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missing orv so bad. im going through such hard art block right now. so i cant even draw theses mfs. if art block was a person i can assure you i would become a murderer real quick.
#ignore the fact that i have access to orv art#and the orv novel#it hurts too much to go and reread it#and it makes me sad seeing the fanart#i just miss kdj#i miss him struggling to be a better person and accept himself#i miss yjh...#hsy my one true love..#yoosangah the women you are#i wish you could make me coffee#orv#kim dokja
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You'll forget me, but that's alright
#Hatching is fun until you realise it's 5am and you can't just take your time enjoying the process#I miss shin yoosung..#omniscient readers viewpoint#orv#omniscient reader#omniscient reader fanart#orv fanart#orv spoilers#kim dokja#kdj#Shin yoosung#41st round shin yoosung#Disaster of floods#Biyoo#crit's art: orv
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#happy birthday freak#u better b greatful i didnt miss it for the 3rd year in a row#kim dokja#orv#omniscient reader's viewpoint#omniscient reader’s viewpoint#my art#solar-drawss#i was gonna hand draw the bg but i . couldnt finish that in 2 days so its just a stock photo filtered to hell and back#didnt turn out all that bad atleast !#kinda wish i made it clearer that hes running tho#and i think tumblr severely fucked up the quality as per usual#really wanted to make kdj the clearest and the train all pixelly but idk if it ended up looking right#its fine i had to rush it in 2 days#just dont look to closely at Anything#i missed drawing kdj....
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#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#orv spoilers#kdj#sys#lgy#hsy#yjh#yoohan#art tag#digital#ink#pencil#you know joker's pants from persona? that's what i like to put yjh in if i ever drew his whole body#which i never do#i think yoohan should think of each other 'you're just like me' 'you disgust me because of that' 'you're like him' 'you're not enough like#him' 'he is like me' 'he's nothing like you'#fragments of the same existence struggling to recognize themselves. each other.#desperately clinging to something that is almost-just-right and hating it for not being a perfect fit#not to say that everything would be resolved if kim dokja is made aware of their feelings and reciprocates#there will always be a part missing#a part that chafes#but even if nothing works out. even if the pieces can't reconnect perfectly or at all#they keep calling out and leaving pieces of themselves in each other
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just a costume... right? 👻🦇🌙
#rizdoodads#orv#good 4 am i have a dentist appt to leave for at 7#yoohankim#JUST REALIZED I DIDNT COLOR THE RED IN KDJS SEPERATED HAND GRAAAAAHHEHHHFGGGHHH RAWRRRR WHATEVER also yjhs piercings but that was on purpos#adding commentary#maybe I should have based hsys look off of dracularas because if it's not obvious KQBQKAJAKA I HAD A REF OF CLAWDEEN WOLF ON MY SIDE FOR YJ#whateverrr missed opportunity sighing looks away into the distance#JUST ALSO REALIZED I DIDNT COLOR I HSYS OTHER NAILS ARGH. see I was lazy to polish this. but some bits.. I was not being lazy on purpose for#JUST ALSO ALSO REALIZED?!? WHERE THE FUCK DID KDJS EYEBAGS GO HELP MEEEEE#good lord.#NOT STARING AT THIS PIECE ANYMORE WHATEVER
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i wanna stab myself in the chest 57 times
#yoohankim#han sooyoung#kim dokja#yoo joonghyuk#hsy#kdj#yjh#AGAIUGRHAEJFEKJREHAHUIAWE WUHRWARE REHEEEHEE#GRAHHHHHH#AAAGGHHGHGHGHH#HGHRUGHRUHEUEGHHH#ERRRREWHAURHEW#and then they all kissed each other right after#im so mad that its not physically possible for all three of them to smooch each other on the lips at the same time#anyway#that little doodle in the corner was just drawn for fun but i decided im making it my watermark now#what tags am i missing#OH#OMNISCIENT READERS VIEWPOINT#ORV#ORV FANART#OMNISCIENT READERS VIEWPOINT FANART#im losing my mind#my art#guys ignore yjhs hand i know i drew it wrong dont say anything
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tried filling out the jomeimei twitter yhk art alignment charts and was so surprised at how much i managed to fill that im just posting them here too (???)
