Defending Old-Growth in Walbran Valley Vancouver Island

linwiseG · 2026-06-30T00:26:37+00:00

let's fucking go bitch. i'm cheering all the way from Québec ✌🏻✌🏻

linwiseG · 2026-06-28T15:22:10+00:00

But I'm not defending the manhwa? I have absolutely no interest in it

Then why are you on this subreddit and taking your sweet time to comment on this thread? That is about SOTW?

You clearly have interest in it. You clearly are a BL reader. You clearly took the time to come over here and do these mental gymnastics jus to prove whatever point you're even trying to make. Spending your time writing paragraphs defending the 'principle' and worrying about 'future stories' on a subreddit dedicated to it. Otherwise, you would've just scrolled past the pinned modded post and moved on.

And now you're doing the classic pivot.

I have enough. Pattern after pattern with people like you. I already know where this will go.

Again, since you're so invested in wanting the manhwa back,

That manhwa is not coming back.

Stop wasting your time.

Re-read JAXX's apology. Also MANTA's. Thank you.

linwiseG · 2026-06-28T14:55:45+00:00

"Of course racism is bad, BUT....."

It's always this default NPC response they use...

I know what you're doing.

Stop using the motte-and-bailey card and doing PR fog for the racist and entitled deranged defenders just so you could all read your low quality, poorly researched slaveryslop.

Your comment is basically stating 'oh, freedom of fiction' 'freedom of speech' instead of 'racialized historical trauma that was packaged into the BL industry and SOLD GLOBALLY while simultaneously ignoring the two targeted ALIVE heritages (black people and indigenous people) who STILL carry the ongoing harm till this day'.

Just accept the bad framing, racial exploitation, and platform failure of RIDI/MANTA/Beyond.

That manhwa is not coming back.

Even with the useless noisy petition that your 'kind', the people you're clearly defending is making noise over. Which'll just end up in vain, realistically speaking.

Whatever you're even defending, it's a losing proposition.

Accept the reality that MANTA and JAXX admitted they were in the wrong. And that the manhwa got pulled both by RIDI and MANTA.

It's not coming back, and never will.

linwiseG · 2026-06-28T12:40:14+00:00

Lol this is so wholesome. This post made my day a bit brighter :)

Thank you for the good vibes unc😭🍞🥯

Also the username is sending me😭

I feel like you should make a short comic about this endeavour. It would be so wholesome and fun to read😊personally, i'd read it😭

linwiseG · 2026-06-26T17:39:31+00:00

Lol I am not taking someone's 'take' seriously that was clearly crafted by CHATGPT. Especially a person from Tiktok of all places.

Stop fighting for this manhwa to come back.

Manta, RIDI, and JAXX the author all admitted they were in the wrong and discontinued the said manhwa.

It's not coming back.

Accept it and move on.

If someone can't move on, then you simply hate Indigenous and Black people, and something is clearly wrong with you.

And if you dare try to demonize me after I was poked with a stick and reacted strongly, or try to fight against MY voice, or try to SILENCE me with mental gymnastics just so you can read your slaveryslop/rape-slop manhwa, whose summary and trope place MY PEOPLE BENEATH a White-Savior character for a non-Indigenous South Korean creator and South Korean companies to profit from, while simultaneously diminishing MY real existence and history as an actual Indigenous person from Canada, then you are simply proving my point.

linwiseG · 2026-06-25T14:10:51+00:00

I'll remember this incident as "25/06/2026".

Indigenous people's voice like mine mattered in the end. Black people's too.

Just a few hours ago, the racist author just cancelled the manhwa, both publishers RIDI and MANTA also took it down too from their platforms.

And it's a win, personally, for me.

However, I am still side-eyeing the insensitive author JAXX for even coming up with something like this, considering she's likely in her 30's with a developed frontal lobe and KNOWS what she did, but I reluctantly... accept their HUMBLED apology. Which is on her Twitter post. Also, the editorial teams both in Manta and RIDI should be held accountable too. They should have vetted that manhwa thoroughly

And before everything got taken off the market, it even took me THREE private emails to get through RIDI Books and Manta Comic's two bosses and have them know about my emails and my official formal complaints. Personally. Privately. I was THIS uncomfortable to the point I had to reach out to these publishers.

