#erica friedman

[historyhermann]

A trend toward "nomance" in animation?: Increased depictions of female friendships

Left to right: Encouragement of Climb episode 12 ending; A Place Further than the Universe opening; Laid-Back Camp opening 1 Recently, UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers released their Teens & Screens Report, which stated that of the over 1,600 adolescents they polled, over 63% preferred stories focused on platonic relationships/friendships, as opposed to romantic ones, with movies…

[myhikari21things]

Read of By Your Side by Erica Friedman (2022) (224pgs)

[sarasade]

The local librarian when they see the same fujoshi mf (me) filling out acquisition proposals for BL non-fiction lit once again.

[littlestfallenangel]

The "Reception" section of every Wikipedia article.

[highflyartist]

-sips pepsi-

Yep, I did it

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DAY 22

THE MARIOKART WII AU

I actually had the balls to do this.

I was a fucking Wii-Wii U kid back in the 2000s - 2010s. I loved it so much and my favorite game that I played as a child was MarioKart Wii.

This game was so awesome that I had the balls to do a whole project of an AU of some of my favorite nutcracker ocs (along with some of their partners) AND PUT THEM IN A MARIOKART WII ROSTER!

I also did some sketches of 4 ocs on MarioKart Bikes and Karts.

It was worth it.

If anyone wants to see their oc in a MarioKart Wii bike or kart, please let me know. I will do it.

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Roster

LIGHTWEIGHT

Clari (@space-hoop )

Michael (@rosiegardenlove )

Marina [10-year-old] (@toonyfando / @toony-nutcase / @k-roseartt )

Marie [9-year-old] (Me)

Louis (@ivanandrainfall45 )

Leo (@ivanandrainfall45 )

Marie (@exittotheartscape )

Maxi (@exittotheartscape )

MIDDLEWEIGHT

Alessia (@themisfitnutcrackers )

Nutcracker (@princess-ichigo )

Cassandra (@artsynoova / @noovamulticolors )

Marie [Present Day] (Me)

Sara (@sariahgonzales-626 )

Hans (@kaleidraws )

Matt (@sariahgonzales-626 )

Clara (@kaleidraws )

HEAVYWEIGHT

Reuben (@toonyfando / @toony-nutcase / @k-roseartt )

Saragona (Me)

Erica (@kate66s )

Toymaker (@speedartist-skyliner )

Benjamin (@artsynoova / @noovamulticolors )

Marina (@toonyfando / @toony-nutcase / @k-roseartt )

Rudolph (@beautifulunknowntrash )

Gedeon (@kate66s )

This took a while to make so I hope you guys like it.

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EDIT: Mentioned Toony's new blog

[fdmlovesfashion]

CATCHING UP: HAMPTONS Happening 2023

Catching up: It’s mid summer ya’ll! and the Hamptons summer season is in full swing with outdoor events and fundraisers so far. One of our memorable social events this season was the The Annual Hamptons Happening 2023. 300+ guests came to support the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation’s 19th Annual Hamptons Happening. The fundraising event held at the Bridgehampton estate of hosts Kenneth…

[yurimother]

Disability Yuri Romance 'The Moon on a Rainy Night' Anime Adaptation Rumored

On Sunday, rumors about an anime adaptation of Kuzushiro's high school Yuri drama series The Moon on a Rainy Night (Amayo no Tsuki) emerged online. These rumors come only days after the domain for a potential website, amayonotsuki.jp, was first registered on October 24th.

Notable anime leaker Sugoi LITE also corroborated the rumors on X (formerly Twitter).

Kodansha USA, which has published the series in English since September 2023, describes the manga:

One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl’s name is Kanon and that she is not quite completely deaf, but very hard of hearing. Though Kanon needs to be close to people to read their lips, she tends to push people away with her icy demeanor. Through one kind gesture, Saki slowly begins breaking down the walls around Kanon, even as she feels something new blossoming within her.

The Moon on a Rainy Night has received positive reviews from critics and has been published in over 20 countries. Erica Friedman of Okazu described the first English volume as "a Yuri series that can and should be read by everyone." The series is celebrated for its characters, story, and disability representation. It was also nominated in the Next Manga Awards web category in 2022 and 2023.

The manga began serialization on Comic Days in June 2021, and upon release, it ranked first in the site's "original" category. Kodansha released the seventh collected volume in Japanese in June 2024, the same month that Kodansha USA released the fifth English volume.

Kevin Steinbach translates the manga into English, with lettering by Jamil Stewart.

