#me: *holds up Shin* blorbo...

[fireboos99]

I literally do not have anything smart to say here, this drawing literally only happened because my siblings were telling me I should post my brainrot doodles on here, and my anxiety-ridden ass couldn't do it, and decided the only solution was to spend days (read: the entire latter end of April) working on a proper drawing because "if I'm going to post anything on tumblr, it better be a full-ass drawing"

[kimdokjas]

Hi~ I binge-read orv webtoon today and I have just finished. I came to Tumblr to know more about the fandom and I realised that people ship Dokja with Joonghyuk. I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting that. I thought their "flirty"(? interactions were just some sort of fan service or silly jokes. Is there anything in the novel that implies a relationship between them? Or maybe something that I missed in the webtoon? (I struggle with picking up social cues, especially romantic cues)

I hope this ask doesn't upset you, you were one of the top orv blogs that Tumblr showed me

(also, I apologize for my bad English, it isn't my first language)

Wait I'm one of the top orv blogs??? 💀💀💀 But for sure, I don't mind at all, anon! I love having an excuse to rant about orv <3

To preface this: yes, most of the heavier joongdok content comes until later in the novel, but there ARE some highlights in the webtoon as well so far.

I think most of the appeal of early joongdok interactions in the webtoon comes from the enemies to lovers vibe they have going on. Picture KDJ hyperfixating on his single favorite character for 10+ years, through every up and down of his life. In his narration during their FIRST meeting he explicitly says:

I liked you, hated you, resented you, and cheered for you. I was with you throughout your three-thousand episode journey. (webtoon ch. 12)

AND THEN. He finds out his favorite blorbo comes to life and proceeds to annoy him until he starts choking him over a bridge with a sunset backdrop like something out of a romance drama. It's all about the tension and subversion of expectations 🤌

Their relationship is very much a slowburn. YJH very reasonably distrusts KDJ at first (due to some past trauma) but we do see him gradually start to warm up to KDJ as the story progresses.

One of the main highlights is during ch. ~100 in the Disaster of Floods scenario. When KDJ sacrifices himself for YJH, he proceeds to freak out, tries to save him even when he knows it's futile, and refuses to kill him for coins even when YJH is often largely pragmatic in his interactions with others. We're told that YJH pretty much never uses the word "companion" because it holds too much meaning for him and he's never acknowledged KDJ as such, even though KDJ insists they're "life and death companions" (which is already pretty damn poetic if not romantic imo). But when Shin Yoosung asks who KDJ is to him, YJH says:

"That guy. He is my companion." (ch. 102)

(This got translated as "a companion of mine" in the webtoon but the novel is where it's at.) And keep in mind this is also an actual quote from the novel btw:

The weight of this word, 'companion', was too great for Yoo Joonghyuk. (ch. 12)

However, as I mentioned, their relationship only really starts to develop until later in the novel. To be clear, there's no explicit romance in orv–which I personally really appreciate because it opens up the floor instead to flesh out all the platonic relationships all of the characters have with one another that are JUST as deep and profound.

But even so, joongdok is very much canon to me. I don't want to give too much away because I'd be spoiling the rest of the novel for you, but they really are cosmic soulmates meant for one another in a way that is so narratively profound and completely goes full circle. The lengths they go to for one another are actually insane and there's no doubt in my mind the love and devotion they feel for one another is real and simultaneously indescribable by mere labels.

I really hope you're planning on continuing to read the novel now that you finished the webtoon! I truly cannot recommend it enough. It is literally and unironically the single greatest piece of literature I've ever read and the journey is 100% worth it. Plus, the webtoon will take a long time to complete at the current rate so the only way to find out what happens next is by reading the novel 😉

Anyway, I hope this was somewhat helpful to you! I think it's really admirable that you're trying to search for a different interpretation from your own. There's a saying in orv by one of the characters: "Read it again", and the intention there is that by rereading (or looking at things again in a new light) you will always find new meaning even within the exact same text, as long as you're willing to look for it. So the fact that you're asking this question is very much in the spirit of orv itself <3

And this goes without saying but you're also completely free to interpret them in your own way as well!

(By the way, I highly advise you to blacklist the "orv spoilers" tag and try to tread with caution if you're searching for content! There are spoilers literally EVERYWHERE and while orv is still very much enjoyable even with spoilers, all the reveals won't hit as hard–trust me. There really is so much that can be spoiled.)

