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You’re bantering? He chained you to the wall and you’re bantering???

This author’s so good at making male characters that feel like actual guys lol right down to being casual about sex but being petty and jealous when the person they’re specifically interested in is just as casual as they are.

Sometimes a BL is just straight up using the plot of bad frat boy “not gay because the balls aren’t touching (too much)” porno, and that’s okay.

I love this, tbh. I dropped it before because I really hated the rape in volume 1 but I gave it a chance again and it’s so interesting. Mah was initially the protagonist of a toxic yaoi series with his ex, where they did nothing but fuck and screw people over. And then the more it went on, the more Mah found himself getting tired of it and wanting a quieter, simpler life. When he meets Hitoshi, he behaves like he’s the toxic seme of a yaoi manga and is rapey and terrible, and it doesn’t work. Hitoshi doesn’t want a toxic seme, he just wants someone to stay by his side. Mah doesn’t want to have a whirlwind toxic romance, he just wants to settle down. I like that ever since that one terrible experience, the two of them aren’t depicted as having penetrative sex. Their relationship is slow, and is more about learning the other person and how they become a part of your life in ways you don’t even realize were there until they’re gone and you want them beside you.

It’s funny to read an omegaverse more interested in the world and individual characters than actually rooting for any couple. I’m not really rooting for anyone to end up together, and I think what Taketora has with Arisaka is more of a FWB situation that both of them don’t have any emotional attachment to. But the universe is fascinating — Nemui is much more interested in the society that A/B/O creates over its relationships.

I want to see what she thinks of female Alphas. If A/B/O would nullify misogyny, or if misogyny still prevails even with the existence of male Omegas and that the caste system of society has merely expanded in an A/B/O world.

Hyunho’s rizz is so unreal, I’d have been on my knees already if I was Hyunchul.

lol I know that the point of this is that the two of them switch but I still prefer seeing guys like Satoshi bottom.

I hope I’m making sense here but these two men look like they buy their clothes from Supreme. It feels like I’m reading BL about the guys I’ve met at the skate park.

It’s so funny how the two of them are on entirely different storylines in their heads

Ah, I’m so glad this was just a season finale and not actually the end of the series! There’s so much left unanswered, especially with Mokhwa’s old boss and what he’ll do if he ever comes back to Mokhwa’s life.

As for Mokhwa and Nakwon’s relationship, once again I’ll say that I think the author did a good job of portraying how their circumstances, personalities, and life experiences allowed them to somehow have a relationship together. The author reiterates again and again that in normal circumstances, many would be very turned off or even terrified of Nakwon for his selfishness and assault. But Mokhwa, who sees sexual assault as if it was regular physical assault, is so starved for attention and companionship that he allows his own rapist to stay beside him and is mostly just confused at why Nakwon doesn’t go away. Nakwon, meanwhile, honestly hasn’t changed because even now he’s still a selfish asshole who hates when things are inconvenient for him lol and the only reason he regrets raping Mokhwa is that it’s made it hard for him to court the man. He’s sorry for the assault, but only for the setbacks it caused with his relationship with Mokhwa, and he’s just really lucky that Mokhwa is starved for affection because any other person would’ve tried to run away from Nakwon.

All in all, it’s such a fascinating relationship and I can’t help but be invested! Nakwon’s honest scumminess kind of makes him bizarrely more likeable than other BL semes who’ve done just as gross shit, while Mokhwa’s resilience makes you really root for him and want to see him finally be happy. I’m really excited for season 4.