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What’s something that comforts you? Or helps you cope when you’re sad/depressed. For me it’s reading, isolating myself, a chocolate covered raspberry magnum bar, ramen, online shopping, my cats, Brie cheese, and doom scrolling (￣ε(#￣)Σ
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What are some criticism you have for popular manhwa or manhwa you found underwhelming especially with all the hype it received? Here are mine. share your criticism on certain manhwa and thoughts.
Red String Quest: too much sex. The reincarnation/fated meetings hook is a genuinely good idea , the ache of almost recognizing someone across lifetimes has real emotional potential, but the story keeps defaulting to sex scenes instead of building that recognition out. It ends up feeling like the central conceit is just an excuse to reset the leads into bed every arc rather than something the plot actually explores.
Reverse Thinking : too much sexual violence. It’s leaning on non con/dubcon as its main shorthand for “this relationship is dark and unhealthy,” when that’s something a psychological thriller should be able to establish through the characters’ behavior and dynamic instead. Repeating the same device over and over doesn’t deepen the psychology, it just repeats the shock.
No Returns After Use: it’s slop, straightforwardly badly written. Not a “the premise is uncomfortable but well executed” problem, the actual writing and pacing feel careless, like it’s coasting on the shock of the setup instead of doing craft work to make any of it land. It’s one of those “guilty pleasure” manhwa.
Yang Ilwoo and I :
okay but underwhelming, and this premise has been done better elsewhere. The specific issue: Baekhee is written as headstrong, but he keeps tolerating Gyeom’s manipulation, Gyeom uses the abusive father trauma to keep Baekhee dependent on him, and Baekhee just… lets that happen, repeatedly, with no real pushback that matches his supposed personality. That inconsistency reads like the author is stretching the angst out for chapter count rather than following the character logically.
Die in My Arms: edgy and cliché. The whole premise runs on shock value (yandere ex) without building past that hook into anything structurally distinct. It’s genre furniture, the possessive ex, the fatalistic framing , assembled rather than developed.
Backlight: shallow plot, and the antagonist doesn’t really contribute anything meaningful, backstory never gets fleshed out.
Red String Quest: too much sex. The reincarnation/fated meetings hook is a genuinely good idea , the ache of almost recognizing someone across lifetimes has real emotional potential, but the story keeps defaulting to sex scenes instead of building that recognition out. It ends up feeling like the central conceit is just an excuse to reset the leads into bed every arc rather than something the plot actually explores.
Reverse Thinking : too much sexual violence. It’s leaning on non con/dubcon as its main shorthand for “this relationship is dark and unhealthy,” when that’s something a psychological thriller should be able to establish through the characters’ behavior and dynamic instead. Repeating the same device over and over doesn’t deepen the psychology, it just repeats the shock.
No Returns After Use: it’s slop, straightforwardly badly written. Not a “the premise is uncomfortable but well executed” problem, the actual writing and pacing feel careless, like it’s coasting on the shock of the setup instead of doing craft work to make any of it land. It’s one of those “guilty pleasure” manhwa.
Yang Ilwoo and I :
okay but underwhelming, and this premise has been done better elsewhere. The specific issue: Baekhee is written as headstrong, but he keeps tolerating Gyeom’s manipulation, Gyeom uses the abusive father trauma to keep Baekhee dependent on him, and Baekhee just… lets that happen, repeatedly, with no real pushback that matches his supposed personality. That inconsistency reads like the author is stretching the angst out for chapter count rather than following the character logically.
Die in My Arms: edgy and cliché. The whole premise runs on shock value (yandere ex) without building past that hook into anything structurally distinct. It’s genre furniture, the possessive ex, the fatalistic framing , assembled rather than developed.
Backlight: shallow plot, and the antagonist doesn’t really contribute anything meaningful, backstory never gets fleshed out.
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Call me woke, idc. But I think it’s weird when people comment under manhwa with rape and say the victim should kill himself
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Okay I need to talk about this because it’s actually insane. There was a TikTok going around saying if you like toxic yaoi or toxic characters, you’d apparently be into a literal pedophile if he was conventionally attractive. So I made a whole thread breaking down why that comparison doesn’t hold up, the psychology behind fictional dark/toxic romance tropes vs. real predatory behavior towards children are not remotely the same category, and treating them as interchangeable actually flattens a really important distinction. (By the way the toxic yaoi in question was cna, passion, unchanged man, killing stalking, etc.)
