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[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@bluevelvety04 I wish readers would stop trying to piggyback off the SOTW discourse when it's not the same argument Calling out SOTW for an insensitive use of civil war era slavery themes was v necessary. These other ex aren't comparable to that. Ppl can always critique but these arent the same

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@sparx555 But to dismiss the sotw discourse as pro censorship I think is disrespectful to the bipoc community here :(

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@sparx555 Again of the issues in this community, a majority of readers reading illegally I think is the biggest issue - and is the issue talked most about by the authors themselves. If authors start to speak up about censorship en masse I think we can discuss more then

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@moonprincekei Yeah the author herself made a quick decision and a pretty good apology I thought? The rage over this is scary

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@jirouwife and yess seriously the "youre a hypocrite if you SOTW is bad but not *insert completely unrelated manhwa*" argument keeps getting repeated and like almost always the examples are a completely separate discussion w/ different themes 😭 what a wild few days on the internet lol

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@jirouwife 😭 its such a messss and ofc manhwa fans are all different ages and from different ethnic/country backgrounds so people have really different opinions and life experience. I get that, but damn I didn't expect things to spin out of control this much

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@keiuzuki My soft tall boy yotaaaa 😭

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@zaynsunflowers Ty for educating me👏😭 I feel like I should delete my initial comment 😭

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@zaynsunflowers Not trying to argue(I am not Latinx)! Just wanted to say that he wasnt like a regular white american

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@mishyakovskyi I feel like BL readers especially are pretty open to random/crazy/dark themes in stories but in this specific case the real history of civil war era being used was the issue. But yknow-there are tons of BLs with all sorts of themes!

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@mishyakovskyi I would like to add <3 I dont think this was a pro censorship problem! I think jaxx/any BL author can absolutely can write a story with oppression/slavery as themes if she'd done it in a fictional context (like theres a lot of omegaverse stories with similar strong themes)

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@yev_genya honestly if she reused these character designs and just went for a modern cowboy BL I think that'd be fine! Like she doesnt have to specify race! Take BWAT's stories - she has a lot of characters of different skin tones! The real issue obv was the civil war/slavery inclusion

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@jirouwife I get people are upset that a story they were hyped about was cancelled but the dismissing real BIPOC readers criticisms is so disappointing 😭 (And again I need everyone to try to not falsely equate different arguments together lol thats just a pet peeve)

[Elle @BonsoirElle]

@jirouwife And the also ppl saying "ppl who cancel SOTW and not other stories with assault/slavery like omegaverse stories are hypocritical" like we cannnott be equating these as equal 😭 one is made up and one the actual slavery of real black/ntv people in america😭