#Becoming the Obsessive Male Lead’s Ex-Wife

[fictionallyhappy]

Comparison for fun 😝

Manhwa

~ Chapter 1 — 22 ~

𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚊 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝, 𝙸'𝚖 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝 (𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚠 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚢 🙃)

𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚑𝚠𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚌𝚞𝚣 𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚔-𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 - 𝙸 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎~

[waaanderingluna]

🥀 𝕭𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕺𝖇𝖘𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖊 𝕷𝖊𝖆𝖉’𝖘 𝕰𝖝-𝖂𝖎𝖋𝖊

[webtoonscreenshots]

Becoming the Obsessive Male Lead’s Ex-Wife, by Honey-Ginger, HaDam, and Perzel

[anrisimps]

Mpreg??? In my shoujo manhwa???? I'd pay to read it😭💀

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 1

Propaganda Under Cut

Alana Bloom

she kissed will graham in s1 and dated hannibal in s2 so you can imagine how bad the fandom is to her. fun fact she's in a canon lesbian relationship now tho <3

The show literally does the yaoi treatment of victimisation for the benefit of the male leads to her. And then the fandom mistreats her

I'm not sure if this even counts but...Literally a victim of Yaoi along with several other characters in-series, but she got it almost the worst. The entire show is just people dying because the two male leads are OBSESSED with each other and can't be normal about anything. Alana Bloom, actual PhD of psychology and consultant to the FBI, got kissed by one guy, fucked and fed people-meant by the other, and pushed out a window by the murder husbands' forced-surrogate daughter. Like. Actual victim of several crimes caused by yaoi. She's probably one of the few examples of a Yaoi Victim overcoming and evolving past her yaoi-related trauma into a stronger person/character, though: She gets an entire character overhaul and a hot, millionairess for a wife. She kills a man with an eel. She becomes head of the BSHCI, effectively putting her in complete power over her jackass cannibal ex-bf. She does quite well. Unfortunately, the rest of her screen time is spent trying not to get killed in the ongoing fallout of Hannibal and Will's fucked up courtship, but hey. Can't have everything. I don't even know if I'm saying anything valid here: the fandom loves her, but I supposed her position outside of the Hannigram relationship relegates her to a non-subject in a lot of Hannigram-focused fanwork. She's an 'obstacle' to their relationship only in the sense that Will had a crush on her once that went nowhere and Hannibal started an actual relationship with her SPECIFICALLY to piss off Will. I guess she's also a more literal obstacle as Hannibal's jailer and Will's friend who's constantly pointing out to him that Morals exist and he should try having some of those, maybe.

Gwen

She stands in the way of Merthur, by far the most popular ship in the fandom. I haven’t seen it as much in recent years, but back in the days of fanfiction.net she got slut shamed so badly for having been romantically interested in three of the male characters over the course of the show, which is just... normal straight woman behavior, meanwhile Merlin crushed on pretty much every woman who even looked at him in the early seasons of the show and got no hate for that whatsoever. I barely even read Merthur fics (not because it’s m/m, just because certain aspects of their relationship don’t appeal to me) but the “Gwen is a slut” attitude was so pervasive across the fandom, even fics that weren’t explicitly anti-Gwen would “jokingly” call her a slut. I even saw a few fics demonizing her for having an affair with Lancelot despite the fact that SHE WAS ENCHANTED when that happened, and surprise surprise, Lancelot (who was also under the influence of magic) got none of that hate, and neither did Arthur, who got enchanted to fall in love with multiple women over the course of the show.

Canonically Arthur Pendragon's love interest and an important and interesting character in the show who's completely shoved aside and ignored in favour of the medieval bbc yaoi ship. At best they put her and Morgana in Lesbian Timeout (ie make them get together and then reduce them to wingwomen at best because god forbid we focus on the medieval bbc yuri). Justice for Gwen right now!

She is prince Arthur's love interest (eventually wife). Arthur is MADLY in love with her. He tells his tyrannical father he would give up his crown to be with her (she's a servant in the series). He forgives her cheating on him with Lancelot (!), which in the show is caused by an evil enchantment, but the characters never find out about it. He chooses her time and time again. His love for Gwen is literally never put into question. Many fans insist to this day that there was no chemistry between Gwen and Arthur compared to Arthur and Merlin. Arthur isn’t even particularly nice to Merlin most of the time! The funny thing is that Merlin himself ships these two so hard and does everything he can to help them get together!! Gwen & Arthur are adorable and too many fans were drunk on the yaoi fumes to see it. ARTHUR WAS A SIMP FOR GWEN.

[moltensmusings]

About to ramble for a bit about a different series I read a bit, fell off of, and recently fell back into:

Now from the title I know people are going to be giving it a sideways glance, far. I will warn that in the second chapter someone attempts to sa the female lead, nothing happens, and nothing like it happens again. But I do want the warning there in case someone is surprised by it.

But also it's so insanely good I need to talk about it. Long ramble under the cut:

So the story follows Reinhardt Lincke only child of a Marquess who loved her unconditionally. She's in a marriage of convince to her loathsome husband, the crown prince, who she'd been engaged to since they were kids.

However following him making decisions to please his mistress that cause a rebellion, he disobeys the order from his father the king to go and quell the people. Instead commanding Reinhardt's father in his place, her father going with the agreement that once things finish, the prince will ask for a divorce. Her father dies in the war and while sobbing over her fathera casket the prince asks for the divorce he promised.

