#massive orv spoilers

[almond-tofu-chan]

i want to do unspeakable things to him vs. i want him to do unspeakable things to me

[almond-tofu-chan]

I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD THIS IS IT THIS IS THE BOOK

omniscient reader is about a woman being sad about her boy bestie being depressed and making him a custom built boyfriend.

[rusquared]

you 🫵 tumblr user who has read all of orv 🫵 if you have not yet, go read what the living do by marie howe. then go read the orv fic of the same title by younglegends.

[lialox]

999th turn Uriel's true form has a mass of tentacles that bunch up into a wing-like shape.

Eldritch horror + archangel vibes

[ravs6709]

I finished orv 30 seconds ago and I think I might go a bit insane

Hi are you okay

[lifeof-pink]

your MIND

need orv fics where biyoo is dokja’s teenage daughter instead of his dog, no hate to the dog!biyoo trope i just think it would be funny if biyoo was his prodigy kid who may or may not be the leader of a secret govt spy surveillance organization and he’s just some office worker who has to deal with her antics

[walmart-miku]

ORV rereading liveblog chapters: 5-6 (beginning of episode 2)

Warning: This post contains MAJOR spoilers under the cut, proceed with caution if that's not your thing (I'm talking massive spoilers here, things that get revealed near or at the end of orv)

Orv and flipping roles example 1

Shut up Kim Dokja and thank you for living

WARNING SPOILERS

*breathes in* Lee Gilyoung my bby boy. Kim Dokja you're soon going to learn that Lee Gilyoung was passive not only because he was afraid but also because he didn't care what happened to his "mom" (*cough cough* his aunt *cough cough*)

WHEN THE PARALLELS PARALLEL

I think Kim Dokja just sees himself in Lee Gilyoung here because of the ✨️traumatic experience of watching a person die in front of you (whose death you may or may not have caused by either actively killing them or just letting them die)✨️ :D

But like seriously. I love how on some subconscious level Kim Dokja saw his small little self (who was prob around Lee Gilyoung's age) that had just killed his father and decided that he would not let the kid go through it alone like he did.

O U G H WHEN THE PARALLELS PARALLEL (if yknow yknow)

[almond-tofu-chan]

kim dokja killed both of his fathers he blames himself for both of their deaths they were both his fault

[anthyies]

esha i have a request. what is orv about? give me a sales pitch tell me why you are so bonkers insane about it ♥

HIII RIMI 🥹 Um. It’s a 551 chapter long webnovel. actually i’m just gonna link this post because im kind of massively bad at explaining it. it’s like. what if you were just some guy* who was the only reader of this very long kinda shitty webnovel, and as you read the last chapter the supernatural apocalyptic events in the novel start to happen in real life. and also, crucially, the protagonist of the novel time loops after his death, and when the reverse isekai happens, it’s ostensibly his third time loop. this is the basic premise. the thing about orv is it’s kind of difficult to explain why i love it without massive spoilers. but essentially it’s about the bond between the reader and the protagonist and the writer. it’s about loving a story it’s about stories being people and people being stories it’s three layers of narratives wrapped in a trenchcoat that is also a narrative. it has really fascinating worldbuilding that is all about the narrative/thematic purpose of things. it has a plot that just keeps escalating in stakes and never gets boring and i literally could not put it down. it has the worlds most unreliable narrator (and some really fun/devastating stuff with pov changes. it’s the omniscient reader’s viewpoint:]). it has incredible characters (and incredible women 👍 i started orv because my friend pitched jung heewon to me… it has women who wield the sword of judgement and are the king of no killing’s executioner. it has girls who meet their future self, forced into being a catastrophic harbinger of destruction. it has girls who had to kill their best friends to survive. it has women who say i guess i’ll just have to be the villain again and who do things for the people they love that are absolutely devastating to think about both selfish and incredibly selfless). it has incredible relationships between characters. it’s about there being an incommunicable wall separating you from other people but it’s still worth writing on the wall:). by the ending it has recontextualized the beginning so thoroughly you cannot be normal about it ever again. It’s good 👍

[mhaynoot]

wow, i. okay. that- huh. hit me in the gut. all over again thank you.

