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this is rated highly rightfully so

the pacing and storytelling is everything- reading this a second time, i have come to love hakyung and yoonsung all over again

looks very promising, i already like the dynamic already

i’m so mentally ill for this couple, i’m so invested it’s driving me crazy

my favorite couple out of the 2 is seungtaek and kyubin, they’re literally so cute and i just especially love how their dynamic subverts the typical delinquent x smart student troupe, by portraying seungtaek to have a violent temper, and kyubin’s delinquency be linked to the initial lack of security he had, yk, having no real ambitions due to the lack of financial support and all.

everything about their relationship just felt so real and so natural. it’s just so refreshing to see when there’s was no shitty fast-paced sexual advancement's, ITS JUST CUTE AWKWARD TEENAGERS FIGURING STUFF OUT— (as most highschool romances should be)

HELPPP- THE WHOLE— MANIPULATION METAPHOR with THE HAMMER AND THE METAL SHOCKED ME I HAD A VISCERAL REACTION THE MOMENT I SCROLLED DOWN—

i was slightly skeptical of this because i was worried how the BL genre would be portrayed in an idol setting, BUT NAH, IT ALL WORKED OUT, AND THIS AUTHOR CONTINUES TO MAKE STRAIGHT FIRE AAHANDJSJE THEYRE SO CUTE

they’re literally so cute, i wanna cry

the amount of rape already made me sick, but the ML peeing in the ML is so FOUL- and the fact that he follows it up with, “how is this hole any different to a toilet” makes it so much worse

THEYRE SO CUTE, I WANNA CRYZHSNSIS

HE FINALLY FUCKING VERBALISED HIS FEELINGS, YIPPEEE

see u guys in a year

feminist QUEEN. it’s amazing how haru is able to find agency as not only a woman, but prostitute in an especially patriarchal and misogynistic society. despite sex’s consistent use to further establish this power imbalance between men and women, haru is able to use her own sexuality to elevate her status, but also power in society (quite literallt as well, in relation to her creation pregnancy power.) anyways, i love haru, shes amazing

THE SLOW BURN IS BURNING, ARGCJENDJ

Are there any other neurodivergent people here whose special interests include bl manga? I have made friends who like bl, but I've always felt like they aren't as hyper fixated on it as I am. My tastes are as such: 1) I read bl manga and manhwa mostly, not as much manhua. I don't read novels or watch bl dramas 2) I detest highschool settings (......

i feel like the ML’s initial incentive to become the perfect man for MC is a bit insufficient. idk, you could say it’s the power of love, but how did the ML become so motivated to become respected, rich and handsome (not to mention low key obsessed) for a guy who basically did not care about him. MC leeched off ML’s money and material items in HS, where was the relationship beyond that?

it just feels a bit too convenient for the MC that hes forced in this situation where he gets the “perfect man”. it just doesn’t feel like he deserves it considering it seems he has barely changed and continues to “put his own enjoyment first.”

just generally there wasn’t enough runtime to flesh out anything, or have any character development. i’m sorry— it escalated from the MC realizing he was in love to a 10 year time skip

yeah no, taehyun’s a bit unbearable at the start, but ive since learnt to empathize with him as the story goes on. taehyun, since childhood, experienced a great deal of neglect, to internalizing mostly if not just the blame and burdens of other people. those r the most genuine and most familiar emotions he understands, which is why i imagine he breaks down when trying to articulate things like empathy and love.

it’s because of this that i appreciate how the author expresses taehyun’s kind of slow emotional uptake on everything. so including how long it took for him to verbalize that he wanted to pursue a relationship with the MC to (in the side stories) just expressing what he wants. clearly this doesn’t excuse the stuff he did, but it’s interesting to see that, even at the end, taehyun’s still working through his emotional setbacks that would ultimately influence his experiences of love. just a lil something unique that i don’t normally see in these kinda of stories

usually when the story just completely diverges from the main couple to focus on an entirely different one, i immediately lose interest.
but i think it’s because seonwoo is such an asshole, im having fun seeing this man get kicked of his high horse by a guy that’s bigger than him. haha, the dynamic is pretty interesting, hope to see more of them.