For 15 years the female lead agonizes over the loss of her father and her anger at her ex-husband, vowing that if time were to rewind she would get revenge. So when time resets to the moment she heard the request for the divorce, while the prince tries to negotiate what she'll get, she simply does what anyone would do:

When asking for that doesn't work she takes the next best course of action:

Obviously she gets imprisoned and eventually banished to her mother's old territories after having her father's stripped from her. Something done with orders from the king because he's aware of what mess his son has brought.

To the north she goes where she meets with a much younger, much more unintimidating, future knight of her husband who was known as a mad dog. Limited on staff she decides to help him shape up into a more useful tool for her and her revenge. She's not a warrior herself, but she'll use every other warrior she can.

Now to note: the male lead is 16 when they meet, the female lead is 24. There's a lot of mugginess when it comes to romance. It's messy, questionable. And I'm about to get into spoilers but if you go into this, know no one in this comic is a good person. I do beg you to read it though because it's so very very good. You can read it officially on tappytoon.

More art:

So first, the female lead actively avoids a romantic relationship with him, most of their time is spent apart when he gets separated and sent to war for 3 years after a handful of months knowing her. But the male lead has an obsession with earning her love. He'll do anything for her and she needs that type of person following the death of one of the only people she had left.

The manga is dark. The romance isn't sweet or cute, the female lead only agrees to a romance because she feels like she messed up the male lead so badly that she owes it to him to give him love at first so that someone could love him. He doesn't tell her that, in fact he's fine how he is and simply is happy to exist the way he does, but she believes she's the reason he ended up how he did. The male lead views her like his goddess and he's willing to dive into the pits of hell and be utterly depraved, hurting himself if it means she would even deign to think of loving him.

She wants the head of her enemy, and he is willing to bring it to her.

And never once are we given a moment to want her to have mercy on the prince, but it also doesn't feel like it's forced. We feel sympathy for the Mistress, even if she's a terrible person we understand she's a victim who hurts others.

Now for current spoilers:

It's also revealed the male lead has gone back in time, he has memories of being used and abused by the Mistress of the prince who becomes his second wife. He loathes her and wants her dead so his interests align with the female lead. He even still manipulates her and pledges his loyalty to the royal family just to win back the body of fl's father.

He brings her the body of her ex-husband after he dies and goads her into mutilating the body because he came to love her after finding out how much brutality she could have in her.

And then immediately following this she sleeps with him for the first time while still covered in the blood of her ex-husband.

This series is dark, twisted. Everyone in it is some brand of horrible and we know that. But it never pretends it's anything different. From chapter 1, you are aware the female lead is willing to destroy.

[maleyanderecafe]

Did you read To Melt Your Frozen Heart? It's an interesting story, the male lead is really cute and nice, the FL is badass but also has suffered a lot and the emperor there is the villain and a possessive and obsessive yandere.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter ^.^

Man, you really got me on this webcomic- I think I liked this one way more than I was suppose to, haha. How did you know that cute male leads and cool female leads are my weakness? The art and story are pretty good too and I love the different expressions all the characters make. The yandere in this one is one of the two main villains of the story and while the story mostly focuses on the two main leads, he does pop up time and time again.

The story is about Adrian, the bastard child and current leader of Velkra, trying to find himself a wife to protect his land. He doesn't want to marry someone who will take advantage of his position and take over his country and decides to give himself to Frey, the wolf of the battlefield, in the hopes that both the emperor and her will reject him. Since he's only really marrying so that his country will be safe until his brother, the legitimate heir comes back, he doesn't really think too much about it. The emperor is enraged when he hears that Adrian wants to marry Frey, but before he is able to reject him, the princess is able to manipulate the emperor into getting the two married. Adrian is brought to Frey and to his surprise, she agrees to marry him, as it seems that Adrian has a similar voice to her ex-fiancee. Adrian starts to live at the castle, wondering how he can be useful to Frey and decides to decorate. He finds a portrait of her former fiancee that looks strikingly similar to him. He goes out into the nearby town to find that the people there are afraid of Frey, as they often see bodies hanging outside of the castle. Determined to show that Frey is kind, he hires a bunch of people from the town into the castle. During this time, the emperor starts to grow angry that Frey has accepted Adrian as his fiancee and decides to put a hit on Adrian to take away everything she has (so that she is forced to come back to him). We find out that Frey has been in kahoots with the princess who manipulates her into believing that Adrian will betray her and that she will never be loved. As a result, Frey becomes cruel towards Adrian and even tries to divorce him, but Adrian is too in love with her and refuses, trying even harder to make her happy. Many assassination attempts on Adrian make Adrian want to learn how to protect himself with sword fighting, and although he's not very good at it, he is able to protect himself more. Adrian is able to learn of Frey's past through a children's book: how Frey was a warrior who fell in love, but the emperor was jealous and killed not only her fiancee but also caused her blindness. Because Frey refused to be with the emperor, he also locked her up in a castle and was able to create rumors about her so no one would go near her. Adrian is decides to create his own fairy tale book to give to children about how Frey is actually a good person. While he's giving out his books, he finds a necklace from his family- an indication that his brother has returned and that he no longer has to be married to Frey. Adrian asks Frey to divorce him as he knows that he's being a burden to her and that he no longer needs to be married to keep his country safe. During this time, the emperor comes to talk to Frey and threatens to kill everyone in the castle if she doesn't comply. The last current chapter is about the princess and her steps on taking revenge on the emperor.

