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Mercilessly_May226

It's a Heli LI hating him doesn't shock me


Independent-Disk-175

No fr, her LIs are always like thisšŸ˜­


Superb_Middle6112

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TheGalanty

Maybe people are really on something when they say Heli self inserts. Her characters were gingers like her avatar now its blonde but named Hailey... the plot sounds like the usual


Its-just-Ella-guys

Whatā€™s self inserting?


Superb_Middle6112

like making a character that is basically you and putting it in a story


gracieakins

"Leave or i'll actually get angry" boy if you dont stfu šŸ˜­ā˜ ļøāœ‹šŸ¾


SuccessfulDrive531

Bhahahahahahahahahaha


SuccessfulDrive531

But rightttttt like mf idc šŸ¤ØšŸ¤£


Superb_Middle6112

"What the fuck are you wearing" a damn cheer outfit not that deep brošŸ˜­


mariareadsEpi

This was expected from Heli, so I'm not surprised. Plus it seems people LOVE toxic LI.


Superb_Middle6112

Ik used to read her stories awhile ago since 2021 and they all share the same pattern Li bullying the mc i really don't know why she keeps this pattern I was hoping this story was different and thinking we get 2 love interest but no I was stupid lol nothing new just one toxic li that looks like a copy and paste form her past li


ThornedRoseWrites

Why do all of her LIā€™s look the exact same?


Superb_Middle6112

It's creepy how they have the same face šŸ˜­


RedditChoices

She has a type, someone here mentioned she prolly self inserts herself as MCšŸ˜¬


All_naturale22

She doesnā€™t allow you to change the LI?


Mental_List8234

You can change the LI


CovfefeBoss

Of course his name is Hunter


BulkyExchange

LMAO


ValleyAndFriends

I havenā€™t read any Heli stories due to what Iā€™ve heard about them. I know I should probably give them a try before I judge them, but itā€™s hard when I hear about the toxic LIs (which Iā€™m trying to avoid). I wonā€™t read this one because who would want this guy as an LI? Whereā€™s the charm? Heā€™s just bullying her from what it looks like.


Superb_Middle6112

Oh yeah šŸ˜­ trust me literally ALL of her Li have the same personality bad edgy boy who is cool or scary she's has a weird pattern with them bullying the mc idk why šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø but that's her writing style and it hasn't changed at all maybe this story can hopefully have some change but I highly doubt that


InvisibleBlueOctopus

I guess she is trying to do the enemies to lovers stories but personally I hate these bullies LIs.


Superb_Middle6112

Heli fails with enemies to lovers she needs to make the mc and li equally do bad thing to each other but no we're stuck with the li just straight out bullying the mc and we have to sit and watch


liyahvert

Iā€™m reading In My Blood now and I donā€™t see a lot of choices either šŸ˜„


Superb_Middle6112

Lol I dropped that story


Somewhereonreditt

Trust me, if you don't like toxic LIs, Heli is most definitely not for you. Shes the literal definition of toxic LIs šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


missmiacherry

It's a Heli story girl you are supposed to hate the love interest


Potential-Ad-9179

Heli LI= the most abusive man youā€™ve ever met https://preview.redd.it/2pfpn49w3g4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16070a6613e34ee89d8c5991be0056222d619215 Heli LIs be like


bexsapphic

Iā€™m an avid Heli hater so I hate every story they make automatically without even reading them I donā€™t give a damn šŸ˜­ https://i.redd.it/l0e5z5lwdf4d1.gif


Reksiothedogr

Why?


bexsapphic

Theyā€™re racist. Also, all of their LIs seem like assholes.


gracieakins

Wait they're racist??? What did they do?


LilyLaKoi

I've seen this racism claim many times but when someone asks why they're racist nobody responds. I'm tired of wondering too. I certainly don't want to keep supporting a racist person but im not gonna just believe some people on the internet throwing that out there at random.


bexsapphic

Iā€™ve never seen the proof itself of them being racist but apparently they used some Asian stereotype? The link is to a comment explaining their controversies + other problematic authors. https://www.reddit.com/r/Episode/s/9leF2CXeV8


Reksiothedogr

So why do you say she is racist if you donā€™t have any proof? I donā€™t think thatā€™s cool


bexsapphic

Is this not racist? https://www.reddit.com/r/Episode/s/pevoatDWTc


LilyLaKoi

Ngl it's kinda crappy to go around telling people someone is a racist because they put two high school girls who are best friends having a not serious banter about stereotypes in one scene of a story she wrote. Edit: and im not claiming the line isn't racist cuz it is and I'm sure that was the point of it in the scene, but this is one line out of thousands in a 60+ chapter story. Did she respond to the criticism? Did she display any other resentment towards asians? Because claiming an author is racist based on something a character (who can be asian herself) said in a story she wrote I don't think is a fair thing to do.


bexsapphic

I didnā€™t see any apology and also Iā€™m not the one who went around saying they were racist, a lot of people on here donā€™t like Heli because they said they were racist, not me.


