#orv raws

[og-seaweed]

sleepy c. you have done impeccable work. i congratulate you incredibly. holy shit. the paneling. the designs. the eberything im screaming

they way that each companion is added to that one panel is so beautifully done. i approve im sobbing im crying im on the floor begging and now i must wait one more month for stabby stabby. (ik i said i wouldnt post more ss chapters but.....)

[lee-hakhyun]

i should mention here too that in solidarity with korean women i am participating in the naver webtoon boycott and will no longer be reading the side story until things change. it may be titled webtoon boycott, but this applies to naver webnovels as well (+ munpia is owned by naver).

i love lee hakhyun, but at the end of the day he is fictional and i care about real people more.

translation will still continue (i won't be reaching the point where i stopped reading anytime soon)

[auuwmk]

Doksoo moments that i mtl'd from korean readers on twitter (im pretty sure they also made a thread on every doksoo moment in orv) -> this entire thing MIGHT be the ebook revised 1863 scene...aka doksoo added smoking scene oughhhh

"i felt comfort that was close to a sense of betrayal" oougjjjhjhhhhhhh...........

they talked and basked in each other's presence as if they were the only two people left in the world KRILL ME.

link

[yaoigoddess9158]

She didn’t stop in this version…

I’m going to cry

[evilkaeya]

this line abt yjh makes me want to rip my heart apart

[kimdokjas]

objectively i know not everyone has the same taste in books and stories reach us in different ways at different times of our lives and that's beautiful and part of the human experience etc etc but also seeing my irl friend rate one of my favorite books 3 stars on goodreads makes me want to commit real life murder

[randomgarbagecan]

given kdj’s personality and general Backstory, believe he is the type of person to be bedridden sick for about a week at a time and do nothing to take care of himself aside from swallowing a couple pills dry. he wouldn’t have the energy or the means to make soup or tea. he would just lay in bed with wrinkled sheets in a room that smells stale, willing himself to get better so he could just move on with his life.

i feel like every time kdj gets sick, it’s not just his health that’s vulnerable but it makes him feel like that lonely, weak child he used to be. the silence of his apartment seems louder when he desperately wishes his mom was there to offer him water like she did when he was young. he probably would turn towards webnovels—specifically TWSA—and try to comfort himself with it.

and so that’s why i believe if he ever got sick during/post scenarios, he’d be the type to cry if someone brought him tea unprompted. he’d hide his face in the mug to hide a sob, but there’s something so intimate about being cared for when you feel your absolute worst.

source: im sick and i spend a lot of time projecting on kdj

[mirusx]

the fisherman & the pearl - Mousai

I've always loved this song and hearing it again after months of not playing it just made me realize kim dokja is definitely a pearl,, and the fisherman????????????? we all know who it is

I'm the poet of the stars

You're the man on the moon

I will rearrange the constellations to find my way to you

[heewongirl]

So very babygirl of yjh to exist

[iamnotmereally]

Realising i wont be able to fully enjoy a work of fiction in another language properly:

[princess-of-purple-prose]

[ID: An excerpt from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint which reads:

The clash of these two managed to awaken the old Stories. Han Sooyoung summoned all of her strength to broke through Yoo Joonghyuk's fist and shouted out.

"Speak up! Why today, of all days? Why have you been staying quiet for the last two years only to start this crap today?!"

"None of your business."

"Aha, is that so."

She didn't plan on going this far. However, looking at the expressionless face of Yoo Joonghyuk acting like a damn stubborn mule, she simply couldn't rein in her boiling anger anymore.

"I always hated you. And regretted it, too. Why did I write the story of someone like you with my own hands?"

She'd never have said these words in any other times. Even then, she continued to spit out everything anyway. End ID]

Edit: OP kindly added this ID to the og post, so please go reblog from them instead!!

