her being bi doesn't bother me so much as the way the whole thing is framed. it's just Too porn lens for my taste, i think. feels like the artist is a straight dude who washes a lot of irl porn videos (the sex scenes were totally referenced from stuff like that, it's so obvious). i liked the art up until the porn started, too, because although the bodies looked nice, the expressions were so exaggerated i couldn't take it seriously. and outside of the abrupt sex, there doesn't feel like there's any chemistry whatsoever between the leads. main girl was also reading horny shoujo manga, which... is statistically likely to be het, but not guaranteed i suppose, or maybe she's reading it for the boobs and we just don't know it. without further context, it just feels like "sure i'll fuck girls too, i'll fuck anyone" x Normal Girl(tm) who's a little confused and inexperienced. and that's... the thing? we have little to no context, and what does exist isn't that good. i'm definitely not continuing this, and i wish anyone who does lots of luck. (honestly, seeing that it was lazy lily that TL'd it explained everything lmfao)
Yeah, when I saw "mostly does het" on the artist's Dynasty profile, I thought "that tracks". It has nothing to do with the elf being described as bisexual and everything with...everything else. Instead of "male gaze" yuri, I propose the term "this artist has not read a single yuri manga in their life" yuri.
There is no attraction, no connection, no sexual tension, nothing, even with 20 pages of setup. Then when the sex occurs, the human character being a girl is completely incidental, maybe even irrelevant other than her anatomy. Oh, and the elf being a girl is also irrelevant to the human girl, also except for her anatomy. Yes, the elf is an "expert" at cunnilingus, but we don't get to know how she feels about doing all of that to the human girl. The same way, we don't get to know how the human girl feels about getting all that done to her by a girl. It's like the idea of two women being attracted to each other is so alien to the creator that they can only imagine lesbian sex that emerges from a sort of gender-blind libido where "anyone will do". They leave even the most basic yuri tropes like "her eyelashes are so long", "she's so damn soft", and "she smells so good" on the table.
Even in porn, questions like "why would a human girl not kick out her house guest who just walked in on her masturbating and starts insisting to 'help' her" can have a more interesting answer than "well, she's just really horny and her roommate is a foreign sex worker who is never off the clock". Or at least one that's a bit more life-like, such as "because she is attracted to her house guest". Some of the drawings are pretty good, but there is such a gaping void instead of a story here that they might have been better as loosely connected illustrations without dialogue.
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