Fxk this is what my mind is crying about cause Ik fully well this what u said is true and it actually hurts
To me that's a sign of a good story. If we feel the sorrow and pain just as much as we feel the joy and relief that the characters do, then that means someone wrote something that felt real. Of course we don't entirely know how it's gonna unfold yet but if it's anything like A Terrible Romance it's gonna be a difficult but truly a satisfying story with a happy end.
Couldn't agree More
Girl this whole thing is exactly what I been saying in my head, like I think me and ur brain is linking rnn(づ￣ ³￣)づ
SPOILERS:
to spoilers the dom will rape him too and then get him out of the house
Brain link let's gooooo that said, my heart goes out to all the readers who didn't read this author's other stuff and are about to get shocked at the tone shift that's about to happen. There's gonna be a lot of unfair yelling in the comments that's for sure.
We'll get through it and (hopefully) we'll be sobbing at the end about how arduous yet beautiful their journeys have been as characters and as a couple.
Not really sure about that… ive read some of her works and they are lowkey fake deep
She builds all of them around cheating… but not just cheating. It gotta specifically be the bottom for some reason? And in return the seme gotta rape him again out of spite????
Thats lowkey a fetish, not even good writing
Lmfao y'all yeah I'm high the f you mean top will rape him too . （/TДT)/
I do want to say that though the sub in this story often threatened to cheat, he did not cheat in this situation. He was using the threat of cheating as a tool to provoke his partner, yes, but he had no actual desire or plan to cheat. He was assaulted.
And I never felt she was fetishizing the cheating or any assault that she wrote. Everything always felt appropriately heavy and respected as the situations they were. I just think it's a theme she likes to explore in different ways.
The bottom in A Terrible Romance was deeply insecure and traumatized and regressed back to his old partner out of fear and self-sabotage. The bottom in this is cocky, proud, and never thought anything bad he didn't consent to would happen to him because he was effectively playing a game. He pulled an Icarus and wound up tragically getting assaulted (the assault is not his fault, btw, but it is important to note that he thought he wouldn't face consequences for his behavior or boundary pushing and then very much did). Both of these characters feel guilt but they're gonna feel it in very different ways. And the top in this story has every reason to react violently after he finds out about what happened, simply because that's what the sub trained him to do for their kink dynamic. The top in A Terrible Romance assaults the bottom because he purposefully makes a bad choice to act on his anger and grief, hating himself the whole time and after. It's awful and sad but it's not at all fetishizing or romanticizing sexual assault, imo. And even if she WAS, a fictional story with cartoon characters is a very safe place to explore that type of fetishization.
If this type of storytelling isn't your thing, totally get it. But just because someone returns to difficult or complicated themes doesn't mean they're doing it to sexualize those things. It might just mean they're exploring it differently this time around.
Chap 16 definitely got skipped, right?
And this is seriously hard because the sub definitely was betraying the dom's trust and trying to make the Dom upset on purpose. The sub clearly never wanted to go so far as to cheat, he clearly doesn't want to actually betray him or damage their bond. He only pushes on the things he knows he'll be forgiven for. But in his attempt to tease and goad with the express desire of hurting his bf like he felt hurt, something awful happened to him. Like, I can't even imagine how awful the sub feels right now. My heart breaks for him. But, at the same time, if the Dom gets upset due to his trust being broken, it would make sense. Even though the assault was absolutely NOT the sub's fault at all in any way, the dom's trust was still being broken before the sub blacked out. It would make sense if he doesn't trust anything the sub says after that and then reacts the way he usually does when the sub pushes him.
I mean, that's the dynamic that the sub kept building between them. That's the pattern. Sub pushes Dom by lying/ threatening to cheat/ going out without communicating/ ignoring him/ preying on his insecurities, the Dom catches him in some situation of the sub skating the line or crossing a boundary, the sub is cocky/ doesn't express remorse, the Dom "takes the bait" and punishes the sub just like the sub wanted him to, and then rinse and repeat.
And they've both fallen into a pattern where they don't really communicate healthily or vulnerably so if they don't actually talk or don't hear each other, it makes sense. It sucks but it actually makes sense compared to other similar series. It's a complicated and difficult situation. But I know this author. They don't write lighthearted comedy stuff. They write real, complicated, raw, contradictory emotions and situations that hurt in very human ways because they take their characters seriously. They write stories where people hurt each other and make the wrong choices on purpose because of fear and trauma and hubris. I have no doubt that this is gonna be a tough read moving forward but, if it's anything like their other work, it's gonna lead to a lot of growth and healing for these characters.