What is the food in your country that is mid in your opinion, but actually have pretty solid fandom of itself?

What is the food in your country that is mid in your opinion, but actually have pretty solid fandom of itself?

For me, it would be Maroon sweet potaotoes, (밤고구마), which are also known as Asian sweet potatoes in English speaking countries. I don't think it is terrible, but I also think it is way too bland to consider the fact that it is one of the most famous fall traditonal treats in korea. A lot of people claim that its flavor have 'comforting' vive, that cannot be replaced with other sweet potatoes. I always never liked its greyish yellow flesh, dry texture and boring flavor... (Especially to consider that my grandma continuously fed it with milk even though I was not a fan of it..) If there are ocasions that I can have sweet potatoes, I would rather have golden, rich, creamy ones rather than this souless fleshy pale yellow chunk.

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 10 days ago
▲ 41 r/sushi

32.5 Bucks Sushi Omakase!! (Sushi Hiro, Osaka)

Heck, it was one of best priced omakase ever I had! Even though it was very cheep in Omakase standards, it still had premium ingredients, such as See urchin and fatty tuna! Also, the chef guy was super nice. One of my best sushi restaurants ever!

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 1 month ago

How much you guys would pay for drawing like this ? (+ Color)

Hey guys! I am slowly preparing for my first paid commissions. I will be doing character desigh for people who want clear desigh of their fursona, and (maybe) full ref sheet. However, I am wondering what would be the ideal cost of arts. Can you guys share opinions about it?

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 1 month ago

Do you think my fursona looks to plain?

(It was supposed to be "too" not "to". Sutpid typo!)

I want to add more Asian dragon-like features to her, but do not erase the style of the wolf. Can you tell me what kind of improvement will be needed?

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 1 month ago

IDL toxic and misbehaving furries who totally ruined the whole reputation of my fandom.

Yes. This is a self-explanatory post. As someone who has been passionate about anthropomorphic animals since I was 8 or something, I found the Furry fandom to be the place where I fit in the most. However, while I enjoyed various aspects of the fandom, I also noticed that there are creeps who cannot mind basic manners. First, what annoys the most is uncensored/excessive NSFW content. I don’t mean that people should not make sexy content at all. But some people tend to make it their whole personality and become overly obsessed with it. These people tend to invade other fandoms and non-NSFW spaces and make a huge mess. (Think about Tony the Tiger and Rawr.) Do you wanna make corns? Go ahead! But can’t you folks do it at NSFW websites, or at least blur NSFW arts? They just require a few types/clicks more. People who don’t like them will pass them in peace, and people who like them will visit the website/unblur the art, and see them anyway. They are not that hard, actually… Second, I also saw people who justify other types of misbehaviors (Such as the normalization of dosing hard drugs and recommending it to other people), which are obviously harmful. On Twitter, I saw a furry artist’s comic strip that satires (and probably criticizes) how drugs and recommending them are normalized in fandom party scenes. Thankfully, I saw people who are admitting that these things are not good. But I also saw folks who are justifying and defending drug users, and explaining them as “Having fun”. (I also got a feeling that these people are looking down on people who don’t do this stuff, even though it is a pretty clear fact that hard drugs are toxic and addictive enough to affect someone’s life in an ve.ry negative way.) Also, I hate people who are ignorant about problems in the community and refuse to admit that their fandom is imperfect. I know that misbehaving people are not the majority of the fandom, but that's not an excuse to ignore all the messed-up drama happening in the community. But when someone tries to point out the flaws, some people just tend to silence these folks without any valid reasons. (I had written a similar thing to the r/furry, but got it deleted without even knowing the real reason why.) If people keep refusing to face the problem, they will continuously feed anti-furries and the general public to throw rocks at the fandom, even at ones who are innocent. Just…can’t everyone act while they mind basic facts and manners, which everyone needs to know as a person? I DON’T want to be stressed about things I do for fun. I just want to express myself in a healthy way and interact with people, without worrying about getting into some fucked up dramas. Just.. All people can’t mind basic manners and facts that everybody else knows?

