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alias_sqbrTaking a break from The Sword and the Brocade because the consent issues were wearing on me. They're not even that bad, objectively, but it is hitting a Button.
The main couple are if anything anachronistically quasi-feminist in a conventional Chinese TV aimed at women sort of way, and nothing has actually happened beyond, like, waking up tangled together in their pajamas because there was Only One Bed.
But it turns out that while I have a moderate tolerance for Sexy Dubcon, or even Dubcon Horror, my tolerance for Dubcon Played For Laughs is Very Low. The one doing the dubcon here mostly isn't even the hero, it's Society as helped by various servants and his mother.
Overall the attitude is: being pressured into sex is uncomfortable and bad and one of those things it's really good we've progressed beyond as a modern society, people in the past sure were fucked up!
UNLESS it's your true love. Then it's HILARIOUS.
I can see why that is appealing for some people, but for me... nope.
But I am still feeling bored and sickly and kinda down! Boooo. Maybe I'll take the unprecedented step of buying something off my Steam wishlist that isn't on sale.
Or have a nap. That also sounds good rn.
Anyway I'll probably get back to the show eventually, I like it overall and the stuff that bugs me is a relatively small part. But we'll see, my brain is unpredictable about these things. (See: the fact it took until a few episodes AFTER the last scene that bothered me before my brain went Time To Stop)
The main couple are if anything anachronistically quasi-feminist in a conventional Chinese TV aimed at women sort of way, and nothing has actually happened beyond, like, waking up tangled together in their pajamas because there was Only One Bed.
But it turns out that while I have a moderate tolerance for Sexy Dubcon, or even Dubcon Horror, my tolerance for Dubcon Played For Laughs is Very Low. The one doing the dubcon here mostly isn't even the hero, it's Society as helped by various servants and his mother.
Overall the attitude is: being pressured into sex is uncomfortable and bad and one of those things it's really good we've progressed beyond as a modern society, people in the past sure were fucked up!
UNLESS it's your true love. Then it's HILARIOUS.
I can see why that is appealing for some people, but for me... nope.
But I am still feeling bored and sickly and kinda down! Boooo. Maybe I'll take the unprecedented step of buying something off my Steam wishlist that isn't on sale.
Or have a nap. That also sounds good rn.
Anyway I'll probably get back to the show eventually, I like it overall and the stuff that bugs me is a relatively small part. But we'll see, my brain is unpredictable about these things. (See: the fact it took until a few episodes AFTER the last scene that bothered me before my brain went Time To Stop)
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Date: 2024-05-07 10:04 pm (UTC)I'm curious, did anything go awry with the vampire situation?
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Date: 2024-05-09 03:41 am (UTC)Vampires continue to be fun, but the latest episode didn't inspire sufficient reaction post feels. I am possibly just disappointed that Ren didn't turn out to be a werewolf haha.
And, yes, true, soup crimes shall always remain in my heart.
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Date: 2024-05-08 05:04 am (UTC)Maybe I'll take the unprecedented step of buying something off my Steam wishlist that isn't on sale.
Do you have your eye on anything in particular?
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Date: 2024-05-08 07:03 am (UTC)I just ended up replaying Timberborn haha. They had a new update I hadn't checked out yet.