[zartophski]

Flufftober Day 19: Keeping Someone Safe

This one is for @echoing--stars who lets me steal their oc blorbo Rowan so I can play with him like a Barbie doll. I've put him into the LU Pokemon AU, so here's a little piece featuring his partner Fidough and her one-sided rivalry with Time

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Bidoof circled Time’s legs before snorting and wandering away. "He's a bit of a grump," Rowan mumbled as they watched him go back to the bedroom. He gestured to the living room. "And over there is Fidough."

The tiniest Fidough he’d ever seen stared at him from her perch on the couch, having perked up from her nap upon hearing her name. He smiled, laughing at how quickly she went from looking vaguely disgruntled to extremely alert in less than a second. She yipped, launching off the couch and running directly at him, going so fast that she slammed into his shin. She bounced back, shaking her head before looking up at him and barking urgently.

"She's always been very insistent on being the center of attention," Warriors chuckled, kneeling down. He held out a hand and she immediately zipped to his side, drinking in the pets and attention he gave her.

"He's her favorite," Rowan whispered, as if it were a terrible secret. "She loves watching all those Elite Four battles that get televised. I think she thinks she’s battling too.”

Time laughed as she barked at him again. “She seems to think she’s tough enough for it.”

“Oh, she’s absolutely ferocious,” Warriors praised with a wink. “The toughest pokemon in the region.” She preened under his attention and praise, and Warriors cooed at her some more.

“Why don’t you come in?” Rowan offered, stepping into the rest of the apartment. “Didn’t mean to keep you cornered in the entryway. Want anything to drink?”

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Fidough loved the couch. It always had her favorite blanket tucked just the way she wanted it, creating the perfect nest for her nap. Rowan and Warriors had been out for the morning, which meant there was no one to disturb her while she relaxed.

The door clicked open, and the sound of footsteps on the stairs had her ear twitch, pulling her out of the depths of sleep. Not enough to truly wake her, but she could hear that her people were home. She rolled over, snuggling deeper into her blanket, not quite ready to get up yet.

Until she heard her name.

She groaned, letting out a yawn as she pushed herself up. Maybe they were talking about giving her a poképuff. Warriors always gave her one when he visited. She shook her head and glanced in the direction of the doorway, but what she saw snapped her awake instantly.

Rowan and Warriors were there, but a third man stood with him. A man she recognized all too well.

She yelped, launching herself off the couch. How dare he! After everything he’d done to Warriors and his team when they disappeared into the glowing box! How dare he show up in her house! She would protect Warriors!

Fidough rammed directly into his leg, tumbling back at the force that she hit him with. That should’ve hurt, but when she looked up at him, he was smiling, laughing even! The audacity! She barked, demanding him to leave, show some respect, watch out because if he dared step any further into her house she’d charge at him again. But he didn’t seem to care about her threats.

Warriors knelt down, holding his hand out to her and she immediately ran to his side. He was asking for her to protect him, she knew it. She planted herself between him and the man, glaring at him while Warriors showered her with praise and pets. She was so good at her job. Rowan said something to the man, and Fidough hoped he was telling him to leave, but to her horror, he stepped further into her house. She barked, trying to warn Rowan, but Warriors picked her up and followed them. She burrowed angrily into his arms. She’ll just have to keep an eye on him from now on.

[anoray]

Ahsoka Episode 7

My off the top of my head comments at the moment:

Hera's green make up looks so much better in this court martial scene. Is it the outfit change? Love the new outfit, so much nicer than the orange flight pants and bulky headphones. Ear cones, yes!

Hello, my beloved C3PO to the rescue. So lovely to see your golden face. And Mon Mothma, I like you soooo much better in Rebels and Ahsoka than in Andor.

Thrawn, you are as slick as ever. I still don't understand how or why you and Morgan Elsbeth got so connected or why she wants you in power. I'm pretty sure you will dispose of her and the Great Mothers once you no longer need them for your nefarious purposes.

Wow, how nice of you to just dump your apprentice, Baylan Skoll. You are definitely no Jedi. I think you are about to meet some sort of Zeffo and your doom. As for Shin Hati, maybe when she figures out Thrawn plans to abandon her and her master, she'll switch sides. Who knows? Not holding my breath on that one.

Eman Ezfandi as Ezra = perfect casting. Not quite in love with the way they did the Force kung fu, though. It could have benefited from a bit more Ezra-ish pizazz. His initial scoffing about Sabine being Ahsoka's padawan was spot on, but how could they not mention Kanan when her "earlier training" is brought up? My inner grump is grumping.

