This was really sweet and nice and optimistic, exactly what I needed to read right now. yay :)

Someone being transphobic:
https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/920174

Tags on Dynasty are not written by the author, just people like us. They're informed by what we can see so far in the series and can't be trusted to predict whatever twists the author might do in the future.

Yeah I would expect a development like "turns out the evil witch is kinda complicated and I sympathize with her and lets be friends" due to how the MC has already repeatedly thanked the witch for what she did. Maybe they'll work together to overthrow Asshole Prince, ala "The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady" (this will probably not be yuri lol but maybe!)

This was absolutely perfect for what it was: a cathartic snarl directed at heteronormativity. That "I should let you get married" page, holy shit!
Also lmfao @ the people going "if this were a man blah blah blah" this story is about a queer woman in a patriarchal heteronormative society (which, contrary to what that political weirdo kept claiming, is not remotely unique to China). The story would have gone massively different with any other combo of gender: if M/M a gay man has no compulsion to seek the shelter of a patriarchal family and even if he did gay men married to straight women tend to keep a partner on the side, and if M/F the F wouldn't need to leave to get that patriarchal family she wanted for her child, she would have just married the mc.
This isn't just a standard story about a jilted lover or a scam artist, it's about raging against the abuse of queer women. The plot didn't NEED to happen, if the other woman wasn't a coward brainwashed by heteronormativity. They were living well on just a single income, if she went to work too they absolutely could have afforded to send that kid to school and give her a good life without needing to live in a miserable frozen little town. They could have been happy. But social expectations, social programming, closed the door on that happiness before it could even be proposed.

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I like this a lot, I haven't read a Chinese cooking comic before, at least not one as detailed and tasty looking as this one. Also they might be gay or something IDK that's good too. But wow that food though! I kinda worried since the very first panel of the comic looks like a badly filtered photo but everything else has been just perfect lol

I think this manga might legitimately be written as like pro-natalist propaganda. Despite the ridiculous confusion and seeming complexity of what's going on, the core plot is very simple when you strip out everything that doesn't contribute to the ending: The MC, via a bunch of time travel nonsense, learns of the potential future children of her lover if the mc didn't date her and grew so attached to those possible children that she sacrifices her happiness (at least happiness in her youth) and pressures her poor lover into comphet in order to make sure that some more Japanese babies get born.
Seriously, the amount of deus ex machina reasons that get thrown out inexplicably to force the MC into this corner where it's her only option only to pretend like it's her choice in the end really reminds me of conservative propaganda stories like Chick Tracts. Why was she cursed to always die? Why did the comphet option prevent her death this time? Why do they have time travel powers to begin with? How do they suddenly know how to manipulate them? Why did the MC lose her memories after some deaths but not others? Why did the MC who was living happily as an adult lesbian go from "those kids weren't born" to "I should kill myself"? Why were those unborn kids more real to her than her own lover, who she just smiles at and then ruins her life.
None of these things make sense or even serve the story, they just close off real happy endings to trick you into accepting the one predestined ending that fits the author's message.

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This is interesting. It almost got unbearable in the depressing overbearing tone but then Ayano stood up to her mom and that really made the series feel intriguing. I liked her story about seeing her mom happy for once looking at nice clothes, too. She's a protagonist with promise :)

Last chapter was Honoka sending of the manuscript, this chapter is her getting a call about that manuscript submission while they're in the classroom. So last chapter was a flashback, not a flash forward.

I'm sure it'll shake out sooner or later and their new special place will be Mitsuki's bedroom :P

My hope is a murder plot, but whenever I hope for a "happy gunjo" development people think I'm crazy or something, no idea why :P just think about how Butterfly Dream could appear in the mirror to scare the husband to fall down a flight of stairs or something! The perfect crime! And they've already seeded the idea of widows being independently wealthy and free.

How Do We Relationship is probably the single best ongoing manga about lesbians out there, imo. The main other manga I can think of in the "about lesbians" category and competes in quality is Ayaka is In Love With Hiroko, and that's completed.
Totally worth paying to access How Do We Relationship's official translation imo :)

it’s free and easy to find LOL XD any one that knows websites like dynasty can find it easy the official translation

Just because you CAN access something for free doesn't mean you necessarily should. If you're an adult with an income you should support good art, especially things you personally love, so that more of it can get made.

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It is imo in fact very healthy and good to remember that fiction is fiction when it comes to the morality angle you've rolled into all that. The people who are constantly wailing and gnashing their teeth over main characters being immoral, talking about if characters "deserve" happiness, etc, are definitely way more annoying than the "she's just a drawing" people, imo. Especially the people who deliberately read manga tagged "cheating" and then spam the comments with complaints that the characters are cheating, lmao.

This is kinda neat. I wonder if this kind of multinational production is a new thing in manga?

Misa was also basically riding on Io's earlier given consent in that scene: she didn't explicitly consent to sleep sex but she DID explicitly consent to being there and being sexual in general with Misa. Misa specifically checked in with her multiple times that first night telling her "you can say no" or "you can leave if you don't want this". Compared to Hase, who has one explicit mention of permission... From Io's mother, not Io.

This chapter was so incredibly lovey-dovey. Needs an Insane Amounts of Lovey-Dovey tag. This is particularly surprising from Misa, who was before this reluctant to get attached. Something about the overbearing manager triggered a super ultra best girlfriend ever switch in Misa. Is she feeling competitive? Protective? Possibly offended on Io's behalf? I'm so curious.

