I love revenge stories. The motivation keeps you on edge. Overall an interesting story. Now that ending?! Why on earth would she point a gun at herself saying she is Geraldine and that he should kill her? That asshole was a murderer, called her a disgusting pig and tried to kill her. He needed to die a bloody death. The redemption in the end was unjustified.
I am so glad that they have addressed homophobia. As for all of us enraged here, the straight people, I hope we become better allies to LGBTQA+ in real life. It takes listening and educating oneself to be better allies.
amen as its said you do nothing wrong by loving who you love even if it is the same sex
Been scrolling through the comments and not getting an answer. Did Zach commit suicide in the end? Then continues his life with hare in the afterlife?
Yep
I am glad this has happened. We can now fully track Tia's story. I hope she will take the time to inherit her house and control her future for no one but herself. Love will never be enough of a reason for her to go through what she did again. If she is to be the prince's endgame, he better work his ass off for her affection and love. He will need several lifetimes to do it though.
I hate that I am not more into this. Why? The comments and rating are so high I don't understand why I am a bit hesitant. I just started but I guess I am not seeing as much romance. The second couple look a bit more like lovers. How is it for those who have caught up? They are a likeable couple I want to root for them.
They are a cute couple but not a lovey dovey one, hopefully they'll get there at some point tho...
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you should watch the anime. its really good
I love it. Seeing how many people find the FL annoying for being headstrong, i can see why those insufferable damsel in distress stories get such a high rating. She is perfect. The story does not drag.
Its so easy to understand why gay men are against straight women writing yaoi. The rape, because somehow, we straight women can not fathom how intimacy among gay people comes about.
Bara is a genre directed towards gay men, yaoi is more directed to female audience.
That’s just a stereotype I am a gay man and I can tell you it’s bullshit
Honestly I don’t understand. If a straight woman finds rape to be a big problem then why don’t she apply her standards to gay people. We are not some sort of aliens with different emotions. rape is an universal issue.
But most of the straight women are actually the ones who have no problem with the rape culture in these
We do know it's one of the most scaring and traumatic events to ever happen to a person. Rape violates a person at such a personal, emotional and physical level whereby in many cases people can't ever come back from. We know this. Why do we keep writing it into gay relationships. The casualness pisses me off. Oh, I raped you, but it's because I liked you. The victim understands. Like what the actual fuck?!
And that is the actual sick part of all this.
I don't disagree that rape is terrible and it gives fujoshi a bad rep. And I personally really dislike reading it. I didn't enjoy this manga.
But there is a line between reality and fiction and I think (most?) authors understand that line. Most people who enjoy rape fiction do not actually want to be raped. I think there's something about the loss of control or that it's something taboo that some people really get off to. Enjoying those things is fine, and it doesn't mean you don't have a problem with rape culture and it doesn't mean you think it's okay for rape to be normalized or trivialized.
You could argue that mangaka have a responsibility to their audiences to promote healthy relationships, but that's no different than saying horror-genre film makers have a responsibility to portray murder in a less romanticized way. And that's really not the case. Fiction is simply telling a story. The story might be shitty, but it's still just a story.
I just think drawing a hard conclusion about a group of people based on the fictional preferences of a minority is irresponsible. You might as well say that straight men are disgusting because they enjoy murder movies and that means they have no problems with murder culture. Which is obviously dumb.
(Also I'm not just replying to OP but to the general sentiments expressed in all the replies as well.)
There are about a million things wrong with your reasoning. Lets begin with separating fiction from reality. Fiction in a lot of ways projects what the authors ideals, biases, privilege and prejudice are. For example, like how black actors in Hollywood used to be portrayed a thugs and evil villains to the point where a lot of the world started projecting Black Americans as bad people. And that was based on the racism in Hollywood. Google this. Second, women for example being written as weak damsels in distress also paints us a helpless and shows how patriarchal the world is. Movies for the longest time showed pictures of majority men with women in supporting roles painting a picture of the world structure. Asian characters being written as unable to speak just because they can't speak English. They would be on film or books nodding along like some yes man to whatever the white character was saying. It paints a picture of intellectual inferiority. Which is massively wrong and white supremacists. As if learning Chinese, Japanese or/Korean characters among others is a joke. The portrayal paints a massive picture over an entire population that leads to stereotypes.
