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Iām sorry I need to talk about this for a second
This part right here. When Nirvana tries to use Thought Infection on Kim Dokja. And this ability that absolutely neutralized Yoo Joonghyuk, Min Jiwon, and Yoo Sangahā¦
justā¦
bounces right off.
and itās set up like this big badass moment. Kim Dokja saves the day again. Kim Dokja can face down anyone. Heās more powerful than every other incarnation and constellation, no matter how much foreknowledge they have.
But honestly?
It kinda just makes me sad.
yjh is incapacitated by the Eternal Nightmare ability because of all the awful things heās seen and experienced, yes.
But as we know from 1863, happy memories can be much more debilitating for him than sad ones. And while heās only got 1-2ās memories right know, we know that 2 had some incredibly happy memories to pass on, memories that make the losses that much harder to take.
And Min Jiwon?
Of course she doesnāt actually want to visit a spa while her friends and troops are dying. But can you blame her for having some deep craving for comfort and relaxation right now?
But for Kim Dokjaā¦
The Fourth Wall isnāt just protecting kdj from the negative effects of the skill. Itās not hiding his secret desires, or absorbing his emotions.
It is literally preventing him from experiencing the world around him as reality. Not just because it feels improbable or surreal, but because it is literally keeping him separate from the world around him. On a fundamental level, he does not believe he is truly present in this time and space.
This is derealization and dissociation on an unbelievably intense scale.
āIf weāre just characters, why did you die for us so many times?ā
Why wouldnāt he? Heās not here, not really. Heās just Reading this story, no matter how much sway heās been having over what has happened. All of that is just his work as a Reader hoping to see the Epilogue of his favorite novel.
āIt was a really great story, isnāt that right?ā
Narratively satisfying. A twist ending. A fate that subverted expectations.
An Epilogue worth Reading. Not touching, not feeling, not joining, not creating. Just watching. From a distance away. From behind glass. Through the cracks in a wall.
After all, a story canāt exist without a writer, a protagonist, and a reader. Only two of them truly participate in creating the story. But when youāre the Reader, itās always worth reading the story again. And again. And again. And again. And again ,
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Back in India which means, as usual, Iād ordered stuff to look forward to. Excuse me as I lose my mind.
The standees and YooHanKim office AU are the main reasons I got the volume 4+5 special edition xD
Now for the 9+10 stuff
Now for the calendar!
Okay, I'm done showing off. But I am still internally screaming.
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A Glossary of Commonly Confused/Misused Terms, Writer Edition
Alpha reader: Someone who reads along as you write a first draft of something to cheer you along and gas you up while you work. Sometimes they also provide suggestions of where to go or otherwise comment on what theyād like to see happen.
Beta reader: The writing equivalent of a beta tester. This is not someone who generally edits anything or tries to āfixā the story. They read and note how they feel and react to various things in the story so the writer can decide if itās a āglitchā to fix. When I myself use these, I actually prefer they not be writers and in my target audience, because thatās the perspective Iām seeking for live reactions. Fanfiction betas tend to incorporate roles below this point because fanfiction is often a more casual environment with fewer people looking over the writing.
Proofreader: Prooooobably not what you think they do. A proofreader reads proofs. A proof is basically a ātestā copy or a version of something. When you reformat a book from Scrivener or a Word document or Google Docs or whatever you wrote it in to something you can actually print as book-shaped or upload it as, sometimes weird things happen. A proofreader will compare these versions/formats to ensure that new formatting/file type/etc. didnāt mess up anything that actually matters. If youāre hired as a proofreader, you donāt usually edit anything (unless your employer is wildly misusing the term). These are not people who fix grammar or punctuation. They check for changes and to make sure everything came out the way it should have.
Copyeditor: What you probably think a proofreader does. Someone who edits copy. What is copy? Text, basically. Copyeditors edit grammar and punctuation and align the writing to whatever style guide is being used for some text and ensure the copy is clear and understandable. If theyāre editing your voice regularly, theyāre probably overstepping, but they will often suggest rearranging sentences or punctuating them differently. Professionally, this is a promotion from proofreading.
Developmental editors: People who suggest edits to the actual storyānot word choices or grammar, but feedback on plot points and structure and characters arcs and how the story is being told and how it can be fixed. They are editing the storyās development. They provide what is called an "edit letter" that outlines changes to various aspects of the story.
Acquiring editors: The people who agree to buy your book at publishing companies. They usually do a dev editorās job as well, but often specifically with an eye to making it more saleable.
