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I'm loving the Work Love Balance, it's great and still carries the humour from On or Off, and I don't mind whatever is going on with Doyeon, but there are times where I feel like some things get dragged on for a bit too long. It's not a deal breaker nor does it have to be a bad thing, the length of some arcs is just not my cup of tea.
I do think whatever *is* happening with Doyeon is funny. Maybe there's an actual medical reason for it, or maybe it's straight-up supernatural. Either way, I had to put my phone down multiple times to process it.
Does anyone know the name of a webtoon where the ML had once given someone that wasn't the MC a gift fountain pen with their initials?
Other Details:
- MC ate Italian food even though they did not like it, but their crush (who was not the ML) liked it.
- The MC joined an LGTBQ+ club back in university because of this crush.
- The ML and the MC's crush were once together at some point.
- I believe it takes place in an office setting.
... or something like that. The details are kinda foggy sorry.
This might not be enough to go on, but any ideas shall be greatly appreciated.
Oh my god TToTT thank you! This response is greatly appreciated.
I'm pretty sure that this isn't supposed to be a healthy relationship and that the toxicity is the appeal. Which you'd think is a given, but the comments make me think otherwise.
It's one thing not to enjoy toxicity, but it's another to assume this work is bad because it has it.
People can 100% dislike the romanticisation of abusive and toxic relationships. Don’t whine when people fairly judge a work because it’s promoting unhealthy relationships. Can’t control what you read, but don’t get all pissy when someone dislikes it
As a writer myself who’s written some fucked up toxic psychological works along with being an avid reader of tragedy,horror, and psychological that was horrible story telling. There wasn’t enough background to make you understand why they acted the way they did, the characters were surface level and from a readers perspective genuinely just dumb. There wasnt enough context to what happened we just saw blood and abuse. To write a scene that way to encompass the agony he would’ve faced there needed to be more time spent on that. The smut was random and seemed unprompted and there was no connection. This did have potential but in the short story format it wasnt good. Not because the toxicity or plot but the writing.
These responses are interesting because I did preface this with "not my cup of tea" (an idiom for disliking something) which should have implied that it was okay for others to dislike it.
My comment was moreso about expressing concern towards those calling it "bad because it promotes/romanticises toxicity", especially when their actions are never framed as "good decisions" in the first place. It doesn't help that most comments criticise the fact the work has toxicity rather than criticising it for other qualities like writing, art, panelling, etc.
It's like calling a story "bad" because it has a male protagonist. It's one thing not to enjoy a story with a male protagonist, it's another to call it bad because it has one.
I did understand this, for me personally I was expressing why I disliked apart from the blatant toxicity. I fully agree someone shouldn’t disregard a story due to factors such as you mentioned. I lowk js like to have discussions on how I feel abt stories on here lmao