Sigh… 

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 2 months ago

Dragon Boi!! (Art by me!)

Tools I used: Manga ink, Dip pen (Mainly Maru pen but also used spoon pen at some occasions.), Sakura pen, KingArt watercolor brushes.

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 2 months ago

Finished analog art!

P.S: I will try to finish rest of the commisions as soon as I can, when I can use my Ipad again. If you did not received art yet, I want to apologize for making you wait too long.

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 2 months ago

Hot take: Rappa is a better antagonist than Muscular. (Even though I still think Muscular is not a “bad’ character.)

Well, it would depend a lot by how each person thinks what makes a good villain, but I personally thought Rappa had better depiction as an individual character than Muscular. 

So, here’re reasons why. First, I personally thought Rappa felt more ‘human’ than muscular. Let’s look at Muscular first. When muscular encountered Deku at the>! training camp, he had exhibited pretty crude personality. He never really had an “Deep” purpose why he was committing homicide against people. All of his motivation was fitting people and beating them to death. For him, fighting was just an entertainment, which had nothing deep. Even when Izuku encountered him again at the dark hero arc, he never shown any change in his personality. (It is shown by Izuku asking to Muscular why he became a villain. Muscular just hold him that he wanted to live an regretless life, that he could have all he fun he wants.!< However, Rappa was bit different from him. When Rappa first encountered Kirishima and Fatgum at the>! middle of Overhaul arc, he just looked like a bloodthirsty fighting addict, which have not much difference with muscular. However, when I red trough the episode carefully, I learned that he is more than just an maniac. First, he knew how to take fight seriously, not just for fun. Even though he was an antagonist, he was able to show his own type of respect at Kirishima’s will, even though it was still in very aggressive way. Also, he had shown that he have his own faith as an fighter, and some kind of antihero, by being an only member of the Overhaul’s Yakuza group, who did not became Overhaul’s dog.!< Like this, Rappa was more than just a barricade of the heroes. Instead he was an pretty solid character who had his own faith, and wild, but also pretty appealing personality. 

Second, unlike Rappa, Muscular had “Aura loss moment.” >!As I mentioned before, Deku meets Muscular again at the middle of the city. Muscular had never got weaker than before. (Actually, I had saw some folks saying that he may got stronger.) However, Deku had totally busted him, only using few minutes maximum., making Muscular as a tool which had got spent to show how strong Izuku had before.!< Even though it is obviously true that Muscular is still objectively powerful, and Rappa is weaker than him, I think depictions like this made muscular less threatening than he used to be. 

I may be wrong, but this was my opinion about two characters. You can point out my potentially wrong points at the comment section!

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 2 months ago

Funny/cute ones aside, what are some SERIOUS/DEEP Ochaco headcannon you guys have?

My one: The reason why Ochaco had noticed that she had zero gravity quirk is quite tragic. When Ochaco was around 5 to 7, her whole family, including her parents and grandparents were traveling outside Mie prefecture. During that time, the financial state of Ochaco’s parents was improving, because they had paid back the majority of their business debts. Ochaco was excited about her first ever vacation outside her hometown, not expecting anything bad to happen. However, Ochaco’s dad had spotted a car stalking his family van. He tried to dodge it, but the car sped up, striking the family van, injuring Ochaco’s grandparents severely. Thankfully, Ochaco was safe, but she was shocked about what was happening at that time. However, when the car villain tried to prepare a second lunge, Ochaco noticed that there was a little glow on her hand pads. She knew that it may be a sign of her quirk. So, she frantically waved her hand to activate it. The car started to rush through at the family van again, but Ochaco had managed to touch the car seat with her full 5 fingers. The family van had floated perfectly, saving her whole family from further damage. The car villain was arrested, and Ochaco’s grandparents got medical support. However, the financial status of Ochaco’s parents had gotten worse because of all the hospital and damage repair bills. Ochaco was feeling guilty about the fact that she was not able to prevent her grandparent’s injury, and sadly she still does. Also, during that time period, Ochaco had firmly decided to be a hero, because she learned that she cannot sit back and watch all the adversities her parents are going through. 

