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Winter date ❄️🎄

#omnicient reader's view point #dokja x joonghyuk

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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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sponsored by gepard c3r1 on my account

#honkai star rail #hsr gepard #hsr aventurine #lmao

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hi gang i am almost done reading orv and it will destroy me more than it already has soon so no worries

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #dokja x joonghyuk #where is the lie

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Major Orv spoilers but anyways

Been thinking about the way that Sing-Shong built up the secretive plotter, the oldest dream, and tls123. The first impression you get from them is that they’re these all powerful deities who can shape the world as they see fit. And that first impression is horribly, ironically wrong.

The Secretive Plotter is introduced to us as a minor player, as a constellation so weak he was never mentioned in the original story. And even as Kdj realizes that he’s actually really powerful, the idea that he’s a being outside of the story sticks with us. SP is the first character we see that can travel between world-lines. He’s literally an outer god- a being outside of the story. But when you actually connect the dots and realize that he’s Yjh, that gets flipped on its head in the most delicious way possible. He’s literally the protagonist. He’s the one that’s MOST trapped by the story- he watches himself fail again and again and again until he gives up on ever escaping that narrative.

The oldest dream is the same- although we don’t see much of him until his identity is revealed, Sing-Shong does a great job of hyping him up as this big final boss that the characters are going to have to face. We don’t know much about the oldest dream, but we do know that he’s powerful. He’s Yjh’s sponsor, after all- a being so revered that nobody can mess with him, not even the bureau. We know that we hate him, too- pretty much everyone, readers included, are PISSED about the whole regression thing. We assume that he’s just like the other constellations- Some uncaring asshole who created a world filled with torment just to watch it unfold. Hell, if you’re still hung up on the whole author thing, you might even assume that the Oldest Dream is tls123. And that’s reversed SO. WELL. with the reveal- he’s literally the most powerless being of them all, to quote Uriel. He’s a kid, dreaming of a world where he’s not alone. He didn’t create this world out of some morbid curiosity of his; He loves the story more than anyone else. He’s not the author, he’s the reader. He’s Kim Dokja, and he’s not a monster.

And God, tls123? Don’t get me started. The identity of the author is one of the central mysteries of the story. As the audience, we’re trying to figure it out the second we start reading- Is the secretive plotter the author? Is the Oldest dream the author? And in the middle of all this guesswork, literally NOBODY suspects Han Sooyung. As the readers, we just kind of assume that the author is going to be some all-powerful deity who created the world on a whim, Because they’re the author. But we’re entirely wrong on that. Hsy didn’t create the world. If anything, she did the opposite- Writing WoS is the action that cements the timeline in stone. She ended it, in a way.

It’s like… Throughout the whole series, you’re waiting to meet God. You expect that the world’s the way it is because there’s some guy making all the rules, doing evil, perpetuating the cycle, etc. There has to be a guy- who would the protagonists fight otherwise? How else are they going to break the loop?

And then you figure it out, and you realize that there isn’t a guy. There’s no one, singular person in charge of the story. The author can’t write without a protagonist to write about, and a reader to read their story. The protagonist can’t move forward if the author doesn’t write the next page, and the reader doesn’t read it. The reader can’t read if there’s no book, or if there’s no character. They all need each other to get anything done.

#omniscient reader's viewpoint

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no because marinette falling in love with adrien meant having to go completely against her instincts since he is not only chloe's friend but also her longest and best friend (at the time). she has literal trauma from the way chloe has treated her and the whole situation with kim the previous year. she has vowed to never fall in love with someone who is friends with chloe

AND YET

she just can't help but fall in love with adrien agreste. now her reaction when they meet for the first time in origins makes even more sense than before. she doesn't want to like him, she can't.

