The level of gaslighting were so high that I had to go back to first chapters
Fr, me too lol
But then again, we were seeing everything through the eyes of an mc who wasn't even sober. I'm starting to question what's actually real at this point
Exactly.. u can't tell what is reality and what is dream when the entire story is mc's pov
It make me scared bc the entire time I was believing the mc I kinda forgot about Sangwoo’s pov
Guys please someone explain the entire reason for cancelation... I didn't read it and I have no back ground from history behind west world (only few stuff)...please no disrespect
I have scroll down
racist shitty depiction of a very sensitive topic. White savior "EX"SLAVE OWNER X SLAVE....if that doesnt make enough of a reason, here, read the rest
1. The genocide of African Americans in the U.S. is so brutal that it’s completely morally impossible to make a love story about an ex slave owner and an ex slave.
I’m talking about European Americans using African Americans as crocodile bait, using their skin as leather, eating them, making the two strongest male slaves fight to the death out of pure entertainment, FORCING male African slaves rape their mother (origin of the word motherfucker), whipping African Americans so hard their backs were lacerated, brand them like animals, enforce iron collars on them to prevent them from resting and other various torture methods (let’s not even get into the whole process of the displacement of native Africans from their homelands to the United States). How can you even think to create between such a violent oppressor and the oppressed???
2. The “white savior” act in the first chapter is already extremely inaccurate, showing the pure ignorance the author has on the subject.
After the slavery abolition act of 1833 was passed, there were still slaves working for free for their “owners”, and if not, for extremely little pay. Why? Because they had been enslaved for sooo long jt was impossible for them to function outside in the real world. They had no money, and if they did, it’s not like they would be able to do much with it. They didn’t own any land, didnt own any farming implements and didn’t know how to farm, didn’t receive any education so they didn’t know how to read or write. After being heavily groomed and manipulated into thinking that your sole purpose consists of only physical labor and nothing else, then it’s basically impossible to break out of this mentality.
3. The “fiction doesn’t affect reality”… little broader than that.
Still thinking that fiction doesn’t affect reality is an extremely naive and ignorant mentality. Let’s take the example of “the birth of a nation”. It is an extremely racist film made by D.W. portraying African Americans as “violent, savage rapists” who prey on the white race, specifically white women. It therefore introduces the idea of the KKK, and portrays them as the heroes, being noble vigilantes who will restore white supremacy. And as we all know (I hope), the KKK were an extremely prominently terrorist group during the Jim Crow era, where the group still exists today. Although this is an extreme example, this is just to show the immense impact it had on society, even while still being fiction. Now, imagine the, like yall like to portray, the oh so ignorant South Koreans who don’t know much about American history see what’s being portrayed in the manhwa? It would water down the intense and brutal history of the 300 years of African American genocide, and think it’s on the same level as a normal bully x bullied romance. So, this argument just does not work at all.
There were scenes that showed black slavery , due to a white man calling African-American workers slaves and the ml refering to himself as slave for the mc. Which is funny since "some" east asian countries are racist whiles they were enslaved themselves by american and eroupean countries.
The whole thing is tonedeaf af. Leans into racist tropes like the slave/master dynamic and the white savior narrative. To me, it's like trying to romanticize a Nazi/Jewish relationship or an Imperial Japanese soldier/comfort woman relationship. The history behind those dynamics makes them really inappropriate to frame as romance.
The enslaved characters barely feel like characters, either. They only exist to thank the MC for "saving" them to show the viewer he was "one of the good ones", which just makes the whole thing even more tasteless.
There's also the half Native ML, which, let's be real, it feels like he's only half Native so the author didn't have to engage with any actual tribal identity or cultural specificity. Instead, he just gets "exotic" tan skin.
And on top of that, Jaxx admitted they had done little to no research on the history. So we know that it was going to be straight cheeks.
Indigenous people also suffered immensely under white colonization. So even if you removed the slavery scene, people would still be side eyeing the story because of the way the ML feels fetishized and the historical power dynamic is still there.
Yeah, with how horrible black racism and slavery was I think it's quite resonable that she cancelled the work.
We still live with the lasting effects of colonization, racism, and colorism to this day, including in Korea. You can't write under researched slop about a history this painful and expect everyone to love it.
And with how some of the "readers" are defending this work just shows how racist some people still are.
Keyboard warrior over here in everyone's comments defending it like its his own child
not my child but its my history, wrap it up retard
Did I ask? No bitch I didn't
oh is white dick that good?
