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[yaoigremlin]

In the House of the Damned | 망령이 부르는 저택

[vendetta06]

any yaoi recs? ^_^

Oh my god... Get ready because I've been keeping track of everything I've been reading this year and I've already surpassed 100 (there is something wrong with me!! 😭) Don't worry though, I'm only going to recommend the ones that were something to write home about. Also I read both Japanese, Korean, and Chinese because I'm greedy. So we're about to get multi-cultural.

Korean Yaoi's - Starting with these because the world building for these plots were SO addicting, original and mind blowing. (I'm also just really into toxic shit, so the first 5 are really toxic).

Blind Play - A sex worker pretends to be blind so he can steal from the rich. The next person he tries to scam is a serial killer.

Hwanghyeon Text (alternate title: The Words In Your Snare) - A police informant who can read minds meets someone he can't read at all.

Red Mansion - A lonely convenience store worker stalks his landlord, the landlord is weirdly into it.

Double Trap - A college student is in love with his roommate and hooks up with him, only for the roommate to not remember any part of it. (Really crazy, angsty, and hot)

Painter of the Night - In the dynasty era, a painter who specializes in erotica is hired by a noble to paint for him. Toxic, addicting, angst-filled whump.

Room Without Windows - A man wakes up with his leg amputated in a bunker. The world outside is not what he expected.

Cozy Obsession - A man gets isekai'd into an omegaverse yaoi novel, but since he's read this book before, he keeps making moves that changes the plot.

Comes In Threes - Funny as fuck, truly unhinged, all strange characters. The art is super expressive and funny.

Low Tide in Twilight - An omega in debt has to repay with his body. There's a lot of mixed reviews because of the dark topics but I thoroughly enjoyed the character development.

Killer Crush - A comedy about an awkward, cold blooded assassin who falls in love with a star.

Habibi's Rabbits (alt title: Cheeky Habits of my Rabbits) - A wererabbit shifter noble needs to search for a special wererabbit who pretends to be a pet for a woman.

My Guildmate Next Door - 2 neighbors unknowingly play the same game every night. Funny and awkward, but this one is reaaaaaally slow burn.

Honorable Mentions: Lost in the Cloud, Jinx, Backlight (all still addicting, but angst KILLS me).

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Japanese Yaoi's

10 Count - Fave of all time! A man with severe OCD meets with a therapist who's willing to help in more ways than one... 🤭

Sub-sama, Shitsuke no Jikan desu - Dom/sub verse. A clubowner is a sub pretending to be a dom, and his staff member is a dom pretending to be a sub.

Kabukichou Bad Trip - A host who could read minds meets his idol, and his idol only has inappropriate thoughts.

Therapy Game - A straight man wakes up in bed with another man. I liked this one because it actually went into LGBT issues and topics and the work it takes to try to make a healthy relationship.

Punks Triangle - A fashion student idolizes a punk model. He gets partnered for a class project with a clumsy classmate who he can't stop thinking about.

Discarding the Misfit Collar - 2 guys meet because the guy they were dating was cheating on the both of them.

Double Fake - Omegaverse detectives (I liked this one bc the informant really looks like Izaya Orihara 🤭)

Fake Fact Lips - Competitive rivals make a bet: who will fall in love with each other first?

A Love Too Captivating - The class president is the only one that knows that the school delinquent is a blushy crybaby.

I, a Kept Man, am the Pet of Two High-Spec Men - This one is just hot lmao

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Chinese Yaoi's

Kill My Love - A beta assassin has now retired, only to be captured by an alpha who's been obsessed with him.

19 Days - More like 19 years. This one is a classic comedy slice of life, I've been reading this since high school. 😮‍💨

Honestly, I could use a little more Chinese yaoi in my life. Lmk if any good recs!

[melodramatic-wallflower]

I’m sooooooo fuckin normal about this complete psycho

[smileeeyyy]

— ̶ ं  passion ║𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚑𝚠𝚊 ंᴮˡ ︴(fanart)

[random118x]

Underrated Manhwa that I am enjoying that maybe you should also read! Btw these are all on the webtoon app :)

1. Price is your everything! Gosh this is such a good slow burn revenge story. If you love revenge and a slow burn this one is for you. It’s not all about romance but an actual story of schemes and deceit.



2. Praesepe outside the cage! This one is such an interesting intake of a female lead in a video game setting and dying each time but now needs to find out who the secret male lead is. This is a story that you want to root for her and a certain character I won’t spoil. Also it has yandere elements if that’s your thing too!

