#the hero returns

[ayasenisan1713]

My list of favorite novels (named 'Favorite novels (recommend+++)' in my tabs…):

1. ✨'Lord of the Mysteries'✨

2. ´Trash of the Count’s Family' (sorry orv, you appear later)

3. 'Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint' (sometimes I see people recommend these three novels and I’m like "You have good tastes, let’s see what other novels you liked so that I can read them…")

4. ‘Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Side Story' (I’m joking, it’s still orv… but I’ve really written this.)

5. (In truth, the 4th) 'The Demon Prince goes to the Academy' (In life, some things are particularly underrated, and this is one of them. Especially on ao3, someone please write fics for this.)

6. (In truth the 5th) 'The Law of Webnovels' (The manhwa is named 'Inso’s law'.)

7. (The 6th, all favorite novels are equal in my heart from here on) 'The Novel’s Extra' (I don’t know why… It must be the psychological struggle in the middle…)

8. (Still 6th) 'The Hero Returns'

9. (Still 6th) 'How to Raise Your Regressor' (less heavy (I guess…?), for those who like humor)

10. (Still 6th) 'My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending' (only reproach is the lack of chapters)

11. (Still 6th) 'SSS-Class Suicide Hunter'

My criteria for choosing my favorite novels:

First, I went to the list of novels I read and didn’t drop.

Then, I eliminated all those that I didn’t even remember what they talked about. (I called them third rate novels)

After that, I searched for the ones I remembered the names of the characters in it, then realized that it couldn’t be a criteria since I only remembered the names of people from lotm, tcf and orv.

Then, I put all the novels I really liked as first rate novels, the rest as second rate novels (but I like all of them too), and finally put all the novels I would bother rereading in my list of favorite novels. Tadah.

[dixdixbby]

[fairydares]

If y'all like manhwa and thought Solo Leveling had potential but lacked (like me) try "The Hero Returns." Very similar but much better imo. The story has much more of a beating heart. The interactions are warmer and the worldbuilding is much more interesting. Not animated yet though, you'll have to stick with the manhwa for now.

[shoezuki]

Some wild shit goes on in ppls lives

[amyunshader]

I read that and jolted upright. That trope. That one. The guy who turns back time back dying, what about old age.

U MUST READ THAT ONE UNDERRATED WEBTOON. It’s called The Warrior Returns.

Title being the most massive plot twist nest I ever seen.

Chapter 1: precious boi Kim Minsu, isekaied to be a warrior in a fantasy world, returns to Earth and shit happens => he goes on a murderous rampage. You’d thinks title ‘the warrior returns’ is pretty neat.

But then, chapter 2 or 3, there’s that guy who lost his whole family to KMS’s slaughter, who gets ALSO isekaied in another world and returns one year later to take revenge on all warriors - plural, there’s a whole lots of them, each very unique. => ‘the warrior [who] returns’ must be him.

(In fact, you could think that ‘the warrior returns’ could apply to all off them)

BUT. There’s that one mf who’s mysteriously lurking around with fox smile and a cheat ability - meet the resuscitation warrior ! Guy who can resurrect to the point before he gets in danger, which fan be VERY far ahead. I don’t wanna spoil all the plot twist cuz it really did a number on me and it’s better if u discover it by yourself , but I’ll just say that in some unofficial translation instead of resuscitation, he’s called ‘the warrior of returns’…

I ended up writing a whole essay, but I really recommend the read, it’s on webtoon and it has great art, incredible storytelling that stabs u even harder bc of the musics.

Just a thought for “sss class revival hunter”, but what if when Gong Ja dies of old age, he just goes back in time? Over and over again and he has to keep reliving it until he goes insane. Pretty sure his skill said he has to be killed but what if it somehow identified old age as something that “killed” Gong Ja and activated but with no skills to choose from. Everyone around him is normal but he keeps seeing the same thing with some differences each time due to him acting differently. Angst potential? Btw, I’m not a novel reader so please don’t come at me. Just think of this as a random “what if…” thought of some person without the proper knowledge of what goes on beyond the manhwa

[seanotty]

[summonedbunny]

If there's one person who deserves a good night's rest, it's him ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ

[arrgh-whatever]

a little comic about my (and Pauk's) Skyrim experience

[the-goddess-of-gays]

will is the epitome of "i'd follow him to hell and back but i wish he'd just stop going there" and honestly he's so real for that

[couch-house]

I think sonic had a really good time not being playable for once and just being supporting cast for his friend shadow. i just know he was soooo excited to explain the controls and not worry about rings and cheer on his friend (and sometimes be a final boss :3)

[magicaldragons]

LMAOOO, why does every kdrama i start either have a potential gay ship or turn out to be queer-coded.

