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[shamera]

March-April manhwa reccs

In the vein of my last few reccs, here is the latest instalment in Shams-reads-too-much (I know it's only mid-April). This time, I'm back to the top 3 format but with a list of Honorable Mentions because oh boy, the readin' don't stop!

3. The Guild Member Next Door [30 chapters so far]

How is no one talking about this one? The first BL series to make it on my top lists, this is an online gamer meet-ugly cafe story that had me cackling through every chapter. It will brighten your day (threat). The story of an office worker slash secret gamer who starts playing the MMO Illusion and tries to join Poseidon guild only to immediately get PK'ed and accused of being a stalker's alt account, and in his revenge he befriends the entire guild as an FU to his attacker, only for his attacker to in-game propose to him to troll him in return. An adorable and hilarious story following the two as they purposefully step on each other's toes all the way until they're friends in-game, never realizing that they actually know each other IRL!

2. Martial God Regressed to Level 2 [one season]

Let's just say in chapter 1 all of humanity dies, so we already know how this story's going to go. Another OP protagonist whom I really enjoy, starting from scratch in hopes of saving the world. It's Seong Jihan's relationship with his family that makes this series hit different, as he not only uses his knowledge to try and prevent humanity's tragedies, but also does his best this time around to save his niece from her downward mental spiral and become a good role model for her after her father walks away. With little to lose now that he knows what's to come, the MC is more than willing to make enemies out of everyone to ensure they step up their game before the real fight for humanity begins.

1. SSS-Class Suicide Hunter [3 seasons]

This was already on Honorable Mentions back in December, and I know my recc list is meant for new reads, but I had to slap this down again after the PHENOMENAL season 3 ending. We've already seen Kim Gongja's crazy fights to ascend the tower, but the sheer hope. The belief in a better world that these characters have, and their determination to make it so, brought me to tears at the end of season 3. The story of a hunter with negative survival instincts, and a power that allows him to regress to a day before he dies every time he dies... it's not the type of story that I expected to see such delicate beauty within suffering, but here we are, with an MC ready to delve into storybooks to empathize with and relieve the suffering of the characters within, no matter what it takes. I'm so excited for season 4 and the next storybook, I am vibrating.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Raising a Sacrifice

This series is impossible to describe and impossible to put down for long. This is the ultimate fantasy time-loop transmigration system apocalypse god-maker BL I have ever read? It's what happens when the apocalypse keeps resetting and you can never escape that last year no matter how many times you die, and the toll on one's mental state when you start trying-- everything. Murder. Genocide. Madness. And falling in love, again and again and again. And being alone again, after every reset. Thousands and millions of times until you lose all hope, until one day... the MC wakes up with memories of being murdered by his faithful knight, and now there's finally two people with memories beyond one timeline.

Medical Return [complete!!]

The story of a surgeon who led a pitiful life, only to return to his childhood once more by the grace of the gods-- and this time he's determined to not lead the same life again! Now if only the world got that hint, as he seems to be continuously steered back onto his original path, while trying to dodge the tragedies in his life and save just one more person others gave up for dead. This time around, he has a little outside help to finally uncover just why his life went so wrong at every turn the first time and help him retain that inherent goodness without being taken advantage of once more. With an MC with a deposition truly befitting a good doctor, this is for all fans of hospital dramas, and is complete!!

Kill the Villainess [complete!!]

The only way to return home is to play the role of the villainess, Eris, who is condemned to death after attempting to kill the heroine. There is no way to escape that fate, as Eris can't even succeed at taking her own life before she completes her part in the plot. The story of a villainess trying to die to change the story, yet unable to as she continues to uncover backstory beyond the original novel to find the reason why her soul was stuck in this world and unable to leave, while attempting to bypass paths that would trap her in the novel forever. At what point will her actions make her a true villain, and just what is she willing to do in order to return home to the real world?

