What about a dark story is dark to you?

ChickenButt September 13, 2024 12:16 am

I want to hear what people find dark in stories that are dark? What are things you cannot accept no matter how much the author tries to normalize it?

Personally I hate cheating as much as I hate SA/Murder.

Responses
    Moonwalker_ September 12, 2024 11:59 pm

    SA and sudden when the plot is amazing enough. Like where it comes from? It's so sudden. Making me dropped that amazing story

    Me_for_ president September 13, 2024 12:07 am

    I don’t like SA and rape in stories in general, but I especially despise it when the story is great And the author ruins it by Putting that shit in that is my biggest pet peeve and it happens so often in bl like the story will be great and then bam randomly there is a rape scene.

    Abow September 13, 2024 1:10 am

    Showing someone getting raped and treating it like a sex scene. It’s weird how ppl be warranting it bc it’s dark.

    Yurikabedon September 13, 2024 1:10 am

    I really hate gaslighting. It feels like a curse to foolishly endured all the cheating, SA, physical and mental abuse, even murder.

    PrettyMenSupremacy September 13, 2024 1:29 am

    Dude I hate confinement with a burning passion, especially when they chained somewhere like the bed, unable to do anything except laying there and is basically forced to depend on the other party to take care of them THE BIGGEST ICK. It’s why I cannot read “tree without roots” like imagine being deduced to literally nothing but a living sex toy to someone but still need to rely on them EUGHHHHH

    Mioro September 13, 2024 2:13 am

    Its not that dark but you know this plot in which the ML has the MC's completely under his control? But like exclusively when the MC is oblivious to it.
    Their life falls apart:
    -Can't find a job and when they do they get fire rlly quietly (the ML threatens the owner to fire MC)
    -Are in debt bc they're bad at handling money (ML is pulling strings to worsen the debts and fooling MC into thinking its their fault)
    -Decides to do/don't do smth in a extreme situation (ML created the whole situation to leave MC w no choice)
    -has very few friends and the ones that are around are very noisy (ML makes sure NO ONE gets close to them and the ones that do are being paid off to watch over MC)
    It's a type of manipulative abuse that I just can't handle at all, I would rather ML was physically abusive than this concept of being tied down w/o your knowledge

    Gummy_bear September 13, 2024 2:17 am

    Rape, shota, abuse, racism, sexism, ummm, anything bad basically

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 2:19 am
    Showing someone getting raped and treating it like a sex scene. It’s weird how ppl be warranting it bc it’s dark. Abow

    Ohh my god the amount of how much I have seen authors make the uke look like they’re enjoying it while being raped, is insane. The fetishizing is so nasty, throw up.

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 2:20 am
    Rape, shota, abuse, racism, sexism, ummm, anything bad basically Gummy_bear

    I barely read ones with racism, haven’t found much. I’ve seen a lot of racist drawings though in East Asian stories, the stereotypical drawings. And I guess by my title, I mean like something that makes you want to drop everything and can’t process what you just saw or read.

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 2:21 am
    Its not that dark but you know this plot in which the ML has the MC's completely under his control? But like exclusively when the MC is oblivious to it.Their life falls apart:-Can't find a job and when they do ... Mioro

    Ew. Sums it all up. Currently I’m reading Perfect Match (not manga but novel. Chinese). And Chinese novels are great at making MLs so trashy, abusive as hell, and still them ending up together.

    There’s one where the ML beat MC and even let his family hit MC, and when MC finally wants to leave, he can’t even leave.

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 2:21 am
    Dude I hate confinement with a burning passion, especially when they chained somewhere like the bed, unable to do anything except laying there and is basically forced to depend on the other party to take care o... PrettyMenSupremacy

    Yeah I dropped that story NGL.

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 2:22 am
    I really hate gaslighting. It feels like a curse to foolishly endured all the cheating, SA, physical and mental abuse, even murder. Yurikabedon

    I can’t stand any of those, cheating too. I read one called Form of Love and I don’t know how author is gonna try to justify uke cheating. Disgusting. And the amount of SA/Rape there lmaoo…

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 2:22 am
    SA and sudden when the plot is amazing enough. Like where it comes from? It's so sudden. Making me dropped that amazing story Moonwalker_

    Big bummer moment in BLs. This is personally why I read shounen ai when I need some fluff.

    Cruchy_rollers September 13, 2024 2:25 am
    I barely read ones with racism, haven’t found much. I’ve seen a lot of racist drawings though in East Asian stories, the stereotypical drawings. And I guess by my title, I mean like something that makes you... ChickenButt

    Well, then the things I find the worst is rape, and I genuinely can’t process shota/loli it’s so gross

    Abow September 13, 2024 2:31 am
    Ohh my god the amount of how much I have seen authors make the uke look like they’re enjoying it while being raped, is insane. The fetishizing is so nasty, throw up. ChickenButt

    Exactly, it literally defeats the purpose of it being non consensual by portraying it in a consensual light. It’s clear they got fetishes for non con.

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 3:03 am
    Exactly, it literally defeats the purpose of it being non consensual by portraying it in a consensual light. It’s clear they got fetishes for non con. Abow

    I’ve mostly seen it in Japanese one shots or short story, the porn-like ones without plot. I get that be purpose is just for fap or porn material, it’s just for fantasy kinks sure, but when it happens in developed stories, it leaves an extremely bad taste.

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 3:04 am
    Well, then the things I find the worst is rape, and I genuinely can’t process shota/loli it’s so gross Cruchy_rollers

    Idk how people can be attracted to kids and enjoy reading explicit stuff of it, I’ve come across nasty Chinese smut story where some chapters were of a middle schooler being raped in a bus (it was for sexual only). Very explicitly written. disgusting.

    Thime September 13, 2024 3:28 am

    The immortal love interest loved them for since they first met…they were a child Why would meatbun do that

    ChickenButt September 13, 2024 3:52 am
    The immortal love interest loved them for since they first met…they were a child Why would meatbun do that Thime

    Context? Meatbun?

    Thime September 13, 2024 4:58 am
    Context? Meatbun? ChickenButt

    Meatbun is the author of 2HA. The ML was loved by the MC for two lifetimes, but due to plot treated the ML very poorly in the first lifetime. It’s a cultivation story and the ML is immortal and took in the MC as a disciple when he was 16/17. It’s seen as a sort of one sided love till after decades of being apart and other drama finally end up together. Then the author decides to include a sidestory basically implying the ML always loved him from day 1. It was also out of character because ML didn’t have emotions at the time