Asta’s Thought Spill

FANGIRLING AND WAIFU SENEVIER???

Like suddenly it's already clear that people hate Lydia (but proceed to love Senevier and Claude) mostly because their manhwa are drawn by Spoon. If "Mother's Contract Marriage" were drawn by Spoon, I know they will love Lydia, but since she isn't drawn by Spoon so people hate her. While ironically being a fans of Senevier.

"The Forgotten Field" could be better if it had better fandom, I hate how people also proceed to babyfying Thalia like she's innocent. Which makes me questioning, are we even read the same manhwa? How did they proceed to babyfying Thalia when the narrative from both manhwa and novel didn't do that to Thalia, yes her backstory is sad but it served for us to understand but not justifying her. The narrative

"We want complex female character!"

And then they decide to SELF INSERT as Thalia when reading the manhwa and babyfying her, when the plot itself isn't for typical self insert reader. Her backstory was there for us to understand her, but not to justifying her "villainess" act. Tbh, at this point I'm more interested with her little brother because all thanks to those self-insert reader amd toxic hypocrite fans for ruining my enjoyment to Thalia as character.

Fandom Problem #15,696:

Fandom Problem #14,955:

"Commenting on fics is not a rule but courtesy. Authors should stop begging for comments all the time, because they aren't entitled to receive comments."

Yeah, that is true.

But me sharing my fics is also simply courtesy and the people reading them are also not entitled to the updates. I could just as much keep them on my harddrive.

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

Let me preface my thoughts by saying that I feel like a lot of people within this community doesn't respect the artists behind their favorite works.

As of recently, it's been announced that Spoon, artist behind the Forgotten Field and Who Made Me A Princess will be taking a hiatus on July 1st and then followed up by a release schedule of one episode weekly for three weeks and one week of break for them.

After this announcement, many voiced their dissatisfaction over this, saying that this is annoying and comparing to the release schedule of Under the Oak Tree which is still releasing after six years of serialization.

Now i understand certain point of views, perhaps some of these are fans of Spoon from WMMAP and underwent the long wait for them to release the side stories and now seeing that the artist is going on a hiatus, it gives them a sense of uncertainty if they will ever see more of Spoon's works in the near future.

But most, especially one who believes manhwa artists are 'privileged' for taking a hiatus, need to be reminded that artists are still humans at their core. Art takes time to create. And we have to take note that this industry is not only challenging but practically life threatening.

One of the more known cases of overworking during production has to be Juniljus, the artist behind Roxana/The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother

Juniljus was overworked by Kakao (allegedly?) to the point of suffering a miscarriage. This caused her to announce an indefinite hiatus on Roxana and she hasn't updated on any social medias since 2022

I hope Juniljus continues her journey through healing and continue putting her wellbeing above all else going forward on.

This entire situation could be read on this reddit post

OR

You could head down over to Juniljus's twitter page and read her statement regarding the situation

Another huge case within the opposite of this industry is DUBU of Solo Leveling

Now this is just speculation, take this with a grain of salt, i am only quoting what others have said and i might be wrong so i apologize in advance and willing to take anyone who's knowledgeable in this situation to give a better perspective on this

But in 2022, DUBU otherwise known as Jang Sungrak died to a long time chronic illness. Some fans and individuals within the industry speculate that this was due to poor working conditions during the serialization of Solo Leveling especially with how many long time fans would joke on how many times the artist took break from working on his manhwa.

And there could be more that remain unreported.

CONCLUSION

Though it is disheartening having to wait for a indefinite time for beloved stories to be told in a form of media accessible (trust me i've lived through waiting a long time for Under the Green Light : In Dreams to return). It has to be taken in account that artists are still humans that have limits to their own bodies.

No, they are not 'privileged' for taking hiatus, they are humans who has set their boundaries. They are humans who are risking losing their job, livelihood and months or years of work simply for prioritizing their health above all else.

I'd rather get updates every three months (if we are lucky. There's a time we only got one a year T^T) than my favorite work got discontinue because of its creator 💀