That’s literally in all the textbooks fuck you smokin
Honestly, it mostly comes down to having friends who are obsessively about yuri and they always talk about how it’s the best romance there is.
And hey, some of their favorite stories are real hit-and-home-run stories that massively beat out most other romances I’ve seen. But a lot of the ones I see them go nuts over just… Same as any “hetslop” out there. Featuring janky introductions or ahem harassment to varying severity, or other concerning issues.
I’m mostly just not understanding the rave about the stories that just feel like parallels to contemporary romance, or the presumably forbidden S word. (it has a M if that clarifies further)
Like, it’s always sold as “better” when I ask them about it when only a few are really… “Better”
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Oh, I thought you meant that you had criticism for Solace and Work or of Prisoners of the Royal Nation, lol. You meant your friends’ beloved yuri, not mine. Guess I misread that.
God, yes. I hate this trope so much. I don’t know if it’s because the writers get their knickers all twisted by it or what, but one of my genuine least favorite things to see in fiction is supposed “lesbian” characters who harasses women as their primary gimmick.
Do people like that exist in real life? Probably. Should they be used in fiction for the sole purpose of satiating something perverse in the audience? Hell no.
I feel that homosexual shipping’s only advantage over heterosexual shipping is in the fact that it is not socially obligated. This means that the characters’ connection should be founded on character-based motivations, rather than exterior pressures or assumptions on what a man and woman “should” do.
The issue is—again—if you handwave that in exchange for “aww, they’d be cute” or “they’re both horny and figured why not”, then yuri has no inherent advantage in quality over straight relationships.
I’m a Ao3 user, how did it take me over a minute to get this?
Agreed, yeah. Funnily enough, most of my favorite ships from other peoples’ works are indeed heterosexual.
Waxillium Ladrian and Steris Harms my beloveds
And also Zelda Hyrule and Link, though I’ll admit they’re mostly implied and heavily improved by fanfic
Again, yuri has the potential to have a better basis than many hetero ships. That doesn’t mean that it automatically does, or even that many do.
.. Maybe I shoulda said that first. Fuuuuuck
Nat 1 perception roll. I am so sorry.
I can say, unfortunately yes. And in all variations. I actually blame stuff like that for it in part, and the other part on desperation caused by some incredibly mismanaged source of the thought process.
Regardless, yeeaah. I distinctly remember one yuri they were talking about that was in this territory in a frankly disconcerting way. Supposed to be a “coming out” story but I don’t think harassment leading up to that door opening is exactly a great way of depicting that.
If that’s it, then I’ve really been sold a lie. Though that does kind of explain the misery in “hetslop” (this term had to come from twitter bruh) with its own boring romances.
That being said, yeah, the potential’s deffo there. But it’s becoming apparent that, uh… Those guys are probably cracking it up to be more than it is.
“Hmm… I’ve recently been learning a lot of things about myself. And I now know who I’d prefer as a romantic partner. Now how should I treat the sex I now know I like?
Oh! I know! I’ll harass and abuse them! My fellow women don’t get enough of that!”
Despite all of my words of warning regarding peoples’ promotion of yuri, I also cannot deny that around 90% of hetero ships are nothingburger pairs.
Maybe shipping as a whole is a doomed medium. All the fanfic writers will have to go elsewhere (as if).
I have an acquaintance who is obsessed with yuri too, and I have often found myself wanting to knee her in the crotch. She never shuts up about it.
Why did nobody tell me these images were in godawful quality to the point that the text is unreadable? I’ll fix those in a moment.
We should start pairing people platonically
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if people start forming FRIENDships then maybe the roblox community can heal from the damage inflicted by communities like that of forsaken (and similar games)
Platonic groups have serious character potential as well! I could give any number of examples, but I think the best possible example would be:
Other character groups which bring out interesting aspects in one another are:
Oh whoops, how’d that last one get in there?
Also, sorry, but don’t you mean
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yep thats executed
It could be argued (not by me, mind you) that none but one of these is platonic
IT’S BEEN A LITERAL DECADE AND IT STILL WORKS???
It has to remain plugged in, but… it works. The DS works.
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Also I didn’t draw literally any of these, but I wanted to share them with you because uhhhhhh…
They’re neat. Yeah, that’s why.
Man, maybe I should draw these two…
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have you homebrew’d it yet ?! it’s probably your best choice (that + pretendo)
Nah, I intend to keep it how it is. Not worth modifying.
a perfect display of the DS’ superiority over other devices.
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Amazingly, the DS series (3DS included) are amazingly resilient to time, ergo the batteries.
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