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I didn’t want to send this as reply but someone was ickd by the display of racism in this, but and so-
Since it’s not official translations and it’s not complete I don’t want to put my foot in my mouth, but so far I would say from the context of this story it’s well written racism.
Seeing the tribe’s lifestyle and attitude it’s like so obviously more welcoming and peaceful than the kingdom. 100% -these frenchies calling the tribes barbaric is PROJECTION. Just like real life!!!!
It’s actually so realistic that it made me happy for once??? Indigenous people of America visited Europe not long after the initial settler colonies and were absolutely appalled, like “why are there so many poor people???? Why do you have to worship a king that does evil??? Do you not take care of the elderly, the sick, and the disabled?”
They went back home and told there people to be wary of these so called “civilized” nations.
Colonizers to indigenous peoples: you don’t have permanent housing???? Wow you’re so backwards
Indigenous peoples: we’ve made housing like that before but it’s inconvenient and bad for the environment and the environment is important, like really important like if you don’t change the way you treat the environment it’ll kill ya.
Europeans: wow you’re so savage
Indigenous : ….. your descendants will disparage you, and turn to us when the world falls apart.
Settlers descendants of Europe: it’s true. Climate crisis is here and now we have to undo Settler Colonialism, and create an ecological minded society. Study Youth and Queer Liberation, Disability Justice, and Abolition!
Remember kids while it’s fun to read gay shit, you gotta decolonize your hearts and minds too!
This was very well written and very informative! Thank you for explaining!!
Thank you for voicing my thoughts bc when I went into the comments I was feeling left out n confused by some people’s reaction claiming that the story is racist when for me it’s just racism that is written in a story...
Regardless of this, their intent goes out the window when they write a story about a colonizer and indigenous person falling in love
Nah, that’s an ahistorical take, because it happened a lot. I would really recommend reading the first chapter of the Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow in its entirety,( this one chapters really clears up a lot of misconceptions)
https://gi.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/_media/teaching/2022winter/journalclub/the-dawn-of-everything-chap1.pdf
But if you don’t have time for that
Near the end of page 17 on the link, the story of Valero is explored, the chapter is a whole critique on how westerners/colonizers are told and lied to that if given the choice a rational person would choose “civilized” society over indigenous tribal living. When the historical truth is that many joined indigenous societies and lived happier lives there.
If you keep reading eventually you get to a letter by the Benjamin Franklin whose surprised by how often everyone chooses indigenous society over colonial America
But here’s a big nation, that your comment basically dismisses
The Métis are an Indigenous people in Canada who are recognized for their unique culture, language, history, and way of life:
Origin
The Métis are descendants of unions between First Nations women and European fur traders in the late 1700s.
Culture
The Métis developed their own culture, traditions, and languages, such as Michif. They also developed a unique political and legal culture with strong democratic traditions.
How do you use the rating system on an individual/personal approach?
Ratings are important to me, cause I enjoy revisiting things I’ve read before. I found that this approach the most helpful, instead of being a critic, without thinking too hard lol
: there’s something that I hate about this
: there’s something I dislike about this
: rather neutral, mixed bag, unsure, meh
: there’s something that I like about this
:there’s something I love about this
Really want a zero for killing recs, and 6 star for boosting recommendations.
For me, I definitely don’t think I’m doing it right but I typically just do 5 star ratings for the boosting recommendations. The jump between 4 and 5 stars seems too drastic for me, with 5 stars basically rating it a 10.0 and 4 stars rating it a 8.0, so I typically leave my normal 4 star ones with no rating to not drop the rating if that makes sense. I only rate 4 stars if I really do think they are like a 8.0 rating, but overall, I usually do 5 star or no rating. Very rarely do I do anything below that because I probably dropped it before even getting that deep into it.
It’s not the worst approach either because when going back and looking at my lists, I know which ones that stood out to me and really enjoyed because they made me want to boost them and give them a 5 star rating :D
I rarely rate, and Always 5*.
The problem is that when you look at the average, below 9.1 is "bad".
And many stories with 9.1-9.4 don't deserve it.
So I only rate the 8-8.9 that the idiots sank because it's different or the 9.5+ which are really, really good.
i usually put one star when i think there is something genuinely twisted about it like cp or proship stuff, and 5 stars when i think it deserves the world. no in between lol
I love this site, like genuinely, I live here.
But just because I enjoy something doesn’t mean it can’t be better!
I want a fourth button, after reading, read, and want to read.
Desperately I want a skip button??? Or a pass button??? Banished??? or a ive read the summary and I don’t want to have to read it again cause I have a goldfish brain and pretty covers clickbait me repeatedly???
So I want a section that I can just- call it the shadow realm button. I’m sure some sick fucks would love to see what sick fucks banish to the shadow realm, even better once you banish something it doesn’t return to the recommended for you.
What other features are y’all daydreaming between scrolling?
Sort by rating, sort by manga/manhwa/manhua (I know we have the sort webtoons for now), better tagging or reviewed trigger warnings, starring and accessing favorites. Also I know the site is recovering from being broken, but the categories (yaoi stories in shounen ai category for example) and marking stories as ongoing/completed need to be better maintained.
This is the kind of story that makes me so damn curious for the Korean comment section????? Like are they also hopping for a bad ending? I hope bottom mercs top, but noooooooooooo we’d be lucky if bottom offs themselves
What's this stupid-ass rant?? "Korean comment section"??? WTF???
I don't know about the officials, but on pirate websites the Korean comments are all just interested in the sex in this type of stories. I remember being super surprised when I read the raws for that one comic where this alpha turns another alpha into an omega. People didn't want the 2nd lead to save the mc, they wanted him to fuck the mc along the main lead
If you’re actually confused by my comment,
I was expressing my curiosity on how Korean fans, specifically their comment section differs from ours, like their reactions and expectations.
The mangago audience and I seem to be rooting for a tragedy, so I simply wondered if it was the same with Korean readers
I wouldn’t call a paragraph a rant tho lol
Okay, so for pwp stories, Korean audiences more interested in the art of the porn than the art of the plot
lol cool okay makes sense hahah