Fiction can gloss over reality and make it seem normal. You want to know how? Just like how yaoi has used rape so much that you are actually defending it as something okay. Rape has been normalized by yaoi authors. And the worst part of it is that it has not been normalized by gay men themselves. But by straight women who count be further from homosexual males in the spectrum. That means that someone, not from your community, has told your story, but distorted it, adding societal evils and making it seem normal. It shows just how out of touch the authors who use rape are from gay sex and intimacy.
Now lets look at your comparison in terms of horror movies. Horror movies use thrill ad fear to direct a story line. We see people lurking in danger, ignoring warning and getting brutally murdered. We don't see the person hacked to death emerging from all that and hugging the murderer and calling it a misunderstanding coz-I-love-you-so-much-I-couldn't help-but-kill-you.
We are not talking about writing of rape in fiction. We are talking about Romanticism of rape. Rape can and has been written about in ways that illustrate how traumatizing it actually is. In some cases, the yaoi mangaka even use it to have the seme save the hero from a jealous villain. It's only then that it shows how horrible and scary it is. But the authors saying that having feelings for someone makes rape okay or acts a bridge to sex between characters is what's wrong.
My last thoughts, if you say fiction is very different from reality and what is shown here can be okay to enjoy, how about if its something like racism? How about violence? What if those were normalized? Think about a character being beaten to the throes of death by their partner and we proceed to be shown that he just gets violent sometimes, but he loves the partner anyway. How would that feel. Can you still separate those two?
Go off!
My older sister moved in with me when she was about to give birth in 2018. Everything was fine except the due date passed yet no sign of labor in sight. The baby was growing big and it had become difficult for her to move around. We were advised by the doctor to induce. We arrived in the hospital late evening. I wasn't allowed to stay with her. They were planning to induce at around 11 pm and logically she should be giving birth by early morning.
She started contractions at about 1pm. She crowned at 5am. But she couldn't push out the baby. I came to the hospital at about 7 am. She was still in painful contractions and couldn't push the baby. The doctor assured me that it was normal and she would give birth any time. Fast forward to 12pm, my sister still experiencing horrible contractions with screams that haunt me to date and she still had not given birth. The baby's heartbeat disappeared. Only then was she taken for surgery. Her uterus was already tearing and the baby was a stillbirth. And I was the only one there with her. They did C-section and we found out that the baby had stayed crowned for too long therefore the pelvis had squeezed her head and she couldn't make it.
So I am there with my sister out of surgery scared to tell her she lost the baby but she already knew. What broke my heart was that she didn't want to cry because she thought she should be strong for me her younger sister. She had lost her baby, almost died, but was trying to be strong for me. It haunted me for months when I remembered her trying to smile at the nurses and doctors.
Her c-section wound took longer to heal because of the loss of the baby. Since she was taking meds to stop the breast milk, her body was trying to find ways to release it so she would sweat heavily and it would smell like a new born baby. It was hell.
Sorry to tell you all this. This story sort of reminded me of that. Hosik bleeding reminded me of one night where she started bleeding heavily (post the stillbirth) and we had to rush to the hospital at midnight.
My condolences
So sorry dear
Awe, i'm sorry.
Oh no. Thanks for sharing your story with us.
My heart goes to you and your sister. Although I don't know how or where you guys are at in your journeys of healing. But I want you to know my heart is with you guys, sending love and positive vibes. I pray you guys will never have to go through something as tragisc ever again <3
I'm so sorry, that's tragic ,I hope she will never go through that again
I hope she sued the ass out of the hospital and would be able to have another baby.... and NEVER.EVER.IN.THAT.SORRY.EXCUSE.OF.A.HOSPITAL !!!!!
Thank you
Thank you sweetie
Much appreciated. We doing better now.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for the support. It is much better now than then. The guilt from my side for not fighting hard to her moved to surgery sooner waned over time. I came to accept that it was not my fault. On her case, she can talk about the baby. Previously she wouldn't say a word. Thanks once again.
Much appreciated. I pray so too. In the near future.
Thank you dear. I pray she also never goes through that. And hope no woman experiences the same.
I was thinking of suing back then but we were broke. The lawyer cited the fees at 1500 usd. We couldn't afford. My sister wanted to focus on forgetting the whole experience so I didn't push. Thank you. I pray she also has a safe delivery next time she has a baby.
Super glad to know you guys are doing better :) If you ever need an ear my DMs are always open <3 Hoping yall continue to stay safe in this time and age. Much love~
I have just started reading this. Poor baby. I hope you come back and burn those monsters.
Hahahahahaha..He hates him so much that by reflex he kicked him to hell instead of saving him. I am soo dead..Looool!