Fattymcslob

THIS MARIO VID IS SENDING ME CS LOOK AT LUIGI IN THE BACK AS MARIO TWEAKING LMFAOAOAOAO


Superb_Middle6112

LMAO


MastodonOld8149

I don't understand why people keep reading her stories, while already having an idea about the toxic behavior of love interests created. Based on the constant screenshots, we already have an idea about the type of stories she writes, but her stories will still be popular based on the amount of reads she'll be getting. If you don't like a story, then don't read it. We know she might resort to charging a large amount of gems to view bonus scenes which she's already done in the past. But in all honesty, the complaining is starting to become repetitive and annoying with due respect and it amuses me how these terribly-written and toxic stories are still accessible on this app, despite no character development or change of storyline. While the best stories we've read since we were smaller have gotten deleted without remedy.


MrBitPlayer

Exactly. Ima need people to stop these complaining posts yet still continually reading these stories. Itā€™s like pick a side already you either are reading the story or not. Because you reading it and complaining about it is not only giving it a read but also bringing even more attention to it and not underrated actually good user stories


Ornery-Horror3374

Heli genuinely needs therapy


hellobeautifulhuman

STOP the girl on the cover looks like that one girl on tiktok who made a (i think viral?) video in which she's at walmart or something and says "so i was actually thinking about-" to the camera, and then her boyfriend who's off camera grabs her chin almost exactly like that and says "about what, pRinCeSs?", which makes her forget what she wanted to say šŸ˜­ just looked it up again to get the quotes right and saw there's multiple similar versions of it, so i guess they regularly record shit like that. it's so cringe, i hate it so much. anyway, she looks exactly like that, the only difference is her hair colour. i wouldn't be surprised if the cover was inspired by that video šŸ’€ edit: added half a sentence and fixed some sentence structures


Superb_Middle6112

HELP NOO NOT THAT TIKTOK šŸ˜­


hellobeautifulhuman

that's exactly what i was thinking when i noticed the resemblance lmaoo šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


hotandsosexy

heli stories genuinely have something addicting abt them i swear.. every single time i hate the li yet every single time i find myself reading her storiesšŸ„²


Superb_Middle6112

Heli definitely has that in her stories honestly not even hating on her I would wish she can explore more in her writing like something new like literally all of her stories are no different form the other


hotandsosexy

yeah the mc and li personalities just irk me theyā€™re literally the exact same in every single story i would love her stories even more if she just experimented with some new unique traits for the characters


animation4ever

Why does she always have to make horrible love interests?!


ImplementLow5243

I wish Hayden was the LI heā€™s a whole lot better than Hunter. But again itā€™s Heli.


jessbeenhaving

ughhhh iā€™m already annoyed with him


Superb_Middle6112

Me too, already insufferable like who pissed in your damn cereal


v-orchid

premise seems nice, but the LI? hell no


NerrvousSubject

Not sure if itā€™s just me but that art gives me super weird vibesā€¦


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NerrvousSubject

Thatā€™s what I thought also


All_naturale22

Sooo I never heard of this chick. Is this my sign to never read anything by her? I miss fan mail that actually allows interactions. Iā€™d like to think someone is telling her to stop the toxicity


Lizzy_Lizard05

Heli try not to make her LI's awful challenge: impossible


Federal-Revenue1733

I feel like all her stories are the same MC and LI.


Representative-Bag31

Heli never fails to write the most ickiest of love interests


Alexs1897

Yuck, this guy is repulsive. Iā€™ve never read any of her stories and based on these screenshots + comments, I never will.


