#hate the trope and hate how webtoon let it happen in an official webtoon -_-

[mutopians]

my deepest secret: emma was the culprit all along!

me: oh cool twist! she's such a great actor pretending to play innocent-

my deepest secret: it's because she has a split personality and doesn't know she's committing the crimes :) :) :)

me:

[solarbin]

Okay, I know it’s kinda late in the game to make reaction posts about WL but here I am with a considerable amount of feelings and thoughts at this point that I just wanna jot them down cause I’m hella infuriated and this should help me sort things out for myself. So, let's go, episode 9 under the cut. 

First things first, most of the scenes between these two have been what I’ve affectionately dubbed “watching a plank and a board,�� although I think I’d find a plank and board more interesting than them that’s beside the point I guess. Very rarely do I see them just... you know.. talk to spend time with one another and truly understand/get to know the other. Or, when they are shown talking, it’s always about exposition to further the plot or an argument breaks out so I fail to even see how they have any genuine chemistry at all, but I digress. (and lookie there, right by the end of this scene they’re arguing. Again. Not even playful bantering with each other, these two just bloody argue and make each other upset or cause the other to act childish. I just... If you’re gonna write a romance, try to make one that makes me at least give a crap, please.)

So, besides Hongbin’s character, the only other one I found enjoyable was this lovely woman. She’s so precious, I love her. She’s sassy and takes no shit which is just enjoyable to watch. I especially loved her logical conclusion that not everything has to be solved by magic, haha. Including that by rubbing it in a millennial’s face that all she has to do to find granny #2 is just to track down by her GPS location! LOL

//beleaguered sighs//  

Waiter Jaewook ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡

//Scoffs// I don’t know what I find funnier, the fact that the director gets jealous of a hired help that just happens to be the “love rival” (you “won” the girl’s heart, why are you being a bitch?) or the fact that the director helps out with the restaurant when HE’S THE REASON THEY HAVE TO WORK SO HARD FOR THE MONEY TO PAY RENT. Take a moment to let that sink in. He’s the BUILDING OWNER, they can’t take a day off anymore cause they have to pay that asshole rent when they originally owned the building but he acquired it in a roundabout way. I’m just.... does he not remember WHY they’re forced to work and never take a day off? Good job on continuity errors, writers.

Wow, what a--

Nevermind--he’s got it. (He’s right, you know.) 

I mean, not to go off on a tangent here, but obviously the (precious) granny hired Jaewook to help while she’s gone since we’ve already established that both grannies like him (I mean, who best to help out than a favorite customer and their favorite webtoon writer LOL). So, pushing the love triangle away for a minute, Chohong has no right to cast Jaewook’s help (and quite frankly, his livelihood since he needs the money) aside. Bad form, Chohong. This officially did it for me when it came to her character. I’ve legitimately stopped caring about her at this point. Like, just because of the circumstances, she rather treats the person who’s helping her and her family coldly and cruelly than to instead politely excuse him from work with his pay with grace and kindness. There is no reason to be a dick about it even if it puts you in an awkward situation over the fact you know that person has feelings for you while you’re techinically with someone else. 

SNORTS  (He’s right, you know.)

//beleaguered sighssssssss//

I hate over-possessiveness.

I don’t feel like putting a screenshot of the next scene, but might I say, I’m living for the secretary's savagery towards his boss, the renowned jerk. Because... ///whispers// he’s right, you know.

The guilt on her face is also relieving. Yes, you have the man you know that saved you from dying--not the CPR aspect since that couldn’t save anyone! LOL but his “kiss” did technically bring her back--and that loves you unconditionally but you actively push him out like a nuisance despite his viewpoint of acceptance towards someone who’s different from the norm! (Wow, that almost sounds like the chicken girl from moorim, funny that.) I remember reading a comment saying Jaewook always says the right things but in the end, he’ll lose for... reasons which is sadly the truth. Also, here’s the thing, I don’t like blaming female characters for things that shouldn’t be their fault, since I understand it’s hard to let down someone who feels something for you but you don’t return those feelings, but in these drama’s the female lead never properly addresses things so it’s on them for being a shithead towards someone that does care about them and I can’t stand that. 

Carrying on to the next scene where she gets upset at the director for casting out the thought of witch’s existing, like seriously.... what was she honestly expecting?! She clearly wanted to hear him say the exact same thing Jaewook did about acceptance but got a bucket of cold reality washed over her lol. Good. You deserve it.

//BELEAGUERED SIGHSSSSS//

I don’t have it in me to blame Hongbin on this one (or... Jaewook technically since this is a writing issue due to culture and systemic male entitlement) but I’m tired of toxic masculinity in kdramas. 

I’m going to address the elephant in the room.................. Lee Hongbin looks more comfortable cuddling a male than the precious Jin Kijoo. There, I said it. My EunwooxJaewon/Jin Kijoo stan heart is partly shattered. But I’ll survive knowing how effortlessly gay bin can be with his friendo Gongchan.

