AiriMizu! One of my favorite non-group ships and I think Airi should get to fight some of Mizuki's bullies
^ I very much dislike this talk of invalidating NB lesbians of their identity. This is a mighty slippery slope you paint, where words lose their meaning at the mere suggestion of changing them to become more inclusive and that the acceptance of NB lesbians making lesbian as an identity lose its meaning... Which has not actually panned out, given that I've seen this discourse held in many lesbian communities plenty of times in the past couple of years and many of them have simply broadened the definition of lesbian to include non-binary folk, moved over to using sapphic as a label, or changed lesbian to be term regarding gender identity itself. So there is place to discuss changing a words meaning, without the word losing all meaning itself. Words have never been static in their meaning, which is apparent looking at the etymology of any language.
I would also like to point out that dynasty's tagging system is by no means objective. How many times have there been discussions in the comments on whether a series warrants the yuri
tag or subtext
tag? Just look at the comment section of Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru, Miss Sunflower, or Liar Satsuki Can See Death. Two of which ended with the main protagonist in a roommate situationship, yet one series has a yuri
on it and one has subtext
. I would personally classify all of these series as yuri, but given there is no clear divide of the tags given dynasty's system it fell on I assume the dynasty folk to decide. However there is still value in the subtext
tag for many readers, but it isn't as if it has some objective meaning across readers. I don't think think a reader should expect this from a tagging system because there can't be a black and white divide between tags in all cases.
For another, I could say I identify as a male but my pronouns are 'she/her'. I think most people would roll their eyes, as well they should, because that combo makes no sense.
There are many drag queens that do identify as men but also use she/her pronouns and not because the combo makes no sense. However the dissonance and fear drag creates for certain folk does seem to contribute to why many states in the US are wrongly attempting to restrict and ban drag.
I also really don't like arguing why identity matters, especially on a Mizuki post. Given that it seems you are unfamiliar with Project Sekai I will just say that your statements on the importance of identity are also antithetical to the story the Project Sekai writers have written regarding Mizuki's story. So the metric you pose for tagging seems increasingly bad when (thankfully) dynasty seems to normally take in creator intentions into their tagging decisions.
I appreciate the dynasty folk tagging all the MizuEna posts with trans
and non-binary
. I would personally also welcome the yuri
tag for the rest of the Mizuki posts here. Especially since Mizuki is a magical girl girlie, which is clearly one of yuri-est of genres lol. But I do think this is up to the dynasty folk, especially given the current vagueness of Mizuki's gender identity in-game.