First of all, I really love Adrian and Frey. Adrian is a sweetheart who deserves the world because even though he's pretty useless in terms of both position and strength (since for position, he's essentially only marrying to prevent his country from being taken over until his older brothers come back) but he's for sure the heart of the story. He has an extremely devoted attitude towards his beloved Frey, even going out to hire people for the castle, decorate and make a children's story so that Frey will not be feared. He constantly gives gifts to her even after she pushes him away (such as making a snowman and baking cookies for her) and is enthralled with any affection Frey gives him. Overall, too sweet for this world and though he has his flaws he very much so loves Frey. Frey on the other hand is a hardened warrior who was dealt an unfortunate hand. She was blinded and banished, got her fiancee killed and forced to work under the emperor all because she didn't love him back. As a result, she's been pretty distant towards others and initally the reason why he accepted the marriage in the first place was because Adrian sounded like her former fiancee, but as the story goes on she begins to get closer to him. She tries to push him away by divorcing him and generally being mean, but Adrian does his best to make her happy and she just can't do it. Plus, you know cool swords lady, I mean what do you want from me.

For the yandere himself, he's one of the big bads of the story, but I think his sister, the princess is much worse. While the emperor himself is what set the catalyst of everything to happen from banning Frey to putting a hit on Adrian, the princess is the one who manipulated both Frey and the emperor all so she can take the crown and kill the emperor. I kind of like that the yandere isn't the biggest villain in the story and is sort of being used by the sister to get what he wants while also being a threat to both her and Frey. The emperor himself seems to be enamored by Frey, though I'm not exactly sure why - the sister believes it's out of possessiveness but he seems to be firmly against it. That being said, he did kill pretty much all of their other siblings, so really who knows. The side characters are all interesting as well, and I feel bad for Adrian's servant- the poor guy just wants his master to not do such dumb stuff- and everyone around Adrian is sort of just tired of Adrian being such a love struck dummy, which I find kind of funny.

So yeah, I really liked this one. It's sweet, the story is pretty good, the art looks great and I like the relationship with this one. Thank you!

[baeshijima]

ahhhhh miss sophie, do you have manwha recommendations? and where to read them???

I don't want to read it in probably illegal sites cus I'm scared that I might get a virus ;-;

i have.... a lot....

i'll start with sites since theyre easier ;w; personally i use webtoon app, 1stkissmanga.io, and harimanga.com !! the sites are safe compared to a lot of other ones i have encountered, and in my opinion they have more variety in terms of manhwas available ^^ if needed u can use an ad-blocker but i havent really encountered a pop-up but i would recommend it just in case !! webtoon is pretty self explanatory but they dont have as much variety since the stuff is posted directly there !!

for recs, i will start with the ones i love and always go back to on webtoon :D

leveling up my husband to the max

act like you love me!

happily ever afterwards

omniscient reader

my younger brother's friend

the first night with the duke

tricked into becoming the heroine's stepmother

from a knight to a lady

the remarried empress

my irresistible ex

your throne

men of the harem

wished you were dead

sixth sense kiss

there's a mix of genres here, but primarily romance bc thats all i read JGHBKS (tho omniscient reader is action but in my top manhwas ~~)

now onto the super long list of my favs u can find on other sites/the sites i mentioned earlier :DD

the abandoned empress

beware the villainess

survive as the hero's wife

dr elise: the royal lady with the lamp

a villainess is a good match for a tyrant

the reason why raeliana ended up at the duke's mansion (they recently announced an anime adaptation for this and hhhh im so excited ><)

who made me a princess

business proposal (it has a kdrama which a lot of ppl know it for, but personally i prefer the manhwa ;w;)

father, i don't want to get married!

the way to protect the female lead's brother

the villainess reverses the hourglass

inso's law

death is the only ending for the villainess

kill the villainess

a way to protect the lovable you

how to get my husband on my side

i'm stanning the prince

i tamed a tyrant and ran away

a false confession

the princess imprints a traitor

charlotte has five disciples

actually, i am the real one

becoming the villain's family

i became the wife of the male lead

a stepmother's marchen

today, the villainess has fun again

if you touch my brother and you're all dead

the strongest characters in the world are obsessed with me

the villainess is a marrionette

i found a husband when i picked up the male lead

how to hide the emperor's child

princess' doll shop

a tyrant's only perfumer

a symbiotic relationship between a rabbit and a black panther

i became the male lead's mother

i'm only a stepmother, but my daughter is just so cute!

my in-laws are obsessed with me

the bad ending of an otome game

untouchable lady

the lady wants to rest

my husband hides his beauty

the villainess needs a tyrant

limited-time extra

i didn't mean to seduce the male lead

i will take responsibility for the welfare of the male lead

[obelians]

𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐇𝐖𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓

a regularly edited list of all the manhwas i have read, am reading, dropped, or am planning to read. this serves as a post for me to keep up with my reading list as well as a recommendation guide for anyone looking to read more!

i usually prefer historical fantasy romance (esp villainess/strong FLs) so that’s what this list mostly consist of

last updated. 23 / 11 / 2021

* = faves

COMPLETED.

as you wish, prince

devil number 4 *

doctor elise *

ellin’s solhwa

empress from another world

la dolce vita di adelaide

light and shadow

miss not-so-sidekick

my fair footman

ooh la la

oh! holy!

secret alliance

something about us

survive as the hero’s wife

the abandoned empress

the evil lady’s hero *

the lady with a mask

the maid and the vampire

the reason why raeliana ended up at the duke’s mansion *

the villain’s savior

this witch of mine *

unholy blood

virtues of the villainess

what it takes to be a villainess

CURRENTLY READING + ALL CAUGHT UP.

