Even though I'm queer and I'm being baited it's not queerbaiting if I'm also a fan being serviced

Myllie1 September 7, 2025 12:12 pm

Ch. 33 "back when we were talking about forever" Subin, my boy… I don't even know what to say, was he your first love or something??? Why are they this crazy. Also, Woori is a fucking psycho. The shit he does without even clocking how wrong it is: letting a middle school girl live with him, allowing her to cut school, getting subin to lose his job, getting his sister to ask him for something he can't afford so he'd have to accept woori's money… I mean, I like him, but it's insane. All three sorta are. Sei is deluded (and ungrateful tbvfh) and a compulsive liar, subin has WILD temperament issues, my boy is always about to break (Alexa, play Linkin Park), but Woori is so like unaware of how anormal? Unnormal? Inormal? Non-normal he is. Fuck. I kinda love that, lol
Also, can we talk about fanservice? Ch 17 I think? Cover page got sei and subin as romantic targets in a game for woori to play, we get woori saying he wants to make subin feel like the protagonist of his world, wants to become subin's whole world, feels like a symbiotic relationship, wants Subin to depend on him, can't let him out of his sight (and I get it's for survival but also, the wording and framing was sooo fanservicey), getting his friend to point out how noticeably gay they are acting with each other (only function is comedic and making the audience aware that the author IS aware of the choices being made), so it's all very intentional.

Responses
    jasmine_aoi September 8, 2025 5:00 pm

    You put out everything that i think of and im grateful becuase i dont have the smoothness to explain like this.

    Especially their characterization. All that i can think of are sei is quite a psycho, makes me uncomfortable = i dont like her.

    Soobin is quite psycho but sei is scarier. Him? He's just trying to survove while the world likes to fuck with him = i think i would chose him over the other two

    Woori? Yup he's really not normal. I think he's just apathetic. He really wasn't malicious or evil but just someone who treats everything half-heartedly. If there's a class for common sense and important feelings, we really need to get him there.