This Troper's One True Foursome for BuffyTheVampireSlayer is 100% yuri with a dose of sisterly incest (Buffy/Dawn/Willow/Faith). This came about after I relized I supported every possible combination with those 4 and asked myself "Why not all 4 together? It makes sense if you support all of the possible parings". And hence, my [=OT4=] is those 4. Most of my ships in stuff are yuri. I even support cross-franchise yuri ships like Dawn/Rose.

This troper. He even occasionally writes stories. (For the sake of keeping this site vaguely SFW, links shall not be provided.)

Also this troper. Just look at the list of ships on his contributor page.

You know, I can relate...sort of. I'm fairly effeminate, and quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if people meeting me for the first time thought I was gay. I'm not, but I relate to girls so much better than I do to guys that I sometimes wonder if I'm not a lesbian in a male body (which, quite frankly, would be a ''very'' lucky break, because I ''like'' the male body, and since homosexuals are still a minority, I theoretically should get more girls this way.) When it gets right down to it, I probably have just as many het ships that I support as I do yaoi/yuri ships...but I've noticed that I've never written a yaoi ''or'' het lemon. At least, none that anyone else knows of.

Eddie Izzard would consider you a "male tomboy".

Works for me.

There is actually a sexuality for you.

*Raises his hand.* Yo.

*Also raises hand* Likewise.

*fistbump* 'Sup, man?

*Waves* Small world all and all, eh?

Also, the Contributors/OmegaMetroid! He's just that cool... and he's still talking about himself in the third person when he visits this site. ...Although, this trope originally only applied in the case of one series of eroge, and even still, that's at least in part because GirlOnGirlIsHot... Now, it applies much more. But still because GirlOnGirlIsHot.

*Nods head slightly while raising hand* Hell yeah.

*Ridiculus thumbs-up pose* In the hizzy.

*Raises hand with head down* Here.

*Raises the Wolfpack sign* Guilty as charged. (Now, for an added bonus: Keep your hand up if you're also a YaoiFan. *Keeps hand up, waiting for the others to run away*)

*waves energetically* You too? I'd much rather yuri than yaoi, but eh, I'll take either. Oh god, two of my YaoiFangirl friends are cosplaying as genderbent versions of Shizuo and Izaya. And since the FoeYay makes them a very popular ship, {{Squee}}!

This lesbian troper is a slight aversion. She loves realistic girl on girl love stories, Yuri, and Willow/Tara and Mo/Sydney are her [=OTPs=], but hates the exploitation of lesbians for the pleasure of straight men. She especially despises TheLWord and shows that portray us all as slutty, shallow {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s.

This other lesbian troper doesn't hugely mind some of the better-written but less realistic stories and at times herself reads them (because I like my wish fulfillment), but hates lesbians potrayed as sluts.

A certain troper has developed a preference for yuri in fictional forms, but not real ones. Probably because all relationships are equally terrible in reality.

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The @/GirlWithoutHat seconds that.

Replace 'equally terrible' with 'equally beautiful' and you've got me. :D

Do female Yuri fans count? I like yaoi as well, but it's just that unless it's between two very effeminate anime characters (the sort with ViewerGenderConfusion ) it just seems so rough, and weird.

Yuri Fangirl here. Is vaguely straight-ish.

You're not alone. Hell, my OTP is yuri.

Yuri Fangirl, but quite bi this time. Yaoi just doesn't make me go "Squee!" in the same way, though

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This troper likes yuri. And yaoi. Heeeee! =D

Yaoi is fun...But Yuri is funner,it has more of a cute factor..And for some reason the stories are better.

It's because there's so much more innocence and gentility.

Please, nobody scream at me, but Shotacon has that sort of moe moe-ness in spades, if you're looking for "cute factor" Yaoi.

I definetly won't scream at you, because I'm on the same wavelength!:D

I wonder why most girls don't like yuri, it's fun. I like yuri..Though, I am pansexual, but that doesn't mean anything.

Pansexual Yuri Fangirl reporting in.

I would date a Yuri Fangirl just because trying to turn her on must be hilarious.