You can check out The Moon on a Rainy Night manga in English digitally and in paperback today: https://amzn.to/3NGhCiP

YuriMother makes a small affiliate commission from sales to help fund future coverage.

[twig-tea]

9 People You'd Like To Get To Know Better

Tagged by @visualtaehyun and @thegalwhorants 💕

3 ships

Need to limit myself because there are too many good couples in media! The three I'm most enjoying in what I'm watching right now are:

Qian and Yuan from Unknown

Kazuhito and Natsukawa from Living with Him / Kare no Iru Seikatsu

Aylin and Luna from 23.5

First ship

I've answered this before but I was reading galwhorants' answers and suddenly the words "world shaking" popped into my head, and I remembered that the main site I used to read Ami/Makoto (sailors Mercury and Jupiter from Sailor Moon) fanfic was on worldshaking.net so I looked it up and that site has been rebuilt and some of the fanfic restored! So if you are curious about what babyqueer me was reading ~1997 it's still around and you can go see for yourself (shout-out to the author & curator Erica Friedman who was [and still is] a mentor and community-builder for so many of us; she was the one who organized Yuricon which is still an excellent resource if you want to get into or understand the history of yuri!).

Last song

I'm a quiet TXT fan and I've been enjoying their new mini album; the last song I listened to was Quarter Life (which has the unfortunate effect of making me feel old since I'm long past the quarter-life crisis age lolol but it makes me nostalgic for the pop punk heydays):

Currently reading

I finished book 1 and am chipping away at book 2 of MoDu (Silent Reading); it is such a satisfying read! I need more hours in the day so I can keep reading it.

Last movie

I just finished the short Burmese film Khar Taw Mi (another Trust Entertainment work centered around Thingyan, this time around the cultural performance aspects rather than the water party parts, so lots of traditional music and dance). If we're talking feature film, hmm, I think it was either Doi Boy (2023) or Past Lives (2023), I can't remember the order I watched them in; I watched them both in March (and both were very good).

Currently craving

Honestly, what I most want right now is spoons to do the things I've been dragging my feet on doing. Food-wise, I was giving a colleague tips on visiting Newfoundland and now I'm craving soft-serve creamsicle ice cream, which I've only ever had in St. John's.

No-pressure tags! And if you've already done this one tag me in the comments: @lurkingshan (since we fought over ships last time); @happypotato48; @sorry-bonebag; @my-rose-tinted-glasses; @telomeke; @waitmyturtles; @bengiyo (especially for the movie question); @thisonelikesaliens; @hyeoni-comb

[mollylongshlong]

no guys like this is insane… 😭😭😭

p21 intensive 2023 faculty list:

molly long

erica marr

nick young

tessandra chavez

jazelle tores

madi hicks

brian friedman

danny lawn

kirsten russell

lacey schwimmer

ricky maalouf

mandy korpinen and elizabeth petrin

tricia miranda

camila schwarz

saleemah e. knight

nika kljun

derrick schrader

billy bell

robbie blue

cheyenne murillo

bostyn brown

eugenia rodriguez

jordan pelliteri

cory barnette and troy herring

mj

renee baldwin

[historyisgaypodcast]

46. A Husband is Unnecessary: Yoshiya Nobuko & Japanese Girls' Culture

This episode has EVERYTHING: gay haircuts, yearning, rage against the patriarchy, they were *roommates*....let’s talk about the magical world of Yoshiya Nobuko, girls’ culture, and lesbian fiction in Taishō era Japan! Leigh is joined by guest host Erica Friedman, speaker, editor, researcher and an expert on all things Yuri. Yoshiya Nobuko was an extremely popular writer in 20th century Japan who lived with her beloved female partner for 50 years and her legacy continues today as “the Grandmother of Yuri.”. The tropes and storylines established in her writing can still be seen today in queer girls stories in and outside of Japan– get ready to learn all about modern Japan’s very own Sappho. After all, it’s all in the yearning. 

 Erica Friedman writes about Yuri anime, manga and related media on her blog Okazu, and can be found on Twitter as @okazuyuri, Bluesky as Okazu and @EricaFriedman@mastodon.social 

 Erica’s book By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is the first in-depth study of Yuri in English.

