#anyway‚ not finished. obviously. but yeah

[artsycloudysleepy]

can't wait!!!!!!! take your time ofc - i shall be shaking the bars of my cage until thennnn /silly :DDDD

hands really HAVE got hands 😭😭😭 and absolutely!!! drawing is unbelievably taxing but we must keep going!! for both joy and also to show up the AI """artists""" who think it's too much work to be worthwile >:)

blink gone

the clock goes tick-tock, tick-tock

still version

and grayscale

[la2yn0va]

Some intro dialogues with their s/o

Game: Marvel Rivals

Characters: Magik, Luna, Star Lord, Winter Soldier

(Short cause I still need to learn the lore of this game and the characters)

——

Magik

Magik: Stay close. I’ll prevent any of your blood being spilled.

M/n: That’s sweet Illyana. But I can take—

Magik: I wasn’t. Asking.

…

M/n: Magik, Whoever gets the least KO’s pays for dinner

Magik: Hmm? Do you truly wish for defeat this much love?

M/n: Don’t worry, your dinner will be you eating those words.

….

Magik: With us fighting together, our victory is assured.

M/n: Obviously, just feel bad that they’ll go back to their timeline with their pride destroyed.

Magik: That’s not the only thing that’ll be broken.

…

M/n: Illyana, is it cool if you do the heavy lifting? I’m getting sleepy.

Magik: I do not mind. Come. I’ll allow you to rest on me.

M/n: During battle…? Yeah no, better if I just power through.

Luna Snow

Luna: M/n—

M/n: I’m not singing to you.

Luna:…sheesh… could’ve at least let me finish saying it.

….

M/n: Seol, keep me alive yeah?

Luna: Duh~ I wouldn’t love you the same if you were dead.

M/n: Right…that was a stupid thing to say

…

Luna: M/n! We gotta finish this quick!

M/n: Uh… why?

Luna: Our reservation for that fancy restaurant is in 3 hours!

…

M/n: Think about it Luna. This is definitely better quality time then having to be bombarded with the paparazzi and media.

Luna: Yeah.. least this way I can assault without it being a crime.

M/n: Now your learning my language hot stuff. Or.. cold stuff….?

Star Lord

Peter: Aww yeah!! Time to—!!

M/n: Quill. Loud doesn’t equal attractiveness.

Peter: okay sorry.

…

M/n: Yo Pete! Got some bangers on that headphone?

Peter: Ya know it hot stuff!

M/n: Well don’t hog it, come on over space boy

….

Peter: Hey! After this, let’s go to the bar!

M/n: Pete… I don’t want to have—

Peter: Da— HA HO HEE wait! Hold on! I didn’t— why would you—!

…

M/n: Peter, if you carry this battle, I’ll kiss you.

Peter: Only one kiss? Come on babe, I come in high demand.

M/n:…Two and half kisses.

Winter Soldier

Bucky: Long way from Brooklyn, ay m/n?

M/n: As long as I’m with you, I’ll always be content

Bucky: You always know how to lighten my mood.

….

M/n: What else can that metal arm do?

Bucky: Uh… now isn’t the time to—

M/n: Dude, I was talking about battle. Save that stuff for the bedroom. 

…

Bucky: If hydra comes from you, I’ll end them

M/n: Pretty sure you’d do that anyway. But it’s nice to know you’re protective of me.

Bucky: Obviously.

….

M/n: Bucky, wanna switch weapons for this?

Bucky: Nah. Don’t think I can handle anything you have going on.

M/n: Oh? We oughta test that theory out.

…

The end, this shit sucked 😭

[soobirii]

His chair

Gamer!Jake x Afab!reader

Jake wanted to show you how to play...in his new gaming chair

Genre: not fluff but not smut??

Warnings: swearing, physical touch, pet names (baby,princess,babygirl)

*not proof read*

💌:tell me if you guys want a part 2,I've never really written before so.. 😭

Everytime you came over to Jake's dorm he was either alone or gaming, but today he was both. Earlier that day he texted you "heyy y/nie, baby, you wanna come over I miss your face :(" and being the good and loveable partner you are, you obviously gave in and made your way to his dorm.

