If Princess/Ladyknight pairings are so cliche, why are there

>>52848986
who said it was cliche?

Literally no one said they were so cliche except you just now

>>52848986
Literally not a thing outside of your doodle-faced animes

>>52848986
There's not many cause it's not a cliche, stop trying to invent weird debates

>>52848986
>why are there few, if any, examples of them in popular fantasy media
They are so cliche because they are common in rabid fantasies of roleplayers, waifufags and made up green text stories.

>>52848986
>If
Who are you asking?

Let's have another useless thread about nothing.

>>52848986
Because when I hear the phrase 'princess/ladyknight pairing' I immediately assume it'll be the most magical of realms, and I'd assume a lot of writers, producers and directors would do the same.
I mean what does it bring to the table apart from looks?

>>52848986
>If Princess/Ladyknight pairings are so cliche
They aren't?

>>52849017
>>52848986
Also its in GoT with Sansa and Brienne, so its not exactly unheard of in pop culture.

>>52848986
Is this just a roundabout way of fishing for recommendations?

>>52848986
It's not a cliche. You and the person who told you that (if they exist) don't know what you're talking about.

>>52848986
lesbian cliches are only possible in stories with lesbians

>>52849017
>lesbiens are inherently magical realm fetish fuel

I've just finished the manuscript for my first novel. It features Princess/Ladyknight

Twist: The Princess is FUCKING JACKED and uses a greatsword regularly, saves her ladyknight's life in the end.

Also it's got mecha and airships with tesla death rays.

It's only cliche on /tg/, because neckbeards.
The only single solitary example of a noble having a homosexual relationship with their knight is Renly and Loras in aSoIaF/GoT and in aSoIaF, it was so subtle it had to be confirmed by the author later.

>>52848986
>why are there cliches in the popular media?

>>52848986
It's not common, it's just considered magical realm because most of the people that talk about it do so to get hard.

>>52849203
only example that I can think of, that is.

>>52849138
DM did one where the princess was a dragon and the knight was mostly an interpreter.

>>52849134
Not necessarily, but there's a high chance of it. And as a concept, the fact that we both jumped to lesbians when sex isn't mentioned at all in the OP shows how something like this has a certain 'image' to it.

>>52848986
Because they're stupid too.

>>52849203
It's a simple subversion of a popular cliche, so it isn't an unfamiliar idea to anyone even if it never really comes up.

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>a space-princess and power-armored ladyknight scifi opera will never spring fully-formed out of my imagination like Eve from the rib

Lay me down to rest eternal, O merciful Lord

>>52848986

Because no-one really likes it. It smacks of pandering.

>>52849030

To be fair, Brienne is described as ugly as fuck, to the point she'll fail the paper bag test. Also, she likes Jamie.

>>52848986

It's a lot hotter when eventually, one of them has to marry a guy, revealing how male power triumphs over the friendship between women with stark regularity, re-establishing traditional relationships.

It's like how in Japan, psuedo-lesbian feelings are a phase a girl grows out of, once she starts being attracted to guys.

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I've actually thought the opposite would be a neat story element. That is, a very strong bond between a male knight and a prince, in a completely platonic way, probably with the male knight sworn to protect the prince. Put big emphasis on the brotherly love that's common in a lot of ancient stories.

The best ancient example I can think of is Achilles and Patroklos, but it's a weird one because the "knight" in question is the weaker of the two, whereas the prince is a killing machine. The best contemporary example I can think of is with the Twin Princes in Dark Souls 3, and that one takes the brotherly love element very literally because they are, in fact, brothers. All the same, I really liked all of the details of Lorian being protective of his crippled brother, even going so far as to cripple himself to take some of the burden of the curse.

>>52849521
A society that has normalized romantic love between men can never enjoy platonic broship again.
All will be subject to yaoi fan interpretation by most of the audience.

>>52849005
It's barely a thing in anime.

>>52849521
Final Fantasy XV.