but adrien's true personality and intentions always shine through because THAT'S JUST HOW GOOD AND KIND OF A PERSON HE IS

and marinette sees this and she gives him a chance and a place in her heart because THAT'S JUST HOW GOOD AND KIND OF A PERSON SHE IS

and to top it all off adrien just keeps and keeps on REASSURING marinette that she was right in trusting him. but not just now that he knows what happened with kim. ever since season 1 he has steadily learned to stand up to chloe and put her in her place. and now? he has cut ALL ties with her, both because it's the right thing to do and to protect marinette and her feelings

adrien has always been fighting marinette's fears and insecurities without realizing it but now he is doing it intentionally and in the sweetest and most gentle way possible, always respecting her, waiting for her and letting her take the lead

i love them so much your honor pls i need them to be happy

#love square

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no because marinette falling in love with adrien meant having to go completely against her instincts since he is not only chloe's friend but also her longest and best friend (at the time). she has literal trauma from the way chloe has treated her and the whole situation with kim the previous year. she has vowed to never fall in love with someone who is friends with chloe

AND YET

she just can't help but fall in love with adrien agreste. now her reaction when they meet for the first time in origins makes even more sense than before. she doesn't want to like him, she can't.

but adrien's true personality and intentions always shine through because THAT'S JUST HOW GOOD AND KIND OF A PERSON HE IS

and marinette sees this and she gives him a chance and a place in her heart because THAT'S JUST HOW GOOD AND KIND OF A PERSON SHE IS

and to top it all off adrien just keeps and keeps on REASSURING marinette that she was right in trusting him. but not just now that he knows what happened with kim. ever since season 1 he has steadily learned to stand up to chloe and put her in her place. and now? he has cut ALL ties with her, both because it's the right thing to do and to protect marinette and her feelings

adrien has always been fighting marinette's fears and insecurities without realizing it but now he is doing it intentionally and in the sweetest and most gentle way possible, always respecting her, waiting for her and letting her take the lead

i love them so much your honor pls i need them to be happy

#love square

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hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

#ao3

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WAAAAAAAAAAAH

#shinkawo #this warms my heart

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some interesting naming conventions in evangelion:

asuka calls rei ‘yuutousei’, not ‘wondergirl’, which can be loosely translated as ‘honor student’

shinji refers to asuka as simply ‘asuka’, but calls rei ‘ayanami’. likewise, rei refers to shinji as ‘ikari-kun’, adding the proper honorific at the end 

asuka calls misato ‘misato’ without honorifics. a child referring to an adult without honorifics is considered extremely impolite in japan - for point of comparison, shinji first calls misato ‘katsuragi-san’ and later eases into ‘misato-san’. before you say it’s because she’s german, asuka is steadfast in calling kaji ‘kaji-san’ (she even refers to him as ‘kaji-senpai’ on one occasion)

misato usually calls shinji ‘shinji-kun’, but sometimes she’ll jokingly refer to him as ‘shin-chan’ - a petname typically reserved for toddlers. imagine toji getting called ‘to-chan’ and you’ll get an idea of how cheeky this is on misato’s part

on a similar note, the petnames ritsuko and kaji reserve for each other are especially hilarious. ritsuko refers to kaji as ‘ryo-chan’ and kaji refers to ritsuko as ‘rit-chan’ (consequently, ritsuko is the only character in nge who calls kaji by his first name, which is ryoji). ‘rit-chan’ and ‘ryo-chan’ are weirdly infantilizing/overly-affectionate; they only do this within the earshot of misato with the obvious purpose of annoying the shit out of her

gendo still refers to fuyutsuki as ‘fuyutsuki-sensei’ (’professor fuyutsuki’); everyone else calls him ‘vice commander fuyutsuki’. old habits die hard

misato and kaji refer to each other on an entirely last-name basis; misato calls kaji ‘kaji-kun’ and kaji calls misato ‘katsuragi’

there are many different ways to refer to your father in japanese, but shinji refers to gendo as ‘otousan’. typically, children will use ‘otousan’ when speaking to their father and ‘chi-chi’ when speaking of their father, but shinji makes no such distinction, which says something about the emotional distance there. (interestingly, misato flip-flops between ‘otousan’ and ‘chi-chi’ when speaking of her own father. when does she use otousan? when she’s talking to kaji about her father)

rei never once calls asuka by her name. the name ‘asuka’ never leaves rei’s mouth once. rei refers to asuka as ‘the pilot of unit-02‘ or simply ‘anta’ (‘you’) when speaking directly to her