You let yourself in, closing the door behind you, when you close the door behind you, you can hear faint key's clicking and buttons being pressed coming from him room, you were immediately annoyed, why does he always do this? Invite you over to hangout when he ends up just staring at his screen for countless Hours while you lay on his bed,but anyways :/

You make your way to his room, already not liking the idea of spending the time alone, when you see Jake on the floor, assembling a gaming chair. He stands up, walking towards you with a relaxed smile "hi baby, I missed you, but you know that huh?" He kisses you on top of your head, and let's out a content sigh, wrapping his arms around you as he rests his chin on your crown "I'm just so happy to have you here with me <3" He whispers into your ear, placing his hands on your thighs, squeezing them lightly and you melt under his touch. You look away shyly and smile at him, feeling his hands rub circles onto your thighs and backside as he pulls you closer to his body.

"Jake, cmon finish whatever you were doing" you say before lightly pushing him away. He puts his hands up, in mock offense "okay princess, but don't come crying when I 'don't pay enough attention to you' :p" he says in a playful tone before sitting back down on the ground, getting back to the chair.

"waste perfectly good money on a chair huh?" you say to him and you sit opposite him on the ground and watch him. "ay, I wouldn't call it a waste, it can carry alot of weight... And movement" He wiggles his eyebrows at you and you laugh "Jake..." You say exasperated "yeah yeah, okay fine" he says while finishing up his creation in front of you "you better get comfortable though, cause we're gonna be playing this game all night!" He says excitedly. He gets a controller in his hand and starts typing and hitting keys and you just stare at him "you mean YOU'RE gonna play all night" you say as you get off of the floor. He sits in his chair, bouncing a bit as he tests it out, he pats his lap "come on" you groan but oblige anyway, sitting on him as you lean against the arm rest, you look down at the controller in Jake's hand. Since when was it so small, and since when were his hands so fucking veiny??!?

"like what you see? " he chuckles as he notices you staring at his hands. "shut up" you reply, feeling like you just got caught.

Jake puts the controller down, his hand immediately snaking around your abdomen and waist, he pulls you flush against him, nuzzling his face into your neck, he starts kissing your neck gently "jakeee" you protest , trying to break free from his grip, your words sounding more like whimpers than actual words, but he doesn't notice as he continues kissing you and you eventually give up and just relax against him "just relax y/n, this is what you came here for after all" he says quietly as he places gentle kisses on your forehead and cheeks, moving down your neck and onto your chest, where he bites and sucks your collar bone "oh god jake" you moan out, his hands roaming and touching everywhere they could reach. He kisses you passionately, and you feel your knees go weak and you feel completely powerless under Jake's touch, your heart racing in anticipation of what's about to happen, then he stops...confused, you looked up at him "??" written on your face, he laughs "so you were enjoying it!?" He says, after a few short seconds, he flips you so that your facing him and straddling him, his hands on your hips and lower back, "yes" you said in an airy voice, his hands sliding lower until you felt him rub at the apex of your thighs with his thumbs and index fingers, and you felt your entire body heat up. You felt like melting beneath his touch...and his gaze as he stared at you. But then he moves, again.

Part 2 chat?!?!?

[nellielsss]

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ Tσʝι'ʂ Bιɾƚԋԃαყ… αɳԃ ƚԋҽ Nҽɯ Yҽαr!

Summary: it's your man's birthday--and the new year! What better to reign in the new year by celebrating both? And at a festival no less! Ft: Toji Zen'in/Fushiguro CW: mentions of child abuse (pertaining to Toji) Note: two fics in the span of a week?! How amazing is that! Also I can't believe 2025 is already gonna be this week!!! Happy birthday to my #1 man everybody ☺️ Also this isn't proofread since I wanted to get it out before I'd be too busy to finish it in time, so there might be grammatical errors!!

To be quite honest, the New Year was yet another one of those holidays that Toji didn't give a shit about. Christmas, New Year's, Golden Week... none of those were anything memorable to Toji growing up. Why would he care when he had more important things to care about, like getting out of his shitty family and his shitty living situation? Why buy presents for people when he had nobody to buy said presents for and could just spend the money on horse racing instead? It was a no brainer for him, obviously. Just get through the week, swallow all those stupid "Happy New Year!"s from the stupid drunkards passing him by, and get on with his day.

And what was so special about the new year? The earth passed around the sun for another year--so fucking what? Everybody dies in the end anyway. People should loathe there being another year, because it means one year closer to death. January was also a shitty month on its own, so there was that.

There was also the fact that it was his birthday.

The painful reminder that he was put on this earth 20-something years ago, that his parents were stupid enough to not wear a condom or pull out that resulted in him being born into this equally stupid world. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid--all of this was so stupid. His birthday, the new year... he really couldn't give a shit.

