iāve been obsessed with this story from the start because of ppangās way of writing and imagery throughout the story. SO much symbolism behind the word summer- from yeoreum meaning summer in korean, to the warm and fuzzy āsummeryā feelings that mr. lim develops for yeoreum, to the fact that this all takes place in the goddamn summer ā and even in this latest chapter they go on to say how itās still hot in october ⦠that āitās like summer just wonāt leaveā aka summer/yeoreum is NOT doing well and he IS NOT OVER MR. LIM AT ALL. you see so many references to summer (the season, the feelings of warmth, the literal character) but it never feels too in your face. this manhwa is so soft and romantic (my far my top fav alongside umibe no etranger and define the relationship)
iām also so blown away but how soft and romantic yet realistic both mr. lim and yeoreumās insecurities and grievances are toward the relationship and themselves. it never feels like their misunderstandings are rooted in a place of a lack kf communication but rather one feeling heās just a bland old man that isnāt suited to hold onto this ākidā that is so talented and amazing and has his whole life ahead of him ā and the other wanting to be taken seriously as an adult and that his feelings are much deeper than just a fleeting romance. they both know this but itās just⦠āhow could you not fall in love?ā
extra side note: ppang has SOOOO many good queer and general western internet pop culture references AND IM LOVING IT EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! itās always so subtle but you can tell how much ppang has taken the time to flesh out this story and i could srsly pick apart why this manhwa is so successful in making our hearts throb.
i need more people to talk to me about this manhwa i could go on for hours talking about them⦠i love them so much- if u read this far ty for reading my rambles i love my babies hic ļ¼/TŠT)/
YEEEEEES!! Obssessed with the constant references to summer and with how romantic this story is . Agreed, Ppang really knows how to make this world feel familiar and real, and Idk how to explain it but the ambiance makes it feel so nostalgic in a way? Like I've seen a romcom like this one before lol
I love squinting and catching all the meme/art/queer references! (the dog in this chapter is the "I know what you are" dog, right?? Lol)
LOL YESSS and then ppang added a āgodās own countryā movie poster in yeoreumās room ā itās a really well known gay movie and i LOVEEEE it ⦠so the fact that they added it to the story.. criesā¦
but yes!!! stories like these feel so soft and nostalgic⦠itās such an inspiration for me as an artist as well,,, i really want to make this kind of lovingly familiar romantic feeling in my work and characters hic
have at it my loves (links to the latest chapter: ch37 ā resolution)
https://wfwf393.com/view?toon=73922&num=37&title=%C3%B3%C0%BD%C0%C7%BF%A9%B8%A737%C8%AD1%BA%CE%C3%D6%C1%BE%C8%AD#list
me knowing the raws and knowing our impeding doom⦠hold everyoneās hands yall⦠but trust itāll pass
SPOILER BELOW
angst lasts for about 5 chapters give or take- he essentially quits guitar classes, leaving yeoreum worried and he visits him later at the end of the day at his apparent. hyeonseon breaks up with yeoreum and tries to pull the mean card āi donāt actually like you, our month is upā ā yeoreum knows hes lying but what can he do? anyway months pass and theyāre clearly still head over heels for each other, but they havenāt spoken at all since. hyeonseon meets his ex-wife again and they talk about life (itās very sweet) and she reminds him that he can bare to be selfish when it comes to finding love⦠that inspires him āmaybe i can be selfishā and he goes to find yeoreum again⦠thatās where itās left off in the raws so far so iām literally on the edge of my seat WAITING for their reunion
i would just like to remind everyone that this story in its entirety is a clear depiction AND romanticization of rape and sexual assault. i donāt care that they had an agreement for āsexā. consent is when BOTH parties willingly, ENTHUSIASTICALLY agree to engage with one another. IT CAN BE REVOKED AT ANY TIME. there are so many points dan clearly says NO yet jaekyung continues. other times dan is clearly only engaging with jaekyung our of coercion. THIS IS RAPE. i am so goddamn tired of people not understanding the basic concept of consent.
CONSENT IS ONLY GIVEN WHEN ALL PARTIES GENUINELY WANT TO ENGAGE. CONSENT CAN BE REVOKED AT ANY TIME.
