Nobody's Things

So, I don’t like babies/kids and avoid stories with them like a plague. Most of the time they kids are portrayed as insufferable, thus making whatever I’m reading/watching not enjoyable, but I found myself being pulled in by Our Sunny Days, even when there is a baby present.

As of right now I’m not bothered by the baby in Our Sunny Days because she’s literally just there. She isn’t being a hindrance.

It got me thinking, what is the one series you didn’t think you’d read or enjoy because it’s not something you usually read and you ended up liking/enjoying?

I personally prefer anything uncensored or only mildly censored. Not a fan of lightsabers, but when it’s a colored comic, at least you can differentiate what’s what, but in black and white, there have been many times when there is nothing there.

I don’t get people who prefer censored, like what is the point of reading porn then?

And no, I don’t particularly find dicks appealing, but I do prefer having uncensored sex scenes in my porn.

So censored or uncensored?

Reading all the comments on Jinx has given me so many topic ideas, and I’m curious to know some of your thoughts and opinions about redemption.

I see a lot of people saying ML is beyond redemption or that even with a redemption arc, they still won’t forgive him. I get that, and I don’t read Jinx, so I don’t have strong feelings one way or another.

Anyway, it got me thinking, a while back I watched a Turkish dizi called Istanbullu Gelin, and in that series, the main character’s best friend marries a guy that has lots of issues. He has anger management issues and one time he beat her silly. She eventually convinces him to seek therapy and he starts going, but initially he’s not taking it seriously. His wife finally divorces him, but she’s pregnant so he’s not completely out of her life. Long story short, in the end he continues going to therapy and redeems himself, but she doesn’t get back with him. Both of them moved on and were better partners to their new loves due to their past relationship.

I liked that resolution. A character was redeemed and part of that redemption was due to a love interest, but in the end they had hurt each other too much to function as a couple.

Seeing as most stories have redemption arcs that end up with the original couples, would you prefer to read more stories where a horrible character initially starts their redemption arc due to their current love interest, but in the end they each find new loves? Or keep the status quo and have a “love conquers all” type story?

Like I said, I don’t read Jinx, but from what I can see in the comments I think something like ML realizing he’s been shit and starting his redemption due to his feelings for MC, but then in the end after all he’s done to MC each of them finding new loves would work better. You can forgive someone and still not want a romantic relationship with them anymore.

Especially when many times a potential second love interest is introduced, and usually that second love would be a better choice anyway.

Opinions?

I got the idea for this question since I’ve been reading so many comments on Jinx.
To be clear, I’ve never read the series, so I cannot make any informed opinions on it, but it did give me the idea to ask, who has been the worst, most toxic love interest you’ve ever seen?

Originally I was going to leave it as only the worst ML in BL, but decided to open the question to any love interest.

Additionally, only characters that are supposed to be taken seriously as love interests.
What I mean is, for example I don’t think Killing Stalking or Placebo are supposed to be considered romances.

Now, for the worst love interest I’ve ever encountered in any story, hands down it has to be Richard Tarten from the Passion sequel. This character is nasty, and the romance pissed me off to no end. If anyone has read the novels, I think many would agree.

Honestly I’ve read mostly BL novels, but not all.
These are the ones I’ve read ( that I can remember)

There is one I read which I cannot for the life of me remember title, but the plot was this:
Guy keeps having sex with another guy in a dream world. I also remember that the Uke’s older brother disappeared when he was six in the ocean. Later MC meets his brother. He’d been kidnapped by the demon lord or whatever evil entity they were battling and he’d been this guys sex slave since his kidnapping. Also brother and bad guy end up dying together.

—One of the Boogiepop novels
—Trinity Blood
—I want to bite (Kami Tsukitai)
—Love Water (Girou no Koimizu)
—No. 6
The novel that started me on web novels was
—The King’s Avatar (Quan zhi gao shou) and sequel
—Grandmaster of demonic cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi)
I tried reading —Solo Leveling, but didn’t care much for it.
—Social Outcast (aka Social Temperature)
—Nurturing the Hero to Avoid Death (Shinitakunai node Eiyuu-sama wo Sodateru Koto ni Shimasu)
— The White Cat’s Divine Scratching Post (I stopped reading it)
—Glory [E-sports]- currently reading
—Speak the Truth ( read on Tapas)

In my queue I have Omniscient Reader (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)
— How to Survive as a Villain (To Be or Not to Be)


So what have you read?