This is still relevancy here and not non-manga/story related as I am asking for recommendations. Do not recommend me any novels by 188 group, serious. No sad stories, no cheating, I’m already sad enough in life. I love Little Mushroom, love target capture system, ancient timeline and transmigration tropes, ger/ABO trope is okay if it isn’t too cliche, or something new is okay too.
I finished reading ErHa, got most books of Tian Guan Ci Fu, Mo Dao Zu Shi, Misplacement Game, Game Loading, many of unlimited flow. Feel free to ask in DMs what I have already read, I will send a Google document of my 2025 readings. Or you can just recommend, I’ll let you know.
Paying $20 each for first ten people in my DM. If you’re the 11th and any below, sorry but reach out for study tips or advice. Just DM me so it’s privately done.
Compensation is after I read halfway, latest if late payment will be mid of December—I will not disappoint. If I reach halfway, it is really good. If you don’t get paid, just think of being a good person, what more is better in the long run? $20 or good.
I am giddy because I have a high chance of going into my dream medical school. I have loads of research experience, years experience as MA, sterile tech, etc. My MCAT score was a 519, I took it last time but I got 506–508 (forgot), retook it 2nd time after studying for months. I wanted to aim higher, but my family encouraged me to move forward. 4 years of medical, then I am hoping for psych residency. I even took psych and higher classes for minors so I could get that on my paper to be seen. Then come the Years of Balding!
I’m proud, but tired and bored. I have also had little time for novel reading, which I enjoy the best. I have been reading BLs here but not for long, I still check in daily.
I’m Chinese, I like to give red money when I’m happy.
Please recommend me danmeis!
Any Ancient Greek gay story? Actually idk if it’s appropriate to say gay cause I mean there are elements of rape, power dynamic, etc.
I want novels though. I read a lot of danmeis. It would be nice if there’s a plot similar to this manhua I found called IRAS O where maybe the mc is offered to the god or some shit like that. It should have good groveling arc, no fucking way I want an obedient mc unless it’s for playing along.
It doesn’t even have to be Greek mythology, I don’t want that, I want INSPIRED stories based on gods basically. IT CAN BE GOD X GOD TOO
Let’s just say you aren’t a poly person maybe or you can’t handle many at once (changeable). Your most important partner in crime who is your lover, your close friend, splits into clones. They still love you, they have different personalities you have never seen from your partner. But everything they love, their hobbies, are similar, their looks as well. They are extremely loyal, but can fight over you, on who gets to sleep with you tonight, etc. Some of them group up to spy on you when at work while the other clones work, to see if you are anywhere besides work. It’s complicated for you.
One day, you have a chance to revert the clones back into one person. Or the choice to not use it.
What would you do?
I wanna see something.
what an interesting prompt lol — i’m not into polyamory but I definitely wouldn’t revert them back into one person. they all came from one, & are still part of my lover. the attention sounds difficult but nice, so unless the clones desired go back into one body, I would keep the many versions of my lover. (you know what they say, “to have & to hold in sickness & in health”) lol
id probably see what the clones themselves want. i feel like its not rlly my decision to make and id probably feel guilty if i did it without knowing if thats what they also wanted.
but in the case where they don't mind any..., i think i lean towards reverting them back to one person. im not into poly nor do i know what its like but i think relationships generally just take so much effort, even with one person. so unless these clones are like the perfect no flaw partners ever i think i'd get drained overtime. i also have a bit of a distant/avoidant personality when it comes to super clingy people so idk if i could handle 2. this also depends on how long ive been with the clones though
Yeah handling them, spending time, that’s a whole 24 hour job. I forgot to mention it would be like 10 clones of the lover. Perhaps that would’ve made it harder to answer?
Also they all don’t have the same thoughts. They don’t believe all of them are the same, at least not mentally or in mind. So yes, they wouldn’t want to revert but they think your words are the majority vote.
Also I forgot to mention that it would be 10 of them clones . Guess that would’ve made it an easy choice for you, to revert ASAP. When I say partner, I mean someone who has been with you pretty much your whole life.
