He chose to keep hiding (and doing) something he knew would upset MC, then guilts him when he finds out and… gets upset? Not cute. I mean he’s not a monster or anything but he IS a jerk and low-key manipulative. Separating professional and personal is also an unreasonable ask when the instagram account that’s the real crux of the issue is a personal project.
he's a lying asshole
Perfection.
This makes it painfully obvious that most BDSM in yaoi is just abuse masquerading as kink.
Man it's been a real bad week for this shit. Farewell, Swim in the Scent. You were always toeing the line but I was rooting for you.
Man idk what response I was expecting to the events of the last chapter but this... wasn't it? What happened was quite brutal and it's just kind of being brushed off while Hyowon worries about what made Shin-woo angry.
Shin-woo seems somewhat regretful, I guess? Between this and Scammed and Rammed I'm so upset that we keep seeing this kind of thing eliciting little if any reaction from either party. This is not nearly as egregious but still.
It wasn't "quite brutal" is why. Bottom is a masochist who did enjoy it for one, and for two it's a relatively small injury which will heal within days. That's why he's more concerned about the tops reasoning than his own injury. Hell, it was probably hot for him, just concerning in that he didn't know where it came from. If he tore during play he wouldn't have even blinked at it, as he himself mentioned it was amazing it didn't happen sooner (considering his M proclivities and the tops size). I totally get why you'd be upset but this is the one case of "it's not that serious" that I can honestly say didn't trigger my "cover jealousy with SA" irritation.
I can’t say that I completely agree but I see where you’re coming from. Some things are subjective and I’m not interesting in detailing exactly why it did strike me as “quite brutal,” but I will say that I don’t see it as being on par with SA, which is why I’m still here.
I agree with you. people have become way to desensitized to this shit and will find any excuse under the sun
Won is so cute I want to put him in my pocket.
I can already feel this breaking my heart though.
If anyone is willing to translate them, I own the full anthology and could probably clean the raws pretty easily.
Omfg where'd you buy it
https://www.cmoa.jp/title/222493/
I can’t understand a word of it, though.
TLDR: Criticizing the choices that authors make is not "being mean." Authors publish stories because they want people to read them. Those readers having feelings and opinions about what happens is the entire point of putting work out into the world instead of keeping it on your hard drive forever.
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I'm not sure what those of you upset about people being upset think the point of publishing stories is. Authors put work out into the world for people to consume and interact with. No one publishes a book with the hope that readers will have no reaction to it. People are allowed to criticize authors, they are not somehow above reproach just because "it's their story." Once a work is made public, all readers experience the story differently and it's not a bad thing to discuss how it affects you or makes you feel. That's the whole point. If people are this upset about a plot development, it's because they care about the story and feel like the author's choice destroyed something important to them. No one is telling you that you can't enjoy that same thing just because they didn't.
I know I'm going to get "lol it's not that serious," and if it doesn't bother you then please enjoy. But the narratives and stereotypes that are put out in media are actually that serious, they have a significant influence on peoples' worldview and the public perception of what's "normal" and what's not. It doesn't matter if it's a book or a tv show or a gay comic on the internet. So in my opinion people SHOULD call authors out for inserting lazy, needless sexual violence into stories where it serves no plot purpose and makes no sense.
Manhwa, and yaoi in particular, is infested with sexual assault, the majority of which is romanticized, ignored, or included for shock value rather than being significant to the story somehow. Which is what happened here. This is not a toxic mafia story or an obsessive yandere situation, this is an absurd rom-com that's had 25 chapters of humor and ridiculous drama, and then the author CHOSE to hit readers out of nowhere with a violent rape, completely changing the tone of the story and the characterization of the ML as we've come to know him. It would be wild if people DIDN'T have a strong reaction.
Wanting to read yaoi does not mean having to shut your mouth and accept that SA is just part of the package. The fact that it's so pervasive is all the more reason to voice your feelings, actually, because if no one says anything then nothing will ever change. And as someone who intentionally doesn't read the kinds of stories that are prone to including SA, I genuinely appreciate people commenting when it happens in places you wouldn't expect so that I can try to avoid having this exact experience.
thank you so much for saying this, you’re absolutely gorgeous <3
Thank you for this comment. Some people really are weak to constructive criticism and take it as hating something just for the sake of it.
I’ve been loving this, but I’m dropping it at chapter 26 for SA. I'm so, so disappointed and disgusted.
Jaeyi found out that Mooyoung was the shaman, and his response was the rape Mooyoung while calling him disgusting. When I say rape, I mean rape. Cruel, violent, nothing dubious about it. Mooyoung is laying there bleeding and Jaeyi throws cash at him and tells him to get out of his sight forever. It's legitimately one of the most upsetting things I've read and I did not expect it from this series. The fact that I know they’ll end up together makes me fucking sick.
I’ve been following this on the official platform and I regret that this chapter will forever be included in my library.
At this point I don’t really like either of them. ML is an arrogant, shit-stirring jerk who talks in circles so he doesn’t ever have to apologize or explain himself, and MC talks big but has no backbone.
exactly how I feel