#od dream

[boygirlctommy]

i know the song was only unlisted, but here take an mp3 download of it

edit- found a link to the actual video!

#my post #mcyt #dsmp #dream smp #ode to lmanburg #beetlebug #o7 #Youtube

[macaronijail06]

This body means nothing to me-

"Get a Hold of Yourself!"

#orv #omniscient reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja #kdj #orv kdj #demon king of salvation #oldest dream #yoo junghyuk #han sooyoung #orv hsy #hsy #orv spoilers #orv fanart #yeah its that one scene where kdj tries to uhhh kill OD #most ancient dream

[the--firevenus]

"One last show, a finale of a star."

#HAPPY NOVEMBER 16TH!! #Didn't think I'd do anything this year but here we are #An ode for my last vilbur painting #firevenus art #fanart #wilbur soot fanart #wilbur soot #dsmp fanart #dsmp #Lots of red.. Oops #dream smp

[elalalune]

Constellations in the forms of edgy teenagers

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader #oldest dream #abyssal black flame dragon #abfd #전지적 독자 시점 #kim dokja #my art #maybe in an au he could go to the same school as od and beat up any bullies #but he might be the one getting bullied bc hes a chuuni lmao

[new-world-mutation]

Hideo Kojima, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

#hideo kojima #trent reznor #atticus ross #NOT EVEN IN MY WILD DREAMS I WOULD PREDICT TO SEE THEM BOTH TOGETHER #PLEASE WORK TOGETHER #CAN YOU IMAGINE NIN ON DEATH STRANDING ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE IT'S FOR OD #DOESN'T MATTER I WANT THIS LIKE A KID WANTS CANDY #OH MY GOD #screaming throwing out and crying

[khachalala]

Had KDJ grow up normally he might be taller than he is now. So I present you my HC that OD end up taller than SP (even just a liiiittle bit).

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #orv spoilers #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #the most ancient dream #secretive plotter #yes OD call SP Ahjussi you’re right #SPOD #ODSP

[go-learn-esperanto]

One last time.

#gle original #dream smp #MCYT #An ode to L'manburg #o7

[weirdplutoprince]

growing collection of scrunkly ODs

#my art #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #orv spoilers #orv novel spoilers #od #oldest dream #the most ancient dream #dokjazinho

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

"I'm not a main character. Rather, I always envy the main character."

#happy birthday yoo joonghyuk #ig lmao #orv #omniscient reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #i love making od a freak #if you havent noticed #kim dokja #kdj #orv spoilers #yjh #yoo joonghyuk #the oldest dream #bard draws

[spacemilkbag]

we need the boops back just to smack stupidity out of some people

#what are you on about he's not retiring or getting removed from dream branding take a break from the internet instead od dooming

[macaronijail06]

In the Woods Somewhere

#orv #omniscient reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja #kdj #orv kdj #oldest dream #horror od my belooved #I will post this on twitter on the 17th #just a little guy in the woods #nothing suspicious here

[wildrbst]

Wip

#orv #oldest dream #od #kdj #mywork #kim dokja

[elalalune]

I forgot my name again

I think that's something worth remembering

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader #orv #전지적 독자 시점 #oldest dream #kim dokja #my art #devil town v2 by cavetown fits od so much #😭😭

[just-a-fragment]

Still mulling over how to word this properly but ough all I'm thinking about recently is how good the OD reveal is. When reading the novel, most of us already have had a clue about who YJH's sponsor is, who the "Most Ancient Dream" is, what lovecraftian being out there could possibly be the worst one even compared to the other outer gods/constellations we meet, what monster is cruel enough to impose the suffering of thousands of lives, and hundreds of worlds. Then we get to the reveal, and its just...a child. A child who doesn't believe in his own happiness. A child who only experienced love through his mother's sacrifice

Aside from how well executed, and heartbreaking it is, the OD reveal is just chef's kiss because it's perfectly interwoven in the narrative, and in the overarching tone of the novel. One of the best things about orv is how it seemingly goes about very adult narratives with an almost childlike wonder/curiousity. How ORV recontexualizes traditional myths is reminiscent of like how your grandparents used to tell stories, it's subversive not in the usual way where the author does a whole 360 on a story's genre, but in a way that really does a deep dive on the themes/motifs/characters.

Like the nice girl didn't turn cruel despite everything!! But why is she nice? what comples her? what made her be so genuine, yet so snarky so resolute yet so tender?

The OD reveal is so so good because truly, who else could this novel be for? other than a child god. A being that's supposed to be omnipotent but negligent of the suffering he has caused. The Oldest Dream being a literal child works so well for us readers and for the narrative.

Like the OD reveal was obviously meant to be this meta-narrative commentary on consumerism but because orv's storytelling is reader friendly in a way, this doesn't come across as pretentious unlike other stories that deal with meta elements. ORV doesn't try to be this new-age classic, It doesn't force you to analyze it, analyze the text. It's simply just a gentle reminder about what stories are truly like, all it asks you is to read it, whether you see this work as a masterpiece or you just wanted to read for the sake of it. And then when you've done just that, maybe you'll see how even a "shitty" story managed to save a child's life

#orv #orv spoilers #omniscent reader's viewpoint #orv analysis #OD #the oldest dream #most ancient dream

[mhaynoot]

the poetics of sp's involvement in 1863rd is just ... there's no words to capture the how retrospectively tragic it is. sp is the oldest being in the story. his tragedy has stopped being told but the story was still continuing off the page, years and years and even more unending years of being trapped without resolution, blocked behind the wall. he wants to die but cannot.