>>52849608
>tfw I'll never be able to do my idea in-game because my party would just boil it down to gay jokes and miss the intricacy

I just want to have a Paladin who's searching for his best friend and then has his resolve and spirit completely shattered when he finds the prince's dead body.

>>52849649
Yeah. There's actually a bunch of examples I can think of from Japan, at least. I guess they've embraced that the fujoshis are gonna make all of the characters gay, anyways, so there's no reason to shy away from bro stuff.

>>52849521
A better example, since Achilles & Patroklos were actually queer in the text, might be Lancelot & Arthur. Sure, Lance was banging the king's wife, but he also was deeply devoted to his king. Hell, a lot of Arthurian myth is full of this. Cai & Bedivere are the others that come to mind off the top of my head, though that's more in the Welsh tradition than the later stories, since the French romances sort of forget those two exist.

I feel like it's a /tg/ cliche, and only a /tg/ cliche.

>>52849916
A lot of romance stories had that as a dramatic element. After all, it was expected of a knight that their first "love" was to their liege. Tristan had the same deal where he was devoted to his lord but he was still shacking up with Isolde.

And I know that Achilles and Patroklos and all. But that's just how the Greeks say 'Hello'.

>>52849138
I really don't like the sound of this.

>>52849987
Same. I'm OK with a princess being combat capable, but being stupid buff compared to her own knight is ridiculous. Maybe if there were some context of a long line of inexplicably musclebound royalty, but that's an element of a comedy.

>>52849138
I REALLY like the sound of this.

>>52849138
I REALLY could go either way on this.

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>>52849088
>no poofy tassets
What shitty armour. Any well-done dashing swashbuckler has those English pikeman tassets.

Next thing you tell me she doesn't have a codpiece.... Pft.

>>52849138
I really hope you're going for some kind of comical take on this because it sounds terrible....

>>52849252
>sex isn't mentioned at all in the OP

>ladyknight/princess
you sure, champ?

>>52849138
If American
>Total Flop.

If Japanese
>Sells a million copies of the LN, gets an anime, a toy series, and front page in Shonen Jump.

>>52849297
Actually, it was an immortal brain wiped bodyguard and a space princess, but I haven't published it.

>>52848986
>If Princess/Ladyknight pairings are so cliche
It is not. It barely exists to my knowledge, especially in Western media.

>>52850229
The closest to this I can think of confirming to that kind of duo are Katalina and Lyria in Granblue. They're not fucking.

>>52849297
>>52850238
Truly Japan is an advanced nation, far beyond our comprehension.

>>52848986
To be honest, this trope was fairly popular for a few years in the 80's among the more obscure fantasy authors. Silverglass, Shadow and Sorcery, the Oathbound series by Mercedes Lackey, and a few other unremarkable exceptions. There has been a recent resurgence into the genre in the lesbian teen novelist categories.

>>52850407
>lesbian teen novelist categories
That's a thing?!

>>52850486
350 books says yes.

>>52850486
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/16326.Lesbian_teen_fiction

>>52850533
If I click that link will Chris Handsome come to my door?

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>>52849521
Yeah really. I have actually played that sort of thing out several times.

Not exactly the same thing, but one of the ONLY fucking elements with Joffrey that had any nuance at all was the way The Hound was both minion and father surrogate to Joff. That sort of dynamic is as weird as the relationship his parents had.

>>52850565
No. It's a list of books that are published and they're about teens (though some are written by teens). Goodreads has a list of books of any category you can think of, though Chuck Tingle isn't among them....last I checked.

>>52850586
The flood of "fantasy" books written by women has me unnerved. Anything tagged as romance seems to be smut of the worst kind.

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>>52848986
They're not cliché. They can be interesting. Even with lesbian aspects.

The thing is, most het dudes I wouldn't trust with writing this kind of relationship well. I'd fear the "They're both GIRLS and it's HAWT" aspect would seep through too easily. Maybe disguised as "They're both GIRLS and it's CUTE" for the animefags.
The same way I wouldn't trust most het women with writing a convincing bromance between two guys.

