#also im gonna thank the polls for this....EXCELLENT propaganda so proud of this silly fandom xD

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AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! If I spam reblog this will this count as how many likes I want to give it?

But anyway, SO VALID. AND ALL OF THIS IS REAL AND TRUE. I actually haven't read the webtoon yet but I did hear from another friend that it's around the place you stopped that the webtoon started deviating slightly.

I have made a post like this before and I'll say it again here because this technically still is a bsd blog but (this might count as spoilers since I'm speaking themes so just skip to the next paragraph just in case)...if you liked BSD for its metafictional themes and the way it fictionalises real people and their philosophies, you will love ORV for the way it does that but in a completely unexpected way that also is similar but also is completely different - actually. In hindsight, I think if you enjoyed BSD Beast, ORV is worth looking at.

But all of what you said is so true. Dokja and Sooyoung are absolutely besties but like in the "we make each other worse" way and it only gets better from there. Jung Heewon has one of the most fascinating arcs (I had to delete a ramble about her because I realised spoilers oops...). Dokja and Joonghyuk are in deep mutual denial (I get it, though. I, too, would deny association with either of these two unfermented radish-heads) BUT MY FAVORITES you asked!

Well....

I love this trio. But more specifically I love Shin Yoosung and Lee Gilyoung (sorry Jihye). There's probably something to be said about my own sanity to say that I enjoy children put through horrors but it's like...they're middle grade book protagonists. They're kids thrown into a genre meant for adults. They're two of the most powerful incarnations. They're both each other's parallel and they're siblings (you can't change my mind on them being siblings). They both offer a very, very intriguing discourse on the nature of choices and evil/good. Also, I like bugs and I like animals, so that might be biases showing...

Also. Her

Yoo Sangah my ACTUAL BELOVED AND -. Can't get much into her without spoiling a bit but but but....subversions. Without being mean about the trope she's subverting, too.

Like, I'm serious. All of these characters are subversions of some silly trope WITHOUT telling us those tropes are stupid and actually showing a lot of love for the "lowbrow" (i heard that term recently) lit pieces. They're all so unhinged in someway or the other, too. Like none of them are normal no matter how they trick you into thinking they are. And obviously I love KDJ and YJH and HSY and I honestly think Lee Hyunsung deserves a mention too because he's just such a sincerely sweet character. And Asuka Ren, too, though you haven't met her yet I think?

Guys, I know I'm an echo chamber of greater analysts and propagandaists, but READ ORV. Read it if you like shounen tropes because it shows such love for them without making you need to suspend some moral disbelief (well, for the most part because, as mentioned, they're all unhinged). Read it if you enjoy pieces that tackle the meaning of stories and narratives. Or if you like discourses on ethics and what it means to be a person and something about sacrifices. Read it if you like tragedies and comedies and bildungsroman and all sorts of genres (because somehow, SOMEHOW, orv gave me a feeling of a satisfying ending for a variety of genres but that may be me gushing). And read it if you like the importance of history and myths and folktales and human invention (and religions but it can get iffy on things concerning...well, spoilers, but yeah.) Read it if you like platonic relationships and family relationships both treated with equal importance. And read it if you just like things that make you go "what is happening?? How am I actually following along??"

Aaaand I'd better stop there. Sorry this turned into another ORV rant post on bsd main but it is what it is and I have no regrets....

You've started reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint! For Han Sooyoung??? Story, you are the most valid ORV reader there is and I'm wishing you thoughts and strength for the coming destruction of sanity.

How are you finding it so far? (This is Note, btw, and feel free not to answer if you still want to withhold judgment)

Note!!! Yes, I did start!

Ahuhdfv yeah I had heard people talk about it before but I wasn't really looking to get into anything new atm so I thought ok, I'll check it out eventually. Like it sounds good but not right now. Then the yaoi polls started and people were telling me to vote joongdok so I did with like, zero understanding of what was happening but you know. Happy for you guys! And then there were a few memes and I was amused and said ok, it seems like I should really put this on my list. And then there was a post talking about how meta the themes are and that it's heavy on platonic love themes and it made people cry and I went oh. And then another said the women were distinct and well written and I went oh.

Yeah and then I saw people tagging these deranged posts with hsy and that decided it for me. Pleased to know she is every bit the chaos woman I thought she'd be, and I still feel like I barely know her at this point. Her and kdj's dynamic is ahafbvdhfvnv. Asshole besties. To me.

I actually binged most of the webcomic in one day (I found it first) before I decided to stop and start from the beginning with the novel because I wanted more of kdj's narration! It's interesting... I know it's going somewhere very different from how it started and while I have some ideas, I'm very uncertain about them. There's so much going on. The entire cast is really fun and I'm intrigued by all of them. But. um. I have a lot of fondness for. Her.

J-Jung Heewon... so cool............. (also she's funny as heck which is just a bonus at this point)

Love that Kim Dokja has surrounded himself with people who care about him deeply and 100% have his back but also would not hesitate to get his ass. Good for him, honestly.

Anyways I'm still catching up in the novel but I left off in the comic with yjh flipping out after kdj took a mortal blow for him and then going ballistic while affirming kdj as his companion only for dead kdj, who is watching all this go down, to immediately rationalize it as "ah he's trying to get coins". ............ How can he be so clever and also so dumb.

Who are your favourites btw? I imagine it may be for spoiler reasons but I'm still curious :D