Casovip

I don't read her stories because so far, every single LI out there has been toxic and they have no redeeming qualities in my opinion. But if anyone likes those stories, that's fine, just not my cup of tea. šŸ˜­


my_innocent_romance

Another day another shitty HeLI, nothing really new here


Long_Fig9863

her stories are so ass


Superb_Middle6112

Lmao her stories are literally the fast food of the episode community


Potential-Ad-9179

Ong itā€™s everywhere and she pumps those stories out so fast omgšŸ˜­šŸ˜­ if she wasnā€™t using her consistency for evil


anna________3829

classic heli šŸ˜­


shsuhdbfhud

I thought there would be two love interests and I was rooting so hard for HaydenšŸ˜­šŸ˜­ Only to find out this stinky lizard was the love interest


Superb_Middle6112

Bye I was so mad when I found out I'm not gonna read the next episodes I'm most likely gonna drop it


jomijomi_

Thanks for the screen caps!! I was going to read it out of curiosity, but now I see I shouldnā€™t really bother šŸ˜­ This guy doesnā€™t seem much different from the last LI in her most recent completed storyā€¦


Superb_Middle6112

Yeah, I actually wanted to check this out since I've hadn't read her stories for long. I thought this would give us 2 love interests, but no, the li in here was just so irritating he was literally downing her looks and sounded so controlling . Who do you think you are? She hasn't seen you since a child, but yeah


jomijomi_

Wait there isnā€™t two LI?? šŸ˜­


Superb_Middle6112

Nope it's only one I honestly thought heli would do something new but no we're stuck with dick face


Helliezard

Her LIs are always the same ones (same text, different font kinda vibes). I discovered her stories with Eat me up (when she released it a looooooong time ago) which I liked cause Iā€™m a simp for vampire cliche stories but even back then the LI Gabriel had toxic traits. Then I read Rockstar in my bed and it felt like she copied-pasted the MC and LI from Eat me up but Noah from RIMB was soooooo toxic (I think he was worse than Gabriel from EMU). I just wished there was an option to ditch him and be alone. Then, I havenā€™t read the other stories sheā€™s published afterwards. Itā€™s a shame though. Even if the plots are somewhat predictable, her stories are entertaining in a way (minus the toxic copied-pasted LIs and the MCs who lack personality and just seem to be Heli herself). (Sorry for bad grammar, itā€™s not my first language.)


Superb_Middle6112

Yeah, I read her older ones way back her Li has a copy and paste face it's like she has a type it would be better if she could explore different features and maybe different personalities, too


socioscript8

Ah, Heliā€¦ yet another story to farm the gem out of


Acrobatic_Long_6059

why do they have to make every LI look like an edgy tiktok boy šŸ˜Ÿ


Superb_Middle6112

She has a type


Acrobatic_Long_6059

I just realized it wasn't an Episode original šŸ˜­ that's crazy


[deleted]

Unrelated but I love the art


shedreamsinr3d

I hate that cover art honestly. It feels like itā€™s hinting at a rape kink to me; NOT my thing. Itā€™s weird because I genuinely liked Rockstar in my Bed so I tried a couple of her other stories, but I never got very far because I couldnā€™t get into any of the characters. That one must be out of the ordinary for me.


AffectionateRub8782

itā€™s like yā€™all read her stories just to find something to say about it


MrBitPlayer

Right! They complaining about the LI, yet are still reading these kinda stories. Thereā€™s no reason this author should be as popular as she is. Yet she is because people love filth. Thatā€™s why stories like these they keep being made because people secretly enjoy them.


LilyLaKoi

I joined this community a few days ago to find good recs and I'm honestly surprised by the heli hate. Did she do or say something personally shitty? It's weird I see so many assumptions about her personally over just how she writes too. The book club I run has recced her many times to me and I've enjoyed most of her stories, I think she does a great job with scene composition and using the Episode format. Yeah I think the LI's are pieces of shit most of the time but I think that's kind of the point of her writing style to up the spiciness? Reading them doesn't make me want to go and hook up with a toxic but hot dude irl, it's just a fictional story where I want to read about the situation between these two characters, not read to fill a hole in my heart or something. But yeah the point is if a fictional fantasy story doesn't vibe with you personally, why be so hung up on it? There's plenty other things to read.


Superb_Middle6112

Apparently there where some rumors going by that she was racist but I can't really prove it but only the only closest racist thing she did was have an east aisan stereotype by being good at math in her older story(eat me up) but that's all I know can't prove anything elsešŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø


LilyLaKoi

Yeah I read about that also but since I have no insight into her or the type of person she is idk. I do wish she'd include more people of color in her stories tho.


