yuri

am i the only one who doesnt hate nine genuinely dont even see him as the "villain" so much as someone who was shaped by such a deteriorating industry years of neglect and a negarive self imagehe already seems to have extremely low self esteem and is barely ever acknowledged, so i can understand why he starts externalising that insecurity onto wan when he sees him getting everything nine wanted seemingly effortlessly, putting wan down gives him a way to cope with feeling inferiorand the way he instinctively assumes everyone has malicious intentions toward him is sooo telling, even when he pushes wan and expects a negative reaction, hes genuinely shocked when wan continues treating him kindly, it feels like hes so expectant to hostility that he cant even process someone not responding to him with the same hostilitynone of this excuses the shit he does, obviously, but i dont think "hes evil" actually explains his character very well, hes basically someone who was repeatedly fed a negative image of himself, neglected, and taught to expect hostility from other people, so he mirrored that behavior

yeah I don't think he's stupid he's just not somebody who picks up on things he's not explicitly taught

he seems just neurodivergent tbh

in what order do I watch the sequences

justin is also fangchis patient if u see in the earlier episodes, fangchi was reassuring justin that he didnt come to the company for him and that gaozhun doesnt know hes also his patient

justin

i very obviously dont think every abusive relationship is grooming either, but fangchi and gaozhuns case definitely was both,
the abuse of authority is how the grooming occurred,fangchi was gaozhuns, so he already occupied a position of trust and power,he exploited that relationship and gaozhuns vulnerability for his own purposes,thats more than just professional misconduct,it's grooming through an existing power imbalance, if you analyze the definition of grooming and it's technique youll see what i mean

grooming id a much more nuanced topic, its a lot broader than just an adult targeting a child, at its core, it's a calculatde process of building trust and creating emotional dependence, then exploiting a power imbalance to facilitate manipulation,while we know that children are the most common victims, it can happen to vulnerable and instabile adults,in gaozhuns case, fangchi was his therapist,hr occupied a position of authority, gained gaozhuns trust through that relationship, and then exploited that trust by using sexual violence to force him to disclose his trauma,it is an abuse of a professional relationship and an exploitation of the vulnerability of the patient, also my point was never that people can't consume dark fiction, its rather mr pointing out that reducing dynamics like this to romance instead of acknowledging the abuse is exactly the kind of romanticization I was criticizing

I find it really strange how many people romanticize or glorify narratives in which sexual assault or rape is presented as a component of the relationship between the male leads, consuming dark fiction is one thing, but acting like zhenxin and zhuns dynamic is romantic or desirable is A WHOLE NOTHER,this kind of reaction genuinely makes me question peoples ability to critically engage with the media they consume,the same applies to fangchi and gaozhuns relationship,their dynamic clearly shows manipulation and exploitation directed toward gaozhun, its a very obvious grooming dynamic , again i'm not saying people should avoid consuming fiction that contains disturbing or uncomfortable themes, fiction can and should explore difficult subjects, however, I do think it's important not to shut down conversations about how these relationships are portrayed and why audiences respond to them the way they do simply because "it's fiction"ive noticed this behavior particularly a lot some thai/chinese bl fandoms, where abusive or coercive dynamics are framed as romantic, and many fans reduce those relationships to an idealized love story rather than engaging with the harmful aspects of what's actually being depicted

kisskh.co

i was really intrigued but the constant non consensual acts from zhen xin are really annoying, like okay let's ignore zhang zhun literally getting raped..

we’re talking about a kbl so I assumed my words inferred what I meant, but no, the reason is because they’re in the same group

baby tpop and kpop industry is NOT the same at all

how did teeteepor get linked to this I’m crune

wth r u saying

bl LITERALLY stands FOR BOYS LOVE?? I don’t have to respect your opinion because it’s literally not correct, i’m not attacking you on a personal level. I’m saying you’re weird for saying that.

?? BL means boys loving each other? they don’t have to kiss for it to be called a BL you’re so weird

some of these comments are actually so weird and I noticed this with a lot of bls, not every bl needs kissing, there's so much more than just that.

it's because they're in the same group and it would be a bit awkward

it's happy