#neon genesis evangelion

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Aly can you explain manga Kaworu Nagisa to me

a-ah thats a very broad question…and im rly not very good at all at explaining things lol but um

first of all, you should read this interview done by sadamoto (the author of the manga btw). he explains a lot of things about mangaworu himself:

http://avocado-slice.tumblr.com/post/50188846866/can-we-start-this-interview-with-the-secret

(scroll down to where it says “Relatively speaking, manga Kaworu is more like a being with flesh and blood, it feels like he is more humanization……”, the stuff before isn’t rly related to the manga)

also warning that this is probably going to be layed out rly randomly im sorry lol

he’s only 9 days old and doesn’t understand anything about…anything, basically. he finds humans super confusing and doesnt understand anything about them at all (like…he rly doesnt at all. he finds everything shinji does super confusing, says that rei sacrificing herself was “stupid”, “what’s a pervert?”, etc etc lol) and slowly learns about human interaction during his short time alive. he wants shinji to like him, but he’s constantly fucking up because he doesn’t really know what he’s doing at all, and also shinji doesn’t let anyone get close to him anyway. 

also sadamoto basically explains it himself lol, but there are two reasons he kills the kitten. a) when shinji puts the kitten down he tells it to stop following him and that he can’t take care of it, and kaworu figures that if the kitten were to stay there by itself it probably would have slowly starved to death, so he honestly thought he was doing the right thing. b) it sets up this thing where shinji killing kaworu is compared to kaworu killing the cat:

(little later on):

(^^^^see shinji is strangling kaworu like kaworu strangles the cat, and its in the same place. yea)

mangaworu’s death is also different from animeworu and qworu’s death. his short life has been completely controlled by seele, and he was born to cause third impact, and (he thinks) shinji hates him. dying of his own free will is the only way he can rebel against the fate that seele has orchestrated for him, and shinji killing him would be proof that he doesn’t hate him (since kaworu feels that not respecting his final wish and leaving him to a fate that would have been crueler than killing him there would be a good indication that he hates him)

but um…yea……all of that in more was explained (and probably explained better) in that interview anyway i think so i dont rly know what to say haha…… but if u have something u still dont understand feel free to ask, h! but my explanation will still probably be shit sadly, lol.

#shinkawo #nagisa kaworu

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Hakhyun-ah!

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #lee hakhyun

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ILY manga kawoshin...ilysm..

#neon genesis evangelion #shinkawo

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keep studying his appearance

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #lee hakhyun

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How do you do the drop down menu thingy?? In your a/n on your fic??? It's cool b/c it lets people check on their triggers without spoiling the rest of the chappy for everyone else. I was thinking of borrowing (stealing) the idea for my own fic. Can I and can you teach my how pls?!! Thnx!!!

Excellent question! You can totally use it; I don't have a copyright claim on it or anything. Lol.

Disclaimer: I am a CSS/HTML n00b. I'm sure there's an easier/better way to do this; this is just how I figured it out on my own.

The Menu Itself

It's basic HTML, pretty easy to use. Open your document on AO3, go to the "notes" text box and type or copy-and-paste from here. There are several ways to go about this, and it depends entirely on your wants and needs.

Here's the easiest way:

<details> <summary> Chapter Warnings (Spoilers) </summary> - Warning<br /> - Warning<br /> - Warning </details>

Note: The spacing here isn't necessary, but it makes it easier to visualize. You can really just type it all with no spaces, and AO3 will figure out exactly what you want.

<details> encompasses everything within your warning note. Everything inside <summary> is the text that will be visible even while the dropdown menu is closed, while everything outside will remain hidden until it's clicked on.

