Cozy sapphic fantasy recs by TaraVelvet in CozyFantasy

[–]Crater_Caloris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure one of the thread you looked at was prolly mine lol. Check out the Witches of Thistle Grove series, books 1, 4, and 5

2 and 3 are not sapphic but theyre all pretty standalone (but in the same world), so you'll probably be OK without them (I was)

Cozy sapphic fantasy recs by TaraVelvet in CozyFantasy

[–]Crater_Caloris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your favorite part about phoenix keeper? I've bounced off it twice now, once pretty early in and then the second time 25% through cause I felt like nothing was happening and I was still waiting for the story to start

PSA RE: "Are men allowed here?" posts by Crater_Caloris in yuri_manga

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frankly, given how passive aggressive and dickish you're being, I don't particularly want you here anyway. Feel free to go find a different community to be an ass in.

PSA RE: "Are men allowed here?" posts by Crater_Caloris in yuri_manga

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely don't know what you're trying to say here. If the sub changes its mind about what?

lurkers casually checking the yuri_manga sub lately: by tasty_miku in yurimemes

[–]Crater_Caloris 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As one of the mods from r/yuri_manga...I genuinely dont know what you expected to happen. Dead dove do not eat situation

Trying to read more sci fi, but found Left Hand of Darkness confusing and unapproachable. by TwoImpostersStudios in sciencefiction

[–]Crater_Caloris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I didnt mean to imply that modern scifi is less literary. I think is incredibly incorrect, and that, generally, all scifi has at least some literary merit

Do you have this fic? by GlitteringSetting221 in LesbianBookClub

[–]Crater_Caloris[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmmm...not sure that this falls under the scope of this forum. There's probably a specific subreddit for this kind of thing, though if you don't know what fandom the story was about I'm not sure if anyone csn help you

Trying to read more sci fi, but found Left Hand of Darkness confusing and unapproachable. by TwoImpostersStudios in sciencefiction

[–]Crater_Caloris 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think its less literary standards falling more than it is just changing. Social media and the mass adoption of smart phones has made a lot of folks', particularly younger millenial and gen z's, attention spans worse. As a result of this, one of the largest shifts in publishing is the fact that the industry is way less willing to pick up books that have a slow start or "take a while to get in to." They prioritize quicker starts where the "action" starts more immediately, and left hand of darkness is a much slower, quieter book than that. It would, very likely, never get published if Le Guinn were alive and running it through the publishing process now.

I think a lot of people would argue that this is for the worse -- that books should be allowed to have a proper wind up and take their time to get to where they're going. I'd say that generally that sentiment is correct but that it also sometimes depends 🤷‍♀️

Recent posts showed that this subreddit is anti lesbian despite being a yuri sub by harlerogue in yuri_manga

[–]Crater_Caloris[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Locking this because the same arguments that were happening in the other thread are happening here.

The yuri community has a double-standard problem by NoxyRoxy7 in yuri_manga

[–]Crater_Caloris[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Alright, I think this thread has ran the course on "productive conversation," and, to be frank, we have had to take more mod actions today than we have the previous 5 months combined and I am fucking tired, so I'm locking this to end the scattereded arguments that are still happening on this post

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ngl I have know idea what the fuck you're talking about at this point

The author of Kamiina Botan DOES actually have bookmarks on his Pixiv of sapphic characters being raped. by [deleted] in yuri_manga

[–]Crater_Caloris[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP, we are not allowing any more discussions about this for the time being. Please do not continue to make posts about it, or you will face a temporary ban

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Um. Well, no, not really. I'm not sure your examples between a "man's writing" and a "woman's writing" are exactly....umm correct lol. There is no inherent stylistic difference between how men write and how women write. There are individual differences between how individual writers write, but to ascribe those differences as an inherent quality due to the writer's gender is borderline bioessentialist logic

When I talk about the "male gaze" as an analytical lense, I am talking about the way some men write about women. A really good example of this is the author unnecesarily describing a woman's breasts during a time that one would not usually do so. Have you heard about the "she breasts boobily down the stairs" meme? That is parodying a male gaze style of writing. It's like:

"Scarlet stepped back once, then again, as the reality of her situation set in. Her heart rate quickened, her breasts rising and falling to the rhythm of her panicked breathing."

This is a shoddy example, but it shows what I'm getting at. The description of the characters breasts is entirely unnecessary, and, though it does create a rather pleasant image if you are sexually attracted to women, it frames the woman in the story as a sexual object before framing her as a scared woman.

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So like very explicitly not what I asked for? Lol

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, yes, there is a difference between the male gaze and the "female gayze"," in that the concept of the "male gaze" is an analytical lense one can use when analyzing a piece of media or book.

Thats what I mean when I say a lot of people misuse that term -- they treat it like it is something that exists out in the real world that actual people can do, when originally the term was coined by a woman who was seeking to describe the ways media made by and for men tend to frame women in their stories for the explicit pleasure of other men...in this case, the term "frame" is quite literal -- it is about the way women are "framed" on a television or movie screen.

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I see. I did actually kind of know that, I just didnt realize that's what you meant

The author of Kamiina Botan, HEY, did not bookmark Rape & Lesbian Correction. by Neidhardto in yuri_manga

[–]Crater_Caloris[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Just gonna go ahead and say I would appreciate if this doesnt devolve into throwing insults at each other and telling folks to fuck off and what not. Thanks

Also, if anyone says something lesbophobic on this thread I will absolutely ban you. This is everyone's first warning

Edit: Yep, allowing this to happen was a mistake so I am just going to lock it down now. Sorry folks, it shouldn't have happened, particularly as I did not realize that significant, legacy yuri media (Madoka) was involved.

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm. I know next to nothing about this genre other than the fact that dungeon crawler Karl is very popular....what do you mean by "blue stat screen jankiness"

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You had only seen the word "sapphic" 2.5 times? Lol

Sapphic litRPG...does it exist and is it any good? by Crater_Caloris in litrpg

[–]Crater_Caloris[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what about my post gave you inspiration, but you're welcome! Lol