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Happy Holidays from Your Fave GL Creators!

2019 was one awesome year for the Yuri fandom. What better way to add in more love into the yuletide season but by seeing our favorite GL series celebrating the holidays, getting ready for the new year.

This year we have spotted a few of our GL content creators posting Christmas art related to their works and here they are.

What Does The Fox Say creator Team Gaji posted a Christmas art of both Sungji and Sumin together. Sumin is wearing a Santa outfit as she was lifted by Sungji wearing a Reindeer costume.

https://twitter.com/gaji0712/status/1209504789102350338

Also, the webtoon (which is published in Korean on Kakaopage) has recently ended. You can read the series officially in English on Tappytoon in both SFW and NSFW versions.

Thai GL manga and webtoon artist Ratana Satis posted a Christmas art in her official Facebook page. Featuring the main characters from hit GL works Pulse, Lily Love, and Lily Love 2 – Frosty Jewel.

https://www.facebook.com/ratana.satis/photos/a.788935964499217/2769830703076390/?type=3&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDaQk_TM9Tpy-Kl_sPR9A5gEotKM7bovapBK0W3NtNXsThezmd0GwMThq5S_eVYtoMsTr03iFJYhAw1OknjhIeczN671FN-9ciEq5TDuBI2HfQgOLls0SteOq5a7QXuXk8dHf-wjRWw9N_AsMJCx18yM_Pvu9FfpNgHdV1um5nZ1TtaQc0FnvibJCQO-X8wO5zK6QU5p9T19jDPc_blwCJ5-2M2z4GLZRl8N3dCEIGutFq4D1VCOAYTuV1FzZj3yZJKpFa_mcfP8RD-L7Sxpn7WBiFUCROxJxu4duhsrPqit0QSOEjDtAjncTLJEj86KoTK9ujIUGE0HS18Pj3rIBdX6w&__tn__=-R

The artist has recently teased art and characters of her upcoming GL series Soul Drifters. Speaking of Pulse, you can preorder the 6th volume right now.

Artist Darunni has also posted a Christmas on her official Facebook page featuring our two lovely girls from She’s A Keeper.

https://www.facebook.com/artsbydarunni/photos/a.872399416243692/1476960549120906/?type=3&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAxXghLm_5NUy6TT8FkHuakzhrB4hvKTJyAUWGWNnghnpT0-arJjFbX_mF7oHOlc6-R9IBRCFTbAiznvo1dSzGiq6IFhIIy2RHQKZU5ZS_pbHjnm5-jPOeDVPf_OCWNFg_R0bWYZXiOaENLbrbpy9oWZ6HKc2vth-oPnmW3kGIm56aKD_3MQWb0NNGNFoub6RexU0KTUUNGMz5cLdAltNxbytc9xKVK3MpYCSDemEfGw_ivap7TzRRxlSd3Tpom9PllQhaBO5sIRX8T9glNk4PgC3zWa0QecHOKDRbyLwOMo9dLnQzdICHatls_ZkfWQfRpwmhs7KCT1jImIuacg4LrUQ&__tn__=-R

She also has another ongoing webtoon series titled BABE! which you can read on WEBTOON. She’s A Keeper can be read on Webcomics.

Tan Jiu, creator of the popular Their Story / SQ Begin with Your Name series also posted a Christmas update on their Weibo page. Also, let’s not forget that December 25 is also Sun Jing’s birthday!

Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope your holidays have been great and may your 2020 be awesome.

Tan Jiu Releases Tamen De Gushi Art Inspired by Overwatch’s Lunar New Year Skins

Tamen De Gushi (Their Story) still remains one of the most popular ongoing GL webtoons to date. Its creator Tan Jiu has been releasing a lot of art about the characters aside from the usual webtoon chapters which gives more reasons for the fans to be hyped.

Recently, the artist released a few art on their blog featuring our favorite characters from the series in the Lunar New Year Skins of Blizzard’s popular online game Overwatch. If you’re a fan of both, then this is a double thumbs up!

PLAY OF THE GAME!

Qiu Tong as Tracer

Qiu Tong in Tracer’s Lunar New Year skin fits her cuteness so much. Makes your heart felt like you’ve been hit by a Pulse Bomb!

Sun Jing as Reaper

There are no words. Badass Sun Jing fits well as a Badass Reaper. Ready to sweep your heart out like a Death Blossom!

Qi Fang as Hanzo

Our favorite mophead Qi Fang as Hanzo would be quite interesting. He is sure to take out everyone that stand in his way with one swift of his Dragonstrike.

Mo Xiaonan as Ashe

Ashe is the recently added character into the roster of Overwatch‘s playable characters. Mo Xiaonan as Ashe is a mix of coolest and cuteness ready to shoot you from afar.

As always, you can never ignore Tan Jiu’s awesome art! This set is just awesome!

About Tamen De Gushi

Tamen De Gushi is a collection of short yuri comic strips created by Tan Jiu. The story centers on the lives of two different girls: the sporty girl named Sun Jing and the cutie and innocent blonde named Qiu Tong. The series itself have a very simple plot: a story how two girls met each other and how their feelings grow as days go by.

About Overwatch

Overwatch is a popular first-person shooter game developed by Blizzard in 2016. The game has various characters for you to choose from where team up into a group of six capturing and defending control points as well as pushing payloads to achieve victory.

This is considered as Blizzard Entertainment’s fourth major gaming franchise which still remains popular until today.

Source: Tan Jiu (Weibo) – link 1, Tan Jiu – link 2

[Update] We Might Not be Able to See or Read Chinese-Made GL Works Anymore

Note: The article is updated with additional information as of November 1:24pm GMT+8. Those underlined are the updated statements.

This is a bit alarming. Worse, there is a chance that we might won’t be able to see GL artwork and webtoons from Chinese artists and writers and related literature in the future.

https://twitter.com/minorujoeling/status/1065524520461623296

Effective December 1, the Chinese Government will be handing out a huge reward of 600,000 RMB to individuals who will be reporting media under pornography. GL and BL categories might be affected unless it has reached into a degree that the contents of the works contain themes that is considered as inappropriate.

This draw a huge outcry to fans especially those who loyally follow artists and writers who create related content. Artists urged online users not to re-upload and share their works on the following Chinese social media platforms Weibo and Lofter in order to protect them.

Last year, a woman using the pen name Tianyi was arrested by authorities and was given a 10-year and six months sentence for creating and selling her homoerotic book Occupy in 2017. The novel tells the story about an intimate sexual relationship between a male student and a male teacher.

Tianyi admitted to writing the story and sold copies online via the website Taobao. She promoted her work through the Chinese social media platform Weibo.

Pornography is illegal in China and the government is doing all they can to take down those who create and distribute such media.

In the case of Chinese GL works, some of the popular ones are Tamen De Gushi by Tan Jiu and Dear L by Wu Bao. Note that the mentioned works might not be affected on this as this do not really show pornography. There’s still hope after all.

To give you a better understanding of the situation, here is a translation of the situation:

https://www.facebook.com/YuriFanaticsOutThere/posts/1918664468203324

Tamen De Gushi was published in a Chinese language physical book titled SQ: Begin with Your Name! released on October 5, 2015. It contained some insert art and the entire chapters from 1 to 141.

Note: While some of the information still requires confirmation, The Lily Cat will continue to monitor and provide updates regarding this. You may follow the Facebook Page or check back here again for the recent updates.

Source: minorujoeling (Twitter), ABC News Australia, Yuri/Shoujo-Ai Manga Fanatics (translation, Facebook), AsiaOne