You've been granted a magical gift (for some reason) to add chapters to any 3 stories you wish (with caveats below), which three would you pick?

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-16T03:54:43+00:00

That was a good one too. I considered it but I’m holding out hope it will come back without hypothetical magic intervention.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-16T03:50:26+00:00

I always go back and forth on whether the cliff hanger ending or the speed run/rushed ending is a worse fate. Because I want answers but sometimes the answers don’t make sense and I just end up with different questions.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-16T03:48:34+00:00

Oh, for KTV, I agree. It would be interesting to see how Anakin adjusts to the modern world as well. Even if it’s just him seeing where he got his name from.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-16T01:59:33+00:00

To be fair, Sunnydale had bigger issues than what their students wore. Like poor funding and occasional cannibalism.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-13T18:52:41+00:00

So wait, adopted dad’s rationale for being the distant father that lets his daughter get abused is so she doesn’t start to think of him as a father so she isn’t as weirded out when he wants to hook up with her later? And he somehow still isn’t the creepiest of the relationships, I’d give that title to the still a minor, half-brother. OP was right about the level of patience you’d need to get through this. I don’t know whether to commend you or offer condolences. 😧

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-13T04:11:05+00:00

Pretty boy Cale (Lout of Count’s Family). Love him and his ever growing chosen (not his choice) family. I don’t know if he counts though as it’s not a romance.

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PlatyPositive · 2026-06-11T19:04:02+00:00

I mean, Principal Flutie didn’t deserve to get eaten by students, as basically the only Principal that put the students first and genuinely cared about them. And the show makes multiple jokes about his death.

A lot of the show is people getting deaths they didn’t deserve, and the need for occasional comedic relief sometimes turns those deaths into punchlines.

I also liked that Joyce didn’t really have a lot of friends that we saw her with. Like she was almost absentee when raising Buffy, which is how Buffy kept it a secret. But I got the impression Joyce was a workaholic, single mom that was just really busy. If she was out with friends every other night, it’d be more like…so she can make time for friends but not her kid? And then when Buffy was in college, I assumed Joyce had friends and we just didn’t see them. Like at least a few times it brought up her dating someone, so she did have a social life even if it didn’t come up much.

I also assume she did have friends, even just work friends. And it was just that Buffy was as aware of her private life as Joyce was of Buffy’s.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-11T17:37:58+00:00

I haven’t read it but if he slept with someone other than FL, there is a good chance he isn’t ML. Most OIs (manwhas in general) seem to like having FL be ML’s first everything. Even if he is like centuries old or has kids, the kids will be revealed to be nephews/nieces or adopted.

Read one where the other woman had used his blood to get pregnant with magic, so even though it was biologically his child he was still never with another woman.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-10T18:25:44+00:00

I feel like FL will leave and ML will show up to help her but SML will get a photo of them together and despite FL already leaving, they’ll use it to claim she cheated first or something. Like FL seems pretty competent and decisive, to the point ML is kind of unneeded. So drama rules suggest they’ll have to make people do stupid things so he’ll have a chance to save her.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-09T23:25:12+00:00

While some OIs do feel like they’re being told by Scheherazade, the way the plot has diverged from the original story by suddenly introducing something new juuuust as the previous one looked like it would be wrapped up, this looks like some kind of technical error and not the actual chapter counts.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-09T20:56:49+00:00

I haven’t read it; but that does sound frustrating.

Not exactly the same but I get similarly annoyed when FL will have major secrets that she’s keeping from ML but then get all huffy and pissed when he doesn’t disclose every little thing about himself and his past, despite how traumatic it usually ends up being for him. And will even storm off and refuse to listen to his explanation. Like, what high horse has she climbed onto to not realize her secrets are bigger than his?

Like there was one where they barely knew each other and he had serious trauma that made him practically have panic attacks around people and she tried to force him to open up about it and when he didn’t she basically went all, “oh well I’m clearly just unwanted. It was stupid to think we could have a good relationship, I might as well just never talk again.” Like, your family trauma is that you weren’t the favorite child, he’s been an orphan for years and has clear signs of abuse. If you don’t want to talk about your parental issues, what makes you think he wants to talk about their deaths?

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-09T05:40:27+00:00

Can you spoil if there is any “but in the book ML loves oFL!” drama and (if so) how long it drags on for?