She definitely got triggered by the manager. I didn't expect this story to go this route, but it's definitely welcome: Io is a budding sub who is caught between two intense older women, with the main difference between Misa and Hase being that the former has a very clear idea of what personal boundaries are, why they are important, and how to set and to enforce them. Which makes sense, really, given her work as a hostess who has to entertain entitled rich drunkards every day. Through Misa, Io is discovering that giving up control is not the same as being violated (which appears to be what Hase has taught her over the years), and she's loving every second of it.

That's a really good eloquent way to phrase it. Early on Io blushes a couple times when her manager is bossing her around but the more time she spends with Masa the more she realizes how bad Hase's treatment is her is by comparison.

The questions young Aya asks are not just simple questions, they're thematically core to the story and Koto absolutely picks up on their implication:
Chapter 1, page 30. Koto's internal monologue thinking about Aya: "Are you looking 'somewhere' again? Aya-chan, I wonder if someday... You'll end drifting away 'somewhere'."
Chapter 1, page 46. Koto remembers Aya's question while thinking about her disappearance and thinks "In the end, she never told me."

It's worth keeping in mind that the strong resilient adaptive Aya is the Aya of the present, not the Aya of the past, and Aya of the present has that big advantage in her life of not being in the place past Aya longed to escape from:
Chapter 5 page 5: present day Aya remembers the question and things about how she is now where she was dreaming of back then: "'If not here, where is it?' It still doesn't feel real to me. To think that I left that place... And came to a far away and unknown place."
It's pretty unambiguous that Aya got what she wanted, what she was dreaming of, with her disappearance and reappearance.

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This chapter was so incredibly lovey-dovey. Needs an Insane Amounts of Lovey-Dovey tag. This is particularly surprising from Misa, who was before this reluctant to get attached. Something about the overbearing manager triggered a super ultra best girlfriend ever switch in Misa. Is she feeling competitive? Protective? Possibly offended on Io's behalf? I'm so curious.
Also I wanna go to a late night spa now lol

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Poor Lilly is clearly completely misreading the situation. :D

Yup, the poor girl still hasn't noticed that Rae is exclusively claireromantic and clairesexual. :-(

Rae explicitly calls herself a lesbian, even if she is in love with Claire they've made a real clear point to say that's not the start and end of her sexuality, that's also why they told the story of her first love before getting isekai'd. Lily does theoretically have a chance, but it would require Rae and Claire breaking up in some definitive way and that's unlikely... probably.

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This definitely should have a subtext tag imo. That guitarist imagines the drummer naked entirely too much and too detailed for this to be platonic in intention lol

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It's nice to come back here after every chapter and see a new theory about how somehow Erika is to blame for everything, even after a chapter she was barely in. I appreciate the consistency, just like how Aya appreciated Koto's consistency.
However, the idea that Aya had no reason to leave her situation is pretty much directly unambiguously contradicted by the manga's text. Aya and Koto were actively talking about running away together, remember? Aya's life continued to get more and more unbearable after the end of this flashback, to the point where we see her in chapter 1 where she'd rather anything but to be here and now.
My guess is Erika's role in that was as a witness. She's the last person who saw Aya before disappearing and had some unknown meaningful conversation with her, so she probably knew she was going away and didn't stop her. Erika and Aya are friends, they aren't hostile to each other, and Erika could see that Aya was hurting a lot because she's by far the most observant of the trio. So she'd step aside for Aya's escape and promise to say nothing, but of course she'd think about how Koto will be single now, and start her typical pattern of hating herself for having selfish thoughts even though she's never once taken a selfish action in this manga.

Also a possible interpretation of the triangle: Aya, past Koto, present Koto. Having a "triangle" involve two versions of the same person isn't at all unheard of, like in "My Younger Senpai" or ""Ayakashi Triangle". I think this particular use case is like with Ayakashi's case in particular: the "triangle" is one person torn between her feelings for the past male version of her lover and the present female version of her lover, as the possibility of unbending that gender is debated lol.

Edit: bonus theory! We learn in this chapter the source of Aya's bell bracelet, a charm from her grandmother so she can "always be found." And Koto is specifically said to be someone who can "always find" Aya. My prediction: when we eventually see that big final conversation between Aya and Erika seven years ago, Aya won't be wearing the bell bracelet anymore, because she doesn't want to be found. This is going to play into how this timeskip Aya doesn't remember that final day, because she's the Aya before taking the bracelet off and thus still capable of being found eventually. When Erika and Koto first see Aya's return, it's only after hearing the ringing of that bell and following it to find her.

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Could Liao truly not have realized what she did with her knee there? Or is she turning the tsundere act into some kinda neglect play SM variant.

This was really beautiful.

Referencing Romeo and Juliet here is fun since GWitch as a whole is another Shakespeare reference: The Tempest. This was cute! Although hard to imagine Suletta at this point in their story being so assertive lol

That was a fun read. I think a large part of what makes the work for me is that Fujiwara is a confident butch with no anxiety about her gender expression, unlike many other girls cast as a "boy" in girls school manga. She actually wants to dress masc, she cuts her hair short and it's not portrayed as a loss or mistake, etc. It reminds me of Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl, where the butch isn't pining for femininity and insecure about it, she just openly is who she is, even if she gets mistaken for a guy because of it.