This poly is just you having multiple partners from one that are loyal to you, it’s not the one where your partners have partners, and their partners have partners, not open relationship either, etc.
Ugh I’ll do better on my questions next time. Your comment made me realize I missed a lot and the other user replying here.
I get you. It’s a whole lot to handle and if I can’t even put effort into cooking, forget 10 lovers
oh my gosh 10?? that's a whole orgy and dw i liked ur question actually i was gonna steal it and ask my friends later lol
okay ten clones im definitely reverting them back to one person lmao but that just made the scenerio funnier. im imagining road trips. would we rent a school bus? and they all better pay rent cuz idk where we are gonna be living but its gonna be expensive for sure. and no bathroom hogging
Forget that imagine children with them LMAO (unless same sex and agree on adopting). Need two buses if so.
Glad to hear this question is being spread. And hell yea, if you had no choice to revert, dw all of them would have their own jobs. You can make some of them stay home and look after the kids or something. Six of them working and bringing money to the house!!
If it takes you hours to clean the whole house, a few of them can clean it up within an hour. I’m gonna have to ask this same question later but with more detail, cause I missed some. Thanks for the responses, helped my dumb ass
Do they split by choice? Or does it just happen out of the blue? I think I would revert them back to normal. If they're my most beloved partner, it's because I love them for who they are rather than all the people they could be.
From their perspective, I would imagine it would be difficult to suddenly be competing with different versions of yourself to see who gets the partner you've never had to fight over.
If they split by choice somehow, I'd leave them as is until they sort out exactly what they want. Did they separate into multiple personalities because they thought their one self wasn't enough? Did they do it because they struggle to communicate their emotions? If that were the case, I'd seriously sit down with every one of them and talk through it. I don't want my one and only partner to split themself into pieces.
They split due to a mix of mental health/insecurity maybe and kind of out of the blue because it’s not like your partner believed this could happen.
Some of them get along. Some of them don’t, the ones that don’t get along are the insecure ones. The ones that get along is the personality and selves that your partner would happily show to you and the public. The insecure ones are the one that hide themselves, are clingy and spies, but struggles to directly tell you.
The ones hanging out by themselves and keeping to self mostly are the one who are in between healthy and insecure, they don’t know what to do about it and can become selfish.
The best answer is the lack of emotional regulation. It caused a spiral somewhere within them and caused the split. It’s like different aspects of your lover, there is this one BL where the partner of the guy splits into multiple bodies…and the guy has to figure out which one is fake, but turns out all of them are very real and he just had to accept them, talk, etc.
That's exactly how I would imagine it as well.
In that case, I wouldn't revert them back right away. Considering there is a reason it ultimately happened, I'd let them be separated for as long as they need. Over that time, I could understand each part of them better until they are ready to comine it all back into one.
unfortunately I wouldn’t have the heart to get rid of someone who resembled my lover & loves me just the same. so yes, we will be in that school bus I guess. & there’s no need to worry about children
I love my girlfriend so much, we both collectively shared the same message while out, some guy’s ass was fat in the best way possible, it looked like the rear of his pants was about to tear apart
It’s crazy how I can endure murder majority in stories, but I cannot endure cheating in stories. Is there a psychological reason for this? Like I read Sissy by 188 novel group and I dropped it due to the cheating. The grovel arc sucked, shouldn’t have even gotten together.
I endured it in Silent Lover but it’s cause the forced concubine system helped me see it’s just politic stuff. But I couldn’t stop thinking about just uuuggh in sissy cause the ML there actually was into it, shit talking bottom while fucking the guy. He even gaslighted the bottom into thinking he didn’t do anything. Bottom never found out. Poor guy
i've seen others speak on this before, & I believe it's due to seeing cheating as your lover is being "stolen", which causes a possessive mindset as if they were a possession being taken away. This wording is often used in media & in real life, so it might clash with your own way of thinking (if you are the "jealous type"). it's in movies, shows, writing, etc & it only fuels the fire that is your own habitual way of thinking. ask yourself why it bothers you -- do you see the cheater as disgusting, no longer yours, etc?
