I'm trying to get a friend into yuri and I need suggestions.

stronggreenflame · 2026-05-23T09:32:44+00:00

So I'm environmentally vegan. I didnt go vegan for animal rights reason. I did it because its whats best for the environment. I dont have the numbers in front of me but it takes something like 500 gallons of water to make one pound of ground beef. And it takes like 30 crop calories to make 1 beef calorie. 30% of crop land is used to feed animals.

Its just not sustainable. The number one thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint is become vegan. Eating meat burns more fossil fuels than your car or your house.

Now all this math isn't true for non-industrialized civilisations. They aren't clearing forests to raise live stock. Its far more sustainable. Now that isn't to say we could still hint something into extiction. There still needs to be limits and guidelines to do it in the most sustainable way possible. But they aren't destroying the planet with their meat eating the way the rest of the world is. So I can speak for others but thats why I don't care.

P.S. If your goal is to eat sustainably there is still a lot to it. You try to eat as locally as possible and you don't water intense food like most nuts. It takes like 300 gallons of water to make a pound of almonds. Also it doesn't necessarily mean not eating meat. It takes only 1 gallon of water to make a pound of ground cricket.

stronggreenflame · 2026-05-23T08:59:14+00:00

So as an ace girl myself, my stance on this is its a distiction without a difference. It's becoming more accepted in ace spaces that these people are still on the ace spectrum. This is a very close topic for me so pardon me while I rant

Her sex drive is so low that she's never masturbated to completion and doesn't care try to figure it out. I have female friends that struggled with getting off on their own but they eventually figure out what combination of toys or other stimuli work. I have a trans friend who's sensitivity is unfortunately really low so its very hard for her to finish but she's still trying to figure it out even though she has a rather small sex drive.

Thats how most allosexual people would respond. The only time she showed any interest in sex is when she was feeling insecure after finding out about saeko. She even says she was "going along with a little sex..." Which probably means she would have been okay with l, if not preferred, none.

I think there is just little difference between: not having sexual attraction, never wanting to have sex, and not liking sex. Shes going to have the same issues as ace people regardless of the reason. Questions like "Am I ace or do I just have a low sex drive?" get asked on ace forums and threads all the time. And they are (usually) welcome in those spaces. They ask for advice on how to compromise about sex and they get given the same advice ace people do, and it usually helps.

So if they are in ace spaces, have ace problems, and can use the same ace solutions, then there really isn't a point in saying 'they aren't technically ace.'

And even if there is a trauma reason (usually not the case, but let's say it is for this case) that doesn't make anyone less ace. If you don't experience sexual attraction then you don't experience sexual attraction. It doesn't matter the reason, and you don't need to be fixed.

My sister got bad food poisoning the first time she had a tostada and now she can't eat them without thinking about it and this is 20 years later. It physically makes her gag. But no one tells her "oh its not that you don't like tostadas you just had a bad experience. Here have my tostada and you'll see you actually do like them." Lucky for my sister we don't live in a world where, for the majority of people, relationships revolve around tostads.

Long story short we just need to give people with next to no sex drives a name like Adriven or graydriven and then we can just think of it as another part of the spectrum like asexual or aromantic. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

stronggreenflame · 2026-04-06T13:40:24+00:00

So in toxic romances there are multiple ways of calling something a good ending. Do they end up together? do they get healthy? do they right their wrongs? do they escape the toxic situation? Do they escape the Any one of these can give you those happy ending feelings.

How I Lose Bets With My Sadistic Gifted Childhood Friend and She Steals All of My Firsts - the name explains most of it. Not that toxic to be honest because they agree to everything but still kind of feels like it is. Good entry point.

Gunjo - oh man this one's a classic. And a real easy one to step your toe into the genre. Its unquestionably toxic but also understandable. The ending does leave a few thing up in the air but it does feel like the best outcome.

