Teahouse/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • And the Fandom Rejoiced: Going from updating three times a month to once every week.
  • Base Breaker: On one hand, there is a bunch of fans who love Linneus for being cute, dainty, sweet and a Love Martyr - an ever popular character type among Yaoi fans; on the other hand, you have the ones that can't stand him for being far too effeminate, gutless and weak, even for an Uke.
  • Die for Our Ship: Lilith is unpopular to say the least, since she has passage into Xanthe's pants while Linneus is left USTing.
    • Yvette has only been introduced for a few pages and she's already being flamed for being married to Xanthe, being pregnant with his child, and for using manipulation so her workaholic husband would actually spend time with her. From just a few pages some fans are convinced that she's a manipulative bitch who tricked Xanthe into their marriage/the baby/both, told Linneus about the baby just to hurt him, and since its clearly an arranged marriage Xanthe doesn't have to be faithful to her because she didn't 'earn' him.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: For a character who, until page fifty, didn't have a single line of dialogue, Mercutio is wildly popular.
    • Gilder, who's only appeared in 7 pages so far, seems quite popular.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: Xanthe's adding of two sugar cubes to Linneus' tea made for a very heartwarming scene on its own, but its heartwarming level was upped after a later childhood flashback scene between the two, where Xanthe lightly chastises a young Linneus for putting more than one sugar in his tea.
  • The Scrappy: The majority of the fandom (if the comments are anything to judge by) hates Lilith, mostly because she comes between Atros and Linneus. That, and the fact that she is a gigantic bitch.
  • Unfortunate Implications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. This is repeated with Gloria, Rhys's fiancee.
    • The former description of Linneus on the cast page said "He's practically a woman. He wants to have millions of Atros' babies".
    • On a similar note, Mercutio is described as "gross". The most he is is kinky, which is implied to be the reason for that description.
    • Reed's OCD being treated as a character quirk that makes him seem snobby, instead of a crippling mental disorder.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Despite the authors Lampshading this on the website's character descriptions, some people still confuse Linneus' sex. You can't really blame them, though.
  • The Woobie: Five-year-old Linneus is the Woobiest thing ever to exist, but Rory definitely qualifies in the present storyline.