Dude keeps looking for you in the comments like he has a crush or something ?
Absolutely
Guys easy :") please
Guys any raw?
Wow thank u!
Isn't working for me
Can someone please explain this like I'm 4 ? I'm dropping it ...
This will be easier to read if you separate the characters like so: snake MC(long neck spooky man), twink MC(dude with the bookmark that looks like he's withering away.), normal MC(the dude we following in the story), Snake ML(he's the ML when bro has yellow eyes I think.), past ML(he's not really a third person like how MC has the twink. This one is sorta fused with the snake in the beginning), and finally normal ML(you can tell it's him cause he's as confused as normal MC, but later I think he connects with his past self and is less confused to wtf is going on.)
From my understanding, MC in the past died from neglect or whatever, doesn’t matter. ML in the past refused to let him go so he tried to bring him back to life. That split MCs soul up.
There's also this snake monster thing that is also involved(snake monsterS cause ML has one too)? To explain the snake, I think the snake monster brought ML back to life cause they story mentioned how he disappeared and then came back different. So I think the ML in the past tried to do the same with MC but it didn't work out like he wanted....
So currently there's snake MC, MC that was forced into the twink guy(this MC is most likely the past MC considering how needy he is), and then the real MC we've been following the whole story(he is the real reincarnation). Snake MC has been making it so twink MC gets to be with the reincarnated ML. Normal MC gets involved cause of what happened in the first chapter. Snake ML realized normal MC is the real reincarnation before normal ML, and tries to get with him(but this also affects normal ML cause the two are connected). Snake MC is pissed cause he thinks the twink is the real MC so that's why he gave the twink the memories of their past or something like that (basically that bookmark the twink had held all the memories/part of the soul from the past and is the reason he thinks he's the real reincarnated MC). Snake MC also forces normal ML to fall for the twink through ghostly powers. But since snake ML only wants normal MC, snake MC is trying to get rid of normal MC. But, through a bit of drama, snake MC realized too that normal MC is the true reincarnation. So now, snake MC is trying to get normal ML to fall for normal MC(screw the twink I guess. That poor dude has his mind all fucked up cause of this). I think what's happening in the most recent chapter is that normal ML is finally connected with his past self, making him self aware. Snake ML and normal ML are finding out that they both exist as separate entities and that they are jealous of eachother(I think this is due to snake ML being properly fused with past ML so hes confused as to why normal ML exists in the first place, but that's reincarnationfor ya, I guess)? They are fighting over who gets normal MC(snake MC is probably gooning to the whole situation and twink MC is dying on the inside). Idk I hope that made sense, and I hope it's mostly correct. Literally everyone here is confused. The author is trying to be big brained, but by keeping everything so secretive, they made the entire story confusing af.
TLDR: snake MC and snake ML can't let go of the past so they force their reincarnations to be together cause fuck free will.
Omg dude.. really thank u...
Also I realized now that I said the people we're seeing right now is normal ML and snake ML. I was wrong. It's actually snake ML and PAST ML. I guess with all the drama and confliction between snake ML and normal ML, it made past ML a tangible being that is just self aware now. Snake ML doesn't realize who he is at first(cause they were fused the whole time, aka the reason snake ML usually appears with long hair). And that's also why they are able to disappear at the end and leave normal MC with his ass up
My respect for u buddy ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
That's a lot...and a lot of information make me confused more especially when there's a lot of MC's (• ▽ •;)
I labeled the twink as twink MC even though he's technically NOT the MC. He just has a piece of MC's soul shoved inside if him cause of the snake MC using the bookmark thing. The twink is just some random guy that happened to look like the past MC.
I think I got it a bit thanks for labeling it
this is helpful!!! totally makes sense
Your TLDR is the best summary there is LoL
I had read bunch of red flags works and now I'm impatient about this green flags ...bad habits
Man I love when the bottom don't give up on running away(another failure)
A question what did happened to that tranings for bottom ? Did he finally managed to fit it all in?
i think so but they focused more on the egg and now wedding, so maybe will see the results by chap 170-172
Did he tho bc I read like most the chapters I don't think he did
he didn't put it all in but he did put in more compared to before bcs kouichi knows how to use magic now
Okey my first time in 6 years of yaoi lifespan .. I'm feeling bad .. like this isn't even new to me but I feel really bad for mc(like the way the cover of work kinda represents it correctly ligan half in shadow represents his dark side with while other alpha is just asshole and he doesn't hide it)