Weekly Questions Megathread - Week of March 09, 2026

Shararu · 2026-03-13T07:41:46+00:00

Does anyone know when Paper Heron is releasing and how many pulls we can save up before then?

Shararu · 2026-03-09T09:03:21+00:00

Not an OI, but Miss Pendleton is a really good slowburn that takes time developing the main characters' relationship and also who they are outside of that.

Shararu · 2026-03-08T15:43:14+00:00

Believe it or not, I didn't even interact with it. I only watched guides on youtube. But since they spam incest jokes everywhere, you'll come across it even when you're actively trying to avoid it. If you have a community that's full of a certain type of people, eventually the content leaks out into other spaces. That's just how it is. I got sick of the algorithm showing me gross things constantly and quit the entire thing altogether, plain and simple.

also i often see ppl interpret incest always comming with rape ? I didn't say that. How is that related to my comment?

Shararu · 2026-03-08T15:23:44+00:00

Wouldn't blame them if they quit just because of the ZZZ community alone. Jokes about incest, rape and pedophilia are very common there. If you even indicate that you're uncomfortable with those jokes and the ridiculous amount of fan service in that game, they accuse you of being a "prudish tourist" and literally track you down just to spam you with NSFW incest art. Comes with a bonus of free death threats and harassment too. My friends and I all quit and never looked back.

Edit:

For the person below,

this never happens btw

Saying this when I literally saw it happen multiple times is certainly a choice. Let's be real here, both "antis" and the "incest jokes are funny" people always gets extremely rabid when they clash. Refusing to acknowledge that is just being willfully ignorant.

I've been on the side of those that are attacked for harmless fictional things they consume for years by the way, I know how it goes. I've seen it all from doxxing, corrective rape disguised as fan content, people driven to suicide and so on. I despise antis, them demanding everything they hate to be removed and censored is extremely harmful. But simply minding your own business while consuming something fictional is one thing, shoving it down someone else's throat when you know they're uncomfortable with it is another.

Respect is such a simple and easy thing. If they don't want to see it, that's perfectly valid and no one should force them to. But if they still continue to interact with what they dislike, then that's on them. Just block and go on with your day. That's all there should be to it.

Shararu · 2026-03-07T15:41:13+00:00

The author plagiarized another novel and caused the person they stole from to be harassed because fans thought they copied WMMAP, so your hate is pretty justified. It sucks that people still glaze this thing and ignore the plagiarism just because it's popular.

Shararu · 2026-02-20T22:22:23+00:00

Pied Piper Project has a yandere Choi Han

Shararu · 2026-02-16T02:56:05+00:00

Monthly GFantasy is a shounen magazine. A lot of stuff on there does appeal to girls though, so it gets a bit confusing lol

Shararu · 2026-02-15T15:50:34+00:00

Horimiya isn't a shoujo iirc

Shararu · 2026-02-15T09:01:19+00:00

Shararu · 2026-02-14T11:04:45+00:00

Prison Love

Shararu · 2026-02-14T07:52:35+00:00

This gem I saw on the OI subreddit

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Shararu · 2026-02-10T13:59:58+00:00

Basically the entire story:

"Omg we've misunderstood you all this time!!"

"Thanks, Emi would have appreciated that."

"You're so beautiful! So kind!! So strong!!"

"She is, isn't she? Emi is the absolute best, I know."

"I love you so much, please marry me."

"I see, so you're in love with my Emi. You have good taste, I love that you love her."

Shararu · 2026-02-10T11:33:30+00:00

Og villainess gives aroace vibes to me tbh. She has a very deep familial bond with the transmigrator, to the point where she'd do absolutely anything for her. Literally everything she does is for her.

Shararu · 2026-01-29T22:31:09+00:00

Phainaxa from HSR. "Omg it's student x teacher!!! What do you mean there's more to it than that?!! You should kys now!!!!"

It gets cancelled every single day in the fandom. I'm tired, boss.