It just seems to take a lot of effort to move away from what's hot from your point of view and get to what's a deep and interesting relationship. All the more regarding lesbian relationships, because lesbians are usually seen as a male fantasy, and are not expected to end as something serious.

But then again, writing good relationships is always difficult, whatever the components are. It's always tempting to jump up to whatever conclusion you've got in mind, instead of carefully building up things so the reader really feels implicated.

>>52850994
Pretty much anything "Urban Fantasy" is "porn for women" nowadays.

>>52851171
Preach it.

>>52848986
It is a mark of how far /tg/ has fallen when in times past you would have actual stories, plots, and situations as well as drawfags and writefags helping build entire words off of this crappy thread.

We HAD all those things, a long time ago.

>>52848986
Wow OP, you got nothing going on in there.

>>52851171
But they're both girls, and it's hot.

>>52851259
I'm pretty okay with this.

>>52848986
Dat taunting.
Dat mordhau.
Dat proper maile.

>>52851171
>the magical lesbians meme
Lesbians are no more special a class of human beings than any other, and it is possible for a man to write a homosexual woman in a relationship without "making it sexy." And it can be sexy as well I suppose, nothing wrong with that.

And while lesbians in real life may be as boring as anyone else, in fiction they can be as attractive and lascivious as any other person.

>>52851290

I personally think you're misreading what he wrote.

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>yuri
>magical realm

>>52851290
I never said lesbians were magical or in any way special. You'll notice I mentioned bromances too; same thing.
But that's the thing. They're not special. Their relationships are going to have problems, and if it's their first homosexual relationship it's probably going to be extremely awkward. They're persons, and my point what that getting to the "juicy" parts before taking that into account is more tempting if lady on lady gets you going.
Nothing wrong with making them sexy either. But we're talking about writing relationships, and you've got to have the relationship before you get the sexy. If you even have to have the sexy. I'm having a hard time finding more than a few examples of deep, well-written female/female friendships.

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>>52850580

>>52849865
friend, you need a better play group. Your paladin's quest is exactly the sort of thing my DM likes working into games. If there's an important NPC in your backstory, you can bet your ass they'll either betray you or die.

>>52849030
>Sansa and Brienne
Never met.

>>52851426
Sound logic.

>>52848986
how popular would you call hentai?

you dont really see it outside of that

>>52851559
They did in the show.

>>52852194
>the show

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>>52851332

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>>52851426
Is there a version of this with half decent text?

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>>52849088
why the fuck does the princess have a cavalry lance?

>>52855692
anime

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>>52851332
Meanwhile, in the season finale.
It's neither a dick nor a tentacle, it's technically SFW.

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>>52855646
It's not hard to make one in paint

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>>52858297
>some kind of unholy amalgamation of sugarloaf and a bascinet
bitch should have a sallet, sallet are the best

>>52858552
>elaborately carved dildo poking into mouth

Salletfags in a nutshell.

>>52848986
They are not a cliche in normal media.

They're a cliche for shitty perverted neckbeard campaigns.

>>52849138
I could REALLY use a title

>>52848986
everything that's been done once is cliche. nothing is original anymore, everything has been thought about

>>52849138
This reminds me of something that's been bugging me a while now.

Why is it that japanese series inexplicably have the royal family, or any other leader, be massively more powerful than their guards?

Like, what's the point in having 12 highly trained knight bodyguards when you can evaporate a mountain range with one finger?

>>52851426
I made that one!

>>52852219
The books don't matter.

>>52858902
You did a shit job of typesetting and should feel bad.

>>52854513
But the only ones that lose to cock are faggots like you

>>52849138
>it's got mecha and airships with tesla death rays

every epic bacon science fuck yeah guy like you needs to be fed through a wheat thresher

>>52858874
I think it comes from their ideas about monarchy. The Emperor was not only chosen by God like in Europe, but is an actual descendent of a God. It only makes sense for them to be stronger than a normal person

>>52858874
Gotta have someone to keep the enemy goons off your back while you duel your brother for the throne or whatever

>>52858011
wait, what is this from?

>>52859004
Okay.