#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#yoohankim#kim dokja#yoo joonghyuk#han sooyoung#art i made#fuckin. love how hsy and yjh are both just completely missing one (1) quadrant#the hsy animatic thing is for real btw like its epilogue yhk but its very doksoo/hsy centric just by virtue of#i wanted to make up for hsy's lack of screentime in my last animatic SKJDHFKJHD#like for kdj and yjh i can cheat by recycling animatic frames i liked but i couldnt even find a competent enough one of hsy TAT#actually surprised by how little yjh drawings i managed to scrape up for this i think i just shitpost about him less often#that kdj spotlight art has now been upgraded from 'lighting study i knocked out in like 1.5 hours' to my new phone wallpaper sdkjfhksdjfh
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So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>
Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).
It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.
I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:
The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.
"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.
The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.
But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.
Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.
I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.
That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.
TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.
#sss class revival hunter#kim gongja#ssscrh#I s2g I rewrite these like three times to be as short as possible#I just knew I had to define some terms because if I say 'it's about suffering' and leave it at that#people aren't going to fully get it#its not intuitive from a western perspective#It's really hard to get the full meaning of SSSCRH if you have no familiarity with Buddhism#bc suffering (and delusion and nothingness and oneness) mean diff things in buddhism than in english#theres other buddhist stuff like responsibility to the whole and the community but this was long enough already#the few ppl talking about it have good takes but I think ppl miss how#kgj isnt depressed and he doesnt kill himself from self-sacrifice#he's not kdj or cale#he only truly commits suicide (throws his life away) once which was from part percieved worthlessness of his own life#and big part EXTREME FUCKING PETTINESS NEXT LVL PETTINESS INSANE PETTINESS#every other time he kills himself is from his EXTREME goal oriented behavior#as usual there seems to be a dialogue with the rest of its genre#specifically the extreme egocentrism and selfishness of its genre and other OP protags#(which cale has a hilarious relationship w/)#(ur doing amazing honey i know this upsets you)#my asks#and theres also a conversation with buddhism itself anyway#i love orv but this is so much better on so many levels and its being slept on smh#nobody is going to read this its way too long but you know. its not ABOUT you.
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As the roar continued on, the 'King of the Underworld' addressed me. [Now, go.] Hades didn't even look at me when he said that. Even though he didn't, he was still looking at me. He had always been looking at me. [< Underworld > is your ally from this moment on.]
Yesssss. Such an epic scene.
But, more importantly, we've cemented the fact that not only have Hades and Persephone been watching him from basically his first moments, it was Hades who first found him (everyone did say that Hades liked Dokja even if he doesn't say much) and that Dokja was actually prophesied to come hundreds of years ago.
Which I think is interesting because them receiving a prophecy specifically about their successor finding the end isn't quite the same as when Dionysus said that the end was prophesied to come.
Aside from this particular prophecy, we haven't really seen anything else in the entire Star Stream that can see any information about Dokja, including his future, except for maybe Anna Croft who may or may not be able to see it. (Upon reflection, I've started to wonder if maybe she could just see it at that time due to how thin the Fourth Wall was on the island? I guess we'll see.)
Of course, that's only if it turns out Dokja actually is the one in the prophecy.
Maybe it's just vague enough to not technically be about Dokja and so there was wiggle room to make it about Dokja since they are, ultimately, the ones to choose their successor?
Except they don't actually want Dokja to succeed them.
Hmmm.
Also, it makes sense why Persephone and Dionysus were immediately so warm to him and Dokja himself has thought back on certain events (when talking to Dionysus back in chapter 334) and realized that maybe he'd gotten a little lucky.
Or, at least he was almost lucky. Dokja did specifically mention the Even Bridge in the very beginning of the novel and how it just randomly appeared when they were in trouble and we all know how that turned out...