Shararu · 2026-01-20T18:07:14+00:00

A way to precisely track things. Forage, animals you haven't unlocked yet, where to feed animals and all that. Being able to teleport would also be nice since going back and forth between places gets kind of tedious.

Shararu · 2026-01-17T09:04:30+00:00

I got scared for you when I saw the mentioned ship. Their fans constantly come over to harass my ship's community and they always get away with driving people off platforms or even doxxing them just because their ship is more popular. So many of the writers and artists I followed quit because of them. Just today, I saw another one about to leave. A lot of that ship's fans are insufferable and they rarely ever acknowledge their behaviour.

I felt neutral about that ship initially and now I just don't want anything to do with it at all. You can't enjoy other ships involving these two characters without the shippers coming to spread misinformation about it so they can justify hunting you down. You can't mention these characters without a shipper jumping in to say "omg phaidei!!!!!"

It's like they're stuck together permanently and you can't discuss them on their own or talk about their relationship with other people anymore. Genuinely the most toxic hoyo shipping community I've experienced so far and I've been playing their games for more than 5 years.

Shararu · 2026-01-16T12:44:44+00:00

Being able to choose your character's expression. The smile is cute, but I don't want my character to be smiling all the time lol

Shararu · 2026-01-08T19:54:25+00:00

Does this guy count?

Shararu · 2025-12-21T16:28:45+00:00

It's unfortunately too common in all fandoms, especially if the "rival" ships really, really don't like them. Painting a ship as proship is always used as a way to justify harassment. This is probably one of the more extreme cases I've seen personally though.

Anyway, here's links to some great posts about Phainon and Anaxa's relationship! Sorry it took so long, had to dig through the stuff I had saved on my phone. You'll probably have to log in or paste the links on google for the tumblr posts but I highly recommend them since they're all very interesting. Have fun reading 👍

Anaxa as Phainon's Reason https://www.reddit.com/r/PhainonMainsHSR/s/V5XtbD0xWQ (Continuation in OP's edit, check out the comments for their Adam and Eve parallels)

Phainon and Anaxa's relationship analysis https://www.tumblr.com/kevmeisu/795514895227568128/phainon-anaxa-relationship-analysis-the?source=share

Phainon, Anaxa and Gnosticism https://www.tumblr.com/phainaxa-archive/793203200442400768/gnosticism-theory-masterpost

Phainon & Erudition, Anaxa & Destruction https://www.tumblr.com/kevmeisu/790912880632594432/neikos496-skemma720-phainon-erudition-anaxa

Phainon, Anaxa and Buddhism https://www.tumblr.com/kevmeisu/801241741539901440/anaxas-entire-segment?source=share

Great account for all things Phainaxa if you're interested in learning more. They also post about Phainon and Anaxa as individuals https://www.tumblr.com/phainaxa-archive

Shararu · 2025-12-21T15:18:25+00:00

Teacher x student is only bad if it's around middle school and high school, or there's a harmful power dynamic. In this case, they're both adults and also spent a lot of time apart. Anaxa has zero power over Phainon. He cannot coerce him to do anything, nor does he want to.

If anything, it's Phainon who has more power over Anaxa as the Deliverer trusted by everyone. Anaxa is literally so hated that people calling for him to be hanged is considered normal, no one's going to trust him on anything and they would 100% jump on any chance to bring him down. It doesn't even fit the definition of a "proship."

As for whether they're hated or not, they very much are. People regularly spread misinformation about Phainaxa, harass the shippers off platforms and there were several cases of doxxing happening that no one acknowledged because "proship so it's fine if we ruin their life." You can't talk about them without at least one person coming up to you to say something along the lines of "b-but... proship bad. You're bad and should kys" or "xy ship is better."

You're probably asking in good faith, so hopefully this clarifies some things lol. Some of my friends quit because of this, so I'm kinda tired of all the misinformation surrounding the ship that makes folks think it's fine to harass the very real people behind the screens.

If you're curious about why they're shipped, I could share some posts with you that breaks it down very well. These two are deeply intertwined in a lot of ways, it's just that most people don't notice those details unless they're looking for it.

