#KDJ YOU ARE SO LOVED

[foolbehavior]

No more lonely birthdays

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja #kdj #HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR READER #i forgor...to post to tumblr... #seeing all the birthday art is so heart warming #KDJ YOU ARE SO LOVED #fooldles

[metanarrates]

orv for all its faults has one of The best depictions of passive suicidality in any story I've ever seen and it's truly what knocked the soul out of my body when i read it. it's about a lot of things, about stories and the relationships they have to audiences mostly, but one of its strongest themes is of wanting to die, despite yourself. and wanting to live, despite yourself.

the whole story is formed around the fact that kim dokja would have killed himself without ways of survival. like it permeates literally every aspect of the story. it's in every self sacrificial plan he makes, every dynamic he has with other characters, and about how he wishes for them to survive no matter the cost to himself. he rarely, if ever, thinks "i should kill myself." but he is fully incapable of believing in a happy ending where he can exist and THAT'S what got to me. he never lets himself simply exist without believing he has to sacrifice something for it. deep down, he does not believe he deserves to live.

and yet he wants to! just the same as yjh. he does want to live and that's why he clings so hard to the story. that's why he works so hard to reach the end and it's why he never sets up a self sacrificial plan without figuring out a way out. hes stupid and reckless with his safety and doesn't think he wants it but he DOES. he fucking does. and he learns how to live, eventually. he will learn how in the world after the ending.

#kdj you are so LOVED #but yeah it really knocked the wind out of me when i read it. ive been in that passively suicidal state #and im doing much better now but i Get it. i Get that feeling so hard and it's so painfully depicted in orv #suicide #orv

[localapparently]

/ slight blood cw

AUSDGHASD kim dokja eheheh KIM DOKJA AAA HES SO COOL screams screams screams screams

#it's been a while since i rendered something fully!! #AAA KIM DOKJA AAAAAA SDGSDHADSD KIM DOKJAA #orv spoilers #orv #listen oh my god. butler/secretary heewon and ruler/ceo kdj is so real to me i love them so much #like you just know she'd be so loyal and deadly and keep his enemies quiet and everything like AUGH THEYRE EVERYTHINGG #HEEWON AAHDGSHDSS KIM DOKJA AAA #omniscient reader fanart #omniscient readers viewpoint #omniscient reader #orv fanart #kim dokja #kdj #jung heewon #jhw #crit's art: orv

[7clubs]

How selfish must we be? that our small salvations are worth tearing the stars asunder

If I could see you again I'd tell you over, and over and over again

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#I love you. I love you. I love you. #yoohankim #yhk #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader #kim dokja #kdj #yoo joonghyuk #yjh #han sooyoung #hsy #joongdok #hankim #doksoo #guys i'm so emo about them. #orv spoilers #maybe #dec 2023 #2023

[lunarwednesday]

Once again, in another river, on another island, the power of the beast lord awakens to save someone else.

#orv #omniscent reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #shin yoosung #kim dokja #kdj #so we can agree best daughter? #across all the rounds? #if you think otherwise you are just wrong #anyway i love how kdj and sys come full circle during jttw arc #except this time she saves him! #(i took some creative liberties with this scene)

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

thinking about the ship of theseus as a concept and how it applies to kdj. how much of yourself can you cut away before you cant be called the same person anymore. how many times can you kill yourself before there stops being enough of you to be killed. how much of yourself can you tear into pieces and throw away before the callousness with which you do it becomes a fixed apathy. how many repairs can be made to the ship of theseus before it stops being his.

honestly feel like it applies to yhk in general really well too. han sooyoung and her avatars in a literal sense since she is quite literally sectioning herself off into pieces whenever she uses the skill; yoo joonghyuk more metaphorically since we see in the 1863rd round whats basically like. the stripped to nothing recognizable ship now returned to theseus (kdj). but i feel like with kdj its just The Worst because we look at the scenarios themselves and like kdjs half performative half genuine flippant reveals of his deepest traumas and at his thinly veiled suicide attempts (sacrifices) are just. hello? i mean each one of those just guts him further and further and we see the literal actual fourth wall continue thickening to the point where (given we observe in kcoms pov) who is kim dokja? whats left after you peel back all the skins hes discarded? what makes the ship of theseus the ship of theseus?