This Yuri fangirl would love to see you try. :D

Man I would really like to have a YuriFangirl for a girlfriend. Especially because I don't have anyone to talk about yuri with...

A perfectly heterosexual yuri fangirl over here. Not a yaoi fangirl, surprisingly...

Yuri Fangirl, of the bi variety. Loves het too, be yaoi does nothing for her.

Another yuri fangirl, chiming in. I don't happen to like yaoi, interestingly enough, but het is fine. I'm also asexual, so there you go.

o: Friend? I'm very okay with all three (yaoi, yuri, het...threesomes >>) and probably asexual too. As far as I know.

Hello other friend! (Well Ok, I'm not asexual.) I like them all, and love Star}} Konami.

I'm female, bisexual and I consider myself more into yaoi but I'm absolutely addicted to Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy. Funnily enough, when I went out with my female best friend for drinks, we ended up kissing (in a non-serious way, I love my girlfriend) and feeling each other up. Turns out her boyfriend and her three male friends are quite the fanboys.

Bisexual yuri fangirl, reporting for duty. But, of course, she's also het- and yaoi-crazed as well. She's just an insane shipper in general.

Yet another bi (lean towards girls, though) yuri fangirl. Yaoi and yuri, both awesome; I just wish that the ratio of yuri to yaoi fanfiction was a bit higher... D:

Yet another yuri fangirl here. I'm heterosexual, but imagining anime girls being emotionally intimate with each other is just too cute.

Amen to that. Probably why of all the {{Vocaloid}} songs, Magnet is my favourite (though I do take a healthy appreciation of the Nico Nico Douga Boys Chorus version). It kinda started as a joke from her Naruto fandom days (saying with other NaruHina shippers that Sakura and Hinata would be better off with each other considering how focused on Sasuke Naruto is, and sort of ballooned from there, and I'm definately more comfortable with discussions regarding girl-on-girl than guy-on-guy. I'm more on the fandom/slash side of things though; I don't really care for series where yuri/RomanticTwoGirlFriendship is the main focus.

Not me. Nope, that definitely wasn't me looking at Tayuya and Temari yuri. (shifts eyes)

Nami and Robin. Nuff said.

More like Jewelery Bonney/Perona. Am I right?

I, @/{{Somfin}}, admit to being a full-fledged Yuri Fanboy- but, and I'm hoping this is something common, I'm only attracted to yuri that has actual characterisation and romance. You know, with the tentative akwardness and the blushing and the kissing. If it's just lesbian sex I'm not even turned on. Please tell me I'm not alone.

Ditto. Then again, for this one characterization and romance improve all love stories, not just yuri.

Thirded. The points you mention certainly make any romance better, yet GirlsLove always has a ForbiddenFruit element to it (even more so than yaoi IMO, since male homosexuality was much more popularized throughout history), which makes yuri romance especially exciting for me. That, and the ease with which the roles in yuri relationships fluctuate: there's no real {{seme}}s and {{uke}}s in GL, but instead there's a dynamic balance between assertiveness and reliance. If those are present, I don't mind hot lesbian sex, though...

Unfortunately, none of this is true about bad GL. Not that this guy won't still go for the worthwile ten percent you lot described in a flash.

Yeah, I hear ya. I ship based on what works best, regardless of whether it's het or slash. But I really cherish the yuri more.

I agree 100%. I also seem to have the same goggles mentioned below, which means I tend to get distracted by the yuri ''far'' too often.

Nope, YouAreNotAlone! I read femslash for the {{shipping}}.

Power Girl and (pre-Crisis) Huntress. Not (just) because they're attractive, but because they have such mutually tragic backstories, and the whole [=Bat/Super=] legacy thing.

This troper is a gay YuriFanboy. Go figure...

This troper is such a huge yuri fangirl. Posting it here as kind of an anon confession...

I'm basically a male version of Hiyori in that I SIMPLY CANNOT TURN IT OFF, be it ''{{Noir}}'', ''{{Madlax}}'', ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', ''FutariWaPrettyCure'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''TheMakiokaSisters'' (!), or RealLife (!). I also think that a bisexual girlfriend would be ideal because she would have a better chance of squeeing over yuri with me. So yeah...