But that didn't mean you couldn't care about both things!

The way you saw it, it was another year on this earth where the sun didn't explode and there wasn't a nuclear war that destroyed everything; and Toji's birthday meant that he had another year to look forward to being alive. That was just the kind of person you were: uplifting, vibrant, and always seeing the good in everybody and everything, especially your boyfriend.

(You didn't actually see the good in everyone; that was just a figure of speech. Plus, your boyfriend had a lot of good to see!)

This means that, for the past 2 years you've been together, you've gone all out for both holidays, dragging him to holiday festivals and making a day out of his special day, buying him presents when he didn't feel worthy of receiving such thoughtful items.

He's never even had a present from someone who wasn't his handler, and that's because he was contracted to him. All he's received is beatings and hateful words from his family, who made sure to make a nightmare out of what was supposed to be his special day. So, it didn't strike you as surprising when he cried his eyes out when he got his first present, but all of that was another story for another day.

So, here you were, putting on Toji's special black haori that you bought for him on one special day. It went perfectly with the dark green kimono that went perfectly with his dark green eyes. "Don't you look handsome, handsome," you mused, smoothing out the dark fabric.

He rolled his eyes and tried to play the compliment off. "Yeah, yeah, I'm not much of a fan of this kinda stuff anyway. 'Much prefer the sweats and tee I always got on."

"The ones you end up ripping while out on your job?" You teased, poking his chest with a long, manicured nail. "I can't have my boyfriend running around in rags. What kind of girlfriend would I be if I did, hmm?"

Toji snorted in response. "Hey, sweets, I'm the boyfriend here. Aren't I supposed to be the responsible one, spoiling you instead?"

"I guess I'm a fan of both," you shrugged earnestly. You stepped back after his haori was put on, and you went to look at yourself in the mirror with a big, confident smile on your face. The pink flowers on your red kimono went perfectly with all the little hairpins on your head, and the geta sandals you wore almost made you tall enough to not be dwarfed by the hulk of a man that your boyfriend was.

While admiring yourself in the mirror, Toji approached behind you and wrapped his massive arms around your waist, pressing a kiss to the top of your head. "'N I'm a fan of you, sugar," he grinned with earnestness. "This color, especially. And all those cute little flowers you got in that hair of 'yers."

"Don't mess up my hair, Toji," you chastised him when he tried to play with the little pins. "One wrong move, and your 'sugar' won't be so sweet anymore."

He chuckled, shook his head, and walked away from you. "Right, right. Wouldn't want that happenin' anytime soon." He grabbed your purse and handed it to you, then wrapped the fur collar you had laid out around your neck. "And I wouldn't want you to catch a cold, either."

"Why, thank you, handsome," you giggled softly. "You ready to go?"

"Always if it involves you." He took your hand in his much larger one, pressed a kiss to the back of it, and led you out of the closet and the house.

Said festival that you dragged him to was just as amazing as always. The minute you got there, you dragged him to the first stand that you saw and played a game of ball toss (which he let you win, obviously; you didn't stand a chance at beating his assassin aim, and he'd much rather see you win than him), ate some takoyaki, and ran around doing whatever you two wanted to do.

"Let's go play that game next!" Was what you always said after every last game, dragging him around by the wrist with an unseen strength.

"Make sure my hand doesn't get yanked off first, doll," he chuckled simply.

At the dart toss, he decided to show off for you a little bit. What was the fun in simply rolling over belly-up when he can A. flex his biceps and B. show off his aim? He'd trained it for so long, so why not show off a bit? Each dart hit the bullseye, and he won you a giant New Year's special Hello Kitty plushie.

Which he ended up holding for you. You weren't lifting a finger, not while he was around.

Each game, each food stand, each little thing the both of you did only made the night more & more fun. He could definitely get used to celebrating his birthday and the New Year by playing silly little games and eating little delicacies here and there.

"Here, try this one!" You held up a bit of squid for him to try, and you fed it to him with your chopsticks. "Aren't you just the cutest little thing with your mouth stuffed, hmm?"

He narrowed his eyes at you with the food in his mouth and tried to say "shut yer trap" but instead sounded like he was muttering gibberish, resulting in you simply laughing and hugging him quickly.

Around you, the snow began to fall a bit more amidst the glow of the New Years lanterns, and all the little kids started to cheer for the specks of white snowflakes. Now, Toji wasn't a man who was hung up on the idea of starting a family, but it felt like a glimpse into the future that the two of you were going to build.

