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I agree with you but I feel like kissing in their sleep is only fine when they are in a serious relationship and married I feel like it is cute way to show your love.But then again in many bl they usually kiss them whilst they are drunk or not even a relationship yet But I think kissing in their sleep really depends what is going but I do agree with you.Another I don't like is having sex whilst they are sleep I feel like it is such a ick and clearly without consent
What's with this trope of kissing s.o. in their sleep without consent and why is this trope in what feels like almost every romance story, especially queer manga/manhwa? So many supposedly fluffy stories start with the same "I can't keep myself under control, so I'll secretly kiss them" bs and either the counterpart was secretly awake or thinks they're dreaming or sth, so ultimately that trope is just used to catapult them into the next stage of confessing, completely glossing over how serious that kind of action actually is. Let's be real for a second. Imagine you were sleeping and suddenly woke up to someone's face being literally right on top of yours, kissing you. That's not romantic, that's fucking terrifying... And I can say that now, after many years of devouring romance stories, thanks to a rationale and awareness that I built over time, but as a teen of course that seemed like a totally fine, cute action to me. After all that's how it was portrayed like 90% of the time.
And the worst part is, honestly, it's so unnecessary. There are infinite ways to write the story of the characters finally realizing each other's feelings without violating each other "because they couldn't help themselves". Ugh.