That's a very compelling question. I haven't read the novels you're talking about, nor am I a psychology student or anything...but I think it has something to do with the fact there is a sort of finality, a dead end when it comes to killing/dying. Like that's the end of it. The person is dead. Whether the death will haunt the narrative or not is a different topic entirely though. Even if it does, the character mourning/suffering guilt is still ultimately able to move on because there is no tangible thing left to still be attached to. There is less fear and and anxiety like, you can't kill that person again. There is no room for change or doubt, only regret and hollowness. Loss, and grief is something nobody experiences the same way twice. It differs every time someone dies, and what relationship one might have with the one who has passed.
On the other hand, cheating is a conflict that arises between multiple individuals and remains unresolved in a sense that it has a longer lasting impact on all the characters involved I feel. There is no true closure, it is a betrayal of faith and trust. Not something one can 100% recover from I guess? Like it traumatizes you in a different way. There is, again, more suspicion of "what if history repeats itself". The trust issues stemming from infidelity feel more tangible cause they are present in real-time. The people involved, physical evidence and proof are still around. It's something one would avoid facing if they can help it. But there's never really any guaruntee. And a person/character usually tends to project those insecurities on other people, which indirectly affects the target of those accusations too.
Ok yeah imma stop yapping now
I'm the same as you, and I personally believe that the reason (at least in my case) is that I don't see murder in stories as "real", meaning that the concept of e.g. falling in love with a murderer or being a murderer myself feel so absurd and foreign that I can clearly distinguish that it's fiction. But cheating? That feels much more real to me. I've never been cheated on, but the idea of falling in love and for that loved one to cheat is something that my brain can accept as possible, so I identify myself more in the cheated on main character. Not to say that murder doesn't exist irl, OBVIOUSLY, but it just feels foreign because nothing like that has ever happened (and most likely, or better hopefully, will never happen. Does that make sense?
It's the same concept as me being more scared of home invasion horror movies than of paranormal ones because the first one is something I feel is much more likely to happen lmao
In cases of rape or SA hell no, I get more angry at the thought of the rapist being able to get away with it. This is why I get upset when coming across rape in Bl and it’s just overlooked (like in Written under the Stars or something I forgot the title). The couple gets to be happy afterwards which is fine but when it’s left unresolved…what about the guys who raped, what happened to them, we need to see it.
Now if it was intentional, I’d be upset. That’s why I wrote the, “ML was actually into it,” etc. cause the ML in sissy didn’t really think of MC, he was actually into the cheating and acted superior, arrogant, mc never found out.
I’d just give up on the relationship and leave if that were the case lmao. I don’t want to be a sponge of emotions.
Lmao it’s okay, I enjoyed the yap session. Thank you for the effort. This makes a lot of sense. There is a finality in death, and there is no betrayal in death for me from the person who died.
I don’t CONDONE death. I’d be sad still if the ones I loved were gone, but it’s a whole different feeling when the thought of cheating comes. What’s funny is that I have fantasies of cheating plots, but I’d never wanna participate in it or have my partner participate unless it’s a role play between us.
I do have trust issues and abandonment issues due to childhood problems with parents. This could be why. And Ive fed off a lot of cheating/ntr plots online. What I hate the most is those porn plots with ntr, the victim comes off as enjoying it. Once post nut clarity hits, I do get disgusted. I have my days where I don’t think and just read these types of stories, other days I am sensitive and dislike the thought of ever being in a situation like this. More of the latter.
This! The stories I read aren’t really explicit with murder or death either so I don’t feel a lot of fear etc. But with cheating? Seeing them find solace in others while their partner is worrying for them and thinking everything is fine? That is betrayal, that hurts to think of. Which is why I would never want to cheat on someone, just end the damn relationship and go.
I don’t know if I’d be able to be in a poly, but the thought does come once in a while. I don’t hate it, I just find monogamy more appealing. But if it’s just having one more partner or two that we both love genuinely and not just for sex, I can agree with that. I can’t handle more, I tend to be reserved and enjoy bonding for a long time before anything.
I read Form of Broken Love, it was just a mess. Especially when the cheater (who did also get SA’ed), affair guy, and partner had threesome out of just pure emotions due to the cheating. That was insane and I was thinking about it for days. I just had my brain think it’s porn and it eventually subsided.