Wait, you mean it's possible to watch ''Nanoha'', ''{{Noir}}'' or ''{{Madlax}}'' '''without''' activating Hiyori-vision? This troper wonders whether "YuriGoggles" shouldn't be its own trope... *rushes off to YKTTW*

Actually, yes, it's very possible. I watched all of Nanoha, and I really only started picking on the yuri thing in ''Anime/StrikerS'', and even then only because it became ''so obvious'' (Seriously, Nanoha and Fate seemed a step away from buying a family house and marrying. They even have the kid already). Never really noticed much of an undertone to ''MGLN'' or ''A's''. I guess my mind is not nearly enough in the gutter.

Just Nanoha/Fate? And here I was, thinking that Subaru/Teana was the most prominent GL pairing in ''[=StrikerS=]''. AsYouKnow, rainbows are way straighter than Subaru and Tea is all {{tsundere}} over her, so... OK, OK, I'll stop now! *throws YuriGoggles away*

Btw, even if Yuri Goggles can't be a trope of its own, we can still place it into the TropeCo catalog (like this). Anyone here wants to do the write-up?

What pairing(s) are you seeing in Series/DoctorWho? I thought I had pretty strong goggles, but I've never seen a pairing potential in that...

Ace and everyone female.

And during "Space" and "Time special, Amy/Future!Amy. ItMakesSenseInContext. And would probably destroy the universe.

Bisexual who loves homosexuals here, I even casually announce my searches for yaoi and yuri.

Yuri Fangirl here, with a bi girlfriend. She squees over yaoi rather than yuri, though.

Yuri Fangirl here, and a real-life lesbian too. That seems to be surprisingly rare.

Me too.

Me three. :)

Me four

Me five. I think. I'm still a bit confused.

Me six! We should make a club!

I'll supply the jackets.

One more into the club.

If there's still room, I'd like to join this club. Therefore, me nine.

Count me in.

Yuri Fanboy here, but he's gay. This troper simply thinks Babs and Dinah should live together in a mansion together forever and ever amen.

This troper is kind of an aversion: more like a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship fan than YuriFanboy (example: I'd rather watch CandyBoy instead of ShoujoSect), and on top of that, a straight male that's rather squicked by real life lesbians. Am I alone?

Well, I prefer yuri to RomanticTwoGirlFriendship and would rather watch ShojoSect instead of CandyBoy, as well as being a gay female that's rather squicked by real life heteros, so...exact opposite?

Heh. Straight male here, squicked by neither, who enjoys romance, love, and when it's just right, having sweet sex. TakeAThirdOption?

This male troper is possibly the biggest {{Buffy}}/Faith shipper ''ever.'' It's true love, dammit!

And this male troper will proclaim {{Buffy}}/''Willow'' to the ends of the Earth.

And this male troper ships every femslash Buffy pairing you can POSSIBLY think of (though Buffy/Tara has recently become a Crack OTP) and will agree with both of you, but will also suggest Buffy/Willow/Faith. That is all.

I remember hearing a story about a guy that when he was child, wanted two female television characters to marry each other. When he told his mom about the idea, she explained to him why that wasn't possible which resulted in him crying for a long while. The fellow did grow up to be a YuriFan in the end though.

These four eyes wear glasses that double as yuri goggles...and yet, the only show I've watched that actually qualifies as such is ''{{Maria-sama ga Miteru}}''.

This troper is a Yuri Fangirl. Recently-uncloseted bisexual.

Same story here. Except with added YaoiFangirl.

Fanboy here, with a particular fetish for pairings of an OneeSama High Queen or LadyOfWar with a more traditional Big Girl HotAmazon.

This troper is a straight man who writes gay themed YA novels, but has sold only lesbian ones because, according to my editor, my gay boys simply aren't convincing. Which is understandable as I really do prefer reading the yuri (both western and Japanese). No name given as I'm contractually obligated to keep my pseudonym free of any hint of being male.

I'll admit, that I like Girl on Girl Kink.

