I love the memes at the end
Yea, I prefer fluff instead of angst honestly
Can we talk about the homophobic implication of the last arc’s punishment for the actor? “He acts undercover in gay porn. Embarrassing, right?” I find that weird. Did anyone else think the same?
It’s definitely not a kosher sentiment. Not sure if it’s more homophobic or sex-worker shaming or both. But considering it’s assumed to be said by a gossipy piece of trash extra that’s only represented by a speech bubble.....I don’t think us, the audience, should put much weight behind the words beyond “oh it’s trash people saying trash things about other trash people.”
Honestly you can't really escape the prejudices in the webcomics. Be it racism, misogyny or homophoby but in this case specifically I can understand it's use.
The guy is heterosexual. And let's be frank. It's not "embarrassing" for a het man to be a het p*ns actor. If anything they could feel even proud. The stigma of p*rn is always big. For the women. See Mia's case, she will never get rid od the p*rn star title, she is used in jokes and references till today even when she is not in that business anymore. Heck, I don't even need to write her full name for people to know who I'm talking about... but can you tell me 1 male p*rn star without having to look for it?
Again, the guy is het. And the fact she specified gay p*rn is to imply he is acting as a bottom. The embarrassing part is a promiscuous het man, who "bedded" many women having to be "bedded" by others for money now. Honestly big part of homophoby (by men) stems from misogyny, from they thinking it's humiliating for a man to be "taken" by another man like a woman. But punishment wise havig to have s*x regardless of your se*ual orientation is pretty humiliating. Be it a gay person having het s*x or a het person having gay s*x. Unfortunately the "impact" of the punishment would be way lesser without it.
I don't believe she (su luxia) intended to be homophobic, even more so considering the arc before that one. She did some I'm not gay jokes previously but never with negative connotations regarding gays, but ridiculing the other woman like: sorry dear you're not hot enough to bend me.
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Well you also have to think of where the story takes place as well I don't think her character or the author is homophobic but it was just to earn a living he had to become a gay porn actor which is completely different from the way he was living before hand with a wife and kids, a good acting career, a nice house and now he has to work in underground gay porn videos I didn't like that that was the ending they gave him either but I also think it was because he was such a prideful and straight character and he had to lose everything to keep making money and now participating in gay porn videos and cheating on his wife is what he'll be known for
i love how u explained it
Deciding to read this is the best decision I’ve ever made. I’m so glad that I got to see all kinds of LGBTQ+ people in this because you rarely ever get that. I’m just so moved right now. And even though I’m still not quite sure on how the aromantic asexual representation was handled, this is going to be my favorite lgbtq+ manga of all time. Yes, it’s the only one I’ve read but I don’t think anything can surpass this. I’m floating on air right now.
I don’t know if the distinction between gender and sex was the translator’s work or the author’s but I’m in awe. Also, really love the conversation on prejudice. Thank you so much!
Sasha can absolutely date Arth and Rebecca. So why isn’t it happening?
That friend is so gross. He really can’t discuss stuff??? I hate this ship. It’s nasty
I just skip the bit with them in it. Cause like you I don’t like the shop *shrugs*
I might just start doing that
Why would he teach the mc how to write if he’s not going to listen anyway?
He Tian x Mo is creepy and uninteresting. Give me cuteness and fluff. Give me Xixi and Jian Yi!!!
Ps: I love Mo. He’s so cute!
I really don’t understand the constant use of the “have sex with your bf after assault or attempted assault” trope in BL. Was hoping we’d escape it here
same. I was so disappointed when they went in that direction. like what....the focus should be on comforting your partner and just helping them feel ok. why do you have to have sex?
Well I feel like this is different because Doyun was in heat. I feel like there was more of a “reason” this time.
I completely understand... ig in this case since the meds wore off and he rlly wanted it, it was done. Others lmao idek... tho it do be bringing more of the plot or storyline to place. Otherwise idk(my opinion ig)
I can understand it when it is done properly? Like, some people try to overwrite their trauma with something more positive. I totally get what you're talking about though, it is a common theme in BL. Rape in general needs to stop in BL mangas DX
True. It could be argued for.
Right? They should be cuddling or doing something else
Absolute truth.There’s too much rape in BL mangas and it’s even more annoying seeing it when there are so many other ways the story could play out.
The only thing I could think of are pheromones. He felt sick being touched by others besides Taehan so even the cuddling still had him feeling iffy. Tbh I don’t like that trope either but in terms of this story- alpha x omega dynamics I get it.
That does make sense
I really appreciate everyone that works on this translation. The updates make me really happy and excited so thank you so much.