also *waves at all of this*:

[ORV spoilers]

yjh still searching for kdj after achieving all his wishes and "happy ending"

after discovering all the answers to his questions, after discovering his origins, who tls123 is and who kdj is too, who his sponsor is, why he regressed, and having truly and fully reached the end of the terrible story with the star stream destroyed and most constellations completely wiped out, and had even lost his regressor ability, the start of his 1864 lifetimes of tragedy

he had protected his little sister, reached the end as a human being, and all of his companions had survived and they can all live a peaceful life

and yet still, still, yjh reaches out to kdj

he spends years and years and even more years searching and trying to save that fool, scattering kdj's story to all the fragments of his one reader just for the hope and miracle and chance

he could have settled down with lsh and have tens and tens of children, looked after his sister growing up and meet up regularly with his companions as they all finally grew old together and have another perfect world like in the 0th worldline but, exactly like in the 0th worldline, yjh chooses instead to continue chasing kdj and reaching out to save that rat bastard

because they save and have saved each other, because they are and will always be "life and death companions", because yjh could not function in a world without kdj, could not simply move on in his "happy ending", had been completely dishevelled in the years following that failed 1865 group regression

yjh was not a regressor anymore and he was not a character either, he had become the editor and fellow the writer of his companion's story

and he decided to write, to continue to save him who was saved by him.

[rusquared]

doodle i found in my icloud backup <3333 they make me so ill

[lialox]

Some of the developments for this long fic I'm writing are so fucking funny I can't maintain a straight face if I accidentally think about it in public.

I'm supposed to wait months before being able to post this??

The wording? My very own unserious narration? Tailor-made to my own sense of humour? I can't--

[ravs6709]

honestlhy im probably super off but i cannot get over it. kdj being killed by the thing that made him want to live for 13 years. jesus fucking christ

That would fuck me up too lemme just say that

[charterandbarter]

I HAVE A DISCORD RANT ABOUT THIS HOLD ON (SPOILERS UNDER CUT)

I think a lot about how responsibility got used for jiyee and it helped her gain the will to live, but when Kdj used that rationale for himself he essentially axed himself from the narrative without dying outright. HNGH salvation vs redemption vs atonement vs growth and forgiveness. Many thoughts

so little kim dokja had a crush on lee jihye who killed her best friend and dokja killed You Know and not gonna lie i don't think it's something deep but the parallels in orv are really horrible

[harpieisthecarpie]

What's pathologic about? It sounds cool and I might want to get into it

okay hell yeah now is my time to shine! thank you for the ask you're giving me the excuse to ramble about my new hyperfixation to not-just-a-brick-wall (tho sorry to all my orv followers and friends for having to deal with my patho bs).

(IF YOU ARE A PATHOLOGIC GUY READING THIS: BE MY FRIEND, DM ME, I NEED PATHO FRIENDS)

Take my words with a grain of salt because I'm playing through Pathologic 2 and reading Pathologic Classic HD's transcripts right now, so I don't have the full perspective, but I should be able to explain the essentials in a way that will (hopefully) intrigue you.

Essentially, at the very bare bones, Pathologic is a psychological survival horror game where you play as one of three healers stuck in an isolated town in the Russian Steppe (in the early 1900's iirc), struggling to keep its citizens alive even as your own fragile life is in the balance. Of course, there is a LOT more, but that is the most basic of the basics.

Each of the healers has a vastly different experience with the town and relationship with its inhabitants that colors their perspective and solution to the plague, though I will try to avoid going into spoilers here. The various factions in the Town-On-Gorkhon will treat each healer differently, actively hostile to one while being pleasantly manipulative to another.

The Bachelor, also known as Daniil Dankovsky, is a pathologist and bachelor of medicine who is part of Thanatica, an institution in the City determined to defeat Death itself. He comes to the town at the behest of Isidor Burakh in order to learn from him and Simon Kain, a man the locals claim to be immortal. Daniil's precious Thanatica is under threat of being destroyed unless he can provide substantial results. Rather unfortunate that the two men were both found to be brutally murdered right before he arrives...

