pluk

watches a lot of youtube, reads a lot of yuri, is a he/him lesbian.

[kiisaes]

i wanted to fall in love after all...

[fortheknife]

[boccher]

witch hat atelier so far seems to be quite obviously about the disenfranchisement of children in academia and training so why did i only ever hear about those two yaoi men. do men likers even listen to the things they're watching

[monidoll]

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Run Away With Me, Girl (2018) by Battan, scanlation by Sexy Akiba Detectives

Moonlight Flowers (1989) by Tsukumo Mutsumi, scanlation by Lililicious

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i've been comparing these two in my head all week

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Run Away With Me, Girl (2018) by Battan, scanlation by Sexy Akiba Detectives

Moonlight Flowers (1989) by Tsukumo Mutsumi, scanlation by Lililicious

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salad eating challenge tonight?

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Are you team poop or pee?

listen buddy, i don't know who you are but let it be known i'll take no sides in this sick charade. Just So You Know , the debate was not team poop vs team pee it was team poop vs team FART. LEAVE ME ALONE

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happy bunch of friends friday to those who celebrate

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realised i actually don't like hen and its not very good and i'm not having fun reading it

[koyomism]

Citrus is founded in it’s characters being chained to roles in various ways.

You have Mei who ties her worth to taking over and managing the school her father abandoned, seeing it as the only way to save her families legacy—something she alone can bear. She sacrifices her own individuality to fulfill what other’s wishes for her are. Harumi does the same, hiding the individualistic side of herself from her strict older sister to to avoid getting in trouble, distinctly referring to herself as “a gyaru in disguise”. She’s not quite as sacrifice as Mei, but still suppresses certain aspects of herself and only lets her true self shine when not under the pressure of her sister or the school.

Then you have Yuzu, an outspoken, brash gyaru. An Individual to her core—someone completely unable to be contained by the boundaries of the school. She’s disliked vastly and threatened expulsion repeatedly, yet regardless she pushes through idealistically. She blazes her own trail.

I believe this ties into the gyaru subculture, unmistakably a massive part of Citrus’s identity as a series. The gyaru movement began because Japanese girls felt so much pressure from social norms, rules, and expectations that this was a form of rebellion. A complete flip of what was typically expected of a Japanese girl’s appearance and attitude, it is a vulgar, in your face form of self-expression—one that takes the will of someone completely willing to face judgment and disdain head on, and as seems to be a recurring line in Citrus, blaze their own trail.

This is also shown in how the series breaks two other social norms inherently: one in being a lesbian story, the other is how the main couple Yuzu and Mei are forced into the roles of being step-sisters despite having feelings for each other almost as soon as they meet. This concept is incredibly uncomfortable to some, but that is entirely the point. Their relationship is something that only needs to be understood by them, and the path they take is their own, regardless of labels or social norms.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

her voice was as silky as silken tofu. but her words were as firm as extra firm tofu

[ouroborosorder]

please appreciate my favorite gbc tweet of all time

[weiss--s]

my thesis

[shegs]

I FOUMDH IT

[princess-anri]

Regular Couple

[pawhold-deactivated20180415]

this ended homophobia

[nikoni]

happy pride month

[swaxe]

Today's LGBTQ+ Character of the day is

The Essential Worker (heavily implied)

[hotgirlcastiel]

[naturecalls111]

kakashi did something