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Payneland / Painland Day 7 : Free Day

Two boys distracted by each other in their element amidst cases

“what’s the tea?” wattpad is pro censorship and driven mainly by capitalism, any work that is taboo and work that is just “smut without plot” is considered against wattpad’s rules and it can get removed if someone reports it to wattpad.

wattpad is also literally full of ads. if you want an ad-free wattpad experience, you will have to subscribe to wattpad premium. this won’t protect your works from censorship, it will just remove ads for you — so you can read fics without getting interrupted by ads every time you move to the next chapter.

also I guess wattpad premium allows you to download as many works as you want to read offline. whereas if you’re on free plan, you can only download a few works to read offline.

I believe the platform recently updates their rules. nothing changes. you still get ads and censorship. but they just make the rules more strict in regards of smut without any real plot. so basically their new policy just makes things even worse for their own users.

mind you, on ao3, there’s zero censorship. you can post the most filthy porn without plot fic on ao3. you can post the most taboo fic on ao3. ao3 was created specifically to host this exact type of fic. and also. no ads. you can download as many fics as you want to read offline. and everything is free.

like maybe it's just cause im super aroace and don't really understand what romance is/meant to feel like but whenever i think about shse i just think that those two are not the type to have the clean label of boyfriends, and like not in the fanfic 'ive accidentally been dating my best friend for a year' way but more that labels aren't a thing that matter to them or their relationship

i do see them as the type where everyone looks at them and Thinks They're Dating or pushes them to finally ask the other person out because obviously you're into each other!!! why aren't you dating yet???? but i think that's something pushed onto them by the people around them

like im pretty sure neither of them would deny being boyfriends if someone said it, but i don't think it's the label THEY would use for themselves

*particularly i think suho might deny it at first bc he worries about how sieun would react but sieun does not gaf in the slightest. he does not care about what other people think of his relationship with suho. shse is shse business and as long as it makes sense to the two of them, sieun could not care less about what others think. once suho learns that sieun doesn't care whether people call them best friends or boyfriends or 'just roommates', he also stops bothering because if sieun doesn't mind then, hey, he doesn't either!

suho and sieun strike me as both being very secure in themselves and their own identity. the moments they falter and start to doubt themselves are when they hurt the people they love or blame themselves for allowing the people they love to get hurt. i think if either sieun or suho DID care about labels, then the other would care as well, because they care about what the other person thinks, but external comments wouldn't shake them because they're not insecure about their relationship