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most-definitively-a-human · 11 months ago

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I find it very funny that I enjoy reading Corpse Knight Gunther yet stopped reading a romance because the couple was slightly mean to each other and their friends.

Maybe it's all about my expectations? Promise a sweet kind relationship and give subtle cruelty that's never addressed and I am out. Promise grimdark and have the character be just slightly less of a relentless asshole twenty chapters in? Hell yeah I am cheering for them.

Brains are weird man.

#webtoons #corpse knight gunther is great hoghly recommend #is quite dark (tw for violence mainly) but due to the core friendship slowly developing #and many valient side characters given full humanity and personhood even if just for a brief moment #before being taken out #somehow bolsters and reassures me in a way that things claiming to be sweet but are shallow and cruel (even just mildly) don't #just #bizarre really #brain why are you like this #I think it might be because in Corpse Knight the callousness is why the world is called grimdark #it's acknowledged you're allowed to grieve for it #but in that romance book it was subtle and I knew it would never be adressed #no one in the comments even noticed #personal log #oh hey look brain is braining again #aha words are mine to comprehend once more #I can play and revel and delight in language I have missed this sort of clarity I hope I get to hold onto it for a while #mild analysis mostly rambling

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