#it's actually cool because back then I thought the bridge was from Olympus for Sangah when in reality it was for Dokja#also I love Dokja being all 'why are you helping me I came here to trick you' and Persephone and Hades just continue to be gentle parents#whether or not you're their successor they've decided you're their son and proper parents help their sons dokja#especially when the consequence for you failing is death#awww but I do love Dokja's ACTUAL mother talking about how Dokja is doing with Persephone--if he's eating enough if he's sleeping etc#I want that missing scene so much lol#orv novel chapter 389#orv#orv spoilers#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv liveblog#kdj#persephone#hades
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finally finished orv after two years . . . what do i do with my life now
#started in junior year hs dropped it for a while then started reading again at the start of this semester and now im finally done !#dont know whether to cheer or just crumple up and start crying bc wow that was a ride#i thought the ending was tragic but then i moved on to the epilogue and oh my godd#the way kdj was crying and miserable bc he missed his companions and he wanted to be with them so Badly#but when kimcom finally Finally chase him down and come back to him theyre too late and hes already disspitated into other world lines#and after that like. whenever kdj pulls some shit and dies the next chapter always starts with an ‘i’#and hes back and alive and kicking and Thinking but after that epilogue chapter there isnt a chapter in his pov theres no more ‘i’s and.#it just made me incredibly sad bc we dont get to see his pov ever again bc hes truly gone unless we as a reader can imagine him alive again#anyways sad things aside it is Incredibly funny that lee hyunsung just became a wanted man in the 1865th round lmaoo#+ uriel sun wukong and black flame dragon forming a band together ??? truly the most randomest thing in the epilogue#++ yoohankim need to stop beating the shit out of e/o and learn to talk their feelings out Please#+++ sooyoung’s love for dokja has me miserable o-|-< she would wait for him an eternity write for him an eternity im so sad#three times she endlessly wrote a novel for him to read three times she waited to see him for so long <//3#you bet im imagining the happiest conclusion i can for them#they WILL live happily ever after in that big house together as long as i have something to say about it!#orv
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i miss kim dokja
#actually everyday i miss him#it's just worse today#id prob spam him with messages too if i can#yeah i get it now yjh...#orv#kdj#kim dokja
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Kim Dokja sketch :'>
I am very thankful to liquify pen 🤧
#i cant draw wings#i'm not a patient person for details#and it's just a sketch bc i havent done it in a while#kim dokja#i miss u man#omniscient reader's viewpoint#demon king of salvation#orv kdj
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thinking of another sparkle on merch idea
#txt#MY IRL JUST SEND ME SPARKLE GONE LAST NIGHT#I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YHK AS ON OFF N GAWN#but i alr made a sparkle on kdj sticker#but my big idea is that these would be in my normal style (not my chibi n simplified style)#and they'd be in a shitty square ratio sticker#deliberately bad sticker ideas#i need to make these when i have the time#dear god please give me strength#i am not ur strongest soldier (has been overworked this entire year bc of uni)#sorry to all new followers who expect me to churn out art eveey other week#I am a college student struggling to pass their classes LMAO#obligatory -> i miss my wife kazunari miyoshi
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i dont think there ever should have been a face for kdj past the first cover or two.... it just doesnt seem right seeing him in all these illustrations
#DONT GET ME WRONG THO THEYRE GORGEOUS#just like. it just seems wrong. hes too conventionally attractive#orv#i miss when the only cover we had to go off of was the one of just yjh and kdj#idk having that be the only picture of them#made their appearances really just feel like CONCEPTS that the artist was hired to draft or suggest#i liked it like that.... i cant figure out how to word this actually come back in a few business days#kim dokja#koi talk
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Follow up to this post brought to you by @forgetme-eternally-blissfully, in fanfic snippet format because I gave up on drawing the comic (the fanfic was supposed to be a comic draft but I added too many details)
Kim Dokja lays on the ground among the rubble of a ruined building. He twitches a little before his eyes open. The world is blurry. In the distance, he can see a dark blur fluttering around his surroundings. As his vision comes into focus, he can recognize Yoo Joonghyuk searching through the debris.
A sharp pain coming from his side causes Kim Dokja to let out a groan as he struggles to push himself up to a sitting position. The sound catches Yoo Joonghyuk's attention and immediately he starts making a beeline in Kim Dokja's direction.
As Yoo Joonghyuk approaches, Kim Dokja takes note of Yoo Joonghyuk's tattered coat, his bloodstained body, the wounds on his face, hands, legs. None too serious though some deep enough to inevitably leave scars later.
Yoo Joonghyuk is getting closer, kneeling down, reaching his hand out towards Kim Dokja's face, making a move to pull Kim Dokja in when Kim Dokja decides to open his mouth.
"You're not losing your balance and having trouble standing are you? I'm not going to carry you on my back this time."
"Shut up," is all Yoo Joonghyuk says as he wraps his arms around Kim Dokja's shoulders. His grip is tight, one hand on the back of Kim Dokja's head, the other circled around his upper back.
There is a gash in Kim Dokja's side that throbs with pain. Blood loss has his head spinning and his vision blurring again. From where his face is pressed into Yoo Joonghyuk's shoulder, Kim Dokja can smell blood, sweat, smoke. Buildings continue to crumple in the background and the sound of something falling pitters in his ears. His hands tense and untense, relax and remain by his sides.
Kim Dokja lets out a breath and leans into Yoo Joonghyuk, just slightly. Just enough so that Yoo Joonghyuk can tighten his hold by a hair.