action / supernatural

boss in school

doom breaker

eleceed *

god of blackfield

i’m a martial art villainess, but i’m the strongest

kill the hero

mercenary enrollment *

nano machine *

omniscient reader’s viewpoint *

return to player

solo leveling *

sss level suicide hunter *

surviving romance

the advanced player of the tutorial tower

the great mage returns after 4000 years *

true education *

weak hero

modern setting

a bittersweet couple

another’s love story

back to you

inso’s law *

mom, i’m sorry

my younger brother’s friend

odd girl out

positively yours *

three brothers

today living with you

to love your enemy

true beauty

when you’re targeted by the bully *

your smile is a trap

historical fantasy

actually, i was the real one

a false confession

asmodian’s contract

a stepmother’s märchen *

a red knight does not blindly follow money

a villain is a good match for a tyrant

beware of the villainess! *

charlotte has five disciples *

chitra *

daisy: how to become the duke’s fiancée

deadly vs romance

death is the only ending for the villainess

father i don’t want to get married

honey i’m going on a strike *

how to be a dark hero’s daughter

i am the male lead’s ex-girlfriend

i became the male lead’s adopted daughter

i became the male lead’s mother

i became the tyrant’s secretary

i became the wife of the male lead

i became the wife of the monstrous crown prince

i don’t love you anymore

i didn’t mean to seduce the male lead

if you touch my brother, you’re all dead

i’ll be the matriarch in this life *

i’ll just live on as a villainess *

i’m only a stepmother, but my daughter is just so cute!

i’m stanning the prince *

i’m the ex-girlfriend of a soldier

into the light once again

i raised the beast well

i raised my childhood friend into a tyrant

is it a fortune or is it a woe?

i stole the male lead’s first night

i tamed a tyrant and ran away

it looks like i’ve fallen into the world of a reverse harem game

i will change the genre

kill the villainess

lamia orphe is dead

matchmaking baby princess

men of the harem

my husband hides his beauty *

my lord, the wolf queen

my sister picked up the male lead

my three tyrant brothers

please throw me away

pure white elizabeth

remarried empress

revenge wedding

roxana *

say ah, the golden spoon is entering

secret lady *

seduce the villain’s father

shadow queen

the black haired princess

the duchess with an empty soul

the emperor reverses time

the golden haired elementalist

the great wish

the lady and the beast

the lady wants to rest

the newlywed life of a witch and a dragon

the princess’ double life

the princess imprints a traitor *

the princess is evil

the princess pretends to be crazy

the stereotypical life of a reincarnated lady

the strongest characters in the world are obsessed with me

the villainess is a marionette *

the villainess lives twice

the villainess needs a tyrant

the villainess reverses the hourglass

the way that knight lives as a lady

the witch and the bull

this is an obvious fraudulent marriage

today the villainess has fun again

under the oak tree

untouchable lady *

villainess maker

what it means to be you

when the villainess loves

why are you doing this duke?

who made me a princess

youngest princess *

your throne *

DROPPED PERMANENTLY / TEMPORARILY.

action / supernatural / non-romance

max level returner

player who can’t level up

second life ranker

tomb raider king

romance

am i the daughter?

anyone can become a villainess

a way to protect the lovable you

beatrice

beware of the brothers

elskar

everything was a mistake

i became the ugly lady

i became the villain’s wife

i bid you adieu

i have no health

i love yoo

please don’t eat me

she’s hopeless

taming the lady

the archmage’s daughter

the detective of muiella

the monster duchess and contract princess

the princess’ spaceship

the tyrant’s first love

the tyrant’s only perfumer

the younger lead fell for me before the destruction

they say i was born a king’s daughter

yeonwoo’s innocence

your majesty, please don’t kill me again

ON MY READING LIST.

a queen’s law of survival

a witch’s hopeless wish

baby empress

black winter

circumstances of switching bodies

extras don’t want to be overly obsessed

finding camellia

i became the wife of a tragedy’s main lead

i met the male lead in prison

lout of the count’s family

one pair lady

saving the villain who was abandoned by the female lead

the lady’s law of survival

the twin siblings’ new life

the tyrant’s guardian is an evil witch

the villainess wears an idiot’s mask

valentine’s kiss

[fictionallyhappy]

⚜️ 집착 남주의 전부인이 되었습니다 ⚜️

Novel artstyle is still my favourite but Manhwa Erwen is Queen 😌💅🏻

Unlike Novel Erwen, Manhwa Erwen is goofy 😂👏🏻

**this household appreciate goofy people 😌✌🏻

[heavensickness]

Light Novels and Manhwas I'm Currently Reading Part 1

Under The Oak Tree 9/10

A medieval romance between Maximillian, a count's daughter and Riftan, a strong and brave knight with a low social status. Maximillian is a very shy girl who has no confidence in herself and has a stuttering problem, rooted in her abusive and neglected childhood. The story focuses on their relationship which starts off as a planned engagement (cold and almost hostile relationship) and evolves into true love as Riftan and Maxi get to know each other. Maxi also starts to gain confidence in herself and her abilities as she is away from her abusive father & she is now with a man who cherishes her. Character development is great and realistic, smut chapters are also good. The manhwa is at chapter 13 whereas the light novel is at chapter 114.

The Evil Lady's Hero / Villainess in Love 8/10

Isekai story where the protagonist wakes up as the villainess in the story she's been reading. The villainess is the male lead's ex-girlfriend and she is destined to get killed as she is hostile to the female lead in the story. The protagonist spends her life trying to stay away from the main leads as much as possible in order to avoid her death but one day wakes up with the male lead & realizes that they had a one night stand... The story is light-hearted, funny and very lovely overall. The villainess is very witty, bold and empathetic. The original female lead's obsession with her and the male lead's yandere-like affection toward her is still a mystery at this point though (I haven't read the light novel). The manhwa is at chapter 44.