This troper is one of the rare female yuri fans. I especially like pairings with Convincingly masculine girls. Damn you, Haruka.

This lesbian Troper has been one since joining the TeenTitans fandom at eleven. Her current favorite pair is Red and Mokey from Fraggle Rock.

I'll admit to being a shameless romance fanboy that has many favorite pairings, including some het and yaoi. That being said, my true obsession is yuri. It started years ago with Ritsuko/Maya and has only grown and evolved since then.

I am this to an unusual extreme. I write fanfics, have a folder, etc. I'm also effeminate and have been mistaken for gay before, but am in fact a heterosexual yuri fan of epic proportions. For example: let's say there's an attractive female friend of mine whom I am interested in getting to know You Know What I Mean}} alot better. I then find out she's a lesbian. Instantly, without even considering being upset, I switch to fanboy mode and get very supportive. Sometimes I actually prefer them to be lesbians than to like guys (including me). It's much prettier that way.

As a hetero, male Yuri-ShoujoAi fanboy, I have a penchant for lesbian relationships in manga. As someone with a taste for developed stories and credible characters, I tend to be disappointed because the audience catered at is in for... other elements of the story, and the time and ressources spent on those parts detract from my favored one. {{Hen}} and {{Octave}} are two works which have a good balance between sex and plot in my opinion, and I recommend them heartily.

I'm a standard issue YuriFanboy and seeker of {{Gay Option}}s in any video game I have. I have to occasionally mentally DopeSlap myself when my sister and her friends, all highly affectionate, are around and I start seeing LesYay. Though, in my defense, the girl who was the source of the most LesYay ''finally'' revealed her true interests, to my smug satisfaction.

Ohh I've had that one, I now refer to one of my sisters friends exclusively as Kaori due to this.

This troper, despite being a healthy, 20-year old geek, hasn't gotten into yuri until fairly recently. He hasn't denied that GirlOnGirlIsHot many times, but he never actually ''shipped'' yuri pairings unless they were... well, hot. But after discovering the wonders of Lipstick Lesbians, SchoolgirlLesbians and the like, he can't get enough. Now he even ships his own original characters in yuri pairings and has written non-canon scenarios.

TroperWorks page coming as soon as I finish a decent number of chapters! Though that will require me to stop being lazy.

This troper is a mild yuri fangirl (though it's more like a {{guilty pleasure}} to her), but surrounded with a quite extreme yuri fangril best friend and unfortunately a yuri fanboy crush who babbles about all of his sick fetishes to this poor troper...

We hereby present to you a Troper who is a (mild) fangirl for yaoi, yuri and het. And enjoys trying to work out a reasonable distribution of the above with her characters. (Possibly since she comes up with most of her original fiction ships while mostly asleep in a state of two-in-the-morningitis, it... doesn't always work out like that. Exactly. Or as one of her parents -- yes, really -- put it, "Why are all of your characters gay?")

This bisexual Yuri Fangirl has a similar situation: She loves all pairings but, for some reason, yuri just always feels... "right" to her. So all her original fiction works so far contain at least one lesbian relationship...

I must admit I'm not really bothered that much by yuri ''or'' yaoi, despite being heterosexual and male...mostly because I know both can get laughably silly (especially the latter, which I have more experience with). Still, my OTP is the blindingly obvious, all-but-canon Konoka/Setsuna...and I've given some thought to Yue/Nodoka (especially, since it would solve so much) and Chao/Ku Fei. I daresay I count.

This troper considers herself as an asexual and is not adverse to yaoi or yuri, as long as it has very good basis in canon. Fanon pairings, on the other hand...

Woah, it really ''is'' true: YouAreNotAlone. This troper is even cosplaying for the yuri cause as a counterpoint to a cosplayer promoting yaoi, but will only flirt because the character's personality demands it.

This lesbian troper, being a total softie, prefers "Class S" type of relationships in fiction over overtly sexual ones. She dreams of being transported to an alternate dimension, where she can be a cool {{onee sama}} at an all-girl school, followed around by hordes of {{squee}}ing fangirls.

C-could this troper be your uke (is that the right word for it) counterpart?

