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The fake-dating trope, because it's very difficult to do well. A common version has both characters secretly thinking, "They don't really like me...they're only doing this because of the arrangement." The conflict can disappear once the truth comes out. If the primary obstacle is simply "we're pretending," revealing the feelings can leave the stor......   reply

You're partly correct. Posting a direct link to pornography in a public comment section is different from someone reading BL/yaoi. The relevant issue isn't sexual content = sexual content; it's where it's being posted, and whether people who shouldn't be exposed to it can encounter it. Yaoi and literal pornography aren't identical. But yaoi covers......   reply

We work, eat, sleep, work again. We pursue goals, achieve them, and then develop new goals. We grow old. We repeat patterns. Eventually we die. From a grand perspective, our individual advancements may appear temporary, insignificant, and pointless. There may be no objective, ultimate meaning supplied—and yet we, as humans, can still experience ......   reply

Green/red flags aren't necessarily supposed to be 'personality conclusives' per sé, they're merely *indicators* of particular behaviors or characteristics. You can say "this character is a red flag!" while simultaneously acknowledging that they are complex or well-written. People can dislike morally objectionable characters even if they're well-wr......   1 reply

Escalate beyond the department head and ordinary appeal and situate everything into a bundle of evidence. Ask specifically for the decision to be reviewed by someone independent of the department, and attach a timeline with all of the evidence. Request a formal review by the university's senior academic/registry appeals body, and specifically ask ......   1 reply

Depicting something morally abhorrent in fiction is not the same thing as endorsing, eroticizing, or advocating it. "This work contains an incestuous relationship, therefore the work is inherently an endorsement of incest." A work can be about an incestuous relationship without being a pro-incest work, just as a novel can center a murderer withou......   reply

The overwhelming public consensus is that the university's handling of the case and the initial lack of criminal charges were severely inadequate. Although JaneDoe reported the incident to campus police in late 2024, no criminal charges were brought at the time. Her legal team pointed to significant flaws in how the initial investigation was condu......   reply

I believe people shouldn't confuse the author's intended meaning with the entirety of a work's possible meaning. "But if the author tells us what they meant, shouldn't that count?" Of course it counts as evidence. If George Orwell explicitly says what he intended 1984 to criticize, that is historically interesting and interpretively relevant. But t......   1 reply

Some gendered insults become culturally prominent without there being an equally popular inverse. "Pick-me" isn't a neutral categorical term with both a male and female version; it's just internet slang whose meaning was shaped by the conversations in which it became popular. Calling some guy a male pick-me would be intelligible, just not quite as ......   reply

A story can realistically portray people behaving badly, forgiving someone too quickly, avoiding consequences, or making irrational decisions. But by itself doesn't answer whether that portrayal is thematically coherent, or well written. We have to acknowledge that there's a difference between depicting realistic behavior and endorsing it. A chara......   reply

Not to be a nerd but this is actually a topic I consider myself relatively well-versed in! ~~~~~~~~~~ Having a thought about wanting someone else to fail does not mean that you genuinely want to hurt them, or that you're a bad person, or that you're incapable of being happy for other people. We have to make a distinction first!: 1. Having tha......   reply

I've only read through the existing chapters once, so I apologize if I'm overlooking nuances and implications! I personally have 2 theories as to what the author intends to represent Eurydice. First, I'd define the Eurydice role as: The person/thing Heejae cannot simply accept as lost, and therefore attempts to recreate, retrieve, preserve, or......   reply