And instead of anyone engaging with what I actually said, the replies were just: “you read rape so you’re a rape apologist,” “stop making excuses, you support rape,” “rape and pedophilia are on the same wavelength.” None of that is what I said. Nowhere did I say I condone rape, I made a whole video specifically explaining why pedophilia and rape aren’t the same thing and why fiction isn’t a moral endorsement of the acts it depicts.
I even asked one person who kept insisting rape and pedophilia are “the same thing” to actually debate me on it. Their response? “I’m not arguing with a rapist who supports toxic rapist men.” I asked for an actual debate and got called a rapist. That’s the level of discourse we’re at, zero engagement, all accusation.
Like, what do you think of this? Because to me this isn’t a difference of opinion, it’s people refusing to read past the first sentence before reacting. It became “agree with the take or you’re defending predators,” which isn’t a discussion, it’s a purity test.
And the video had a ton of people agreeing with zero pushback, which is exactly why media literacy discourse online is in shambles. This is genuinely part of why CSA survivors have said online fandom spaces seem to care more about fiction being “problematic” than about how real harm actually works.
I just wanted to share this because it’s genuinely so stupid to me, and honestly it makes me feel like future generations are doomed if this is what passes for critical thinking now.
And instead of anyone engaging with what I actually said, the replies were just: “you read rape so you’re a rape apologist,” “stop making excuses, you support rape,” “rape and pedophilia are on the same wavelength.” None of that is what I said. Nowhere did I say I condone rape, I made a whole video specifically explaining why pedophilia and rape aren’t the same thing and why fiction isn’t a moral endorsement of the acts it depicts.
I even asked one person who kept insisting rape and pedophilia are “the same thing” to actually debate me on it. Their response? “I’m not arguing with a rapist who supports toxic rapist men.” I asked for an actual debate and got called a rapist. That’s the level of discourse we’re at, zero engagement, all accusation.
Like, what do you think of this? Because to me this isn’t a difference of opinion, it’s people refusing to read past the first sentence before reacting. It became “agree with the take or you’re defending predators,” which isn’t a discussion, it’s a purity test.
And the video had a ton of people agreeing with zero pushback, which is exactly why media literacy discourse online is in shambles. This is genuinely part of why CSA survivors have said online fandom spaces seem to care more about fiction being “problematic” than about how real harm actually works.
I just wanted to share this because it’s genuinely so stupid to me, and honestly it makes me feel like future generations are doomed if this is what passes for critical thinking now.
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Have you ever made a friend and they turned out to be a weirdo? I found out one of my friends that I really enjoyed talking to was a racist and pedophile but drew the line at homophobia… I think she was what you call a “Koreaboo” because she liked Asians but disliked black people? anyways safe to say I blocked her. Has this ever happened to you?
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What are some manhwa/manga people glazed too much?
People glazed the everloving shit out of this one, first of all the title in English is literally masturbation master kurosawa so that should tell you something, second the story revolves around this guy sexually assaulting girls by nutting on their clothes, and third he gets a redemption arc that’s supposedly the best in fiction when it really wasn’t
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/onani_master_kurosawa/
I’m not gonna get into detail but it was underwhelming and overrated
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/yang_il_woo_and_i/
Uke is annoying asf
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/tiger_and_tiger_gourd/
Do I even have to say why?
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/non_zero_sum/
And everything in here
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/3995189/
People glazed the everloving shit out of this one, first of all the title in English is literally masturbation master kurosawa so that should tell you something, second the story revolves around this guy sexually assaulting girls by nutting on their clothes, and third he gets a redemption arc that’s supposedly the best in fiction when it really wasn’t
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/onani_master_kurosawa/
I’m not gonna get into detail but it was underwhelming and overrated
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/yang_il_woo_and_i/
Uke is annoying asf
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/tiger_and_tiger_gourd/
Do I even have to say why?
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/non_zero_sum/
And everything in here
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/3995189/
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I recently ended a friendship over something from the past, and I’m honestly a wreck about it She used to talk about me behind my back, and she’s still close with people who bullied me all throughout middle and high school. Weirdly, that never bothered me much since I’ve made peace with them. But she also stood up for me more than once and was genuinely there for me when it counted. Another friend pushed me to cut her off, and I did, but now I’m second guessing everything. Would love to hear other experiences and if anyone’s been through something similar
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Have you guys ever had a fake friend? Well, here's my experience.