(+ When Ochaco had become a pro hero, she had learned that the car villain was one of the creepy loan sharks who kept breaking into her home and threatening her parents for money. What would happen when Ochaco meets that motherfucker again? Well I think she would be even more furious  and creepy than>!Yamada who first encountered Doctor,!<because that villain is not showing any sign of regret and became a villain purely because of his own will, without any symphatizable reasons. Also who would not get mad at a person who hurted their loved ones?)

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 3 months ago

I get lowkey baffled when some people people try to label Bakugou as a trashy character with no improvement.

Note 1: I originally wrote prototype of this post at r/hatethissmug ,but I am writing it here because a lot of people who saw my post did not seemed to understand what I am talking about.

Note 2: If you want to leave comment at this post, please do it AFTER reading everything I wrote.

Note 3: I did NOT created this post to blame people for simply disliking, or having opinions against Bakugou. I only want to blame ones who try to label Bakugou as a "100% terrible character" without any valid canonical evidences.

I'm writing this because I had saw a rant about Bakugou. Yes. It is oviously true that what Bakugou did to Izuku (protagonist) during middle school years was obviously terrible. (He literally told Izuku to go kill himself because he is a looser without superpowers.) If someone justifies behavior like this, (Both IRL and Fictional.) that person do have problems. However, the another thing about Bakugou is that, he start to change himself when he entered U.A academy with Izuku. (I will reference heavy spoilers so if you are still watching the series, be careful!!)

>!Before All Might’s fall, Bakugou believed that he was perfect. However, when All Might had lost all of his powers in exchange of defeating All for one, , he started to question his strength, and capability as a hero. If he did not got captured by LOV, All might’s end may had not came that quickly. His guilt is shown very well what he tells Deku right before he duels him at manga chapter 118. He shouts like this: "Why I had became the reason of the fall of the All Might?" This scene shows that Bakugou was feeling extreme guilt about the fact that All Might had used up all power because he had got kidnapped by Villains. Also, after the duel, Bakugou and Izuku managed to have a calm conversation about how Izuku had used his fighting techniques during the duel. (If Katsuki still saw Izuku as an ignorable dweeb like he did during middle school years, he may just told him to shut up.) These scenes shows that entering U.A academy, and competing with Deku had started to change Bakugou's mindset about how he should behave. Also, as the series continues, Bakugou shows more and more kind and heroic behaviors. When Deku got almost got pierced by Shigaraki Tomura's attack, Bakugou literally threw his body at the attack, saving Deku. When Deku left U.A Academy during the war, he had participated at Uraraka's plan to bring Izuku back to the school, and SINCERELY apologized about every bad deeds he had done to Deku. During Final war, with help of Izuku, Bakugou had saved All Might, who had almost got killed by All for One. He had paid his debt for All-Might, who had saved him and sacrificed himself during the Kamino Arc. Finally, when the Manga had entered the epilogue, Bakugou had tried to provide Izuku a support, so he can return to hero work. Among all people who donated their money at the production of Deku's powered suit, Bakugou had donated most money. Also, it is also implied that Bakugou had tried to suggest him to work with him at his hero agency. !<

(To add on I am saying this whole thing as a person who prefers Deku x Ochaco over Bakugou x Izuku, and loathes some zealous Bakugou stans who misuse him to bash other characters, such as Ochaco."

