Shang Qinghua is such a romance webtoon ass protagonist watch him get married to the Duke of the North for protection and tax reasons make his fief run so much better make everyone's life better make his expertise indispensable make his husband fall madly in love with him then worry about how he's getting divorced in 2 years cause their contract marriage end there and his gorgeous gorgeous husband having now filled the conditions and inherited his title as Lord of the northern lands will find a much higher status and prettier spouse the second the contract is over
Like Mobei Jun could even fonction as a person without Shang Qinghua like the organization of the North wouldn't completely fizzle out in a week if he took his eyes off it
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Probably not the right coloration, but... You know, this is the Paul Barras going to arrest Robespierre, and I don't know... I've started to do a sort of Webtoon about the French Revolution.
I didn't posted yet on Canvas, 'cause I don't know if someone will read It. (I'm not so lucky with Webtoons...).
So, I post it here.
Just for fun. Or a spoiler... Who knows... 🤔
Should I maybe post this on Webtoon?
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I really need friends/mutuals who read manhwas and webtoons, like ITS A NECESSITY, I need someone to talk about either how to fight and lookism or reincarnation/historical manhwas 😭🖐
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The progression of the “Villainess” trope
Y'know, thinking about it, it's very ironic how a trope made to subvert one's expectations & give more depth to 1 dimensional villains in cliche novels by "humanizing" them more & providing their side of the story, eventually became oversaturated with cartoony villains & flat MCs. Thus, completely failing in its goal to "subvert expectations" as it too turned into mind numbing cliche, becoming the exact opposite of what the troupe initially aimed to achieved.
I am talking about "Villainess" series.
I remember seeing a twitter post a while back saying how a lot of the villainess stuff the authors & studios are putting out nowadays lack any sort of nuance when it comes to its characters. And how a lot authors simply switch the roles of the cast (Like: OG MC -> villain | OG villain -> MC) & call it a day. And I 100% agree with that.
This troupe kinda ended up becoming the dictionary definition of the saying, "You either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” lmao
What could've been an opportunity to write nuanced villains & morally ambiguous main characters, turned EXACTLY into the cliche it was pocking fun at.
In an attempt to reveal how the MCs of your typical cliche novels can also be in the wrong at times, flaws that the story & its (in-canon) fandom may purposefully ignore, the villainess stories ended up doing EXACT SAME thing EXECPT this time it's the "villains" doing it rather than the OG FL or OG ML of the “OG novel”. In an attempt to stop cliche villains from remaining cliche, while we did ended up getting slightly more nuance for the “OG villain” characters, in the process, the OG MCs turned exactly into those flat cliche villains.
Alot of villainess series poke fun at the troupes they themself use, but not in a satirical way.
So many villainess series poke fun at the OG novels for being problematic or stupid & the fandom of said novels basically ignoring its flaws & problems, only gushing over the OG FL. Which yea, is nice & all, but y'know... that's exactly what those villainess series do too. SO MANYY of them borderline have the FLs participating in literal slavery. & More often than not have a borderline colonizer ML. Not to mention the numerous which carry weird undertones of colorism, and many such other things. All the while, the fandom of these villainess series continue to ignore their glaring problems & flaws & instead just gush over the FL and ML.
And I'm not even saying this in a hating sort of way (well, aside from the series with issues of colorism, orientalism, etc). Moreover, this is all not to say that one can not enjoy such stories, because admittedly, there is indeed fun in just reading a simple and familiar story line. But this is all more me being intrigued by this trope’s almost ironic progression as companies rush their staff to produce something which they think will be able to ride the waves of the current trends, only for the vast majority to simply drown in a sea of mediocrity (with many even being canceled due to this)
[Though I mean, something as simple as villainess tropes won’t be the only one to go through this. Like a lot of Shakespearean works, a subversion of the classics & typical troupes back then, got turned into ones of those classics and by many are now considered cliche. And that's just scrapping the bottom of the barrel!]
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LET’S HIDE MY LITTLE BROTHER
A woman reincarnates as the sister of a BL protagonist and vows to save her brother from his fate, however, she becomes entangled up with the possessive villain.
Alternate title: Let’s hide my younger brother first
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Yandere male lists from manhwas I read so far
Title: I failed to oust the villain (Reinhart)
Male lead is yandere
Title: Dear Tyrant (Orestes)
He is villain of the story but he has feelings for his sister (mc)
Title: I Lost the Leash of the Yandere Male Lead (Azester)
Male lead
I tamed a tyrant and ran away (Dylan)
Male lead
Title: the villain’s sister suffers today (Essi/Essen)
Male lead
I will post more later
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TROPE: "After entering a novel, all I wanted was to laze around and live a peaceful life away from the plot, but what should I do when the child I'm supposed to give back got so attached to me!?"
MANHWAS:
• The Villainess Flips the Script!
• I Raised a Black Dragon
• The Rewards of Marriage
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*rising from the dead*
Finally getting to designing my nevermore ocs Specters, I rly liked how they turned out. I rly like doing research about myths and legends so they were rly fun to design. Gonna have to do full bodies soon!
Imma put some progress sketches cuz I think it's fun to see the process.
Slava Specter: Firebird/Златна Птица (neutral) Slavic mythology
-Powers: Calling Song (blue diamond type of shit); Eternal Flame; Feather whiplash
Even Specter: Headless horsewomen (malevolent) Scottish legend
Powers: Alluring lure; Slight of hand; Ghost rules
Otoya Specter: Onryo (malevolent) Vengeful yokai
Powers: Silent step; Circle of truth; Petrified stare
Achak Specter: Wendigo (malevolent) Algonquian beast spirit
-Powers: Beastly senses; Shadow figure; Voice mimicry
Progress Sketchs with the alternative designs
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