He didn't even feel worthy of having kids or a happy life in the first place. All those years of trauma, of being hit like a hurt dog & called a shit-stain on this earth had taken root in his brain, and digging them out felt like a job for an expert gardener (of which he was nothing of the sort), but with you, the light of his life, the angel of his salvation...

"Toji!"

You snapped him out of his little thought tangent and smiled at him. "Come, I wanna give you a present."

He grinned cheekily and let you lead him to a secluded area. "Oh? You finally gonna gimme that kiss you've been dangling over my head for so long?"

"Get your mind out of the gutter, handsome," you chided with a little giggle. "It's something much more special than a simple kiss. Besides, haven't I given you enough kisses for the day?"

"Have some sympathy for the birthday boy, dollie," he said while clutching his chest dramatically.

You turned to the side, taking something out of the purse you'd brought with you. "I made this just for you, Toji." You handed him a little book and waited with an expectant smile on your face.

"Y'know I don't read much, sweets- ow!" He didn't anticipate the little flick of the forehead he received for that comment.

"Just open it already," you pouted impatiently.

It was a small book with a thick cover & back--more cover than book if anything, so this was definitely not an ordinary book. Turning the book open, his eyes lit up when he saw the little pop-up that came out of the pages.

In the little pop-up book, there were photos of you together ordered by date and event. There was the first time you met, your first official date, the milestones you'd completed as a couple...

In the back of the book was a small note that contained your elegant handwriting and read:

"Dear Toji, dear my future husband, dear the best thing that's ever happened to me! I'm not very good with words, but to put it simply: I am so incredibly grateful to be your sweetheart. To think that we're already celebrating your birthday again (and yet another new year!) is mind-boggling, to say the least. Time really does flow by when you're with the people you love. Your strength, your resilience, your self-confidence and willingness to grow and change despite all that's happened to you is an inspiration, and I find myself growing and changing along with you. Happy birthday, and happy new year!! Love, your sweetheart."

He didn't even notice the tears that were streaming down his face until the paper got noticeably wetter. He put his hand over his mouth to stop himself from sobbing, and he shakily closed the book. "Dollie, this is..."

"Hey, hey, big guy," you comforted him carefully, knowing how emotional he got sometimes. "It's okay to cry, y'know. It's okay to cry around me."

You encircled your arms around him and let him crush you in turn with his much larger ones, and you let him cry into your hair.

"This is... the b-best gift I've ever gotten," he admitted, muffled by the strands of your hair. "Thank you... thank you, thank you, thank you. I love you so fuckin' much, I don't know what to do with myself sometimes."

"It's alright, you don't need to know what to do all the time," you reassured him, looking up at him when he pulled away from your hair. "You just need to know that it's okay to let others take the wheel, yeah?"

He nodded, wiping his tears with the back of his sleeve. "Got me cryin' like a little bitch here," he said, chuckling chokingly.

"And you're not a little bitch," you reminded him by flicking his forehead. "You're Toji, my Toji. No amount of tears will ever change that."

"Aye aye, dollie," he joked, even saluting you.

You simply raised an eyebrow and snorted. "C'mon, let's go write our wish for the New Year before the clock strikes twelve, 'kay?"

At the shrine in the center of the festival, the two of you took two things of paper and went to the shrine. You both turned from each other to keep things a secret, although it's not much of a secret when you both wrote "a happy life with my future wife/husband" on your papers.

Once written, you both hung them up and walked away from the shrine. "So, what'dya write, dollie?" He asked, wrapping his arm around your waist.

"It defeats the purpose if I tell you what I wrote, genius," you retorted (with another sassy look from your end).

"Guess you're right," he shrugged. He pulled back his kimono sleeve to eye the time, and he realized it was already 11:52 and the new year was about to arrive sooner than he'd expected. "Shit, guess it's gonna be 2025 real soon, ain't that right?"

"Time flies when you're having fun with your man," you giggled cheekily.

He reached around and smacked your ass real quick after you said that. "And ain't that right as well," he replied with an equally cheeky grin.

As the minutes ticked by, you thought about how incredibly blessed you were to have each other in your life. You'd started and were about to end the year with each other, at the same festival that you'd attended last year. He used to hate sameness and repetition, always searching for something to spice things up...

But he didn't need to search for anything when he had you.

Turns out, the only thing he needed to spice up his life was someone who could give him the stability he so desperately craved and needed to survive.