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TW - my own experience (m4m)
about half a year ago i was raped. now, i want people to understand that rape doesnāt immediately mean extremely violent. this rape was āsubtleā. i wonāt get too detailed about it, but i what i will say is that i really liked this guy before everything happened. we were getting very romantic and eventually went back to his car and things started getting frisky. there was a point where he wanted to have unprotected sex, i said no (nervously, but still no). instead of respecting this, he push me down and penetrated me anyway. telling me āi know you want thisā. at the time, i really felt like i did. and physically? i felt good. mentally? i knew i didnāt want it.
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after time away from the situation i realized he had raped me. i tell this story now not for sympathy but because people need to understand consent can be taken back at any time. i took mine back, but this man did not respect it. in fanfiction terms, that was a hot steamy care session. in real life terms, i was assaulted.
so please, take into consideration of what consent is. iād like to think no one is using jinx as a point of reference, but considering some of the horrendous replies iāve seen make me question that.
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stay safe and mindful. and thank you to those who read this in itās entirety
quick reply but sorry if thereās some grammar errors! iām writing this at like 4am lmao. also, there is quite a bit of context i left out of my assault because it involved some other issues i didnāt feel comfortable about getting into here⦠a few notes for context that might help understanding the situation more is that:
1) m4m aka weāre both male (tho this doesnāt matter in the conversation about consent)
2) weāre both in college (tho i think he just graduated)
3) we were not in a committed relationship (i was meeting several others at the time but was interested in pursuing smth with him before my assault)
4) kissing/romance happened outside the car. once we went in and i gave him oral sex, but wasnāt comfortable going further than that.
5) i am no longer in contact with him and am completely safe.
Am so sorry you went through this, you should have sued him. But you should also carefully choose who you are being with and also after you gave him oral sex ,he wanted further but you were not comfortable, you should have stopped there but you still kept contact with him. Also if both parties stimulate each other, then you refuse to go farther, you should have a clear discussion because its hurtful for both parties. Then again why you give 99.9 % expectations that you are going to do such things, because you wanted to pursue him but in the end you were not mentally ready. In that heat of moment it wasn't physical rape , mental rape , then later you say its full rape. If you really consent no and wanted your consent to work , if words don't work , use actions and i know if you a guy, you must have even a tiny mini little force..and am sure you knew his intentions from start. I won't solely blame that guy and say yes he is a rapist because he didn't abide to your CONSENT. Its both your faults.Of course i have no right to tell you anything, am just making my personal judgement solely on from your comment. about your personal story, it its truly terrible, i hope you took legal action against him which you also have evidence like seme , fingerprints on the car, informed his family and all because it is so much terrible and horrific experience for you. i sincerely hope you actually did it,stood for yourself and not just anonymously going around saying you experienced rape.
Just like in this story i don't completely blame jaekyung and say yes this is rape and abuse. Its clearly both faults.This is just a story honestly, if it was true rape jaekyung would have been in jail. This is just a story and i think everyone is sensible enough to not romantize this story and start raping their partner because 'hey am gonna rape you today because jaekyung did the same in jinx'. Its illogical. This is a story which comes from the depiction of a person's mind , knowledge, art and how the author wants to portray it. What you said about consent is absolutely true and everyone in real life knows what they want and think before doing things. I don't think the aim of this story is to teach readers about rape, consent and others. That's why its a story right. It's a fictual story with smut.if you're uncomfortable, i advise you not to be here and read some cute fluffy bl. I think you should read such stories for your mental being instead of being disturbed by jinx here. You will feel better. After all there are thousands of bl manhwa. It's what YOU are choosing to read similarly to the person who YOU are choosing to be with.
Jioux, Iām sorry that that happened to you that sucks fucking ass. And Iām kind of sorry you felt the need to share this at all (although if sharing this felt like a positive for you then all the more power to you). I know you know this by now but I want to reaffirm that none of what happened was your fault. Iām glad youāre in a better place physically and I hope it is the case for you both mentally and emotionally as well. If not then I only wish you the best.
