It’s still inaccurate to safe and I’d say “humane” breath play but I am glad to see Courtney acknowledge how scary it is being a dom and being in the drivers seat and how easy it is to not only get caught up but end up enjoying it so much you get morbid curiosity out of it. I’m personally a switch but the few times I’ve done a wayyyyyyyyyyyy softer version of breath play on my ex (at his request since we both enjoy it on yourself and doing it to each other), I have experienced the curiosity she’s facing and I know my ex has as well because it does make you jolt back to reality and reflect and it messes you up for a while until you can accept that you will have intense emotions and intrusive thoughts while you play so close to life and death or so intimately with the human bodies upper limits. This is why it’s so important for both sub and dom or maso and sado to have individual safewords to back out at any time. On occasions, my ex has had to safeword while being a dom because he ended up having an intrusive thought and it scared him that he was “capable” of that kind of thought. I do hope they play with proper safety measures going forward but considering this is a newb sado-dom and a maso-sub with a death wish and a LOT of knowledge that he’s withholding from his dom, I don’t have high hopes. It’s a good enough read if you don’t think at all during the BDSM aspects since it’s only half accurate and very unsafe.
If you’re riding and it’s hard to keep your hands in front of you and move, put your hands behind you. It’s soooo much easier to move since it’s mostly your hips moving forward than your entire lower body moving up. It puts less strain on your hips and legs and definitely on your arms. You can also grind better in that position which feels awesome!
I get it. The relationship is so fragile to begin with that you don’t want to put any pressure on the other person for fear that will be the straw that broke the camels back. It all feels so fake. Every gesture, every kiss, every I love you feels like they’re saying it to keep you rather than because they actually want to be with you romantically. It’s painful to be in a relationship like theirs. And what ML isn’t understanding is that MC isn’t doing this to be spiteful or out of jealousy or anything like that, he’s doing this because he feels like he’s on a tightrope and one wrong move is detrimental to his whole livelihood. The correct way to deal with this is to take it slow and from the beginning again. No sex, no kisses, no cuddles. You go on dates, you learn more about each other and pretend you knew nothing about them to begin with (that’s important to start over). Only then can you feel the relationship building and then intimacy can happen and words of affirmation can go on. It’s such a slow process though because the one who feels like they’re on a tightrope will feel like this is all some sort of test and won’t trust it for a really really long time so you have to be patient and be in it for the long haul. You’ve proved to them for the longest time that they aren’t date worthy and that you are an unreliable romantic partner and they’ve witnessed it so you’re going to have to prove each and every day that you can be trust worthy and reliable and also that they are worthy of love because you caused that insecurity. They wouldn’t be insecure with anyone other than you so it’s up to you to mend the cracks you caused. My ex didn’t do that the first time and we ended up breaking up after a very heated argument about why I don’t trust him. He’s trying again from the beginning but I still can’t see him as trustworthy yet since it’s only been a few weeks but it is helping me to overcome some part of the insecurity that I’m not good enough to date by seeing his efforts and patience in order to be with me. I hope ML can be patient and slowly rebuild trust and an actual bond rather than a trauma bond with MC and I hope MC can slowly learn that he is worthy of love and that ML does love him so he can show his love too.
He’s a crown prince of what I assume is a rather conservative state in which women aren’t given equal rights, responsibilities and duties as men. Not only is he completely ignoring and disregarding every single disrespectful and treasonous thing she says and does towards him and the imperial family, he also listens to her and tries to understand her when she talks about foreign concepts that would absolutely break the social norms in their world. And he did all of this without even knowing the full story and now that he knows most of it, he still doesn’t care. He just wants her and he wants her to be happy. That’s better than green flag, he’s the who Amazon rainforest! He is so forgiving and understanding but firm when it comes to her safety and yet he still tries to cheer her up and lighten the mood even when he’s mad at her (like when she poisoned herself). Genuinely gold standard. This is what men should be and anything less shouldn’t be tolerated.
Kazuma… I was you when I was younger and then I started to think “instead of treating them like young humans, treat them like drunk aliens who don’t know human language!” And now I somewhat understand kids. I still for the most part don’t like them because they’re loud and constantly getting themselves in dangerous situations so I have a near constant headache around them but I don’t hate them. They’re very cute! I just hope I can have my tubes tied so I never have any haha thanks author for showing that it’s okay to not like children and still want the best for them! People don’t understand that you can have both be true so this was nice to see!
What about her gf?? She agreed to date a girl and then cheated on her and we don’t see that they broke up so what happened to her? I feel bad that she got used ╥﹏╥
So he sent you elicit photos of someone else… and you have that person with you… and neither of you are going to the police and saying that that person took pornography of you that you didn’t consent to and is distributing it to those around you in an effort to stalk and harass you? But you have evidence on your bfs phone… YEAH MAKES TOTAL SENSE!!
