You don't know how much I needed a story like this one. I (like a lot of other people) started to read this story thinking it was BL (who reads descriptions? they ruin everything), and you know, it's been a long time since I kinda stopped relating to shoujo mangas. The girls weren't like me, and their love stories always seem so unrealistic. Like they love each other just because they're a boy and a girl? So beautiful, so smart, and so shallow.
It's the first time I can relate to a FL? I'm not exactly like her, and yes, this _is_ fiction, but it totally gives me hope that I, too, can find someone who likes me for who I am? I'm pretty much asexual (I probably like sex, I'm just not physically attracted to people - everyone just looks average), and my self-hatred destroys every chance I get to find someone to love, but at this point of my life, I'm still heteromantic, and I'm still hopeful that I will find love one day.
And I might be a manly woman, that doesn't mean I'm a lesbian and it doesn't mean that I want to become a man. I've had long hair my whole life and cutting it short (even shorter than Corey's) was the best choice of my life. It's liberating. And if I want to do boy-things, your judgemental looks won't stop me. I couldn't care less what others think about me, I'm the one who hates myself the most, no one can hurt me more than I hurt myself.
If Dylan can love Corey, someone out there might be able to love me? So give me more stories like Corey and Dylan. Maybe that will cure me.
Nooo, I want the hot BDSM scenes, no boring side couple gay exploration, keep it for the sequel.(/TДT)/