I mean sure

shoowop September 13, 2025 8:03 am

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This most recent chapter is perhaps one of the most shallow, borderline ooc feeling, explanations when it comes to Taejoon. Maybe I could see an argument made about how this is him at the very end of his rope in terms of his desparation for Ian, so he's attempting to do loterally everything, throwing whatever he has left at the wall to see what might stick, but that whole use of the bathroom argument, as a story telling device, felt kind of clunky and heavy handed.
It almost felt like an excuse to try and make some artificially heavy scene with the right combination of words, because while they're having this argument, hearts on their sleeves, I couldn't admit I was feeling much of anything for either of them. And I love a long term poisonous relationship that is kept out of being familiar and comfortable, but Taejoon's and Ian's example is just kind of lacklustre.

And maybe there's something lost in translation as there's always some kind of social context missing from translating text across any and all languages, but this seems a bit much.

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