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[insomaniacat]

thinking about how kim dokja's constant self-sacrifice is really just his form of showing love because that's all he's ever known and grew up with. he realized it when he read stories of yoo jonghyuk's countless regressions as he threw away his life time and time again in hopes that he can finally save the world, but it really started with his mother when she took the blame for killing his father and lived the rest of her life in jail. how she threw away everything and how she sold their lives as a story that he hated so much just so the world would never know that kim dokja was the one who murdered his father

he might've not known why she did this, but maybe somewhere, maybe the same place where he locked the memory of killing his father, he knew subconsciously she wrote that book for him. and he might've hated her for it, but, after growing up neglected and unloved, it was the only form of love he understood and clung to. and sacrificing himself for the world, just like how he read yoo jonghyuk has for 13 years, was just his own profession of love for the world

[mc-cards]

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[yellowocaballero]

So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>

Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).

It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.

I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.

"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.

The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.

But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.

Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.

I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.

That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.

TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.

[inkstaindusk]

Reading a good long webnovel is a lot of looking at the chapter count and going "how is this only chapter 100 out of 300 how much more can they give me" and then they keep giving me more incredible content

[bidokja]

I DONT NEED THEM. PLEASE. I JUST WANT TO BE WITH THE ONE I LOVE.

[jelloooverse]

sssrh academy arc did something to me

[lighthouseborna]

@dvarapala continued from here.

  They stood knee deep in vivid blue shallows. Chunks of the hull clunked against each other despondently around them, unable to reform into the handsome little brig they'd been before making acquaintance with the long nines of Flora Burn's frigate. A third of the crew were dead. The rest, taken hostage. Henry and Udyati left here, drenched. Her clinging, him staring, eyes narrowed, at the shrinking silhouetted sails.

  Her question drew a faint amusement out of him, though his scowl remained fixed in place.

  “Well it wasn't me personally,” he hummed. “She claims the Court interferes with her business, but won't allow her into the fold.” An ongoing business, this business with what made or sank a coalition of exiles. Much like with Shipwreck Cove itself, odd building materials made for odd structures, and sometimes building did more harm than dismantling. “Unfortunately, she knows who I am, and appears to have decided that this will send a message more clearly than another personal parade into the cove.” He took a steadying breath. “You're not hurt, are you?”

[matthewliberatore]

baseball card hall :)

[dokkaebiyoo]

Sssuicide hunter webtoon team please show me my wife Raviel so I can draw her and her wife Kim Gongja together

[yisanged]

there's something wrong with him [said with utter delight]

[travelling-on-the-octopath]

i'm gonna be mean for a second. look away.

can't believe ashe has more curiosity in three hopes than claude von curiosity himself.

[mc-cards]

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[godza]

i love kim gongja. recently he gained omnipotence and its not going well for anybody. hes doing one of his assault therapy sessions but now with more specific trauma analysis. he beats the shit out of you to fix you or make you worse

[ct-hardcase]

lmao help people are glup shitto-ing kanan in the tags of the kanan v bowser post

[chroniqueuse]

@emcrse​ liked for a starter !!

“ well i’m here because - .. wait hold up now, never mind me, why are you here?! ” oh he’d almost gotten her there, having her go first like that as if they weren’t both not supposed to be here for a variety of reasons. at any rate, she’d gotten here first so lenore found it was he who ought to go first and explain himself. at least she was quite convinced she’d gotten here first. it was an interesting case so it had been impossible for her to just leave it be and patiently wait for the police to make progress and then only release a story once it was solved. if it got solved. 

[rabarbarconfiteor]

Moon from the 19th Weekly Magma!! Coloured using a predetermined colour palette.

(close ups below)

. wow. hand and shiny frilly fabric kgj,bfgfjhfgbfgfk

and heres the raw pic wwao :) <3