I've been trying to figure out why this particular story feels different and why I find it so much easier to stomach than literally every other story with an abusive main character and I think it's the fact that there's no excuses being made Woo-yeon is just a shit person period like there's no tragic backstory no "he secretly cares and just doesn't know how" there's no "he loves him but isn't allowed to show it" bs no Woo-yeon just sucks because he sucks he's a spoiled asshole born with a silver spoon in his mouth who thinks just because he's got money looks and a problem feeling emotions that means he's allowed to get away with anything he's just an asshole abuser full stop and the story isn't trying to make us sympathize or even root for him he sucks and In-seob knows he sucks and knows exactly how terrible he is he's not falling for the "he's a rapist but he cares" bs he's fully aware that regardless of his mixed emotions (which I think are super interesting) that Woo-yeon is terrible and though there's times when he's being genuine and actually nice In-seob is never letting his guard down because he knows full well what kind of person he is that plus the fact that there's no one who's worse than Woo-yeon who the author uses to try and trick us in to believing he's actually a decent human being is really refreshing it feels less like a toxic romance that the author just blatantly refuses to acknowledge is fucked up and more like the author is sitting us down and going "this man sucks this relationship is terrible you aren't here to see how cute they can be or for him to be redeemed and turn in to a less shit person you're here because this man sucks and you wanna see the tragedy he's going to pull this other man in to" it's genuine and tragic but it acknowledges that it's tragic something I'm super grateful for
Makes me wanna read all those sex worker rights zines and books and articles I've been letting pile up
Do this picrew or link another picrew, I’m really bored https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1706331 you can do whatever. Make yourself, opposite gender, random creature, anything.
These are complete stories from the first half of TBY: For the record, I don't use the tag Shoujo Ai as it doesn't actually have a single thing to do with yuri. Look it up people and spread the word. Anyways, these are the best of the best Yuri, so have fun! All in this collection are complete, but I have a sister list that has the on-going ones. Just FYI, the first page will change from time to time as it is made up of my top 10 favorites.
Seijin sucks for pushing boundaries and coercing Jiwoon in to going along with stuff he clearly doesn't like and refusing to actually do something romantic with Jiwoon that doesn't devolve in to sex Inhyuk sucks for being ridiculously selfish and only caring about Jiwoon's boyfriend being shit in so far as it allows him to take advantage of and use Jiwoon to satisfy his ego and his broken heart Jiwoon deserves better and should 1000% leave both ain't shit men in the garbage dump where they belong
You ever notice that in stories where a protagonist trust someone and relies on someone who's an abuser the comments always have more smoke for the protagonist than the abuser like that's weird right the way people get really really mad at protagonist who are victims of abuse for not acting like perfect victims and "being dumb" or whatever or going back to the abuser is weird like idk I'm not a survivor but I can just imagine being a survivor and reading comments of people ridiculing a character for acting in a way that they've done and honestly it's kinda messed up
People always wanna put more blame on the person who's going through abuse than the abuser choosing to mistreat someone and it's weird