Speaking of what seems like ongoing Kanan erasure, it appears Sabine told Ezra nothing about Hera having his son. On top of that, she's still hiding the cold hard truth of how she found Ezra. Rebels Sabine would be smart enough to know Thrawn is using her to track down Ezra and she'd warn him about the precarious situation they are in even though this means she has to reveal his chances of getting home are slim at best. Sadly, this live action version of Sabine with her non-stop evasive maneuvers and lies is not endearing herself to me.

Huyang, on the other hand, has been added to my droid blorbo collection. If only Ahsoka and Sabine would listen to him more often considering he's been around Jedi for thousands of years and has a huge archive of experience and knowledge...

So I guess the race is on to see if our heroes can get back to their own galaxy. There is no way that Thrawn won't return in the hyperring, but how the others get back is something to ponder between now and the finale :)

[unnecessarygayfeelings]

giving you options for the bingo (or do all of them if you feel like it im not the boss of you): Kay, Eustace/Sebastian, Badd, Byrne, and uhhh, Ema, Simon K

Lol you know my favourites!! :D

SEBASTIAN/EUSTACE..........ohhh my god. Where do I begin. I'm so glad aai2 localization was announced because the love I have for the characters resurfaced and I have returned back to my 'tears up whenever I think about sebastian too much' state. I'm so so excited to see him again!!! It's going to take some time for me to get used to his new name, and I think I'll always refer to him as Sebastian/Seb/Sebby first, but Eustace is cute. I love him so much - I love how rude he can be, I love how he can't remember shit, I love how hard he tries & I love how much he grows as a character!!! I could talk so much about him but I'm going to hold back (for now) and save all that for future posts in which I cry about him at 3am

KAY.......another favourite character!!! She is just so cool & fun, I remember watching aai2 and just being like yay I love kay :) I sure hope nothing bad happens to her :) she's been through enough :) and then she got amnesia and her character theme changed and I was so sad for her :( she is so funny & spontaneous & I love that she never actually steals anything LOL. I think she should get to kick Miles Edgeworth in the shin again I think that would be fun

Rest under a readmore so this doesn't get too long lol

Putting Badd's and Byrne's together because they are a bonded pair :) I am obsessed with badd's Noir Detective look. I think it is so cool. Also the 'canon isn't real' bit means I'm sad that byrne died LOL. I say they're both bastards affectionately btw. I consider you to be like a leader of Byrnebadd Nation, hence the blorbo by proxy. You've made me a byrnebadd enjoyer!!! Also I have a few fic drafts of badd being a father figure to kay and seb that I need to finish. I should really get on that

Also putting Ema's and Simon's together because I think it's funny lol. Ema you would be tumblr famous I just know it. Now that I think about it I feel like Simon would be tumblr famous too for different reasons. They are both great characters and I like them :) peace and love on planet earth

[transsexualhamlet]

001 for bsd 002 for dead apple trio 003 for shibusawa <33

Hihihi!! :3 :3 Ask game

001: BSD

Favorite character: It would be very difficult to come up with a favorite character of all time for bsd theres just SO many blorbos to choose from but um. Fyodor is my top blorbo

Least Favorite character: This is a no brainer but I just cannot stand fukuchi I know there's a lot of points about legitimate political themes but also I'm sorry I cannot take an old man who makes fart jokes seriously about anything

5 favorite ships: Fyogol Fyozai Atsuluaku (I think lucy could fix shin soukoku) dead apple trio and the whole DOA polycule ehehe gay people

Character I find most attractive: chuuya HANDS DOWN. No argument I will not be taking constructive criticism I am on my knees for this man

Character I would marry: ALSO CHUUYA but if i had to choose someone different, Lucy. I love them both so fucking much and I think they are actually good loveable fun and interesting people

Character I would be best friends with: Akutagawa or Fyodor. My type of best friend is wet cat i picked up out of the gutter I would fix them up good I promise

A random thought: God the tik tok fandom of bsd is absolutely rancid and it's really just a wasteland of people fighting each other tooth and nail for chuuya nakahara custody since literally everyone is convinced they're the only one who understands him and then proceeds to give the worst takes ever on him

Unpopular opinion: Mori is in general a good person and he really and truly wants the best for the city and for the world and the world he lives in has forced him to make very bad decisions, he has decided to be the bad guy for the world to function and near anyone else in his position would fucking crumble. He is fair and kind and allows the least amount of suffering possible though he knows that he does not deserve forgiveness for the things he has had to do. Without him the world would go to shit so fast.