3. To whom it no longer concerns! Yes another revenge story but this has music elements in it which is charming. A second chance at life of knowing who the bad guys are and getting that justice.

4. The villainess just wants to live in peace! This one is fun, the villainess wants to change her ways and not die at the end. It’s fun to see a character that has a backbone and is a badass!

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[alicehattera03]

Yandere! Cale would look like:

Ver: Self-Sacrifice type, aka Jiko-giseigata | (自己犠牲型)

He would sacrifice his everything for you. He'd protect you from the line of fire and lay down his life for you- even if you don't want him to.

"You can't leave me behind, we're supposed to go through this world together, through hell and back." He looks back at you, his shield sparking bright against the darkness and he smiles brokenly, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"That's what we promised, didn't we- my love?" and his shield shatters, the shield that was the hope of his citizens, and originally his own- because what use was it when he had found something other than money to love?

You.

"Cale!" your pained scream at watching him fall to his knees, the prideful, strong, ever beautiful man you loved coughing up blood as his broken arms shake at his side.

Cale's light breaths waver as you rush to his side and his eyes are quickly losing their mischievous twinkle. You cradle him in your lap, blood soaking through your clothes as you cry, trying to use your healing magic on him but he shakes his head weakly.

You don't stop trying, pale green enrobing him as he looks up at you with one thought on his mind. What look you would have when he eventually returned from the dead.

Of course he had a backup plan, how could he throw away his life when his love was still alive and well? All according to plan, he was dying in front of you and breaking your heart as he did.

Well, don't they say a broken heart lasts longer than a simple farewell?

Cale chuckles in his mind as his eyes closed and the last of your wails of his name echo in the darkness.

[asteriass]

The progression of the “Villainess” trope

Y'know, thinking about it, it's very ironic how a trope made to subvert one's expectations & give more depth to 1 dimensional villains in cliche novels by "humanizing" them more & providing their side of the story, eventually became oversaturated with cartoony villains & flat MCs. Thus, completely failing in its goal to "subvert expectations" as it too turned into mind numbing cliche, becoming the exact opposite of what the troupe initially aimed to achieved.

I am talking about "Villainess" series.

I remember seeing a twitter post a while back saying how a lot of the villainess stuff the authors & studios are putting out nowadays lack any sort of nuance when it comes to its characters. And how a lot authors simply switch the roles of the cast (Like: OG MC -> villain | OG villain -> MC) & call it a day. And I 100% agree with that.

This troupe kinda ended up becoming the dictionary definition of the saying, "You either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” lmao

What could've been an opportunity to write nuanced villains & morally ambiguous main characters, turned EXACTLY into the cliche it was pocking fun at.

In an attempt to reveal how the MCs of your typical cliche novels can also be in the wrong at times, flaws that the story & its (in-canon) fandom may purposefully ignore, the villainess stories ended up doing EXACT SAME thing EXECPT this time it's the "villains" doing it rather than the OG FL or OG ML of the “OG novel”. In an attempt to stop cliche villains from remaining cliche, while we did ended up getting slightly more nuance for the “OG villain” characters, in the process, the OG MCs turned exactly into those flat cliche villains.

Alot of villainess series poke fun at the troupes they themself use, but not in a satirical way.

So many villainess series poke fun at the OG novels for being problematic or stupid & the fandom of said novels basically ignoring its flaws & problems, only gushing over the OG FL. Which yea, is nice & all, but y'know... that's exactly what those villainess series do too. SO MANYY of them borderline have the FLs participating in literal slavery. & More often than not have a borderline colonizer ML. Not to mention the numerous which carry weird undertones of colorism, and many such other things. All the while, the fandom of these villainess series continue to ignore their glaring problems & flaws & instead just gush over the FL and ML.

And I'm not even saying this in a hating sort of way (well, aside from the series with issues of colorism, orientalism, etc). Moreover, this is all not to say that one can not enjoy such stories, because admittedly, there is indeed fun in just reading a simple and familiar story line. But this is all more me being intrigued by this trope’s almost ironic progression as companies rush their staff to produce something which they think will be able to ride the waves of the current trends, only for the vast majority to simply drown in a sea of mediocrity (with many even being canceled due to this)

[Though I mean, something as simple as villainess tropes won’t be the only one to go through this. Like a lot of Shakespearean works, a subversion of the classics & typical troupes back then, got turned into ones of those classics and by many are now considered cliche. And that's just scrapping the bottom of the barrel!]