himedanshi/fudanshi who loves psychological horror
18 and well informed, really.
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I've seen a comment that had my blood boiling cz someone said " MC freed the slaves and gave them some cash so what's the issue?" Imagine those slaves were born in that land indoctrinated into slavery and you think freeing them and telling them to leave was doing something? That's a death sentence. They quite literally had nothing and you think some few dollars was going to do something for them? Was it going to heal decades of oppression? If mans had given them the property and told them you can have it and build something I'd get it. But in this he's just a shithead who thinks he did something. It's outrageous how Jaxx wrote this and didn't see the problem with it. The white man gets to live in a nice place while the "free slaves" go to live in squalor when they're probably the ones that built the house and maintained the property.
If the people on your side are saying things like "be glad your country got colonized," "we need to bring back lynching," throwing around racial slurs, or literally have Hitler pfps, please take that as a sign to step back for a minute and reflect.
Again, when fiction reinforces stereotypes, shows the author's lack of understanding of the topic, and attracts people who use it to justify racist views, it's no longer "just fiction."
Slavery isn't just another historical setting. It's one of the darkest moments in human history, and its legacy is still affecting millions of people today. That's exactly why it's important to portray it with care. If you're going to use it as the backdrop for a romance, you have a responsibility to understand what you're drawing from instead of reducing it to tropes or aesthetic.
People act like fiction and reality are completely separate, but they're not. Stories can and have shaped how people understand history, who they empathize with, and what they see as normal. That's why propaganda works. That's why stereotypes persist. And that's why media has always been studied as something that influences culture. When harmful narratives get repeated often enough, they stop being "just fiction" and start affecting how people think and talk about real groups of people.
Props to Jaxx for acknowledging their mistakes and apologizing. Hopefully they don't end up walking back that apology because of that crowd.
Some people keep saying it’s just fiction but that really doesn’t hold up imo. Fiction isn’t separate from reality. When you’re dealing with real historical trauma, the way it’s framed can totally shape how people understand it, especially if they don’t already know much about the topic (you can literally see that happening in some of the comments here). That’s why discussion matters. Dismissing every critique as “not that deep” just shuts down any real engagement with something serious in exchange of a cheap, badly written story.
What is bothering people isn’t this fiction existing, it’s when something takes a topic like slavery and flattens it into a trope heavy romance with things like the white savior setup and backgrounded enslaved characters. At that point it’s not just a neutral story choice, it’s a very specific, and honestly pretty careless way of handling history.
It's just fiction doesn’t magically cancel that out. Media can reinforce stereotypes, twist understanding of real events, and make harmful ideas feel normal if they’re repeated enough. That’s why people push back, not because they think fiction about said topic shouldn't exist, but because basic awareness of what you’re depicting matters alot.
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recommend:
Little romance,
Decent plot (if not it better be hilarious), Action, Supernatural, fantasy, Mystery,
Urban fantasy, Comedy.
I'm here for pretty boys and good laughs.
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SAVE THE EGO.
Honestly, some of y'all really act like slavery was just white people being big meanies instead of a system built on extreme brutality and dehumanization.
They. Ate. Humans. And made them into leather for shoes and clothing.
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Wont include 2 with the same couple. Not a fan of pwp, romantisized rape, dubcon, blackmail, infedelity, pedophilia, incest, etc.
2ND LIST of Top tier 9.0+ BL - https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/1918074/
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