Can anybody tell me what SSR means in this context? I guess she's not calling her cousin/brother a Soviet Socialist Republic

I guess a super good guy?

Why a cliffhanger

I have a feeling this Garth guy will turn out gay and get shipped by another male love interest

Sheesh, even Garth, who has known Elsa for all of 20 minutes, immediately sees it, and Evie is still willfully blind to her feelings.

I think I'mma like this guy

Shy but sweet, tall and kinda hot, protects and collects animals, actually has eyes and can see the fucking obvious?

Move over Elsa, I know you're not even interested, but move over!

Also yeah he's totally gonna be gay lmao

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"Garth is the only love interest I can trust" yeah you can trust him to help Elsa woo you, Yvonne. haha good job outsmarting yourself

If she wanted someone who'd go for it anyway, she should have picked a scummier guy lol.

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Sheesh, even Garth, who has known Elsa for all of 20 minutes, immediately sees it, and Evie is still willfully blind to her feelings.

She 100% knows and that's why she's doing something this desperate, IMO

What I'm more surprised about is the fact that Elsa is shocked by Garth calling out her affection. It seems like something that she'd gladly admit to rather than be surprised.

OMFG even people who meet Elsa for the first time in their lives just need to take a look at her and they say "oh yeah girl you got the big gay for Evie you're head over heels for her you're so fricking obvious" because really you'd have to be dumber than a brick not to get it.

While Evie is still like "what's wrong with Elsa? I don't understand this girl!"

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OMFG even people who meet Elsa for the first time in their lives just need to take a look at her and they say "oh yeah girl you got the big gay for Evie you're head over heels for her you're so fricking obvious" because really you'd have to be dumber than a brick not to get it.

While Evie is still like "what's wrong with Elsa? I don't understand this girl!"

It's that thing about the density of people in denial, you see. Someone posted a link to a scientific paper about that.
Yvonne is in denial and since people like her are horribly dense, well.... there's a reason readers gave her the superhero name Neutron Star Girl.

Sheesh, even Garth, who has known Elsa for all of 20 minutes, immediately sees it, and Evie is still willfully blind to her feelings.

She 100% knows and that's why she's doing something this desperate, IMO

I'd say she about 80% knows. Given that in the previous chapter her response to Elsa listing out the kind of person she likes was to still assume Elsa was talking about guys rather than just describing her makes me think that Evie still hasn't consciously recognized that Elsa loves her romantically. Whether it's denial or density, the thinking part of her brain still doesn't have that information.

I'd like to know why is Elsa so sad and unresponding in the last scenes. I can think of 2 possible motives.

Because she expected a date with Yvonne (look at her dressed up all pretty) but then Yvonne left and her hopes were crushed.
Or because she has realized that Yvonne is trying to hand her over to be cared for by another love interest; and it breaks her heart.

Which one is it?

And now they need to add a wingman guy? Just great -_-

And now they need to add a wingman guy?

God knows they need one lol

Sheesh, even Garth, who has known Elsa for all of 20 minutes, immediately sees it, and Evie is still willfully blind to her feelings.

Honestly to me after reading the novel as well it feels more like she is purposefully ignoring it because as far as she believes she is in a hetero dating game so there is no chance that Elsa means what she acts like. Sure just needs to be so unambiguous that Evie has to admit the story has completely changed. It also doesn't help that she has a system that pushes her to on some occasions actively harm her.

I'd like to know why is Elsa so sad and unresponding in the last scenes. I can think of 2 possible motives.

Because she expected a date with Yvonne (look at her dressed up all pretty) but then Yvonne left and her hopes were crushed.
Or because she has realized that Yvonne is trying to hand her over to be cared for by another love interest; and it breaks her heart.

Which one is it?

Both. It's a low point. Elsa was ditched into a blind date by the person she loves, which must hurt. Elsa isn't oblivious to how Yvonne rejected her with a sense of finality by forcing her to go on a date with Garth, and Yvonne intends for the pair to date long-term. It shows that Yvonne doesn't plan to acknowledge Elsa's feelings, so Elsa may fall into her usual trap of feeling worthless.

Luckily Garth isn't blind to how the two are acting, and is a caring bro. Garth seems as caring as Yvonne but not limited to just one person, and he seems a bit uncoordinated, so I look forward to yuri strategy sessions and Yvonne getting jealous.

The book and play Yvonne loves were probably just thrown into the story for fun, but if Yvonne has a history of favoring books about quasi-romantic relationships between women then Garth would be a likely person to notice. Yvonne grew up with burdens of strict duties and compulsory heterosexuality, so in the off chance the story reveals how she suppressed herself, we'll probably learn about it from Garth before Ms Denial.

