is the taboo aspect wat makes yuri interesting in the first place for you guys?
i wonder if in the future it won’t be as special

It's not the titillation of taboo per se that makes yuri stories interesting to me, but the way that societal assumptions tweak the premises of the romance genre.

As just one minor example, the "childhood friends" trope--in het romances, if a girl and a guy have been close friends since childhood, the expectation of the people around them is that their relationship is or will become romantic, but in yuri it's the other way around, creating an entirely different set of story problems and possibilities.

(And, of course, girls are just more interesting than guys. But that's my own personal prejudice. lol)

is the taboo aspect wat makes yuri interesting in the first place for you guys?
i wonder if in the future it won’t be as special

No, I just think girls are cuter.

loudsea posted:

is the taboo aspect wat makes yuri interesting in the first place for you guys?
i wonder if in the future it won’t be as special

No, I just think girls are cuter.

Ah, I see you're a person of culture as well

is the taboo aspect wat makes yuri interesting in the first place for you guys?
i wonder if in the future it won’t be as special

I was in my late 20s when I openly acknowledged I was bi. I still remember during my childhood occasionally having curious thoughts about members of my own gender and tamping those thoughts down because "gay" and "fag" were literally the most common insults I heard growing up. It was the worst thing you could possibly be, so obviously that wasn't me, not even a little. I kinda knew that was bullshit, but I was afraid to accept it.

I like, in general, stories about people that love each other no matter what, about relationships that are happy and healthy because the people involved understand who they are. I also relate heavily to queer coming-around stories, regardless of the genders of the protagonists.

What I love about this comic, in particular, is the way Sun Jing's friends just immediately accepted her and her feelings for Qiu Tong, as well as the way every character in the comic is just hilarious. Upperclassman is adorable, Mophead is hilarious, Tattletale is a riot, Sun Jing is such a dork, Qiu Tong is a precious cinnamon roll. Seriously, I love all these characters so much.

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Yeah, the fact that this comic is literally dangerous for the author to write makes this all rather concerning. When looking at this story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46257240 with a author facing 10 years of jail for writing gay sex scenes, I think it's not worth it.
I love this story, but I honestly think the author should stop, this story is not worth risking serious jail time for writing and she is risking that. She SHOULD be afraid of the consequences for what she is making. I respect her courage, but it is a lot of risk for relatively minor gain, it is just a comic after all.

That kind of thinking is what makes some people in the world still oppress other people.

It is NOT just for a comic book. It is the right to be able to express oneself freely because of what the author is risking. And it's the same thing that, throughout history, hundreds of thousands of people have risked, many of them anonymous, for which to renounce their struggle would not have been so much because it was "a lot of risk for relatively minor gain".

It is very easy to forget how much it cost to earn things that no longer affect us and that we take for granted.

Quoting M3rl1n some post ahead:

we dont only have rights but responsability!

I could not agree more.

Remy posted:

is the taboo aspect wat makes yuri interesting in the first place for you guys?
i wonder if in the future it won’t be as special

I see yuri as normal romance stories just like het. I never considered them taboo in the first place, so it was never factor for me. Sure when homosexuality isn't accepted in story it can create unique situations and plots, not present in het works, but we still also have plenty of fluffy yuri where being gay is not only accepted, but often treated as normal. And most importantly, as a lesbian girls liking each other is something natural to me. Despite reading dozens of het stories, I could never get invested into male lead, so yuri is pretty much exactly what I want. Also girls are superior gender.

i guess what i meant is in the future, as LGBT becomes accepted, would these types of work be less interesting

Remy posted:

i guess what i meant is in the future, as LGBT becomes accepted, would these types of work be less interesting

Straight people are widely accepted and there are no less people interested in stories about them. Harlequin novels are selling as well as ever.

Remy posted:

i guess what i meant is in the future, as LGBT becomes accepted, would these types of work be less interesting

If you only read them for novelty sake, then yes. They would.

Did they make Sun Jing angrier/ more masculine looking since the first chapter? She looks super angry all the time.

there she goes being suave again

DO EEEEEET

channels inner Sebastian

KISS DE GIRL!

DO EEEEEET

channels inner Sebastian

KISS DE GIRL!

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw it

DO IT THEN

fukin dare ya

How horrible that the author of this wonderful series now lives in a world so intolerant to LGBT that she might litterally face jail time just for the "crime" of depicting the mushy romance of two cute dorky girls in love with each other.

I really don't understand how Qiu Tong hasn't done that yet, with how suave Sun Jing has been since the pair's kiss in front of that fountain.

How horrible that the author of this wonderful series now lives in a world so intolerant to LGBT that she might litterally face jail time just for the "crime" of depicting the mushy romance of two cute dorky girls in love with each other.

IKR, the world is a cruel place for something so pure. It's kind of why I relate to the lyrics of Ed Sheeran's A Team so much.

It's too cold outside, for Angels to fly,
An Angel will die, covered in white,
closed eyes, and hoping for a better life,
this time...

If you keep this up I'm going to kiss you

Oh no. What a horrible threat.

Oh no how dare she suggest kissing her! How horrible

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!

So, it is safe to assume, I guess, that in another world those two would have kissed right now. I'm expecting tons of fanart and doujinshi to actually depict it.... Anyone? Pls? (Or I'll have to do it myself, and you don't want that :p)

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That's blackmail. How low.

So, it is safe to assume, I guess, that in another world those two would have kissed right now. I'm expecting tons of fanart and doujinshi to actually depict it.... Anyone? Pls? (Or I'll have to do it myself, and you don't want that :p)

theyve kissed once already

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PLEASE DO