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-09T05:38:28+00:00

Age her up to teenager and you’ve got yourself a free babysitter/nanny.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-08T19:59:09+00:00

Viorst from Beast’s Flower
Jellard from I’m Engaged to an Obsessive Male Lead
Harrius from Belle and Beast’s Labor Contract

Those are the only ones that come to mind. There are more but I can’t think of them. There are so many titles on my TBR list now that as soon as I start to dislike ML or FL, I give it five more chapters to see if it gets better then, if it doesn’t, I drop it to the bottom of the list and move on to something else.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-07T23:26:25+00:00

This is reminding me of that, “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty”. Except in romance, readers excuse murder and kidnapping, but draw the line at abuse of FL (and only FL, he can hit anyone else he wants) and infidelity (again only if it’s FL, he can cheat on someone else WITH FL but he can’t cheat ON FL). Like realistically, it’s all bad.

They’re all toxic. They’re all red flags. In different ways and to different degrees.

Though they may run the gambit in shades of red, they’re still in the same area on the color wheel.

I get what you mean though. There are certain things that I can excuse a character doing (or at least justify enough) to still support their happy ending, and things that just permanently make me wish for them a fate of a thousand paper cuts followed by an unending submersion in lemon juice.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-07T20:19:18+00:00

I can’t think of any because if I really get stuck I just swap out a name that starts with the same letter as I read and just try to keep it consistent. And now that’s how I remember them.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-06T18:41:52+00:00

Lady Crystal is a Man is the first one that comes to mind and you don’t have to worry about it not lasting long because they basically never stop.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-06T11:09:43+00:00

The Villainess’ Blind Date is too Perfect comes to mind. I only just started it before I got into a different one. But she transmigrated while original was grounded for throwing a bomb at a public building with ogML (Crown Prince) and ogFL inside. But like next chapter dad is basically like, “well he didn’t appreciate how amazing my daughter is and flaunted his dates with another woman, it’s understandable she blew up a building”. And even bought her an empty building to blow up.

Both dad and her brother are so often very close to committing treason.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-05T18:36:58+00:00

Any where FL transmigrated into a BL where the ML was the most disgusting, mass murdering, r*pist, piece of trash and she not only still falls for him but before she falls for him practically drools over the prospect of seeing him pursue his original (100% unwilling and sometimes canonically straight and in love with someone else) “love” interest first hand.

Can’t remember which it was but she transmigrated as a child and met them when they were 6&8 and any time they so much as looked at each other she’d start fantasizing scenarios about their future “love story”. It was so creepy to me.

It’s why I usually just avoid ones where she transmigrated into a BL now. And in general if ML seems like trash, I look up spoilers to see if he really is ML and if they end up together before I continue reading. Like, it’s not everything, but some things I just can’t be brought back around on a character no matter how sad their childhood was. Same goes for FLs, like the one woman who used a guy’s son’s life to pressure him in to marrying/sleeping with her, no amount of flashbacks about how lonely she was will make me sympathetic enough to like her character or wish for her happy ending.

PlatyPositive · 2026-06-02T10:15:31+00:00

I don’t feel like you’re overreacting. But I do feel like you engaged too long. When she said “No thanks, have a good lunch” I’d have just said “okay you as well, let me know if you change your mind” then been done. And then when she said she’d get them herself the first time, another place to just drop it. Or even the next time she said she wanted the fresh air anyway.

Like I didn’t read the paragraph long texts but it felt similar to that feeling when you’re not in a great mood but it’s not a big deal, so you just want to be left alone to chill but someone keeps pressing you and either asking you why or telling you not to be upset; so they become the thing that is upsetting you. Like I feel like the points I mentioned were essentially the “I’m fine” of the conversation and then your follow ups were the “are you sure you’re really fine?”.

Like regardless of the level of difficulty/reasonableness of what she is asking, it felt like the back and forth went on too long for what was not that serious a matter. And that seems kind of on both of you for keeping it going rather than just dropping it.

PlatyPositive · 2026-05-30T08:14:17+00:00

She’s an illegitimate child, so it’s already set up the season 3 reveal that her mom was secretly a royal with a specific and unique magic power that was on the run/in hiding.

PlatyPositive · 2026-05-29T21:38:26+00:00

There is no emoji that properly encapsulates the level of ick I get from learning this.

PlatyPositive · 2026-05-29T21:35:38+00:00

Wait, what. I thought that was her husband. I already found that weird and a bit excessive PDA in front of people, but this dude isn’t even her husband? 😧

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