and then you throw in the sucker punch of the 49/51 debacle and the question stops being like a vague overhanging vibe to the story and instead becomes the focal point of it: how much of a person can you strip away before they stop being the person you know? and i really truly think orv answers this. it answers it in the most beautiful way possible and the answer is that if theseus loves the ship. its his ship. the ship of theseus can be 1% original parts, it can be 49%, it can be 99%, it doesnt matter. the ship of theseus is theseus' ship because he loves it and as long as it continues to be loved it will continue to sail under his name.

and idk. i think about that a lot. people love you regardless of how much they know about you and thats the point. being known often precludes being loved but sometimes people know you because they love you. the ship of theseus is his because he loves it. yeah.

#its very late sorry if this doesnt make any sense #im just thinking about it like #a lot. a very lot #kim dokja you are so so loved #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader #kim dokja #kdj #yjh #yoo joonghyuk #orv spoilers #omniscient reader spoilers #han sooyoung #hsy #yoohankim #yhk

[auuwmk]

kdj: FUCK IT *becomes a metaphor for love*

#when you have so much love to give but none for yourself #WE LOVE YOU KDJ #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #kim dokja

[000yul]

you’ve never once done what i wanted you to

#orv spoilers #full book spoilers in these tags btw #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoohankim #yoo joonghyuk #kim dokja #han sooyoung #im honestly. so obsessed with this trio's dynamic #ever think about how han sooyoung and yoo joonghyuk both express their love in an extremely vitriolic way #THE WAY THEY REFLECT EACH OTHER. SOME PROJECTING GOING ON PERHAPS? #and then theres kdj who cuts himself out of the picture at every opportunity emotionally. jfc #alt caption: damn one to save the other #but thats not quite complete is it #by the end of the book yjh is quite willing to be damned for kdj #and hsy doesn't know what to do with that!!!! #man. #my art #orv fanart #anyway if you got to the end of this i hope you enjoy yjh's snatched waist. a little treat sprinkled within the pain #unrelated complaint why do these three only wear like two colours between them. im TRYING to make a visually interesting picutre ok!!!

[fandom-trash-goblin]

It's Crazy About ORV hours (once more)

listen i'm actually collecting this stuff now, and i've started using polls because wow some of them are spot on. cheers to me. dedicated to @chocolatemalt (my darling you've been summoned) and @yeetsintotheabyss (hi! it's indeed our orv audience)

link to part 1, part 2, part 3 and a webweave i made out of story snippets that is yoo joonghyuk centric

also, poll images 1,2, poll image 3, poll image 4,5, poll image 6,7

#kim dokja #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #yoohankim #joongdok #kimcom #webweaving #webweave #web weaving #literature #tumblr quotes #richard siken #poetry #*mine: graphics #tropes #listen okay i remember kim dokja saying he'd love to live in a big house #its cannon #kim dokja company #omniscent reader #tropes galore #also see that poll so close. for semantics sake assume it's 49-51. i wanted the symbolism (no it's not actually 49-51 but can't you imagine #it would have been perfect. hence i cut out the result. oops #poems and quotes #if a writer falls in love with you; you can never die #goddamn #that quote was written for kdj i couldn't no include it #okay commentary over

[kimdokjas]

the thing about orv is that it's the world's longest, craziest, most elaborate scheme to trick you into loving yourself. and it works.

#the epilogue changes you as a person forever. that's just the way it is #orv really said we are all kdj and by loving kdj so too do you also love yourself #orv #gabby speaks #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #?? jic

[melanchoise]

i still love you

#orv spoilers #orv #orv fanart #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja #kdj #kim dokja's company #kimcom #blacked out and here we are #they love each other so much #oh my god #anyways can you tell i have feelings about the epilogue

[bidokja]

one thing i think is funny (in both a serious and unserious way) about the orv webtoon is that it places even more emphasis on yjh thinking 'ugh! kms' at even the sLIGHTEST INCONVENIENCE. LIKE...tiny itty bitty hiccup in his plans? the ever so slight-est swerve on the road? he says FUCK this shit and tries to dRIVE OFF THE CLIFF!!!1! like, babygirl WHAT!!! what are you even doing!!!

