BL - (trigger) warnings

BL - (trigger) warnings
Just a quick overview of (trigger) warnings for the novels I read/dropped.

Includes all forms of abuse, unhealthy relationships in general, questionable content, and horror elements.

(Only novels that aren't tagged properly will go on this list, always read the tags, stay safe while reading!)
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idlehands
Created: Apr 13th, 2021, Updated: Apr 9th, 2022
Created Apr 13th, 2021
Updated Apr 9th, 2022
CN (4.4)
65 Chapters Every 45.2 Day(s) 2004 Readers 9 Reviews 08-21-2022
Very disrespectful to mentally ill people, "comedy" just isn't an excuse for something that goes this far.
CN (3.5)
178 Chapters Every 101.3 Day(s) 3937 Readers 31 Reviews 02-13-2020
Warning: r*pe, s*xual abuse.... more>>
CN (4.1)
226 Chapters Every 70.6 Day(s) 4394 Readers 35 Reviews 06-09-2021
Warning: Attempted r*pe.... more>>
CN (4.4)
187 Chapters Every 3.5 Day(s) 10680 Readers 169 Reviews 02-19-2024
Dropped at c60.... more>>
CN (3.7)
109 Chapters Every 40.8 Day(s) 4600 Readers 30 Reviews 12-13-2022
Warning: Paedophilia.... more>>
JP (4.2)
0 Chapters Every 1544 Day(s) 1998 Readers 8 Reviews N/A
Warning: Shota, borderline paedophilia.... more>>
JP (4.2)
167 Chapters Every 53.1 Day(s) 12260 Readers 81 Reviews 12-07-2023
Warning: Dub-con.... more>>
CN (3.7)
220 Chapters Every 56 Day(s) 6967 Readers 75 Reviews 12-31-2021
Warning: Dub-con, depending on how you see it, r*pe.... more>>
CN (4.6)
0 Chapters Every 1854 Day(s) 8142 Readers 91 Reviews N/A
Extremely manipulative ML, he tells MC to find someone else, then sabotages all of his dates and humiliates him by making fun of his attempts... more>>
CN (4.7)
199 Chapters Every 74.4 Day(s) 8996 Readers 175 Reviews 03-19-2021
Uses a tragic mental illness like dissociative identity disorder as a plot device, disregards all facts about it, and pulls "the other personality is a psychopath".... more>>
CN (4.6)
340 Chapters Every 81.3 Day(s) 8938 Readers 144 Reviews 12-09-2020
Warning: Dub-con.... more>>
JP (4.2)
89 Chapters Every 74.3 Day(s) 5921 Readers 113 Reviews 09-30-2021
Warning: r*pe, bestiality, r*pe done by animals, manipulation, human trafficking, the list goes on.... more>>
CN (4)
70 Chapters Every 36.3 Day(s) 3734 Readers 17 Reviews 10-08-2023
Very uncomfortable, ML gropes MC, hints to him to climb his bed, touches him without consent, gives him resources/help he never asked for, then acts... more>>
CN (4.1)
179 Chapters Every 43.3 Day(s) 8036 Readers 59 Reviews 12-25-2023
Warning: r*pe.... more>>
CN (3.8)
0 Chapters Every 1548 Day(s) 1693 Readers 4 Reviews 01-04-2020
Every single arc uses mental illness as an explanation for why the criminal turned into a psychopath, and none of the illnesses/disorders is even remotely accurate.... more>>
CN (4.2)
214 Chapters Every 100.6 Day(s) 10025 Readers 124 Reviews 03-01-2020
Horrible, highly abusive relationship.... more>>
CN (4.1)
152 Chapters Every 4 Day(s) 4739 Readers 18 Reviews 03-25-2024
Warning: Shota?... more>>
JP (3.8)
42 Chapters Every 3.1 Day(s) 2188 Readers 8 Reviews 11-09-2020
Warning: Paedophilia.... more>>
CN (4.3)
123 Chapters Every 122.2 Day(s) 5955 Readers 82 Reviews 05-30-2019
Warnings: Shota, dub-con, lots of manipulation, violent s*x.... more>>
CN (4.8)
0 Chapters Every 1523 Day(s) 11945 Readers 293 Reviews N/A
Warning: Torture, gore, body horror, women treated like breeding stock.... more>>
CN (4.5)
101 Chapters Every 95.2 Day(s) 12228 Readers 154 Reviews 08-17-2020
MC uses ML for personal gains, while ML forces himself on MC, makes unwanted intimate body contact (trying to kiss him, groping, etc.), and doesn’t stop when being told “no” - he feels quite entitled to “compensation” for helping MC.... more>>
CN (4.8)
#22SAYE
218 Chapters Every 5.7 Day(s) 6866 Readers 71 Reviews 03-28-2024
The couple tends to be violent with each other at the start, they have some serious physical fights and are overall not healthy for the other.... more>>
CN (2.2)
170 Chapters Every 44.3 Day(s) 1656 Readers 90 Reviews 06-21-2022
Warnings: Severe physical abuse, domestic violence, manipulation, cheating, etc.... more>>
CN (4.4)
0 Chapters Every 1859 Day(s) 23475 Readers 459 Reviews N/A
Warnings: Physical abuse, s*xual abuse, necrophilia.... more>>
CN (4.2)
#25Qizi
225 Chapters Every 6.5 Day(s) 4175 Readers 48 Reviews 01-01-2024
Warnings: s*xual assault/rape, physical torture, psychological torture... more>>
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  1. darkchocolatesan
    darkchocolatesan· Apr 22, 2021 06:36 AM
    Half of wuxia/xianxia cultivation novels need to go on here, so many of them have the "younger disciple pushing reluctant MC to get together with them" trope. It's the main reason I tend to steer away from cultivation novels, just from the history of hoping that the author won't use that trope and being disappointed.
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    • yukinoluna
      yukinoluna· Apr 22, 2021 07:37 AM
      You just said everything I had on my mind! I love master-disciple tropes but it ALWAYS ends with some r*pe or pseudo r*pe and it disgusts me because the characters just brush it all aside, and the author portrays it as "love~".
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    • idlehands
      idlehands· Author · Apr 22, 2021 12:20 PM
      Yes, it’s quite sad. I’m a big fan of Wuxia/Xianxia but I had to drop so many, one just a few days ago because I could already see where it was going.
      QT seems to have the same problem, it’s overall so prevalent in Danmei/BL as a whole that 7 out of 10 novels would have to go on this list.
      It’s frustrating.
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    • yukinoluna
      yukinoluna· Apr 22, 2021 01:03 PM