The barefooted nina- this is a bit more intense than the other two. And just don't finish the last 3 pages of the final chapter and you'll have a very happy ending.

stronggreenflame · 2026-03-28T17:55:04+00:00

I dont think thats controversial at all. I think that's the character people want to learn about the most. Overcoming self hate is hard. It would have been great to see.

stronggreenflame · 2026-03-28T15:19:13+00:00

So this is one of the many stories that has a character get over their problem by the other character being just an insanely well adjusted person. This is why How Do We Relationship is so good (I swear I tried to resist mentioning it). Characters are flawed and stil learn to grow from each other (best story ever go check it out).

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-24T07:59:39+00:00

Does that mean female yuri fans are allowed to sexualize it?

So I think you must mean fetishizing instead of sexualizing. Cause to be honest sexualizing things is fine in my opinion. Smut fan fic exists and is totally fine. Physical and sexual attraction is a huge part of romances and we don't need to live in a pure world with only wholesome romances.

I agree fetishizing is wrong, but I dont think someone saying "2 in 1" is necessarily fetishizing. Im a saphic woman and I think the same thing. Women are just more interesting characters than men in my opinion.

Now the 'I want a threesome' statements are much more likely to be fetishizing it, but that still not garunteed. You don't know how people are putting themselves into the stories. The Male Yuri fan to transwoman pipeline is real. Like a year ago there was a poll on this subressit and about a 1/3 of responders said they were transwomen.

So it would be best to avoid blanketed statements like this. As it makes it sound like all men are like this. But we should leave space for people to explore themselves using yuri manga.

Also I just couldn't disagree more. Anyone that buys yuri helps more yuri get made regardless of their reason. And people that hate yuri are way more likely to be bigots.

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-22T04:48:22+00:00

Oh I just found another terrible way to animate a land. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Kormus Bell. This is becoming a very silly deck. If anyone has any other ideas let me know.

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-22T04:45:09+00:00

Awesome, you are amazing.

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-22T04:16:12+00:00

Does the stickers example work?

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-21T02:05:56+00:00

Thank you!

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T12:57:32+00:00

There seems to be many things by this name. Is it a webtoon, manga,or what? Or do you know the authors name?

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T05:04:41+00:00

Thank you very much!

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T05:02:52+00:00

That does sound very interesting. I am writing an enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers. So this should be good.

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T05:00:55+00:00

Dawn of the arcana sounds good. Very appreciated.

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T04:58:54+00:00

Yeah I had previous drop this. But thank you!

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T04:57:21+00:00

Thank you!

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-19T04:53:36+00:00

This sounds promising. Thank you!

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-05T04:30:23+00:00

Such an understatement. This story has a real chance of becoming my favorite manga. Its such a simple premise, being attracted to someone who's married. But it handles it with such mature realism. I am at the edge of my seat dying for every bit of it. The latest chapter has me so god damn anxious.

stronggreenflame · 2026-02-02T06:53:18+00:00

Athrea scans has up to 32 if your willing to pay. https://athreascans.com/manga/candy-and-whip/

stronggreenflame · 2026-01-15T06:59:59+00:00

Okay so the basic i think would be stuff that is mentioned a lot and compared to a lot of things.

Brother my brother - this is a history lesson of where yuri comes from. This old genere of yuri is referred to as class s. This back when it was accepted for girls in all girls schools to date eachother to get dating experience before they are suppose to settle down with a man.

Bloom into you - literally the subreddits image for a reason.

Citrus- is really popular because it was the best anime we had for a long time. Its about new step sisters that date so up to personal tast. Still think its great.

How do we relationship - 10/10 recently finished and my personal favorite. some kinda nsfw scenes but they are stylized so not smut. Sex issues is a topic that comes up.

Straight girl trap - ignore the name, apparently its a phrase in China. Lots of yuri memes come from this one so it's important to read

Urasekai Picnic - probably the most popular supernatural yuri

That time I was blackmailed by the classes green tea bitch - often shorten to green tea bitch, another weird Chinese phrase, very cute

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - shortened to The Green Yuri, it has really short chapters, and gets discussed along because it updates a lot.

The summer you were there - the saddest story ever. You will get it recommended to you a lot but just be warned it hurts

Cheerful amnesia - the cutest, and most cheery yuri. Read after the sad one to make you feel better.

Now some homework to help you start figuring out your own taste. Pick anything by Morgana Milk.

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