Lucia 7/10

Lucia, who has prophetic dreams, has a disturbing and occurring dream about her future as the wife of an old, abusive man who will ruin her life eventually. She wants to take her future into her own hands and proposes to Duke Taran who's infamous for his cold heart and sexual promiscuity in order to escape from her terrible fate. Their marriage has an important condition: She will not fall in love with him. I started to get bored after a while because everything was going "too great" but the background story of the Duke is really interesting. The light novel is fully translated (I guess?) and the manhwa is at chapter 58.

It Looks Like I've Fallen into the World of a Reverse Harem Game 10/10

Isekai story where our protagonist wakes up as the villainess in an otome game. It seems cliche enough but one of the interesting things about this story is that the villainess can see the options and choices of the heroine. The villainess is a truly cruel and heartless character who takes men as her concubines and other horrible things she has done (before our protagonist possessed her body) unravels with the story. In order to survive in this game where she dies in almost all routes, she has to play multiple mind games with the heroine of the story. Mind games, spicy plot, characters with interesting personalities (and not only male leads too!), heavy themes, gorgeous art... I adore this manhwa. I wish I could find the light novel 😔 The manhwa is currently at chapter 33. (I'm reading it from mangadex and the translators are HILARIOUS)

Everything was a Mistake 6/10

After her death, the protagonist reincarnates as the villainess in a novel (yes isekai). In order to avoid her death, she befriends the male lead and tries to get on his good side. The strange thing happens after they become adults: The original female lead of the novel comes to her and says that the male lead is actually a vicious villain. So our protagonist messes it up by getting close to the ML in the first place. The ML really is an eerie person who can use black magic, read people's thoughts and brainwash them. However, our protagonist is the only person he truly cares about, so you can guess how it goes. Good story, nothing more nothing less. The light novel is very behind of the manhwa, which is at chapter 22 currently.

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Becoming the Obsessive Male Lead’s Ex-Wife, by Honey-Ginger, HaDam, and Perzel

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Toxic Men in TV Series who are the absolute worst.

(TW: R*pe and Sexual Assault)

While there are some men who seem to be interesting, let’s not deny the fact that there are most male characters who act like their “toxicity” is cool but honestly, it’s horrible and something not to root for. So here are the toxic male characters who are the absolute worst, excuse my misandry:

Kevin McRoberts - Kevin Can F**k Himself

We had to start somewhere from the bottom of the underworld. A recent entry on this list, Kevin is the lead character Allison’s husband who...let’s just say has the brain of a dumb frat bro who is extremely high on pot and hasn’t recovered since then. While most of the sitcoms in the past would portray these so-called goofy and dim-witted husbands as “big fun” and lovable, Kevin is not like that, at all. In this anti-sitcom nightmare, Kevin literally believes that the whole world revolves around him. He plans such stupid unrealistic schemes to seize the day, recklessly spends the savings on stupid irrelevant sports merchandises and doesn’t even let Allison have her own agency outside of his life. Plus he is so petty and spiteful to the point he destroys one good thing that any of the women in the series have, like Allison’s dream job and Patty’s love life. And that latter was because she didn’t bring him a burger! All of this makes him look less funny and more tyrannical. No wonder poor Allison got spurred into wanting to kill him.

Ross Geller - Friends

Ross may seemed like a “nice guy”, but let’s just agree it was a facade. Ross believes that he knows what’s best for the women he dates in the series and thinks he is superior and is always right about everything. He is seems extremely disturbed over the fact that his ex-wife, Carol is a lesbian and is jilted towards her current wife, Susan and snarks at the latter for it. And then there is her extreme control and jealousy towards Rachel, especially in her career. While Rachel is no saint either, Ross jumps to the conclusion that the man who got her a perfect job wants to sleep with her, then goes out of his way to humiliate and mark his territory on her and even if it’s revealed that the said guy has a girlfriend of his own, Ross still doesn’t abandon his theory, unless he believes that the guy is cheating on his girlfriend with Rachel. And then there is the fact that he joined his student girlfriend on a spring break just to have her all to himself, not caring about the fact that what if one of his students or colleagues would’ve seen him on TV with her and that could’ve put him in a huge scrutiny.

Joe Goldberg - You

The show is basically built around how toxic Joe is, but this didn’t stop him from having his own fanbase apparently, with most of them glossing over his actions. But Joe is not a dream boyfriend at all. Once he sees a woman in front of him, he immediately gets obsessed with her and believes she belongs to him and him only. And to achieve that, he stalks her, he checks everything about her, kills people he believes are harmful to her when he himself is the same and when the woman finds out about him and rejects him, he kidnaps and kills her and the cycle begins again.

Chuck Bass - Gossip Girl

What is it with the teen drama industry’s obsession with the “Bad Boy who can be redeemed with love” trope? Chuck Bass is “the bad boy” of Gossip Girl. If his attempted rape of Serena and Jenny didn’t give fans an indication that how deranged he is, his violent and emotional abuse of his girlfriend Blair cements him as this. He slut-shamed women around him, hit Blair once and even traded her for a hotel ownership and somehow he gets a happy ending with her at the end! What?

Nate Jacobs - Euphoria

Nate is a star quarterback of his high school football team and seems like he has it all, but underneath, he is fucking deranged. His untamed manly rage causes him to physically and emotionally abuse his girlfriend Maddy and blackmail Jules, who didn’t do anything wrong but just sleep with his father, which makes me think that Nate is blackmailing her into lying to the cops about his assault on Maddy when she wasn’t even there when it happened just because it’s fun for him. Honestly, I’d like to see the imagine Rue and Jules had of killing him become a reality someday.

