You may have heard of the phrase “yuri of absence”, perhaps used in a meme or jokey way. This term was coined by yuri writer Iori Miyazawa to describe a type of “environmental” yuri, where for example, an empty field can be considered yuri. This sounds ludicrous, and it kind of is when taken out […]
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