i fell into the cycle of getting through like 5 chapters of this and feeling so full of rage and disgust then frustrated with myself for enduring it for nothing then putting it down and forgetting about it for several weeks then in the middle of the night when i got nothing but time i’ll innocently scroll through my last read list and rediscover the story and after ~5 chapters ill go bed seething gritting my teeth.
i think the author is very good at twisting the knife into you (that’s why there are so many comments lashing out at the mcs supposed stupidity. like yes he is stupid. but hes not suffering because of his stupidity but because he is subjected to the classist pedophilic claws of capitalism. and being able to see and feel the mcs helplessness first hand is devastating but lacking the ability to comprehend the wider structures that keeps the mc helpless is why people are prone to turn inwards and attack the mc for making the reader feel that way. when really you feel that way because empathising is human. but experiencing that hurt outside of its situational context can make it incomprehensible which easily trigger defensiveness. anger doesn’t have to blind you. it can be eye opening. if you don’t sit with that upset long enough, you won’t see how this horrific and enduring abuse was started by debt and was sustained by debt which is a deeply capitalist construct. without which there would be no incentive for other characters to look the other way when they witness such suffering. because the attempt at being humane such as to shield a young boy from prolific harm would not be an action that might cause permanent damage to their livelihoods) which is a solid literary skill for sure. but knowing that he will choose the son is just waiting for the guillotine to fall when i already feel it at the neck ╥﹏╥ because genuinely the son and the father is the same by a difference of what 20 years? im only 30 chapters in but they have both raped him so what differs them to each other besides eye colour? when the son called mc a liar i think my heart dropped all the way to my ass. if i was a weaker man it would have straight killed me. to rape someone and think it is affection then to accuse them of lying because you were not their first rapist?!? i would shit in their food every day. i would feed their own shit back to them. love the chicken love the egg.
korean social mobility slop ragebaits me like no other. genuinely whats even the point of becoming emperor or taking revenge on the people who killed you only to turn out exactly like them? what did you change bro? what wrongs have you righted? what good are you beside chasing power all your life because you were deprived of it?
he was raised in a barn scoping shit but became a ruler that didn’t give a fuck about his people, that was made out to be a heroic ally of a marginalised race only because he showed up when it was convenient to him and killed people he wanted to kill which happened to not be the elves in question, that allowed reinhart to be reduced to ashes. he was alienated for utilising the spear and instead of getting more people to learn the spear or changing the worth of the spear, he just goes out of his way to kill as many people in a flashy as possible manner. that didn’t display the greatness of the spear that’s just gloating the greatness of himself and alienating the spear even further, the spear’s greatness is not the spear’s but joshua sander’s. he spoke out against the dehumanisation of people at the academy but didn’t bat an eye at single handedly slaughtering a million people. if you are strong enough to have reduced them to ashes you could have simply stopped them from charging at you again. he was subjected to pure classist venom for his mother supposedly being a maid but became a sovereign whose nation is strictly hierarchical and will further perpetuate the venoms that had him and his mother getting beaten up scooping shit deprived of dignity or respect or freedom. he had all of this unimaginable power but instead of just clearing out the rot he so claimed needed clearing from day one, he stood there chapters after chapters watching them throw tantrums and argue with each other to build up a bunch of necessary loss of life and resources before he stepped in and stepped up. bro thinks hes fucking jesus christ (╯°Д °)╯everybody point and laugh, its a clown!
i also hated the whole hes not defined by his bloodline take when his mother was lucia the maid and the 180 turn of hes got claim to the throne from both bloodlines take when his mother was revealed to be a van briton. thats that classic harry potter pitfall. because the social mobility propaganda of you can work hard and you can prove yourself and you achieve if you keep going is ultimately just bullshit. you’re strong cause your dad is strong cause his whole bloodline was strong and also youre a reincarnated angel, and youre an emperor cause your mama royal and your dada royal and also you’re the chosen one. a hypocrite piece of nothing because hes got no substance (didn’t really stand for anything didn’t really want anything beside revenge), no integrity (injustices and personal betrayals are bad because it happened to me not because it exist at all) and no fucking guts because you and i both know that he could have ended it all 100 chapters ago before all these long winded plans came to fruition or all these new underdeveloped no clear motivation no clear goal no background characters came out of the woodwork. joshua sanders is the author’s rock hard fantasy, to disappear as it falls to shit and to return when its all fucked up seven ways to hell so that you’re needed most. im sorry that you’re so much of a fucking coward you have to resort to fantasies of being god just to be a person.
