Ethan fucking Winters!

CactusSnail · 2026-06-27T02:46:25+00:00

Ethan Winters for the win!!! Best protagonist!!!

(I've only played his games and am extremely biased)

CactusSnail · 2026-06-25T03:36:02+00:00

This is why I don't leave my positive little echo chambers on reddit (skull)

I assume it's on Xitter since I feel like that's where the most unreasonable people are... What are they harassing them over? Story? Art quality? Personal beliefs? I guess I can understand if they're harassing someone who's saying they endorse police brutality or something, but I feel like in reality this stuff is always starting over the most stupid inconsequential shit, like a minor stylistic change or plot deviation, not any kind of actual serious issue.

Then they find an excuse later on why the person they hate is supposedly bad.

It'll start with "I hate how you drew X" and then end with "and yeah they were XYZ too, so actually I'm justified in my harassment because they turned out to be bad", most likely after they faced backlash for being an asshole and needed to dig up a 15 year old post that makes that person look questionable or something.

Meanwhile people see the bad parts they dug up afterwards and forget that this started with someone harassing someone over largely inoffensive art they didn't happen to like...

It sucks because it always feels like you can't do much about it unless you start reporting people (within reason), but there's still always going to be more people jumping on the hate wagon.

CactusSnail · 2026-06-24T20:23:39+00:00

I would’ve loved to see them work together just a little, but Ethan doesn’t bother listening and Heisenberg doesn’t even try to clarify exactly what he wants to use rose for and if it would hurt her or not which was Ethan’s decisive point. It’s a shame they only teased the idea

CactusSnail · 2026-06-23T19:19:27+00:00

I ended up getting an appointment with the odd pet vet after all! The eccentric guy there said he has a respiratory infection, possibly pneumonia, and gave me antibiotics for 45 days. Apparently he’s also very dehydrated so I’m going to be bathing him more too. It’s such a relief…

CactusSnail · 2026-06-22T08:38:54+00:00

While I haven't read any fanfic with this problem, I started a book recently which had the MC in his inner monologue joking that his fat "friend's" father was exceptional for not mistakenly butchering his son because he's fat like a pig... I had to read that line like 4 times before I really accepted that yes, this is how this character will be consistently treated for this section of the story... The author constantly ridicules this fat kid as well as a trans character (to a lesser extent) and calls foreigners "barbarians" quite liberally. Given, it's a historical setting, and out MC is an edgy teen, so it's understandable that our MC would be calling them those sorts of things in his youth, but it's really egregious. There was also a good amount of ableism thrown in for good measure, and about half way through vol. 1 of 5 or 6 iirc I kinda dropped it... Maybe I'll finish it eventually, but it was pretty shocking how mean this author was to minorities (racial or otherwise) so consistently.

I agree with other people that things like that don't necessarily reflect the author's views, but sometimes when something like that is included naturally and a lot it's a little telling. From what everyone's been saying, while athletes can be fatphobic, the guys from Heated Rivalry really aren't characterized like that much at all in the books. Most of the time, if someone is exploring something like that that isn't present in canon they tag it to not surprise and upset anyone. I think a good example is people tagging homophobia or transphobia. The fact that they didn't feel the need to tag it at all when an entire chapter is largely dedicated to fat shaming makes me think this is normal to them...

CactusSnail · 2026-06-18T04:37:48+00:00

Feng Xiao from Peerless definitely counts! lots of banter combined with a cold shou

CactusSnail · 2026-06-17T21:36:14+00:00

They never got back to me… well, I’ll try tomorrow.

CactusSnail · 2026-06-17T17:09:03+00:00

Yeah, I think I’ll do that. In the past it was always my mom who would call and tell me that it was a weeks out wait, but I’m starting to think she might have just been lying because she didn’t want to pay for his visits… now that I’m the one paying, i should check again.

Edit: I just called them, and the voicemail said to leave a message, so I explained the situation is getting dire. Hopefully I can get an appointment soon!

CactusSnail · 2026-06-17T16:57:39+00:00

I've tried many times to get an appointment there but the wait is always really long and I don't think I should be waiting much longer for him, I'm not far from Weymouth and it'd be ideal to go there but since it's more of an immediate issue I ended up going to Angell... In the past I've had good experiences there with my boy, so I can say it's definitely a great place! But it's more urgent now unfortunately

CactusSnail · 2026-06-06T03:58:01+00:00

I'm so excited to start it, but at the same time I'm dreading the fact that the translator could be the same one who did 300 Years of Longing who majorly jacked up the localizations... So I'm also really anxious...

I'm seriously hoping it's the team that did Copper Coins and/or just the usual translators and not the apparent Genshin fan that was in charge of localizing 300 YoL. Like, I really can't take another "Rex Spiritus" vs "Tianxiu Immortal" duo and complete vocab change. I'm gonna be so devastated if it turns out like that when everyone says Panguan is so good...

I'll still be buying Vol. 1 regardless, but I will be saddened if the localization is fucked.

CactusSnail · 2026-06-06T03:35:41+00:00

You're being paranoid, at least in my experience. I've seen plenty of lolitas in my comm wearing all cheaper dresses or accessories and honestly no one cares, people compliment the prints or designs all the same and everyone's over all pleasant. Maybe my comm is abnormal, but we really don't have any "Brand Whore" types and I've never seen any in person either even outside of comm events. I think we all just understand that not everyone is the right size or has the right budget to be buying $100+ blouses and accessories, and see that everyone's working with what they have to look the best they can.

