The author of this series would be driven to literal IRL violence if they heard you saying this kinda shit. You'd be taking your life into your hands lol, that person is fucking SERIOUS about Yuri, they've literally made public presentations on the topic with titles like "Yuri Made Me Human".
Yeah, it's incredible lmao. Imagine spending almost a decade writing some of the most unique, powerful yuri stories, taking great care not to fall into tropes and cliches, all the while praising, defending, and working to move the genre forward, and ripping into people who minimize sapphic love. You put your pen down, check out some comments, and see someone saying that...
A woman desperately risking her life to find the woman she's in love with who's gone missing
A woman falling in love at first sight
A woman's feelings for another woman being strong enough to be used by
a monster who tricks people by appearing as their loved ones to trick them
Another woman desperately risking her life to find the woman she loves who's gone missing, who in turn has gone missing while looking for the woman that she loves who has gone missing
A woman willingly entering a lethal battlefield for a frantic rescue attempt
because she wants to make the woman she loves happy
A woman getting over her reservations about gunning down humans or anything human-shaped the moment the woman she loves is in danger
A woman constantly getting distracted by just how
intensely beautiful the woman she loves is
A woman barely even caring about the fact that she's face to face with a incomprehensible, malicious, eldritch monstrosity, because the woman she loves is dying in front of her
A woman becoming paralyzed in fear at just the
memory of the woman she loves almost dying
A woman seething at the very idea of including others in the bond she has with the woman she loves
A woman brimming with jealousy the moment the woman she loves points her love at someone else
A woman brimming with hatred towards the person who hurt and keeps hurting the woman she loves
A woman striving to better herself to not disappoint the woman she loves
A woman exploding with rage when the woman she loves is threatened in front of her
A woman immediately feeling safe and secure the moment she lays eyes on the woman she loves, despite having been kidnapped, trapped in an unknown location full of people trying to kill her,
seconds after almost being executed
A woman having no trouble killing to protect the woman she loves
A woman doing everything in her power to save the woman she loves, even if it makes her hate her for it, in the face of indescribable horrors
A woman confessing her love to another woman
A woman assuming that her confession is leading to a relationship, and being absolutely gutted and torn to shreds when she realizes she's been misunderstood
A woman proclaiming that she wants to spend the rest of her life together with the woman she loves
A woman seething at the fact that she woman she loves doesn't turn to her for help
A woman constantly putting the safety of the woman she loves above her own
A woman being overcome with such yearning when an opportunity to see the woman she loves naked presents herself that she can barely contain herself
A woman asking another woman to accompany her and the woman she loves to their hot springs trip because she's afraid she might go crazy if the two of them are on their own
A woman calling the woman she loves a
living, breathing, work of art upon seeing her even partially naked
A woman hating the woman that hurt and manipulated the woman she loves to such an intense degree that it
causes her to be haunted by her, in place of one of the two women who
actually knew and loved her
A woman confessing her love to another woman again
A woman reciprocating said confession in a drunken state
A woman showing explicit sexual interest in another woman, who in turn starts seething with hatred because she's been trying so incredibly hard not to act on her own interest
A woman resisting a direct attempt at brainwashing by an otherworldly being trying to tear her away from the woman she loves, because the idea of being separate from her is
that foreign to her
Two women knowing each other so well they're able to pick up on even the most minute changes in mood
Two women constantly comforting each other in each other's time of need, both through gentle, caring physical intimacy as well as constant affirmations that everything will be alright as long as they're together
Two women coming to trust each other so implicitly that the idea of them hurting or betraying each other simply has no place in their minds anymore
Two women being able to resist the kind of fear that leaves grown, hardened men shaking and throwing up, by virtue of them being there for each other
Two women being able to treat expeditions into a lethal, alternate dimension seemingly built for the
express purpose of driving humans crazy with fear, as casual, fun excursions out to town, due to being so taken with one another
...isn't a sign of anything romantic, and should not be considered yuri. It's "just a bit of handholding". It "doesn't mean anything".
Like... what do you even do at that point? What do you say to someone who thinks two women being in love doesn't count as yuri? Where do we go from here?