^ Comment seconded. This troper may be fated to be a pillow queen forever.

In yuri, seme = "tachi" and uke = "neko": Tachi is short for itachi or weasel, since the 'top' in yuri often is sly and/or seduces the younger, while neko = cat = kitty, like a cute younger/shorter/smaller type that nuzzles or clings, to match the 'weasel.' And dammit, OP, that was This Troper's fantasy! D: (Well, maybe she wanted to be more of a {{Bokukko}} type, but...)

Could this troper be one of those fangirls/nekos? For... one of you? (OneeSama or {{Bokukko}}, that's such a tough choice!)

Eh, Neko-chan, you wouldn't mind coming with me, right? We'd have ''way'' more fun than Oneesama! *CatSmile, IntertwinedFingers* Besides, she's got lots of girls-- I can have someone as adorable as you, right? *CuteLittleFangs* I mean, they're cute an' all, but you're somethin' else. Hey, you don't mind if I... Oh geez, I'm no good at being all elegant like her, but... *HeldGaze*

*blushes* Actually, I think you're really cute too, {{Bokukko}}-san... >///<

The Oneesan and the Bokukko are probably exes and chase girls to outdo the other. Ah, just thinking about their freshman days at St. Lucretia's, with those cute sailor collars and long skirts, their eyes meeting as the CherryBlossoms swirl... ''siiiigh~''

This Troper is a lesbian who is both a yuri fangirl and a shoujou ai fangirl, and is frequently disappointed in the male-character focus in her parts of fandom.

This Troper came scary close to the line after reading {{Misfile}}.

Lesbian Yuri Fangirl here. Yaoi and het are all fine and good but... YURI. I seem to wear yuri goggles in real life, even.

This troper. He also usually includes more than a dash of it in his work. Although at times a pinch more may be needed since it usually goes straight over everyone's heads.

Well... this troper will only like ones that are, well, plausible, if not guarenteed. Shipping for hotness reasons, not so much. Yeah, very different.

This Troper plays it for laughs. I actually just think GirlOnGirlIsHot.

This troper. Also a fan of (if it counts as this trope, discussed above) trap/girl pairing.

This tropes, sorta. He prefers to stick to purely romantic stuff and fluff than porn. On a less related note, his girlfriend frequently jokes that he's the more effeminate of the two.

This female troper and her boyfriend bonded over yuri among other things.

This troper got lots of shit from his YaoiFangirl friends in highschol over being a YuriFan.

Hooray for hypocrisy!

This troper is rather fond of yaoi and het, but maintains that next to nothing can top yuri.

This Troper would like to come forth and confess to being a YuriFan, strangely of MayDecemberRomance types (well other are good too, but I've noticed an increasing trend...).

This bisexual troper used to be, until he grew sick of the general exploitation of the whole girl-on-girl thing, and have contemplated going guys only a few times, just out of spite. Not that it's that easy when seeing a cute girl can snap you back.

This Troper is a Yuri Fanboy to almost absurd amounts. Roughly 60% of his internet activity is dedicated to searching for yuri. Not just subtext, though, and "Class S" is simply intolerable to him. He scours the bowels of the internet, eternally searching for yuri that's actually yuri, realistically wrtten, if possible. He does, admittedly, identify as both female and a lesbian (but is too lazy and nervous to go through with anything).

shaun: I've done enough of this sort of thing since I was, let's say, thirteen, and so can sympathise. I tend to give up and use the bad lesbian porn for...you know...and then I feel dirty.

Yaoi/Yuri Bisexual Fangirl who does NOT think HetIsEw either!

I'm one too! Het is hot, GirlOnGirlIsHot, GuyOnGuyIsHot - it's all good.

YuriFanboy here.

Carthestian here with an interesting story. There's a girl (several, actually, but this story concerns only one girl) who was talking about the glories of yaoi. The group went around the table affirming or decrying its existence... but they all affirmed. So when I put down yaoi (guys can do that), the subject went to yuri. The girl (fairly attractive in a CloudCuckooLander sort of way) leaned in towards my face and asked me if I liked yuri. My answer? "No." She then turned her head at an angle, looked at me, and said "You don't know what you're missing". There's really no good way to answer that question. Perhaps, if I weren't cripplingly shy, I would have realized that she was hitting on me in some weird way?

