#my life as an internet novel

[rikan-oo]

So I was thinking about creating a loose list of recs for ORV fans or, in other words, "If you liked ORV, you also may like this." I decided to add things less obvious because I think people already read works like Trash of Count's Family, etc.

Princess Tutu

“The beginning of a story is a sudden event; the start, a happy accident, the end, the fate for which it's meant. A story that never ends is a sad fate.”

Let's start with Princess Tutu (PT), anime, not manga because they're different. I watched it about a week before ORV and after finishing both, I can't help but notice their similarities. However, meanwhile, ORV is about the relationship between the reader, the author, and the protagonist, and PT is more about the relationship between the author and their creation: the story and its characters. Don't let the name fool you, don't be like me. It's much darker than I expected from this style and genre. Be ready for angst.

Plot: Ahiru is a small duck in a pond. One day she notices a dancing boy with a very sad gaze. Boy every day goes to dance near the pond and the little duck is completely mesmerized by him. She can't help but notice sadness and loneliness in his dance. She wants to make this boy smile and at that moment a writer Droselmeir appears. He tells her that she could do this by collecting shards of his broken heart but under some conditions. He gives her a magic pendant that can transform her, first into an ordinary human girl, then into the graceful ballerina Princess Tutu, a fictional character from the tale that was doomed for tragedy in the original story.

Later we find out that this city is kinda enchanted by Droselmeir's tale (reverse isekai before it became mainstream) and some characters broke out of the tale like the boy by the lake - Mytho or Raven - the villain of this tale. Tale elements blend interestingly in the city and its residents.

Also, I have no idea wtf is happening with the main characters' dynamic in this complicated rectangle, but there is no straight explanation for this.

I can't help but see some parallels between Mytho - KDJ, Fakir - both YJH & HSY, Ru - HSY, and Droselmeir - Dokkaebi. I love how the story describes characters doomed by narrative and the struggles of being a writer. Also, all of these subtle references to fairytales at the beginning of the episode? Love it. I bet there are more references for the ballet part, but I probably didn't get it. I gently encourage you to check it out. (Definitely not gently, I'm as desperate as Kim Dokja trying to advertise TWSA to other people)

“May those who accept their fate be granted Happiness, may those who defy their fate be granted Glory.”

Miss not Sidekick

It's a much simpler read, just to chill and have fun while laughing at Mc shenanigans. Plot: Typical isekai story, where Mc is a fan of the internet novel of the reverse harem genre. When isekaied decided to invent popcorn and enjoy full time 4d immersion in the story.

There are not so many similarities in themes like with Princess Tutu, but more the role of MC – Latte as reader. I liked how she continued to behave like a spectator of a story inside Isekai world, treating it like she's inside a special 4D theater, not existing in this world as a part of it, until she couldn't.

Until her 4th wall is shattered (*badabums* it's a bad pun, she doesn't have it like kdj) and she realizes she could actually die, (quite shocking I know). Also, MC invents BL for this world and converts other people into it. Overall, the art style is different from other isekai romfant and it's something you need time to get used to, but after a while, you understand it suits perfectly for the narrative and silly tone of the comic.

Inso's Law or My Life as an Internet Novel

I feel like it's more reverse isekai similar to orv, where the story becomes part of your life. But if in KDJ's case, this transition is obvious and life-crashing, then in MC's situation is really creepy. It blends seamlessly into her regular life making her feel insane because everything remains the same except having a whole new friend who behaves like your bestie and a different school, where everything starts to feel like a romantic novel full of clichés. MC like KDJ is also unreliable in her perception of others here and thinks her knowledge of clichés like a reader-outsider makes her more omnipotent than she really is. Too bad they used 3 person POV, so it's really obvious, but funny nevertheless. (One of the cases where she thinks one of her classmates is a girl pretending to be a boy cause of some kind of cliché family drama, when in fact it's just a boy and I find it funny how this classmate looks like Jang Hayoung twin and have similar fate, poor souls) guess she also has similarities in her character to pre-scenario or regular life KDJ. They both seem to have this introverted avoidance type of personality. I'm curious about supernatural events happening in manhwa and I hope we'll get some explanation for it.

Pandora Hearts

Nice little thing with funny and cute tea parties that everyone would enjoy. 😍

SHHH, nothing about the plot. Let it be a small surprise for you.

It's all vibes and similar tropes now, folks.

Like dynamic between the main trio: Gilbert - Oz - Alice YJH - KDJ - HSY. Also this time loop thing? Daddy issues? Self-sacrifice as a form of love? Ugh. (Also, I need this scene with Oz and Brake "Where in the world are you?" But with KDJ. Maybe I even draw it).

It's all for now, maybe I'll write more. Please share the recs if you have them!

