I hope Jin-woo gets back into swimming competitively; it's very common for ukes to be fired, demoted, or quit from their profession, so I'm hoping he doesn't give it all up.
It's bad enough if a couple brings up swapping and never do it (or shut it down; why have the author mention it then?), but it's even worse when the bottom used to be a top and gets with another top and enjoys bottoming so much isn't satisfied anymore.
Right?!?! This is the golden oppurtunity for vers! we need a vers couple!
Artists and authors write and draw what they want. They have a preference, they're not against it. That's like saying an author is against writing certain tropes just because they never include it.
The entire bl community has a negative bias towards vers couples it obvious with the small amount of it that even exists. Vers couples arent equatable to heteronormative sex life standards and its simply homophobia to exclude them really (a good amount of ppl r sexually diverse irl), if u dont think thats obvious yet u can just look at how ukes r treated like " bitchy, sassy, diva, motherly, wife" (and similar other reductive terminology associated with femininity, even tho they r rarely fem) while the semes r like any other male lead regardless of their partners gender.
But some artists go the extra mile to bring it up; they'll have a bottom suggest switching, and then the top either says he isn't interested or that he's open to it but they never switch. Why have that interaction if they're just teasing?
Not sure which community you're part of but the BL community I see is fine with switches but prefer fixed positions. It all comes down to preference at the end of the day. And I don't know about you but fixed positions are just as common as switches irl. Just as some gays prefer bottoming only, so does some prefer to only top irl. Just because they prefer a position doesn't mean they're homophobic all of a sudden.
And I'm not gonna say the stereotypes don't exist but nowadays, the opposite applies so its definitely getting better. The bottoms are manlier and the top is more feminine.
The same way other series tease things that may happen but doesn't. It's a common trope.
Also fiction doesn't equal reality but if you really wanted to compare, some gay couples talk about switching all the time and just don't. It happens irl as well. Some times for play purposes.
Teasing your audience isn't a trope; it's just a tease.
But the thing is the amount of switches depicted in bl is def much less than irl. So its def a concious decision to show fixed positions almost 99% of the time, this is a matter of representation done by a hetero woman dominated writer/artist field, what they assume of gay people is depicted more than what gay people are like irl. So it does get homophobic at times when ur heavily insisting on making switching sound like hell for a strict top character and physically impossible for a bottom character. Its what they assume queer men are like, not what queer men are actually like irl. Ultimately what i mean is more vers couples pls, i dont care about fixed couples as they r the majority anyways.
If Clifford was bullying him as kids and acts like nothing happened when they get older, it'd be irritating. Plus Lawrence calling his brother "hyung" despite them both being white was so confusing. I get that this is a Korean work, but I'd think the translator would've done something about that.
I'm glad they don't blame eah other--but yes, in the future, please be more open about having an identical twin.
Imagine saying something sweet like "I don't just want a sexual relationship" but also like "I'm so excited to have an affair with a married man"!"
Maybe it's just the hairstyle. I feel like this is gonna be a hard read, seeing Salvo's past and his personality. There may be some grey areas here. I just hope Ben isn't just gonna be on his side all the time because they're MC and ML.
Was this mentioned before? I always thought thinking that assuming he was a delinquent was rather judgmental.
ML threatens to break MC's arms and legs, but then says getting MC angry and bashing him was to distract him and make him feel better. I'd love to believe he had good intentions, but this all does feel like MC is isolated and kept out of something important. Interesting that he has a sadistic side. I'd say I was happy that he had self-control, but I imagine that ML is gonna break him--which is fine in the bedroom; just not as a person.
The stalking, harassing, and manipulating can't be overlooked in favor of the fear of loneliness. I hope he doesn't come back to you!
I have worst childhood trauma (like I was abused both mentally and physically also my father was alcoholic who committed suicide when I was in 12th standard giving my board exams and there are so many things) but I've never been toxic and abusive in my life until now. I really hate those authors who potrey traumatized peoples as abusers and i hate that most of them are shown as males. Idk about others but i learned how to behave properly from my traumas. I can't help but laugh at these authors and their shithead character. But one thing is i became avoidant and kinda don't like peoples that much, like I get bored of them easily
I'm sorry you had to experience that. The common storytelling style in BLs is to make the toxic character first and add trauma later--essentially to excuse their actions and make them sympathetic. Even worse, fans always use this to bypass any poor treatment the character causes.
The series started off as an episodic cute story, but then they hint at pieces of things here and there and take a while to actually get to it (why the omega tries to be strong despite liking cute things, the alpha's issues with his moms, etc.) I like this, but some storylines feel like they were pushed aside when they should've came up sooner.