I like Ruka x Yuki, but I prefer Ruka x Yuina tbh.

it's been a while since I've seen this mint strawberry tandem

Bellen my beloved

I need to see Hina's reaction to this

^ Maybe 'Half-Dressed'?

^^^ I find it funny how people treat it with such vehement disgust.
Like- didn't Childe almost kill Traveler? Twice? Why can you ship that but not this?

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^Something that comes to mind off the top of my head is that generally speaking with some people there's an expectation for F/F ships to more cute and wholesome. Where as F/M ships I've noticed there's a lot where the guy is toxic, or at least generally rude, and people never bat an eye at it. There's also a weird societal acceptance for some where men don't have to be nice to women, in a relationship the guy gets away with being the worst, and he doesn't respect women in general (including his partner and his own family, coworkers and so fourth). That aspect sucks and is gross.

Also I often enjoy cute and wholesome, but I can enjoy other things as well such as this ship (which can also be cute and wholesome depending on the artist), and if a ship doesn't interest me I generally don't go out of my way to complain about it. People have a habit of harassing others about fictional shipping online, and it's such a weird waste of time to me. I think I've managed to avoid a good amount of drama with this ship because I'm largely here just to see the fanart for Miyoho games, and keep to my own.

^I'm not 1000% sure that's the reason, but whatever it is is probably also the reason why MahoAko got so poorly received compared to series with arguably worse content
I don't see half as many people complain about Mushoku Tensei or Redo of Healer as they did while the first season of the MahoAko anime was airing (and those two stayed in TV Tropes while MahoAko got removed).

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Armpit...

^Well there are varied reasons for different people, sometimes there's overlap between people and/or reasons, subconsciously or otherwise different things come up. So I think at least some of what I'm saying plays a part in the overall picture.

On another note I've seen people talk a lot over the years about how there's a constant content police for Yuri, but Yaoi has a lot more "anything goes" policy for many.

So it's always interesting...there's a lot of different layers, nuances, and complications at play with all of it. Especially as everyone has different views and opinions on everything.

^It's just sexism, people want to women to be the way they want, even fictional characters. If a woman doesn't keep up with their expectations, you see this kind of reaction you mentioned before.

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^Yeah sexism is at the core of things here, that's really what I was trying to get at and maybe I over complicated my thoughts.

Kiss the simp

^Kesbian liss

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her species must have bioluminescent fur that responds to skin heat

@FluffyCow

That's also what I noticed with "harem" kind of shipping when it's one male and multiple females type of harem. For some reason, no matter what is original guy personality (and in most fiction, main character is usually genuinely nice guy), in this "harem scenarios" he become kind of a dick, treating women with 0 respect, like toys to play whenever he wants. It's always so weird. It sometimes happen in yuri, but if her personality is changed "main" girl is usually more teasing, or much more bold, but guy is outright rude and condescending. Wonder when it came from.

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Good god, control urself sully, wtf kinda degeneracy are u asking for her to do with u....

^A lot of where that comes from is again sexism issues. If we're talking player character protags, and say using Genshin's Aether as the example there, there's a good amount of male players for the game that use him to self insert. Where some of them channel their own incel thinking, lack of respect for women, entitlement with thinking women are their property, and so fourth through the character. Which paints the character in a bad light, but usually it's the players channeling that kind of nasty behavior through the character that are the actual problem.

As a side note...I can't help but think of Aether as anything but a bottom with various male characters in the game lol

^ Yeah, it's probably it. It's kinda funny how people are hounding at shippers when self-inserters are usually way more annoying and changing character personalities waaaay more. It least shippers try to keep characters close to what they are in-universe (well, not always), not projecting themselves unto them. But I'm the former, not latter so maybe I'm biased.

I mean I ship Aether with some of the girls, but if for a guys, can You imagine guy with a long braid (so long flowy hairs) and a crop top, as anything else than a bottom? ;p

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^Well I can at least say Aether's top and exposed tummy definitely give some ideas when it comes to that side of gay shipping. Which Yaoi ships usually aren't my go to, though in my opinion Lumine and Aether are both pretty easy to same sex ship.

espero que agreguen también de Cantarella y Cartethya en un age gap

For once I want to see a pairing like these two actually win. I don't want to see another tragic fall like Nagisa and Tomao. And maybe this time it could happen, unlike Tomao, Diana is actually fighting for her love.

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@eromancer
she did it all for the nookie! c'mon! the nookie! c'mon!
so we can take the cookie!

^I'd be more happy with the three of them together, Diana, Natalie and Lapis. They'd be quite fine, I think.

On the topic of backlash in yuri vs yaoi: It's worth considering that yaoi shipping is (sadly) a predominantly female demography, just like fan fiction, whilst yuri is more gender neutral. And guys can't have what women like, no no no, that's intrinsically cringe.

I can recall criticism of Redo of Healer, but it was quickly shot down the same way men drown out every female objection: by being louder. Emancipated woke feminazis ruining everything, fr. I guess himejoshis are too well-behaved to "win" whilst fujoshis don't get into any crossfire from their negligible male counterparts.

For the sake of not coming of entirely misandrist, I should mention that when shipping, you need to expect storms, embargoes, piracy and even all-out naval warfare. 'Tis the way of fandoms. Amen.

On the topic of Aether: I still can't fathom how Mihoyo could throw away the absolute gold they would've had if the siblings simply swapped outfits. Instead we got legally distinct Gerudo Link and a healer unit from Fire Emblem you get when all the named chars have died. (If you disagree, look up Sorey's Armatization forms. Midriff Lumine should be obvious.)