>>52858874
In a fantasy setting, divine right to rule actually exists and comes with divine power. Can't keep the throne if any schmuck with a pointy wizard hat could steal it out from under you by wiggling their fingers.

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>>52858297
Thanks. Here's a jpg version so nobody has to upload a static gif.

>>52860161
There is literally nothing wrong with static gifs.

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>>52860269
>There is literally nothing wrong with static gifs

>>52859070
Chill bro it's just soft sci fi

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>>52848986
You think any self-respecting princess is going to cart around a dame that could compete for a suitor's attention? Female knights and princesses don't mix unless the knight is disfigured.

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>>52860427
What if the knight or princess is crippled with a big, virile futa cock?

>>52848986
>mordhau vs half-sword
>weeb boobplate waifushit

I don't understand how something can be so terrible and great at the sam etime.

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>>52861182
>boobplate
>weeaboo

u wot

>>52861203

That kegplate is unrealistic, it just redirects blows to the groin, one of the body's most sensitive vital areas with high blood flow.

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>>52858552
Turns out it's SCA armor.

>>52861436
It's of French make, they don't mind such design, because they have no balls to lose anyway.

>>52861856
absolutely savage

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>>52861831
>>52860742
Fuck me this is great. Armor, weapons, combat, girls and purest love, it's perfect.

>>52861831
who did this

>>52861831
Oh my, I see /a/'s been holding out on me again.

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>>52865141
/a/ hates lesbians, this one's on /u/

>>52858874
Being a walking nuke dispenser means nothing when sleep is a necessity. So unless you have magic security, hidden sleeping spots, decoys, or you're not a pussy who needs sleep, any old assassin can just go Mr. Sandman on your ass and that's that.
The guards are there to buy you time while you get yourself out of your half-awake stage to finish off the ruckus.

>>52860742
>>52861831
>>52865251
I didn't realize I wanted this. I demand sauce.

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>>52861831
SCA armor doesn't have that kind of helmet. It looks like someone cut the front off a great helm and put it on a visor. You can see in >>52865251 that it still has a strip of steel at the bottom of the great helm. The one in your pic is a fairly average bascinet with a mail coif

>>52865820
Right there in the images, dude.

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>>52865901
>Battle Ready Medieval Knight 14th Century Sugarloaf Bascinet Helmet SCA Armor 16G Steel

SCA is full of weird ahistorical helmets and hers is typical.

>>52865962
that thing looks hideous, and I'm not even an armour autist

couldn't they use historical helmets that protect the face?

Are none of us gonna address the ridiculous way she's holding the sword in the OP?

>>52865988
Its actually fine to hold it that way, just i dont see why shed start the fight holding it like that...

>>52850229
>Why you bring up sex in a topic that almost always turns into sex or romance?

Sorry about your autism. Must be hard to take everything exactly literally.

>>52865982
They've got safety regulations that disqualify quite a few historical helmets and necessitate a lot of ugly shit.

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>>52865988
nah, that's a real thing. It lets you use it like a mace and stab joints/gaps in armor

the worst thing is her armor.
>shitty sallet's visor doesn't fit to the skull
>boobplate
>tassets are on the outside of her hips, rather than her thighs
>that retarded bevor
>braid asking to get grabbed

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>>52865988

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>>52865988
Nigga do you even mordhau

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>>52865988
This is some pretty half-assed bait, anon.

>>52865988
>he doesn't know about the murderstroke

Even the japs got this shit down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-VyPHmwdI

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Why not have both in one?

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>>52866887

>>52866887
I need to catch up on this, it was a really good read.

>>52849521
amis and amiles

>>52865988
In case you really don't know about halfhalding and think you're being memed on by all the guys posting old illustrations of it or something, swords are weighted so that the balance is very close to the handle so that they're very agile when held normally- you have a lot of leverage to put the blade exactly where you want. This has the side effect of meaning that when you hold them the other way, they are weighted almost exactly like a hammer. Meaning, if they have a crossguard, they ARE a hammer. You can really fuck someone up holding a sword like that, especially if you can actually hit an exposed area like that.

