the stars are yuri

a strange humanoid artifact in disjoint time

[dollbandcry]

the mutsulings are growing

[dollbandcry]

because it was showing up as deleted for some, another link to op cus theyre one of my fave avemygo artists

[hanamukes]

☾⋆⁺₊✧ Alas, my love, you do me wrong...

[biorg]

[hatsuneuikapartitionposting]

[arcanobabble]

The absolute bottom line of "male socialisation" and the idea that trans women uniquely have to unlearn & atone for some innate connection to "AMAB" upbringing is, ultimately, the idea that being an oppressor is a facet of your identity and not the result of choices you consistently make. The end result of this thinking is, consciously or implicitly, believing that you do not have the same capacity to hurt and exploit others.

Men aren't misogynistic because they're men, they aren't misogynistic because they're uninformed or confused; like any privileged class, men are consistently offered means of leveraging oppression to their own benefit and they're rewarded for this more than anybody else. These aren't privileges given to """AMABs""", these are opportunities given to people who use them to uphold patriarchy & cisheteronormativity.

A trans woman, notably, is not going to be let into the Boy's Club because she has an M on her birth certificate.

If you believe that the average transfem needs to "unlearn male socialisation" or that she as a trans woman is probably more likely to be misogynistic, then the logical end result of that line of logic is that you consider yourself innately "safer" than others, less capable of wielding bigotry against someone.

Your oppressors are not marginalised woman who you frame as contaminated by the words of a doctor; they're people who are actively treating trans women like any other vulnerable class of women. When you decide that a group constantly targeted with vitriol and violence has to be kept at arms' length because of your own fear... That's you.

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[people-eating-frogs]

one thing I've noticed about people who take issue with TMA/TME is that they always construct some fictional scenario whereby the TME person will be asked/preassured to disclose their TME status by the TMA person and how this is bad. This is extremely funny to me cuz not only is the inverse INFINETELY more common (afab only events, (TME) lesbian meetups, etc. the amount of TME queers who have asked me some variation of "so do you have a penis?" "are you a tranny or just a drag queen" "are those real?" *gesturing at my boobs*, is in the middling double digits) but also, every single TME person I've ever interacted with has made their TME status abundantly clear by the way they act around me/talk to me, usually within the first 10 minutes.

this tells me they both don't realize how they act around transfems and also that they don't talk to that many of us to begin with, if this hypothetical is something they believe is likely to happen.

Like, I don't need to ask you. you're gonna let me know wether I like it or not.

[femalegrandma]

[transsexual-feminism]

Reminds me of this post by @corpsehusk-creaturedoll

This is transfeminism!

[betakaratene]

Rentarou discovers the Wigan Kebab: I can't bring myself to finish this

[yuriskies]

I gotta keep banging the drum for the Twinstar Cyclone Runaway novels. Some of the best genre yuri out there—I think they're just as good as Otherside Picnic is at creating a solid romance that also serves as a vehicle for the story's themes. Long-time sci-fi author Issui Ogawa made his first venture into yuri here, but you really can't tell.

It's got the classic pulpy hard-sf setup: people in the far future live in orbit around a gas giant and use giant shape-shifting rocket boats to catch fish made out of psionic clay in its atmosphere. Terra is an orphaned rocket boat owner approaching her mid-20s, desperately trying to find a husband so she can live her dreams of spending time in the exotic fishing grounds. None of her trial fishing runs for marriage get anywhere, but then she's approached by Diode, an enigmatic 18 yo who asks if Terra will let her fly the boat. The two prove to have a spark, but they prove to have an uphill battle against social norms and fishing regulations that restrict fishing to husband-wife pairs. As they do, their convenient working relationship begins to blend into their personal lives.

Terra and Diode are pretty fun characters; if you've seen G-Witch they almost feel like archetypes for Suletta and Miorine—socially-awkward teddy bear with an assertive side and extremely technical ice queen hiding her fragile side by sheer force of personality. (The timeline works out on this, the first TCR novel dropped in 2020.) Their interpersonal dynamic is really fun. It captures that nervous energy of finally meeting someone on your wavelength and the fear of whether it'll explode on the way up to orbit.

Ogawa's choice to plunk a lesbian couple into a moresetting like this was a clever choice. Patriarchal norms are often embedded in the ideal of technocratic governance, both irl and in scifi, and Terra and Diode's relationship serves as a vehicle of poking at those norms. Here, the norms claim a justification from the thin margins of survival and the need to maintain "social stability"; Terra and Diode experience it as an excuse for harassment and infringements on their bodily autonomy. The political history of this viewpoint feels almost invisibly woven into the work, which is to say it never exposes itself through the expository sequences sf is infamous for, but emerges in bits and pieces from character interactions and plot beats.

It's a really successful melding of romance with sci-fi that is fascinating whether you're there for one or the other. Read it read it read it it's SO good.

There's not an official TL, but there's a non-MTL fan translation in progress that's most of the way through the second book in the four-book series. It's on dynasty, which also links to an html version. There's also a completed manga adaptation that's been scanlated to English, but it makes some changes to characters and the plot that I think shortchange the romance elements. It's not a bad visual guide but the novels are a lot better.

[yuriskies]

Good news! The fan tl just finished volume 2 yesterday!

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

Unfortunate: You followed your horndog best friend's relationship advice and it turned out to be good advice so now she's going to be insufferable.

[lea-knows-the-devil]

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

Girlfriend too popular...

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

MURCIELAGO ANIME ANNOUNCED!!!!

[teratocrat]

FOUND THESE HARLOTS RUTTING RIGHT THERE IN THE STREET. LET'S ALL CASTIGATE & SHUN THEM AS A COMMUNITY BONDING EXERCISE

[mossspinner]

Drown in the past.