the yuri has always been doomed.
lexi aka newlynova
297,455 views
hello everyone. happy pride. this is a video about doomed yuri (the video i've been teasing a little bit for the past couple of months). scripted, filmed, and edited by me - all mistakes are my own. i don't really know what i'm doing and i have no idea if this is going to be something that you guys like since it's pretty different from what i usually do here, but i wanted to give it a try anyways :)
⏰ t i m e s t a m p s
introduction: 0:00
part 1 (madoka magica - welcome to class s): 4:07
part 2 (yuri on ice & the yuri/yaoi disparity): 46:51
part 3 (the apothecary diaries - why can't girls just be friends???): 55:53
part 4 (buffy - are we burying our own gays?): 01:32:29
CORRECTION: Class S literature is banned temporarily in 1941, not 1936. apologies!
spoiler descriptions as promised:
MAJOR:
MADOKA MAGICA: plot-exhaustive recap and analysis of the whole original anime run. mention of Rebellion and the general tone of how that ends as well. (whole video, you can’t avoid this one)
THE APOTHECARY DIARIES: plot-exhaustive recap and analysis of season 2 informed by all of the twists in season 1. (parts 3 and 4).
BUFFY: Willow’s whole arc in season 6 (and its aftermath in season 7). Nothing specific about other main characters or general plot of the season outside of Willow, but Willow is a big part of the show and her arc is a particularly big deal in the sixth season. (part 4)
MINOR:
SAILOR MOON: ending is referenced in a general way that reveals how things go for the main character (part 1).
MY HERO ACADEMIA: details of a well-known side character death in the final season (parts 2, 3, and 4). no discussion of plot.
ATTACK ON TITAN: the real name of a minor character who begins the series with an alias/the dooming of her canon relationship with another minor character (part 2). no discussion of plot, why it’s doomed, or any of the (many!!) twists. an impressive lack of spoilers about those things, actually. you’re in more danger scrolling your FYP.
THE 100: reference to a widely-publicized major character death, few details given (part 4). no discussion of plot.
SUPERNATURAL: the last 3 widely-publicized episodes as they relate to Castiel and Dean’s ultimate fate (part 4).
ADVENTURE TIME: ending spoilers for whether two characters do or do not end up together (part 4). no discussion of plot.
THE LEGEND OF KORRA: visual ending spoilers for whether two characters do or do not end up together (part 4). no discussion of plot.
okay, that's everything! hopefully you enjoy it!
🍓s o c i a l s
• check out my patreon: Patreon: newlynova
• hot girls also follow me on goodreads: Goodreads: newlynova
• tiktok: TikTok: newlynova
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• i film using a fujifilm X-S10 and edit with premiere pro.
• i am 25 and currently live in wisconsin.
• contact: newlynova@sparkmedia.la
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Lexi: explains federal codes in two countries, details media censorship and explicitly cites academic articles to support her arguments
Same with yuri, if doomed is the only allowed option, it looses its meaning, but if it is one option of many then it brings so much more meaning.
Anyways, this is one of my favorite videos <3 its so well done, and it is going in my "favorite long videos" playlist
I'm a yuri warrior and misogyny runs rampant in fandom and society at large. Even female fans in fandom propagate it with insistence on how badly written female characters are, and yet will pick a random male character with 3 lines to flesh out and write about. And even when femslash fans write femslash or recommend things with queer women as the focus, petulant people in fandom will kick and scream like toddlers that they just 'can't get invested' and 'no one should force them to care'!
Back in the early 2000s, shipping femslash was called 'eating your vegetables'. Because straight women in fandom were forcing themselves to ship stuff like Willow/Tara as their fav token lesbian couple as a way to show they cared about women and weren't homophobic against lesbians...
And while things have improved in representation and fandom culture, in some ways it feels like we've regressed. Some people that only ship slash will act like you're holding them at gunpoint when it's suggested they care about female characters or any yuri ships as more than just tools to get their yaoi ship together.
I personally think that we need more femslash in general on all sides. If doomed yuri helps someone get into femslash, good. But hopefully they can branch out after that and find more femslash where the female characters are people AND can be happy and still together.