#whoever readed till the end #thank you #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #omniscient reader webtoon #kim dokja #miss not so sidekick #princess tutu #orv spoilers #inso's law #my life as an internet novel #pandora hearts #it was in my drafts since October

[mallahanmoxie]

one thing about ham dani that nobody seems to get and why I'm always fighting for my life in the webtoon's comment section is that in all her fear and reticence around opening herself up with her friends, believing she belongs in this world, trusting in her place and relationships is that SHE'S NEVER WRONG ABOUT THE NEGATIVES. i think it's very easy to look at dani a hundred chapters in still going on about her place as a side character and what she can expect from them realistically, what she can allow herself to feel for them, and feel frustrated, like she's being deliberately obtuse. but dani. is. not. wrong.

one thing that many isekais do is that they will take the premise of "being transported to a novel" and use that simply as a vehicle for the FL to use her knowledge of the future to her advantage and turn the odds on their head. beyond the initial "ehhh why is the ML flirting with me??" which tends to wear off rather easily, there is little questioning about what being in a story means. and inso's law takes that question seriously. because dani IS inside a story, her friends ARE characters AND THIS IS EASILY PROVABLE SINCE THE BEGINNING. How? because she leaves.

it has happened to her before! It happens multiple times in the novel! that's why march 2nd is SO terrifying for her, because everything she's built can be taken from her in the blink of an eye and SHE will be called crazy and SHE will be left grieving and nobody else will remember what ONLY SHE LIVED. she is effectively, practically, tangibly separate from each world by this experience. when dani insists on the labels of main character, side character, the tropes and the narrative possibilities happening within them SHE'S NOT WRONG!! because those things are TRUE!!! I know it's easy to gloss over it bc we as readers just take everything in as a story, but the crazy plot points? they're insane to her too because SHE is a real person and others are not! They're characters! That's why it's called The Law of Webnovels because dani is making sense of the rules of a world which factually functions distinctly different from hers. she's not making that shit up, it's not (entirely) an emotional hold up. that's shit's fucking real.

the nuance is brought on by the fact that the characters are, in fact, also people. they behave like people (albeit inside the margins of wild webnovel logic), they feel like people and they see her as a person. but she does not entirely reciprocate, because to view them as people means assuming the hurt that will inevitably come when 1) she gets sent back into the real world and loses them all or 2) the plot to the novel finally kicks in and who knows if the guy she liked was the ML and will end up with her best friend and all her love and all her trying were for nothing. No matter what, dani loses.

there's also the fact, which i think is exemplified very clearly in her feelings towards her grades and being compared to yeoryung, that even outside the character/real person dichotomy, ham dani and the boys come from WILDLY different backgrounds. when they graduate high school, they will go to different colleges and they will get different jobs and the wide wide gap which dani had managed to bridge due to the magic of webnovel rules will be opened once again. in the social hierarchy of modern korean society, dani will be left behind. ban yeoryung is somewhat immune to this despite sharing similar socioeconomic status because she has 1) better social capital in the form of her beauty and intelligence and 2) plot armour immunity bc she's destined to be with one of the boys anyway (and again it IS destiny bc she's the FL and according to the genre clues dani's been gathering that seems to be the most likely outcome). yeoryung has resources and tools beyond the story that dani cannot access. even IF this wasn't the world of a webnovel, if they existed in the real world, yeoryung COULD feasibly climb her way up but dani? she's realistic about her prowess and she knows very well that being a good friend and a good person does not mean she will get to remain close to her friends who are much much much richer. my point here being that even if she weren't under the assumption (WELL TESTED!!! SCIENTIFIC, EVEN!!!) that she's in the world of a story ruled by story laws, she wouldn't be silly for guarding her heart against the possibility of drifting away from byr+the boys.

all of this is why i love dani's character arc and her as a person. she doesn't act irrationally. she only acts very, very humanly. it's why i loved the kidnapping arc and her confrontation with choi yuri. she has to learn to treat them seriously, as human beings, because despite factually being characters, they don't have the awareness of it and their lives are every bit as real as any other to them. it's part also of dani learning how to be a person herself, because she's still a kid growing up and learning what's what, and doing so in an environment much more stressful than the usual. i think people are being irrationally mean towards her simply because they do not make the effort to understand her.

#i love her. i love ham dani. favourite fucking girl ever. #inso's law #the law of webnovels #my life as a webnovel #my life as an internet novel #ham dani #and im tagging my meta so everybody knows HAM DANI IS RIGHTTTTT #SHES NEVER BEEN WRONG #I LOVE HER

[manhwa-animated-cover]

#my life as an internet novel #inso's law #ham dan-i

[xcerizex]

Same vibes, same age.