Dawson Leery - Dawson’s Creek

Just because the show is named after him since he is the protagonist, doesn’t justify his actions. Dawson sees himself as some sort of a Nice Guy hero who believes he is entitled to everything. He has this extreme view on women and how they should fulfil his fantasies of his Rom-Com world. He is extremely critical of Jen when he finds out about her promiscuous past and tells her that she should be ashamed of herself for it, and gets jealous when his two best friends Joey and Pacey begin dating. And when he was briefly in the movie business, he was a rookie but was already a primadonna with the director and crew of the movie was working on and insulted a film critic for criticising his movie which was actually bad.

Kilgrave - Jessica Jones

Kilgrave is the main villain of the Marvel-Netflix series Jessica Jones. He becomes obsessed with the titular heroine when she breaks off from his mind-control. Before that, he spent years treating her as his sex slave and raping her constantly, which left her traumatised. He begins to stalker and believe it will be a “lover’s reunion” when he will see her again someday. He manipulates and brainwashes everyone around him to his whim and treats most women as objects but despite all that, sees himself as the good guy of the situation. Even after Jessica finally gives him his just desserts, he still haunts her everyday.

Fernando Vera - Mr. Robot

This spawn of satan is the reason why I decided to write this list in the first place. Where do I even start? He is first introduced into the series when he forces Shayla to go on a date with her and later rape her. This is what causes the misandrist vigilante Elliot to sell him out to the FBI and this apparently turns on Vera and moves his unhealthy obsession to Elliot. He has Shayla killed when he tricks Elliot into breaking him out of prison, then returns to have him all to himself by kidnapping his therapist Krista and forcing information out of her about Elliot so that he could “break him and build him back up”, like a fucked up version of The Taming Of The Shrew. He psychologically abuses Elliot into remembering being sexually abused by his father as a child and proceeds to gaslight him into thinking that he was just helping him. The huge problem with Vera is that he sees himself as some sort of Christian Grey who believes that his abuse towards both Shayla and Elliot is charming. Whenever someone failed his desires, he immediately gets bored of them and moves onto someone else, like when he got Shayla killed and moved onto Elliot. That’s why it felt so cathartic when Krista killed him.

Tate Langdon - American Horror Story

Apparently, he is Tate Langdon and he is...hot?? While most of the AHS fans glorified him due to his emo bad boy nature, let’s not forget the fact that he was a school shooter who murdered innocent students and staff and was in general possessive and toxic towards Violet. So no way he is boyfriend material!

Don Draper - Mad Men

Don Draper was the main protagonist of Mad Men. He was an advertisement and marketing executive who had a lot of vices and did a lot of horrible things such as cheat on his wife and treat almost every women and colleagues like crap.

Dexter Morgan - Dexter

While Dexter might seem like the serial-killer killer, there are a lot of things about him which are unadmirable. He gaslights those he is close to so that they could get off his back, obstructs evidence pointing out to him, captures those who didn’t even fit his victims like Doakes and caused the deaths of LaGuerta, Rita and finally his sister Debra. Yeah I think you should stay away from him.

Walter White - Breaking Bad

Aaah..the worst of the worst. Walter White is the protagonist of the series Breaking Bad. He first starts off as a pushover high school teacher who isn’t respected by anyone. When he gets diagnosed with Lung Cancer, he gets into the meth business so that he could support his family, but we all know that it’s not true. He relishes on the power and glory from being a drug dealer and then kingpin and because of that he ends up abusing both Jesse and Skyler, emotionally abusing and selling out the former to the sadistic Nazis and raping the latter several times. He is so petty and spiteful that he kills anyone insulting his ego, just ask Mike. And even after all this, he still claims that it’s all for his family. Like what?

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Round 1

Propaganda under the cut

Alana Bloom

she kissed will graham in s1 and dated hannibal in s2 so you can imagine how bad the fandom is to her. fun fact she's in a canon lesbian relationship now tho <3

The show literally does the yaoi treatment of victimisation for the benefit of the male leads to her. And then the fandom mistreats her

I'm not sure if this even counts but...Literally a victim of Yaoi along with several other characters in-series, but she got it almost the worst. The entire show is just people dying because the two male leads are OBSESSED with each other and can't be normal about anything. Alana Bloom, actual PhD of psychology and consultant to the FBI, got kissed by one guy, fucked and fed people-meant by the other, and pushed out a window by the murder husbands' forced-surrogate daughter. Like. Actual victim of several crimes caused by yaoi. She's probably one of the few examples of a Yaoi Victim overcoming and evolving past her yaoi-related trauma into a stronger person/character, though: She gets an entire character overhaul and a hot, millionairess for a wife. She kills a man with an eel. She becomes head of the BSHCI, effectively putting her in complete power over her jackass cannibal ex-bf. She does quite well. Unfortunately, the rest of her screen time is spent trying not to get killed in the ongoing fallout of Hannibal and Will's fucked up courtship, but hey. Can't have everything. I don't even know if I'm saying anything valid here: the fandom loves her, but I supposed her position outside of the Hannigram relationship relegates her to a non-subject in a lot of Hannigram-focused fanwork. She's an 'obstacle' to their relationship only in the sense that Will had a crush on her once that went nowhere and Hannibal started an actual relationship with her SPECIFICALLY to piss off Will. I guess she's also a more literal obstacle as Hannibal's jailer and Will's friend who's constantly pointing out to him that Morals exist and he should try having some of those, maybe

Maya Fey

OKAY SO She's definitely NOT the love interest coz she's like 16 n he's 24 or smth but in literally all fandom she's just... the wingwoman. that's all. EVEN WHEN SHE'S IN A LESBIAN RELATIONSHIP IT'S IN THE BACKGROUND N SHE'S SUPPORTING THE YAOI GROWN ASS MEN..... it's horrible... detestable... she's a main character... she has ARCS..... and yet.. her own most popular ship tag is just.. her n her gf as background yuri who are supporting and wingwomaning the fucking main guys. it's a tragedy. Maya Fey would make Phoenix Wright buy her burgers everytime he made her listen to his love problems and then she'd tell him that every complaint he makes will cost another burger. SHE WOULD NEVER BE SUPPORTING YURI.. 