Having finished the novel I think out of all of yoohankim's divorce eras the yoohan fights might be my fave like joongdok fights are both hilarious and sad, doksoo divorce eras are tragic epics,

But yoohan just get so nasty to each other especially without Dokja and it's so fun to read

Like damn. Damn.

[24-compass-roses]

*sees subway* orv reference

*sees sunfish* orv reference

*sees lemon candy* orv reference

*sees a rlly ugly squid* orv reference

*sees character* orv reference

*sees reader* orv reference

*sees author* orv reference

*sees 49% 51%* orv reference

*sees sword and shield together* orv reference

*sees Korean guy in a white coat* orv reference

*sees Korean guy in a black coat* orv reference

*sees a constellation in the night sky* orv reference

*sees story* orv reference

*sees story based off another story* orv reference

*sees story based off another story that’s based off of multiple other stories because the thing about stories is they never really die, they just get retold and remade into other stories and the point of a story is to keep on telling it and telling it because it may save someone’s life someday* orv reference

*sees the incarnation of love itself, strong, raw, hurting, and absolutely desperate to reach one stupidly wonderful and wonderfully stupid person who so stubbornly refuses it each and every time because they don’t believe they deserve it despite a cacophony of voices loudly insisting that they DO, they do deserve it, and that maybe love isn’t something that’s earned through deserving at all but instead given and received* orv ref—

[murasaki-cha]

hii I've been following u for a while now for orv but I genuinely want to read tcf (??) is it a webtoon or a novel?? please provide any links if possible, thank you in advance <333

Tcf (Trash Of The Count's Family) is a webtoon and novel. You can read the webtoon at Tappytoon and Tapas under the name Lout of Count's Family. Of course there are also unofficial translations. Currently it's on break in preparation for the next season.

The novel now has an official translation from Seven Seas Entertainment, Vol.1 is already out and Vol.2 comes out on 3rd of december and Vol.3 comes out on the 4th of march next year.

You can read unofficial translations of the novel on the website Eat Apple Pies with the unofficial name that almost everyone uses Trash Of The Count's Family, they put a lot of work on their translations and are way WAY ahead of the novel as they have been translating it for years now.

You can also read the raws of the novel on RIDI and Kakaopage

[yellowocaballero]

dude psyched ur reading orv, insanely curious about ur takes

My friend @charterandbarter put it best.

ORV is pretty fascinating to me. It's really just a self-insert isekai OP webnovel, and it is nothing else. Its medium is trashy and lowbrow, and its genre is almost devoid of high art. OP isekais are 'id' stories, meant to be satisfying and fun and contain very little of substance. ORV is a very well executed OP isekai - it contains the elements of the genre that make it satisfying, it understands why people read the genre and enjoy it, it reproduces those elements very well, and it is very concerned with telling an enjoyable story. ORV really, really loves webnovels and isekais and shitty wishfuillment stories. There's a lot more to ORV than the 'fist pump' moments of kdj doing something cool or pulling a fast one on a shmuck, but those moments are the undoubtedly the point of ORV, as they are the point of all SIOC isekai OP webnovels. And that's the point of ORV.

Metanarrative stories are cheap. Neil Gaiman's written 30 and millenials love waxing philosophical about the power of narratives. These metanarratives tend to describe stories as a theoretical framework through which we understand the world and our lives. Therefore, stories are tremendously important and valuable because they contain the totality of religion, history, culture, relationships, and lives. ORV says this too. But this theory tends to land at mystifying and exalting stories on virtue of them being stories, which I think misses the point. Stories aren't special because they're stories. They're not more sacred for containing our lives. What ORV says is that stories are important, because our lives are important. I like that a lot more.

