#miyazawan yuri

[tragicnpc]

[is-this-yuri]

Are oreos yuri?

Two cookies, attracted by their similarity, yet separated by the very thing that also sticks them together. Without this conflict, they would fall apart. It binds them, but keeps them from being closer.

Conclusion: Oreos are yuri.

[goldom]

imagining a tumblr girl who drives her wife insane by saying "this too is yuri" whenever they kiss.

[xelidonia]

Classical Yuri of Absence

About 2500 years ago, Sappho wrote:

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα καὶ Πληΐαδες μέσαι δέ νύκτες, πάρα δ' ἔρχετ' ὤρα, ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

which I translate as:

The moon is set, and the Pleiades, in the middle of the night; The hours come and go, yet I lie alone

This is the perfect example of Yuri of Absence. Even setting aside the fact that it's a poem by Sappho, the essence of this poem is unmistakably yuri. The yearning. The vast emptiness of time and space. The way the Moon and the Pleiades are both absent and gendered female. The way the speaker is also female, but we don't know that until she uses the female form of "alone". Everything about this poem makes you feel the Absence of Girls In Love like an ache. Sappho, you genius, I yearn for you too across unfathomable time.

[cyberantiquities]

I wrote about Sappho fragment 2 and the queer resonances of empty landscapes. Through the lens of, uh, that one interview with Iori Miyazawa. I’m sending this blog out as a newsletter, so please sign up if you’re interested!

[yuriskies]

I would like to float Michael Swanwick's 1999 Hugo Award winning short story "The Very Pulse of the Machine" as an ur-example of Miyazawan yuri. For me it has a very similar vibe to the sci-fi/landscape elements of Otherside Picnic, and I think fans of that might be interested in reading it. More below the break in case you want to go in without spoilers. Read it! It's good!

So like, brief summary in case you didn't read it, Martha and Juliet are the first humans to land on Io, and the story picks up immediately after a catastrophic rover crash that has killed Juliet and left Martha in an extreme survival situation. With a limited amount of air, Martha has to trudge across the hostile landscape of Io's surface. As she uses on methamphetamine to make the trip, Martha begins seeing ethereal visions and Juliet's corpse quotes poetry and hints at a vast machine-like intelligence inhabiting the moon's sulfur deposits.

The Very Pulse of the Machine is strange and defies any easy story categorization. I definitely wouldn't call it a "true" yuri SF, but there are aspects that I twigged on that resonate with Iori Miyazawa's aesthetic. There isn't a romantic relationship between Martha and Juliet, but little aspects of the narration hint at something complex and ill-defined between them.

The story plays around with a sense of finality between the two - how much of Juliet's speech is Martha's drug-addled memories of Juliet quoting poetry verses, the reanimated thoughts of the dead, or the machine-like intelligence attempting to communicate through Juliet's knowledge is kept intentionally vague. It becomes the springboard for Swanwick to explore Martha's sense of loss, feelings of social inadequacy, and her desperate struggle to keep self-serving dreams and reality separate really resonate with what Miyazawa was calling "yuri of absence".

I think there are also aspects to this story that also illustrate what Miyazawa meant when he said landscapes are inherently yuri. The version of Io in The Very Pulse of the Machine is ethereal as hell - volcanic plumes and twisting magnetic fields illuminate its sky, while sulfur dioxide flowers bloom from its surface in between stygian lakes of molten sulfur and sulfur dioxide vent blizzards. There's this wonderful moment where Martha sees triboelectric discharges illuminating Juliet's body and tapping at her feet, and for a moment the text leaves you to wonder if it's an ancient, lonely machine yearning for contact reaching out to connect with them both.

Also just gotta say that until I go to the grave I will consider the end high-class yuri, no matter what anyone tells me.

[flowergirlmiwa]

if i were to try and give a real explanation of what yuri is, it definitely wouldn't end at "anime girls in love", it would be like essay length and have fifteen citations

[is-this-yuri]

not a is ___ yuri? question, but any yuri media recs?

Otherside Picnic is quite possibly the best yuri series currently in existence. It is a matter of taste, as it doesn't contain all the same tropes or even the general vibe of the notable and popular yuris. The characters, in particular the main character are quite frankly weird and won't be everyone's cup of tea, though if you resonate with them you will end up really liking them. It's a heartfelt and authentic story about queerness and how queer love can break social boundaries and be beautiful in a unique way.

The story has themes like that as well as themes about communication, self discovery, trauma, and exploration of fear. It's spooky, trippy, lovecraftian, and sci-fi, and has a lot of humor. The slow burn is very slow, but the interactions between the two main girls and the main character's narration are deeply romantic in unexpected ways.

I would highly reccomend reading the novels, as the narration of the main character is a large part of the enjoyment. As someone who doesn't really read books, the novels were able to capture me and hold my attention. That said, I consider the manga to be a suitable alternative, but it's going to be a very long time until it catches up with the juiciest parts of the novels and you'll be missing a lot if you only read the manga. The anime is enjoyable only if you really love the series, as it's kind of bad overall. I reccomend starting with either the manga or novels, but try the novels if you can.

Otherside Picnic and its author Iori Miyazawa are also the source of the yuri of absense memes and Miyazawan yuri, which are great jokes but also genuinely good concepts that I believe will alter the yuri genre in years to come. Miyazawa is an amazing author whose writing contains depth and intricacy, leading to endless analysis.

The fandom is small but on the whole very wholesome and friendly, and they have good memes and discussions.

Otherside Picnic also has some genuinely spooky horror elements and vivid imagery in the manga including body horror, so readers beware.