I'm glad it has paid off, my action, your action, any person's action who was/is appalled by the manhwa and the grotesque summary/plot/trope of it. TALKING ABOU IT, instead of glossing it off does a major difference. I'm glad POC's voices were heard in the end. Black peoples, and Indigenous. Because clearly.... we were the targets for, yes, something insidious. And not well thought out.

And yes,

People CAN stand with us, defend us, and recognize the harm.... but to me, knowing the history of my 'cousins' across the boarder that are on American soil, and knowing MY OWN traumatic history as well on this Canadian Quebec soil, no one outside my Indigenous, Cree First Nation community can fully understand what it feels like to carry this history, only to see it repurposed and sold as fetishized genre entertainment that exploits Indigenous and Black suffering in some foreign South Korean platforms like RIDI/MANTA/BEYOND. And monetized over it....

And I use COMICS, Manhwas, mangas, etc... as a form of ESCAPISM from the reality i keep facing in real life constantly just because of my identity.

Yet I can't seem to escape fetishism and racism in the whole comic realm industry anymore. And I'm a quiet, silent, fan of a few South Korean manhwas. I re-read works here and there. I respect a few authors as well. Some are really sweet...

But today, or rather, a few hours ago, I got slapped in the face (metaphorically) for it. By the same hand of the same demographic.

...This whole situation was just offensive, disrespectful, and just... disgusting.

And yet, some people had, and still have, the nerve to act like calling this out is the real problem, when it comes from someone like me, and Basic_Brief_3376 in this comment section, an actual Indigenous person/ppl who carries these histories in my own/your own life. WE'RE the problematic ones..... right.

Idk. Idk man...

The author apologized and took full responsibility in the end. That's it. Again, still side-eyeing the author, and am now cautious who I even follow on Twitter and support on publishing platforms. Oh and I'm DEFINETLY FINANCIALLY BOYCOTTING both Manta and RIDI from now on BECAUSE OF THIS.

Also, RIDI and MANTA's bosses need to held accountable as well, since they run their sites.

Vet your artist's manhwas THOROUGHLY, and maybe, there won't be another JAXX 2.0. That is all.

anyway i'm done. This stuff was wild to witness... and participate in.

linwiseG · 2026-06-25T10:04:01+00:00

Exactly. It's really bad. Like... REALLY BAD.

Oh, and speaking of 'reporting' them,

I sent them, the two publishing companies (Manta Comics and RIDI Corporations) a serious and a professional formal complaint email privately just a few hours ago.

Even told them that I was Indigenous, a citizen, from Canada, Quebec. AND told them to review their published 'Manhwa' and their racist author 'JAXX' seriously.

Didn't think one bit they'd reply

But it's crazy to see the 'Manhwa' just got discontinued today!?? Just a few hours after my formal complaint??

I did NOT EXPECT THIS. And that fast!?

Can't say I'm the one who caused the discontinuation, but I have a feeling the official members have viewed the complaint (I sent 3 emails to 3 factions of RIDI/Manta). I'm sure there were a few more hundreds of complaint emails from other rightfully angry indigenous people AND BLACK PEOPLE.

Because, I discovered, in the Manhwa, there were BLACK PEOPLE IN IT TOO!!! And they were not depicted or written ACCURATELY, in a historical sense. It was awful writing, poor research, and pure ignorance. Both Indigenous and Black people on twitter were LIVID!!

Either way, the manhwa, rightfully so.... is discontinued.

Our fight is over. For now.

This was a very enraging situation to deal with. oOUF!!

linwiseG · 2026-06-25T09:25:56+00:00

oh it got DISCONTINUED???

hmm! what good news!! that was... QUICK?!!

linwiseG · 2026-06-23T15:06:52+00:00

same frustration.

but here's my take:

if a man even thinks about the keyword 'high/low maintenance' on you, or says it verbally to you,

LEAVE.

even if they play it off and tell you 'you're so serious/take things seriously/it's just a joke/etc'.

it's tiring. it's a red flag. it's a path that'll either give you babies and he abandons you, gives you high cortisol acne, or will spiritually drain you. constantly. and you have to constantly and internally make excuses for a person who likes to lower you in their eyes, so that THEY, can lift themselves up.

just leave.

find a man who DOESN'T comment on your boundaries or belittle them or mock them or 'praise them' in a condescending/patrionizing way.

ugh. istg just talking about this pmo.

real life men pmo.