Outline

0:00 Introduction 7:29 Socio-Historical Context 24:00 Who Were They? Bio Time 41:36 - 43:42 Content Note: discussion of WWII  48:37 Why Do We Think They’re Gay?: Some More Socio-Historical Context 50:12 - 55:30 Content Note: discussion of pathologizing of homosexuality 55:30 - 58:00 Content Note: discussion of suicides in the news at the time 58:34 Word of The Week: “S Class” 1:06:56 Why Do We Think They’re Gay?: Yoshiya’s Life 1:17:47 Queer Themes in Yoshiya’s Fiction 1:21:30 -1:22:39 Content Note: brief reference to suicide 1:30:07 Pop Culture Tie-Ins 1:36:00 How Gay Were They? 1:37:15 Conclusion and Sign off

 Want to help us continue to make the show? Support us on Patreon and get awesome goodies, behind-the-scenes access, special minisodes, and more! We have a Discord server for everyone to hang out in, exclusive O.G. Lesbian Sappho t-shirts, Pop-Culture Tie-In movie watches, and some really fun extras coming your way! You can also get merch in our store! Shirts, hoodies, totes, mugs, magnets, and other neat things!

 If you’d like to help us transcribe the show for our d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing fans, please head on over to www.historyisgaypodcast.com/transcribe to join the team of volunteers!

 Find our full list of sources and bonus content at www.historyisgaypodcast.com. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Don't forget to rate and review so more folks can see the show!

  Newest episode of History is Gay for your queer ears to enjoy!

[historyhermann]

Yuri and Beyond: LGBTQ+ Representation in Animation in 2023

2023 began with a bang, with the premiere of the yuri anime The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady a.k.a. MagiRevo on January 5th, Velma on January 12th, The Legend of Vox Machina on January 20th, and Princess Power on January 30th. It went far beyond those which premiered last year, despite less yuri anime airing in 2023. [1] As a warning, there will…

[kennak]