Daniil is an outsider to the Town and is treated as such, often being manipulated by the most powerful and belittled by the rest because of his lack of knowledge about the Town and its traditions. This leads him to becoming alienated from many of them and their culture. He can also be a massive asshole depending on how you want to play him (though each healer can) and my favorite characteristic is his habit of sprinkling Latin phrases into his speech without translating them.

The Haruspex, Artemy Burakh, is a local of the Town who was sent away by his father, Isidor Burakh, to become a surgeon. He never completed his degree, entering into the front lines instead, but he still knows how to cut people open (and fix them up). He returns to the Town after receiving a mysterious letter from his father beckoning him home. When he arrives, he is immediately jumped by three men.

Why? They were hunting down Isidor Burakh's murderer, whom people believe is Artemy himself. Patricide is a harsh charge, and Artemy soon finds himself known as the Butcher. This sends his reputation plummeting and makes his life just that much harder. Guy has shit luck, what can I say.

A fascinating element of this route is Artemy's relationship with the Kin, the native people of the Steppe, whom he is related to on his father's side. Isidor was a menkhu, a spiritual leader and healer in Kin society who is the only one allowed to cut into human flesh. Menkhu are the ones that "know the lines", essentially meaning that they see the connections between all things.Now that Isidor is dead, that honor and duty fall upon Artemy.

There's a lot of lore surrounding the Kin but I'll stop here because I will go forever if I don't.

Clara is the Changeling. At the beginning of the game, she wakes up in a grave. She can heal the dangerously ill with her hands, but if they're not on the edge of death it just kills them instead. She also has an evil twin who she has to chase after and keep from committing atrocities every day. Clara is going through some shit, okay?

I love her but I don't know nearly as much about her as I do the other two. She's an elusive little gal who speaks like she knows more than you because she does.

There is also the whole meta framing of the game as a play. Before you pick a character in Pathologic Classic, there's a whole scene on a stage where they argue about who has a better solution to the plague. Every night during the game there is a performance about the coming day's strife. There are characters called Executors, bird masks, and Tragedians, blank masks, that often speak to the player rather than the player character. Artemy "knows the lines" (THE LINES OF THE PLAY THE LINES OF THE PL-).

It gets more meta as the game goes on but that's spoilers.

I'm not going over the basic mechanics right now because I am TIRED but I'll get to them in the morning so stay tuned for that.

Pathologic Classic HD is the original with all three routes. Pathologic 2 is a sequel/remaster/reexamination of the first game that goes over the same twelve days but with a few changes. I've heard it's a bit more accessible than Classic HD, but so far only the Haruspex route is out. You do not need to play Classic before you play Patho 2. They are both usually discounted very cheap on Steam!

PLEASE, PLAY THE GAME IF THIS HAS INTERESTED YOU AT ALL.

PATHOLOGIC CLASSIC HD

PATHOLOGIC 2

(If you want to get into the game but don't want to play, there are lots of analyses and a few playthroughs on Youtube. I'll link some in a reblog of this!)

[scarlet-cookie]

Massive, unfiltered Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint spoilers under the cut

After finishing the all 552 chapters I can finally make this ramblings of a thought post. Oh my god, ORV, what a story. I actually found this novel like two years ago back when Akumuno posted a lonely religion meme of it. I wondered if I should’ve picked it up back then, but I think me back then probably wouldn’t get this story as well as I do now-

This story hit home so hard that my home flew way over there. It’s so unique but also reminds me of other stories I personally like and (mwah) it’s so comforting. Anyways, there are way too many things I wanted to say out loud while reading but didn’t. One of the things I remember though- was that when Hui-Won tried to group regress over and over again to find Dokja. Hui-Won. No. Nope. I am not- I am not gonna watch you lot pull a Homura Akemi. I might update this more as I find more things to ramble about. For now, I’ll leave it at here.

(About 3 hours after I made this post) oh, yeah, also ORV made me understand time loop time space time (I ran out of words to describe this) logic a bit more and I’ve gained an extra inkling of understanding of Memory Joey and M!Henry from BATDR now. I’ll keep adding date marks when I update this post.