rlly surprised at how well (understanding and empathetic yet draws back no punches and still be respectful) they depicted an abusive rs and coercive SA and survivors of abuse. like, do I have beef with some of the story beats? yes, but the gradual reveal of og sihyeon trauma and past is rlly done well. i dont think non suicidal people would get this but begrudging a suicidal person for their decision as some sort of morally bad crime is stigmatising and I dont want to take away power and agency from a mentally spiralling individual despite him being fictional so imma say that I wish society as a whole, but especially to queer folk, orphans, lower SES people, be kinder to prevent such deaths.
and can we say that being in sihyeon body actually made mc happier ? im not saying his og life was all horrid but it was devoid of a lot of human connection most of the time
tldr im rambling
I wouldn't mind the watersports+shy bladder syndrome thing but the characters and story is just... so lacking that even the kink doesn't make up for it. it just feels so rushed and unsatisfying, not to mention super mean-spirited. idk
bro I don’t think it was meant to be a good story to begin with, it’s just a pornwha
Girl what did you expect, this is entirely just porn they have sex literally every second LMAOO
still love this story as much as when I read it the first time. love that from the start everyone around them treats them being a couple/their queerness as nothing out of the ordinary; it's so rare to get such a respite from the real world like this. and their relationship is perfect, it's just two adults trundling along and doing their best to love each other the best way they both can.
having liette be abusive to her brother then deliberately choosing to whitewash him is... a choice. they couldn't have just changed his hair colour or eyes they had to bleach his skin through "magical means". whatever, ch. 73 is pissing me off. idk that's just such a fucked up decision. and oh the bloody irony that his guild is noah's ark and the parallels to Christianity whitewashing their god and saints lol. whatever
Andrew's basis for ephemeral entities non existence is "ghosts would have been forced to work even in death" lmao where is your whimsy Mr nerd !!( ; ﾛ)ﾟ ﾟsurprised he didnt use the most common cause tho like strong magnetic fields and infrasound
anyways this was so cute luke's smile can literally save lives lol and andrew being sulky 100/10
can I just say that this is such a perfect art style? like idk it just suits the manhwa medium so perfectly I don't really know how to describe why
I love the kid but this side story writing just sucks. the brother is a genuinely dislikeable, supercilious, homophobic bustard that treats people like crap and I'm sick of the mindset that you need to be around family that's harmful to you, it's always at the cost of your mental wellbeing which they don't even consider, for the sake of shared blood. and i know the resolution to this is going to be some version of that which is just ugh. tiring, especially as an asian. family aren't obligations to please and you shouldn't carry the emotional labour all the time. plus the trope of having an outsider fix the broken bonds between family is tired and it just feels like they're being a bad partner and prioritising their partner's family instead of their partner. like, we're queer we shouldn't have to do this towards bustards that hate us for just being. whatever.
AND BROTHER IS DUMB AS ROCKS Even though he's trying to get tenure. like, be so fucking serious. if you see a lost child, bring them to a police station and not kidnap them to your home,, your ignorance is more coming off as bona fide malice now even though the story tries to posit this as some sort of dramatic comedy.
man.
just started and wow, christ,,,, the visual language is so freaking strong it's amazing. the manhwaga truly makes full use of the scrolling webtoon format
reread this cause I was curious why I dropped it and ahhh yes. the flimsiest chemistry ever. all the best for any unhealthy fictional relationships but the constant suicide baiting and the way the story tried to spin this as romantic and compatible was sooo funny and i was giggling as noah released the 294938 suicide threat and then mason did the same thing in the end. also yeah this guy (mason) is so repressed he can't admit his bisexuality till he's in a situation where he can have /plausible denialibility. (oh and the throwaway homophobic 'you're not like the other gays cause (insert derogatory stereotype)' line by vic proctor was fucking annoying)
world's biggest saviour complex vs. highly suicidal ultimate toxic masculinity emotional repression (force this guy to go to therapy and speak about his damn repression) final boss and see whether theyre actually happy beyond the honeymoon period.
maybe they will but the "i now know where my sexual preferences come from and it's because i always thought of that poor vulnerable boy (noah) and wanted to emulate that innocent vulnerable vibe in my partners" actually gave me chills.
may my forgetting this be expedited.
s/n the artist's creator's note saying "all of noah's tears is sincere" actually made me scoff. bro, he is manipulation incarnate which is recognised in this media itself and of which you should know. or maybe i'm misinterpreting this b3cause they mean 'sincere' as in 'serving a damn purpose to fulfil all of noah's desires'.
10/10 for representing the oligarchy that is america tho