Amen to this fr
It's the wishy-washy boundaries
The art played the bad part to me.
no bc fr those were such nice aspect of bdsm dynamics that you usually don't see in BL yet their dynamics is so badly done and unsafe it bothers me
Yeah, cause the BDSM was done to the MC without his consent, that's the whole issue. It would've been fine if the ML explained to the MC what this is about, what he likes, what BDSM entails and they could've went from there. But since the author wanted to basically stuff this story with trauma and abuse, they decided to make it all non consensual until the MC is broken enough to feel a (trauma) bond with his ML and like it...
always down for bdsm dynamics, but this one is iffy. something about their dynamic is setting off an alarm in my brain.
that said—
being told to wear only his shirt when in his house: A+
kneeling while being fed and pet: A++
getting gently smooched all over the face: A+++
waking up in the middle of the night to be used and fucked: A++++