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the intensity of hostility gets to be too much, but I do understand people feeling that way. not to the point of insults and death threats, but i can especially understand the irritation and ire it raises when someone comes into a work with an atypical top/bottom dynamic and wants them to switch even if by switching they mean having no fixed positi......   1 reply

bananas. I like the banana flavored laffy taffys, though... (￣∇￣")   reply

logistically speaking, they both work out for their genres in terms of meeting opportunities and the conflicts they introduce. both emphasize the physical prowess(masculinity) and discipline (or lack of it) of the character(s) who play, and give the homosocial(brotherhood) angle which helps in baseball/bl (more time together) vs basketbal/shoujo(ti......   reply

thanks for bringing this up, because it gets so easily overlooked - or purposely glossed over - whenever these topics come up. defenders of whatever nefarious BS under discussion always want to say "no real human being was harmed" to excuse and wave away any scrutiny of the thing they're doubling down on, without any awareness or cognizance that no......   reply

https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/double_noda_ayako/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/moratte_kudasai/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kagakubu_no_megane/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/mr_100_perfect/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/my_bias_appeared/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/love_sick_dog/ let me add these too https://www.mangago.......   1 reply

what would be really interesting is omegaverse that was more biologically grounded. pheromones for communication and getting away from the gender/sex essentialism by throwing in the messiness and complexity of real life biology (lots of things aren't strictly binary, things can be ambiguous or a mix etc). stuff like that.   1 reply

I've read some fics and a few manga with it, and while I'm not particularly into it, personally, i can see the appeal for people. in the end it's the same eroticization and sublimation of the power dynamics at play in everyday life and society. i'm not calling for bans on it/bdsm in general and I don't care to pry into people's sexual proclivities,......   1 reply

I started sometime around 2007/08/09, also in the unfettered-internet-access-at-a-young-age boat bc all these are from slightly before and during middle school for me. idk the popularity of anything because I was finding stuff to watch by going through the category listing on Wikipedia for shounen-ai and yaoi. kyou kara maou loveless yami no matsu......   1 reply

I'll get to the main point of this post in a second, but I'm mystified by the use of "deprived" here. like, I'm used to seeing it in sentences like "the captive was deprived of adequate food, water, and fresh air" or "neglectful parents deprived a child of an education", so I'm left wondering what the intended word is supposed to be here. op is fee......   reply

I'm always down for new and different approaches in a genre filled with cliches and formulaic stories, so I support your grievance in principle. thinking it over, I think most of the stories I've read and liked gave input from both characters even if it's primarily from the pov of one character. that said, this is a real rabbit hole of a question........   reply

it sounds like you experience some emotional release/catharsis, or are living vicariously through the actions of those immoral characters, which isn't an unusual thing to do. many people read or otherwise engage with fiction to step outside of themselves and their lives, see through a new and unusual perspective and all that. but however wild and i......   1 reply

ymmv on the art style, since it's quite stylized (I'm a fan!) but you could give these a try https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/all_about_lust/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/no_bad_dog/ nice art, non-dominant or cold top https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/isn_t_it_good/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/spinach_bouquet/ and yeah, branching out i......   reply

it might help to include titles you've liked before. anyways, I'm a songhyel shill: https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ouroboros_1/ https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/love_sick_dog/ well worth the money for officials: https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/love_for_sale_1/ just about anything from takahashi hidebu: https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/psyche......   reply

I'm interested...   reply

i've had some thoughts brewing along these lines for ages, so i'm going to vent a little. *w* you ever heard of how apparently when dogs respond to human speech, they're responding primarily to tone and not to the words? that's at play with how people respond to toxic/abusive characters. it's all in the presentation, rather than the substance. it'......   1 reply

avengers in sci-fi, Deftones, machine girl, confidence man   1 reply

maybe give perfect fit by thanat a try, for some casual disability rep   reply

confidence man - I can't lose you, salute - system, kettama - it gets better, whiney ft lameduza - teddy's gate, soul mass transit - feelin' u faunts - feel.love.thinking.of, fontaines d.c. - nabokov, deftones - what happened to you?, failure - another space song everything but the girl - before today, flipside, temperamental   1 reply

somewhat buff, but either is fine so long as he can take a pounding. yeonoh from limited run is a good twink. really, it comes down to art style. if there's a good sense of form, volume, and proportion, I'll be happy.   reply

mind games, manipulation, obsession. different ideas of faithfulness or having different expectations for a relationship. I was quite perplexed to find out that toxic apparently meant abuse to a certain set of readers because I had previously thought "toxic" was used to describe an unideal or dysfunctional relationship that didn't necessarily inclu......   1 reply