Phoenix’s best friend and partner in solving crimes. She often gets shunted aside by the fandom, reduced to Phoenix/Edgeworth cheerleader and matchmaker. 

okay i wouldnt say shes exactly mistreated, shes pretty well liked in the fandom, HOWEVER shes always seen as like an accessory to wrightworth, her only role being to make jokes about how in love they are etc. i feel like a lot of people ignore her depth and backstory to just use her as a tool in wrightworth stories. she plays a very important role in the games as well and has been through a lot, and has always been helpful to wright, so she deserves to be more than the setup to a joke about wrightworth

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warning: this post is just me ranting about the writing of the naruto women for far too long

i honestly feel that one of the most frustrating/vaguely hilarious aspects of naruto is how naruto ended up being - and bear with me here - the best example of the extremely specific female archtype that kishimoto seemed to be obsessed with. 

like when you focus on sakura and hinata - arguably the most important female characters in the show as the two male leads’ respective end game love interests - you can break them both down into the same general mold:

- both devoted to the same boy their entire lives

- both are shown chasing after their crush in order to stand on “equal” footing (i.e. sakura’s “i finally caught up to them” and hinata’s “no longer chasing but standing by your side” mentalities)

- both suffer and try to overcome feelings of inferiority in their respective character arcs

and i want to be clear that while female characters who fit this mold aren’t usually my favorite thing it can definitely still work when written carefully and written well -  to be blunt i personally think both hinata and sakura are awesome character concepts and both had SO MUCH potential and i love their fanon interpretations but i feel that canonically they were poorly written, underdeveloped, and flat characters

most of their canonical character motivations revolve around their love interests - which really sucks because i would have KILLED for a deeper look at everything involving hinata and the hyuuga or even more about sakura’s development of her medical ninjustsu so much got skipped when it came to them which definitely didn’t help anything - that aside this is especially true in og naruto though to be fair - sasuke was still in konoha in og naruto and team seven was together for most episodes which made it especially prevalent in sakura’s case

the point is by the time shippuden came around it was extremely obvious that efforts were being made to improve the female characters - sakura now had much higher combat ability from the start of shippuden and, though she gets much less focus hinata is repeatedly shown doing brave acts and pushing herself to become stronger. and while i really loved the effort and it was definitely an improvement from especially sakura’s original character - it still fell flat to me.

sakura’s fight with sasori was perfect and a great way to revive her character but then she was pretty stagnant in a lot of the following arcs - i.e. injured in the reunion arc, not very important during the two saviors arc, her weird fake love confession during the assembly of the five kage arc, etc. - she constantly bounces between “now i’m strong” and “i still don’t measure up” making her character development - especially pre-war - virtually nonexistent because every step forward gets followed by a step back.

hinata is a bit more difficult simply because she’s such a minor character for so much of shippuden which is insane since she’s literally the protagonist’s future wife. regardless, looking at hinata’s big moments: her fight with neji in og naruto, blocking naruto from pain in shippuden, and the Smack during the war (there’s a few i’m missing i’m sure but those are really what constitutes her biggest moments to me during the meat of shippuden’s actual development phase - not the post war resolution phase) two of three of these moments precede her getting very heavily and soundly beaten which personally irks me - even if i don’t particularly like it i can see why and it makes sense to me she didn’t win the fight with neji or her pain confrontation and it definitely shows that she is brave and emphasizes the all-important devotion to her love interest aspect of her character BUT it’s also a little obnoxious that we never get to see her be REALLY victorious in her major moments.

so to sum up so far: sakura and hinata are both meant to be perceived as innovative and strong female characters but this perception doesn’t work in sakura’s case because she immediately repeatedly reverts back to the damsel in distress archtype and it doesn’t work in hinata’s case because the few strong moments she has are highlighted by failure.

and also the all important point that the majority of their “strong moments” are driven by their love interests - not a bad motivation except for the fact that that is one of their ONLY motivations

to the main point i’m trying to make: lets compare naruto (obviously take this with the understanding that naruto has a MAJOR advantage of having way more screen time and development as the titular character)

in regards to sasuke, naruto:

- is extremely devoted

- repeatedly chases after sasuke to match-up with him and improve

- and, especially in og, struggles with feeling inferior to sasuke

the context is a little different and the motivation behind some of the points changes between the two but it’s the exact same mold as sakura and hinata

the major difference between the two and the main reason that so many more people get frustrated with sakura’s devotion to sasuke and not naruto’s really boils down to development

sakura barely had her own character outside of loving sasuke and when she did, it immediately got downplayed in some way - just look at the war arc and her triumphant “i finally caught up to them” right before both sasuke and naruto essentially gain godlike powers, she then spends the war constantly distracted by sasuke even when fighting “sasuke isn’t worried about me at all” which really downplays her role.

