Officials come to me Neow. I miss them dearly
Since Tapas is shutting down, I'm genuinely afraid we won't get any officials for the next season. T.T I'm hoping that Lezhin is going to go through and pick up all of Tapas's english series. Since they already have licensing deals for some Tapas titles, it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch for them to just take over publishing. At least that's what I'm praying to the BL-gods and Santa for.
It's ridiculous. Tapas is the official publisher, but they're straight up shutting themselves down cause it's not worth it to them as a Korean company to keep running a separate company for overseas content, but they have also said they have no plans to incorporate said content into any of their Korean websites/companies. (This is what they've said in their statements, not my personal opinion.) So we're all fucked. The site becomes inoperable on March 31, 2027, at which point all comics that anyone has purchased will become forever inaccessible.
I don't know what's going on with the creators themselves, but it essentially only affects the English translations, since the original Korean gets published on a different site altogether. Hence my hope that a different English publisher (like lezhin or tappytoon) will step in and take over English publication of Tapas titles. (It seems like comics that are English-original are super fucked though.)
What is silly to me is that they don't seem to realize that this is literally why piracy exists. I'm so glad there are sites that are actively backing all this content up so it doesn't just...disappear.
Want obsessive/toxic semes like backlight and flashlight and boundary of delusion, maybe even reverse thinking, but basically a seme who is clearly messed up but they're overly possessive and controlling and uke is conflicted if that makes sense. I would prefer some angst over just torture fests, and some deep exploration of the characters and their relationship. It's even okay if they don't end up together or something like that. And also similar build PLEASE! Thank you ... for feeding me..
Ew bruh.