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Author's notes (what would normally be my image caption):
I said in the referenced post that Kim Dokja has no trouble reciprocating affection once someone else initiates, but I think Yoo Joonghyuk is the exception. Always exceptional, that one. At least during the Scenarios.
Kim Dokja can read his movements, see what Yoo Joonghyuk is aiming to do, can read his mind, dammit. But he can't comprehend his actions. Yoo Joonghyuk acting in a way that Kim Dokja doesn't know about is something that happens more and more often as time goes on, and serves as a reminder of the wall that exists between a protagonist and a reader, but also the wall that exists between two normal people. Because at this moment, Kim Dokja is still struggling to see Yoo Joonghyuk as his own person instead of a protagonist or a 1863x-regressor-to-be. He's blinded by what he knows and has seen in his own past, which he assumes will be Yoo Joonghyuk's future. When he looks at him, does he see those ghosts of the future flickering superimposed over the shape of the man before him? This is the sort of wall that exists between them.
So when Yoo Joonghyuk acts outside of Kim Dokja's expectations, Kim Dokja tries to push them back on course with banter. "Yoo Joonghyuk is getting closer, kneeling down, reaching his hand out towards Kim Dokja's face, making a move to pull Kim Dokja in-" Kim Dokja sees all of this, takes note of all of this, knows what's to come of it. Doesn't understand it one bit. He's not oblivious. It's more like, "Why? Why me? Why would someone feel this way about and want to do these things with me?" He KNOWS the effect he has on people. He intentionally calculates how much he interacts with Jung Heewon and Lee Hyunsung to ensure their loyalty towards him in the early scenarios (not so much so after like Scenario 5-ish so we're talking early-early scenarios. After that point he more supports them in the direction they want to go (when that direction is the direction he already wanted them to go anyways. something something picking teammates because he knew they were already loyal and righteous by nature, nurturing them so that they would be able to carry out their justice no matter the adversary. He chose them because he knew they were loyal and strong, but they weren't loyal or strong at the time. But they would be in the future. But they wouldn't have been without him. But in another time where he didn't exist they were strong anyways see this is how he is able to have ultimate faith in his party members and know the kind of support he has given them while still being unable to recognize his own value in the grand scheme of things. Because they would have been fine without him, he's SEEN it. This is another wall between him and other people, another future ghost)). So he knows how much influence he has in other peoples' lives. But he values himself so little that he is blind to the emotional, sentimental weight he has to these people. No matter how much he knows he's done for them, he won't see himself as worthy of genuine praise or recognition, affection, love.
So this lack of self recognition extends to his perception of all of his companions, but especially so to Yoo Joonghyuk. Yoo Joonghyuk is probably the person whom Kim Dokja is the most strict about characterization with. Kim Dokja knows him the best, it's true, but he also doesn't know a damn thing about him as a person instead of a character and that makes him feel a certain way. Vulnerable, I think. Lonely. That childish feeling of betrayal when the characters walk off the page without him. There are sides to people and characters that you will never know simply because they weren't observed. And there are sides of people that you have no right to know. It is by becoming a person instead of a reader that you must abide by those rules and give up omniscience. Part of being a person and recognizing another's personhood is to willingly not know everything about them.
Anyways. He's not there yet. Not by Hug Attempt #2. This was supposed to have 3 parts with the last one set after the epilogue but we'll see if I ever get to it.
#I AM A FOOL.#I thought posting the snippet would be easier for me but instead I ended up going on a long ramble in the author's notes.#so uh yeah enjoy your 300 words of fic and 700 words of meta#orv#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv spoilers#writing tag#reading tag#btw. did u kno. did you know this whole 'kdj misses the hug cue' idea all began because. becaus e i missd a hug cue. again.#thats right#on several occasions people have t-posed at me and i just gave them the polite smile#they gotta be like 'im giving you a hug!' for me to get it#then i was like huh sounds like something kdj would do and i like bullying yjh
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if the orv webtoon doesn’t do dark castle justice i’m going to be so upset. that arc is so important to me
#it’s not even my favorite arc. but idk it’s definitely like a kind of turning point#i’m not too aware of the new novel changes so idk what’ll happen with that. but also just that arc in general has such a specific tone#i need to get caught up with it#im not missing kdj joyriding through purgatory while all his friends fight for their lives#snails orvposting#i don’t think it’ll be bad or anything. making that clear. love the orv webtoon it’s gorgeous#but i am worried the feeling in it might get lost somehow
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