i dont think its comically evil that the emperor tortured and killed countless people under a proclaimed righteous disguise because that is irredeemably evil but that is also literally three genocides happening in the world right now ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
i do think that its comical the way the ultimate confrontation in these regency era stories always end in battle though like if it was that easy just kill him 50 episodes ago. justification is necessary for logical story progression but politics is utterly nonsensical so all this faff is for nothing.
i did love how sophia still loved monica though because i do believe that all you love comes back to you in the end.
also the art change is criminal felt like i was reading a completely different story.
read this to me when im dead and watch me come back to life
hate it when systemic problems of imperial/monarchal societies are individualised into the fault of a single ‘evil’ regent or ‘bad’ ruling party so all dehumanisation problems can be resolved by placing the correct person in power as if systems of hierarchies are not inherently built on exploitation and oppression. its banging on a wall whether the wall is brick cause they dont want to see you or glass where they do
salutations, comrade (●'◡'●)ﾉ
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The reason why corruption occurs is because the wrong type of individuals are in power. So yeah, if the right kind of person or people are put into positions of control/authority they can fix issues within the system. (Because they’ll strive to remove and implant things for the benefit of society.)
The only problem is that it’s very difficult to find people like that. Most human beings, whether they are rich or poor, have a very bad tendency of being greedy as hell. And when you have individuals who only care for themselves at the highest level, then obviously those at the lowest will suffer gruesomely.
i dont subscribe to the assumption that humans generally have a tendency to be greedy as hell. i believe that on a case to case basis greed is a very human thing to experience for sure. but on a societal level greed like billions in capital being accrued by a single individual or families owning corporations with the kind of capital that can lobby politicians to bomb other countries to subsume their agricultural sovereignty (because they are taxed less than those making under minimum wage) is a systemic problem. societies functioning on a capitalist model will always produce and enable greedy as hell people because politics is built on assumptions and capitalism will always assume that all people are greedy and will always teach people to assume each other as greedy. and yes people whose politics are fundamentally anti capitalist will certainly work to the benefit of the public good. but a system of which the sole purpose is to enrich the 1% will fight to undo this change at literally every turn. that is why roe v wade was overturned because the suffering of all pregnant people to force the birth of a future workforce is a capitalist agenda. you see the system as this structure that is immovable and unchanging but the structure was implemented to do one thing (hoard resources) and no matter how the cogs (leaders in charge / party members etc) change to enable or disable the structure’s ability to do that one thing, ultimately the structure can only do that one thing. people can learn and change. the structure of capitalism cannot. good things produced within capitalism are aberrants not the goal. so you can put even jesus love your neighbours christ on the presidential seat and he would still end up on the cross.
For real man I really need to turn off my brain when reading these manhwas
i also used to do this when i was young. but i dont recommend it lol. i think it should anger you that the capitalist insistence of reform is there, it should annoy you that the world building is so shallow. i think that frustration has forced me to learn a lot about what the world is like and what better can look like. you can actually track how bad the cost of living crisis is depending on how those omnipotent stalker male leads are behaving in ‘dark romances’. it used to be that he would anonymously pay off or buy out the mc’s debt but now hes leaving expensive cheese in the mc’s fridge instead lol. leave your brains on at all times! connect the dots! the ratio of fiction to reality is 1:1! ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
Ur totally right it’s hard to ignore it while reading these manhwas and it honestly ragebaits me but for some reason I can’t stop reading lol
loyer trust the personal attorney is right up there with sara blizzard the weather forecast reporter, andrew drinkwater the water researcher, page turner the author, les mcburney the firefighter, joshua butt the gastroenterologist and usain bolt the sprinter.