      @idlehands Yes, totally. I used to read a lot of danmeis but they always end up in two directions: one, straight bottom main character falling in love with ML for no reason, or r*pe as a start of a relationship. I don't know if it's translated or not, but I read one danmei where the disciple r*pes his master (MC) when the MC was poisoned and hence unconscious, and didn't tell him until MC "died". MC was so angry when he found out because ML was like his son to him, but then later on the MC brushed it off by saying "Oh whatever, I'm not a girl anyway." Like what???? Can they stop this nonsense? r*pe is still r*pe regardless of gender oh my god. Needless to say, I dropped it after that line.

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  2. chiakiss
    chiakiss· Apr 15, 2021 12:30 PM
    based on this, avoid rebirth of the wolfish silkpants bottom and after being transported into a book i adopted a villain too
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    • idlehands
      idlehands· Author · Apr 17, 2021 04:44 AM
      Adopted a villain was already on my blacklist, I'll put Silkpants Bottom on there asap, thank you for mentioning it!
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  3. Grey_Angel
    Grey_Angel· Apr 20, 2021 07:20 AM
    Thank you very much for your warnings. <3 clear.png
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    • idlehands
      idlehands· Author · Apr 22, 2021 12:22 PM
      You are very welcome! :)
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  4. Eatingabug
    Eatingabug· Nov 17, 2023 06:10 PM

    Ik you are no longer active but are you still reading danmei?clear.png I been just reading danmei novels but most of them are so non-con/ weird asfclear.png I can look past idk maybe some toxic traits  like every straight mainstream tv show romance but these are crazy clear.png I don’t wanna give up but 8/10 story I pick up, I immediately dropped and my heart hurts even more with those occasionally good writers but just write the most deranged sh*t and the gong gets forgiven in like one second after doing the worst possible thing a man can do to his partner. I think I don’t hate dog blood but idkclear.png I am just leaving my first comment on novel-update to tell you, you are not alone and I appreciate your list about pointing out these problems 

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  5. ricoerrr
    ricoerrr· Mar 16, 2023 07:35 AM

    Op, have you thought about not reading danmei? I see that you're no longer active here so it's probably a good thing you're no longer reading a genre that's obviously so triggering to you. Nearly all of your reviews are extremely scathing and cherry picking all the bad parts you find icky, magnifying problems that hardly exists, and straight up assuming the worst in the author and readers for creating/enjoying said content, to the point that even the most innocuous novel can have problematic content by your standards. I don't understand how someone so uppity like you even got into danmei in the first place.

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  6. ireadandwrite
    ireadandwrite· Nov 12, 2022 03:33 PM
    idk if you're going to see this but i'll still write it. i've been into danmei these days, i'm currently reading (novel and manhua) MDZS by MXTX and will continue to watch the SS2 of the donghua !! and i recently found out that she also wrote the #24 on the list (SVSSS) and heaven official's blessing! upon reading the synopsis of SVSSS, i got really scared and searched for far more details about the background story, hoping that it will be a light drama but i was wrong. i am really not a fan of tragedy tagged stories + the stressful dramas and the traumatic past a character has (not to mention the abuse you mentioned) . this list that you made is helpful for someone /like me/ who has some serious problems about these types of stories. thank you for creating this!

    p.s i created an account just to comment this lmao

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  7. NightSky_
    NightSky_· Jul 3, 2022 10:24 PM

    Thank you very much for alerting us to problems in BL novels, especially popular ones with high ratings and admiring reviews!clear.png

    I wanted to read some of the ones you presented on the list, and I was really scared that I could really read them, because I have a little trigger for dubcon, r*pe, and other terrible crimes and moralless things. Also I'm amazed that all these novels are very popular and are at the top of the rankingsclear.pngclear.pngclear.png

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