on the flip side, even with his main goal of bringing sasuke back to the village, naruto has tons of motivation and character building outside of sasuke - ex. becoming hokage, gaining everyone’s acceptance, fixing konoha, living up to his parents/jiraiya’s expectations, bringing peace, protecting everyone he can, freeing the tailed beasts, etc. etc. you could go on forever the show is named after him after all.

we are told that sakura always chooses sasuke and nothing else about it but then we are told that naruto chooses sasuke despite everything else.

to sum up: the traditional female love interest that kishimoto wants to invent is the woman who is devoted. she puts the person she loves above everything else because she loves him. she’d do anything for that person even if it puts her at risk, etc. but at the end of the day there’s still the tired trait of still relying on the man in her life for certain things. and he doesn’t bother to expand characters like sakura and hinata beyond that. (great examples of characters who are almost completely separate from this mold are tsunade and temari - though one might argue about the way they were written designed to fit specific tropes for comedic moments - personally i think they manage to dodge that for the most part though)

with naruto and sasuke - naruto manages to fulfill every roll sakura is meant to in a much more elaborated and better way all without the curse of the female love interest that sakura and hinata bear. it’s hard to accept sakura and hinata’s “i’ll love you no matter what” when naruto is already actively outright doing that with sasuke. the roots of sakura’s feelings for sasuke, hinata’s feelings for naruto, and naruto’s feelings for sasuke are all exceptionally similar to one another which is what shoots kishimoto’s main romances in the foot - because it’s hard for them to measure up to the main “platonic brotherly” relationship he built between sasuke and naruto.

this post is obviously disregarding a lot of the Other really deep parts of sasuke and naruto’s relationship and some important points about the other women of naruto. also it’s important to think on the time period naruto and naruto shippuden were written in. we’re in a major incline period for improvement in how women are presented in fiction - just look at the difference of women between og and shippuden. obviously it doesn’t completely excuse anything but it’s a point to consider.

sorry for the rant and sorry if this is all really obvious to you or if it’s worded poorly, kinda just needed to word vomit my thoughts. i really like analyzing how women are represented in fiction and how the representations have developed over the years. i wrote a few essays about it for some of my courses and now i think about it all the time. obviously i’m not claiming this is how everyone should view these characters or anything i just had lots of my own thoughts about the entire situation and dynamics that i had to put SOMEWHERE. if you have any thoughts about it or points you wanna bring up feel free to do so i love fiction analysis a lot so i love hearing other people’s opinions

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Musicals (2) Masterlist

part one

Bliebe, Reste, Stay - cherryblossom-phil

Summary: Musical Theatre!AU; Dan’s call time is in exactly 42 minutes, but all he wants to do is stay in Phil’s dressing room and watch him put on makeup.

Don't Feed the Plant (ao3) - MissJanjie

Summary: A 'Little Shop of Horrors' based Phan AU. Phil is a poor orphan working in his adoptive aunt's run-down flower shop in London. After buying a suspiciously strange plant with a carnivorous appetite, Phil's life changes overnight, even bringing him closer to crush and coworker, a troubled and near destitute Dan Howell. Soon enough, though, Phil realizes that fame and romance comes with the ultimate price.

falsettoland (ao3) - confusednp

Summary: New York City—1979. All Phil Lester wants is a tight-knit family, even as he struggles to connect his ex-wife and child with his lover, Dan. Their lives become tangled together when the lesbians from next door give a grave warning: something bad is happening. As life becomes darker than anyone could’ve imagined, the eccentric family finds way to keep believing that everything will be all right.

Gotta Get An Upgrade (ao3) - your_starless_eyes

Summary: Phil notices Dan becoming more and more aloof and obsessive as the tour continues on. He ends up talking to a high school in New Jersey's resident "stoner" after a fatal mistake is made on stage.

My Heart Is Wherever You Are (ao3) - mr_benzedrine (nai_nodayo)

Summary: “I’m living the High School Musical dream.” Dan said and sat on a cemented block, fit for two. He didn’t really care if dust was getting on his ass and slacks, Dan didn’t have to impress anyone at that moment (or maybe he had).

Our Summer (ao3) - amclove

Summary: Boy meets boy at a party. Boy leaves said party and thinks he won't ever see boy again. Except he does, and at the last place he'd possibly imagine. Now he has to face up to the things he's been denying all these years, but can he do it?

Stage Lights and Sparklers (ao3) - husbants

Summary: When a friend from university asks Phil to direct his new musical on the West End, he is ecstatic. The only thing that would make him happier is if he got to direct musical sensation and actor, Dan Howell. As rehearsals begin, Dan and Phil realize that the drama might not end up being only on stage.

Theatre Class (ao3) - Star4545

Summary: Dan Howell is the new drama teacher with a classroom the size of a jail cell, students who won’t stop singing Hamilton, and the English teacher who won’t stop giving him bedroom eyes.

What a Glorious Feeling (ao3) - husbants

Summary: It's date night for Dan and Phil. After their meal, the shower outside begins to wash away their inhibitions and they're suddenly re-creating "Singin' in the Rain."

...Not well, but they're having fun.

Will you light my candle? (ao3) - BadBoyDeanAsf

Summary: A one shot based off of rents “Will you light my candle”

Yearning For The Fool It Called A Home - yuurisnice

Summary: Songfic based on the song Left Behind from Spring Awakening. Dan and Phil’s relationship isn’t healthy.

you’re gonna be my wound (ao3) - obsessive-fics

Summary: Dan and Phil are cast in their university’s production of Spring Awakening, as the two male leads. They hate each other. Until they don’t.