#mermaid line

[emtmercy]

Stumbled on this cute trans lesbian yuri manga today

[jariten]

マーメイドライン (Mermaid Line), Renjuuro Kindaichi

[animefeminist]

Lilies In Transition: The state of trans representation in yuri

Content Warning: Discussion of transphobia, transmisogyny

Spoilers for I Wanna Be Your Girl

Yuri is a growing genre, increasingly depicting more and more varied stories about sapphic love. As yuri continues to get queerer, the existence of trans people in these stories would be one way to provide validation for trans readers in their gender and sexuality while also helping cis people understand and internalize our long standing place in the sapphic community. Yuri works featuring trans characters do exist, though their history is complex and they remain relatively few.

A Slice of Reality 

Trans people are rooted in the sapphic community and have been a core part of it for as long as it could be called a community. Lesbians, by their very sexuality, defy the gender binary which was so strictly defined by heterosexuality, and in many cases they lose access to their conditional womanhood. This is furthered by the very long history of people engaged in the sapphic community who actively defied gender norms by presenting masculine, be that as a Butch, a Stud, lacking a label or some other label. Following from this, there is plenty of evidence of gender-defying companionship between lesbians and trans people in historical documentation, such as the works of Mariette Pathy Allen, who has chronicled transgender people for over 40 years as a photographer and released several books of her work. This is also present in fiction: for example, Alison Bechdel’s classic comic series Dykes To Watch Out For (1983) features a strip talking about the need for cis lesbians to have solidarity with trans women.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[ladygwyndolin]

Oh wow, I did NOT expect to see a trans woman yuri story in a series from 2008! Shout out to "Mermaid Line" for having such a beautiful and forward-thinking romance!

[oratokyosaigunda]

Mermaid Line, volume 1

[dearmistermuse]

Susan Bottomly, "Mermaid" Line by Azzaro, 1973. Photographed by Tony Kent

[azuneekun]

did sebastian come out of a romance drama or something

[yuwuta]

olympics coming up…… athlete aus on the mind….. satoru as a swimmer….. unreasonably large wingspan…. huge hands..... thinks “official” competitions and tournaments are boring because he can’t use the goofy purple googly eyes goggles he likes to practice in…… practices at ungodly hours solely because he likes when the pool is empty because that means you’ll dip your feet in at the edge and be there to greet him with a kiss when he’s finished his laps….. they bring up the stats board and it’s just his name ten times before the next fastest person and he could still lap them, and even tho he’ll always put so much pressure on himself to be the best, it’s worth it to have you hold his face and tell him you’re proud of him... he’s gotten so much merch from events and sponsorships and he used to think they just created clutter but that all changes when you start to wear his clothes (esp the ones with his name on it… he’s not proud to admit that does Something to him)…. always looks up to the stands when he finishes a race and if he knows you’re not there, he looks right at the camera, draws an infinity sign with his fingers, and blows a kiss (which, some commentators routinely call “unsportsmanlike conduct” but he doesn’t care, and always, publicly says he’ll pay the fees if it means blowing a kiss to his girl at home)

[atompalace-official]

[bluebutlikenotalways]

Hi! Kisses on the pearl for you!

[emtmercy]

Love them

[heart-forecast]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀୨୧ ― Mermaid Crystal Parfait ! 🎣

[maxyvert]

🐟Mermay 3-4 🐟

🐟1-2🐟 🐟5-6🐟 🐟7-8🐟 🐟9-10🐟 🐟11-13🐟

[zhukzucraft]

we've been working on potential design ideas (colors not set in stone) for Scar in a potential little siren AU and would love your opinion

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

[you-makestedehappy]

Line deliveries that play on repeat in my brain.

Season 1, episode 4 - Discomfort in a Married State

🐈‍⬛❤️‍🩹🍆💦🏴‍☠️ [ep 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

Bonus :