「 なぜこれほど多くの音楽会場が Ticketmaster を使用するのでしょうか? 「 寿司職人になるための修行ってどんな感じ？ 」 「 武道家はどうやってコンクリートブロックを壊すの？」 10 年前にそのような質問に対する答えを探していたとしたら、専門家による徹底的な回答を見つけるための最良のリソースは、おそらくインターネットの中で最も興味深く、最も長く続いているコーナーの 1 つである Quora だったでしょう。 ほとんどの人は、知っているかどうかに関係なく、何らかの形で Quora に遭遇したことがあります。Google 検索結果 サンプルの作成 、有名な著者による デジタル出版物での特定の Q&A の再版などです 、あるいはSlate などの 。 の 1 人である Slate-via-Quora の寄稿者 著者兼研究者の Erica Friedman 氏は のおかげで、「新しいトラフィックが少しずつ集まり始めた」時期でした 、2011 年にこのサイトに参加しました。当時、 Yahoo Answers の信頼性とアクティビティの低下 。 これにより、Quora は正確性を重視し、知識中心のテキスト プラットフォームとして際立った存在になることができたと彼女は言いました。 をしていた時代において、ユニークなサービスでした。 これは、Facebook と Twitter がソーシャル インターネットを支配しつつあり、 YouTube が 独自の活動 フリードマンは、風変わりな Q&A 一枚岩に夢中になり、彼女や他の多くの人々が無料で回答を提供しました。 「2010年代半ばの数年間、私たちの多くが特定の使��に真剣に取り組んでいた時期がありました」と彼女は語った。 「それは、『Quora を、ここではバカになってはいけないというインターネット上の場所にしましょう』というものでした。 これらの政策を実行に移し、人々が悪意を持ってここに来て悪意を持って行動することを不可能にしましょう。」 最も好奇心旺盛なネチズンが集まる、ポジティブで肯定的な空間を維持することに専念するスマートで情熱的なコミュニティ、これ以上に理想的に聞こえるものはあるでしょうか? Quora が 2010 年代にこれほどの急成長を 遂げたのも不思議ではありません。 Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement しかし、今日の Quora はそれらのユートピア的な目的とはほとんど一致しません。 かつて愛されていたフォーラムは今、意味のない反復的な汚泥の終わりのない雪崩の本拠地となっており、 奇妙で で、 ナンセンス 、 真っ向から憎悪に満ちた のスラリで満たされています。 すべて大文字の非質問 AI によって生成されたエントリと、「OMG」のような ！ チャールズ王、ハリー王子とメーガン・マークルに対する王室の出入り禁止令で世界に衝撃を与えた。 悲しい？" を集めたこの「質問」への答えは、 （約700 万回の閲覧 red-carpett.com という奇妙でほとんど機能しない王室観戦 Web サイトにリンクしています。）かつては時事問題に関する質問を Google で検索し、思慮深い記事へのリンクを見つけることができましたが、 Quoraは結果の上部近くで答えている、たとえば なのかどうかを尋ねる大勢の人々 2024年の主の年に、 一貫して人種差別主義者であるドナルド・トランプが実際に人種差別主義者 に出会う可能性が高くなった。 ことがわかるかもしれません。 卵が溶ける可能性がある あるいは、もしかしたら、注目の Google スニペットで、検索クローラーに引っかかったナンセンスな Quora の回答のおかげで、 Advertisement これは本当に面白いです。 Quora SEO はすべての検索結果のトップに自らを表示し、現在そのページに chatGPT の回答を提供しているため、それが Google が提供する回答に伝播しています。 インターネットは死につつある pic.twitter.com/gcV9b36vEA — タイラー・グレイエル (@TylerGlaiel) 2023 年 9 月 25 日 Advertisement Quora の依然として強力な SEO ��より、この問題への注目はさらに高まっています。 のコメント投稿者は さまざ�� なフォーラム おり 、 Quora の品質の低下を嘆いて 、Atlantic 紙は最近、「 愚かな質問がないとしたら、Quora についてどう説明しますか?」と 」をスクロールしてください。 「 Insane People Quora 質問しました。 この明らかな品質の低下の例をさらに知りたい場合は、サブレディット Advertisement Advertisement Quora のユーティリティの縮小は完全に AI のせいではありません。長年のライターは、ChatGPT の時代よりずっと前から始まっていたモデレーションと機能の問題を挙げています。 しかし、この新しいナレッジブローカーの台頭により、その衰退は加速しており、独特の愛着を持ち、今やほころびつつあるコミュニティにとっては非常に残念なことだ。 今月初め、AI 加速主義のベンチャー キャピタル ハブである Andreessen Horowitz が Quora に待望の 7,500 万ドルの投資を 祝福しましたが、 だけでした。 それはオンサイトの生成テキスト チャットボット Poe の開発のため 2000 年代後半に Quora が他の (多くの) Q&A サイトに対して持っていた初期の利点は、 設計されている ソーシャル ネットワーキングを念頭に置いて ことでした。 共同創設者のアダム・ディアンジェロとチャーリー・チーバーはどちらも初期のFacebook社員だったが、ウェブサイトを構築するために2009年に辞めた。 当時TechCrunchに語った ところによると、「私たちは人々の頭から情報を取り出そうとしているので、インターネット上でアクセスするのが難しいソースではなく、それを非常に有用な形式に変換して価値のあるデータベースを作成します。」 彼らの計画は、専門分野の専門家を説得して知識を求める人々と洞察を共有し、そこから本物の情報の自由な交換を中心に活気のあるコミュニティを構築することでした。 「自分の経験を共有したいだけの人からの質の高い回答がたくさんありました」とフリードマン氏は言います。これは「コミュニティを構築することのなかった」Yahoo Answers とはまったく対照的な機能でした。 Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement 1 人である Ariel Williams も Quora の最初の 500,000 人のメンバーの 同意しました。 「Yahoo Answers がありましたが、その質はひどいものでした。人々が質問を書いても、誰かが嫌なことを言うだけでした」と彼女は私に言いました。 「Quora は品質に重点を置いていて、質の高い回答、質の高い質問を探していました。積極的なモデレーションがあり、サイト全体が人々、ユーザーを中心に設定されていました。」 Advertisement はかかりませんでした スタン ハンクス として最もよく知られている 先駆的なネットワーク エンジニア 時間 最初の IP 仮想プライベート ネットワークを構築した のような専門家が現れるまでに 。 2012 年後半、彼は私に、Quora にログオンすると、「関係者を知っている個人的な経験があり、裏話があり、それが私の気持ちを明るくし、ただ単に書く。" Advertisement ボランティアの専門家を満足させるために、Quora は特典を用意しました。 同社は、Quora の最も優れた熱心な回答者を対象としたトップ ライター プログラムを確立し、思慮深い議論を奨励するシステムを構築し、さらにはこれら幸せな Quora たちに本社で開催されるサミットに参加する機会を招待しました。 「トップ ライター プログラムは 2012 年から 2018 年まで続きました」とウィリアムズさんは語ります。ウィリアムズさん自身も、わずか数百人のクオラン会員のエリート チームのトップ ライターです。 「フリーマン・ダイソンと一緒に研究した物理学者がいました。 NASAで働いていた人もいました。 博士号を持った人もいたよ。」 Advertisement これらすべてのライターに対しては、強力な人的バックアップもありました。 「モデレーションチーム、レビューチーム、サポートチームがありました」とハンクス氏は語った。 「フルタイムの有給モデレーターはQuoraの従業員であり、パートタイムのモデレーターはライターエンゲージメントなどの他の仕事をしていました。」 BNBR (「優しく、敬意を持って」) の基本基準を強制する有給のコミュニティ マネージャー、カスタマー サービス サポート スタッフ、特定の Q&A をフォーブスやハフポストなどの Web サイトに相互公開する部門がありました。 Advertisement このソーシャル ネットワークは数億のページ ビューを記録し、 現金に満足した投資家から数百万ドル を調達し、Wikipedia、Reddit、Facebook とは異なるインターネットの一角を切り開きました。 これらのサイトほどの知名度や知名度はなかったかもしれませんが、それでも問題ありませんでした。Quora に触れている人は誰でも、それが何を意味するのかを知っていました。 Advertisement しかし、それでもなお、Quora を悩ませている問題はあり、それは悪化し続けました。 まず、匿名の元クオランが私に語ったところによると、このサイトは「質問の長さを短縮」し始めたという。 公言された理由は、 Google での Quora の知名度を 高めるためでしたが、その簡潔さには代償が伴いました。また、専門家が対応できるような複雑な質問をユーザーが行うことも困難になりました。これには、非常に特殊な ビジネス関連の質問 も 含まれます。ハンクスなら答えるだろう。 (例: 「スタートアップをゼロから立ち上げるには、共同創業者としてどのくらいの株式を取得すべきですか? 私は、希薄化の対象となり、一般的な CTO の給与で 10% を提供されています。会社はまだ発足していません。 「プロトタイプを持っていません。CTO の 10% は非常に低いです。何が公平ですか?」)