Sheesh, even Garth, who has known Elsa for all of 20 minutes, immediately sees it, and Evie is still willfully blind to her feelings.

Honestly to me after reading the novel as well it feels more like she is purposefully ignoring it because as far as she believes she is in a hetero dating game so there is no chance that Elsa means what she acts like. Sure just needs to be so unambiguous that Evie has to admit the story has completely changed. It also doesn't help that she has a system that pushes her to on some occasions actively harm her.

Yeah, I keep getting the feeling that Yvonne is just straight up denying her own feelings to keep from getting hurt. She probably thinks if she goes that route, she’ll one day get burned when an actual game intentioned Love Interest pops up and Elsa falls for him. Meanwhile, she also keeps getting into situations where she has to actively do something bad to the girl that she is falling for. Not a pleasant thought that that may continue and escalate.

Sheesh, even Garth, who has known Elsa for all of 20 minutes, immediately sees it, and Evie is still willfully blind to her feelings.

She 100% knows and that's why she's doing something this desperate, IMO

I'd say she about 80% knows. Given that in the previous chapter her response to Elsa listing out the kind of person she likes was to still assume Elsa was talking about guys rather than just describing her makes me think that Evie still hasn't consciously recognized that Elsa loves her romantically. Whether it's denial or density, the thinking part of her brain still doesn't have that information.

I actually took it as her thinking if there are any guys that would fit that would make Elsa happy if she wasn’t with Yvonne. Plays into trying to help Elsa find someone that will make her happy before Yvonne falls too deep and gets burned when a “true love interest” shows up.

And now they need to add a wingman guy?

God knows they need one lol

I hope an SSR wingman will be enough...

I actually took it as her thinking if there are any guys that would fit that would make Elsa happy if she wasn’t with Yvonne. Plays into trying to help Elsa find someone that will make her happy before Yvonne falls too deep and gets burned when a “true love interest” shows up.

Would bet that if a "true love interest" does show up its just gonna be an evil clone of Yvonne lol

Can anybody tell me what SSR means in this context? I guess she's not calling her cousin/brother a Soviet Socialist Republic

Nope, it means server-side rendering of course! Haha... wait no one’s laughing? where my web devs at? Oh, no one? Ok I’ll see myself out

Can I take a moment to just appreciate y’all commenters on this site? I must say, my literary analysis skills are sorely lacking and I like y’all’s comments for the perspectives it brings. While some comments are.. err... perhaps a bit more divisive than others, I get a lot of enjoyment reading all this, on par with reading the story itself!

I don’t know of many other manga websites that have this active of a comment section relative to visitors on the site

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Can I take a moment to just appreciate y’all commenters on this site? I must say, my literary analysis skills are sorely lacking and I like y’all’s comments for the perspectives it brings. While some comments are.. err... perhaps a bit more divisive than others, I get a lot of enjoyment reading all this, on par with reading the story itself!

I don’t know of many other manga websites that have this active of a comment section relative to visitors on the site

I would imagine Mangadex will go back to being active once they get chapter and work comments re-enabled. Though those were always a toss up on it being a dumpster fire or wholesome as fuck. I remember Nante Irinai being pretty cohesive, but Useless Princesses changing as quickly as the wind. Oh, and scanlator wars are thankfully not really a thing here. God, that was miserable.

Can anybody tell me what SSR means in this context? I guess she's not calling her cousin/brother a Soviet Socialist Republic

I dunno, he seems quite into "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" -- as evidenced by his ability to kick ass, and the stray cat's need for protection and a home.

SSR is the highest rarity for gacha characters you have to get through luck (or lots of money). The chances to get one of these is often around 1%. So SSR in this context just means he's super special and great.

Can I take a moment to just appreciate y’all commenters on this site? I must say, my literary analysis skills are sorely lacking and I like y’all’s comments for the perspectives it brings. While some comments are.. err... perhaps a bit more divisive than others, I get a lot of enjoyment reading all this, on par with reading the story itself!

I don’t know of many other manga websites that have this active of a comment section relative to visitors on the site

I would imagine Mangadex will go back to being active once they get chapter and work comments re-enabled. Though those were always a toss up on it being a dumpster fire or wholesome as fuck. I remember Nante Irinai being pretty cohesive, but Useless Princesses changing as quickly as the wind. Oh, and scanlator wars are thankfully not really a thing here. God, that was miserable.

Hmm good point. I do remember engaging in convo on MangaDex a while ago... and I do too remember that sometimes the comments could be a bit bad haha. A bit bummed that the new version doesn’t have comments, but I hardly use MangaDex anymore anyways due to the aspect ratio bug when viewed on iPhone.