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HEY YOU

Do you like YURI?

Do you wish there was MORE YURI?

Can you MAKE YURI?

Do you just want to find people to TALK ABOUT YURI WITH?

Then do I have the event for you!

What is YSO?

YSO, standing for Yuri Shipping Olympics, is an annual event where people gather to make as much sapphic art as possible. All forms of creation are encouraged. Art, writing, edits, fanmixes, anything you can think of!

How do we compete?

You form a team of likeminded yuri warriors and together, you all create as much yuri as possible and rack up points for your team. The winners get bragging rights, become immortalised into the past winners Hall of Fame, and a nice glow in their hearts at having created lots of yuri (and maybe even some new friendships).

Teams can range from being centred on a particular pairing (ex: Team Rosemary, Team Caitvi), a particular work of fiction (ex: Team Fire Emblem, Team RWBY), or even for a whole genre or medium (ex: Team Horror, Team Video Games). Sign up for the team of your choice, or form your own team, with black jack and hookers!

Even if you’re not one for making, we’re always keen to have people who just want in to talk about yuri. You can come on into our official discord server here and chat with likeminded yuri warriors to your heart’s content!

Is there anything that’s not permitted?

No AI generated works

No incest

No adult/minor

No NSFW content of underaged characters

Teams have to be centred around canon female characters

Other than that, you’re good to go!

So what are you waiting for? Sign-ups are here, and the discord link is here. Go, make art, have fun, yuri warriors unite!!

#tabby says something #yuri #femslash #hkss #suselle #bug yuri #kpdh #polytrix #playroughshipping #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #bisexual woman

Which doll line cast is most likely to join a people’s army?

Barbie and friends

The Bratz

Ever After High cast

Monster High cast

Descendants cast

Strawberry Shortcake and friends

Polly Pocket and friends

Jem and the Holograms

Disney Princesses

Other doll line

Voting ended onApr 3

No She-Ra, MLP, or proper magical girl warrior/superheroine line. That’s cheating.

#tabby says something #dolls #polls

We are a quarter into the year, and in this time, I managed to read and finish two books for the @2026-book-bingo . Wish I had managed to read more, but oh well. Any reading is better than none.

For cultural non-fiction, I read How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney. Since I neither live in any African country, nor have any significant African ancestry, I figured that this book counts for the purposes of this challenge. It’s an older book, published in 1972! But even though it had been published so long ago, it is sadly still a very relevant book. It talks about the way European imperialism had worked to underdevelop the African continent.

Even as someone who typically finds economics difficult to understand, I found that this book was relatively easy for me to read. Walter Rodney explains complex topics clearly without sacrificing substance. While some things seem rather outdated to me — for example, I wonder if he would have written about the ethnic groups in Rwanda differently in the modern day — overall, it holds up quite well. I read it and really felt like I got a better understanding of the world. In that regard, I recommend this book for anyone hoping to learn more about the African continent, and its relationship with the global economy.

As for my pink cover entry, I read Son of Singapore by Tan Kok Seng. Incidentally, another book initially published in 1972.

This one is a book that’s much closer to home. It’s the memoir of a Singaporean man, detailing his early life in the country. From being born during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore during World War 2, to his time in school, to his early employment as a coolie at a marketplace, all the way to the series of events which lead to him being employed as a personal driver.

It was interesting looking at the way my country was before I had been born, especially from someone who was an everyday Singaporean, as opposed to someone like a politician. The descriptions about how he and his family and friends navigated the world were quite fascinating. Though there were moments which did made me flinch as I read it — in particular some of his descriptions of different people (such as his fat first employer, or the African couple he had been assigned to pick up on his first day as a driver) aged poorly in my opinion.

Still, I think I am still overall happy I picked the book up, and I may read his other books too (as part of my attempts to read more local literature, if for nothing else).

#tabby says something #book bingo 2026

Here’s the situation: a magical girl team is actively recruiting for a new member to join them, and you get to pick out a girl to send their way.

Which of these do you send their way?

Final girl from horror movie franchise

Misunderstood teenage daughter in sitcom

Overworked, underappreciated secretary from workplace comedy

Dead Mom (reincarnated)

Love interest doomed to be murdered in a drama

Action heroine from some semi-disposable boy targeted work of fiction

Ex-villainess kicked out of her villain squad

Spirited girl from a harem show

Sassy comic relief friend in coming-of-age movie

Other (write in tag)

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

Bonus if you have a specific character you would make a magical girl. Go.

#tabby says something #talk about girls polls #polls #female characters

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Does tumblr, the website, like women?

tumblr (Website, 2007)

Does it like women?

Yes

See Results

Voting ended onNov 29, 2025

Explain your reasoning in the reblogs!

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Scoring at an adjusted 15.4% of approximately 3,823 scoring votes, tumblr DOES NOT LIKE women!

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Since the last poll had its results released, I think it’s time to share this.