I went through some mental health stuff and ended up dropping out of school for a bit. My friends were supportive in their own way, but never really asked why. I didn't mind that, it's not really their job to fix me.
One day I was kinda struggling and at a point where I just wanted to die, and I told one of them. First time I'd ever opened up like that. She said she'd pray for me and left me on delivered. After that I just kind of stopped venting to her.
My other friend already knew I was struggling, she'd give advice but nothing I hadn't already heard before, and she used to stick up for me when people talked crap, so I did appreciate her. But after I dropped out, we just naturally drifted, calls got less frequent, texts got shorter. I know she was busy with school too, so it wasn't all on her.
When I’d ask to hang out, they’d say they were busy but then post them hanging out with other friends on their story. They also never came to my birthdays, they said they were busy but again, I saw them posted up with other friends. They'd also talked crap about me before, multiple times actually. It used to bother me a lot, but after a while I just kind of got used to it.
Now that I've graduated, it feels like we've drifted even more. And it's a little awkward since we still live in the same town and run into each other sometimes.
Anyway, are my friends fake, or am I just reading into it too much? And did you ever have fake friends? What was your experience with them like.
I went through some mental health stuff and ended up dropping out of school for a bit. My friends were supportive in their own way, but never really asked why. I didn't mind that, it's not really their job to fix me.
One day I was kinda struggling and at a point where I just wanted to die, and I told one of them. First time I'd ever opened up like that. She said she'd pray for me and left me on delivered. After that I just kind of stopped venting to her.
My other friend already knew I was struggling, she'd give advice but nothing I hadn't already heard before, and she used to stick up for me when people talked crap, so I did appreciate her. But after I dropped out, we just naturally drifted, calls got less frequent, texts got shorter. I know she was busy with school too, so it wasn't all on her.
When I’d ask to hang out, they’d say they were busy but then post them hanging out with other friends on their story. They also never came to my birthdays, they said they were busy but again, I saw them posted up with other friends. They'd also talked crap about me before, multiple times actually. It used to bother me a lot, but after a while I just kind of got used to it.
Now that I've graduated, it feels like we've drifted even more. And it's a little awkward since we still live in the same town and run into each other sometimes.
Anyway, are my friends fake, or am I just reading into it too much? And did you ever have fake friends? What was your experience with them like.
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Why does everyone want to die? No, that’s not it. Nobody actually wants to die. What they want is for the pain to stop, and somewhere along the way, “I want the pain to stop” got twisted into “I want to die.” Those aren’t the same thing. Not even close.
I’ve watched so many people, young people especially, throw those words around like they weigh nothing. Like saying “I want to die” is just another way of saying “I’m tired” or “this sucks.” It’s not a light sentence. It’s not a punchline. Words like that land on people. They spread. And when someone hears it enough times, said carelessly enough times, it stops sounding like a cry for help and starts sounding like an option.
And then there are the ones who go further, who tell people to just do it, like life is something you can return once you’re bored of it. Like intolerable is the same as impossible. It’s not. Some things in life are genuinely brutal. Nobody’s denying that. But brutal isn’t the whole story, there are still things that make it bearable. A song. A person. A morning that doesn’t feel as heavy as the one before. You don’t need a grand reason to keep going. Sometimes “I’ll see what tomorrow looks like” is reason enough.
When you’re young, your brain lies to you. It tells you this feeling is permanent, that this version of unbearable is forever. It’s not. Life can feel like drowning, like you can’t breathe, like you’ve stopped being a person and become just a mess of emotion. But that IS being human. That’s the deal. Nobody gets to skip the hard parts and keep the rest.
So, do you need a reason to live? No. You don’t need a five year plan or a purpose statement. Life is actually more interesting without one. It’s consciousness. the fact that you’re aware, that you get to feel and think and connect to something outside yourself. That awareness is the whole point. As long as you’re conscious, there’s something left to lose, and something left to gain.
The past is just a memory now. The future hasn’t happened yet, it’s still imaginary, still yours to shape. So keep imagining it. Work toward it. Look at your life from an angle you haven’t tried yet. It’s beautiful if you let it be.