I grew up in a Latin-African Muslim household so I understand social pressure but as soon as I a legal adult, I grew a fucking spine and when my abusive mother tried to hit me, I grabbed her arm and stopped her. When she hurt me, I left. I didn’t allow her to treat me like shit. My life is my life and my choices are my own too. I even disowned her and I don’t even call her mum anymore. I call her by name when I have to interact with her. I put myself first and that took years of effort on my part and realising that I would the person with a frying pan if they did all the shit my mother did to me. “Old fashioned” isn’t an excuse anymore. You know what we do with older models? Dispose of them for a newer model. You know what we do with outdated information? We make it so everyone is aware it’s false and shouldn’t be trusted. Why not also with stupid thought processes? We got rid of the laws that enabled people to own slaves. We got rid of the idea that the world is flat. We got rid of the idea that infants don’t feel pain and therefore could be operated on without anaesthesia. We got rid of so many harmful and outdated things so why do we put up with this “old fashioned” bs?? Even my father who is 75, born 1950, knows better. It’s not “old fashioned”, it’s misogynistic, racist, sexist, ageist and more. I don’t understand it when grown adults who are clearly over 22 (allowing 4 years of working on yourself) accept such trashy treatment of themselves. It’s the authors fault because realistically, none of this would happen. This is rage bait because the author thinks making it frustrating and infuriating will get people to stay but really it’s pushing people away but it’s still so baffling to me that grown adults are allowing their parents to abuse them while putting up 0 fight. I understand as a child not fighting back but you’re literally the same height or taller and stronger than someone twice or three times your age! Even if you don’t play tit for tat and slap them right back, you can at the very least grab the hand before it hits you or leave after they’ve hit you and limit contact with such a toxic person that they think the best way to communicate is physical or emotional or verbal violence.
This is a PSA: you deserve better than toxicity and abuse. If someone disrespects you or treats you violently once, leave. Don’t let them do it twice because twice becomes thrice and it never ends. Protect yourself. Break the generational trauma. Let it end with their generation not yours.
If I could baby boy, I would jump into the story and kill him for you cause literally your whole life had been abuse after abuse and it’s just never ending. I think you should dishonourably discharge or desert or kill him. Nothing is more important than you leaving him.
It’s to obvious that the king is providing the perfect opportunity for pinkie pie to commit a crime and have witnesses so that they can use her to get the duke in jail for even bigger crimes. She’s a weak and pathetic woman and human who can’t even handle her own insecurities so she’s obviously not going to be able to handle being told she’s committed a huge crime and she’s going to be put to death unless she can confess her knowledge of crimes that the duke committed. It’s actually just that simple. It’s so common, I called it as soon as I saw pinkie pie in the hallway. The kings words just confirmed it.
I’d clock that and put an end to it. Don’t hog servers and don’t ask about their personal life. Those would be the house rules. He broke both of those and that’s not okay.
She picked them like pokemon and it’s now a RH in my head. Idk if that’s what actually happened or not but I won’t accept any other explanation. She got married to Daniel and then to eugene and then mr angel and then to kain. The story doesn’t actually reject this narrative either so im free to stay delulu!
Also to those saying she picked the worst character, she didn’t. Daniel was the one she loved most of the male characters and was her second favourite in the novel. She blushed HARD with him and even shared a kiss with him. She was willing to let every single one of them leave if they wanted to but she begged Daniel to stay. She even said it was romantic that Daniel would be with her whenever she’s sad to comfort her. She formed a blood pact with him which some cultures do as a marriage ceremony. Let’s rewind and let me reiterate that THEY SHARED A KISS TOGETHER! Even eugene stated that he was the best for her since both Eugene and kain are too focused on the fact that she will soon die to treat her like a normal person and love her normally. Daniel was the only one who saw her for more than her illness. To say otherwise is to admit that you didn’t actually read the story at all. It’s fine to prefer one of the ML compared to the others but to dismiss all of the plot just to justify it is wrong.
But I love when couples actually discuss the reality of their situation and communicate. Both of them wanted kids and knew they wanted kids. The alpha knows it’s the omegas body so it’s his choice if he carries or terminates and was supportive of it but also voiced that in a life and death situation, he’s choosing his husband over the children and acknowledged the elephant in the room that it’s something that could upset the omega. The fact that they both respected each others wishes like that was so so refreshing! I want more stories with this level of mutual respect!
When you’re remorseful and feeling guilty, you don’t smile. He smiled. He thinks of this as a game. I don’t like him and I don’t trust him.