#meanwhile kdj is fighting for his goddamn LIFE in the passenger seat and wrestling him for the wheel #anywasy yeah ive notive the webtoon putting extra focus on these moments (and i think sprinking in a few extra?) which is like #that sure is saying something cause the novel ALREADY PUT a lot of focus on it askjhdfgjhsd #YJH...BABYGIRL...YOU ARE SOOOOO DEPRESSED AND HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS AND ISSUES #LOVE UUUUU <333 #orv #mine

[anthyies]

happy incarnation kim dokja will die at the hands of the person he loves the most tuesday

#esha.txt #orv #ive literally been smiling so wide for like half an hour about this THEYRE GETTING THERE! THEYRE GETTING TO 73RD DEMON KING! ITS REALLY #HAPPENING :3 #webtoon onlies dont even know. but they will. yjh doesnt know. but she will. kimcom doesnt know. but they will... :3 #its also omelas arc time im so excitey. and then its half kdj backstory reveal time YAY #AND HOLY SHIT ITS GONNA BE FOURTH WALL ATE MY MOM TIME and alsoooooo :3 :3 :3 hsy and yjh from the epilogues show up time guys i love orv i #so excited its unreal #when they finally get to the arc itself they HAVE to include You Are Always Like This Kim Dokja Do You Think I'm An Emotionless Monster. hs #moments of ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

[lacecap]

i saw you once in a dream

#EEP #orv #kim dokja #han sooyoung #omniscient readers viewpoint #oldest dream #orv spoilers #ehh kiiindaa i guess #fishbowl #this is a scene from the fic linked above i am so so so dearly in love with it. very special fic about oldest dream #meeting the hsy of his worldline #hsy #kdj #can be doksoo if you want it to be. theyre soooooo (falls onto the ground #i will ramble a little bit more about this fic i think its so funny seeing hsy as an annoying little weirdgirl shes so real to me #its very very very sweet i love it a lot... i had the imagery of this scene in particular stuck in my mind for an entire week #before finally churning this out #my last note: i was listening to a scenery by sea-no the entire time while painting this #and i highly recommend listening to it if you'd like a feel for the atmosphere i was going for #also its just such a lovely instrumental ep in general

[void-and-virtue]

You go into reading ORV thinking it’s going to be a story.

You read it and it’s a story: it’s a story about a reader.

You read a little further and realize that it’s a story about stories: stories that make people as much as people make them.

You get to that point and you finally realize that it’s a con.

It’s a con: it’s been a con from the very first word, the longest, most visceral and excruciating con you’ve ever seen, yet somehow never saw coming—and you’re fuming but you’re also holding your breath because you can’t even be mad, it’s got you hook, line and sinker and you’d follow it beyond the end of the earth, you’ve already followed it beyond the end of the earth unknowingly and now you’re willing to go even further than that, willingly choosing it for yourself, because you need to see where this goes, you need to, because you care. You care.

Somewhere, you know with all the faith of a reader that Han Sooyoung is smiling.

#I will never be okay about this #conned into loving this broken world by making us see it through the eyes of the man who loved it more than anything #conned into loving him because the world and the people in it loved him back even when he couldn’t love himself #even when his own mind was crueler to him than anyone else could ever be #conned into loving him because god wants him to love himself so badly she’d damn the world for him to survive and we get it. we get it. #conned into loving yourself just a little bit more because how could you not after reading a story like that? #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #omniscient reader’s viewpoint spoilers #han sooyoung #kim dokja #hsy #orv hsy #kdj #orv kdj #doksoo

[aslyran]

Happy birthday Kim Dokja!

#I couldn’t get this song outta my head. it fits him so well #truly the desire to believe in fiction isa powerful thing #fiction is bigger and sometimes kinder than us #arr but then again fiction is written by us. taken with the desire to imagine a kinder world #you know who im talking about. #i tried to make kdjs work clothes ill fitting and his white coat very fitting #did that get through from me to you? #all of these are my blorbos #i could talk about han sooyoung for hours #yes its intention that she appears very late #i love them so much #anyways #fanart #orv #orv omniscient reader's view point #omniscient reader novel #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader spoilers #orv hsy #orv kdj #orv kim dokja #orv yjh #orv fanart #kim dokja #yoo jonghyuk #yoohankim #han sooyoung #joongdok #procreate dreams #animatic