Old yuuparu art that tumblr wouldn't let me post for valentines day #yuriphobic... BUT HAPPY LESBIAN WEEK

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yuugi...

People (twitter users, previous, incorrect generations of hifuu shippers) have some very strange understandings of sex dynamics. It's like they'll look at Kanako Yasaka and say, ah, yes, this woman is tall! And has a vaguely bitchy face in Mountain of Faith! She must be a top and a domme!

And no. Kanako can only top if Suwako tells her to. This isn't even specifically a lesbian culture thing, it's right in the fucking omake for Mountain of Faith that Suwako's the one who's really in charge of the Moriya Shrine. Sorry if this is difficult for the viewers.

It's kinda like people looking at YuuParu and thinking Yuugi is a top, when the whole dynamic of that ship is that Yuugi is a perpetually joyful meathead and Parsee has depression and malice. Parsee tops because Yuugi wants her to feel happy and loved through feeling powerful and agentic in doing whatever she wants to a big scary oni. Sheesh.

some yuuparu thoughts we’re having tonight

parsee is obsessive and clingy because she’s claimed yuugi as a trophy wife. she wants everyone to know that the two are So Madly In Love they can’t get off each other in public. everyone’s jealous seeing the bridge princess get carried around by the biggest, prettiest woman in hell. she’s madly possessive and while she won’t throw a fit in front of yuugi, she’ll spend every night cursing those who dared speak with Her Girlfriend.

for yuugi’s end, she’s just here to drink it in. she doesn’t ask why parsee’s So Brazenly Into her. she doesn’t need to when She Knows She’s The Hottest Gal in Hell. partying and drinking all day is made all the more entertaining when you’ve got a cute purse dog who’ll kiss you a thousand times. it’s enough to make her satisfied with life underground.

then, if yuugi were to ever find out parsee’s using her to fuel the jealousy of others… if parsee lets yuugi out of her clutch for a moment and finds another woman buying her a drink… the powder keg everyone else in Former Hell has been nervously eyeing will set the entire town ablaze

one of the great fandom ironies is how jealous yuuparu shippers are of parsee

Yuugi for Parsee and the Arm

"It's doomed."

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"...What, not enough? It's not her fault. She tries harder than anyone I've ever known. And maybe she can make it work, for a time. But pursuing romance with a hashihime is certain to result in disaster for everyone involved. Even if you're Yuugi the Strong."

"I've told her this many times. It never stops her from trying."

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"...Romance, huh? Like a pair of human lovers? Partying together, sure. I can see it. If I'm lucky she'll treat me as close as she treated the old Ibaraki-Douji. But romance...?"

"Well it wouldn't be the first time. I made it work with Shuten once. I could probably make it work with her too. Not sure if she'd even want to, but if she did, I probably'd be willing to at least give it a try."

Might be a pretty basic take by the standards of more seasoned yuri fans, but it's my perspective as someone who's mostly read yuri in a Touhou context (though a lot of it), and exclusively manga from the Japanese fans as opposed to i.e. written fics.

Touhou yuri (using it very broadly here to describe any kind of wlw shipping present) is, across the board, in a pool of fan literature going back twenty years, remarkably good at taking the lesbian part for granted. Not counting outright het content or works that simply don't bring it up, I have only very vague memories of a character's lesbian orientation being either denied or even brought to question (even in the cliche "But we're both girls!" manner, which even as a somewhat dead horse trope you might still expect to see, given plenty of doujin writing isn't exactly highbrow). You might be able to read "Does she like girls?" between the lines in the usual question of "Does she like me?" if you really want to, but the way it's still basically treated as default is fun to me. There's a reason Touhou basically has honorary yuri status on e.g. Dynasty Reader, even the stories with effectively zero shipping in them. You might not notice if you haven't browsed the site, but it's literally nothing but yuri + Touhou. We even got upload rights just so we could post more Touhou.

(Of course, Touhou being yuri city is part of the reason any hint of straight romance gets a really strong kneejerk reaction from people, including me. But that's also because the lack of usable male characters makes that shipping inherently hamfisted, up to and including literally making up cardboard villager OCs. Basically the only positive example I can remember off the top of my head is Hisona's An Old Poem for the Cuckoo Bird depicting Youki with a 1000-year-old mostly joking crush on Nue, which after some chin-scratching I decided I liked alright. And Hisona of course has plenty of yuri cred to cover for it.)

But although taken for granted, most Touhou yuri is one or more of: a.) On a "blushing maidens thinking about holding hands" level in its approach to romance, b.) Only depicting the starting moments of a relationship, at best - usually just pining, c.) Only off-handedly teasing, basically to acknowledge the ship is there, d.) Showing a very close and loving relationship but leaving the romance part subtextual, even if thinly veiled.

While those are all fine - some of my favorite artists like e.g. Ashiyama undeniably fall under d.) - it means that artists who depict more established couples, and couples that get depicted as more established, stand out. I love when a story is very blunt about two characters, whether the focus is actually on them or not, already being an item. Be it due to a difference in target demographic or what, many of these works seem to have a slight lean towards being more raunchy/horny even when not outright R-18, but I don't actually mind that too much when it does happen - as long as they're fun and raunchy, as opposed to only raunchy or, god forbid, unfun in raunchy ways.

I like how Moyazou depicts Mokou and Keine as basically-married. I like how Atoki depicts YuuParu or SakiYachi after drawing like twenty books of them (each). I like when Kawayabug depicts Tojiko as Miko's beleaguered wife. But the example of the day is obviously risui (of Ladies of Scarlet Devil Mansion), who you might have guessed inspired this ramble. Funnily enough, in LoSDM she seems to have walked back Meiling and Sakuya's relationship coincidentally at the same time she toned down the content to fit SCoOW's guidelines, compared to her usual works that have MeiSaku at a much more established and mutual stage.

But the point stands that it's really fun to see LoSDM almost rub it in your face from the very start - from Meiling's dream to every other conversation she has - that everyone in it is unapologetically and openly lesbian, assumes everyone else to be a lesbian, and doesn't hesitate to talk about it like a (romcom idiot) adult.

Also, risui draw lady very good

Oh? You know more about the complexities of the Second World War than I? Yet I was there, human. Your analutical thought and provessing could never compete witha kitsune. Not that I will debate anything, complete waste of time.

(Just kidding I very much like you human)

More importantly, I'm not the biggest "yuri enjoyer", but I watched some recently, and I think I'm beginning to "get it".

My favorite Touhou ship is and has been Yukari and Yuyuko for quite some time, but it's rather boring. The one I find most fun (and silly) is Parsee and Yuugi.

yuuparu is fun but i'm surprised to see you say yukayuyu is boring given that their main means of flirting in canon is trying to poison each other...

i'm glad you're beginning to Get It though. i hope this has the intended effect

ehmm ty for all the notes on the last post hehe. since i still like posting on tumblr heres patche from the one grand prix video. if youve only seen the parappa patchemirin you should watch the whole grand prix series, the videos are so silly

YURI BLAST !!

all poses from this post!

god i need to draw ichifuto again. god i need to draw yuuparu again. god i need to draw touhou again. god i need to draw...................

yuuparu through the years

(2017, 2018, 2024)

More. Please. I beg you. Your vision is immaculate

woemn are always saying this to me...