ChippedIce posted:

I could've let this one grow on me but you fucking invited your fucking husband to that same bar!? like What The fuck girl... Just tell her with a message, geez, that was awful of you! What were you expecting to happen? Make her cry of course!

Going by how she wanted to let her know eventually that she had a husband, I'm guessing the husband invited her there, also because she came in after him so it leads me to think that the husband was the one "leading" in their little date.

Yeah but she had her phone, a little warning would've been decent.

Also, I'm mad but I'm against using a tag that would spoil the shock that the author was intending to make with the first chapter.

I'm writing a love triangle story and have a little experience with what the teacher's feeling. Obviously, cheating irl sucks, but this is class-A material for "I don't want to be in this marriage." She wanted to keep the two worlds separate, probably with the hopes of leaving her husband sometime in the near future. Then, her husband books a date for them at the bar with her girlfriend and she probably panicked like crazy. Staring at her phone, "should I, shouldn't I, should I, shouldn't I," until it was too late. As someone with anxiety, I can personally attest to how realistic it is to not give someone a heads-up in this situation. It's super shitty, she should be yelled at for it, but it makes for a believably flawed character. And flawed characters means character development and conflict, which a story requires to be interesting. I added this story to my favorites the instant I finished reading it.

For the sake of the first chapter it won't be tagged until the second chapter comes out. Then the series will be tagged.

i was suprised by the end of the chapter and then i realised that author is the same who wrote aoi hana... now i understand. this won't end well.

last edited at Jun 5, 2019 4:13AM

Interesting plot twist, I want to see the following story!

Big oof

Well... damn
And I've got this on Sub.

Oof

oof indeed

Big OOF

just die men >.<

Ouch

Hell yeah

This gives me "After Hours" vibes with the sudden hook up, super comfy chemistry, and cheating. I love "After Hours" so I have a feeling I'll like this too. Just gotta see how it all plays out.

Wait, there's cheating in After Hours?

Wish I had known that before I bought the first three volumes...

Oops i think i misremembered another series. I double checked and didn't see cheating. I'll edit my original comment lol.

Hah inhales FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE! I knew this was gonna happen but I just kept reading!

Ah ha ha ha ... yeah. One of those chapters that remind me of that day I was run over by a car. Feels roughly the same. ^^

For the sake of maintaining an interesting story, I hope the husband isn't a villain. That seems like the standard route taken in stories like this, because it somehow absolves the cheating spouse of all guilt and makes the audience feel more comfortable. But stories about cheating aren't supposed to make you feel comfortable! They're supposed to raise interesting questions, put the characters in difficult positions, and make you question what it means to be a "good" person.

Too many series (fucking "My Unrequited Love") attempt to remove that aspect and end up with a really reductive narrative.

last edited at Jun 5, 2019 7:33AM

"Aw shit, here we go again" : The Manga-OVA-extravaganza

Oooooof mage oof super duper mega oof

This gives me "After Hours" vibes with the sudden hook up, super comfy chemistry, and cheating. I love "After Hours" so I have a feeling I'll like this too. Just gotta see how it all plays out.

Wait, there's cheating in After Hours?

Wish I had known that before I bought the first three volumes...

Oops i think i misremembered another series. I double checked and didn't see cheating. I'll edit my original comment lol.

AH does technically have cheating, but the literal point is 'things are going bad enough with Emi's boyfriend that she's only staying together with him because she'd be homeless otherwise (and then Kei gives her a way out)' so

Oh boy new shimura takako series!
Just as angsty as I remember there we go.

YIKES!

Bleh, on one hand amazing art and really cool chapter... but really? Cheating is gross and totally turns me off to this

I'm gonna nope right outta this one

Remembering the first chapter of Aoi Hana

For the sake of maintaining an interesting story, I hope the husband isn't a villain. That seems like the standard route taken in stories like this, because it somehow absolves the cheating spouse of all guilt and makes the audience feel more comfortable. But stories about cheating aren't supposed to make you feel comfortable! They're supposed to raise interesting questions, put the characters in difficult positions, and make you question what it means to be a "good" person.

Too many series (fucking "My Unrequited Love") attempt to remove that aspect and end up with a really reductive narrative.

Um, yes. What you said.

So, all these "I don't like cheating" posts--is that saying, "I don't wish to read stories that contain cheating by fictional characters," or "I find cheating morally objectionable"?

Because although I've read plenty of mysteries, I'd never say, "I like murder."

Thought I was settling in for a nice fluffy time with actual adults for once and then

Drama went and burst through that door

Because although I've read plenty of mysteries, I'd never say, "I like murder."

I would