Like this, I believe that there are plenty of canonical evidences, which shows that Bakugou had managed to grow up as a decent person, through lessons he learned from various events he experienced. Yes, I can get that some people can still don't prefer him, or think he needed better writing. However, I get baffled when some folks try to label him as a "Trash" even though he do have good qualities and showed heroic behaviors. (I honestly feel like it is pretty similar to clueless character slanders Deku and Ochaco had went trough during 2024, which gave them total baloney labels, such as "Macdonald worker looser" or "Greedy gold digger.")

It was an long rant... thank you for reading.>!​!<

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u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 3 months ago
▲ 255 r/ramen

Garlicky Black Shoyu Ramen. (Menchuru, Seoul)

I love this restaurant… (Edit: The price was about 9.5~10 dollars which includes 8 dollars of initial price and 1.5 dollars of adding fatty meat.)

u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 3 months ago
▲ 7 r/infp

Did anyone else got annoyed by excessive Xenophobic jokes/posts? (Long vent!!)

I may be too sensitive, but I recently got bit disturbed by the fact that there are fairly huge amounts of Xenophobia going on internet, especially targeting countries like France. You know, jokes like fr**ch or stuffs like that. At first I thought it is not really a big deal, but I recently started to notice that “French” itself had been the center of circlejerking and mocking of country related posts. (Even though I am not French nor European.) And a lot of them were acting like France itself is extremely abominable thing. So, I started to get a feeling that it is actually a xenophobic behavior, not just a joke. Sure, you can blame actual war crimes, colonizations and obvious social problems of France, but I don’t get why a lot of French people/France related things gets this intense amount of blame because they are not all bad. (Actually, I think a lot of them are good!!) Some may come with arguments like “But aren’t French people suuuper rude?“. Then all Irish/Scottish people are alcoholic and tough? Nope. All Italians are related to mafias and throw temper tantrums about food? Nope! All East Asian youths are teacher’s pet who are very academic, and good at classic instruments? Nope!!! ( I’m East Asian myself and trust me, I totally suck at instruments, and not a perfect student like how media depicts East Asians.) Yes. Rude people exists in France. But they do not represent all 69 million people in France. (And 30 - 40 million of their descendants.) These shit talks and overly repeated humors have not much difference with racist/xenophobic humor comics (Which were common trough out 19th-20th century.) which are now shown in textbooks as “The history we should not repeat.” Too add on, other countries are also being targeted too. I saw some posts overly romanticizing (Or even fetishizing) Asia and its people. Also I heard that some people are getting bullied just because they came from controversial countries. So, what I want to say is, I wish people don’t be xenophobic to anyone on internet, and don’t consider any types of discrimination as light thing they can joke about.

p.s: If you came here to write anything xenophobic on comment section, just go away.

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u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 4 months ago

Bashing straight ships and Bashing queer ships are both cringe. I'm so stressed about how many people are not aware about this.

Alright I will get into bullet points quickly. As a person who enjoyed shipping in MHA community (Which became extremely infamous for people fighting over ships.) I quickly noticed that queer ships (Such as Bakugou X Izuku) are both famous and hated among fans. To be honest, I used to have bias against these ships. But as I stayed longer and longer in fandom. I found out that queer ships are not the problem. In fact, they can be pretty nice! Also, I found out that people who like queer ships can face harassments and attacks even though they did nothing wrong. (It also made me to relieze that people who likes my OTP Izuocha are not perfect angels. In fact, some of them can be very rude!) So, I decided to follow, "Let people ship what they want!" mindset. However, I also found out that het ships and shippers can get clueless blames too. For examples, when I searched Izuku X Ochaco related contents on X, I found out that some people are saying things against Izuocha and giving it bad lables. Also, I saw Izuocha shippers complaining about bad treatments they get for liking Izuocha. I mean..It is okay to not like Izuocha, but it is unnecessarry to cause conflicts like this. So, my conclusion is, just love what you want! Shipping is not a matter of which sexuality is better. It's an matter of emotion, chemistry and development!

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u/Cold-Whereas-4329 — 4 months ago