Seeing “toxic yuri fan” in their blog header and skimming their last few dozen posts to see whether that’s toxic yuri as in “I have ambivalent feelings about the central relationship in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a PG-rated cartoon for children” or toxic yuri as in “I want them to kill and eat each other”.
Your preferred level of toxic yuri:
Why can’t we all just get along?
I have ambivalent feelings about children’s cartoons
Passive aggression
Yelling and recrimination
Moderate property damage
It’s not a hate crime if it’s personal
I want them to kill and eat each other (figurative)
I want them to kill and eat each other (literal)
Cheese sandwich
Is toxic yuri about violence? I thought it was about making each other worse as people
Making each other worse as people is absolutely the foundation of toxic yuri, but it’s just that: a foundation. They also need to make each other suffer because of it; if it’s only other people who suffer, that’s not toxic yuri – it’s merely aspirational!
Exactly. If they aren’t making their own lives so so much worse then it’s not toxic Yuri, if you look at them and say “Well, they’re making the world worse and everyone and everything around them is in danger, but at least they love each other unconditionally and have each other’s backs” that’s not really toxic Yuri it’s just a healthy relationship with a blast radius. The toxicity needs to be directed at each other for it to be Toxic Yuri, they need to have the desire and full capability to stab each other in the back both figuratively and literally if given the chance
Reblogging these remarks purely for the phrase “healthy relationship with a blast radius”.
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