Both of them are 24-year old adults who act like teens and even share the same Korean name, Lucas. Heck, even their bangs are the same shape

On one hand, you have a guy who was sent to the jungle after it was revealed he stabbed himself when he was younger just so that his ice princess (who's a boy btw) wouldn't have to take over the bodyguard corporate.

And on the other hand, you have an art teacher that managed to rally every male in university to cosplay as butlers and say cringey lines for Princess Day.

#lovebrush chronicles #for all time #inso's law #my life as an internet novel #law of the webnovel #o'connor

[liminalimmortal]

maturing is going from being sad about the endgame ml in inso’s law to loving him as you realize how fitting he is for our main girlie

Everyone go read Inso’s Law/My Life as an Internet Novel

it’s great

#inso’s law #my life as an internet novel #comic #manhwa #ham dani

[sidsinning]

Have you ever read the webcomic My Life as an Internet Novel? It's really good and sounds right up your alley.

I have but I got bored wsdfjhs

I think the pacing really really slowed down so the conflict between the FL and her friends kinda became stale to me

ALSO I WAS ROOTING FOR BLACK HAIR BLUE EYES BOY BUT THE WHITE HAIR IS THE ML??? THE CUCKERY OF IT??? WHY DID HE GET SUCH LONE FOCUS WITH HER????

#Inso's Law #My Life as an Internet Novel #webtoon #ask

[the-black-sheep-in-the-dark]

Some manhwa merchandise, I would like to see more of "Kill the villainess"

#villains are destined to die #death is the only ending for the villainess #death is the only ending for a villainess #kill the villainess #i shall master this family #my life as an internet novel #manhwa

[vivalavi-daa]

Above all else, I love the friendship depicted in My Life as an Internet Novel! It's just so wholesome it warms my heart. Despite the MC's low self esteem (that she's just a plain side character), I love the way they cherish each other's existence & protect each other through & through🥺. She used to seem them as merely fictional characters at first but as the time passes, she starts to realize they're just human beings with depth 🥺

#my life as an internet novel #inso's law #the law of webnovels #manhwa

[ekanatsume]

Ngl i lowkey wanted yeodan to be the endgame. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YEODAN ISNT THE ENDGAME??? HE MATCHES WITH DANI SO WELL WHAT THE HECKKKK??? Heck ruda was a good option too. Why does it have to be one of her friends goddammi

#my life as an internet novel #inso's law #dani #yeodan #manhwa

[magicallythey]

anyone want to psychoanalyze me and tell me why all my favorite manga/manhua are the ones where everyone falls in love with main character?

#1/2 prince #my next life as a villianess all routes lead to doom #my life as an internet novel #negima #snow white with the red hair #beware the villainess #the antagonist's pet #the beginning after the end #tbh pretty much any villainess or isekai manga/manhua

[rnm-magic-space-xsd]

#Golden💛🐺Wolf🐚💗🗾Night🎑🪶Crowess #AAAAAA LEE RUDA I LOVE YOU! ILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOUUUUU!!! LOOK AT HIS BLUSHY CHEEKS! HIS ADORABLE SMILE’ LEE RUDAAA!!! I LOVE HOW HE PLAYF #PLAYFULLY TEASES ME IN AN INNOCENT AND LOVING WAY! IT MAKES MY HEART GO ALL FLIPPITYFLOPPITY AND ALL FLUTTERY N EXCITABLE! #GIDDY WITH LOVE AND LIKE!!!! FIREWORKS AND MELTY GOO! MIXED WITH LIGHTNING AND HONEY! #Inso’s Law #My Life As An Internet Novel

[red-hot-temper]

Different situation, Same Energy xD

#villains are destined to die #my life as an internet novel #penelope eckhart #callisto regulus #ham dani #eun jiho #inso's law #law of insomnia #death is the only ending for the villainess #death is the only ending for a villainess #manhwa

[echoingkarma]

Ban Yeodan from My Life As An Internet Novel

#webcomic #my life as an internet novel #inso's law #the law of webnovels #the latest chapters are killing me i care him so much #no one is gonna care about this. we never really post about how we like to read webcomics #but art block meant i just had to draw whatever #and i wanted to draw Him #i regret the undershirt now but i also dont care enough to change it so he keeps it #my art #doodles #did this a little bit ago too #time to queue

[wistfulhours]

…

#inso’s law #my life as an internet novel #manhwa #manga #mangacap #manga cap #mood #feels #vibes #qotd

[violent-wentz]

sometimes a webcomic will have the most cosmically horrific concept as its premise and then be tagged like “romance” and “high school”. and you just have to be like….. ok.

#edibleposting #my life as an internet novel

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Ham Dan-I from My Life as an Internet Novel, who has general anxiety

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Drawing of a girl walking out of a kitchen. She has short brown hair and eyes. She is wearing a dark brown sweater.]

#GAD character #My Life as an Internet Novel #Ham Dan-I #disabled character of the day