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Webtoon-only readers talk about the "doomed black and white duo" not knowing there's a third, equally as doomed element of the story sitting right under their noses

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Absolutely fucked up how orv tells us so frequently about the importance of readers and how the story wouldn't end until the reader gave up on it. And then it's revealed that a version of kim dokja - who he was not long after he had started twsa - was the reason behind the scenarios. That's insane foreshadowing to me. A story can't properly exist without someone to read and interpret it. So of course the existence that made fiction reality is a reader. Kim dokja wanted the story to never end because it was his sole lifeline in a miserable existence. So it's a given that he unknowingly starts the scenarios just as he finishes the last chapter because he can't bear a reality without the constant support the novel gives him.

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I once had someone tell me that if I wasn't aroace I'd be simping for kdj and I was like "what."

Trust me. Attractiveness doesn't even factor into my reasoning for why a character is my favourite. I would never simp for that man. It is so much deeper and nastier than that.

someone told me that kdj being my favourite character was a 'good choice' because 'he is hot' and i think that was one of the rare moments that i felt the kdj fragment in me rear its nondescriptive face

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Orv has taught me that it's okay to be cringe. This is because no matter how cringe you are, kim dokja will always be worse. Amen 🙏

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Being a first year uni student in 2025 means wondering when the hell all your peers got so dependant on genAI that they can't do part of an assistant or write a job application without chatgpt

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I wish I had more mutuals so I could post "aroace yoo sangah" and people would respond with "real"

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Something something his impression remains, even long after he is gone

tried erasing this dude from my whiteboard but his imprint was left behind >:[

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????

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I genuinely don't understand how people get into fandom-related arguments because the moment there's any kind of misunderstanding or I simply disagree with someone I feel like I need to be publicly executed immediately

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My city: regularly having issues with trains and its public transport system in general

Me: "holy shit is this a orv reference???"

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The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree in kim dokja's case, does it?

Despite how much he villainises her in his mind early in the story, he'll always be more like his mother than he ever knows.

Both victims of abuse who found solace in fiction.

Both very flawed people who've hurt those they care about all while thinking they were doing the best for them.

Throughout orv, kim dokja inadvertently makes the same mistakes his mother did. He sacrifices himself for the ones he loves the most. He doesn't tell them the truth behind his plans despite them being directly affected by them. He avoids showing them how he really feels and pushes them to resent him instead, despite all their attempts to understand him.

He leaves them without a word again and again, forcing them to desperately attempt to fill in that gap in their lives where he once stood. Just as he once needed to.

And that's something he will never escape from.

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Paneling a scene from chapter 522 of ORV

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They made her skinny

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𝐘𝐨𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐡’𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥 - 𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬

A/N: a non yjh related one yay!! i plan to do a small appreciation post for lee jihye next, and then either a yoohankim or dokja related analysis…

To be honest, when I first read about Yoo Sangah I didn’t expect much from her. She seemed like she was going to be the typical love interest for the mc and not have much going for her. Of course I’d still like her, I’m ride or die for underdeveloped female characters made to just be the mc’s love interest!

But she genuinely subverted my expectations a lot and was way more than I expected. The topics they approached with her was handled in such a beautiful way and throughout it all, I sympathized with Sangah a lot. She turned out to be a VERY good character, and one of the best side ones in my opinion!

The fact that she had faced misogyny in her work environment, being sexually harassed by coworkers as a result of being a woman in a male dominant environment, yet she trusted Dokja whole heartedly and even practiced spanish with him and was so comfortable talking to him on the subway.

In Dokja’s POV he viewed her as a sort of angel that was kind to everyone in their workplace, but that’s not true. Sangah is a kind person, but at work Dokja was the only one she was kind to, because why would she be kind to the coworkers who were total creeps to her?

The thing about Sangah is that all the members of Kimcom typically have issues that relate more to their personal views and such like Jihye’s survivor’s guilt or Heewon’s sort of black and white view, her problems have to do with societal constraints and what even her family expects of her.

Something we see is that unlike characters such as Kim Namwoon or Han Sooyoung, Sangah doesn’t rebel in a obvious, loud manner. She does it in small ways- stuff that will make people’s lives inconvenient like pouring pepper in the coffee breakroom, as a way to feel some sort of control.

Her family expected a lot out of her, but she refused to conform to that- She instead chooses a job in a low class industry and refuses to marry. All of these rebellions of her are small, but a sort of way she can get back at those who hurt her. It’s horrifying that she literally had to build an alcohol tolerance because she knew she’d most likely have been ASSAULTED.

Then, the apocalypse happens, and all of a sudden she’s thrust into a world of desire and suffering, where she could enact all of her feelings no longer having to fall in line with expectations, she could conform to the new societal cruelty, but instead she chooses to be KIND.

Most of all what gets me is her bond with Dokja. The utter trust she had for him starting from the day he silently supported her rebellion of messing with the coffee by not telling anyone, and they became friends. He was interested in nothing but his phone but she didn’t care.

The way she viewed him was genuinely so sweet. All he did was read web novels, yet she viewed him as a kind and inspiring guy. In the 1st scene we get of her she talks about how inspiring Dokja is and that she’ll adhere to “his advice,” and the way that rather than judging him for always reading that novel, she simply offered her own authors she liked.

Sangah was so content on simply being Dokja’s friend. She imagined a life with them old, both in a retirement home, simply being happy as friends. Sangah put so much faith and trust into Dokja as he extended her a kindness and respect no one else did. She didn’t want to be with Dokja, she just wanted stay with him.

Part of this is why I can’t bring myself to ship Dokja and Sangah. I understand the shippers, but I think the beauty of their relationship comes into the platonic part, how pure and beautiful their friendship is. She loves Dokja, and no matter how you interpret it, it’s genuinely amazing.

Anyways, I love Sangah SO MUCH! Her character was so well written in my opinion, and I love the way they handled her!

“I can kill all of them if I want. Therefore, I can save all of them if I want.” - Yoo Sangah.

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I've been on tumblr for a good while now and I still have no idea how to make mutuals help 😭

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MY SON <3

everyone take my 114 result ‘which character are you’ uquiz

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Cunt goes with me to university