i don’t listen to pretentious danmei readers bc i’ve been a danmei fan for six years now & have read hundreds of danmei novels but my top ten rarely change. im certainly not listening to ppl who proudly admit to only reading danmei & never touching even the spine of a classic.
not about this story in particular, but the genre of romance where the woman transmigrates into a BL and suddenly the male lead who was gay previously "turns" straight for her and his sexuality is never acknowledged again is one that i heavily have started to dislike these days
One of the worst qualities of western readers/watchers is that if you made something darker or more nuance than an average kiddieslop like bluey some people will start psychoanalyze you just because you disturb them a bit. Treating you like a potential threat to society
Genuinely feel like a lot of the aversion against dark or taboo topics being depicted in stories comes from a belief that you can prevent these bad things from happening if you server the root of these bad things but misunderstand that the root isn’t fiction, it’s humans
“proshippers move like Rapists” “proshippers are Nazis” you’re a priveleged bum fuck sitting at home saying rape and genocide is the same as shipping anime boys for online validation + headpats. you’ve never had a real problem and it shows