What's more, depending on how you hold it, you can hold even a razor sharp sword by the blade with no gauntlets fairly safely, and with gauntlets you'd have to pretty much fall hard on your own hand at just the wrong angle to actually cut yourself holding the sword by the blade and at that point you're more likely to accidentally sudoku.

You can also hold the handle and the middle of the blade for more control over where the tip of the sword goes, for instance into chinks in the opponent's armour around their armpits or neck (if they lack chainmail there).

>>52861831
>Mongolian fingerpaiting SCA paper theather featuring cute girls

YES

YES

>>52848986
>If Princess/Ladyknight pairings have been spammed to death by faggots on /tg/, why are there few, if any, examples of them in popular fantasy media?

because the two are completely unrelated.

Now gb2>>>/b/

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>>52859256
Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid

>>52866113
>half-assed
Go away Carlos, Keijo is a girl's sport.

>>52866054
Braid may be impractical but impractical long shit hanging off your head is far from ahistorical at least and is sometimes even part of the helmet itself. The bevor probably comes down to artstyle, like that picture of an anime girl putting in a normal sized contact lens even though her irises are 10x normal diameter- it's hard to reconcile the absurd proportions of an anime head with realistic and attractive looking armour. Same with the visor. The tassets are bad though, I can't come up with an excuse for those. The boobplate is not practical but it's not that egregious in this case and not of the sort (with cleavage) that actually represents a distinct disadvantage (guiding weapons to the heart and/or throat), its main problem in that case would be more metal used (and thus more weight).

>>52866887
>>52866897
MY LIEGE

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>>52865982
SCA legality is best legality.

>>52861831
so, there are japanese people who like western stuff
so kinda like a reverse weeaboo?

>>52865251
>/a/ hates lesbians, this one's on /u/
since when do they hate lesbians?

>>52868895
Breastplate wouldn't be boob shaped though. It would be a normal breastplate.

>>52869312
Apparently the SCA-scene in Japan was started by a couple of American expats bashing each other's shit in public parks.

>>52869582
The point is that it's something that could be made and wouldn't be (much of) a problem as long as it didn't have cleavage. I'm sure you could commission a blacksmith to hammer something like that out, and if lady knights had been more common irl boobplate probably would have been as well, because people are naturally vane. Which is the same reason codpieces tended to be oversized and erect, for a masculine equivalent.

>>52869312
>>52869601
That though the case may be, the answer is yes. I'm also not sure when japanophilia became such a huge thing, it wasn't like I was paying attention to the metanarrative of the internet at the time but I'm pretty sure in the 90s and early 00s it was more common both irl and online to be an anglophile. Regardless, there's people pretty much everywhere that idolise the culture of any other given place, and the most common places for the Japanese to idolise are France and Germany, especially their medieval culture. There's a shitload of it in manga, anime and game development- Even the most iconically Japanese JRPGs like Final Fantasy have strong western influences (western-style weaponry, western mythology), and then you have shit like Berserk, Monster Hunter and Dark Souls that are pretty much just 90% the creators jacking off to pictures of French and German knights fighting Greek monsters.

>>52858874
Gotta keep shmuckos off the royal's back so we don't have to keep redrawing the maps.

>>52869738
> Even the most iconically Japanese JRPGs like Final Fantasy have strong western influences

I want some of that shit you're smoking.

>>52848986
Sadly, it's not a cliche. We just wished it was.

>>52869530
Modern /a/ is kind of weird. The massive influx of newfags has made them much more unstable. Try not to think about it too hard.

>>52869867
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_summons
damn those sure are oriental
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Gun
look at all those guns based on japanese designs, my favourite has to be the winchester or maybe the peacemaker
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_(weapon_type)
fuck these katanas get me rock hard

>>52869867
Not him but Final Fantasy has more western influences in its lore than eastern ones.

>>52865962
>>52865982

16G steel isn't SCA legal

>>52848986
It's not a cliche it's just hacky, non-immersive, and frankly unimaginative at this point.

