Why does it always seem that in a story about a lesbian in a relationship with a straight girl, it's the straight girl with the experience, in bed.

It's more difficult for gay people to find people to have intimate relationships with because the amount of potential partners is 1/20th or less compared to a heterosexual person's potential partners. Also, many gay people don't even look for intimate relationships because they're afraid of being stigmatised for doing so, and likewise even if they meet another gay person they like, they might not know that person is gay and that person may themselves be trying to stay in the closet.

All of that being said, such stories are common because such real-life experiences are common, and authors frequently draw on their own life experiences when writing stories.

That's depressing.

Thoughts and questions that occurred to me while I read the chapter.

Straight as a rail? Not all rails are straight. If they were trains couldn't get around curves.

So normal equals straight? That seems a bit homophobic.

Why does it always seem that in a story about a lesbian in a relationship with a straight girl, it's the straight girl with the experience, in bed.

"Straight as a nail" was the text in there. Also, normal refers to the norm, the majority. Not being "normal" isn't supposed to mean that there's something wrong with you. People should get out of that mindset.

Oh so the word was nail. Boy that's embarrassing. It's a shame though. I thought my observation apt for the story.

Ediit: You're right about the definition of normal. I realized I made a mistake I normally get annoyed with, when other people make it, as soon as I read your post.. I myself try to avoid using normal in that context in fear of someone jumping down my throat over it.

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Thoughts and questions that occurred to me while I read the chapter.

Straight as a rail? Not all rails are straight. If they were trains couldn't get around curves.

So normal equals straight? That seems a bit homophobic.

Why does it always seem that in a story about a lesbian in a relationship with a straight girl, it's the straight girl with the experience, in bed.

I agree with Mai. Nanoha and Chidori are really being obvious. I thought their friends were dense not to figure it out on that trip.

Go little vampire girl
Go little vampire girl, woooo
Go little vampire girl
Go little vampire girl
Evil now, scary now, go little vampire girl
Evil now yeah, scary now yeah yeah
Evil now yeah yeah, scary now yeah yeah yeah

I get so intrigued when they look like a vampire girl

A weirdly vivid dream about your long dead cat means: Lay off the late night snacks!

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(sigh) A very ambiguous ending.

Bleh! Ambiguously close friendship, the diet soda of yuri. Give me romance damnit.

Um kind of creepy.

Once again I'm confused and disturbed by the concept of platonic boob worship. The whole idea of a girl eagerly awaiting an opportunity to play with friends boobs just plain boggles my mind. I couldn't even imagine any straight guy being exited over a chance to see his friend's penis much less touch it.

Well, unlike boobs, those things really aren't usually being shown, even clothed, as part of your good looks. Admiring muscles, on the other hand...

It was pretty amusing to see the two awkward blushing lesbians stand there in a room full of straight girls who were groping each other, though... :D

Agreed I also liked Nanoha's cute attempt to defend her girlfriend's honor.

Once again I'm confused and disturbed by the concept of platonic boob worship. The whole idea of a girl eagerly awaiting an opportunity to play with friends boobs just plain boggles my mind. I couldn't even imagine any straight guy being exited over a chance to see his friend's penis much less touch it.

Is this series old? It seems to have some old fashion views on lesbians.

Ooooohhhhh A clandestine love affair. A cute little lovers quarrel hidden right under everybodys noses. An adorable reconciliation and a happy end. Squeeeeeeel this had it all.

I'm not sure how to put this in words but it almost feels like Tsubaki seems to be just using the ecchi harem genre as a blueprint to gain friends. The male protagonist ends up in perverted situations all of the time, and she is just acting the part. She actually seems naive of the sexual connotations of what she is doing.

Why is ch 12 called the White Album? There wasn't a single mention of the The Beatles, or music of any kind.

To quote the translator from the LN thread:

-The chapter titles are jojo references. According to the Japanese wiki: Shimamura at the gym > Rohan at the Louvre, Yashiro: the visitor > Baoh: the visitor, Adachi's Q > Dead Man's Q, Strange Adachi > Gorgeous Irene, Christmas ongoing; Shimamura's thoughts > Under execution under jailbreak, White album > white album. Some make more sense in Japanese, of course

Much more sense I'm guessing.

Why is ch 12 called the White Album? There wasn't a single mention of the The Beatles, or music of any kind.

It's almost bizarre how different alcohol and romance together are perceived in Japan versus the U.S. I always expect to feel gross after reading a story involving alcohol, but they usually turn out wholesome and great like this one. This anthology seems like it's going to be for me after all.

Well, they were both drunk, which helps keep it on equal footing, and neither of them were SO sloshed that they couldn't make rational decisions or forgot what they did.

I don't know about how drunk they were. Sakura was wasted enough to be horking in the toilet.

While I agree this story was cute. I bet for every cute real life hook ups alcohol has led to, there are10 drunken mistakes that people wish they could take back. I know I wouldn't like the first time I'm with someone I love to be the result of liquid courage.

She's gonna get smashed after drinking on empty stomach

She gonna get smashed either way, drinking or not

Well isn't that a just delightful little double entendre.

I was wondering when we would get a check in from everybody's favorite ambiguously close gal pals.

Um... Well... I'm sure that song was much more catchy in the original japanese.

But other than that I loved this chapter it was sweet.

I thought there would be some kind of dark twist at the end but it was actually so sweet! Don't take your lovers for granted! Remember to properly do your part!

Same, I was so nervous it was gonna be a whole sequence and then her remembering she died or something god but the tags reassured me it was safe. Definitely the wholesome read i needed

Oh my me too, maybe we are kinda traumatized by other stories like that.
So I am very happy how it turned out and the message is pretty good too.

Same to be honest. Anxiety hit me really hard when she started reading those notes. Ooof

Really? The notes killed my fear. I thought if she was leaving she would probably just have left one Dear John.. Um I mean a Dear Jane letter, instead of a series of little "reminders".

No Social Distancing You need to stay 6 feet away Silver-sempai.

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Oh, a re-release translated from Japanese? Good going! The English version I saw before was Google-translated from Spanish, and wasn't all that good. There were many huge mistakes.

(The funniest one was in the chapter title, "Grilled Beef!" The dish in this chapter is made of pork and cabbage, there's no beef to be found anywhere!)

By the way, there are 9 chapters out in Spanish -- and I can confirm that the story is, indeed, yuri. However, it will slow the pace considerably after this rather speedy beginning, so don't go expecting cunnilingus by chapter 2 or something like that, 'kay?

The build up and anticipation just add to the fun.

The author's handle is 2C=Galore. I wonder if that's a play on Pussy Galore from James Bond.

violent emotions??? Unreasonable sure, illogical certainly, selfish probably, maybe event possessive, but not violent.