I ain’t reading all that, you ain’t in English class writing an essay for a novel
HELP
- person who was definitely not tearing up while writing this reply
look around and see who gaf at that response
True, the only person who gaf is you, sitting in your room, porn pulled up, ready for a rigorous day of media illiteracy.
I’m not the one writing a whole essay about a damn fictional story crying in the corner thinking anybody cared about their thoughts, to which they find no one did.
So, have a good day with your literacy profession! Put it to good use instead of using it to complain about a fictional story where not even the author knows you exist on an illegal website!
Bro thinks Inking is gonna draw them a customized drawing of Dooshik in a wet t shirt that’s so fuckin cute.
Bro thinks Inking will actually notice this whole essay about their work criticizing and really care, that’s so fucking cute.
Crazy how “nobody cared” so you decided to reply to me. So heartwarming. It’s so wild how the author doesn’t even know you’re defending their work. Because you are also on the illegal manga site.
I’m in no way shape or form defending their work, all I’m saying is that it’s crazy you’re on here complaining and criticizing it on that same illegal website I’m on.
I heavily agreed with one of twins getting . He was fucked up for that. Most of these BL readers are girls too, i’m like do yall not care or have a heart?¿ two wrongs don’t make 1 right.
That’s not even karma either, that’s just pure evil and disgusting. I wouldn’t even wish my worst enemies to get by 20 men
Gonna be srs for a sec. I am also highly against people yapping about how “disgusting” something is only to keep reading it. I bought the chapters in Korean to stay caught up. But like you, (I’m assuming) I like to read the chapters in English here and discuss with others. I’m not saying the author or the readers are disgusting for creating and consuming it. I literally spent money and read Dooshik somno’ing Jooha. I have no quarrel with the people who enjoy it or the author themselves, who I acknowledge worked hard to create the story. However I believe many aspects of the story were not well-executed and I think BL readers in general should be more critical of what they read. It’s not an attack on anyone’s character and it’s purely from a literary perspective. One that I don’t need Inking themselves to see. I’m just a goober sending my thoughts into the void of the other illegal website goobers.
I didn’t really get into it in my original statement but it’s a little hard to inject regular people morality into a story where pearls shoot out of the mc’s dick. I also felt pretty awful when Dooshik arranged the rape, but I want to inspect why I felt that way without accusing other readers of really serious stuff. I felt like it was a very hamfisted moment for Dooshik’s character, who was always the sole “safe space” Jooha had. From a narrative point of view, I was honestly more disappointed that PB didn’t unpack what had happened beyond Jooha and Dooshik fighting and making up immediately. Although I think you could argue that Inking wrote the rape to make the Koh brothers more “sympathetic” to butter the readers up for their spin-off story that’s allegedly coming next year.
this mf writing thesis over a BL it's never that serious
what's serious are your feelings for me since you tracked down this five month old comment, c'mere pookie pie
So I read this manhwa last week cause I saw someone recommend it. I clocked out after a few hours with that Shyamalan-ass ending, sat back, and did something I never do. I deleted my mangago history because I had such a miserable time. What started as a lighthearted story about two (severely) down-on-their-luck dudes trying to stay together despite horrible circumstances just turned into just your regular BL shovelware with no self awareness. In the beginning, Jooha is framed as a mysterious, but hardy guy and his relationship with Dooshik is pretty equal and respectful, hence why people still cling to that “Dooshik Green Flag” cope to this day. But that reciprocity in their relationship completely goes away and it just becomes an incredibly tedious cycle of Jooha being abused and exploited by gangsters, Dooshik saving him and being like “I’ll protect you my omega”, and then failing to protect him all over again. It’s no different from all the boilerplate het stuff that people complain about. Jooha has zero agency. None afforded to him by Pilwon, Jaeil and his crew, the twins, or even Dooshik himself. After Dooshik organizes the gang rape in chapter 78, he comes home to Jooha and starts lovebombing him and forcing himself onto him. The one guy who was supposed to never hurt Jooha, now digivolving into Pilwon 2.0 because Jooha didn’t immediately approve of him having someone raped. And I know it’s been over a year since that happened, but I think had the characters been even slightly critical of Dooshik’s decision to have Daekwang raped, I would have respected the story a lot more. I’ve seen people argue until the cows come home on social media about whether he “deserved to get assaulted by 20 men” or whatever. I’m not going to opine on that because I have complicated feelings on the twins as is. But what I will say is that I was super bummed that this monumental event for Dooshik’s character gets totally swept under the rug so he can continue to be Jooha’s knight in shining armor. And I know Inking writes these savior traits to be attractive to the reader. Seeing Dooshik burn the world down to protect Jooha makes him a good boyfriend, right? But in my opinion, that was the moment for me that Dooshik became just like every other man in Jooha’s brutal history. Every important male character is either a rapist or a rape facilitator. And the whole point of Dooshik’s character was for him to be a safe haven for Jooha, who was the victim of that violence. Jooha immediately forgives him, of course. But I think this story could have been much more compelling if Jooha had the emotional tools or the willpower to realize WHAT it means that his boyfriend did to Daekwang. If he had reflected more in the aftermath of Dooshik assaulting him because he thinks Jooha is going to leave him, and realized that maybe their relationship isn’t healthy, and that the only thing that’s keeping Dooshik from reaching Pilwon levels of obsession is his paternalistic desire to protect him. Not even the man who saved him, showed him that he can live the life his mother wanted for him, is safe from that violence. They could have had an honest dialogue and figured something out. Maybe put some distance between them. But that doesn’t happen because the story doesn’t ever prioritize Jooha’s voice or his status as a trauma survivor. It’s all about making sure Dooshik can eat his ass 24/7. Stupid magic healing cock.