thebatwiggler's Topics (56)

this is hilarious, did they just gloss over that the leads use child labor??? children as young as TEN???? lmaoooooo what a wild ass thing to include and immediately not explore

everyone arguing that people should read the novel are missing the point - the artist or adaptation writer (or whoever is preparing the dialogue for this) is intentionally being misleading and implying yuri is attracted to little boys.

if anything, it does suck that the original author is gonna get flack for an adaptation of her work, but there is no denying that the intent of the manwha has been to heavily imply that yuri is attracted to child-xinlu. someone shouldn't have to read a whole other piece of media - the novel - to realize that isn't the case. that's ridiculous.

also, they could just as easily show yuri's thoughts here like they did in the novel. this is a manwha told mostly from yuri's perspective - his thoughts have been outlined the entire time. the artist knows what they're doing, and even if the very next chapter has yuri saying "oh, but it wasn't romantic", nah. c'mon. the time for exposition was the other ten thousand times yuri has called xinlu his first love and described his obsessive thoughts about him. or even in this very scene, where yuri is asked about "a first love he fell so hard for it made his heart ache"???? it would have been as simple as pie for the author to include a brief thought bubble of yuri going, 'well... it's not romantic love, but-'

the bar is on the ground and people are rightfully bothered by the direction of the story... and, i think, should be even more bothered given that this wasn't the way the original story was presented at all.

a lot of people are giving the author grace, but its pretty evident the intent is to make yuri a redeemable pedophile. there is zero - absolutely zero - need for yuri to be so much older than xinlu in the story. and this entire repetition of xinlu being his first love, of yuri *clearly* still being obsessive over xinlu even decades later, of yuri's never ending love and how he almost seems to view the boy-xinlu as separate from the adult-xinlu, its all gross as hell. yuri being passive in the story - not seeking xinlu out, being the bottom, getting outright assaulted by xinlu - all of it is done to whitewash yuri's extremely obvious attraction for a little boy. if yuri had been the top, had yuri been more aggressive (even just in their ADULT interactions), this comment section would not be as forgiving as it currently is lol

im not trying to be a party pooper or anything - hell, im not even dropping the story. but it *is* frustrating to see people fall for the author's clear attempt at creating a pedophile people will root for and then defending it... like, nah, author isn't slick and i honestly think this is just a result of stricter laws in korea regarding depictions of kids in fiction. sad, though, i was really enjoying this story :/

i feel like the social morality/norms here are so weird lol there's ultra conservative expectations (no abortion without partner consent???? stigma about omega teachers around children???) mixed in with odd pro-sex sentiment in the story (the pressure for them to fuck because of the pheromones??? the way no one is batting an eye at essentially coercing the mc into a sex partnership???)

like, beyond the romance, this setting is dystopic af lmao its a horror story masquerading as a romcom

i really wanted to stick it out, but the story has become a complete mess and lacks coherency. it's not just the 'throw anything at the wall and see what sticks' tactic that has overtaken the second half of the story, but also the way even the character motivations just... don't make sense lol even beyond some of the... weird writing choices (the DOG omfg), the characters themselves lack consistency and seem all over the place. real people don't act like this - and i KNOW that we suspend our disbelief a lot when reading stories like this, but this reaches the point where it's just insane lol i think for me, the moment the mc was more upset his boyfriend was nervous about telling him that the son of the person who MURDERED HIS FAMILY was his friend because "how dare you think im judgmental", was absolutely insane lmao like ???????

anyway, that conversation with the mom and all of the weird, unnecessary details (mom was a victim of... what, rape? and just drops that in front of her kid's boyfriend??? and then tells the kid she married her rapist's brother?????) just turned me off completely lmao. author is a weirdo and clearly needs a better editor to tell them no to some things lmao

this went off the rails so weirdly lol only staying for the resolution, but what a disappointing drop off

i’m on chapter 5 and already sad when does he regress bc this is heartbreaking

i think its a shady deal between the redhead and the ML! I think the MC and that girl had mutual feelings for each other - and the ML and the redhead both noticed. i think they ALSO noticed they both had feelings for their current respective partners, and made a weird deal to interfere for each other.

idk why, but i think they're just similar possessive, semi-manipulative people who don't like HOW similar they are to each other but are willing to compromise for the greater good lmao

the high five was HILARIOUS, i love the side couple so much

people are hating, but im having an absolute ball lol ml said, nope, not gonna do the poverty-debt runaway trope here, no siree