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I live in California now (I grew up in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan) and yes America is confusing and direct and sooooo huggy like I went down to see one of the agencies I work with in SoCal and they hugged me and in my head I was screaming uhm this is a work situation I am your client
Oh my god, not just stranger-hugging but work-related stranger-hugging, I am cringing DDD: I’ve hugged colleagues, but only people I actually worked with regularly, and even then it’s kind of like ‘this is only okay because we both find it awkward, but it’s less awkward than saying feelings words aloud’. I feel like so much social interaction in the UK is predicated on everyone silently but mutually feeling really, really awkward about it happening (until we all get drunk, anyway).
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also I've noticed american friends of mine seem to think Yuri is pure as driven snow and doesn't know what his male member is for and uhm no he is just a standard japanese male he has DEFINITELY thought about sex
I mean I suppose it’s kind of impressive that people can write Yuuri like he’s culturally a white dude but still bring in all that ‘East Asian men are delicate flowers who don’t know what sex is’ bs.
But seriously, I just... we did all watch the same show, right, where Yuuri refers to himself as ‘enthralling men’, responds enthusiastically to Victor telling him to seduce him, whose internal monologue contains such gems as ‘I want to be hated as the man who took Victor from the world’ and ‘I’m the only one who can satisfy Victor’, and who yanks Victor around by the necktie in front of a stadium full of people? Or where Yuuri spent puberty in a room plastered with posters of Victor, which I’m going to hazard a guess were inspiring things other than just his nascent skating career?
He’s reserved and emotionally guarded and probably not all that romantically/sexually experienced (though as I’ve mentioned before, I really don’t think Victor is either), but he’s not a fucking child for goodness’ sake.
Also because apparently I’m on a roll now, god all the language about ~purity~ and ~wholesomeness~ and being a ~cinnamon roll~ or whatever that people use around Yuuri sets my dirty old gay* teeth on edge. I get that this fandom seems to skew really young, at least on tumblr, and that a lot of these kids are themselves not straight and are probably expressing internalised issues as much as anything, but no being gay and wanting to fuck people is not ‘sinning’! It’s not shocking or scandalous! It’s completely normal and healthy and fun! And you can in fact have gay sex without playing hetero dress-up and adhering slavishly to ‘roles’ forever and ever!
*I’m actually not remotely old and am all about smoochy romantic vanilla monogamy, but this is tumblr, where ‘a few months shy of thirty’ and ‘enjoys having sex with other women’ apparently makes me perverted lesbian Methuselah.