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>as as everything in GoT, princess and ladyknight are a very common cliché
or
>princess and ladyknight are rare, therefore GoT shows originality within the medium

check mate, fa/tg/uys

>>52870291
>it's not cliche, it's just hacky, non-immersive and cliche

What flavor of lady knight is best? The noble dress uniform wearing one with a light blade, or the hardened warrior in full plate armor?

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>>52869738
>I'm also not sure when japanophilia became such a huge thing

Mid 1800s, it was called japonisme back then.

>>52871546
Queen's Blade

>>52849017
even known leftist fifth column Hollywood won't feature dykes outside of ~meaningful arthouse films~ where fancy girls mope about and occasionally chow down on carpet

This is only a thing in vidya which no matter what people say remain infantile nerd shit in the eyes of most people

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>>52870355
No matter what you choose, GoT is still shit tho.

>>52871958
Which is a pity, it's like our culture is designed to hate fun on some level, to make mockery of sincere happyness

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>>52871546
Porque no los dos?
Dress uniforms and combat gear aren't mutually exclusive. They're anachronistic maybe, but we're talking about fantasy here.

>>52871958
>>52872091
Isn't that ironic? The American, leftist, progressive media barely features homosexuals yet downright socially reactionary Japan shits out yuri and yaoi like there's no tomorrow. If you asked me why, I'd say that I'm no expert on Japanese culture but I think that its strict separation between private and public (tatemae-honne) is responsible for this. They're not exactly fond of homos, but if you want to watch two guys fiddle eachothers diddles they're not going to stop you. Meanwhile elevated American culture (media and academia) is so drenched in identity politics that everyone will always find something offensive one way or another. If an American movie features gay characters they have two options: either they rewrite Brokeback Mountain (because it's the one gay movie that really nobody is offended by) or they play these characters for laughs (but not too much because being called a homophobe can ruin your career). Ironically it's the progressive LGBTQ.Q community that prevents their own "fair representation" in media: directors and writers in the West rightfully don't want to touch that subject with a ten foot pole.

But that's just me speculating.

>>52872165
>Japan shits out yuri and yaoi like there's no tomorrow

The yuri and yaoi being shat out is mostly by straight authors for straight readers.
It's OK because it's just wank material, to be enjoyed in private.

The more serious homo content by homos for homos by comparison is barely a fart, and doesn't get much exposure even among the straights consuming the wank material above.

>>52872316
It is on the rise from what I hear

>>52872165
It's mainly because back in the days (as in the 70s) you couldn't make female characters talk about sex in children's and YA media, so they used gay boys as stand-ins.

Yuri is just romantic fiction about "intimate friendship" beween girls. Some dude though being gay was a phase pretty much all kids go through and it stuck around as a genre.

Neither genre is actual homosexual fiction, heck, the shit actually originates FROM homoerotic 19th century boy's adventure stories and fetish pedo gay porn for males, both of which quoted wakashūdō-fiction stereotypes.

>>52848986
Amalia and Evangeylne from Wakfu technically qualify, even if Eva's not a knight. Still a "princess and female bodyguard" situation.

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>>52848986
Poveracci, when will they ever learn
You don't know about Fantaghirò.

>>52873702
>It's mainly because back in the days (as in the 70s) you couldn't make female characters talk about sex in children's and YA media, so they used gay boys as stand-ins.
Wut? How does that even make sense? Or am I just stupid?

>>52874822
Sexuality was OK as long as the sensual character was demonstrably evil, making it a cautionary example.

That's also why villainesses were always vixens, it was the only way to slip it past the censors.

>>52875000
Is this in America or Japan (I live in neither location)? And how does that justify gays being okay somehow, were the gays depicted as evil too?

>>52874822
>Wut? How does that even make sense?
It's like how you generally only see dicks through spandex in cape comics by artists who're fresh off the boat.
Publishers have common standards for what's permissionable in their publications and those standards used to be pretty strict in shoujo.

