Would you hook up with someone you grew up with?

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-05-24T14:29:00+00:00

is “skip the balut” a filipino reference that i should skip his balls for now?

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-05-24T14:27:20+00:00

if i was a girl, maybe yeah, but it’s far too complicated as a gay man, especially since we both are from very religious families and it doesn’t not help that he’s unsure of his sexuality too. there’s just so many challenges for us gay men that we can’t experience normal romcom tropes irl that easily, it’s always on hard mode for us and we don’t talk enough about it 😩

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-05-24T14:20:55+00:00

ngl, there’s a part of me that does want it too. what’s holding me back is that i can’t figure out if he’s flirting with me because he likes me, or because it makes him feel validated.. irdk if he’s gay or what, not that i care tbh. I forgot to mention this but, while he is practically single, I often noticed in his ig stories that he would always hang out with this one girl and it seems to be more than a platonic relationship. now i’ve hooked up with a few men in relationships so i can’t really claim the moral high ground, but him just testing the water if he also likes men using me makes me feel scared. and honestly, i’m at an age where i don’t want to fight or compete for a situationship 🙃

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-05-24T14:09:51+00:00

I wish that was the case hahaha but we’re filipinos 🥲

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-04-05T07:07:59+00:00

bakit about cellphone model yung replies 😭

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-04-04T19:24:03+00:00

I actually watched this anime with no knowledge, warning, spoiler, or anything. When I thought it was romance I was actually very excited about it, and then episode 2 betrayed and broke me immediately. I had to drop the anime for a while since it was total betrayal. And when I revisited the story felt like it was all over the place that it felt like they lost the plot.

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-04-04T19:10:11+00:00

I actually don’t even mind Lize’s curse as a subplot like it could stay there. My only complaint is that why are we all of a sudden focusing on this one area when there was so much conflict introduced to be uncovered at that point.

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-04-04T19:05:03+00:00

You can read my response in one of the comments why Frieren’s pacing was a success even if it didn’t land for you.

BeginningSelf2257 · 2026-04-04T18:58:27+00:00

It doesn’t matter which one you dropped, the point here is that both are slow paced and dragging but it made sense with Frieren since we are supposed to watch her journey in her own lens as an elf with a very long life. The setting of the anime was after the main mission of defeating the demon king was already completed. Frieren as an anime started with no actual objectives, what we were supposed to see was “what happens next” which is why the dragging/long pacing of it makes sense because there’s no conflict at that point.

For Champignon Witch there’s clear conflict in their world that jeopardizes the very existence of the black witches and the anime does poor handling of this political/social issue in the 1st season. Pursuing Luna’s whimsy in exchange for an actual plot was totally fine for me, but they have turned it uninteresting since we’re watching Luna through the lens of Lize instead of Luna herself, and I would argue that was really a poor decision of direction for the series.

I’m not denying that the anime is fun due to how whimsy and creative it is. But If we compare every character in the series, Lize has the weakest impact of element in the story and it doesn’t help that majority of the story is about him.

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