SiioSytri

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xenofem
@xenofem

yuri is a collection of storytelling tropes based around "lesbian content without lesbian identity"

yuri is when a girl kisses another girl on the mouth

yuri is an evolving subgenre of stories with lesbian themes ranging anywhere from entirely subtextual to explicitly stated

yuri is when a girl could kiss another girl on the mouth but doesn't

yuri is a park bench in autumn, strewn with the fallen leaves of the tree whose branches spread out above it

yuri is when two or more girls are in a time loop

yuri is when a girl calls another girl her sister even though they're not related

yuri is lesbian media created by Japanese artists or otherwise rooted in Japanese pop-cultural tropes and genre forms

yuri is when a girl gets in a swordfight with or for another girl

yuri is when two women characters talk to each other about something other than a man

yuri is when your ribbon is crooked

yuri is a sword

yuri is a car

yuri is when two or more girls are in a time loop

yuri is fantasy

yuri is reality

yuri is love

yuri is extinction

yuri is my job

yuri is a narrative subgenre which emerged out of the "Class S" stories of the early 20th century, which were inspired by the increasing number of girls in Japan attending all-girls' boarding schools, functioning as temporary isolated environments where ...

yuri is when girls make eye contact

yuri is when a girl does something and there are lilies in the foreground

yuri is when girls exist in a superposition of all four Homestuck quadrants simultaneously

yuri is when two or more girls are in a time loop


beige-alert
@beige-alert

yuri is when a yuri post gets rebugged by two or more girls, in a time loop


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in reply to @xenofem's post:

that wording is from Erica Friedman, one of the biggest Western scholars studying yuri. she does also say it's more complicated than that, and I do think that definition is slowly becoming a bit less true over time. but I still think it captures something real about the foundations and history of the genre, and helps me as well in articulating some of the frustrations I sometimes have with yuri works and yuri tropes.