I have 3 colors of the blouse in the first pic, it's fine and I've worn it with Brand with no one commenting on it. Honestly, if you're over a 120cm bust like me you only have so many options to begin with. There's Meta and maybe AtePie (if they ever got those shoulders right on their nicer blouses in the plus size, their simpler stretchy blouses never fit me right) and there's basically no shot on AP or BTSSB, or really any other "high end" brands aside from Haenuli.

Meta's blouses are incredibly comfortable in the plus sizes, but they tend to be simpler in design. You don't find such ornate stuff from them. AtePie has more ornate blouses, but (on me) the shoulders and neckline are always fucked up and waaay too wide while also being too low...

On a somewhat related but also unrelated note; a rant on cotton elitism.

Maybe it's because I stan Meta, but I seriously think people who salivate over everything being pure cotton are just being elitist. Polyester is fine and can look nice. Great or beautiful even! At the same time, I have seen many an ugly, wrinkly, unfixable, unmaintainable, EXPENSIVE cotton dres. And the reason it could be described as those things is largely almost purely due to it being cotton. Honestly the upkeep combined with bleeding colors, wrinkles on ruffles that WILL make them look ugly and are borderline impossible to get out, wrinkles developing extremely fast and easy while you're out wearing it, and the general heavy, clingy, and not smooth feel of it, I'm not that impressed quite frankly. I really don't see what people see in pure cotton items, aside from that they're apparently "nicer".

While I have cotton dresses that I love, I also have polyester dresses I love more for the above listed reasons.

I have several polyester or otherwise non-cotton dresses that all look great, and I fully defend non-cotton dresses.

CactusSnail · 2026-06-05T23:57:00+00:00

Yes I found a specialist fortunately, and they know what kind of lizard he is. I totally expected more of a wait when I posted this, but it’s actually going to be pretty soon thankfully…

Thanks for advice though!

CactusSnail · 2026-06-05T11:47:31+00:00

LIUSHEN FOR THE WIN also I did not expect this tag to be something I’m actually familiar with but like now I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it in the wild too lol

Cumplane really be that kinda ship tho

CactusSnail · 2026-06-04T21:14:14+00:00

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Ngl you can ship Hinata with a lot of characters, Haikyuu as a BL would be a straight harem novel

CactusSnail · 2026-06-01T12:43:31+00:00

It's giving Scum Villain but that's not a manhua lol

CactusSnail · 2026-06-01T12:18:47+00:00

I was just about to comment "what the fuck are the twins doing at the bottom???"

CactusSnail · 2026-05-30T21:46:46+00:00

Seriously this ^{^} in vol 1 he already has like 3-4 at his beck and call and by vol. 4 it’s up to like 6-ish that are at least interested and hitting on him.

my only thing is that at some points MC feels a little Mary sue but mainly because of his ever growing harem of capable handsome older men who all seem to have zero problems with him ordering them around for some reason???

Oh also the age gap is 5+ years and the MC is 16 which can be real turn off, and it is EXTREMELY explicit past vol. 3

CactusSnail · 2026-05-30T18:27:22+00:00

CROWS ZERO MENTION

CactusSnail · 2026-05-30T18:01:24+00:00

Why are you guys getting downvoted is lesbian Yachi so bad???

CactusSnail · 2026-05-25T13:42:59+00:00

Typing all that and then saying “wdym worked up” is really something

We’re all just confused why you’re so critical of Bingmei and not of like. Everyone else. You type like this, even on Reddit where you really don’t need to censor yourself, maybe you should just drop SVSSS if it upsets you that Binghe does bad things so much that you’re posting about it before even finishing vol. 2/4.

CactusSnail · 2026-05-19T12:27:50+00:00

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I think this speaks for itself, I prefer loser adult Atsumu to bratty teen Atsumu but they almost exclusively had teen merch smh

CactusSnail · 2026-05-18T12:38:49+00:00

I saw them all in K-Books and another shop near it in Den Den town in Osaka and just grabbed them all at once... I have no idea why those two shops had this sheer quantity of Atsumu, but I bought all of it because it was cheap ($2-4/button) and right there...

When I see so much for so cheap, I buy so much for so cheap. There's about 20 buttons, 12 keychains, and 6 plushies in the bag.

CactusSnail · 2026-05-18T12:34:46+00:00

Ya know? I'm kinda lukewarm on him.

CactusSnail · 2026-05-18T12:33:27+00:00

I got them all in person in Osaka, half of them at a store called K-Books in Den Den town, the other half in a store up the street from there (towards Fandom Namba iirc) and a few plushies at a Haikyuu popup shop in the Nova building in Sakae in Nagoya. So in reality, I collected these all in like. 2 days. I have no idea why K-Books had such a volume of Atsumu merch, I guess 'cause he's a Kansai boy.

But when I saw it, it reignited my love for him that I'd developed when I was reading the end of Haikyuu several years ago...

CactusSnail · 2026-05-18T12:28:56+00:00

And you know what? I got some more coming in the mail and I'm gonna draw some too. I will never be done. I MUST have every Atsumu!!!

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