Doomed Yuri — an essay by knifekatt

Falling in love with a women is the world. it is beautiful and devastating and full of understanding and you don't know how you could ever find someone that really GETS YOU that much and every time you speak an experience that you didn't think anyone else had before and they say, “me too!” and it makes your eyes light and feel as if you are not alone which is something so many women have felt their WHOLE LIFE because men overshadow women so much and for someone else to just make you FEEL SO SEEN and feel SO MUCH EMOTION is just such a rollercoaster but its a rollercoaster your willing to be on because THEY MAKE YOU FEEL AS IF YOU ARE EVERYTHING and not men who make you feel as if you are simply nothing outside of your beauty and status. that's why its so hard to let go of women. that's why “doomed yuri” is so tragic and attractive. There is nothing better or more sacred than a women’s love for another women. It is vulnerable and it is rebellious. When you lose something that special, its devastating. Yet its something so much of us experience, because relationships are (for the most part) trial and error. With so little queer—especially lesbian—women available locally it makes a WLW relationship even MORE HARD to lose. They make you feel like you are everything but you know not all relationships work out. Not all relationships are meant to be. And that's painful. WLW relationships are pain but they are also the most beautiful thing to ever occur on planet Earth and I will never take that back. There is NOTHING that is more special than the unstoppable, tragic love of a women for another.