Canon otp: I mean, there's not any canon ships in bsd really, but in terms of Most canon I would probably consider fukumori or shin soukoku? I love soukoku too but you know im Picky about it

Non-canon otp: ah yes the these characters have had One (1) interaction but they're fucking. Fyoya and Nikozai and also Sigzai i fucking love them

Most badass character: IM SORRY BRO ITS STILL HANDS DOWN CHUUYA HES TAKING ALL THE AWARDS TONIGHT CHUUYA CAN USE ME AS A FUCKING DOORMAT

Most Epic villain: Nikolai ofc he's 100 percent the most unhinged motherfucker in the cast and I am bonded to him on a molecular level Help

Pairing I am not a fan of: I feel like I've been over this a lot and at this point I just don't wanna make anybody sad bc I know people who ship just about everything sane and normal so you know you do you as long as it's not fucking gross yknow

Character I feel the writers screwed up: Teruko could have been an absolute girlboss if they didn't give her the. I don't know the. The Fukuchi Thing why did they do that seriously what why

Favorite friendship: Yes yes Dazai and Oda very much so Dazai and Oda but hAVE YOU CONSIDERED Chuuya and the flags. I'm all holding them so tightly you don't even fucking understand. They're so important

Character I most identify with: :|. Nikolai and Dazai. I should not be allowed in public spaces

Character I wish I could be: YOU ALREADY KNOW WHO IM GONNA SAYITS FUCKING CHUUYA. There's not many people in bsd whose situations/mental states I really envy tbh. Dazai is crusty and sad and I don't want to ever see the state of his apartment. Fyodor is even sicker than me. Akutagawa's on the brink of death at all times. Being Ranpo would kill me because I would not be able to keep up the illusion of having an ability and I wouldn't be able to handle the thought that I didn't have one and everyone else did. All my kins are so sad and sick and in awful situations except CHUUYA who is being BADASS and MAKING BANK and GETTING BITCHES. Yes, he has obviously had so much tragedy in his life and he has very much suffered but the fact remains that he has gone through it and come out even stronger than before. He's such a guy I want to be him so bad

002: Dead Apple Trio :))

When I started shipping them: Literally the second I met these guys I was like Oh They're Fucking. All thru the first time I watched dead apple it just. More and more. These fuckers gay as shit

My thoughts: I looove them so much and they are so fucking terrible they're awful people and they love terrorism and genocide and being queercoded villains. They're in their big gothic spire doing gay crimes. Everything they do is labeled under 'consensual but not safe or sane'

What makes me happy about them: I love thinking of them all as some flavor of transfem nonbinary and they are so queer and gnc girlbosses that did nothing wrong they're so important to me shibusawa designed their wedding dresses and dead apple is the honeymoon

What makes me sad about them: I mean, I usually just call them girlbosses and call it a day but the thing is, the one thing that really brings them together is their fucking mental illness. Without unmedicated depression, unconventional takes on religion, and several personality disorders each, those three would never even talk to each other. The reason they care so much for each other is because they're the only ones who truly understand each other, they can see through each other's lies and straight to their rotted empty fucking ribcages. They only come together when they're at their absolute worst. They probably met at a sleazy gay bar and if it weren't for all their own grand schemes, at the slightest negative emotion they would just meet up there again and lace all their drinks with cyanide

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: I mean. There's like 20 fanfics in the dead apple trio tag total, and 90 percent of them annoy the shit out of me, but yknow. I don't like it when they treat Dazai like some sort of victim in this situation, like, no he is 100 percent into this. This is normal for him and he signed up to get stabbed. Also people who think Shibusawa tops anyone are dumb as shit look at those acrylic nails sh;drgsfdoig

Things I look for in fanfic: IF IT'S NOT PRETENTIOUS AS SHIT, I'M NOT INTERESTED HSDIFHDS but seriously I think the important thing to realize is that this trio is that they're each other's bad habit. Most of the time they're totally clean of each other but every once and a while they will just fall into that hole again and come together to dig it deeper and deeper. They're awful for each other and nothing can save them. As much as the porn is good I wish there were more fics that had actual plots for them

My wishlist: I mean. Shibusawa is kind of dead for realsies now so it's not like they'll meet again anyway and I don't think I need them to be any more canon than they are, yknow? That's how I feel with most of my ships because like. There's already soo much subtext there for me, but if it was explicit, it would literally just be demonizing queer people and queer relationships and would be taken completely wrong and I think. It's just fine the way it is bc to me it is very clear they're gay sdhighdfs

Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I mean,, I don't know if I can really see a hypothetical Happy Ending for any of these guys. Perhaps there might be one for Dazai, if he can keep his shit together from now on, but not for both. I really do like the idea of both Fyodor and Dazai living and having to attempt to fix each other together, I really do, although I don't think Nikolai would survive in that situation :(, but that's not something that would happen in canon lol. Fyozai will either die together with Nikolai or it'll be Dazai alone. In that case, I think Dazai should be with Kunikida. They would actually be good for each other, I really do think that.

