Tyler's Topics (21)

Why's the new guy lowkey really hot, though?

I was so excited when I saw the notif, shouldve guessed lmao

This is unironically the best break down of BL tropes in any yaoi parody. I feel like I've seen most of them too! Just pure kino

Starting a faux love triangle knowing yiyoung would choose kang every time and that they won't break up is SO funny. I love it. (Also he's hotter than kang tbh)

Yeah who wouldn't be able to feel those damn yaoi hands

This author's artstyle is SO good. 90% sure this was made in a lab specifically for me. Unironically excited for the side stories.

While this may not be the worst Doujinshi in existance. It's certainly terrible. There's no sex appeal, whatever attempts at 'sexy smut' just look horrifically ugly. The plot is torture porn for torture porn's sake. It's not depressing or deep, only THOSE kinds of degenerates think this is good in any form. My question is like. Why? I mean, I understand WHY but this is the horny-killing doujinshi. Find some actually good Psychological/Dark content.

Copy & Pasted from my Already Read section. Mostly spoiler free.

This one is one I actually have a review/commentary for, not to say the other BL I read lately were uninteresting, but this is an Omegaverse we're talking about.

You would usually know Omegaverse from the basic plotline-- Alpha, Omega, Pheromones, Heats, Ruts, and the other Biology of this fictional world. But you never get to know about the betas of the world. Betas are just normal people compared to the Alphas and Omegas.

Yet this BL flips it on its head, while not only having an Alpha fall for a Beta, so does an Omega (but I have my gripes with how the Omega was handled, considering he was a fine enough love interest that essentially became background fodder.)

Omegaverse is something I've always had an interest in, especially because people don't use this world for its fullest potential. It's all used to make some terrible abusive rapey porn stories, which is EXACTLY why I prefer to read about any other pairing besides the Alpha x Omega pairing.

I liked the way it flipped the tropes on it's head, especially with the side couple that was pretty much a stereotypical Alpha & Omega pairing in these types of stories; but even when they get a sidestory focused on them, it's actually kind of thoughtful. Even though I did not like the sidestories (besides the Epilogues, those were okay) I can at least acknowledge there was care enough put into them.

The main couple was actually healthy, even though the MC was slightly annoying at first with his 'oh, i'm a beta! alphas and omegas should be together and betas and betas' mindset, it's understandable. It was a mindset that was always spoonfed to him through media and the outside world-- and the Alpha & Omega love interests (even though it was mainly just the Alpha that mattered) both challenge these ideals.

It was a pretty good Omegaverse.

I'm not logging this as read. I haven't read/watched all of Gintama, I've seen maybe 1 episode? But this is a Harada piece, so I guess I'm here to give a 'review' so to speak.

I think this used it's format as a doujinshi well, you can get into this without knowing a thing about Gintama. You can quite honestly pretend they're original characters made by Harada.

I'm not one for gratuitous s/a as well as kidnapping being not my thing, absolutely not. I think Harada understands it well. On how Gintoki manipulates the other man (Sorry, bad with names.) into wanting him so badly to the point of never escaping. I think the use of the days counter was also good.

Stockholm Syndrome has the chance to be used well; it's a psychological effect that happens too often within kidnapping casing lasting longer than about a month (just estimation-- no real statistics) but I think when it's used in BL it can be certainly a mixed bag. There can be things that use it well enough, ie this Doujin. And then there are times where theres no commentary to be made, not a single thing is shown how it's wrong, not even an implication.

Kidnapping in BL/Yaoi is also a mixed bag, for some reason. And I think in general dark themes are also a very huge mixed bag. In the current landscape of a post-Killing Stalking world, everyone WANTS to be the new KS without understanding what made it appealing but also interesting on a deeper level that isn't just sangbum shippers having no media comprehension skills. Harada is a master of dark themes, but when you compare their works to something like Obey Me, where the dark themes are not made to commentate or even be taken as anything except for fetishistic torture porn that go on for way too long without a single interesting thing to say, you can see why Harada is the borderline master of the dark BL niche.

I didn't love it. But it was pretty good.

i think i like the seme more than the uke... the very in the closet gap moe homophobe with anger issues > twink uke with anger issues