So... this author actually LIVES the pure, innocent, sexless, beautiful, sweet, loving yuri ideal? Color me skeptical.

I dunno, it's pretty much identical to my relationship with my housemate. We've never dated, and would never date each other, but we're basically family and an outside observer would probably think we were married or something. Takemiya's description feels very familiar to me.

Certainly not saying it's implausible or negative in any way... in a vacuum. It's just, when you claim your life mirrors an unusual ideal specific to the genre you work in, it makes me go hmmmmmm.

It's also interesting, because her characters are often really blatantly GAY and desirious of gay sex. Not that you can't be gay and in a platonic primary relationship simultaneously, but it's interesting she goes out of her way to say she's different.

I'm sorry I don't really see where you're getting at. How is it cliché? What is it supposed to imply?
Are you guys saying she might be lying about her life? Why would she?

Sexless primary partnerships aren't super common in real life. And Pure Love (i.e. not sexual) is an enormous cliche in yuri,
And it wouldn't so much be lying as it would be just glossing over certain aspects in the way she presents it inside a yuri mangs.

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So... this author actually LIVES the pure, innocent, sexless, beautiful, sweet, loving yuri ideal? Color me skeptical.

I dunno, it's pretty much identical to my relationship with my housemate. We've never dated, and would never date each other, but we're basically family and an outside observer would probably think we were married or something. Takemiya's description feels very familiar to me.

Certainly not saying it's implausible or negative in any way... in a vacuum. It's just, when you claim your life mirrors an unusual ideal specific to the genre you work in, it makes me go hmmmmmm.

It's also interesting, because her characters are often really blatantly GAY and desirious of gay sex. Not that you can't be gay and in a platonic primary relationship simultaneously, but it's interesting she goes out of her way to say she's different.

I'm sorry I don't really see where you're getting at. How is it cliché? What is it supposed to imply?
Are you guys saying she might be lying about her life? Why would she?

Sexless primary partnerships aren't super common in real life. And Pure Love (i.e. not sexual) is an enormous cliche in yuri,
And it wouldn't so much be lying as it would be just glossing over certain aspects in the way she presents it inside a yuri mangs.

Given that I'm in a very similar situation, i don't find hers hard to believe at all. Certainly not as inconceivable as you seem to find it. And accusing her of "glossing over" that aspect of her life when she pretty much described it straightforwardly as she could seems a bit disingenuous.

She may have this partner but also be involved in other kind of relationships...you know,she's not drawing 24/7 even tho she would like that it seems. Anyways,she does good stuff, so she can do as she likes lol, poor she

I love that lust gauge.
Lol