hsy's plan was to make 1863 yjh sleep forever. while it is not true death obviously, it will have been the closest to death any yjh has ever gotten (besides 0th who still turned away from it). not death, not regression, but sleep. it is only the domain of the dreams that will let him escape the cruel reality of his unreality and the silent god who will continue to watch over him forever so long as it was this man, yjh.

an important recurring symbol/motif in orv is dreams and there are several important themes linked to dreams i want to discuss.

first one is pretty obvious: dreams as escapism, as a way to desperately wish for a better life, wanting desperately to be saved from a ruined world. ala 1863rd yjh's wish for death and the oldest dream's wish for the characters to become real, to save him. as such, dreams represent a desperate plea for salvation.

and this might be a reach but i would still like to argue that it is the character's belief of their own hopelessness that lead to dreams but also perpetuates an unending cycle. wanting to be saved but also not being able to believe that you're worthy of being saved, that nothing / no one would / should save you. this duality is what leads me to the second theme: in their endless cycle being trapped and neither dead nor living, dreams are but another form of regression.

kdj becomes the oldest dream, the willing lonely god who could only ever dream of everyone's happiness but his own. he had seperated himself from ever reaching out and watching 1864th worldline where all his loved ones are and where he knows he would have been tempted to return. so symbolically, he interferes with 0th yjh and, as his stardusts falls away, he watches all the regressions and yjh. always yjh. his dream. in the end, the train that traps him is himself.

but a final point i want to touch on is this:

it is only when they get off the train and reach their epilogue, does sp finally achieve liberation, does the oldest dream finally end (become free). the dream has ended and into the waking cruel world, they become characters no longer having found each other at last. this was sp's ■■. and that's what i meant by the poetics of it all. the happiest, gentlest of epilogues: the ending of the oldest dream.

#spod #joongdok #orv spoiler #orv analysis #long post #shit #fuck #this wasnt supposed to that long #i just wanted to talk about how sp and od's tragedy are both directly related to how they are equally trapped in a cycle #and how their happy ending is finding each other #and how beautiful it is that breaking the dream / regression / cycle isnt death or revenge #its the end of a dream #because the dream came true #and that is sp's true liberation

[demodraws0606]

You know I think there is something interesting to say in terms of where the fuck WxS is going because like

I think WxS is the only unit where the end goal or overall progression is probably the most unknown out of all of them ???

MMJ and VBS are extremely obvious, they both have the most explicit goals that are said to us in a straightforward way

25-ji, in the end we know the main goal at the end will be for all of the characters to go over their hurdles with Mafuyu finally being able to find herself and move forward

Leo/need is probably the closest in terms of vagueness but we know the end goal is clear for them to grow as a band, probably ending in a big concert or something along those lines

But with WxS...like I guess the closest thing I can see to an end goal is all of WxS preparing a show together with everyone playing their part but that definitely doesn't feel like something you'd build up for an entire arc and definitely not something that feels fitting after the emotional turmoil that was the disbandement arc ???

In terms of physical achievements as well they literally revived an entire parc through one gigantic show, so it just comes into question what they can do now.

Then you look at their first few event for this arc considering usually the first event kinda set up what will be planned for the future but it's...weird.

Yeah, Tsukasa and Rui's events set up they're inexperienced and how they will grow in the future but also there is this weird feeling of something feeling off ?

The plays/scripts all are strangely depressing, the play in Tsukasa's event being about a failed writer planning to drown himself (which I believe is one of the only undeniable explicit description of suicide ever in the game?????) and the second being someone whose given up on life meeting their estranged sister only for her to become ill.

We even have Emu's side story in Rui's event where they watched the movie Rin was watching during the event made by the same producer and Emu herself note how depressing the story is (meanwhile the main character of the movie clearly parallels Rui)

We don't see the conclusion of these in-game stories as well, lingering on their worst moment never really seeing the presumably happy conclusion.

THEN we also have Emukasa fes which....again strangely different in tone from what you'd expect a WxS fes card, they're not really all that conclusive either. Tsukasa never aknowledges how he relates to the brother in the story and Emu doesn't really get a conclusion on her grief.

Then we also have Rui's entire fuckign event with the cards and his cyberpunk deadbo-YOU SEE WHAT IM SAYING

The closest we fucking have to knowing what WxS's fucking endgoal towards the story is, is fucking WL which....TELLS US NOTHING

At least with VBS we know that they're goal is to go even further beyond and conquer the whole world, that is a developpement of their goal.

What I'm saying is I don't know what the fuck colorpalet is cooking wiht WxS but I feel like i'm a fucking twilight zone reading the way they're writing WxS now because I can't be the only one feeling insane at how weird all of this is

#wxs #wonderlandxshowtime #project sekai #pjsk #prsk #wxs prsk #wxs pjsk #reading this fucking unit feels like i'm stuck in a strange hell dimension where everything just feels like foreshadowing or some kind of #fucking wink colorpalet is oding at me like it's not the first time they've done insane foreshadowing with wxs #in fact its the norm #i wish i could know what goes on in their head when they write these clowns cos i swear i can't understand what the fuck they're doing #like with other units i can geyt like a general idea #but like WxS ???? #they could go literally anywhere with them #i guess going to broadway could be like a huge goal but like ????? #it doesn't FEEL WxS yknow ? #especially after the disbandement arc which we technically haven't gotten really a conclusion for because...Emu's still gonna come back ?? #So like what do we do when Emu comes back to Pheonix Wonderland ????????????? #Cos I do think WxS would want to come back to perform but ESPECIALLY nene's dreams are kind of incompatible with that #cos we know she wants to perform all over the world like her idol #It's just #I guess I'm waiting to see what kind of unholy bullshit colorpalet has for us after the pain that was the disbandement arc #i was also tired while writing this so if this seems extremely rambly thats why #i'm just losing my mind