#you are not the omniscient god you think you are

[cthulhuscoconuts]

I'm convinced linear time does not exist for cats

[auuwmk]

orv.....

[cactus-juiceee]

epilogue

[lifeof-pink]

i think the way the book became 3rd person pov when kim dokja got off the train is one of the most fucking genius literary moves ive seen in years

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

[erytherion]

Reading the webtoon and…

Does this imply that Kim Dokja also tried to write a questionnaire for her to fill in since she wouldn’t speak to him, that either he 1) never gave her in the end (especially if he couldn’t find her after she was released) or 2) gave it to her and she STILL refused to answer?

Because that is so so so so awful. It was already bad but if he tried so many ways to get her to speak and she still gave him no response, regardless of her reasoning… isn’t that still directly choosing to cut herself fully out of his life? Why in the hell did she lie for his sake and allow him to visit her if she wanted to never speak to him again?

I know everyone claims Kim Dokja is just like her in sacrificing himself for loved ones, but at least he tries his best to stay with them and to keep them in his life. He still chooses sacrifice, but it’s not because he intends to never return. He always returns (even if much later than planned).

The only time this differs is with 51%, when he STILL tried his best to stay with them - at least as much as he could.

I sometimes like Lee Sookyung, but I am mostly still SO mad at her for completely ignoring her child since he was 8 years old. Especially when he must have looked like shit any number of times from being mistreated and bullied by family, friends, army, employers.

But maybe that’s just the fragment in me being eternally pissed with her. She DOES love him, but like he says in the webtoon in this chapter - maybe such truths are painful enough to be false anyways, because they’re just SUCH bullshit. That’s not how affection should work, if you actually care about someone and want them to be happy.

[its-your-mind]

so yes, orv did permanently and fundamentally shift my personal perspective of the world, specifically my role in it as a storyteller and an observer and a friend and a mentor and a child and an adult and a victim and someone in power and and and. it also made me feel the broadest spectrum of human emotion. I could probably spend years thinking about it and never fully understand everything it made me feel and all the personal and philosophical thoughts it made me think.

unfortunately if I think about it too hard for too long I find myself teetering on the cliff’s edge of a depressive episode and have to shut my media-analysis brain down so I don’t fall back into that particular black hole. after I finished it my brain fully shut down and did not come fully back online for 3-4 months I shit you not I finished it in October of last year and my emotional state has only just recovered.

it was one of the most devastating endings to a book I’ve ever read. It was perfect and beautiful. It was whatever the opposite of catharsis is. I’ve never been more filled with hope and awe. I’ve never been so desperately sad and hopeless. no I am not able to comprehend how that works either. see what I said above re: the cliff’s edge.

see the thing is it would have been FINE if shing-song had fucking WARNED ME that they were gonna make me FEEL EVERYTHING EVER about the human experience from EVERY ANGLE and then RIP OFF A SHEET AND REVEAL THAT THE STORY WAS A FUCKING MIRROR THIS WHOLE TIME. AND PROCEEDED TO BEAM ALL MY ATTENTION AND LOVE AND EMOTION I POURED INTO THIS STORY OVER A PERIOD OF LITERAL WEEKS OF SUSTAINED FOCUS STRAIGHT BACK AT ME IN THE SPAN OF 0.2 SECONDS LIKE A FUCKING ARCHIMEDES LASER.

ahem. anyways. that would be the uh. cliff’s edge. we will be walking away from it now.

anyway it’s the book with the two trench coat Korean dudes who beat Inventers-Of-Yaoi Spirk in the Yaoi Tournament Bracket it has badass ladies AND cringefail ones AND transgender allegories AND giant monsters and gods and demons and kids and magic and space and dimensions and time shenanigans it’s fucking insane and incredible and if you’re the kinda person who exists on fandom tumblr in the year of our lord 2024 this book is meant to come for you specifically and you will thank it afterwards go ye forth

[freyadragonlord]

Something about how at the beginning of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, we are meant to see the villains in the writers and readers of the Scenarios – aka the Dokkaebi and the Constellations.

And sure, they’re definitely dangerous, and often malicious!

Yet as time goes on and we get to know more about them, we realize that just like incarnations killed other incarnations because they wanted to survive, Dokkaebi and Constellations also don’t have a choice, because they need consume stories in order to live.

More than that. As the Scenarios go on and on, some of those Constellations and Dokkaebi turn into allies, and honestly likeable characters!

Because they love the story.

When you love the story you are writing, you cannot help but wish to do well for your characters, to give them the ending they truly deserve.

When you love the story you are reading, you cannot help but want to engage, to cheer the characters on, to see them reach the ending they want!

At the same time, as the novel progresses, we get to find out who the real villains of the Star Stream are: those beings who look at the Scenarios without caring, uninterested in the incarnations’ happiness and indifferent to their suffering.

It’s the Myth-grade Constellations, watching passionlessly from the safety of the Ark. It’s the Dokkaebi King, who pulls the string of the Scenarios to create the Narrative he thinks is most “right”, not one he wishes to see.

They do not love the story, and they only engage with it when their own self-interest is at stake.

Fast-forward to the end, when Kim Dokja’s Company go to meet the Oldest Dream.

As they ride the subway there, they speculate that the person responsible for all their suffering is the writer of Ways of Survival.

When Dokja finds out the truth, he thinks that he, the reader, was the villain all along.

But it takes Secretive Plotter one look at the Oldest Dream to realize who are the real culprits of his own – and everyone else’s – tragedy.

After all, they are there in that subway station, too.

It’s the people who saw a child who was clearly suffering, and did nothing to help him. The bruises on young Dokja’s arms and face were not covered, they were right there for everyone to see. The way the Oldest Dream cowers and shakes when he’s scared, it’s not subtle.

And yet, nobody moves a finger.

Because they do not care. They are indifferent to his suffering.

The reader was not at fault, because he needed the story to survive.

The writer never had a choice, because she loved the character and his story.

But those who watch passionlessly and refuse to engage, unless their own self-interest is at stake… Those are the people responsible for all of the world’s tragedies.

[c0rpsedemon]

the thing about the queer media tournament that really gets me is that last i checked there wasn't a single mxtx work on it. like not even the untamed made it in and don't get me wrong the og mo dao zu shi books are huge but cql is def more popular among tumblr circles. idk it just really rubs me the wrong way how every single piece of western media that ppl have ever gotten a lil bit aggressive abt shipping with is there and then for east asian media there's utena and madoka magica and the handmaiden and last i checked that was pretty much it. and then for the rest of the world there's next to/nothing but idk enough to really make judgements there.

[good--merits-accumulated]

i'm never finishing this damn fic but. we move

[gkstndjd10]

Goddess of Peaceland: Han Sooyoung

[t4tstarvingdog]

AND THEN

[karinyosa]

i was going to capitalize jesus' and god's pronouns throughout the essay as a visual demonstration of the way some of the stories juxtapose christian divinity with other things so there's something reinforcing the discussion other than dense repetitive text, but the thing is. jcs jesus is not a He/Him. that's a he/him. am i wrong??? i feel like that's the whole point. so now i am going to add some kind of note somewhere to clarify why and when i address him as which. so basically i am making jesus a pronoun carrd

[thoughts-reasons]

Spotify

[novanhistorian]

Every day I must act normal despite knowing how the contrast between Memphis’s and Sana’s views of authority all traces back to how they see the same quasi-omniscient system exploited and by whom.

[whenyoudieyouredead]

had a debate with a christian. it turned annoyingly fast to 'god is real and if you really thought about it you would see that'. like i havent. like i've never thought about god. like i never considered believing. i saw god at the bar. she wasnt my type.