tbh I wish official translations would do more t/n notes too!! like "my nervousness is inferior to a fart" is so fuckin funny, don't keep that from us
how is it possible to hate every. single. character. this much??
"THE OTHER MAN REACTS WITH A NOSEBLEED, THE RAWEST FORM OF AWE."
poetry
or is it like when i tell my bf we're married, because we told each other "there's only one way out of this," which is like saying "til death do us part" so we're *basically* married.
hottest vanilla sex scene i've read possibly ever?? *fans self*
is it ecofascist of me to expect the whole town to fall apart into unfettered chaos if Gyuwon dies and think it's better if the plot against him fails??
honestly I was on board for like 90% of this but wtf is that confession scene, it makes no sense for either character to talk like that.
here, i fix it:
jh: why didn't you tell me that it was all fake?
sj: because.... there was nothing to explain. it wouldn't have made a difference.
jh: what does that even mean?
sj: I'm not a good person.
jh: I don't care. I love you anyway!
sj: I'm allergic to that word. you don't love me, you just think you love me because you don't know me. that wasn't me in that particular video, but I've done stuff like that before.
jh: *agape with horror*
sj: see? I'm unlovable. go back to the hospital.
jh: *trudges back to the hospital sniffling*
sj: *closes the door, sighs deeply*
*before morning, realizes he can't live without changbin -- i mean, joohyun*
*runs to the hospital, gets into bed with jh, jh wakes up in sj's arms*
jh: sunbae, what are you doing here?
sj: i realized i can't live without you. i can't change my past, but i can change my future. i promise i'll never leave you and i'll protect you from the consequences of my past actions. *lays out his plan to actually do that and hold himself accountable*
idk i just feel like this would've been a better and more in-character exchange for them.
i desperately want this to be a story about Woonha healing Gyuwon's childhood trauma by giving him a safe space to get in touch with his buried anger+ aggression but i fear it's gonna be a story about Gyuwon teaching Woonha not to be such a hoe + accept gentleness/love.
gotta let this one marinate ╥﹏╥
tbf ML was kind of a bad sub, he seemed very wooden and stiff about it all, the vibe was not vibing. i chalked it up to the author being bad at writing bdsm, but it turns out that was intentional. so uhhh i guess good job author-nim at foreshadowing and character development and visual communication and also shattering my hopes and dreams that we'd get a sadistic uke or seme POV story for once?
do the ML and MC ever get up to any consensual bdsm antics? the beginning has me hoping, but 9 out of 10 times it's another "and true love cured all my kinks" bs
i like how every scene, they can't decide if it's ageplay, puppy play, or master/slave play, so they just say fuck it and do all three at the same time
maybe i'm in the minority but i love their conflict in this chapter. joo-an aggressively hugging/crushing seojoon while seojoon cries and calls him a liar?? ugh YES PLEASE I WANT MORE
also, imagine getting suplexed immediately after cumming
everyone reading this does realize that this manga is just an elaborate allegory about the sociopolitical position of women, right? and that Takatora only exists to explore the question of what would happen if a man were suddenly forced to live as a woman, be treated as a woman, and be on the receiving end of misogyny, right???
and frankly, good for her for tricking us smut-obsessed pervs into accidentally reading feminist speculative fiction lmao
anyway everyone should go read "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ and "Egalia's Daughters" by Gerd Bertrand ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
i know i complain when artists color the dicks a thrombotic shade of purple (looking at you, Doyoon from Stigma), but somehow coloring them exactly the same shade as the rest of his skin is.... worse. i think it's worse, at least.
in ch 16 when she's in the shower..... the way the author drew her like her butt is an entire separate animal from her torso?? why???
wild to see postcoital headaches mentioned in a random manhwa. i've only ever seen it once in the wild (days of my youth) so i feel like it's a super rare and random thing for the author to just throw in there lmao