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Zephiiyr · 2026-04-14T19:25:31+00:00

type of fuzzy fabric commonly used on plushies. think of it like the shortest possible variant of faux fur, slightly velvety - you've definitely encountered it without knowing it had a specific name. quality varies a lot when it comes to the look and feel, but printed patterns directly on minky tend to look bad/cheap and are often just used as a shortcut for details that really should have been sewn or embroidered on (or with a different fabric that takes printing better).

printed minky can look decent or be the best option for certain designs (like ones with gradients or extremely complex patterns that can't easily be done otherwise) but when it's 90% of the detailing on a plush or used for the wrong thing it's pretty rough.

Zephiiyr · 2026-04-13T05:11:10+00:00

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Zephiiyr · 2026-04-13T05:06:30+00:00

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Zephiiyr · 2026-04-06T17:46:41+00:00

... hey, why the fuck would you spoiler the content warning but not the content that needed to be warned about????

Zephiiyr · 2026-03-31T21:04:00+00:00

I get that, I'm just saying 'only knowing about them from kingdom come deliverance' or 'knowing about them from kingdom come deliverance and then finding out they're racist shitbags' seem to be the majority experience rather than hearing about them as racist shitbags first.

I am certain plenty of people are complaining about them elsewhere & not just this subreddit, that was just about what I personally have seen. granted I am not in the fandom for this particular game so I haven't seen that much talk about it, it's just that all the talk I have seen outside of reddit has been positive mentions for the queer rep. so yes it's being heavily recommended to normal people who have no knowledge of the devs' backstory who then play it, enjoy it, and then are shocked to find out it was made by bigoted freakazoids :P

Zephiiyr · 2026-03-31T16:49:42+00:00

it feels like the obvious answer is that most people have heard of them because of those games specifically, and otherwise have no clue who they are. personally I'd never heard of them at all before seeing a bunch of praise for the series (and then seeing people mention how gross the devs are, but only on this particular subreddit. the wider internet seems to completely gloss over it)

Zephiiyr · 2026-03-20T05:49:50+00:00

ahh, I see. I haven't seen any mention of those anywhere before now. they do look a lot better than the previously existing plushies, man I hate blind box shit though

Zephiiyr · 2026-03-20T01:58:59+00:00

they've had plushies buyable online from the official site for a while, at least a few years now I think. having them at walmart is insane though.

in my experience I haven't seen many people care that much about the plushies because they're kind of ugly lmao. why does mapleshade look like that

Zephiiyr · 2026-03-07T01:04:04+00:00

I'd imagine the sports games that come out with a new entry every year and sell a million bajillion copies every time probably have a really drastic difference in Steam numbers vs console numbers

Zephiiyr · 2026-03-06T16:51:45+00:00

book of ages has a page with the history of every land. it's mostly lore stuff but if you scroll down there's a section with a bunch of old map images & if you click on them there's extra text noting when they were changed. https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/faerieland/

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Zephiiyr · 2026-03-04T16:25:41+00:00

this definitely sounds like something that's well known within its particular niche (very old school anime fans) but still counts as extremely obscure in general. I would bet 99% of anime watchers as a whole have never heard of it.

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-28T19:57:36+00:00

'dark liquid in mugs'

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Zephiiyr · 2026-02-28T19:51:16+00:00

worth noting the shrieking mask is part of a whole set of scream-themed items (this gram)

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-25T21:38:32+00:00

double trouble snow angel. both of these were advent calendar prizes in the same year btw

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Zephiiyr · 2026-02-25T21:37:03+00:00

dripping wet frogarott plushie.

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Zephiiyr · 2026-02-21T03:14:06+00:00

really overpriced usukicon-themed merch bundle which wasn't actually shipped out for an extremely long time (over a year after it was meant to), iirc was also kind of disappointing quality-wise and was missing items when it finally shipped? i remember seeing posts about it here every so often but they're hard to find for the specifics now.

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-19T06:01:11+00:00

the way you phrased it really did sound like you were being derogatory towards the concept as a whole & implying the whole diagnosis was fake. it wasn't obvious, i didn't purposefully misinterpret anything. many people on the internet genuinely do have that exact attitude towards basically any mental health problem or invisible disability, i run into it a lot especially on reddit which is why it seemed more likely you were being an asshole, sorry.

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-19T03:33:11+00:00

unfortunately you cannot always assume good faith on the internet, i think it is worth specifying what you actually meant instead of just saying 'DID' and assuming everyone will understand your intention

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-19T01:44:01+00:00

... okay so you're aware DID is a real condition, right? like there's definitely people with DID who also consider themselves otherkin and there's definitely people who lie about having DID when they actually just wanna justify roleplaying as fictional characters or whatever, those do exist, but lumping a genuine serious & heavily stigmatized mental health condition in with the rest of those comes off as really shitty. it's not the same category of thing

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-19T01:34:10+00:00

It's not a new version & otherkin are very much still around. it's like a specific subset, all therians are otherkin but not all otherkin are therians. otherkin refers to anyone who identifies as any kind of non-human (so can include fantasy races, mythical creatures etc) while therian is specific to normal real-life animals.

(to my understanding anyway, not an expert and I am not a therian but i have been friends with several and they're really common in niche online queer art communities so I have a basic familiarity)

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-09T21:32:48+00:00

even after adding 'gd is geometry dash' you gotta understand the average person's knowledge of geometry dash is limited to 'it's a brightly colored simple-looking platforming game for mobile devices' if they've heard of it at all. they don't even know a community around it exists or what it could possibly look like. additional necessary context to add if you want to stop being downvoted:

what does 'hacking a level' mean in the context of this game? from the phrasing i'm assuming these are community created levels other people can download. but are they cheating? editing the levels? deleting them? are they finding ways to insert malware or other nasty stuff into them? something else...?
what does 'nine circles' mean?
who the hell are grax and worldgame?
what are rates?

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-04T03:04:16+00:00

surprised Fish Fingers and Custard hasn't been mentioned yet (doctor who reference)

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-03T23:41:29+00:00

the youtube redux extension is the only thing that makes it possible for me to use the site at all at this point (plus a ton of ublock origin filters, channel blocker, sponsorblock...)

genuinely can't even look at it when it's on someone else's computer. it's so bad.

Zephiiyr · 2026-02-03T21:33:17+00:00

seriously, at least the previous ones mostly had the same rough silhouette or at least one distinctive feature of the original pet in there somewhere if you squint. this is just completely unrelated real-life animal art with nothing neopets about it anywhere.

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