ORV says that stories are our way of ordering a disordered world. A history, culture, nation, and religion are stories. None of those stories are true or real, because histories/cultures/nations/religions are constructs - they're how we interface with reality. They're created with a purpose, told for a point, pulled together into a narrative, and are satisfying or dissatisfying based on certain factors. ORV's perspective on fiction is deeply seeped in its own nature as 'low art'. There's something very cynical and commercialized about narratives in ORV, and every narrative in ORV is being told for a quick buck or to try and spread an idea for an individual's gains. It's a very unromantic, unimpressed view of narratives and fiction. It's pretty much the only way a SIOC OP isekai webnovel like ORV can talk about it without being disingenuous. And it's remarkably raw and visceral as a result, because ORV loves SIOC OP isekai webnovels like kdj loves yjh. Fiercely, insanely, like breathing, exactly for what it is. No pretensions.

It's bizarre, because ORV is about love. It's not about love for anything that deserves it. Not for a story with a lot of literary merit, a main character who is a remotely kind or lovable person, or art itself outside of its commercial or philosophical value. kdj really, really, really fucked loved TWS - because it was there, and because it lasted 15 years, and because it was fake, and because it was what he had. He loves yjh because yjh was his only companion in a dark world. That's fiction. Fiction helped him survive, because love is a way of ordering a disordered world.

I'm still reading myself, but ORV seems to be about how we manage to live in a hard world, and how to find it within ourselves to love each other and find meaning in that hard world. I see why kdj's the protagonist: he can find merit in something for existing, and loving it for being there, and he holds onto something because he has it. He sees the value in that. He read it in a book.

TL;DR: ORV is well-executed trashy commercialized art that is so obsessed with trashy commercialized art that it's looped straight back around into being somehow the most raw and visceral depiction of love I've seen in a long time.

[uris9158]

Pairing: Han Sooyoung/Yoo Sangah

Rating: T

Word Count: 2,725

Summary:

Yoo Sangah had begun to realize that beneath the snark and snarl and ferocity that Han Sooyoung wore like armour, was something more vulnerable than she let on. Something unmistakably warm and human. Pulsing at the core of Han Sooyoung was a red and raw and blazing heart, so gorgeous and fierce and unyielding and ineffable in all its immense love and terrifying fury. Yoo Sangah loved it whenever she got to catch a glimpse of it, cherished the rare privilege of witnessing it, wanted to see more of it. (For ORV Gotcha for Gaza @orv-gotcha-for-gaza)

Tags: During Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, mostly canon compliant plot, set during the group regressions, Omniscient Reader Epilogue Spoilers, Canon-Typical Violence, Not Really Character Death, POV Yoo Sangah, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Pining Yoo Sangah, Pre-Relationship, no beta we die like kdj

[stari-hun]

I enjoy the orv comic for stuff it adds and takes away. It’s a good adaptation even though it’s not an exact copy of the novel like how SSS class suicide hunter is to its novel, and for a lot of parts that’s for the best because there’s a ton of parts that aren’t enjoyable in the novel that are in the comics and vice versa.

orv spoilers //

I just wish my fav scene in the entire novel got more love than it being like this silent scene it was. In the novel what broke me about kdj’s incarnation death was how everyone knew he had a plan and yes it was sad because this was his riskiest death cause they all trusted him to get back to them but things didn’t go EXACTLY to plan this time like usual. But in the end we all knew no matter how painful he would make it back alive , he had to.

But then Uriel just begging him not to. No one in KimCo wants him to die but they have to and he’s telling them to kill him or throw away everything and all die together when they have to live for each other at that point. But Uriel is a constellation, by this point a lot of constellations were seen as cold and heartless or petty or pitiful. Then Uriel desperately wants a happy ending for them. She’s excessively human with them to a point. Until she meets kdj in person during the late later half of the novel all she ever is for them is someone on their side no matter what as their constant supporter. So the scene really meant a lot to me in the novel cause I was in the same mindset as KimCo where it felt like there was no other way and it was all past the point of return and this really WAS the only way then Uriel shows kinda the first bit of selfishness of a constellation we really see from her as she breaks down not wanting him to die. Idk the energy wasn’t raw enough for me I guess