the burn was slow but i think the lengthyness braised the story real tender and juicy. details like how her taste buds are incongruent to the people in this other world because she does not belong is so delicious to me like i can tell when an author puts their pussy (soul) into it. plus the conclusion and the added side stories tied it up pretty nicely for me. i like that after such a world shattering ordeal these people are united in way that does not have to be confined to strict labels like romantic or sexual ‘cause really they are tied in the mental way comrades be after everything theyve been through.
what ruined the reading experience was the few people saying odd unprovoked shit in the comments like “these evil gays made me homophobic”. was that supposed to be fucking funny? if youre joking then why is no one laughing? and that kind of talk in this political economy?? (╬￣皿￣)凸 miss me with that bullshit.
also the evil of yurigel and evans was the way entitlement via unchecked tyrannical power allowed them to manipulate entire systems of society to benefit themselves at the cost of the dignity and freedom of others. and their degradation of women specifically was rooted in them being rich and powerful men who would never be subjected to the dehumanising humiliation that renders an able individual into inaction through repeated learnt helplessness to exhaust them into suffering silently. because they were men.
they didnt do that shit because they were gay. they did that shit because they were rich. powerful. men. who saw the lives of other human beings to be that of ants.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
praising elon musk as a genius entrepreneur is actually pure fucking jokes the man is a stupid deranged white supremacist who inherited an emerald mine and has never worked a day in his life. bitches (author) love to googoogaga for the knife for fucking free
if you repeatedly coerce your wife into performing her ‘marital duty’ (rape by any other name) then you need only manipulate your wife into believing that you are her saviour and eventually confess several “i love you”s to balance the scale. if you continually reduce your wife to a sex object and sociopolitical trophy (also an object) then you only need to feel several panel’s worth of self loathing and admit as much to the reader so random people can forgive 120 chapters worth of violent abusive dehumanisation on your wife’s behalf because they understand now that you were acting out of fear or trauma and so all the fear and trauma you have caused may all be excused. if you are such a self obsessed vitriolic misogynist that every woman in your vicinity is reduced to a trope, a concept — villainess then saint for erna, saint then devil for gladys - like you need to understand that a man like bjorn could have silenced the chatter if he cared to (like when he swiftly cut walter hardy out of erna’s life, like when he swiftly resolved the life threatening debt that was the whole premise of the story), i need you to understand that when you own a bank that the funds at your disposal is not called world building money for nothing. if he wanted to what stopped him from having her do old money reputation laundering level of charity? why not have her teach middle class women of her age group the making of artificial flowers to build an image? (from a publicity perspective it both helps make her a real person and not just a celebrity (a brand) and expand her social circle from only high society to wider public, it will also interest the working class because it has monetary value). why not have her go out to the streets with an entourage and hand out bread to the starving of which im sure there will be many if the wealth of the royal family is so extravagant that gifts are the only way he knows to express himself? why have her throw tea parties when she could have been throwing charity galas of which noblesse oblige will oblige attendance where she may have these young people her age display and even auction their artificial flowers instead? i need you to understand that he didn’t not because he couldn’t but because he didn’t care to. that he found her suffering to be a mandatory duty of which he bought her for (so he justifies her isolation and pain with the fact that at least hes not some old bastard). that the purpose of erna’s ritualistic humiliation and suffering is to ensure the wealth of the royal family. the purchase of lars bank, the maritime trade concessions, etc, are all for the sake of the royal family’s financial prosperity which is continually justified as a sacrifice that ensures the health of the nation but if women can’t own property nor inherit property and women can still be sold like cattle on the marriage market because they can’t own property then where does that wealth flow? if a society is so determined to sanctify and blaspheme living people equally, so hungry for punishment that even a teenage girl can be biblically condemned as a devil temptress but a man believed to have abandoned his wife and baby is only hehe haha poisonous mushroom then who benefits from the strengthening of a society structured to always punch down on the most vulnerable?
wow… excellently said. no notes.