thoughts on the new post american civil war bl?

anyway if you want a western bl with cowboys read dead or alive

i've never heard of this, what's it called?

I'm black, and know a lot of history on slavery stuff, but honestly, I wasn't even that triggered, it was just more or less, "Okay, so....there were a million other concepts author-nim could have used so why this one?, Hmm...weird?
I was curious though, of how they would go about writing that type of story, but I see why people would get seriously offended, I mean I did feel some discomfort myself
The most important thing is that the author cares about their audience feedback, they released an apology (one of the most genuine I've ever seen) and are apparently dropping it.
Let's cut them some slack ╥﹏╥

thing is I decided long ago not to take fiction seriously because that would just deteriorate my mental health if I was constantly angry because everything here is constantly morally wrong to the point I don't get fazed when I see racism towards my own kind
i mean it's pretty shitty what the author has done and if I saw this from any other untrained eye, it would be incredibly racist and disgusting.
so I guess my conclusion is that I don't feel any malice towards the manhwa or the author but I agree its not a very pleasant topic and people have all the right to be angry at it of they are, hell, be angry for me too

my brother just another me except I don't know shit about slave history don't boil me

ah ok i didn't know they apologized for it. and honestly its not like they HAVE to drop it they can always change the execution. like they can use symbolism for the sake of drawing attention to real issues (like the half native american half white cowboy could be used to draw attention to how the natives were affected by colonization) but that whole white savior thing did get on my nerves a little only bc i see that trope so often and its never done properly.

i was less angry and more disappointed tbh. we don't get a lot of culturally/socially/politically aware stories unfortunately. this could've been a perfect opportunity to change that.

i believe its called song of the wasteland

leaving this comment I saw here: "Nobody said it's inherently racist to tell a story set during slavery. The problem is how the story is told. When your protagonist is a slave owner's son who's portrayed as "one of the good ones," loses his wealth, frees a slave, and then gets treated like a saint by the very people his family enslaved, you're not really telling a story about slavery. You're telling a story about how noble a white character is. The issue is that the enslaved characters seem to exist mainly to validate the white protagonist's morality. That's why people call it a white savior narrative."

to add insult to injury, the ending of the chapter introduces the other character saying, "I'm your humble slave, master."...

regardless of what the story was going to be, it was incredibly tone deaf and irresponsible to include. she literally didn't have to include any of this at all. "the fallen lamb" didn't have any talk of slavery in it and was still done well. it's just so disappointing bc I felt her story writing to be one of her a strong suits.

but instead, JAXX being a person outside of american culture. it felt like she trivialized an era of time that is a deeply traumatic part of american history for the sake of cowboy yaoi.

yeah very well said thank you. im glad people stood their ground on this one bc i know theres a ton of "problematic" stories out there but this one just felt disrespectful. they definitely should've done proper research before releasing