Quora が役に立たなくなった理由: AI はインターネット上で最高のサイトを目指して登場しました。

[class-shoujo]

“The Rows of Cherry Trees” / “Sakura Namiki” (1957) by Macoto Takahasji

Status: Finished, Volumes: 1, Chapters: 4

Synopsis: Light drama and misunderstanding ensues when Yukiko is accused of intentionally throwing a ping pong match with the goal of garnering the affections of an upperclassmate. 

Review: “The Rows of Cherry Trees'' is a sweet and delicate story of passion between female classmates that “balance[s] deliciously between Ukiyo-e prints and modern manga, with both narrated stills and panels with dialogue.” (Erica Friedman, okazu.yuricon.com). Though not quite the first manga, Shoujo, Class S work, or proto-Yuri, the book in many ways acts as a transitional piece and a significant influence on all the aforementioned mediums and genres, giving a unique window into how classic Japanese art helped develop more modern Japanese media styles of today. In the context of modern manga “The Rows of Cherry Trees” comes across as quite restrained, and perhaps even slow and uneventful. I am not meaning to communicate that “The Rows of Cherry Trees'' is a bad or uninteresting manga, but it is an artwork of its own accord meant to be consumed on its own terms, and when approached as such it does have the ability to be truly moving, if not just a delightful and fascinating look into manga history. This story predates Yuri as we are familiar with it today, but even for a lightly seasoned Yuri fan it is not hard to see how the intimate (likely) platonic relationships between girls in stories such as this helped develop and set the tone for more explicitly LGBT+ narratives for years to come. Personally I was very surprised by the power of one scene in particular in which Yukiko and Chikage see a ballet of a swan being hunted and killed, a ballet I couldn’t help but see as a metaphor for the inevitability of heteropatriarchal powers awaiting our adolescent characters once they should leave the supposed safety of emerging girl’s culture offered to them by schooling. Scenes such as this are not explicit in what they are communicating or why they were included beyond the apparent beauty of the artwork, but if you are familiar with the early Yuri works and the history surrounding them, you will have the chance to have emotional connections such as these.

I would not recommend this work to an early manga or Yuri initiate, and despite the beauty this will take a steeling of one’s nerves to continue paying attention, short as the manga is, but if you have any interest in the history of manga, Shoujo, Class S, or Yuri I would say this is a must read.

Additional Points: 

+ Point for playing a critical role in helping develop and codify girl’s culture in Japan and giving relationships between girls a place on the stage in both Japanese and world media.

+ Point for beautiful visual metaphors and creative storytelling.

+ Point for historical intrigue in regards to the formation of classic genres.

- Point for not going quite as far with the story as I would have preferred.

- Point for ultimately feeling inconsequential.