He was so used to turbulence, to not getting a day nor night's rest, that he'd forgotten to stop and smell the roses.

"Five, four, three, two, one!" Those numbers caught him off guard, but he didn't have to worry when you kissed him right as the new year rang in.

"Happy New Year!"

© nellielsss on tumblr - get your own shit bitches | ca. 12/31/2024

[dedexo]

Time Skip Kenma x Fem! Reader

One Shot

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Today is Bouncing Ball Corp.'s 5th anniversary. To celebrate the company is throwing a huge fancy party and people from partnering companies are attending. Kenma isn't a fan of parties but must attend as the CEO. He told himself that he would just go, say a few words, talk to a few of his business partners, and then dip. You were supposed to be by his side the whole time but unfortunately, you were at your parents' house for the weekend and won't arrive home until a little after the party started. You told him that he should just go and you'd meet him at the party. He reluctantly agreed and went on his way.

You were kinda excited to go to this party even if it's just for a little while. You haven't dressed up in a while so this was the perfect opportunity to wear that new dress you bought. It was a silky red sleeveless dress that hugged your shape perfectly and showed a little bit of cleavage. You couldn't wait to see Kenma’s reaction so you hurriedly put on your dress, threw on a pair of ear heels, earrings, and a neckless that Kenma got for your birthday.

When you arrived at the venue the first thing you did was scout out your boyfriend. You looked around for a couple of minutes when you bumped into Kuroo.

“Woah there watch where you going…” He said with a slight smile on his face. “Looking for something?”

“Yeah I'm looking for Kenma, have you seen him anywhere?” you asked impatiently.

“Ohh yeahhh about that….” He pointed towards Kenma.

He was talking to a lady, or more like that lady was trying to talk to him. It was obvious that she was trying to flirt with him. Your blood boiled at the thought.

Kenma prefers to keep the relationship private so not many people know that he's taken, only his close friends and family. Because of this when you guys go to events like this you try to limit physical contact so as not to raise suspicions.

You decided to ignore the anger rising in you and wait until the conversation was finished before approaching him. That was until the lady started getting handsy with Kenma. Touching his arms and slightly rubbing him up and down. Kenma was obviously uncomfortable with this but before he could do anything he felt someone rub his back.

“Heyyy sweetie..” You pull him in by the neck for a hug and kissed him on the cheek, making sure that the lady in front of him could see. “Sorry I'm late, traffic was crazy, who’s this?” You ask in a slightly disgusted tone.

Kenma was shocked because of what you did, slightly turned on because of how good you looked in that dress, and relieved that you're here now. “This is just my colleague.” he said with a flat tone. “Please excuse me.” He said to his colleague as he grabbed your arm and pulled you away.

“Hey where are we going!” He’s walking fast and you're trying to match his pace as he pulls you.

“Home.”

“Are you mad at me?”

“Not really, its time people found out about us anyway. I'm tired of people trying to flirt with me.”

“Wait so this isn't the first time?!”

“Uhhh don't worry about that, let's just go home. I rather be in bed with you than here.”

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Bonus

Kuroo: Where the hell did they go???

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This is my first time writing a fic, hope it's not too bad

[bogos-bint3d]

Messin around w/ perseverance stuff

[deoidesign]

Btw just want to be clear that Time and Time Again is set to, and will if I don't pause, conclude in May 2025!

Webtoon didn't want to renew or give me any extra episodes so I'm trying to work with what I have. I'm sorry it's ending sooner than I'd like, it's been difficult to come to terms with and challenging to condense my plans.

You deserve a solid conclusion, and I've spent months writing to try and reach that. If there's anything you'd really like to see before it ends, do let me know in case I can (and want to) fit it in.

I'd rather not work with them again, and I hope I won't have to! But coming off of years being overworked and underpaid does not make that easy, to say the least...

I'm doing my best, and I hope you like what I have coming up.

[nellasbookplanet]

I recently started reading (and ended up dropping partway through) an m/m retelling of an old legend, and it made me think of this reoccurring thing I've come across a handful of times now in m/m fiction and how they approach women, equality, and world-building.

Let's call it the omegaverse problem, because that's where it seems the most blatant (I've only come across it twice outside of fandom spaces that I can remember). Basically, it's when the writer looks at the unequal and sometimes oppressive roles women serve in society (today and historically), and goes 'this is a good basis for dark romance but there are too many women here' and then just. plops men into the roles traditionally served by women and recreates heteronormative tropes but They're All Men Now, none of those icky women.

