I loved that Rilke quote and the authors' reading list at the end lol. (edit: it's merely a reading list, like "list of things I was reading for school probably that may or may not have influenced me during the making of this" and people are claiming it's a REFERENCE list... um)
I don't even know who these characters are but it was interesting, I liked the ending. It all made sense when I read in one of these comments that one of them is supposed to be a fan of the original couple so this was a nice story.
Super unpopular opinion probably but the sex scenes, graphic and all, were too focused on penetration. A little boring and not what I personally look for in yuri (I read some het when the fancy strikes and these honestly registered more like sex scenes in het. There are ways to write/draw sex w trans women that don't fall into this btw.) Still, it'd be great to get more NSFW yuri of this quality, w more Rilke quotes please.
*I think I'll pick up Bataille's and Shibusawa's essays (if the latter is translated) to try and see if I can understand why the sex was written and drawn Like That. There's something to be said abt ppl going well the Aggressiveness was intentional and functional in the wider narrative to convey xyz, but like, the idea of woman w penis = aggressive sex is clearly there and it deserves questioning. Why do lesbian narratives have to borrow imagery from heterosexuality, and why do trans women have to be cast in the roles of men? That's what bothered me.
Also the sex scenes were so explicit and detailed and long, they're obviously designed to titillate, and people dismissing a work for having a bunch of lingering piv shots aren't wrong either.
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