Early on, I started doing a personal challenge alongside the running polls. I would write one line for every work which got the ‘mixed feelings’ result, three lines for every work that got the ‘does not like’ result, and five lines for every work that got the ‘hates’ result. This was as a supplement to my own regular writing targets. (For example, if two works got ‘does not like’ on a particular day, I would write six additional lines alongside my writing target for the day.) The only exception were those within the final 200 or so results, which I worked my way through over the previous three days.

In total, I have written 91 lines for the ‘mixed feelings’ results, 1,029 lines for the ‘does not like’ results, and 735 lines for the ‘hates’ results. What I have to show for it is two short stories, a lot of short story drafts that did not work at all, and approximately two drafts for a web serial.

The two short stories are here. (20k short story) (3k short story) I don’t know if they really are up to par with the ideal of a work that ‘likes women’. There’s things I’m not super happy with, especially with the 20k story. But I tried, and I guess trying can’t hurt if I’m aiming to improve.

#truthfully i still feel nervous sharing this because it feels like i'm sticking my neck out for judgement #it's probably important that i do so anyways #the funny thing is i feel like doing this challenge kind of made me view this blog in a slightly different way #i didn't vote most of the time; the only thing i remember voting in was the mob psycho poll (no)#and that was because instinctively i knew people would vote more yeses than was warranted imo #i stopped reading the notes regularly past the 300-ish mark #mostly because it was only serving to make me think poisonous thoughts about other people #and when most of my mind is poisonous thoughts about other people it's so much harder to create #i guess ultimately my point is that i leaned into trying to create something good instead with this as motivation #and i think i made a good call doing that

It’s like. I get that it’s deeply annoying that fandom spaces by and large focus in so much on male characters at the expense of female ones. I get that it sucks that f/f almost never gets talked about or made. I get that it’s irritating, it’s exhausting, especially when so many of the excuses people have to avoid interrogating why this is are repetitive, over-regurgitated arguments. It’s sucks. It fucking sucks. I get that.

But I think we should also come to terms with the fact that this conversation - at least as carried out on social media - is in a deadlock, and it’s been that way for over a decade at this point. If anyone is still unconvinced, they’re going to need a more dramatic paradigm shift than what posts can provide. Posting about it is, unfortunately, kind of functionally useless, and a lot of the tactics people invested in this are currently trying out to change things are ineffective.

We do not need to do this. We do not need to post ship stats every year for people who will never care; we do not need to boil this down to mathematics. I think ultimately it is much, much better and more productive to try and focus on creation, to hone in on what you can do. Leave the stubborn and small-minded to mind their own business, and work on bringing the best you can to people who will appreciate it. Create, share, foster communities you want to create. I think this is better than trying to convince people who will refuse to change otherwise, and hardening your heart in the process.

#tabby says something

It’s getting a little harder for me to deal with people when I’m feeling kind of middling these days. But I’m beginning to create things again. Maybe things will be better then.

#tabby says something #wikipedia poetry #wikipedia #my wikipedia poetry #my wikipedia poems #wikipedia poems

Choose One to Turn into a Girl for Yuri Reasons*

The hero/leader

The snarky foil to the leader

The smart nerd

The sweet-but-dull muscle

The comic relief guy

The main villain

The main villain’s henchman

Other

Voting ended onSep 3, 2025

*meaning to pair with The Girl that the writers don’t really know what to do with

#tabby says something #polls

Without looking it up, do you know what the plastic tip of a shoelace is called?

Gen Alpha - Yes

Gen Alpha - No

Gen Z - Yes

Gen Z - No

Millennial - Yes

Millennial - No

Gen X - Yes

Gen X - No

Boomer - Yes

Boomer - No

Silent Gen - Yes

Silent Gen - No

Voting ended onJul 6, 2025

#tabby says something #polls

And you know, the crazy thing is that I just realised that maybe some of my envy for other people is rooted in the idea that I can’t actually see what my best self looks like. So I just long to copy other people hoping that I can get close to that. Because that’s brilliance I can actually see. And that’s just so much more easier to attain than my own brilliance, which might not even exist.

#tabby says something #wikipedia #Wikipedia poetry #identity #my wikipedia poetry #my Wikipedia poems #Wikipedia poems

Hello, yuri warrior, has this ever happened to you?

Don't you wish you could do something about this besides grumbling about the annoying nature of fandom spaces?

Well have I got a solution for you!

Join the Yuri Shipping Olympics today!

What are the Yuri Shipping Olympics, you might ask? Well, the Yuri Shipping Olympics are an annual yuri challenge, where artists, writers, and all manner of creative folks come together, form teams, and create in service of their favourite f/f ships. This year I will be leading a team dedicated to various different video game ships. (And I'm also specifically recruiting all gamers who wanna create more yuri!)

But you could also form a team based on a specific ship or theme, or join one of our many teams now! (Teams have covered everything from Horror animanga to Total Drama to even original characters!)

You can follow us on Tumblr at @yuriolympics, and even join our discord server. And if you're not particularly up for creating, you can even join up as a voting member, where you get to vote for your favourite works produced during this challenge.

So what are you waiting for? Make friends, celebrate yuri, create, collaborate. Join the Yuri Shipping Olympics today!