Call me Atlas

masc nonbinary (he/they/one) lvl 18 multimedia acc

[a-vstine]

MY OTHER BLOGS

1. @pathtothevalley

Shared account between me and @delavalle ! This is where we'll both talk about our OCs from various different medias (probably manhwa currently for now)

2. @alt-avstine

Like the description said this is mostly my digital diary of some sort, right now i'm updating it irregularly until I start my life at uni in 3 months 😭

[daily-valko]

HE LOOKS SO STUPID I'M MOURNING SO BAD.

[lwtkmm]

It deeply saddens me that Infold has decided to cancel Valko's debut. They have already deleted his stuff off many platforms, so I've download them all and put them on a drive folder so that other fans can access it.

Valko's archive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1j19TFTpdfunU6xL5zn3LlpXh_H2VRGPJ

[a-vstine]

i'm more active on X/twt currently following the entire Valko situation but i wanna make a post on tumblr rq

[blushingamethyst]

i’m actually never going to touch this game again unless they bring him back and I’m so serious about that.

This isn’t about pixels or a man in a fictional world.

This is about justice for the artists and writers who made him, who worked incredibly hard on him, and who deserve to have their work shown to the world.

i’ve never seen such level of disrespect.

[mephisto-reporting]

And that's the part that's making me lose my fucking mind.

We lost an entire section of the MAIN STORY.

The livestream literally told us Valko's release was going to reveal more about the Aethercore—one of the biggest mysteries in Love and Deepspace and something that's been central to the plot from the very beginning.

So now what?

You think they can just delete him and nothing changes?

Do people genuinely think you can rip out an entire story arc without consequences?

Everything that was supposed to be revealed through Valko now has to be rewritten, redistributed, or outright cut. The main story is going to have to be retconned. Future updates are going to have to be reworked. Characters may have to be rewritten just to fill the gap he leaves.

If you're celebrating this because you "won," I sincerely hope you understand what you've actually cheered for.

You guys fucking derailed the story.

[petitstarpurple]

Valko being terminated on the last day of pride month is homophobic

[a-vstine]

HAHAHAHAHA VALKO WAS CANCELLED HAHAHAHA IN YOUR FACE!! HAHAHAHA!!!

This is the state i'm in when you sent this ask ANON

[a-vstine]

Was gonna answer an ask roday but i am grieving my dead wife instead

[pruneunfair]

I am the queen in this life is one of the most misogynistic manhwas on webtoon.

Announcing that a historical manhwa has misogynistic undertones is like announcing that a fork has been found in the kitchen, it's unfortunately something to expect with a lot of korean comics, however, I personally believe that Sister, I am the queen in this life, takes the cake compared to other women's romance graphic novels you'd find on webtoon or tapas. It is a story with such passionate hatred for women, that the remarried empress looks like the Barbie movie in comparison.

No, I don't think I'm overthinking anything, I genuinely believe this story, and maybe even the author whenever they know it or not, hates women.

Sure, IATQITL wasn't the first korean webnovel/webcomic to feature male villains who were forgiven/sympathetic while female villains were never given a chance to be more than what they started out as, but it doesn't end there, the more I reread this story, the more uncomfortable I feel, and here is why.

1: The narrative tries to appear like it criticizes the patriarchy by presenting the concept of misogyny its simplest, most comical form.

2: The female lead is a perfect, all-knowing woman, she is so perfect that she is often the only woman the majority of the male characters will treat with respect and/or genuinely fall in love with.

3: The villainess is repeatedly mocked for having a smaller chest than her younger sister, starting as far back when said villainess was still a teenager.

4: A man's mental illness is treated as sympathetic and nuanced; a woman's is treated as hysterical, obsessive, and annoying.

5: Isabella isn't treated like a rapist; she's treated like an undesirable whore who has to rely on aphrodisiacs to convince a man to sleep with her, she is shamed for the wrong reasons.

6: Women who generally seek out men themselves are treated as whores/villains, unlike Ariadne, who is the one being sought after by other men.

7: Isabella's role as "The evil harlot of the kingdom" ends up exonerating the men she sleeps with, since by reducing her to being so pathetic that she has to drug men to be attracted to her, this means that the men who lust after her could be viewed as misunderstood victims.

8: Lucrezia is slut shamed in her first appearance and it's meant to be interpreted as Ariadne speaking the truth.

9: Isabella is punished by being forced to stay in relationships with men she detests, such as her marriage to Ottavio and her one sided relationship with King Leo in the novel.

10: The only "skills" Isabella has all involve amplifying her beauty, she is depicted as a vapid and stupid blonde who only wants makeup, dresses, jewelry, and attention.

You COULD defend some of these examples by pointing out that Maletta and Cesare are villains so of course they would body shame another woman, or that it's "historically accurate" so of course there would be misogynistic characters, and that could be the case if the series in general didn't reek of many, MANY other chapters shaming, mocking, and ridiculing the female characters for "stepping out of line."

I am the queen in this life is terrible for a lot of reasons, most say it's bad because Arabella was killed off or because Ariadne fell in love with Cesare again, but the blatant misogyny oozing out of the narrative is something is what we should also be mad at.

[a-vstine]

I really miss GIHO (artist behind Kiss me if you can and I'm the Tyrant's Secretary)'s earlier artstyle, it's not like i hate the current way they draw but I just miss the whimsiness in the way they drew characters back in I'm The Tyrant's Secretary

Name: I'm The Tyrant's Secretary (2021)

Name: Kiss Me If You Can (2025)

[a-vstine]

Trying to have an actual civil discussion in the love and deepspace fandom feels like walking on legos in the desert to get to an oasis only for the oasis to just be an illusion

It's exhausting.

[a-vstine]

Wait these two kinda bad y'all i might redownload genshin just because #shameless

[a-vstine]

The absolute slut in me has awoken bruh

The MLM in me is RAVENOUS

[writingdose]

genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like

[a-vstine]

Manhwa readers who genuinely think slavery isn't a big deal and that these works shouldn't be critized for involving such topics in the name of upholding their beloved MCs or doing so only to paint the slaves as some kind of villains to their oppressors or simply extensions to move the story along, that these are simply 'fiction', should go to hell

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Why are yall celebrating a Korean making a white savior, borderline lost cause, BL comic?

The foolishness

Why is a mixed indigenous man referring to himself as a slave to some blue eyed cracka?

And then the panels with the freedmen are worse

Like do you know what happened to freed slaves after the civil war?? They were either sharecroppers, hunted down when going out, or worse. Not only that but someone else saying that they can’t buy or sell you anymore never stopped anyone from doing such things post Civil war.

And people are actively praising it and making defenses for it.

And honestly this whole defense is invalid cus the government paid off slave owners when the slaves were freed because it was viewed as them losing property.

@queen-shiba

@killersweetie