what happened to lumierre’s sister? She went to the elf forest but the elf has visited a few times since and no updates have been given. It feels like a forgotten plot. Shouldn’t he miss his sister more? Shouldn’t she be brought up by him and lan?
Sorry but don’t do what Tom did. Confessing your feelings is fine and you can ask for a definitive answer or give a deadline if they ask for time. That’s all fine. Saying “okay. Take all the time you want but promise me… please come back with good news” is not okay. Don’t put pressure on other people for the sake of your own feelings. I’ve been on the receiving side and let me tell you that it pushes people away. I had a crush on the guy who confessed to me but he put so much pressure on me and emphasis on the fact that he wanted me to say yes that he totally overlooked my wants and needs. If it hadn’t been for how pushy and pressuring he was in that moment, I probably would have dated him and we’d probably be engaged to be married now (I always thought we’d get married if we ever dated since I’ve known him for almost a decade) so learn from his mistakes and don’t do that. Give them the space to make the decision on their own and respect it. No one owes you for your own feelings towards them.
She literally has the power to bend people to her will via her words. She could easily have them admit in front of everyone why they are there and to what purpose and have them admit to trying to stage a coup. All this feels so pointless since her eyes would literally solve all of these minor issues…
You can totally love someone now and loathe who they used to be at the same time. That’s possible. The opposite can be true too. You can adore who someone once was and hold love for that past version while hating the current version of that person. You don’t have to like someone’s past in order to plan a future with them. As long as it’s something you can personally live with and ignore for the most part, I don’t see why it’s an issue. If you love him, you love him. Nothing complicated about it.
Yall need to talk to the author who wrote can’t think straight. Seriously. Before I read that, I was a firm hater of this whole fuck up and make up trope but that man GROVELLED and didn’t expect any love or appreciation for it. He did things to help the bottom with no expectations of anything back. Just did something nice and left. Showed consistency and affection without overstepping boundaries. He stepped up. This is from the worst man child possible who was homophobic, called the bottom a whore, told the bottom the only thing he’s good for is his ass, etc. and now he fights on behalf of the bottom, helped him with his family issues, supports him and is always there to be a resting spot for the bottom after a stressful day at work. He’s genuinely one of the most pleasant ML I’ve had the honour of seeing and I’m a veteran fujoshi. If that man can come back from that, this man can come back from this if he plays it right but AUTHORS YOU NEED TO WRITE YOUR CHARACTERS WITH SOME REMORSE AND SOME RESPECT FIRST!
I don’t particularly care if people upload other languages but please label them if they aren’t English. It helps everyone know what language you’re translating to and helps those of us who don’t know that language, avoid that one chapter.
As someone who grew up in an abusive household, I also had to learn the hard way what was and was not acceptable violence and what is and is not acceptable outputs of rage. Anger management helped me but what seriously helped me was learning that my rage stemmed from fear so instead of treating it as “ah I’m pissed tf off!”, I now treat it as “how can I make myself feel safer?”. For him, he feels like he’s back there with his mother being abused and to save his mother, he would kill and I feel him on that. I hate my own mothers guts for what she did to me but I would absolutely kill anyone who hurts my baby sister in a fit of rage because the abuse I went through would overlap with the pain she feels and it would just amplify it out of control. That’s why it’s so important to work on yourself and figure out what your emotions are telling you. Now, I can handle my sister crying (18 year age gap) and I can sort out my own emotions before flying off the handle to protect her. I can think logically in that split moment before I make a big mistake. I’m saying all of this to show people that he’s not a violent person and he’s not an abusive person either. He’s extremely traumatised and a victim of abuse and much like a wounded animal, he’s become aggressive out of fear. I hope he can get better with therapy or the boxing or whatever helps him feel more safe and more in control!
I actually really loved both stories! Usually I really love one and I’m meh on the other but wow! I like this author! If anyone has any suggestions similar to this, please share them!
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.