This troper is an asexual androgyne (male) that rather dislikes the male gender. There was a time in Japan, this troper is told, when love between two men was considered the purest kind of love. This troper inverts that. Men suck.

shaun: Brother, speaking as a het male, there are days when I know exactly what you mean... (And yet I've managed to write decent yaoi, one of which, at least is a truly awesome lime; go figure.)

YuriFanboy here. This troper's favorite Pokémon pairing that's tied with Advanceshipping? Sapphirepearlshipping (May x Dawn).

This troper can be considered both this and a Yaoi Fangirl. As for my sexuality, it's...complicated. I consider myself asexual above anything else, although I do have a few crushes on celebrities (most of which are gay males, LOL) and has never really dated at all, but yet I have a fairly strong crush on a female classmate I'm kinda close friends with.

This troper has a platonic Brother/Sister relationship with his female roommate, who is dating a girl. Being the YuriFan that he is, he can't help but Squee (silently) whenever the two cuddle/kiss/touch each other.

For this troper, it's obvious that there's something really special going on between Mion and Shion from HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi, as there is between Rika and Satoko. Also, he can't imagine Lucy from FairyTail as being straight. Levy is clearly her true love...unless it's Erza...or Mirajane...or Virgo. Well...you get my point...any of these pairing would be the cutest thing in the series.

Rika and Satoko? How about Rika, Satoko, and Hanyuu?

This female troper. However, being asexual and very adverse to physical contact, she has no desire to participate. Watching is good enough.

This troper. I'm a straight girl, but other girls doing it are... fun.

Straight male here, and a Yuri Fan 'till the end. My collection of Sakura/Ino and Tsunade/Shizune is huge!

Sadly enough, there's a serious shortage of Yuki/Haruhi and Yuki/Rei out there. And in real life, he does wonder very often when 2 girls from his tuition go to the toilet together.

This troper, a straight male, is a proud yuri fan. Though it may border on girl on girl is hot...

This troper wrote a story of over 3000 pages called "Adventures on the Planet of Sexy Bad Ass Lesbians" when he was about 13 or so. I found it again recently (I burried the thing in a box in my yard because I was worried my parents would be mad at me, and forgot about it, only to dig it up while helping my mom with some yard work.) Unfortunatly it has many instances of YouFailSexEdForever, and wording like "She then killed the evil bitch with a chainsaw, and it was fucking awesome". I was 13 after all.

shaun: That story probably sucked, but that ''paragraph'' was the best. Story. Ever.

Lesbian yuri fangirl here...with a straight girlfriend who LOVES yaoi. :| We're both perverts, but you can imagine what kind of conflicts come up when we try to bond with that.

This female troper loves Yuri, but after a bit of experimentation in real life she has concluded that she's definitely straight. For some reason, the thought of two ''other'' girls getting it on is far hotter than the thought of actually getting it on with another girl herself or the thought of two men getting it on, despite the fact that she's quite the YaoiFangirl (Het porn is fine, but only when bondage and/or S&M with the girl being the M is involved). Hell, her collection of lesbian porn outweighs that of her boyfriend (both in real life stashes and the stashes on our computers).

This straight female troper likes Yuri, but not for any sexual reason, just because she finds yuri unbearably sweet. She finds the Yuri stories just so much sweeter and deeper than het manga or yaoi manga. Yaoi manga is like anime porn for girls sometimes, and seeing two alien-like creatures "doing it" really freaks her out. Het romance manga usually is complicated and awkward. And Yuri doesn't have much sex. (okay, the yuri this troper reads doesn't have sex.)

This page gives me hope, for yuri fangirls who are still interested in guys ''actually exist''. Yesplz. Also, in real life, I'm apparently associated with the phrase/injoke "Rhesbians? Rwhere?!" (yes, it has to be said that way OR ELSE IT WILL NOT WORK) whenever something yuri-ish happens in an anime that's being shown in anime club. ...and the fact that in the ecchi comic I'm working on (if it'll ever get posted, now that's another story), there's a suspicious number of bisexual girls and LesYay situations.