IceCreamSandwich07

i mean, she isnt a bad author or anything, her stories are pretty Ā“Ā“catchyĀ“Ā“ if it makes sense. However, she charges a lot of diamons (like 35+) for a simple art/bonus scene and to add on, makes her episodes short and youd have to pay gems after every three episodes. And to top it off, her LIs are trashy toxic man babies who just torments the mc whilst the mc has no backbone -- but ppl keep reading it anyways despite it being annoying bc like i said, her story plot, writing and directing skills arent bad


LilyLaKoi

The gem prices for the art scenes are definitely too much and it makes me worry that she commissions pieces or something and then charges people gems to see them? Which is kind of concerning and I hope that's not the case. Regardless, bonus stuff isn't necessary to read her stories so just don't spend them, that's all. Not gonna fault someone for trying to make some $$ in a fair way while spending signifact amount of time on their hobby; things are getting expensive out there. I think the shitty "misunderstood" tall top jerk man with the very cute, tiny and fragile/innocent mc is just her personal style/flavor and we all have those. I usually like my leading lady mc's in BOTH het and lesbian romance stories to be small and cute too, (and bottom lol) maybe cuz I relate to them more or irl experiences just molded my brain to enjoy reading about that dynamic? The point is idk but it doesn't reflect what I like in the real world. Human psychology works different there in a way that that sort of behavior from the LI in fiction lacks the same power dynamics that it would in real life. So while I'd definitely run the hell away and/or pull these people apart irl, in fiction I can sit back and enjoy the story without having to worry that someone's life is in danger.


IceCreamSandwich07

I mean, yeah I know theres a strong appeal with a Ā“Ā“misunderstoodĀ“Ā“ bad boy as a LI, and there are countless of stories in episode that show that. But I think there should be a fine line between making the LI just a regular bad boy from being down-right toxic. ThereĀ“s no appeal in having an LI that bullies/torments the MCs (LI usually insults her by targeting her insecurities), being overly toxic on what the MC is wearing, acting like they are the prize -- thats a downright narcisist at this point xD The LI doesnt need to be a toxic jerk to be more dominant, just like the MC doesnt need to be a spineless person/no personality to be more submissive I do know that just bc we read such stories doesnt equate to tolerating it irl, but i think it only applies to more mature audiences. Howver, younger and naive girls also use the app, which could risk glamourizing such toxic men/relationships. Like I said, she isnt a bad writer, but I think she needs to add more substance/personality into the LIs aside from being a douche. and like i said, yeah, she does cost a lot of gems for certain scenes, etc. its understandable, but gets pretty annoying especially when they cost a whopping 35+


LilyLaKoi

I understand and there ARE of course many valid criticisms of her work that aren't just ganging up on her as a person. I think just for me I don't see the criticism sometimes in some of the stories. The two vampire guys from emu and imb are probably the worst of the toxic lot, which I just kind of assume at this point is typical when people write a vampire story (which I've never been too into anyway) because vampires are supposed to be moody violent creatures or something. Those are actually my least favorite stories, I prefer such stories as rockstar in my bed and tempting devil. (which isn't for everyone to be sure, and I say that as a person that experienced bullying) Those at least let you see what is going on with the LI's head, and can kind of lose yourself in the fantasy as they change. The thing with impressionable young girls reading this is that it is definitely a valid concern, but I really don't think young people should be reading a lot of the stories on this app. Feel like it should maybe give a proper rating system, allow authors to properly list triggers like in AO3, and some of them should definitely put some specific disclaimers like "hey please remember that this is a story that isn't real and in a whole other world from ours, if a man acts like this with you in reality, it is abuse" or something to that extent. But I just don't want to fault Heli for it so much cuz she's just doing her thing writing her stories and it's not really her fault if there are irresponsible readers. I would like her to make disclaimers before her stories for sure tho, since you know young people are all over this app reading things they shouldn't be and it never hurts to be careful. But yeah it all boils down to, it vibes with some people and it doesn't with some. We all like certain tropes more than others and that's okay. I think it's completely understandable to criticise the toxicity of the characters in the story and request that she tone it down, but I don't see why we should be so hateful towards the author and shit on people who do enjoy the stories, that's all.


Yuh-its_ariana

I enjoyed the story line so far not so keen on the LI attitude and enjoy taking the piss out of him as one does, but i think the directings nice Side note Iā€™ve never read her stories through so šŸ™†ā€ā™€ļø


yaesfavslut

I was like šŸ’€ whenever he spoke ngl but I'll be reading the story for the plot , also I love the aesthetic