Omg you are disgusting. Iām so sorry jioux for what happened to you do not listen to this person, they clearly do not understand that being raped is not always just a guy forcing himself on you even if you use your voice and fight back, honestly even if you did do that they would probably say that your just weak or something. Lots of time when people are in a situation like yours, they donāt know how to say no, or even if they do, theyāre to scared to fight back because that is a really horrible and scary situation to be in. I hope that this never happens to you again. (I hope I worded this in a way you could understand I was not sure how to exactly explain this)
Holy shit. This is such a disgusting comment to make to a survivor. Who the fuck do you think you are to judge what YOU think jioux did or did not do? Do you think that all rapists show their flags from the start? You don't even know where jioux lives or what their family or community are like. There are so many places where victims are treated like scum, harassed, and shunned. I'm appalled that you would take jioux's moment of vulnerability here and use it to shame and judge them.
i donāt come onto mangago as so i havenāt checked these replies until now⦠but thank you and for everyone else for their support. given the discussion i do want to reiterate that the relationship was between two men. i do find it disgusting that this person expected me to outrightly know the intentions of this person and how they thought it was partly my fault for engaging in the first place. before any of this i believed he was sweet and i enjoyed talking to him + didnāt pick up on any red flags beforehand. i will say, iāve become more aware of who iām having sex with, especially since i quickly met other weird men afterwards⦠no, i didnāt press legal charges as i did not have sufficient evidence to do so, and even if i went to get physically examined it wouldāve been too late. a lot of the time rape is defined by the violent nature of the act. physically, it did not hurt nor was i physically hurt either. that still makes what happened to me rape, but if i got examined i doubt anything would come from it. but in any case, thank you. all your support means a lot to me! :)
firstly, i made this comment as a warning to let people know NOT to read this story because of the content and the approach the author takes when writing this story. secondly, the writing in this story is god-awful even without including a moral compass. when you say āeveryone is sensible enough to not romanticize this storyā is completely at false. why? because your response right here already tells me that this story and iām sure many others have distorted your understanding of consent. a story about rape isnāt necessarily meant to teach a lesson, but when handling such a subject it needs to be handled with much more grace. i find it stupidly annoying that you assume iām somehow triggered by reading this story. iām personally not mentally affected but rather disgusted by responses ive seen in the past like yours that clearly do not grasp what consent is. not only is the depiction of rape in this manga created in a way where the viewer is meant to feel aroused and almost intrigued to the point of dismissal of it actually being rape, but itās clear the author has no intention of addressing the abuse the MC had to face at the hands of JK. the resolution will most likely be a half-hearted apology that leads to more kinky sex. now, i understand many come on here for the porn (even i agree the art is gorgeous), but the storyāas much as you want to deny itāromanticizes sexual abuse, monetary sexual exploitation, and rape. just because i critique those things doesnāt mean i am suddenly a person who is mentally incapable of understanding this story. the problem is not that āthis isnāt my cup of teaā. the problem is that these kinds of stories continue to influence others (as seen by your response) to think that these scenarios are NOT rape, because they donāt follow your traditional understanding of what rape is.
thank you <3 i amā he actually came into my workplace once a few months later and it scared the living shit out of me and later past by a booth i was selling at⦠(especially since i thought i was over it). but nothing happened thankfully. itās not something that affects me daily and iām able to move on and do things i want/need to just fine! i told him off in the past and i got a good amount of satisfaction out of it⦠i know that one commenter talked about me filing a legal report but given the non-violent nature of it + me only realizing it was rape awhile later after it happened, there wouldnāt be much i couldāve done.
