Im so excited for this new BL! It's a shame that people don't understand literary contexts...

Oh that's so reliving to hear! I haven't read her other works yet, but it gives me hope this will turn out good (=・ω・=)

You guys have so much faith in a country that’s known for its colorism and racism

so excited for some white supremacist shit are you wow your so braindead

I don't have faith in any country. I know Korea is a country full of prejudice and discrimination against minorities. But isn't an artist who creates queer content in a society that persecutes the community countercultural?
There is no country more violent and racist than the United States, and I'm not generalizing because I know there are people who are part of the counterculture.

White supremacist shit from one chapter okay lets touch some grass alright?

seletive outrage bl does nothing for the queer community u should know this… its literally the female gaze which is fine nothing wrong with that theres a genuine difference between queer fiction and bl i suggest u to look into that. also no one gives a shit korea literally hates queer people but that is beside the point this is racist media i dont care if you agree since u LOOOOVE your fave korean author so much ur willing to glaze over the blatant racism

I don't think it's racist. The story is historically contextualized in a time when this existed. Wouldn't it be worse to write a story set during the Civil War and not make any mention of the racial conflict? Mentioning things and not mentioning them are both political stances. I think not mentioning it is worse.
Many literary works address historical, racial, and political issues, but suddenly they are ALWAYS poorly done when they are queer stories, written by women.
Hey, you might be right, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that I can't see it after just one episode.

so if u think im right why u dismissing alot of black peoples rightfully being angry at this… its not even historical the enslavement and genocide of black people is ALIVE today

I’d actually go as far as to say people defending this don’t understand literary context.

In the very first chapter of this comic we have a native man calling himself a slave, and the white mc acting as a white savior. Both of these are harmful and not good representation of the time period.

It’s a sensitive topic, 100% yes. But the problem is that it’s not being handled well.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're saying that it's not representative of the time period?

I'd say this actually toned down and selective of what was shown for the time period

What in this SINGLE CHAPTER was so poorly handled?

I admit this may go in a direction that is poorly handled and terrible, but from what we have, it was not at all?

Can you explain the literary content that you're talking about?

The issue here is that you can’t “tone down” slave history without it being insanely insensitive. Nobody wants to hear about traumatic history being sanitized and fluffed up to be consumable for the masses because that doesn’t reflect how those affected were treated during this time.

The main issue here is that a white character is being centered in history where they were not the ones being mainly affected nor were they the ones putting in the most work to free slaves. To start a manhwa by glorifying his actions and then making a sob story out of them like this was the most catastrophic thing to happen during the civil war when it’s not even remotely close to that is insane.

Also the humble slave comment is disgusting, for its time period being a slave was tantamount to being something a man would hit abuse torture rape and starve every day, it’s not something anybody would say lightly

Okay that makes more sense, thank you for explaining.

I will say the 'humble slave' comment felt very obviously tongue and cheek, as the man seemed to be anything but humble, so I would assume he also thinks of himself as anything but a slave.

I do admit that having a white man as one of the main characters in this comic and setting it in this time period can be distasteful, but I disagree that this was framed in a white savior kind of thing.

He was simply fighting in the war at this time, a hypocrite who was following what his father said in order to gain glory for the family (a very common thing for any war), whilst also owning his own slaves. He wasn't framed as someone trying to 'save' or end slavery, but just a cog in the machine. He wasn't deciding what was best for the slave, but he gave them free will to choose if they would want to stay on not.

I think writing any kind of historical fiction, there will be very horrible things that happened, and depending the genre, some touch in darker subjects. I feel that slavery will not be the main focus of this (I could be wrong), and it will br more focused on vaqueros and discovering self-identity. Completely writing out a very relevant part of history when doing a historical fiction seems very much like sterilizing issues.

The setup wasn't framing it about slavery but I feel just framing it in the time period, so we understand how the MC lived and how he had no identity outside as eldest son, and how he's lost that.

Your point did help me understand more of how this comic could definitely go down a drop list for me.

But I don't feel like it is about missing context. I feel as if we do not have enough context yet to pass judgement. If this comic DOES end uo being about slavery and framing it as nothing but something to make the MC a hero, I will definitely be disgusted.

But I don't think it has enough content yet to pass that judgement.