Always liked it, but since the release of {{Final Fantasy XIII}} it's gotten worse. I am infatuated with the idea of Lightning and Fang.

Yep yep~! This troper realized she was a Yuri Fangirl after unintentionally adding a yuri couple to an original story in the past. And she always paired female Sims together because they looked cuter together. When she realized how much she found women cuter and she always wondered what it would be like to kiss a girl. Yuri helped this troper find her sexuality.

Bisexual female troper here who enjoys yuri as much as yaoi, and even enjoys some het as well.

This Troper will never forget the day he became a yuri fanboy. He was in his freshman year of high school and had recently joined the anime club. The (chronologically) first episode of HaruhiSuzumiya got put on at the second meeting he attended. The moment he saw Haruhi put her hands on Mikuru's rack, he was hooked.

Unabashed yuri fan here as well. I'm a straight guy, but for some reason I find myself utterly unable to relate to most male characters (or most other guys in real life, for that matter). I'm a hopeless romantic sap, and yuri is just somehow...''more romantic'', particularly when the writers don't try to hide it behind a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship or {{Subtext}}.

This straight male troper counts too. Romantic comedies bore me to death unless the couple is lesbian. And if it is a lesbian story, I can go for the most pink romantic comedies possible without problem, though I normally am an action/fantasy/horror fan. My DVD collection expresses this dichotomy: Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, Lord of the Rings.... and Maria-sama ga Miteru. Nothing in between those extremes.

shaun: This troper was a yuri fanboy for many years without realizing it. In his naivete and unfounded optimism when it comes to human nature, he just thought this was the logical conclusion of {{girl on girl is hot}} for seeing two girls kissing to be one's personal equivalent to the singing of a choir of angels. And then, after a lifetime squandered without access to any real yuri to speak of, this troper discovered...{{beat}}...TheLWord! Holy Mary Mother of God, my mind was BLOWN!

This troper is, and a female. The fact that she's bi probably explains a lot.

Bi-curious female here, with a taste for heterosexual and Les Yay. She dislikes yaoi and BL, and is tired of seeing them practically everywhere as they're so rampant (not that she has anything against the fans though). Sometimes has her Yuri Googles on too tight, even in real life. Hardcore lesbian sex makes her squick a little, so she prefers nice fluffy GL. This troper is extremely happy that this page exists. On a personal note, she hopes to have a bisexual / lesbian girlfriend one day, who can fangirl with her over girls' love.

GirlFriends seems like the perfect series for you.

Thanks for the recommendation :D But I'm not interested in yuri of the S genre (schoolgirl love). I prefer series that runs away from the typical schoolgirl lesbian romance, such as El Cazador de la Bruja.

This troper's Bisexual girlfriend is both a Yaoi and Yuri Fangirl.

This troper is a bisexual female who adores both yaoi and yuri. Actually, she's also into yiff, fetish stuff, het, and a few things she probably shouldn't mention.

This panromantic troper is very, very, VERY big yuri fangirl and is not afraid to admit it. It's to the point where she has to add a {{token lesbian}} couple or at least yuri subtext or les yay to her M/M stories. (She is also a big {{Yaoi Fan}}.)

This troper's friend is a Yuri fangirl. Seriously, how many 12 year old girls do you know of that watch lesbian porn?

I like to put on Shipping Goggles and pretend to be this because it creeps people out. It does help that I go to an all-girls school. I'm actually pretty indifferent to the whole yaoi/yuri thing.

This Troper not only slides up and down the extremity scale of this trope, he also slides left to right and forward and back.

This troper is in the process of writing a story which contains a lesbian who's in love with a straight woman who is only pretending to be gay to make the lesbian happy ''and'' a Russian spy who's pretending to be a bizarre communist nerd YuriFan who somehow ''still'' doesn't think that GirlOnGirlIsHot and ends up revealing that his yuri manga is actually made of e-paper and is a communications device so he can talk to his spy-ish Russian superiors. Yes, the plot is something of a MindScrew when summarized.