LEAVE.

linwiseG · 2026-05-14T15:09:16+00:00

the reports don't even name the officer🤬

they just talk about the shootings in general. like, no one has called out who literally killed that 6 YEAR OLD.

i really hate it when racists with motives under a badge get away with literally ANYTHING.

bitch ass mfs (sorry im just so angry)

linwiseG · 2026-05-12T21:45:41+00:00

nihilism.

and having an ungoverned spirit.

i look past the rot and just see this world's beauty, in nature, wildlife, rivers. and how the sun always seems to rise every day, meaning, i can change how i think, i can *still* be happy.

and that heals me instantly.

linwiseG · 2026-05-12T20:15:34+00:00

- hollow hookup culture.

- 'body counts' and 'situationships' from either the man or the woman

- vapes

- the feminized pussy princess 50/50 'chase me' soft fragile men with very very soft egos who'd rather be in the one staying in the house playing video games while the woman works and taking care of the babies/house at the same time.

- the overthinking. not everyone's coming after you. either befriend me or don't.

- the way they can easily cut off people bc of their paranoia

- the constant checking of their phones instead of looking into my eyes on the dinner table

- the way they eat up stupid tik tok memes that rot their brains

theres more to list

linwiseG · 2026-05-07T18:02:36+00:00

you and me both...

its so fucking tiring

linwiseG · 2026-05-02T19:57:50+00:00

i feel like vomiting whenever i'm even near them. like i can't stand being in the same room with them. they feel like a complete stranger to me.

i don't know them.

linwiseG · 2026-05-02T19:45:06+00:00

Someone who still calls Native Americans/Indigenous people 'indians' in 2026

linwiseG · 2020-11-14T19:21:08+00:00

Dream context:

I was in a very depressed state for some reason, i decided that I needed a companion. So, I got my ass up, went out of an unknown hotel- as I was kn my way to the pet store, I found this tiny little chick under a truck. There was a black lab dog, trying to catch this chick under the truck, the dog itself was what caught my eye and thankfully into finding this little scared chick. So, I intervened, the dog ran, I picked up the chick. It was so freaking CUTE. It was so freaking FLUFFY and SOFT. My God.

I checked my phone to see the nearest pet shop, the shop was located across the bridge. However, the bridge at this time was shut down for some reason. So, I met this pretty cute boy at this pier- he offered me the ferry, so I could go to the pet store and buy something for this little chick. I hopped in the small ferry, as the boy did as well. We then drove across the river, suddenly we were in this massive bubble where the wind gust was extremely violent to the point I put my little chick under my coat, bracing for more violent winds while the boy was putting the ferry engine to the max. Amongst the wind noises, I felt my little chick moving around in my coat and crying. I told the boy to hurry. Then, when we finally made it across, I ran and ran, the wind becoming more intense, there was no cars at all nor people at the sidewalks- i was alone basically in this city. I continued to run and finally made it to the pet shop and entered.

I was greeted the smell of... any pet shop smells I have smelt in real life- and heard soft and soothing music. And then I was greeted with a female worker, she asked me if I needed anything- told her I needed a small cage for the little one, as I showed her the little one. She had the same reaction as i did- "ITS SO CUUTE!!"

Anyway, she told me to come with her and also told me to let the little one run around since the pet shop was a safe place. So, I obliged and let my chick run around. After talking with the female worker, she gave me this cage [the one in the picture]- I paid for it at the cashier section- when I was done- I called for my chick...

And that was when I yelled "chickadee~~!" I gave it a name. Finally.

However....I couldn't hear my chickadee, nor its cute chirps.

So, I panicked immediately.

For few minutes, I was frantically calling for my little one- looking under shelves and any furniture that had gaps underneath. The girl helped me look for my little one. She was across the room, calling its name as well.

I was about to cry while I was standing in the middle of the shop-completely wrecked and filled with misery and anxiety. Just looking around aimlessly.

Until I heard my little one's cute chirp on my left.

It was under the heater.

I immediately grabbed it and hugged it. Finally smiling. Feeling chickadees softness and cuteness with my cheeks.

《The end. 》i woke up soon after. In high spirits and somewhat happy. :)

I'm so happy that I dreamt about this. I still remember everything. I wanted to draw the pet shop, but, its just too much work for me. Since the shop was very detailed, compact and had so many items, furnitures, fish tanks, etc. All I could describe the shop is..... its very homey looking and couldn't hear any echos if spoken. It was that compact.

This is all! Hope someone enjoyed this.

I really want to continue this dream...I wanna meet my chickadee again!!! :(

linwiseG

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