My happily ever after for them: There is NO happily ever after for the dead apple trio, as much as it's sad to say, there really and truly isn't. They're not good for each other, they're not a sustainable polycule as much as they love each other. Fyozai could hypothetically move on together and mourn Shibusawa, but there's no way they'd be good with him alive, there just isn't.

003 Shibusawa !!! Ok this is hard he interacts with like 3 people

How I feel about this character: Shibusawa sucks and I love him. He's a pillow princess. He's my wife. He tortures children but he would be a good mom I swear. He wants an e-z bake oven. He is an international terrorist but he is also a crazy cat lady. He walked into yokohama to start the apocalypse dressed like a cottagecore grandma with a million dollars of stolen jewelry in his purse and got called the t slur ten seconds before the fog came. I hate him hes my favorite he uses his science skills to create estrogen laced cupcakes

Any/all people I ship romantically with this character: Obviously Fyodor and Dazai but also Ivan. Shibusawa needed like a body double for some plot and Fyodor was like "I've got this crazy weirdo with long white hair who looks a lot like you, I can rent him out for five dollars an hour" and they hit it off like nobody's business. Now Shibusawa uses him as a crazy gay test subject for his unethical experiments and they kiss and Ivan is madly in love with him

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don't know why people hate Shibusawa so much. On international women's day week too?? Im sorry women can do anything. I'm all for awful evil women, Shibusawa included. Genuinely I don't get how anyone could think Shibusawa is like. A man. One thing you have to understand about me. Is that Shibusawa is my wife

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I WANT HIM TO WEAR A DRESS. BIG DRESS. POOFY FANCY DRESS. VICTORIAN BALLGOWN. HE DESERVES IT. HE WOULD LOVE IT

Favorite friendship for this character: I think that Shibusawa and Nikolai would be good friends. They gush about Fyodor and Nikolai is Shibusawa's crazy friend who gives him all his awful ideas and Shibusawa encourages everything. Also there's my and my friend's ocs Fran and Kafu who are both. Around Shibusawa ™ but that's a whole nother story. Fran is his younger cousin who helps him exist and Kafu is this absolutely insane fucking creature who's deeply in love with him and is in his walls

Crossover ship: I have never thought about this ever before but after some consideration. Albert Moriarty. I think they would get along well. I really do think they would get absolutely fucking wasted and Shibusawa would get fucking railed after they talked about how much they hated rich people and killing rich people and stealing rich people's money to kill more people and how fucked up the world is and how they wanna die

[strawberryjamsara]

Kurushin for the song ask game?

Pursuing My True Self- Lacey Johnson

So this one is a bit of a stretch but I think it fits still. The main point of contention I think it has is the theme of splitting away from consumerism and society. That we’re ‘plugged in’ to what other people think that defines ourselves too much which doesn’t fit either of these characters at all. But as that one post says. I’m a master of misinterpretation of lyrics to fit blorbo from my shows.

The talk of electronics and remotes can easily be used to refer to Kurumada’s ‘doll’ state, and the distance he puts between others, but he gets sucked in and “consumed” by the group camaraderie and when it says he’s going to “short circuit his identity” it means the change when he opens up to the other participants.

“Get up on your feet, tear down the walls

Catch a glimpse of the hollow world

Snooping 'round town will get you nowhere

You're locked up in your mind”

The “hollow world” line hits me most in this passage. Shin is someone who struggles a lot and didn’t have a very good hand dealt to him and dialogue from Kurumada implies the same. They both have ‘hollow worlds’, and are locked up in these terrible situations, and with the death game worsening them, they both have gloomy outlooks.

“We're all trapped in a maze of relationships

Life goes on with or without you

I swim in the sea of the unconscious

I search for your heart, pursuing my true self”

The “maze of relationships” refers to the other participants, and “with or without you” refers to how they could die and the game could continue. “I swim in the sea of the unconscious” could refer to Shins grief over Kanna and finally “I search for your heart pursuing my true self” implies how Kurumada can tell what Shin is really thinking a lot of the time, as he comes to terms with his more caring personality.

“You are standing in the middle of another world

It's hard to feel your real emotions

You are smiling in a shirt wet with bitter tears

Let me help you find a place to call it home”

This set of lyrics… hits and it’s the reason I chose the song. Shin holding back his true emotions towards the group, keeping a straight face after Kanna died… you can feel them here but a hand is being reached out.