So I’ll ask again, but for real this time, why does anyone think giving up is the answer? It isn’t. It never was. The only way to die painlessly is to wait for your time to come and live life without regrets.
I’ve watched so many people, young people especially, throw those words around like they weigh nothing. Like saying “I want to die” is just another way of saying “I’m tired” or “this sucks.” It’s not a light sentence. It’s not a punchline. Words like that land on people. They spread. And when someone hears it enough times, said carelessly enough times, it stops sounding like a cry for help and starts sounding like an option.
And then there are the ones who go further, who tell people to just do it, like life is something you can return once you’re bored of it. Like intolerable is the same as impossible. It’s not. Some things in life are genuinely brutal. Nobody’s denying that. But brutal isn’t the whole story, there are still things that make it bearable. A song. A person. A morning that doesn’t feel as heavy as the one before. You don’t need a grand reason to keep going. Sometimes “I’ll see what tomorrow looks like” is reason enough.
When you’re young, your brain lies to you. It tells you this feeling is permanent, that this version of unbearable is forever. It’s not. Life can feel like drowning, like you can’t breathe, like you’ve stopped being a person and become just a mess of emotion. But that IS being human. That’s the deal. Nobody gets to skip the hard parts and keep the rest.
So, do you need a reason to live? No. You don’t need a five year plan or a purpose statement. Life is actually more interesting without one. It’s consciousness. the fact that you’re aware, that you get to feel and think and connect to something outside yourself. That awareness is the whole point. As long as you’re conscious, there’s something left to lose, and something left to gain.
The past is just a memory now. The future hasn’t happened yet, it’s still imaginary, still yours to shape. So keep imagining it. Work toward it. Look at your life from an angle you haven’t tried yet. It’s beautiful if you let it be.
So I’ll ask again, but for real this time, why does anyone think giving up is the answer? It isn’t. It never was. The only way to die painlessly is to wait for your time to come and live life without regrets.
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What’s the most overrated manhwa in your opinion? And don’t just say the same 5 manhwa we’ve all heard before.
Imo the forgotten fields, unsleep, red thread quest, (as much as I enjoyed it I have to say it was underwhelming), and melting point are overrated. (Don’t shoot me)
Imo the forgotten fields, unsleep, red thread quest, (as much as I enjoyed it I have to say it was underwhelming), and melting point are overrated. (Don’t shoot me)
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What actually makes a story “well written” to you? I’ll read something that’s objectively kinda messy, but something about it still allures me and I rate it high, even when other people write it off as bad. So what’s your bar for well written? And if a story isn’t well written, why does it still pull you in anyway?
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Genuine question, why are people racist or homophobic? I really don't get it. I know some people point to "statistics," but I don't think race or ethnicity determines whether someone's a good person, a bad person is just a bad person, regardless of background.
Is it some kind of moral-superiority complex? There's a saying that fits, "a society of sinners judging others for sinning differently." So genuinely, what do people even get out of being racist or homophobic?
When I see someone of a different color walking down the street, I don't think "ew, they're this or that." I really don't get it, and honestly I'm kind of confused. I have a hard time understanding things and emotions sometimes, but genuinely, what's wrong with having a different skin tone, or being LGBTQ?
I know certain skin colors are treated as a beauty standard in certain countries, and I've heard some people are racist because certain ethnicities or races don't fit those standards. But I think beauty standards are idealistic and nonsensical, I genuinely believe everyone is beautiful in their own way. I think people care too much about what others think. The only way to truly know whether you're attractive is by forming your own perception of yourself. If you think you're ugly, you're ugly. If you think you're beautiful, you're beautiful. Nobody can deem someone else attractive or unattractive, because beauty is subjective, everyone has different views and opinions. But still, I really don't get it, what's wrong with being a different ethnicity or sexuality? What’s your opinions and thoughts on this.
Is it some kind of moral-superiority complex? There's a saying that fits, "a society of sinners judging others for sinning differently." So genuinely, what do people even get out of being racist or homophobic?
When I see someone of a different color walking down the street, I don't think "ew, they're this or that." I really don't get it, and honestly I'm kind of confused. I have a hard time understanding things and emotions sometimes, but genuinely, what's wrong with having a different skin tone, or being LGBTQ?
