
1. i feel like it would be interesting for the story/character dev if the mom is NOT accepting, at least at first. it'll give jaehyuk an opportunity to put his money where his mouth is n show that he really isn't like the shitty ex who threw garam under the bus for his mom
2.a. i feel like if this were written by a japanese author it would actually be a bittersweet tragedy in which jaehyuk promises he's different from the shitty ex but when the rubber meets the road it turns out we are all cowards in front of homophobia/our mothers so he gets a brutal lesson before he learns to stand up to her/society.... maybe i been reading too much manga with the tragedy tag lmao

ohhh the first one is actually really interesting. Thou personally, i dont want this to be smth bittersweet or tragic bc Cant Think Straight is one of those manhwas I like to read when i want smth really silly, with no heavy plot and just ‘lets get hornet’ type of sht haha. I also think that if jaehyuk’s mom turns out 2b homophobic, he wont give a damn just like the way he stood up for Garam when his friend realised hes in love with a man. Hes so stubborn and doesnt even listen to her mom. I dont want to hate jaekhyuk anymore his old homophobic azz was soooo annoying

idk why everyone is acting like the seme is some golden greenflag angel. uke was honest about his desires, he was genuinely turned on by getting hit. seme is the one who lied and pretended he liked it, bc of his shitty nice-guy white-knight savior complex. and then he has the fuckin chutzpah to act like consensually engaging in bdsm (that he researched!!) makes him a piece of shit. it's okay that he feels resistance to hitting someone at first, author could've turned it into a sweet story about how he is conflicted about enjoying it so he has to work thru the cognitive dissonance... but instead we got slut-shaming and this weird psychological hostage situation.
seriously, fuck this seme and the horse he rode in on.

You are like the only person with sense here. I would've also liked it if the seme just had a complicated relationship with giving pain and had internal guilt but eventually became comfortable with being a sadistic dom without any guilt and learning about how healthy bdsm is consensual to its core.
Unrealated but bl manhwa readers always have shown favoritism to semes no matter if they are red flags or green flags, and have this weird treatment of ukes who get victim blamed and slut shamed if they don't fit in the mold of the uke they want him to be.

kang mincheol is an object lesson in what happens when you take yr partner for granted. that's it, that's the whole character arc.
like he started off pure and sincere, so their love was pure and sincere. but haesoo loved him so hard he started thinking he's all that and she's lucky to have him... and here we are today. he's an entitled piece of shit whose much-younger girlfriend will leave him as soon as she gets wise to him, because she might be naive but she hasn't had her self-esteem ground to dust by being with him the last 13 years.
these au chaps fill me with so much cute aggression i wanna punch a wall ugh i love them sm