
I'm trying so hard to like this but the lack of immersion in the era and location is stressing me out. You have one guy with a polo and tie looking like a salary man (this should usually be with a coat or suit! No one casually just wears a tie like that unless you're rich). A modern looking electrical lamp on the table, and a korean dude who look like he got isekaid from a convenience store. Ugh, dont mind me, im just yapping since im playing rdr2 rn lol

Not to say you're wrong or anything, BUT, the tie could indicate he was a Mod, or of a higher profession, the lamp looks like a wicker lamp to me and many Koreans migrated to the United States after 1949 after the Korean war since the US got involved and catalysed South Korean immigrants (also the guy's name is Todd, so idk if he's actually south Korean), also following the nationality act of 1965, more Korean people immigrated! Also, I'm a big history nerd and lighter, and his rifle ARE very much accurate with the time line. <3

Sorry, i just read the synopsis and just saw that it's supposed to be set in the 1960s, it being cowboy themed led me to assume this was during the American frontier. But man, now that makes it even more confusing since there's really nothing that makes it believable that it's in the 60's?? They just slapped vests on everyone and had the most generic lamp and saloon sign lol. I know i know, it's not that deep it's just BL LOL but my gripe is really just on the neglect on the environment and background art, which could've made for a more compelling narrative. Painter of the Night for example is so good at depicting the era it's in, and i think that if they were gonna do a mid/south western setting set in the 60's, it shouldve had the same amount of research as historical BL *yugi slams table meme*
I'll shut up now tho, im jus reading on a pirated website lmao

No way, I love hearing that side of your opinion and who cares if it's on a pirated BL website, something that irked me was the lack of southern vernacular, even though it seemed to be set in the south, I feel like there could be better representation, but it is the first chapter so I'm holding out hope!! Do you have any reccs for good American historical media???

Well judging by how little detail and thought is put into the clothes and architecture, i doubt they could pull off realistic southern dialogue anyway lol
But, I am just a casual fan of wild west stuff lol I've played the red dead games, watched most neo western films out in the past years, and fall asleep every once in a while listening to Sleepy Historian, The History Guy, or Oversimplified (he used to be the goat in animated history vids)
I just really like cowboys and im not even american lol

Uhh does severity not exist in this town? Like, equal punishment for the crime and not just straight up death like tf. Like, he couldve just been put on scavenger duty for a month or something since medicine is exclusively for the hounds, he's gonna have to be one. Tf u gon do orphaning a kid and sowing resentment

The only thing I could think of that would make sense as to why the killed him instead of some other punishment is to maintain groupthink. If you step out of line you die. So you don’t ever step out of line. You sacrifice yourself to community, and when there’s lines being drawn for what you can and can’t do, you more easily fall into things that you wouldn’t normally do. Kinda like a cult. Lots of organizations use fear as a tactic.

I mean yeah that's fine and all that everyone has to fall in line and odd ones out gets hammered down BUT they could've given a little more thought into the lines they were drawing in the first place lol
Stealing medicine for the hounds? Get a lifetime of hound duty until zombies kill you. Kill or grape? Death sentence. Like most post apocalyptic communities in games or tv shows have this sort of logical thinking, idk it just cheapens the experience. But eh, the seggs is good

Ok i read this in a few hours but im honestly getting whiplash at yanu's sudden change of attitude towards eyra? At how he was "nah you aint my mate" to just having a 180 turn believing he is his mate? Like, did i miss something? Did i just read too fast lol

in the novel it's a gradual change after they fight. Yang suspects it early then dismissed it. The biggest thing is Yanu is capable of feeling emotions. That's when he realizes that Eyra might just be the mate he's looking for. It's also why he asks the question about where he was... or am I thinking too far ahead. I read the novel lol

So what exactly were the signs that he believed Eyra is his mate? He did say the energy came from the North so it couldn't be him (yet in this dialogue, the whole exchange has Eyra's birth playing out in the background so the author is implying Eyra is his mate??)
I mean, I get longing after eyra after they had a big fight, but I dont think it's been explained why he thinks he's his mate now?

The thing is as I said biggest clue was him feeling things. When Eyra was young he actually did sense him. It's also what caused his parents death. Later it's revealed that they labyrinth has a spell that makes it so it can't be tracked North is south east is west etc... So he could never sense Eyra and it always pointed in the wrong direction hence him never knowing where Eyra is/was. That is a bit later or somewhere it's been a few months since I read the novel(reread). and as Titti said they cut out a lot of what happens in the novel. This scene he's supposed to gift him a bouquet of monster eyes but instead he just gifts him his eye etc...
U know what's funny, few years back I dropped Pear boy because i thought it was an unserious BL webtoon, u know, one of those gag ones with a ridiculous plot? Nothing deep, just vibes and smut lol
Then I saw the art glow up and decided to reread it again a few days ago, and how. is. it. that. Ever since chapter 20(?) of Pearl Boy, this series has stepped on the fucking gas at 200% FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS INCLUDING THIS SPIN OFF???? Never slowing down or hitting the breaks??? Like, i dont know whether i should be amazed or mortified at this point lmao