It's very sweet. Looks like Yu was over for a late night gaming session and dozed off...

This ship makes me very happy

<3

funny considering the kaslanas take the role of a knight lol

This is some negative talk, I've seen some of those "conversion" arts and I do not want to get reminded of them :(
Bielle is right, those are meant to hurt people, and it's hard to believe any of those arts were drawn in good faith. And those artists know what they are doing by uploading them online for all to see, especially with specific tagging. I'm tired of some people clinging on to "freedom of speech" to defend that shit... It's been said a thousand times but whenever someone brings that phrase up it's usually THEIR freedom to do whatever they want. What about my freedom to be offended then?

Anyways, mega based GRS content as always, I always love her coloring style!!

Rika my beloved

(Also, shipping straight characters in gay ships is not equivalent to the reverse. One is okay, the other is not.)

Why is that, absent any malice in the image?

Because queer people are a minority while cishet people aren't. There's no such thing as heterophobia but homophobia does exist and affects real people.
In the same way "blackwashing" white characters is fine but whitewashing black ones isn't etc.

I'm obviously being reductive and there's nuance to this but it works as a general rule.
And like, artists are allowed to make whatever they want but we the audience also have the right to call them out on shitty behaviour such as doing something homophobic or racist.

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@juanelric That's true and then some. I've found several Ecchi Love Live! Doujin that depicts the characters in sexual scenarios with unnamed male characters.

Eh, I don't really agree but people are free to speak their mind as you say. But being rude over it seems a bit far to me. People will make all kinds of changes to existing characters and stories, there will always be someone who takes issue with something so why not live and let live?

@nintenplayer They want people to believe that it's okay to depict lesbians getting "converted" and that there's no malice behind it. And if gay people get angry at them and talk back, they say the gays are being mean and rude to them. Gay people should just watch their favorite queer characters get bastardized and never say a word about it.

"Oh, but they ship straight characters". No shit! Mainstream gay relationships are so rare that gay people end up shipping straight characters in gay ships. And it is not the same thing. @DY4Y perfectly explained the difference.

And the worst part is to see people defending that homophobic shit on a site like Dynasty, a place a lot of lesbians use. Hell, the author of this very comic IS A LESBIAN and she saw people defending lesbian conversion art in the comments of her post. Jfc.

Bocchi always wins the pocky game, because she can phase out of existence before the stick breaks!

If you pull away you lose regardless of if the pocky breaks or not. The only way to win is to kiss

I'm surprised this wasn't posted on the same day as the Hime + Mitsuki one

Booty

Is Mira still active?

I'd also like to point out that a lot of anime based on Yuri mangas and LNs don't even get to the point where the characters actually start dating - Bloom Into You didn't.

There's also the fact a lot of series have basically no male characters and artists will sooner make up one than make Yuri doujins (or at least that's what gets scanned and uploaded to doujin sites).

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People on all sides continue cycles of hate and arguing. It's exhausting to me.

Edit: My intent isn't to be dismissive, I'm just tired of seeing so much hate spread around on the internet. That's all.

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@Zesc based

^ I think it's sorta dismissive to label this a "both sides bad" kind of situation, but I get your frustration
They clarified, and it's a fair point

And yeah @Bielle, I'm kinda fucking blown away seeing some people think this is okay. On Twitter maybe but on this site? I'm kinda let down tbh :(
It's one thing to argue to not engage in any of them (which is a good idea, those artists do what they do to piss people off) but to say one has to "respect their freedom to draw whatever they want" when the said drawing is literally meant to target and downplay lesbians is very irritating ngl. For some reason queer people should always just shut up and take it. It's always us who are the sensitive ones, isn't it :(

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Oh my, looks like someone's completely enraptured

While no one has broken any rules explicitly, this conversation has gotten a bit deeper than the image topic section was accommodating for.

I'm going to have to request that this specific line of argumentation conclude here and either move elsewhere, like a dedicated post on the forums or just perhaps not trying to bring twitter, formerly known as a useful website, to the forums any more than it has.

And while the background information is relevant to the image in question, it has clearly overtaken the focus here and moved into political considerations of all people involved.

Posters have already made clear why such art by those mentioned and unmentioned artists are harmful rather than something one can completely ignore as "artistic license" when it's being actively shared with malicious purpose. While we are not outright banning opposing viewpoints on this matter, we are going to clamp down on it when to goes from curiosity/questioning to staunch defense. If people want to live and let live, then let the gays/trans/enby live too.

Sleepy head

Don't be fooled, March. She's the one that kisses the trashcan like Markiplier seeing a spittoon.

DeerWhisky blessing us with incredible art once more, it's always appreciated <3