Remind you that this is the same guy who brushed his teeth like crazy after kissing his contract wife during the wedding and now he is putting his wife's snot filled handkerchief inside his uniform!!! Even I wouldn't do that 😭😭. But whatever glad do see him finally showing his love for her ❤️
Chapter - 49
I recently picked this manhwa back up, and it’s a masterpiece in every sense. I love how everything involving Penelope makes sense; other protagonists, as soon as they enter a game or a book, immediately view the characters as real people—which, let's be honest, doesn't make sense until some time has passed—but Penelope sees them as game characters most of the time, which is the most natural reaction. Plus, she’s no saint; she does whatever it takes to survive, which is justifiable. She isn't perfect, but she isn't evil either; she has a good heart but is simply very afraid, which makes total sense. And the development of the relationship between Penelope and Callisto—oh my god, it’s beautiful. I loved it. I wonder if anyone doubted she’d end up with him; at first, I was confused about who the male lead was. I’d love to read more manhwas like this one, and I really hope it gets an anime adaptation—it deserves it. It would be one of the best in the genre. I also have a question: I’ve finished the manhwa, but I want to know if there’s more content, because a lot of people say they have a daughter.
source: Death Is the Only Ending for the Villainess
I'm still reeling from someone calling Louise a damsel on distress when she is the main ambitious schemer in the family and can honestly be absolutely unhinged when it comes to risking her safety to either to protect him or frame a situation.
I think maybe people miss it because of her big moe eyes.....
With Tapas closing, I built a tracker that checks the licensed platforms every day for every Tapas series and shows where each one can still be read in English. Of the 2,365 Tapas titles it follows, 442 already have a second home; 1,923 are Tapas-only in English for now and get re-checked daily.
The OI ones people keep asking about:
- The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion: Yen Press, Tappytoon
- I Will Become the Villain's Poison Taster: WEBTOON, Tappytoon, Lezhin, Manta
- Lady Beast: Tappytoon, Lezhin, Manta, WebComics, Comikey
- A Royal Princess with Black Hair: Manta, WebComics, Comikey, Tappytoon, Lezhin
- The First Night with the Duke: WEBTOON, Lezhin, Manta, Tappytoon, Comikey
- The Destroyer Fell in Love with Me: Lezhin, Comikey, Manta, Tappytoon
Each entry says whether it's free, wait-until-free, subscription or paid on that platform: https://findmanhwa.com/en/tapas-shutdown
Disclosure: my site, licensed platforms only, no chapters hosted, no ads. Corrections welcome, I'd rather fix a wrong entry than have someone buy the wrong app.
Just to note its not AI slop, if you check my user history you can see I've been active in DevOps communities.
UPDATE:
at a few peoples request i created a very similar site (almost a clone of the website) for webnovels:
https://findwebnovels.com/
Titles:
i dont think i ever saw something like this in OI
So we've all heard the news -- Tapas is shutting down in March. And I've heard a lot of people wondering about how to save the chapters that they have legally purchased. This is a thing I think people should be able to do!
To start off: this is not a piracy guide. This guide is only going to talk about how to download chapters you have purchased. You will have to log into your Tapas account as part of this method. You'll only have access to stuff your account has access to! (This note is just as much for the mods as everyone else: this isn't piracy! It is retaining a copy of something you have legally paid for.)
I've seen some people talk about using extensions to save chapters as PDFs, which horrifies me just a bit. Like, it'd work, I guess! But it's by far not an ideal format for this. The file sizes are way bigger than you need, it may get broken up into pages, it's not easily readable in actual apps dedicated to reading comics, etc.
So what format do we want instead? CBZ. CBZ is a standard, widely-accepted comic book file format. What is it exactly? It's a ZIP file of a folder with a set of numbered images, whose .zip extension has been changed to .cbz. That's all! A bunch of images, numbered in order, and then zipped up. The resulting file size is going to be the size of the images and nothing else. And then there are countless readers for every platform (mobile, desktop, etc.) that are designed to read this format, and they're generally an even better user experience than the official platform readers.
So how do we get the CBZ files for the chapters that we own? I'll touch on a few options I'm familiar with.
HakuNeko - Desktop client for Windows and Mac. There are two main versions, a newer rewrite of the program (HaruNeko) and the old legacy version. Both support Tapas. You will need to utilize the option within the program to open the website and log in. Once you've done that, and possibly refreshed or reopened stuff, you'll start being able to search up the titles you own and download them. The program has settings for the format you want to download. As I mentioned before, I strongly recommend CBZ!
HaruNeko has documentation on its page, as well as a Discord server, for more detailed info.