>Is this in America or Japan
Japan. Way back during the 70s, though the wall came down on the taboo during the last decade, from what I hear.
>And how does that justify gays being okay somehow, were the gays depicted as evil too?
Because it started out in scifi and other genre stories. You can get away with a lot of stuff as long as you properly alienate it from RL by having it be featured in genre stories. It's how BL in general works and why a lot of it is still really really really wierd.

>>52869530

/a/ hates lesbians for the same reason /v/ hates Horizon: Zero Dawn, a massive influx to 4chan of alt-right dickheads over the last several years who want to be as obnoxiously anti-every-minority-group as possible to maximize their e-cred among their fellow e-gang members.

Reading several posts in this thread about the evil liberal media and the mind-control cabal in Hollywood makes it clear /tg/ is not immune.

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>my ladyknight is a princess

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>>52879266
And I would say that /a/ hates /u/ more than they hate lesbians, on account of obnoxious LGBTwhatever types taking over the board to use as their blog for attention whoring and discussing the gay lifestyle, as well as safe harbour to fester in and launch out of into other boards like /pol/ right down to taking the enjoyment out of entire mediums and genres when there's an entire board where it should be going.

Also, if you have time, make sure to thank Donald Trump and Pepe the Frog for finally helping 'alt-right' get the mainstream recognition that years of editorial pieces and academic papers failed to achieve, granting you the ultimate crutch to pre-empt people calling you a massive fucking faggot regardless of what you believe.

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>>52879266http://i.4cdn.org/tg/1493066829767.png
>m-muh alt-right boogyman
>m-muh purity of left-wing opinions online
>m-muh /a/ is one person
Nigga I mainboard /a/ and Vietnamese shadow puppet lesbians are fantastic.
Portions of /a/ hate them because a lot of them are shit characters, not because they're gay. It's either psycho yuri stalker of a hetero girl, which loses its humor pretty fast or "why won't you fucking say it already"-tier teasing.
But every fucking season has generals after generals for whatever blatant yuribait show is airing.
And it can't even be the "alt-right dickheads" because I can't count the number images I've seen with of Dragon Maid or Prisma Iliya characters with MAGA hats.
You're just trying to make it fit your dumb "we're getting invaded by the evil redneck bible thumpers" meme.
KYS.

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>>52881285
I'm too angry to fucking copypaste right goddamn.

>>52881338
Or maybe you are just too stupid to do it right

>>52869867
FF1 was super D&D-y.

>>52880946

Yeah, rightwing cucktards never blog and fester, which is why this this thread about lady knights loving princesses has zero posts about the evil machine of mainstream media and the AGENDA OF THE GAYS.

>>52879266
>Alt-Right 4channers
>Against lesbians
>Let alone against lesbian cartoon squiggles


Anon...

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>>52866897
Thanks /tg/

>>52881285
>that pic
holy shit that's gold.

>>52880946
>the Roman is a Blonde with blue eyes
>Not both having dark sexy hair

Gonna get the Cross

>>52885801
>hasn't seen that pic a thousand times before
spotted the redditor

>>52880946
>A Greek and a Roman
>They're both women
So how does that work? If only the one being penetrated is "gay", then how do they dictate who is the gay one and who the straight one when neither of them penetrates? Is it simply not gay to scissor? And can we assume that only the Roman, who appears to be a bottom, performs cunnilingus on the Greek and not the other way around? Are they still open to being approached to men? Or perhaps at this point they've gotten so alfa that they exclusively want men to be penetrated by them or orally please them?

Please explain their relationship within the context of Hellenistic Mediterranean sexual mores. I need this information for my thesis.

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>>52849521
How original

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>>52879266
>>52865251
>/a/ hates lesbians
>falling for the memes
It's just counter-reactions to obnoxious shippers, distaste for dhurrama like citrus and the fact that plotless shows like sakura trick are shit. whenever you get a show with a mainly female cast /a/ will argue whether they're gay or not like there's no tomorrow.

>>52890429
>whenever you get a show with a mainly female cast /a/ will argue whether they're gay or not like there's no tomorrow.

you don't...

you don't need to watch haremshit, /a/

you already know it's shit going in...