(I already commented on this but just quick recap) Was this really necessary? Did we have to really do this? Did my heart have to truly suffer? The answer is no to all the above. 

So the last part of this episode is dedicated to the second granny which was a better love story than this love triangle mess. Not to mention, way more exciting than the dry, bare-boned romance between the director and Chohong, which I find so laughable at this point. The director/producer of this series claimed they had phenomenal chemistry and I’m about to whip out a magnifying glass because... bitch where?????? 

Anyway, We’re fortunately at the home stretch! Thank god. After episode 10 is subbed, that just leaves us with two more episodes left! Next week shall be the end and hopefully, Binnie will get a different role that is less in this nature of trope-y-ness cause I’m just tired. 

Thank you to anyone that reads this :’) I hope my venting and commentary was entertaining at least. ;;;; I’ll probably make reaction posts to the last remaining episodes.

[herotheshiro]

ok so last night i read this webtoon called sometimes more like always which i found through IG lol and i went in w such low expectations that every decent writing thing it ended up doing literally BLEW ME AWAY. it’s almost like how i felt when i read the manhwa that summer for the first time which is seriously good and ppl should read it

but i also want to say that by no means does that mean that this is an extremely well-written comic. it’s an amateur comic and when you read something that’s published on a site like smackjeeves/webtoon/tapas/sometimes tumblr (i mention tumblr since i have read comics through it but there’s really only like 3 comics i’ve ever read through tumblr) you need to have very low expectations going in or else you will always be disappointed. like more high-end/official sites like lezhin and bomtoon i think you can have higher expectations for but the three i mentioned previously are for ppl who tend to be doing it as like a very low-key hobby (and it’s different from ppl who have actual specific sites for their comic like paranatural) ... although i do think this comic is pretty good for what it is, i think they write/reveal their plot points well specifically they do a good job w foreshadowing and having backstories/explanations that actually make sense based on what info you have of the characters at the time

some of the dialogue is pretty amusing and i like it but there’s also some dialogue that’s like this-is-the-shit-i’d-write-in-middle-school or where i’m like ‘... i don’t think this is how it works/i don’t think guys talk like this’ which is like natural i guess based on the fact that apparently this is the authors’ first BL comic and what i know of the authors through that one side ep where they introduced themselves (i.e. don’t identify as male). the reason i note gender is bc i don’t identify as male and i think that really affects how /i/ write dialogue bw guys ... my early stories w mostly male characters had absolutely horrendous dialogue and while i don’t think i’m that much better today tbh but oof

i’m assuming it’s (at least) partly inspired by korean manhwas bc 2 of the mains are korean and have full korean names which i don’t necessarily have a problem w but i’m not 100% sure if the authors are white or poc and while i do believe that you don’t necessarily have to be a certain ethnicity/race to write a character well i’m always like ‘eh’ for white ppl writing poc characters.

i’m interested in xiao jian and silas’s story bc 1. you know i love side pairings more than the main 2. they’re friends to enemies (and eventually back to friends and then to lovers ya know) and i fucking love tropes like that so and 3. i like how they look together lmao. the main pairing is ok, i do like them individually as characters but i don’t think their relationship being developed that well so every time their relationship is the focus i’m like ‘ok chop chop let’s get back to xiao jian and/or silas’.

the latest update was really interesting though, i felt so bad for xiao jian’s crush getting outed but now i have a stronger theory for why silas hates xiao jian (i was afraid they were gonna do the homophobic route when silas was like ‘he’s not as innocent as you think’ to goeun (i literally had to search that up. i’m really bad at remembering korean names) and i was like ‘oh no they’re gonna make him homophobic’ but thankfully they’re not going that route. while it does happen irl i feel like it’s very overused in stories and i think it’s more interesting to do other conflicts) which is that silas was going out w someone previously and xiao jian (being his normal nice and polite self -- which was FORESHADOWED through mentions of how women seem to like how polite he is) was nice to the SO and so the SO broke up w silas bc they liked xiao jian. there are some flaws in this theory bc like for instance damn silas must’ve been a real asshole for the SO to drop him like that but i really think that’s where it’s going esp when silas was like ‘you have the NERVE to have a crush on me after what you did’ so it has to be abt a relationship or something. 

ok EDIT: i just reread the confrontation scene and my SO theory has less juice bc the dialogue doesn’t necessarily point towards an ex like i thought it did when i was reading it sleep-deprived and is more so silas being like ‘how can you like me when you know i hate you’ ... still think it has something to do w xiao jian being polite to someone and it somehow backfiring on silas but now i’m less sure

the art style is really nice ! looking forward to seeing the art improve more as the comic goes on bc that’s how all comics work (which is why i  always think abt doing a comic of my own fr bc 1. i really do want to do a comic fr and 2. art improvement happens w/o fail and i need that)

anyway long story short it’s a cute comic! the writing is a little on the weaker side i feel but it’s pretty good compared to other amateur comics and i’m excited to see how the story develops!