Now, completely removing any and all gender based inequality isn't a bad basis for a queer-inclusive fantasy! But thing is, this type of narrative isn't interested in women, so they often read as if women have mysteriously disappeared from society (except for the occassional mom or sister). They don’t bother to include women in traditionally male areas (the book I dropped had plenty of male courtesans, with diplomats and bodyguards and advisors also being male) nor to create new roles for them.

They also generally don’t bother to look critically at the systemic and societal inequalities they're mimicking. The concept 'typically sexist society but they're all men (or all women)' could be used to alienate and deconstruct our ideas of what’s 'normal' and what’s oppressive, a way to compare the intersections of class and gender. Instead, this kind of story is only interested in using inequality as inter-character conflict and set-up for romance. And it sucks.

[ruvviks]

finally finished this piece of my three new d&d characters!! click for better quality as always :] shivani "juniper" nightingale is a faun from the feywild and a great old one warlock of vashna, a hag from primordial times. she travels the material plane with an insatiable hunger for knowledge, as she seeks to understand how the feywild as mirror plane works and how it came to exist in the first place artem "hindsight" kaithos is a tiefling hailing from the frozen shore and a gunslinger fighter. carrying the gun of his deceased father, he has left his home for good to try and find his place in a world he believes he does not belong in erytheia zephyrine is an air genasi from ridgewater and a grave domain cleric of the tidemother. having left home at a young age to travel the world and broaden her horizons, she meets the rest of the party at a tournament in kuya springs, kharfaldir kingdom, where they team up to figure out who's behind the distribution of a magic-infused drug that turns creatures into a bloodthirsty, feral version of their former selves

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[wyvernity]

sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH

bonus

[120percents]

i just think it’s so funny that zoro does not even wanna comment on the usokaya situation when usopp explicitly asks and he very pointedly looks away when they kiss and yet he proceeds to butt in every single time sanji flirts with a woman or implies he knows about romance to redirect attention back on himself like god i wonder where your interests lie…

[p0rk-guts]

Ah yes I love finding frankie

[cent-scratchnsniff]

doodle i made when talking about lobcorp to people. i dont think they see me the same anymore after playing lobcorp and rambling about it

[ayoyoungg]

Maybe it’s too early for me to say this (I’m only on ep 3), but I’ve already seen people online saying that Jentry should be with Kit or Stella instead of Michael and it’s giving…😒

[waitineedaname]

hiiii lily what is this ‘orv’ i have been seeing…..

HIIII MIKE. SMILES. orv is Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint! it's a webnovel with an ongoing webtoon adaption and it is making me Fucking Crazy. basically the premise there's this really unpopular really long webnovel called Three Ways to Survive an Apocalypse, and for years, Kim Dokja has been the only reader. when the novel finally ends, the author sends him an email with the txt file of the whole novel, and then suddenly the novel is wiped from the internet and in that instant, the events of the novel begin taking place in Kim Dokja's world. the apocalypse begins and humanity is subjected to cruel scenarios and challenges livestreamed for the entertainment of these powerful entities called constellations, and as the only one who read the story to its end, Kim Dokja is the only one fully equipped with knowledge of how this story goes (or at least, how it originally went)

it is SO good. it lures you in like "ooh this is a normal reverse isekai" and then ends up being CRAZY. it deals with questions about the boundary between characters and Real People and whether that distinction really matters, and it's one of those stories that looks the audience dead in the eye and dares you to look away first. literary devices are made Real (oh fourth wall we're really in it now...) and it plays with narrative voice and pov and unreliable narration in such fun ways. it is ultimately about the value of stories and the value of being a reader and the choice to wrestle with the story that's been written for you in favor of the story you really want to tell. it's also about Kim Dokja having something Deeply Wrong With Him skdlfjlksdjf the journey i went on with him was "okay he's a reader insert who reads novels as escapism, i get it" -> "oh actually he has something wrong with him" -> "oh he has something Wrong With Him" -> "WHAT. WHAT THE FUCK. HELLO. WHAT WAS THAT." I'm obsessed with him.

I read the webtoon first which I think is a pretty effective onboarding point! some of the art had my jaw on the FLOOR it's so cool. the webtoon has adapted roughly the first third of the whole novel so far, and if you want to read the novel just dm me and I'll hit you up with the epub file lol (not just mike but anyone who is interested!)

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Never seen a homoerotic rivalry I wouldn’t ship.