I feel you. I adore really to see the ml takes care with little puppy. It's fine too when the ml is with the mc when they're both humans. But it's just so weird to think the ml is... love partners... with the puppy. So for me, it's better to think I'm reading two complete different stories/moments, one where we see ml playing with his pet, and one when he's with his lover. Although fiction, I'm really not comfortable with the concept, especially now that their relationship is clearly established. I'm not comfortable either with the fact that people are so comfortable with doggies s*xuality such knotting. Do they know what it looks like?
I happened to see stray dogs knotting while I was passing by in the street as a kid, STILL TODAY I'm shocked by what I saw. It's very unsettling
I know that knotting in these animalistic bl stories doesn't mean much, but IRL the action of animals knotting is unsettling, painful for animals, and I think this term shouldn't be used so easily in bl romances where readers are humans. I get the concept of it (romanticization), though it's just way too animalistic
Im not saying this is not good but this is bad…. I know bl is good and all and I’ve read more then 200+ but there is something wrong this doesn’t feel right call me a boomer or call me weird but I don’t think that’s normal to sexualize a puppy…..