I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.
Both dream me and irl me were very confused.
it might have been a dream, but feathered dinosaurs being linked to an ideology isn’t that uncommon. Them being viewed as “leftist”, “woke” or “gay” has occured several times.
I collect these examples.
reblog if you like dinosaurs, are gay, or just really like feathers
Yuri as a genre has been built around a set of tropes and styles and motifs, you can watch a show where someone may not explicitly say “i am a lesbian for you” but you know these girls are in love because of how it plays with the standards and archetypes of the genre that were established decades ago. So it always annoys me when people do this whole “is it yuri or just vibes” thing. Im sorry they’re not scissoring on screen but I promise you yuri is still yuri.
Absolutely true.
I’d like people to consider for a moment, also, what good drawing lines about what is “real yuri” and “not yuri” really does.
Secondly, as much as I hate to say it- because this phrase is often used as a cudgel for people to deny queer romance- there are genuinely somecultural considerations at play when it comes to yuri. And all of these are a part of the very fabric of the genre.
There is an age where having baby crushes and infatuations for other girls is expected to be left behind, but (historically, at least) a blind eye was turned to relationships between young girls. Yuri takes place in- and is sheltered by- the ambiguity of girl’s relationships, and the casual intimacy girls are allowed to have with each other. It lives in the uncertainty, in testing the boundaries, in trying to feel out if the feelings the other girl has are the same. It is both a veil of protection, and a veil of obfuscation. Yuri takes place in absence and in allegory- but that does not make it any less real.
This puts yuri anime in a unique position, on a corporate level, where any affiliated company- let’s say Bandai, for example- can deny any overt support of LGBTQ rights by stating a relationship between two women is “up to viewer interpretation,” which is beneficial for their bottom line. If you’re versed in the language, you know what the interpretation is intended to be. It’s extremely clear!
But this sort of public stance of a company insisting it’s “up to interpretation” often leads to Certain Types of western anime fans crowing “see! They aren’t lesbians!” and people who didn’t watch it to write it off as “queerbaiting.”
When that happens, I can’t help but be reminded of my own coming out, and people’s insistence that “you can’t be sure you’re a lesbian, you’ve never been with a man before.”
And while I’m not saying you’re doing the same thing by saying “I don’t think these two anime girls are REAL gays because they didn’t Prove It,” I am asking, “why does Proving It matter so much to you?”
Is the deep understanding of yuri tropes and themes, to the point that you can identify media that uses these tropes and themes (even if they don’t label themselves as yuri explicitly) yuri?
won’t beef with people younger than me because that’s embarrassing for me. won’t beef with people older than me because that’s embarrassing for them. won’t beef with people my age because i know we both have better shit to be doing. peace and lovr on planet earth