Rating: 6 / 10 (Fine)

[talesofpassingtime]

(I am always envying writers their relatives: Nabokov and Lowell and Tucci with their closets full of elegant aristocratic skeletons, Roth and Bellow and Friedman with their pop parents, sticky as Passover wine, greasy as matzoh-ball soup.)

— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

[raisinchallah]

the recent discourse re:yuri is so curious to me. my two cents is that some of it can be attributed to the very well researched book on yuri history by erica friedman that came out a couple years back which made the seemingly legit claim that the genre started with women authors. of course the whole picture is more fraught than the viral posts i see on this paint it. and the book itself has a long section on The Bad Parts of yuri. but the quotes i see people use and word of mouth fail to mention that part. i can kind of get the defensiveness bc yuri is so often dismissed as a genre JUST for the tillitation of men in a way that really erases the quite large subculture of lesbian/bi otaku and the women writers themselves. which tbf is often the case with a lot of these subcultures (sooo much "moe" was/is written by women but was imediately dismissed as a dude thing. this kind of radicalized me as a teen.). all of that being said there WAS an interesting shift these last few years on the stories being told and how they are told (maybe because of the critical/comercial success of kabi nagata's memoirs and of series like kase-san and yagakimi? the overall evolving discourse about lgbt people on the public sphere? the uptick in openly queer women writing independent webcomics? none of these? all of these and more? shrugs). i've been reading unhinged gay manga in dynastyscans for like, a decade by now. and it's become increasingly more common for them to feature adult women, people actually saying the word "lesbian", lesbian bars even. it still surprises me constantly. comic yuri hime actually split itself in two (the idea is that the core mag is for women and the other is for men. fostering this idea of yuri by women to women). even the kirara magazine started including a lot of yuribait in its publications. which is a different beast entirely but is amusing enough that it makes me go "okay who is this FOR? yuribros? just to snatch the stray lesbian reader?". sorry for the long message i am just fascinated by all of this.

no worries at all this is actually extremely interesting thank you so much for all these extra details yeah i have been curious about like general demographic surveys or such of major yuri magazines yeah that makes sense from a lot of my research as well erica friedman seems to be the main source of a lot of information about yuri i have also wondered in general if some of the confusion around the genre also seems to come from a lot of western bookstores manga hosting sites and so on seemingly grouping memoir and short like joke comics about lesbians and so on under the yuri label i mean im sure part of that online is cuz dynasty scans has a really wide interest in what they seek out and translate which like i love that this stuff has a wider audience but its odd to call it yuri yeah ive noticed that as well in terms of shifts in whats actually focused on i read one yuri manga that was also about broader yuri fandom i guess like about a lonely lesbian who wrote yuri doujins and so on helping another manga artist find her love for drawing again and talking about like actual stuff about being gay and so on idk very interesting the places things are going like i think thats the other funny thing about the new narrative around yuri is like as you said its often kinda surprising still when characters actually say they are lesbians cuz a lot of works kinda held onto like oh ur my exception oh this will fade etc idk fascinating stuff thank u also for the details about the states of different magazines very interesting also if u wanna discuss this more in dms :3

[highflyartist]

W.I.P

The entire roster for the MKWII AU Project thing-

Here are the following characters that will be in the roster:

Alessia ( @themisfitnutcrackers )

Rudolph ( @beautifulunknowntrash )

Nutcracker ( @princess-ichigo )

Reuben, Marina & 10-year old Marina ( @toonyfando / @toony-nutcase )

Matt & Sara ( @sariahgonzales-626 )

Clari ( @space-hoop )

Michael ( @rosiegardenlove )

Erica & Gedeon ( @kate66s )

Marie, Saragona & 9-year old Marie ( @highflyartist AKA me)

Leo & Louis ( @ivanandrainfall45 )

Toymaker ( @speedartist-skyliner )

Hans and Clara ( @kaleidraws )

Benjamin & Cassandra ( @artsynoova / @noovamulticolors )

Maxi & Marie ( @exittotheartscape )

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I also put them in the MKWII categories for some reason:

Heavyweight

Erica, Rudolph, Marina, Benjamin, Saragona, Reuben, Gedeon and Toymaker

Middleweight

Cassandra, Marie (Highfly), Clara, Hans, Matt, Sara, Nutcracker, and Alessia.

Lightweight

9-Year-Old Marie (HighFly), 10-year-old Marina, Michael, Clari, Maxi, Marie (Exittotheartscape), Leo & Louis

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Stay tuned for the final product.