Gotou Hitori

[finished The Rain of Teardrops, and Serenade] yeag

Why hasn't anyone written fanfic of the Hina-duo lezzing out?! [throws furniture across the room with psychic powers] They're doubles, doppelgangers, that's gay.

Nobody's fucking with Hinanako?

Hinahina, surely?

...actually, you're right, Hinako would be the top.

I was just going with the vibes of how it sounds since I haven’t read the series yet, but I’ll take it.

[finished The Rain of Teardrops, and Serenade] yeag

Why hasn't anyone written fanfic of the Hina-duo lezzing out?! [throws furniture across the room with psychic powers] They're doubles, doppelgangers, that's gay.

Nobody's fucking with Hinanako?

Hinahina, surely?

thecrumbez

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

*adds the original Godzilla film to the list of things that are yuri*

hattiejosh

Happy pride!

I cannot see Azumanga posted in a Pride context and not post this bit from the manga:

Translating "otokonoko" uniformly as "trap" has probably had a pretty devastating effect on the average English-speaking anime fan's perception of the genre and subculture.

Like you go to the Japanese wikipedia page for otokonoko and it's got this diagram explaining "yea it covers a wide range, from people who just want to be cute, to people who just want feminine presentation, to those who aim to be fully female".

Could you imagine if people decided [assorted Ru Paul quotes go here] meant that drag was inherently disrespectful and dangerous?

Just found out about the manga "The Trap Corrupted By The Boys' School", famous for the author transitioning and bragging about her breast growth, and wow is this such a great example of the problem, because the JP title does indeed use "otokonoko".

Reading comprehension in-class essay that asks, hey, does this author's use of otokonoko line up with the "tricking people with their presentation" definition zone of otokonoko culture?

I think a lot of the people who buy into the "tricking people with their presentation" idea to begin with do think transitioning falls under that.

So yeah, a lot of people would fail that reading comprehension test.

i think the thing that gets me the most about fantasy coffee discourse is that none of the writers who feel intruded upon seem to be able to consider that they can just make their foreign policy. like. good for both parties. you're writing you can just do that.

"we get these beans through fair trade with a far away land" <= thing that you can write in a novel and it's fine

if i were being more obnoxious right now i would say it's almost poetic how the idea of two nations having a mutually beneficial relationship with each other never seems to cross these americans' minds

i think the thing that gets me the most about fantasy coffee discourse is that none of the writers who feel intruded upon seem to be able to consider that they can just make their foreign policy. like. good for both parties. you're writing you can just do that.

studentofetherium

"the people of Yemen the desert lands traded coffee to Europe the main character lands centuries ago, before it spread all over the world"

A lot of Discourse manages to pass me by until the first I hear of it is someone talking about it, rather than really engaging in it... are people seriously arguing that a fantasy world can't/shouldn't have coffee in it because the region of Earth that coffee originated from doesn't exist in the fictional fantasy world?

studentofetherium

the criticism is that people include real world elements in their storytelling without considering the ramifications. coffee or new world plants like corn, potatoes, and peppers are the best example of this. people take it for granted that a setting resembling europe will have these things, despite them being new introductions in the grand scheme of things. there's a post from a while ago about how even Tolkien, who thought so much about his worldbuilding, failed to account for this

the point isn't that these things can't exist, but that they shouldn't be taken for granted in European-style fantasy, or else it is a form of literary colonialism, claiming these things for Europe as having always been European. the plea is not to totally exclude them, but to simply think about your world and consider how these foreign elements would come to be in the places they are

a lot of people with reactionary impulses reject this and claim that they shouldn't have to think about these things and that it's stupid to consider them. that's the kind of person Aria was talking about, for the record

Ah. Yeah, that's fair enough.

i think the thing that gets me the most about fantasy coffee discourse is that none of the writers who feel intruded upon seem to be able to consider that they can just make their foreign policy. like. good for both parties. you're writing you can just do that.

studentofetherium

"the people of Yemen the desert lands traded coffee to Europe the main character lands centuries ago, before it spread all over the world"

A lot of Discourse manages to pass me by until the first I hear of it is someone talking about it, rather than really engaging in it... are people seriously arguing that a fantasy world can't/shouldn't have coffee in it because the region of Earth that coffee originated from doesn't exist in the fictional fantasy world?

hometoursandotherstuff

anexperimentallife

girl???????????

thewingedwolf

do you think the catholic church effectively utilized wokeness by funneling money into the colonization and rape of the americas after issuing the doctrine of discovery which effectively legalized the subjugation of indigenous peoples?

Also, queerness and abortion and divorce are some pretty fucking immensely big and fundamental things to "with the exception of".

watching the entirety of yama no susume s1 (~30mins) to get the reference :3

I like how this implies that Aoi and Hibiki become alcohol reviewers when they grew up

twins separated by different series