Conclusion: Read Otherside Picnic.

[is-this-yuri]

what is miyazawan yuri, i wish to know more,,,

Hi, happy to answer. It's a difficult concept to talk about, but I'll do my best. Keep in mind this is just my interpretation.

Miyazawan yuri is a concept explained by Iori Miyazawa, author of Otherside Picnic, in an infamous interview. While discussing his thoughts on the yuri genre and his own writing, he says some things that people on the internet have kind of rolled with and turned into a bit of a meme.

He says things like 'yuri can be an empty field with broken machinery' or 'two wild beasts glaring and ready to pounce on each other. It's yuri, isn't it?' The 'an empty park bench is yuri' idea is one of the more common jokes in the meme space.

These abstract ideas about yuri are meant to speak to the feelings present in yuri media. It's a contrast, or a compliment, to 'literal' yuri, which is more about depictions of girls kissing and going on dates. On the extreme end of the spectrum, smut for the sake of smut is probably the clearest example of literal yuri.

An empty field with broken machinery is yuri because you could imagine that at some point, two girls were in that field working with that machinery, happily in love with each other. Two wild beasts fighting is yuri because that's a representation of what it can feel like for two girls working out their relationship, or being intimate together. An empty park bench is yuri because you could picture two girls going on a date and stopping there to share a moment together.

These empty images, devoid of any actual girls, can be summed up by the term 'yuri of absense.' Some people have taken this term literally, and think it means that anything with no girls present can be yuri. Actually, the absense of girls is meant to prompt you to fill in the empty spaces.

The reason it's abstract is that it deals with feelings rather than actions. If you have a romantic mind and understand what love between girls feels like, it won't be hard to see yuri in everything. That's the idea. Yuri of absense can also be about feelings of yearning, focusing on what a girl might feel when she can't be with the one she loves, or while the relationship develops.

This kind of feelings based writing is somewhat rare, but it's what Miyazawa excels at. Somewhat ironically, Otherside Picnic also features a ton of literal yuri. The characters are very much in love with each other and spend a lot of time together. There's hugging and kissing, and they go on what could be considered dates. However it's also a slow burn story involving a lot of confusing feelings from pretty much every major character, as well as a missing woman that many of the characters were either in love with or close to falling in love with, leading to many scenes that could be considered yuri of absense.

You can read the interview in English here, and I highly reccomend doing so:

[is-this-yuri]

I agree with the tags that the energy here is almost sexual. If the camera were sentient, allowing this kind of interaction would be a big sign of trust. Our urge to personify pretty much anything speaks to the human ability to connect on an emotional level with inanimate objects. Though the connection is one-sided, it is still real. There are real emotions behind the viewing of such a video. Through our ability to personify, we see implied human behavior everywhere. This is one of the foundations of Miyazawan yuri.

Maybe it reminds you of something? The choice of words here, 'poked and prodded' is perhaps an intentional reference to the kind of physical contact that produces erratic responses like what we see on screen. Even if it wasn't the original intention, these gifs undeniably bring up familiar feelings.

Despite there being no girls in this post, the static and glitchy artifacts could be interpreted as feminine responses to being touched. Despite the potentially destructive nature of dropping and scraping, it doesn't seem vulgar or baseless, but quite trusting and intimate. These actions are done with care and intent, as if experimenting or sometimes trying to produce a specific result. It bleeds love, and implies a deep emotional connection. It's not difficult to imagine that this interaction between VHS camera and human hand could be yuri.

Conclusion: This is yuri.

The video camera is plugged into the VCR, allowing it to record itself being poked and prodded.

GIF’d version of Vide-Uhhh! (2005)

[ltmctrung]

knight night

[kaiasky]

terrible rpg idea: no dice no masters game that rejects the distinction between characters and setting elements. every "character-like" sheet has pick up/put down rules & impulses. Setting elements get and spend tokens etc.

& i think ideally like the sheets themselves could either be a single character/small group/nonliving force depending on the player's choices for looks

[is-this-yuri]

Just found this blog. A little obsessed with it. It's all Yuri

Obsession is a very passionate emotion. The ability to be obsessed with anything related to yuri indicates a deep love for girls.

Furthermore, the phrase 'it's all yuri' points to the very base concept behind Miyazawan yuri. A true yuri fan will be able to see yuri in everything, making 'it's all yuri' a true statement.

Conclusion: This is yuri.

[is-this-yuri]

From OP's tags:

This is a little bit reductive, but I don't think it's incorrect. The Miyazawan concept of yuri hinges on vibes, but specifically the vibes of the potentiality of love between two girls. In a similar way, OP's concept of twinkhood could hinge on the vibes of a potential twink.

Can a beautiful morning sunrise be a twink? Perhaps, if you look at the sunrise and can imagine a twink watching it.

Can a post be a twink? Is this post a twink? If you could imagine a twink has posted it, perhaps it is.

This post isn't about yuri, but it caught my eye given the comparison between Miyazawan yuri and twink vibes. If these concepts have anything in common, I believe this analysis is an appropriate one.

The specific tag saying 'just like anything can be yuri' is not an incorrect analysis of Miyazawan yuri, though as I said it's reductive. In this case, there's nothing wrong with it. OP is right.

Conclusion: This post is not yuri, but it could be a twink.

ok so we all know that boys can be twinks, enbys can be twinks and girls can be twinks. but what about other things? can a beautiful morning sunset be a twink? can a post be a twink? is this post a twink?

[himejoshikomaeda]

maids are the new “miyazawan yuri”

[flowergirlmiwa]