<br /> is a line break, sending you to the next text line down.

Note: AO3 will automatically add the <br /> if you click the "enter"/"return" button while typing, but I added these into the HTML on here for the sake of showing where the breaks need to be.

It SHOULD look like this closed/open:

If you want to be fancy, you can make it into an unordered or ordered list. For an unordered list, here is the HTML:

<details> <summary> Chapter Warnings (Spoilers) </summary> <ul> <li>Warning</li> <li>Warning</li> <li>Warning</li> </ul> </details>

Which looks like this:

The <ul> signifies the type of list, being unordered, while <li> marks each individual list item. To do an ordered list, replace <ul> with <ol>. When replaced, the list will change to this:

There's no point in doing this, though, since it's extra work. If I want it numbered, I'd rather manually label. Much easier.

Utilizing Your Warnings

If you want to go the extra mile, the dropdown menu is a great way to signify where in the story the potentially triggering content will be, as well. You can add numbers or symbols to distinguish which passages have which content so that your audience can avoid them.

<details> <summary> Chapter Warnings (Spoilers) </summary> - Warning* or [1]<br /> - Warning** or [2]<br /> - Warning*** or [3] </details>

To create an area-specific trigger warning, consider using superscript. In the "work text" text box of your draft, type:

^[1]POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING CONTENT^[1] ^[2]POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING CONTENT^[2] or ^[*]POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING CONTENT^[*] ^[**]POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING CONTENT^[**]

The <sup> just makes whatever's inside of it small and top-aligned. Which does this:

That about does it for the dropdown menu itself. But there's more!

Making It Distinct

The page currently looks like this:

You'll see that the above dropdown menu can be kind of hard to notice, especially if you have other text within your A/N . It's not readily apparent to most people that it's something that is user-interactive.

You can fix this issue and make your warning menu more discernable by using a work skin.

Go to your user profile -> "Skins" -> "My Work Skins" -> "Create Work Skin"

Note: When you update a skin, it will also automatically change any works that use that skin. Sometimes coding is finnicky, and what you want doesn't go as planned the first time. I usually keep a skin labeled "Tester" to ensure that nothing terrible happens to my formatting while I'm playing around in the code. And I'll apply the Tester to a draft to make sure everything is working properly before copy-pasting the tested CSS to the skin I plan on using.

Name your skin; it has to be named in order to save. In the CSS text box, you'll be able to customize your work.

Starting off, I have my preface boxes surrounded by a border. For no reason other than that I find it more visually appealing. I think it helps, but this isn't necessary, by any means.

If you want to do this, type/copy-paste the following into your CSS box:

div.preface { border: 2px double #000000; }

Which should yield this result:

To further distinguish the dropdown menu, I'll customize it further using:

details { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; border: dashed 1px #000000; } workskin details > summary { text-align: center; color: #ff0000; background-color: #eeeeee; text-decoration: underline; padding: 2px; border: dashed 1px #000000; font-weight: bold; } workskin details[open] > summary { color: #000000; background-color: #eeeeee; }

Dropdown menu closed/open:

If you want to make use of the in-text warning symbols using the <sup> feature, consider also changing them to be more visible.

Like so:

sup { color: #ff0000; }

Which looks like:

When used in conjunction with each other, you should get a nice and cohesive system to help readers know which content is right for them.

I think that covers everything?

I hope this helped! This is a neat way to keep the chapter warnings spoiler-free without putting them in the end notes (which cuts down on the link-clicking). And it's also accessible for people who have real-life traumas, but still want to read a fic.

Also very sorry if I rambled a bit. I have the ADHD bad, and it compels me to word-vomit.

(There are people experienced in CSS that are crying because of this post, right now; I guarantee it.)

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Pat pat pat

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #dokja x joonghyuk

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sending luck to everyone who's waiting for him to come back home ♡ may the husbands be reunited ;;

#honkai star rail #caelus x danheng #this warms my heart