I know they do love each other, but in the last couple of chapters it feels like the chemistry completely ran dry. There's no tention or harmony, just shame and embarrassment.

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I've been kind of bored with recent historical/ fantasy romance manhwas and by pure chance I've stumbled into a really good AO3 story. It's written in second person for some reason, even though the protagonist clearly has a personality and a description of her looks. There's none of that Y/N, Y/HC stuff though so dw

Name: Nothing's wrong with Dale

Summary: Mc is engaged to a wealthier noble named Dale, who's rude, incompetent and experiments with the occult dangerously. Mc is certain that one of those experiments gets him possessed by a demon, but the demon is rather kind, responsible and charming, so suddenly the mc is trying her best to keep others from finding out, as she quite likes the new Dale and had no other marriage prospects.

I haven't finished it yet, but it's really fun so far, if a bit lengthy in some description.

I'm on chapter nine and I can't keep going. It's so infuriating. He gets assaulted, his magic is unfairly sealed and people keep dragging him along as they please, yet it's treated as something mildly annoying. Does his seal ever get undone?????? Or is he just at the mercy of those who mistreat him for the rest of his life??

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Woagh, your account is a delightful little gallery of attempts at rage-bait. I was gonna scroll by, but it's actually kinda cute to see someone experiment with what rage-bait works and doesn't work. We're seeing the birth of an artist!
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When you address them as seme and uke in the comments, I have no idea who you're going on about. Anyway.


I believe they're reasonable adults and will switch based on odd/even calendar weeks.

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They're sho cuteeee

Also Christ, Lysbett is looking rough. I love how the artist gradually showed it, instead of just making her really sickly in a later chapter.

I know a lot of people don't like Lysbett, but I do genuinely believe she cares about Sylhan. Perhaps she won't do anything to make his situation better, but there's a certain shithead next-in-line, who would make his situation much worse. However incompetent Lysbett seems, she's serving as a shield for Sylhan in Khalak.

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I'm not really good at making friends?? Like I am sociable, people do like me and I am not that shy, but it just doesn't develop any further. I've only ever been friends with classmates, but that always ends after the school ends and even during summer break the contact went to basically zero. I just wish I knew how to cross that bridge between "it......
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ROMANTIC FEELINGS CONFIRMED POG POG
I still don't think they'll get together, but bittersweet one sided love is exactly where I think the story should have lead, it'd be nonsensical to make it about just platonic love

This is not a complaint at all, in fact, it was a highlight of the manga for me, but somewhere around the second chapter I was overtaken by this intense feeling of "Himekawa seems kind of dull-headed".

Like I can't even say if the author wanted to make him seem like a secretive character who can play up a role to get what he wants, because he was so empty-headed to me

Again, not complaining at all, imagining Himrkawa's two braincells working overtime to get out any reaction was extremely funny to me. 10/10

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Hello! If you know this manhwa, please let me know.
It has stylish art and is am action manhwa. The plot is that children of school are out into a VR desert, where they live inside a moving mecha school and obtain powers (blue magic). The schools travel and fight for resources. Our protagonist is the student council president of the weakest school, but through his hidden op power and great leadership, he brings them to the top.

Plllllleeeease let me know if you remember the name. It had such a nice art style and lingering mystery of why the children are put into the VR is nibbling on my brain.

Whhhhdhdgrgr. Obviously, the realization that Yvonne is a doppelganger in every ending is a huge thing, as it means that all the cruel deaths Penelope faces in the games might not have been the fault of the characters alone. But. Idk.

My last comment on this manhwa was how happy I am that Penelope has someone on her side, but idk now. Like we've only caught brief glances at what kind of person the real Penelope was, yet the fact that she is so destroyed that her soul crumbled into nothing is so sad to me. Usually, I don't really like it when villainess manhwas do the "the og villainess was always the good one secretly!" thing, but here it works, because it just drives further the point of how alone Penelope always was. Yvonne recognized her, said that Penelope tried to stop her before and I'm thinking about how many times she tried to save everyone and no one believed her.

I never hoped the original Penelope would come back, but I assumed her death was more like falling asleep, them being worn down until there's nothingeft. ARGDHEHHSHAHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU PENELOPE I LOVE THEM BOTH AAAAAAGGHHHHUHU

Anyway on a less sappy note, the reason why this scene works on an emotional level is because the author masterfully build up the relationship between our Penelope and the og Penelope (OgP) from the start. Penelope sympathized with how along OgP must've felt, she refused to accept any apologies that OgP was meant to get and she tried to get OgP's will across, when it mattered. If Penelope never gave a shit about her, if she forgave those who hurt OgP for the sake of building relationships with them and if she constantly thought of her as an idiot, this scene would've meant nothing.

To sum it up: Duchess 50 tea recipes or whatever the fuck could learn a thing or two from this about how to set up important plot points early on

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I sort of avoided this for a while, because I thought the alcohol centric plot wouldn't really be my thing, but it's so good!! Not even good just in general, the alcohol is used amazingly in this!!! It works so well as a metaphor for queerness here arhggggh. Amazing art 10000/10

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People are complaining about Courtney neglecting Richard and I find that bizarre. I guarantee you that half of the readers minimum are obsessed with villainess/historical romance manhwas and mangas one here as much as I am, so it makes me wonder, do you decide if you like characters based on if the main characters smile or frown around them???

Like it's such a common trope to make "the new crown princess" be a stupid irresponsible woman, who neglects her duties to indulge the crown prince. It's as common as publicly denouncing the mc at the ball. Yet here it bothers you?? She's doing everything she can to not be neglecting her role c'mon.

Also Richard is a grown man, he could communicate to a virgin noble woman that he's into anal. He can try to ask his wife to give him more attention.

I'm sho happy,,,

I've seen a lot of writing advice say that if a scene doesn't move the plot forward, it needs to be scrapped, but here's a direct proof of why I think it's false!
We need a moment to see how the characters get along, how they're at their happiest and what they do together. Without scenes like this, I'd think Izek has no sense of humor and he wouldn't be as charming! I'd think the family was only loving when they accidentally met, instead of actively pursuing spending time together! I'd think that Rubekia (RUBEKIAAAA!!!!!!!<333333) is still always in danger when left alone and outside, but now you can see her freely and happily moving about.

If you don't give reader the time to see how the characters are when they're not stressed or in danger, you'll never get to know them!

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Wish I could, but the cloning technology isn't there yet....maybe one day.
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Been waiting for an opportunity to use this
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Wrote a really good analysis (imo) about a manga's themes and how they're communicated through a repeated metaphor and how that impacts the reading of their relationship and the interpretation of the ending, ending with mocking those who miss such obvious story telling and saying they have no reading comprehension. Months later someone kindly info......