This straight-isha heteromantic [[{{Asexual}} asexual]] male troper is one of these. But not for the reason you'd think. It's just that I've found that the crap to good ratio for yuri romance is much less than straight romance, since they can't rely on "Putting A into B equals love" and writers have to actually concentrate on the people first. Honestly, I would read yaoi too for the same reasons, but...well, sorry, I just can't stand the idea of two guys...yeah. Not that I condemn them, just that I think it's too weird for me to see and stay sane afterwords.

This Troper has really no objection toward homosexual pairings in general (hey, romance is a romance), which applies to yuri as well.

Killing Joke (I don't know how to link to my page, sorry) seconds that. The only aspects that matter when it comes to couples is that they're likable and fit together. KJ (I'd rather not refer to myself by gender) is a major fan of Tara and Willow, Xander and Anya, Spike and Buffy, and Adorkable Andrew finding a nice guy eventually. That shows that I don't play favorites pretty well.

shaun: Okay, um, what exactly would this troper tales page entail? I ship Bette with Tina, Alice with Dana, Dana with Lara, Shane with Carmen, Katara with Ty Lee, Cat with Tess (also, Frankie with Jay and, perversely enough, Tess with Cat's brother, but that doesn't qualify here), Helen and Deneve, and, well, a whole lot of people in fandoms you've probably never heard of.

This Troper once mentioned the following rule of the internet to his friend Colin: "Rule 190: The only good hentai is yuri, that's how the internet works." He replied with "OH GOD YES!"

This lesbian troper found out after she came out that her best friend is a totally straight, female Yuri fangirl. She's always trying to set up said troper with girls, expressed that she wanted to take her out to lesbian bars, and tries to get her drunk at every available opportunity in a hope that she'll get friendly with the nearest available females. She's very excited for this troper's 18th birthday. This troper is a little bit worried. -sigh-

This Tropette would never, ''ever'' admit it in public, but ever since discovering the TroperTales page for ConvenientlyCommonKink, I've decided that by TV Tropes standards, I'm fairly normal.

Same here (though, friends on XBL are another matter, since they seem to have a high likelyhood of sharing them). And I'm the guy who posted the ones about {{Lolicon}} and sisters fucking each other.

This guy! *waves* I just...love femslash. And am proud of it, too. But I can enjoy het and even slash. Yuri Goggles are on practically constantly! Even in real life...which is apparently common around here, from what I can see. Well...at least we can all relate. Anyway, a few others listed some of their yuri {{OTP}}s; while that would take FOREVER for me if I even listed half of them, I guess I could list some of my top favourites (that come to mind): ANY femslash pairing in BuffyTheVampireSlayer, {{Supergirl}}/{{Batgirl}} (<3), PowerGirl/Terra (<3<3), Luna/Hermione, Kara/Tess (even though they've never met), and so on...

At around age 8-9 this troper was an avid CardCaptor Sakura fan and while surfing Google images for pictures, she came upon a picture labeled "CardCaptor Sakura yuri hentai kiss" It was Sakura and Tomoyo engaging in the sexist kiss shared between two preteen girls this troper had ever seen. After staring at the picture for a good five minutes, this troper proceeded to look up yuri hentai... the proceeded to watch it... and watch it... and watch it. I watched so much, during math class I would have daydreams about girls getting it on, and would constantly give out wrong answers. Needless to say this troper became a mad yuri fangirl and shunned everything that was not yuri. It wasn't until summer after the fifth grade I stopped looking down on yaoi and het as scum of the Earth, and began watching series for reasons beside the fact that two girls had the chance of participating in sexy fanservice with one another. This troper now lives as a sexually confused teenager, who ships yuri, yaoi, het, incest, whatever. (I make my own original series and tend to add lots of yuri subtext, yuri couples, that good stuff. It also doesn't help I daydream of going to an all girls school, or meeting a cute girl on the train someday, or wanting to be dominated by a hot kouhai who calls me 'onee-sama"...) Judging from this page I'm starting to think it's not such a bad thing...