As a once and future homebrewer, yeast does indeed have a few vagaries.

I have to keep reminding myself that "no-means-maybe-and-often-means-yes" is a time-honored and well-worn trope of the romance genre.

Baseball is serious business in Japan. Even girls' softball is. Get it together, Asuka!

Oh Dear God, I just had an evil thought about baseball bats being used as sexual implements. I think I'm destined for The Special Hell.....

People have had those thoughts about baseball bats probably as long as there have been baseball bats.

You don't think....that's why there are baseball bats!?

Ye--

No.

Definitely no.

@Ulquiorra
"A girl with a penis" is still "a girl", lol.

It was, in fact, futanari which got me to realize this.

Can you really place a definition on a word, though? Considering that words are merely verbal shorthand to refer to concepts which people intuitively add meaning to based on their experiences, any definition on a word is subject to change based on the listeners experiences with the concept which is being referred to.

The easiest example is defining an apple. We can say it's a fruit, we can describe its taste, its colour, its shape,... but the only way someone can truly understand what an apple is, is by actually seeing, smelling, feeling, and tasting an apple.

Well, with the obvious exception that not everyone is able to see, smell, feel, and/or taste, so even that way of defining an apple is tricky.

To come back on topic, yuri, as a genre, is therefore defined based on one's own expectations of what a work in the yuri genre ought to contain, and subsequently different people have different concepts of what the yuri genre is.

Though it might be forward of me, I'd offer my suggestion that at the very least, the yuri genre concerns itself with people of the female persuasion and their interpersonal relations with each other.

If you haven't read Semiotics for Beginners yet, you totally should. It'll be right up your alley based on what you've written here.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, when a manga character speaks with slang in the translation, it's usually an attempt to show that the character was depicted with either an accent in the original manga, or a very casual style of speech.

Yuri is whatever Nezchan says it is. That's a definition that works for me.

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Sakura Trick is missing several chapters because those chapters are covered by the anime, so the scanlators felt that you could just watch the anime and see what was in those chapters.

Futanari is not yuri. Futanari is controversial here, but you will still find some futa around the site. (Including some very sweet, romantic, not-at-all-hentai-ish futa.)

Drama is "serious", in the sense that it's not comedy. It deals with conflict, but that conflict could just be the growth of a relationship as two people in love learn to deal with one another's various imperfections. Angst is drama with an added element of dread or anxiety.

I thought Heavy Metal was a subgenre of Metal in general while Black and Death come under Extreme metal ;)
There is a big distinction between the two though stylistically. But we are in the wrong thread for that argument.

SEE?!?

The Taxonomy urge is strong in the geek world.

I am reminded of the exacting, hair-splitting discussions I've seen about what qualifies as heavy metal, often accompanied by exacting, hair-splitting discussions about what qualifies as a particular subgenre of heavy metal.

For some folks, the difference between death metal and black metal is SERIOUS BUSINESS, yo.

To make an actual contribution to the topic, I'm new to all of this, so my opinion doesn't matter much. But to the extent that I have noticed, it seems like "yuri" exists in some sort of idealized fantasy land which looks an awful lot like the real world, but isn't. Where every lesbian couple has access to the school roof. Where teenagers can fuck in the school nurse's office and not get caught. (Or if they get caught, the nurse just shakes her head and lets them get on with it because, well, things like that just happen in an all-girls school, y'know? What can you do?)

It's also more about the romance. Budding feelings between two women. Actual love, not just lust.

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Baseball is serious business in Japan. Even girls' softball is. Get it together, Asuka!

Oh Dear God, I just had an evil thought about baseball bats being used as sexual implements. I think I'm destined for The Special Hell.....

People have had those thoughts about baseball bats probably as long as there have been baseball bats.

No more Kase-san? Noooo!

Still, from the raws, it looks like they get a satisfying conclusion.

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Just noticed that Ruby has bruises and a big ol' bite mark on her ass.

@yuikumari
Join us! Come to the Dark Side! We have spankings and oral sex!

It occurs to me belatedly that some Naka x Nico crossover yuri would be fun. They could compete for the Best Idol in the Universe! title.

It's funny how something that has been discussed not too long ago, the question of someone's interpretation not being necessarily wrong in spite of what the author says, gets a concrete and tangible case on the same forum.

An important distinction, though: Death of the Author means that you engage a work as though the author didn't/doesn't exist. Rohan didn't do that. Rohan very directly said "I mean author was trying to show..."

Once you start speculating as to the author's intentions, then yeah, the author can come back and say "Nope, that wasn't my intention at all."

So, has the author the absolute right to state what is wrong and what is true concerning her work ?

The author has the absolute right to state what his/her intentions were when creating the work. That's pretty indisputable.

It's the difference between "I did not take your intended meaning from your work" (valid) and "I know what you REALLY intended when you wrote this" (invalid).

So Meta

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Got the new book, with the Official English Translation, from Seven Seas. And I gotta say that I actually kinda prefer the unofficial translation here. The tone is very slightly different in certain areas.

Maybe it's just that I encountered this one first.

This is relevant to my interests. I especially like the pic in the upper left-hand corner.

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"She touched the butt." --Finding Nemo

They look nervous.

blink

Well hello there!

Really enjoying your comic! Thanks so much for making it!

I think I like Lily Love just a bit more than Pulse, but I certainly like Pulse a great deal and am happy to pay for it on Lezhin.

Same thing Bill Murray whispered into Scarlett Johansson's ear at the end of Lost in Translation.

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If this author has written any more futa, I would definitely be interested. I think I read, though, that this doujin and his HonoMaki doujin are the only two futa works they've done.

Probably have better luck here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hentai/comments/5tq4oz/sticky_source_request_thread_17/