Critique partner: A fellow writer with whom you exchange your writing for editing. Exactly what this entails depends on the people involved and what each wants, but this is someone who gives feedback on the book before an editor sees it and suggests how to fix the story as written. They can be any combination of the above terms depending on the partnership (except acquiring editors; they don't do that). Typically this will stray into developmental editing on some level.
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I think it's incredible that people can love other people so deeply, even when they're not even real. Like willingly falling in love even if it's just the idea of a person. It's both romantic and oh-so-tragic and a version of naive heartbreak you obtain only when you commit yourself wholeheartedly to a concept. Knowing you're gonna wake up to a world they aren't in and smiling anyway because at least they exist somewhere and that has to be enough. Because you're not a protagonist; you cannot simply rip the stars from their place or move galaxies to make them real. So you comfort yourself by making them real to yourself for a moment, and you love them in idyllic ways. You join the many others who read the same story and fell in love in different ways and you all love this one person, this one story, and for beautiful singular moments, those stories are made real.
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"Kim Dokja's breaths, his appearance, his laughter, and his manner of speech [...] And...
The glint in his eyes when he recalls the story he loves.
[...] 'I can just read from the beginning again'.
-CH. 438
(music cr: Train to Busan OST "Goodbye World" by Jang Young Gyu)
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yall ever think about how ways of survival also saved han sooyoung. the whole point of its creation was definitely to save kim dokja and i think he relied on it more but the dreams han sooyoung got about ways of survival did inspire her to write sssss infinite regresser, which is how she made a living, began her career as a writer, and escaped relying on her shitty neglectful parents. and then when the apocalypse came, it was knowledge she got from her novel and the authors attribute she got from writing it that kept her alive, at least in the beginning. its not certain she would have died without it the same way it is for kim dokja but it did help her survive at least a little bit. kim dokja wasn't the only one who relied on yoo jonghyuk's story......
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Details about the new hell in CN/TW
Got this from girlies in the BR group:
> * The suit shown in the poster is the suit of the activity "Double Magic" [Kiss in Floating Light]]
> [ęę][Kiss in Floating Light] Introduction to Double Magic Function:
> 1. Double magic function means that some parts of the suit can switch between two forms (type I and type II);
> 2. This set of suit has 4 components (dress, veil, jewelry, cobweb behind) to support double magic function;
> 3. After wearing any double-magic part, you can get a more unique matching experience through the two buttons at the top of the replacement interface: [Shape Optional] (freely choose the shape of each worn double-magic part) or [One-click Change] (change the performance of all double-magic parts at one time);
> 4. The performance of the four suit double magic parts in this set is:
> dress: Type I is a short skirt, Type II is a floor-length skirt
> Veil: Type I is a short veil, Type II is a long veil covering the whole body
> Bracelet: Type I is a butterfly bracelet hanging from your fingers, Type II is a butterfly resting on your fingertips
> The cobweb behind: Type I is a large web and Type II is a bead curtain.
> ā» double magic function can be used after acquiring any double magic part.
> 5. According to the shape of the double magic parts worn, warm will also have different standby performance.
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Saw people hyping up the spider and butterfly suit (justifiably, they're gorgeous) BUT NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THE NEW LILITH SUIT
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These are so beautiful!!! Iām gonna whale for them if needed xD
And Paper, please donāt make them sisters/the same person again! šš¼
Details about the new hell in CN/TW
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Me when I first started orv with zero knowledge of what to expect: So this is a death game kinda story?
Me when I was significantly into the story: This is indeed a death game(?). Only, most of the deaths are the many deaths of Kim Dokja, and the deaths of kimcomās sanity after kdj traumatises them by dying. Again.
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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yoohankim horses. yoo joonghorse, kim horseja, and horse sooyoung ..
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Ive been thinking for weeks about how kdj's stigma starts as Sacrificial Will and eventually changes into Will To Live the last we see it written explicitly, but the stigmas that are given to incarnations by their sponsors or other constellations all are reflections of the personal stigmas of those specific constellations
And the stigma that kdj gives yjh is Regression, since that's exactly what happened. He went from being so ready to die at any moment to making effort to live to see the end of the story only to, at the point where it mattered most, fall back to what he knew and was familiar with and sacrificed his life again. He sacrifices the close bonds he had started to form to keep every one at the distance he could mentally and emotionally manage and is thus only able to give yjh all that he knew.
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