[wwprice1]

Amazing art by Simone Di Meo.

[somewhereincairparavel]

there's just something about reyna being so desperate for a romantic connection after venus tells her that she'll never be loved by a demigod. when she was even willing to date octavian, when she immediately latched on to percy after he arrived at camp, and then, of course, her unrequited feelings for jason.

this is partly why I dislike people blaming jason for "leading her on" because there's absolutely no canon evidence to suggest that reyna was vocal or obvious about her feelings to jason or ever made a move about it. especially considering the venus incident where reyna had begun to avoid him. it would've ironically given jason the opposite impression. it's only mentioned that they shared something special, which could just as easily allude about their close friendship. jason said that he never felt anything romantic towards reyna, they were both pretty restricted when it came to love because they had an image to withhold at camp, they also had this external pressure of being the potential picture perfect couple. he liked sharing roman history knowledge with her as a best friend, they wanted to visit cool historical monuments together, which he appreciated, and he trusted her deeply, but that was all there ever was to it. their connection was dominated by sweet platonicity, in his perspective, atleast.

reyna misinterpreting jason's behaviour as something romantic also makes sense to her character because she wanted to be loved that way. it was reyna's wishful thinking that caused her inevitable heartache and that adds nuance to her character.

reyna had her own faults in the downfall of jason and her's friendship, just like jason did. and that makes them good characters. they both refused to reach out bc of hesitation and it isnt just jason's fault as the fandom claims it to be.

when jason said reyna distanced herself from him and was never quite the same around him after the venus incident?? do people not understand that jason's hesitation to reach out must have stemmed from that?? worried that she'll distance herself again?? or when reyna greeted piper in boo and didn't even take a glance at jason? reyna had too much pain inside of her so she couldn't reach out. and that's okay.

they never ended up clearing the air because of this lingering hesitation, causing reyna to have everlasting guilt after he passed. and that is also okay. they were just kids who cared about eachother but didn't know better.

their relationship is way more complicated and heartbreaking and reducing it to "jason lead her on and broke her heart, he's the real red flag" does injustice to BOTH their characters.

[nelkcats]

War Day

After Danny was crowned he decided that the truce party had to have a counterpart, after all ghosts became friends mostly through battles, and he assumed that one day letting them fight wouldn't be a bad thing, it might even help stir up some grudges.

This was how High King Phantom, ruler of the infinite realms inaugurated the long-awaited "Day of War" or just "War Day", a moment when the Infinite Realms naturally became chaotic; alliances were allowed but it was not advisable to trust on them.

And of course, you were free not to participate, you just had to put a blue or green band on your arm, or a little green clock in the backyard of your haunt so the ghosts would leave you, your haunt or your territory in general alone.

Danny thought of it as some kind of giant paintball day, only with no paintballs and full of aggressive ghosts with various powers, it was especially exciting since everyone knew there would be no hard feelings after it and they would end up in the king's palace eating sweets as little children.

They usually celebrated it on a day close to any celebration related to death in human world, when their powers were especially powerful and therefore everyone could have more fun.

The problem was that since Danny had human friends (liminals?) who came to play, they didn't really consider it weird when some humans fell into the realms by a natural portal, and since they weren't wearing any blue or green arm bands they were definitely in the game.

For their part, the family of bats along with some League allies found themselves literally standing on a field of war where everyone seemed to be going for the kill, Jason was strangely excited about it, as was Damian.

When Dick asked one of the locals for an explanation, a guy on a motorbike threw him into the air laughing and yelled "LET THE HUNGER GAMES BEGIN!"

[condohavenoking]

'I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things.'

[novaneondream]

Boop 🫶