It doesn’t bother me that Ilay is so adamant to possess Taeui. This is the first time Ilay has felt this way and his character is set up in a way that is inhuman. He has so much power and ability that no one is realistically going to stop him from doing whatever he wants. He’s essentially a demigod and is treated by the cast as such. Of course someone on his level will take whatever he wants. Who will stop him? What consequences has he ever suffered from doing whatever he wants?
Taeui is the only person who can teach Ilay how to be human because Ilay wants something from Taeui that he can’t just take from him, his love. This is almost a ‘beauty and the beast’ type of story with Ilay being the beast. As Ilay becomes more human he will develop human vulnerabilities. This is the slowest of burns and I’m here for it. I never feel like the story is dragging, and it would realistically take a long time for someone to complete the character arch it feels like Ilay is on.
I would’ve read 100s of chapters of the seme’s redemption arc. Would’ve loved to explore the psychological side of this story more. The seme growing attached to his prisoner. Perhaps the MC escapes, maybe even thinks he kills the ML, only to be recaptured. The ML killing an ally who threatens the MC. The MC realizing he’s developing Stockholm and actively trying to combat it. Man, this would’ve been so good. A shame it feels incomplete.
Not sure if it’s the official translations or because I’ve read this multiple times now, but I understand much better what’s happening.
It’s also crazy seeing how people are talking about the rape in the comments. It’s there to be sexually titillating. You’re supposed to like it. It’s not real and, if you have a fundamental understanding of the genre, you know rape is a widely used trope in BL. If you don’t like it, don’t read. I liked it. I’m going to go read it again.
Thing is that rape here is depicted in a meaningful way, like obviously it was bound to happen. I cannot agree with the rest tho, rape should never be liked, not even in porn, which is why it’s problematic. Another problematic thing about yaoi here is that they portray rape for NO reason and it’s widely used. Like, rape is just used, no reasons, no dynamics, no plot, just there to provoke a feeling. That’s bullshit. There has to have meaning and consequence to the rape for it to actually be relevant and for it to be OKAY.
Romance novels written by women in the 80s and 90s also portray a lot of rape. Rape when real is a horrible crime against humanity. Women are largely the victims. It’s no wonder women like to take something that is a real threat and fantasize it into something that isn’t.
It’s the same with men and war. Men’s fantasies glorify a truly horrible thing. Men who go to war will tell you it’s nothing like the movies and a lot of them are traumatized. This is fiction. It’s okay. Liking fictional rape is okay. Liking fictional war is okay. The only thing you need to do to be responsible is understand that you will not find this behavior acceptable in reality. That fictional rape/war only exists in fiction. No need to police people’s fantasies.
The problem is saying “it’s okay it’s fictional just know your boundaries!” when it’s statistically proven that it has affected people mentally and no one maintains those proper boundaries. ESPECIALLY IN PORN. It’s okay if you wanna portray rape, but you shouldn’t gloss over the consequences. Honestly I don’t get why everybody is so disappointed in the rape HERE because I could tell, even if it was unnecessary but I could get why they’d portray it too. Of course they could’ve showed how they had “angry aggressive sex” instead but rape isn’t exactly unrealistic either here.
Moreover rape fiction has led to women like rough sex which isn’t good for them nor is normal and have a very blurry concept of real sex. And it has also led men to do unimaginable stuff.
So, who else will be happy with whoever Ian chooses? The story is great and the characters are all likable. There is no ‘wrong’ choice. Jo and TJ both have an equal chance with Ian. I, personally, feel like the story is edging towards Jo, with TJ being Ian’s past and Jo being the future. But I’ll be happy either way!
Don’t know what some of y’all are complaining it about. This is hot as hell! More please! This seme is one of my absolute faves! Hair down?! Omg, yes!
And I know some of y’all are going to be like, ‘omg, it’s rape and you’re delulu.’ Well, I’m an adult and I don’t get reality and fantasy confused. Must suck to have a child’s brain while reading stories made for adults.
this is so corny
it’s giving im different
LMAOOOOO right cause ain't no adult say shit like that
Lol, I’m 38. When I leave positive comments I tend to get a few people complaining about it, so I figured I’d preemptively put my opinion this time. And if you don’t think adults will say childish things on purpose sometimes (especially on an illegal website where we’re reading erotica), then I guess you don’t know adults very well.
Damn you old as hell
And I wear is so well n_n