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>>52892044
Not all female-dominated shows are haremshit. There's also cute girls doing cute things, magical girls, idols, girls and guns, anthropomorphic personifications (almost always female), etc.

>>52892134
At least two of those are lesbians by default anyway

>>52892261
thatsthepoint

>>52848986
Because nobody cares about your shitty fetishes.

If accessing /tg/ required a mandatory 15 minute visit to /d/ or /h/ before being allowed to post the board as a whole would be improved since there wouldn't be all these trash magical realm threads EVERY SINGLE DAY.

>>52893675
/d/ and /h/ don't allow discussion though.

>>52895422
Think that anon is saying you should have a wank before posting on /tg/. Get your rocks off and maybe you won't come here and post magical realm.

>>52896426
Nah, a little bit of cheesecake and flair never hurt anyone.

>>52893675
Most insightful comment I can remember seeing on this board ever

>>52896578
Pretty sure >>52893675 this anon has had at least three aneurisms with how mad he's been about it all this time

Cheesecake's going to give the poor dude a heart attack.

>>52849297
Is that from a zone of the enders anime? Those body suits look damn similar.

>>52854702
It was very sad how devoted he was and yet how childlike he was becoming due to being regenerated so many times.

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>>52897838
Space Battleship Yamato 2199, a remake of the classic '70s anime

I think only like 3 characters had bodysuits in the ZoE animes

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>>52897941
Yeah, these nerds.

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>/u/ and other faggots drum up the girly girl and prince archetypes as 'cliche' because they don't like the implications of a girl getting with another girl with looks and apparent attitude of a dude
>sheltered princess and dyke in shining armour subcategory suffers all the more from this because it deepens the divide

>>52888065
Yes, hello. Thank you for your questions. To answer your first proper question about penetration, this is fortunately irrelevant. When they spar, they do so bare-handed and neither of them wears any clothes, including armour.

If they were to start dicking around with hilts and shafts though, then even without penetration, all of the shame and crying would naturally be on the Centurion.

>>52884113

I would propose /tv/ as a counterargument as I've seen them autistically rage at Lesbians being depicted on screen, but they're too retarded to be taken at face value.

>>52899569
I do my level best to forget that /tv/ exists and I'll thank you never to bring them up ever again.

>>52854513
Sauce?

>>52866143
"realistic anime fight"
Dude breaks out a batman gauntlet for fucks sake
after hiding it, in a legal duel.

>>52902563
No reason you can't hide your equipment in a duel

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>>52902948
Judicial duels struggled mightily to ensure fairness and often required standardized kit, because apparently divine favor isn't enough to outweigh "actual combat fitness and experience" bias.

Two men of equal build but one's a man-at-arms? Give them both wonky shield-hook-spears so neither of them will know what the fuck they're doing.
A man and a woman? Bury the man chest-high to counter his size and strength.

So on and so forth until finally everyone had to admit trial by combat was not a quality system of justice.

>>52902563
>>after hiding it, in a legal duel.
He wasn't hiding it. It was just the other guys fault for assuming his opponent wasn't similarly armed with a "shield".

>>52903116
>often required standardized kit
but this one clearly didn't, since the other guy was gonna be fighting with full armour and a horse before he decided it wouldn't be as cool.

>>52851218
Yeah. Maybe you should leave since /tg/ is so bad now.

>>52903194
That's part of what makes it unrealistic, yes.

>>52903221
But then why were you complaining about the batman gauntlet instead of that?!

>>52903263
Because as you said he decided it would be unfair and dueled properly, in the end.

>>52903398
Not because of any respect of the duel, but because of vanity.

>>52902948
by that logic he could have waited till the duel started, pulled out a small crossbow and shot the other guy in the chest.

>>52903263
Because the difference is Sir Gotowned there made no secret of the fact he was riding up in full kit (though letting him have a horse is pretty bullshit) where as Ye Ole Man of the Winged Rodent faked a handicap and only won because of trickery, which if fine and even admerable in a real fight but this is like a boxing match where one guy pulls a tazer from his trunks