I know certain skin colors are treated as a beauty standard in certain countries, and I've heard some people are racist because certain ethnicities or races don't fit those standards. But I think beauty standards are idealistic and nonsensical, I genuinely believe everyone is beautiful in their own way. I think people care too much about what others think. The only way to truly know whether you're attractive is by forming your own perception of yourself. If you think you're ugly, you're ugly. If you think you're beautiful, you're beautiful. Nobody can deem someone else attractive or unattractive, because beauty is subjective, everyone has different views and opinions. But still, I really don't get it, what's wrong with being a different ethnicity or sexuality? What’s your opinions and thoughts on this.
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What are some controversial opinions/takes you have?
Here are mine:
Take 1: People who respond to criticism of taboo themes with “just don’t read it” or call you “woke” are being just as entitled as they accuse critics of being. Comments are open so people can discuss and critique, by that logic, if you don’t like the criticism, just don’t read the comments. It’s also weird how personally some of these people take it, getting angrier than the actual criticism, almost like they feel called out (and given their profile/reading history, they probably are). Another dodge is “you’re not criticizing the story, you’re criticizing the readers”, but if the story is something like shotacon, yeah, criticizing readers who defend it is fair. Continuing to read something doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to feel uncomfortable with it.
Take 2: That said, not everyone who reads dark/taboo media is bad or endorses it. “Well you read dark stuff too” isn’t the gotcha people think it is, some people seek out dark themes for representation (as an SA survivor, that matters to me), others just like the psychological genre and are still allowed to critique what it gets wrong.
Bring back media literacy. Stop harassing people for having opinions.
What are your opinions/takes? (=・ω・=)
Here are mine:
Take 1: People who respond to criticism of taboo themes with “just don’t read it” or call you “woke” are being just as entitled as they accuse critics of being. Comments are open so people can discuss and critique, by that logic, if you don’t like the criticism, just don’t read the comments. It’s also weird how personally some of these people take it, getting angrier than the actual criticism, almost like they feel called out (and given their profile/reading history, they probably are). Another dodge is “you’re not criticizing the story, you’re criticizing the readers”, but if the story is something like shotacon, yeah, criticizing readers who defend it is fair. Continuing to read something doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to feel uncomfortable with it.
Take 2: That said, not everyone who reads dark/taboo media is bad or endorses it. “Well you read dark stuff too” isn’t the gotcha people think it is, some people seek out dark themes for representation (as an SA survivor, that matters to me), others just like the psychological genre and are still allowed to critique what it gets wrong.
Bring back media literacy. Stop harassing people for having opinions.
What are your opinions/takes? (=・ω・=)
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I don't think about this enough, but every so often it hits me, I'm just walking around, breathing, thinking, and none of it takes any effort. My heart's been beating all day and I haven't given it a single thought. We just get to exist like that's a normal thing to be handed.
And then there's the other part, all of us are separate people, each one built out of a completely different set of experiences, and somehow we still sit down and talk to each other about what we believe. Argue about it. Debate it out loud, in public, like it's nothing.
I could listen to people go back and forth on psychology or philosophy for hours. Not because I'm looking for a winner, I don't think there usually is one. Most of the time nobody's actually right or wrong, they're just standing in different places looking at the same thing. I don't find that discouraging. If anything it says something decent about people, that there's no one correct way to live, and we still manage to understand each other most of the time anyway.
I just think it's worth noticing sometimes how strange it is that we get to be here at all, thinking, walking, talking to each other, and most days I don't even register that.
Anyway, what do you think? Am I overthinking this or does anyone else feel this way too?
And then there's the other part, all of us are separate people, each one built out of a completely different set of experiences, and somehow we still sit down and talk to each other about what we believe. Argue about it. Debate it out loud, in public, like it's nothing.
I could listen to people go back and forth on psychology or philosophy for hours. Not because I'm looking for a winner, I don't think there usually is one. Most of the time nobody's actually right or wrong, they're just standing in different places looking at the same thing. I don't find that discouraging. If anything it says something decent about people, that there's no one correct way to live, and we still manage to understand each other most of the time anyway.
I just think it's worth noticing sometimes how strange it is that we get to be here at all, thinking, walking, talking to each other, and most days I don't even register that.
Anyway, what do you think? Am I overthinking this or does anyone else feel this way too?
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Im larping lookism, solo leveling, that one anime with the stairs guy, and pretty much everything on my reading list. (also majority of bwats work)