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i remember at the time when i was able to confront him (this was all over text atp) he blamed his adhd for not responding and kept talking about how he was āonly humanā.. blah blah.. not worth keeping up with. i know i dodged a bullet and i donāt regret ending things the way i did. my only hope now is that others arenāt affected negatively by his actions⦠id like to think he wonāt pull smth like that again but i genuinely donāt know and i never knew him very personally⦠haaa idk itās been awhile since then but sometimes i think about it (not in a traumatic way, just out of concern ig)
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sorry for rambling haha- thank you again for your support! i really appreciate it
i donāt think you understand that no means no regardless of how far things are going. it doesnāt matter if the other party will be hurt, if someone says no, you have to respect that boundary (regardless if itās for sex or smth else). just because i was interested in something more for a moment doesnāt mean i canāt say no to that same person im interested in. regardless of context i am in my right with my own bodily autonomy to say no. did i like him at the time? yes. did i want to engage in full penetrative sex? NO. just because i realized that midway does NOT mean he didnāt rape me. also, iād only met this guy one other time, i donāt know how you expected me to gather evidence again me when i barely knew him. (when i said like in the past, it was in a sense where i had a crush on him and was interested in building up to have a potential relationship, as most of my interactions with other men i wanted to have sex with were just one time hookups). also, it was HIS car, not mine. you tell me āi shouldāve stopped himā, but i literally said NO (however āquietā it may be). iām also so utterly confused as to what you mean but āyou kept contact with himā??? it was past midnight in a random parking lot in HIS car. where else was i supposed to go? he was my ride back! i donāt know if how i described things in the past was confused (if it was, u apologize) but i genuinely did all that i felt i could in that situation. itās disheartening for you to tell me it was āboth our faultsā.. while iām not personally hurt because youāre just some random person, iām more-so worried about the other victims of rape. like i said in previous comments, rape comes in many, many forms. you clearly do not know how it works nor do you know what consent means.
hereās a short example of consent in the form of wanting cake (based on my situation):
me: i like this guyās cake, so iād like to eat some later
me: *eating the cake then realizing i donāt want to anymore* i donāt want anymore cake (aka NO.)
him: i donāt believe you, i think you want more cake *forces me to eat cake*
me (in the moment): i guess maybe i do want this cake because he said so⦠but i feel bad that he didnāt listen to me
me (later): i definitely did not want that cake and though it tasted good, he forced me to eat it and didnāt respect when i told him i didnāt want to.
do you understand how damaging a situation like that can be?
sorry for the multiple replies but iām thinking of more logical fallacies from your comment as i reread it.
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OF COURSE NO ONE IS GOING TO GO AND RAPE SOMEONE JUST BECAUSE THEY READ THIS. that argument you make is illogical and is not even what i was trying to argue in the first place.
the ACTUAL argument im making is that these stories can INDIRECTLY influence a personās perception of rape, sexual abuse, and exploitation. many people may read these stories and not outwardly go and rape people (because thatās not how rapists are formed) but instead experience sexual assault for themselves and disregard it because āit was romanticā or āiāve seen these things happen, i think itās okayā⦠i canāt speak for everyone nor am i a monolith for rape victims, but you have to understand that though fiction and reality are two separate entities, fiction INFLUENCES reality >> fiction INFLUENCES peopleās ideologies/thinking and those same people exist in reality. why do you think there are kid shows that are made to teach kids certain lessons about life? when you argue āpeople know right from wrongā, youāre arguing based on your own experiences and your own moral compass. you canāt speak for everyone nor do you not understand how this story is one of many that romanticize rape (especially between two male characters). thereās a lot more issues i could cover but the general premise of how rape is often dismissed in a lot of BL/yaoi material has been a problem for AGES. this story is just one of the most relevant in recent years.
youāre perfectly fine! i do agree, a lot of victims donāt know how to react in such situations. heck i didnāt even comprehend it was assault until i talked about it with another friend. it sucks that so many people just assume rape is just when a guy forces himself on you and how they assume itās a usually bloody case.. but rape takes so many other forms and can be much more nuanced than that (e.g. when drugs or alcohol are involved, in committed relationships, etc). iām lucky and thankful to be okay but i know that thereās so many others who arenāt⦠especially those who may HAVE to be coerced to ātake itā given their circumstances.
thank you and the others for your support, i hope you all are doing well!
iāll repeat it again. nostalgic scans has dropped this series, aka will no longer be translating it on their own. however, we will now be uploading the OFFICIAL translations as they come out. please read the notices in full from now on, thank you!
also, we wonāt be decensoring the official chapters. please thank lxndra for all their hardcore on decensoring all of our (nostalgic scanās) fan-translated chapters! <3
and thank you all for the continuous love and support! we will be working on other series (my fav one currently is āeven if summer endsā)







lowkey starting to lose the plot maybe itās bc iām reading updates infrequently but all this drama seems so unnecessaryā¦