I have never seen murder in real life so I understand, my brain is able to endure seeing such in fiction. But I have seen families being broken up. I was also raised in a family with little to no affection, leading to trust issues and abandonment issues. I have few trusted ish friends in my circle, no more.
thank you all for the replies! It did help answer some of the worries I had. Also, when the thought of a partner cheating on me comes, I always get these questions like: why cheat? Did I not fulfill something? Did you feel unloved? How could I make it better? etc.
And another thought, maybe because I watched too many crime cases. What if the cheating partner doesn’t want me to find out and decided killing me is easier than breaking it off? Shiit I would play nice to them and say, it’s okay, we can work it. That’s why I told my partner before we dated that if they ever cheat on me, just tell me and we can “make it work together” aka I would know and they won’t kill me right away, so I have enough time to run.
I forgot but basically it’s some mafia or gangster assassin dude disguised as normal guy who is married to a woman. That woman wants his affection etc but the guy is just checked out, he is just with her to disguise as a normal married dude.
He has black hair and violet eyes. The woman has black hair and blue eyes, thick big butt and boobs. It is a gooning and shock factor porn plot.
The woman has an affair with some average Joe delivery guy. The husband has a coworker with purple magenta hair who likes him.
Just a mess.
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I forgot but basically it’s some mafia or gangster assassin dude disguised as normal guy who is married to a woman. That woman wants his affection etc but the guy is just checked out, he is just with her to disguise as a normal married dude.
He has black hair and violet eyes. The woman has black hair and blue eyes, thick big butt and boobs. It is a gooning and shock factor porn plot.
The woman has an affair with some average Joe delivery guy. The husband has a coworker with purple magenta hair who likes him.
Just a mess.
I forgot but basically it’s some mafia or gangster assassin dude disguised as normal guy who is married to a woman. That woman wants his affection etc but the guy is just checked out, he is just with her to disguise as a normal married dude.
He has black hair and violet eyes. The woman has black hair and blue eyes, thick big butt and boobs. It is a gooning and shock factor porn plot.
The woman has an affair with some average Joe delivery guy. The husband has a coworker with purple magenta hair who likes him.
Just a mess.
What is an overused trope you absolutely hate and wish it would disappear? I go first.
A cold male lead is melted by the main character, this trope is so overused and it exists universal. Nothing about this is hot, sexy, or cute. Cold male leads itself are what I dislike so maybe I’m biased.
And appearance wise, when all male leads are conventionally pretty, adhering to strict beauty standards. I need more dark skin male leads, chubby or bear build, more diversity and culture besides white dress—I remember there was this one Thai Bl, I forgot the name but it was hella good and funny, sexy builds regardless of sex role like the mc and ml in Delusion of Boundary (if I spelled it right).
When everything its turning out well and one of the characters gets amnesia in the last chapters and only forgets abt their lover
Kdramas and manhwas always pull this stunt in the last episodes/chapters, is insufferable. I get it, is supposed to be a symbolism of how even if they didnt remember they still end up with their lovers but it gets to a point #－.－)
I loved Flower of Evil but then they ruined it with that stupid ass trope
i really hate the beauty and the beast kind of tropes where a feminine lead "cures" the ml out of being an asshole. it's been there since time immemorial and it really has ran it's course. it also hits way too close to real like so it's extra icky (yknow, how women are treated like therapists for men)
I hate obsessive male leads lmao, I’m generally fine w obsessive fls tho.
Spoilers below. Title: The Path of a Cannon Fodder’s Counter Attack (snowy translations)
I am disappointed with how the novel ended. If you like a story where the male lead gives up about everything for the main character, this isn’t it. I mean the male lead does pretty much sacrifice a lot of things, but if you are a jealous person, harem isn’t it.
I was disappointed with how the emperor nearly killed MC all over him asking to disperse the harem if the emperor wanted mc to cut off his friendship with one of emperor’s concubines. It also felt so OOC considering how gentle emperor was before in some ways.
If you want spoilers of pretty much the whole story. I have a Google document for that. Let me know!