The Tachiyomi Ecosphere - There are a variety of programs based around the general infrastructure of the original Tachiyomi app, which was a comics reader that allowed for extensions to access certain sites. So you'll need a program or app and also an extension.
Programs/Apps:
(This is a non-exhaustive list! I just wanted to hit on the major ones.)
Extensions:
Generally the way these programs/apps work is you add an extension, and then you can search for the sources that extension has set up. Keiyoushi is a popular standard and includes Tapas as a source. If you're on Android with a Mihon or Mihon-adjacent app, you can click the button on Keiyoushi's Getting Started page to add the extension automatically to your app of choice. Otherwise, expand the "Adding the store manually" option and get the URL provided; this is what you'll use to add the extension to a non-Android app.
Once again, you'll have to utilize the option to open Tapas within your app of choice, generally in what all the apps call WebView, log in, and then refresh a given title to unlock your purchased chapters within the app. Then you can select the option to download the chapters you want to keep! They will be saved on whatever device you're downloading them on, be it your computer or phone.
(A note about Keiyoushi: Technically, they only support Mihon and Komikku from the above list. However, Tachimanga and Suwayomi regularly make updates to keep themselves compatible with Keiyoushi, since it's the most major extension source. So if extensions start acting wonky on Tachimanga or Suwayomi, you may just need to wait for them to update.)
A few more general notes:
Good luck! I think we should all have the right to retain digital products we purchase for our own personal use, especially in situations like this.
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Obviously I don't want them to actually succeed, which means I'm discounting any story where the FL or ML successfully takes their life only to be reincarnated or regressed to an earlier point in their life. So no The Broken Ring, for example, even though Ines does it twice.
This may be a bit messed up to say, but I like seeing stories where the FL or ML hits their limit of tolerance for the awful things they have to deal with in life. They hate the people around them, they hate the world they live in, they lived and survived and fought for all the years beforehand but got to a point where they just didn't have the will or the energy to keep fighting if it meant they kept just getting more bullshit out of it.
I could also include stories like The Cruelty of Salvation or How To Win My Husband Over where the FLs hit their limit and are living in just absolute despair with no hope but haven't actually tried taking their own life. That's the kind of angsty feeling.
HOWEVER -- and this is equally as important!
I don't want a ML who was the original cause of the despair and desire to not live anymore 'making up for it' by groveling and redeeming themselves. I can also like those stories, but that's not the mood I'm in right now.
What I want is a more of a story where that same FL or ML finds happiness and purpose afterwards. It can be because they find a new resolve or a situation presents itself that helps them finally pull themselves out of the bullshit. Or it could be something, or someone (say the FL/ML) appearing just in time to start giving them nice things and show them good reasons to keep living. Whether it's just having someone on their side to care for and love them, or giving them a purpose they can believe in, or surrounding them with people who actually give a shit and want them to be happy...
That scene from The Cruelty of Salvation where Olivia sobbing in absolute despair as she walks down a deserted road, only for Noah to appear like a miracle and propose to her as her salvation, is one of my favourites. But I also love Kill The Villainess or other revenge stories where the FL finds purpose in getting revenge first, but by then having more to live for so they don't go through with taking their own life.
Honestly I'd fuck with a story where the FL gets her revenge by having a whole village, city, country or world destroyed because of her hatred for the world she was reincarnated into. Just full villainess ending, kind of like what happens with Roxana where her revenge is her whole family (couple of exceptions aside) being wiped out, but she never really got to that point of despair... more just pure hatred.
Any and all recs are wanted, with those guidelines in mind!
Forget about dense FLs and nonchalant MLs, need more dense MLs being as red as tomatoes 🍅
Ughh I love them a bit too much for my heart to handle 😔
But I really never expected Arvid to be a blushy mess. At the beginning he really was the nonchalant sort, but love this part of him too.
Sometimes a character is so iconic or well-written or gorgeous , I genuinly find myself wondering , do I want to BE WITH him/her or Do I aspire to be LIKE HIM/HER?😭✨ Sources-
Shuri - A stepmother marchen
Rosentine-A secret lady
Rosen-Your eternal lies
Ellen-How to win my husband over
Cassia-Baroness goes on strike
Bianca-Marriage of Convenience
Lily-Who made me a princess
Diana-Who made me a princess
I know these are all female characters but maybe I am just a sucker for iconic well-written female characters but istg I love iconic male characters too😭😭✨✨✨
I would love to y'all "Do I want to be with them, or do I want to be them" characters😭✨
here's the link I hope yall enjoy ^-^
tbh I referenced my own experiences with panic attacks and the sure delirious trance like state they can be sometimes.
Like both never gets romantically involved and just do their shit and than get divorced