Little Mushroom

...my cheat this month, with me using the novel cover and everything. (Please read the books, there are only 2 novels and the prose is breathtaking.) The manhua is absolutely gorgeous beyond compare, and the story covers a sentient mushroom post-apocalypse who is journeying into a dangerous human settlement trying to find the spore that was taken from him. In a world where threats to humans loom at every corner and shadow, drastic measures are taken to protect those who survive, employing "Judges" with absolute power to kill if they suspect a being of not being human. It's the story of a non-human and a Judge finding themselves and each other by navigating the active end of the world.

My Darling Signed In [complete!!]

Cute?? Adorable???? Another online gamer couple who meet in real life, this BL story is genuinely all fluff as the MC is found to play a beautiful female elf online, yet their beau falls in love either way as it was the same charisma and personality that drew them in. A green flag couple with turns that surprised me every time with how wholesome things are. It's 2 seasons and complete, featuring them from collage to work space through their ups and downs, navigating their relationship and growing as people all the while continuing their game. Do you need a cute read with a guaranteed happy ending? Here it is!!

Zero Day Attack [1 season done]

Another BL on the list?? This month is full of surprises, as this time it's about a hacker who had to go into hiding after being exposed and is now a barista by day while working to find the man who betrayed him by night, all the while running away from both the organizations he hacked and his old colleagues who are looking for him. Things get complicated when a man who shows up at the cafe he works at won't leave him alone, and blurs the line between his search for revenge and the fake life he's currently living. This one eked its way above Netkama Punch for the mystery and intrigue (as well as having a main couple who is obsessed with each other without wanting to bring harm to the other).

I Will Change the Genre

A transmigrater meets a regressor, and suddenly the novel plot is going very, very awry! In the novel, Judith Maybaum is the hateful aunt of the main character who betrays her nephew and dies for it, yet "Judith Maybaum" isn't actually the same character now, and her nephew is also acting very odd when the story starts rolling. She's determined that her nephew will not go through his lonely and sorrowful life this time around, even if it means giving his custody to the Duke Winterwald, yet for some reason the protagonist clings to her and calls her 'mother' when the Duke comes to take him away! A touching and funny story with, once again, a green flag couple as well as an adorable aunt and nephew pair, both with foreknowledge of the future in different ways as they mess things up and unravel a story that neither of them knew.

GOOD ENOUGH I READ EVERYTHING: -Netkama Punch -The Bromance Book Club [complete] -The Live [complete] -I'll Be the Matriarch in this Life -Reincarnator -Dark Mage Returns to Enlistment -The Main Characters that Only I Know -My Lucky Encounter from the Game Turned Reality -The Archmage's Restaurant -I Tamed a Tyrant and Ran Away -I Created an Urban Legend -The Regressed Demon Lord is Kind

[crackersandjuice]

just remembered my darling signed in exists and now my brain is shooting off serotonin at lightspeed

[xoxomyseriesxoxo]

Everything.

[art-is-kayos]

Everlasting A5

[thelilylav]

They just got back from a date and Dexter volunteered to take a commemorative photo

Plus the close up:

[elmindredaniq]

"O Captain! My Captain!"

It took this one action from him to make me love him at first sight.

The moment after this interaction I was in love with him forever.

GIF by bunnakit

But this!…. For this Yai, you have my whole ass heart and my undying loyalty from now on till the sun burns out and the stars turn to dust!

[majimasleftasscheek]

Oh man!!!! Freakin love your recent comics on kitty-jima the way you have him and Kiryu interact is so cute!!!! Love the way you draw and write these two always :3c

thank you! they bring me so much joy~ =(─‿‿─)=

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

Doodles of Wally Darling, cause we could all use a little more Wally Darling in our lives!✨✨

[sofarfarout]

YOU

[naranjapetrificada]

The word "cringe" began life as a verb. 🤨

As an extremely him-coded person let me tell you that the thing about calling Stede "I've been a failure my whole life, it's not so bad once you get used to it" Bonnet a loser is that 99% of the time, he literally doesn't give a single solitary shit. True, he's insecure as hell in a handful of very specific ways and flattery can make him make extremely poor choices, but every time we see him taking it badly when someone is mean to him it's either because they're pushing trauma buttons (i.e. the Badmintons) or it intersects in some way with the people who matter to him (Ed, the crew, etc).

