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No, "seme" and "uke" apply to yuri as well. Some people use "tachi" and "neko", iirc, but that's not widespread.
Even so, it’s still not appropriate; I say cut it.
Edited by Orbiting
Cut! Cut! CUT! Also even if its unisex Uke and Seme are terrible terms.
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Notwithstanding the fact that those are ZeroContextExamples, is Fanon a legit namespace on Tropes? I've never seen that.
^ Yes, Numerous fandoms have their own fanon pages. Fanon.Naruto, Fanon.Pokemon, Fanon.Harry Potter, etc.
According to the Namespace Index
, there are forty five pages with the "Fanon" namespace, so I'd imagine it is.
Considering those are basically exclusively porn tropes I'd say it violates our rules against troping porn a bit.
^ Uke and seme? I wouldn't say they're exclusively NSFW. They appear in SFW material. It's their personality and demeanor that makes a character fit each archetype, not whether we actually see them fitting it.
They're Zero Context Examples, and while one can argue that the tropes themselves aren't NSFW, these particular examples are exclusively referring to NSFW fan works. Zap 'em.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
I could have sworn they were already removed, but they weren't so I removed them from the page.
Fanon is for things that are widely accepted as being part of work itself (despite the lack of any Word of God). Not for stuff found in fan-fic. A lot more of the examples there don't seem to fit—that was just a particularly noticable one.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
^ The fanon pages often discuss things common in fan-works. I'm not sure if it's tropes being flexible or just incorrect troping. Would there be a better trope for such stuff?
^no, I think that's also accurate. The best examples I can think of are names: in Pitch Perfect, Chloe's shower guy wasn't named but it became generally accepted that he is called Tom, and so fanworks use that name for him. Or in ATLA, one of Aang and Katara's speculative sons was pretty much decided on to be called Bumi, from appearing in a few fanfics and then pervading the community (and it then became canon in LOK).
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
Yes, Fanon often appears in fanfic—but things that often appear in fanfic aren't necessarily fanon. That's getting the causality backwards. Lots of fic has Kirk and Spock as lovers, but even people who enjoy those stories don't generally think that's actually part of the show.
It's true that the line can be fuzzy at times. But other times, it's crystal clear. :)
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
A few hours ago, Monolaf 317 added this to Fanon.Steven Universe:
Even ignoring the whole "it's a kids show" thing, from what I understand, seme and uke are words specific to the yaoi genre, specifically referring to males. All of the characters listed are female, or at least use female pronouns.
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast