beetea

It's cute! A strong, female lead who isn't overly dependent on men or hyper-sexualized to make her independence more palatable. Good story, good characters, cute romance plot, etc.

the art was fantastic, and i loved the idea. as an adult in a healthy relationship who enjoys reading BL, though, it was very distracting and disappointing that the main characters were quite selfish, abusive, and toxic. its an unfortunate characteristic of the BL/yaoi genre that abuse and toxicity is fetishized and romanticized (especially since SO many BL/yaoi readers are young or started young, like myself), and this was definitely representative of that. it did not feel like the toxicity was appropriately shunned or punished bc lowkey it worked out for the terrible people..? so we're cool with this? just a disappointing direction for a story that had everything it needed to succeed