But mean randos? He knows what mean randos think about him. If Stede is the living sunbeam of a man that so many of us liken him to, then the thoughts of mean randos are just so many weak lightbulbs. Mean randos can call him (and have called him) everything but a child of god, and every time they do he brushes that proverbial dirt off his shoulders and keeps moving. He's still the unkillable fucker who pulled the baddest bitch on the seven seas* because of the kind of genuine behavior that makes lesser mortals (present company included) cringe sometimes. To Stede, their urge to cringe says significantly more about them than it does about him.

If getting to wake up every morning with the brilliant, playful, gorgeous love of his life giving him gooey eyes and wanting to be soft-dommed into oblivion is losing, why on earth would Stede Bonnet ever want to "win"? Why would anyone ever need to "defend" him against accusations of being a loser either? To Stede Bonnet, discourse like this is entirely immaterial. I for one am going to try to care about it exactly as much as he does.

*The best part of this is that Stede doesn't even see this as a flex the way everyone else would. He knows he's unfathomably lucky but he's lucky to know Ed, and would have felt that way even if Blackbeard never existed. And that's why knowing Stede completely rewired Ed's brain in the first place.

[lokirulzart]

So I decided to play the Wally dress up game with some of my favorite scenes/songs/outfits from one of my favorite movies, Last Night In Soho… idk, I just combined two things I enjoy for no reason. The songs made me think of him.

Also bonus of Wally in THE dress. He’s just iconic in his sneakers, is he not? The absolute MOST.

[kelin-is-writing]

Girl, you're an immature aspiring writer (key word: aspiring) who is shitting on Horikoshi's work even though your entire fucking blog is literally dedicated to Hori's work. How pathetic and hypocritical must you be. There is a reason why people rather talk to you anonymously rather than directly because frankly you're an embarrassment and a loser. Your misandry needs to be dealt with. Stop blaming all real life men for you unhappiness with the MHA ending. That the fault of one man, not billions of other men. Just because you're pissed and throwing tantrums doesn't mean you have to blame all men. That's extremely childish though not surprising since you're blog itself looks childish. Why are you even watching MHA, its clearly not for misandrists like you. In case you forgot MHA is a Shonen manga/anime so you're clearly not wanted. You're not the type of audience that Hori wants in the first place. You rather talk about useless characters like Rei Todoroki or squeal about a man's attractiveness rather than the watch and assess the actual fights/battles. Seriously. Stop watching MHA and go watch sailor moon or some shojo shit.

Yo I know, I’m childish and immature that reeeeeeally sucks man. Doesn’t change the fact that you still are a misogynist, abuser and rapist defender, childish, immature, rude, mannerless, ignorant and a gaslighter who came on their own in my childish blog, to ask for my childish opinion though. You did, and are still doing all this on your own accord, so guess who’s the real hypocrite here honey 🤭

[romancemedia]

Anime Couples 3

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Hihihi it's me again 💃

Not sure if it's Legacy or us that keeps building the moth nests but I present to you another doodle~

My phone is on 4% but I had to send this in :3

i fully believe that Foul Legacy was the one who initially built the blanket nests, only for you to add more pillows and quilts for optimal snuggling, so now you build nests together to bond :>

ALSO COMRADE PLEASE CHARGE YOUR PHONE I BEG OF YOU

[darlingillustrations]

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[elmindredaniq]

Ladies and Gentlemen,I present to you🫴🏼

the physical embodiment of the phrase ✨You Fucking Moron!!!✨