a horror movie and would you trust him as your bff??? Inquiring minds etc

Ooh, excellent questions, thank you!

17. …how well they’d do if they got dropped in a horror movie.

Hornblower always has a clever plan to reverse the tables on the monster/serial-killer/whatever, and he's too fucking stubborn to lay down and die. He'll make it through, the last man standing, his antagonist a smoking and very dead mass of blood and guts at his feet.

But at what cost? His honor, his self-respect, his friends, his proteges, his career, everything he holds dear… He'll survive, he'll even win, but he'll be a broken, haunted man. A walking shell of the man he was before. A chilling warning to anyone who chooses to walk this way again...

18. …whether or not I would personally trust them to be my friend.

Right up until the moment he had to choose between me and his rigid personal code, yes. But the day will come that he'll have to sacrifice our friendship on the altar of some higher ideal, at which point I'll receive an agonized text message from him, and then never see him again.

~

Prompt me!

[jrueships]

fanling I’m ngl I thought you were like 19 and you’re here to tell me you’re doing SURGERY

fanling wishes fanling can talk more abt this, but fanling would actually get killed,,, i can tell u that my age is older than that number but not by much.. but that's a good guestimate!!!!

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

I think that's going to be the end of the watch through until this time next week. I want to spend tomorrow and Sunday getting the PrapaiSky chapter of my fic finished and posted if possible, then I head out of town to see Seventeen in Chicago TWICE!

[yume-fanfare]

(guy whos always at least two years late to everything) so ive been getting into mcyt

[mothhue]

O and!! After that last post I think I have to clarify, although I love seeing people's stuff and sending them to me for me to see is always welcome, please do not send me things specifically targeting at me to draw it/make fanart.

I'm not open for art requests, because I would prefer to focus more on my own projects and stuff I wanna draw! Any fanart and stuff I make will be of my own accord. I already tend to have more ideas than I can keep up with, so taking requests would just overwhelm me <:)

But I do understand where people are coming from, and I don't like rejecting any pretty designs people send me my way. I really do appreciate them and I'm honored people like my art enough to send requests!

If you want me to just show me stuff, that's fine and dandy. But it would be preferable if you sent it to my non-art account @eggymoth instead. Apologies if I sound a bit bitter here! I'm really not upset or anything; again saying I love getting asks or getting shown stuff, just wanting to clarify that I would like to focus my motivation towards simply having fun with what I wanna draw!

So any requests I get after posting this I'll have to turn down. And uhhh thank you for reading if you got this far! I hope you have a nice day :)

[meddykip]

[no-context-nonsense]

Late again because I binged Interview With The Vampire and now I'm dead inside