Sorry for the rant, but good video overall!
the yuri has always been doomed.
lexi aka newlynova
297,455 views
hello everyone. happy pride. this is a video about doomed yuri (the video i've been teasing a little bit for the past couple of months). scripted, filmed, and edited by me - all mistakes are my own. i don't really know what i'm doing and i have no idea if this is going to be something that you guys like since it's pretty different from what i usually do here, but i wanted to give it a try anyways :)
⏰ t i m e s t a m p s
introduction: 0:00
part 1 (madoka magica - welcome to class s): 4:07
part 2 (yuri on ice & the yuri/yaoi disparity): 46:51
part 3 (the apothecary diaries - why can't girls just be friends???): 55:53
part 4 (buffy - are we burying our own gays?): 01:32:29
CORRECTION: Class S literature is banned temporarily in 1941, not 1936. apologies!
spoiler descriptions as promised:
MAJOR:
MADOKA MAGICA: plot-exhaustive recap and analysis of the whole original anime run. mention of Rebellion and the general tone of how that ends as well. (whole video, you can’t avoid this one)
THE APOTHECARY DIARIES: plot-exhaustive recap and analysis of season 2 informed by all of the twists in season 1. (parts 3 and 4).
BUFFY: Willow’s whole arc in season 6 (and its aftermath in season 7). Nothing specific about other main characters or general plot of the season outside of Willow, but Willow is a big part of the show and her arc is a particularly big deal in the sixth season. (part 4)
MINOR:
SAILOR MOON: ending is referenced in a general way that reveals how things go for the main character (part 1).
MY HERO ACADEMIA: details of a well-known side character death in the final season (parts 2, 3, and 4). no discussion of plot.
ATTACK ON TITAN: the real name of a minor character who begins the series with an alias/the dooming of her canon relationship with another minor character (part 2). no discussion of plot, why it’s doomed, or any of the (many!!) twists. an impressive lack of spoilers about those things, actually. you’re in more danger scrolling your FYP.
THE 100: reference to a widely-publicized major character death, few details given (part 4). no discussion of plot.
SUPERNATURAL: the last 3 widely-publicized episodes as they relate to Castiel and Dean’s ultimate fate (part 4).
ADVENTURE TIME: ending spoilers for whether two characters do or do not end up together (part 4). no discussion of plot.
THE LEGEND OF KORRA: visual ending spoilers for whether two characters do or do not end up together (part 4). no discussion of plot.
okay, that's everything! hopefully you enjoy it!
🍓s o c i a l s
• check out my patreon: Patreon: newlynova
• hot girls also follow me on goodreads: Goodreads: newlynova
• tiktok: TikTok: newlynova
• instagram: Instagram: newlynovabooks
👒 f a q
• i film using a fujifilm X-S10 and edit with premiere pro.
• i am 25 and currently live in wisconsin.
• contact: newlynova@sparkmedia.la
MISINFORMATION CORRECTION: Class S literature is banned temporarily in 1941, not 1936. Apologies and thanks to @AC-dk4fp for the nod!
I’ve also gotten a bunch of comments critiquing my lack of inclusion of Revolutionary Girl Utena, another dark, doomer magical girl show, this time with a canon sapphic couple. I did learn about this in my research and plan on watching it soon since it sounds like…RIGHT up my alley for obvious reasons. Some of you guys are just recommending it (thanks for that) but others are fairly wondering why I didn't talk about it here.
I ended up not using it for this video because I made the decision to narrow my thesis to focus mostly on media with modern day mass Western audiences. I can’t speak to how RGU was received in the 90s, and it HAS had a lot of artistic influence on other, later animation. But in the modern day it’s a cult classic that lacks the continued dominance in Western fandom I see in the other shows I discuss in this video. You can see this a little bit in the amount of people who logged ratings for it on MAL in comparison to Madoka Magica—72,000 vs. 821,000.
That’s just my opinion of course, and it's not me saying at all that it wasn't a critically important and subversive series in yuri history. It's more that this video is not quite on yuri history, overall, so much as it is on modern day conceptions of doomed yuri in Western fandom. More than likely I’ll still be mad at myself for not making room for it when I do watch it considering how many of you love it and have tied it to this video haha but that was my rationale. I had to draw the line somewhere or I would have worked on this for another 3 months and it would be 2 hours longer </3 Which is probably appealing to some of you but I think would have actually killed me. Like I would be dead.
With that said—if the comments I’ve gotten are anything to go by, I’d strongly recommend checking it out if you’re looking for more yuri during this trying time and you're willing to engage with a darker, grittier piece of media 🙏 And a sincere thank you to everyone reminding me to check it out. Now that I am free from the chains that have bound me to my desk making this video….perhaps it is time.