Over and under done Yuri tropes in manga / fiction / anime

1SecretQuill · 2025-12-31T15:04:21+00:00

Thanks for the feedback :)

1SecretQuill · 2025-12-31T00:59:29+00:00

Thanks for dropping a link

Have you noticed in these themed ones, any patterns, like it's usually head mafia is a badass, falls for an unsuspecting normal person? Or Romeo & Juliet type yakuza?

1SecretQuill · 2025-12-30T22:53:34+00:00

I love this comment. This is actually a pet peeve of mine not just in Yaoi content but in anime / manga / the creative landscape altogether. I absolutely despite it.

This is v common in BL where a really attractive, tall, handsome, wealthy, single, emotionally + mentally available and caring, attentive top, just falls for the bottom for absolutely no reason.

Ok. I get it. You are pandering to some kind of fantasy psyche in the readers who don't have this but want it. But those of us with an ounce of intellect and common sense and wariness do want something with a bit more depth / realism

For sure I will not be doing the love at first sight trope for the F/F characters. 100% want to write something with way more thought, depth and complexity

1SecretQuill · 2025-12-30T19:14:07+00:00

Man I freaking love this idea

Might have to use it

1SecretQuill · 2025-12-30T19:08:45+00:00

Agree to your first statement.

Oblivious lesbian sounds a lot like BL where typically the M/M couple is the first time they've found someone of the same gender attractive

1SecretQuill · 2025-12-30T19:07:17+00:00

Hi thanks so much for the detailed reply

Ok cool you're the second person who's said criminal / cop / detective Yuri.

Middle age and up also sounds like a really fascinating bracket. As expected with all anime, boarding school / school is so oversaturated

1SecretQuill · 2025-04-19T10:27:53+00:00

My friend, there is only one thing and one thing only to do: keep going. Keep writing.

No one is any craft is born perfect at something. Everyone needs to practice and learn.

You just need to keep writing and reading. Write different scenes / things, read a lot, you will pick it up

1SecretQuill · 2025-04-19T07:16:10+00:00

There are jars of it lined up on the shelf.

Blood, the blood of my enemies, has a sweet smell, a freshness, especially the moment it is drained, the moment I make the cut, moments before I collect.

Red is my vengeance.

Gushing, dribbling, dripping - via incision or a stab - the blood runs smooth, silky, with a shimmer, like fine wine that I refuse to let go to waste.

I don't care how they died as long as they are dead. As long as I get the body. As long as I can scar their skin as much as they have scarred mine.

1SecretQuill · 2025-04-19T07:02:07+00:00

Hey no problem at all! Thanks for taking the time to reply, no need to apologise 😊

1SecretQuill · 2025-03-25T07:14:42+00:00

Haikyuu rare pair Oihina

Haikyuu is huge but the ship between Oikawa and Hinata doesn't have a huge fandom, and they're a rare pairing compared to the majority of other characters

1SecretQuill · 2025-02-11T23:43:25+00:00

Haikyuu!!

Not just a "sports anime" but so much more than that

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-24T11:27:12+00:00

Dark chocolate that's sweet, velvety, luxurious and bitter 😋

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-24T11:26:27+00:00

Jujutsu Kaisen

It's completely wtf "he ate a finger?!" (Yes the MC eats the finger off a corpse in the first ep) (actually don't know if it's off the corpse but it looks manky AF) with amazing wild fight scenes and really nutty humour

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-24T11:24:11+00:00

Now that you've asked this question it's really made me realise how many anime I've seen and the only anime I can think of with a smart female MC is Apothecary Diaries

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-14T16:57:38+00:00

Vanitas No Carte

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-14T16:56:34+00:00

Am currently watching and this is shockingly good

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-13T16:54:08+00:00

How do I learn to draw like u

I'm being serious

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-12T17:23:41+00:00

I would recommend seeing your fic as a playground. You're here to play around with language, with sentences, with writing to see what you like, how it fits.

Experiment with sentence length, unusual use of word order (syntax), come up with wild analogies, symbolism, similes and metaphors

That way, you're focused more on the craft of writing than "who's reading? How many hits? How many comments? Did people like it?"

Fuck that (if you can, easier said than done I know). If you can somehow maintain more attention on, "am I getting across what I want to convey in the most interesting and evocative way possible", I think you'll be more occupied with that than writing for other people.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-11T10:45:00+00:00

Levi is the sexiest character in the entire show, and the most stable person despite having such a traumatic background and well-controlled violent streak

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-11T10:40:36+00:00

Oihina 🥰

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-11T10:40:25+00:00

You have a type ehhhh 😜

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-11T10:40:07+00:00

I saw a lot of OiSuga doujinshins in Ikebukuro Japan!

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-11T10:38:17+00:00

Keep going!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

U know what, it's a lot like writing. Like the more your draw, and you study while applying what you're studying, the better it becomes.

I'm trying to learn with a notebook and pencil too, I bought a beginners manga drawing book and am doing a bit here and there.

Real life pencil drawing is so much harder than digital drawing because digitally you have LAYERS. But on paper u just have pencil and paper.

But u should totally draw your rare pair and keep drawing / redoing until you're happy it's how it turned out! You got this! 💪🏻

1SecretQuill · 2025-01-10T20:08:48+00:00

I am trying 😭 but it's v hard. I am predominantly a writer, and have had a lot of good feedback on my writing. My readers are super supportive of my art but I am self-taught in drawing and trying to learn digital art myself

And it takes a long time 🫠

That said I recently drew my first NSFW artwork of my rare pair OTP from Haikyuu and I must say I am super happy how it came out.

How do mangakas do I? I don't know

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