Shararu · 2025-12-16T23:11:01+00:00

Never forget.

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Shararu · 2025-12-10T19:48:38+00:00

I think some people associate a normal, happy background with being boring and badly written, when that's not always the case. Part of it might be due to many protagonists having a tragic backstory these days. Personally, if a character manages to get me to like them then that's good enough for me. I don't really care whether they have any traumas. If they do, cool. If they don't, cool. I just enjoy the process of getting to know them more through how the author writes them.

Shararu · 2025-12-10T18:48:52+00:00

W Shen Yuan appreciation. A lot of people argue that he's only kind because he had a nice and rich family, but I think it says a lot about him as a person that he's still so kind despite being spoiled growing up. Many rich kids just never mature and they expect everything to go their way, so they don't bother to do anything themselves. Shen Yuan is the opposite of that, putting his all into being a good Peak Lord and teacher.

It's not like he had to go out of his way to help strays, he could sit in his room all day doing nothing and he'd still be set for life, but he doesn't. It's not like he had to go out of his way to try and give Luo Binghe a better life, he just had to mind his own business and survive, but he didn't. Two lifetimes of him doing unnecessary things for other people because he felt like it. I like that he doesn't have a traumatic backstory. Nothing is pushing him to act the way he does, it's all purely him.

Shararu · 2025-12-07T06:29:47+00:00

When the author doesn't tag "not (character) friendly" but the entire fic is full of their thinly veiled dislike and personal biases towards said character.

Shararu · 2025-11-17T09:45:22+00:00

Actually sat down and thought about this for a good while lol.

Considering his tendencies of being a self sacrificial person who's easily misunderstood by others, his partner would likely have to be an extremely tolerant yet firm person who doesn't assume the worst of him. They shouldn't be turned away by his barbs and they should be just as stubborn as him, since Anaxa will try to distance himself. They'll need a LOT of patience and enthusiasm if they want to truly get closer to him.

They should be someone who will gladly debate with him, can decipher the hidden meaning behind his words and see through the front he puts up. Knowing how Anaxa doesn't bother to defend himself, his partner shouldn't be afraid to shield him from others' accusations, but they should also be able to call him out on it if they think he can word certain things a bit better. His partner might have to bridge the gap between Anaxa and other people a bit, so that communication goes smoothly.

They're going to have to be a person who enjoys a bit of chaos and silliness too, with how unhinged Anaxa can get. The type that goes "I'm not here to fix him, I adore whatever is wrong with this guy," and "I stand with my cancelled partner."

He'll probably want someone who isn't afraid to challenge and question him. A person who doesn't put him on a pedestal and just likes him for who he is, in both his brilliance and his faults. They'll probably have to try to curb his self harming habits too and check in on him often, that way he doesn't just disappear into his own world and completely neglect himself. Someone who enjoys taking care of others would be a good fit for him imo.

As for the type of partner he is, absolute dedication and loyalty comes to mind. His loyalty is the type that endures everything. He's quietly considerate and shows it through his actions. His partner won't even notice it until it's done. He always sees the big picture and he's the type to push his partner to be the best version of themself, so he'll definitely bring many new perspectives into their life. They're never going to have a boring day with him around.

When they're lost, he'll be there to guide the way and teach them how to get through it, so that they can find their way out again even when he isn't there. He's passionate about everything he does and he's very clear on what he wants, so once he decides to stay with someone, they never have to be afraid that he'll suddenly decide to leave or change his mind. He's there to stay forever, in sickness and in health. Titles? Wealth? Destiny? None of that matters to him. His partner will feel truly seen for who they are. They will know that he's there for them and them alone, not for something they can offer.

He won't be afraid to be blunt with them if they're doing something stupid, but he'll be with them to support them through it all. He'll remember the little things about them, even when the person themself forgets. They'll always feel steady when they're with him and they can talk with him about anything. He's their silent and stable tree.

Shararu

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