bl recs where the mc/uke is mentally fucked up, dark, calculating and not the innocent oblivious ukes
Truth or Dare https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/truth_or_dare/
I read it a long time ago and I can't remember the exact plot. The only thing I remember is that the uke is a writer and wrote about his high school (?) crush from the countryside when he had to go back to the countryside because of a circumstance, and the uke tries hard to hide the fact that he wrote about the seme. The seme from what I can remember is a popular dude who loves helping others and is a cheerful guy. I also remember the seme and uke having a mutual friend that constantly tries to set them up together.
I can’t read webtoons with like a “western” or “american” style, i can’t explain it but I find reading webtoons where the characters look western really puts me off, it also applies to movies and such, I just don’t find them very appealing. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in an asian country surrounded by faces that look like mine or if it’s like unconscious repulsion from remembering racist and hateful comments and unpleasant experiences with yt ppl online
No fr tho idk if im too woke for this take too but after all their oppression in my history it's laughable how they're always the good guys and the victims r evil for fighting back. I'm never gonna watch Hollywood movies. And same goes for webtoons too, whenever a foreign (western) character is over glorified I shut the damn thing ik it's never everyone but can't help but be weary cuz of the ones that are sh1t
For me, not always but yes. Maybe cause we have never met or been acquainted with them. More than the style, I especially hate the fact that every cultural nuance in any translation just gets thrown away while translating into english to making it easier to understand. Not to forget the western names in manhua/manhwa / localization. No I want Jiang or Xing Or Kwon. I don't want Henry, Matthew ffs.
give me the most angst thing you've ever read
sad yet beautiful
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/1750995/
Hello there if you’re interested I have a list for this as well, hope it helps ~
Ex lovers to lovers
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/2551272/

it’s some smut slop about a rich girl who has a kink for trashy rough men in bed and disguises herself as a secretary of a trashy ceo who is chasing after a girl with a bf, and ends up getting passed around with the trashy ceo’s brother and she pretends like she’s being forced into it but she actually loves it