Your Skin Is Tinged Red as if Burning With Heat
He's A Better Top Than Me?!
i actually really like the art and i like the way shinobu talks for some reason however that's IT everything else was WEIRD. kakei is possessive as fuck and also straight up rapes shinobu in like everryyy scene except for... maybe two. i have no earthly idea why kakei decided to find a top instead of a bottom if he was just gonna be the top anyway?? is the author trying to say that he was inexperienced and didn't know he wanted those things until he started to have sex with shinobu?? 'cause that's dumb and the events after shouldn't have happened anyway, 'cause shinobu wasn't willing to bottom for him. this is just a very specific fantasy. also happy ending or something, couldn't give a shit kakei is weird asf for that.
Midnight Rain (CTK)
short and sweet. love me some old gay men HOWEVER. the most unnecessary sexual assault scene in the beginning from ethan when he jacked off mike for no reason. and this was before they were even a thing. at that point mike was only there to seek help from ethan for his wounds and ethan went ahead and did it anyway. he acknowledges that it's wrong but it's kind of glossed over by both of them and no consequences are ever shown for it. i am very very sick of finding these nice, short stories that end up tainted by sexual assault. the setup was there for them to become closer in a romantic/sexual sense without the sa, so why resort to such a lazy trope? ugh
After Work
WHY WAS THIS DROPPEEDDD im gonna start sobbing. kind of like a slice of life bl where an office worker w/ a hamster meets his neighbor, a uni student w/ a cat. presumably, things happen where they'd end up together over time, but we'll never see it ig. sighhh. what's out is good though
Yuki No Shita No Qualia
this was so short and sweet and cute and the progression of their feelings felt natural and im gonna jump and die
Oboreru Omega