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#everyone go read orv right the fuck now what the hell
its-your-mind · 6 months
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what the fuck the novel was his dream and his dream was the novel and he used it to escape his life except he never bothered to dream himself into a happy ending. except the novel was just her desperate, half-conscious attempts to save him, to keep him alive for just one more day so he could read the next chapter she wrote. except it wasn’t ever just a novel at all because it was the millennia-long attempt of one person to finally meet the being that so desperately wanted a person with no history and no past to have a perfect future, a happy ending.
except that novel! was never actually the point! it was just the vehicle some version of themselves all used to get everyone to the start of the story that actually mattered, the story that wasn’t pre-ordained, the story where characters became companions and the reader became the protagonist and the dream of a happy ending for all of them was possible. all of them were there - the reader, the writer, the protagonist… but the reader was just the reader, the writer was a plagiarist, and the protagonist was only at the start of his journey. this story, the real story, the story that hadn’t been written yet, was about how when the world fell to ruin, the only person with the instruction manual on how to survive decided to sacrifice himself over, and over, and over, and… and they made it. they got to their happy ending. but before they did, they learned about the dream. his escape that became a reality. and he didn’t know, he didn’t understand what it was, and so he stepped back, and watched them walk away. because it was the story written for him that caused this much damage, and he had to atone.
but the people who he saved, who he walked with to the end, who turned from characters on his screen to friends and companions who fought beside him, cried when he was gone, screamed at him when he came back, laughed with him, loved him, lived through hell with him, survived because of him… they knew that the story that defined him was not the story that saved him, that he escaped to when it was all too much, but his own story, the story he forged himself. and so dozens of them chose to dive back into hell just to forcefully turn his attempt at an ending, a sentence that ended in a period, into a promise of more to come, a clause that ended in a comma.
and then? the plagiarist who was never a plagiarist at all, but the author who saved him, she sat down and wrote his story. the one he made by their side. they compiled their memories - the memories of the author and the protagonist and heroes and villains and gods and angels and demons and dragons and prophets - into a new novel. and they sent that novel out to the stars to be told, a literal shout into the void to tell him that he was LOVED. that he deserved HAPPINESS. that it was okay for him to REST. that they were waiting for him to come HOME. and they hoped that this story would reach him just as the first had. that he would find it, and he would read it, and it would be the thing that saved him, that kept him alive, and that eventually brought him back to them.
he had promised, after all, to be the first reader of her next novel.
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yuzuocha · 2 months
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LOVE AND DEEPSPACE BUT REALLY FAST ‣ PROLOGUE [CRACK]
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@anxiousgoddest just know that this is all your fault
warnings ‣ ooc characterization, spoilers (obviously), and crack. lots of it
prologue | chapter ɪ | chapter ɪɪ | chapter ɪɪɪ | chapter ɪᴠ | chapter ᴠ | chapter ᴠɪ | chapter ᴠɪɪ | chapter ᴠɪɪɪ
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・ listen to some linkon radi– ROLL CREDITS HE SAID THE THING
・ here is mc and mc is you but prettier
・ you but prettier was talking in class and the teacher called her up bc of it oooohhhhhhh she in troubleeeee
"you're a hunter now"
・ nevermind
"heres all the things you need to know about hunters"
"hunters are the ones who exclusively fight wanderers (except for when they don't)"
"hunters are strictly managed and checked (except for when they don't)"
"and hunters are incredibly capable and essentially are heroes (except for when they don't)"
・ nevermind the nevermind
"also your evol can't be measured, quirky"
"what's an evol again"
"game forgor to explain but remember everything this game tells you about evol and hunters and shit because NOTHING IS GOING TO MAKE SENSE UNTIL YOU READ THROUGH EVERYTHING"
・ neverminding the nevermind the nevermind as you put in information for some reason
"why do i need to put my personal information in front of everyone when you're a government run association"
"here's your badge" *throws*
"how reliable"
・ you but prettier wields a gun as their neutral special
・ also man nothing like new players heading straight into a dangerous area which is actually the hongdae station turned into— oh shit sorry wrong story i was reading orv while you but prettier and quirky girl friend were yapping
"ENEMY SPOTTED, SHOOT"
"ngl waking me up to a gun threat aint poggers yk"
"THE FUCK"
"ykw whatever im xavier and very unsuspicious"
"uhh"
"wait we gotta fight"
"FUCKING HELL"
・ you but prettier used the glock and sword boy used the sword like a sword boy should sword do sword sword do sw—
"anyway back to our very interesting yapping"
"you were taking a nap right smack where the new hunters were hunting and pulled me somewhere without my consent and you're eventually gonna get my phone number despite me never taking out my phone and you are unsuspicious"
"yes"
"roll for innocence"
"20"
"ah fuck whatever"
・ enemy waited for them to finish their long ass conversation smh my head
"ok now that we got that out of the way fill me with your essence while on your knees"
"what"
"what"
・ one essence filling on the knees later
"ok because you filled me with so much of your essence everyone exploded and is now gone"
"your essence filled me up a little too well, nothing's left"
"what"
"lol"
・ very unsuspicious goes poof
"yo mc what happened"
"a guy asked me to fill him up with my essence and nothing will make sense until you read everything"
"what"
"what"
・ nevermind
PROLOGUE, END
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taglist! | @kttriangle | @sncrly0urs
lmk if you want chapter 1 soon
yuzuocha © 2024 - all rights KINDA reserved.
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istherewifiinhell · 2 years
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Reading progress: chapter 243 (oh my god no i didnt give up just. gah. life)
reading highlights: in which keeping notes for a very long story pays off, i didnt remember shit. my general track record of focusing on one interest over time is, very bad. also in which i have to manifest a second voice to encapsulate my reactions
222 yjh prev death trauma
223 swk new sugar daddy/whale
kdj fan of hiatus media when theres a new drop
yjh pov beloved. asmodeus grabbing yjh face and calling him pretty, alright
HHH ORV kdj showing up all possessive. jesus
hes doing a flatliners
225 Constellation who likes to change sex (-> CWLTCS) wants you to change your sex
kdj did you just invent corporate shares
argh the drama of claiming to be yjh sponsor then looking to (real sponsor) to save (yjh)
226 kdj gething fucked up abt yjh "death"
novel revision yjh is sooooooo
everyone politely giving the room to dokhyuk reunion
yjh said bluntly/expressionlessly. yes. but have you considered hes being the sweetest man in the world. -> referencing the very end of the chapters where yjh fills in what the rest of the company have been doing, and when kdj kinda existential crisis's about it tells him that his (kdj's) story, is still being told "Lets go back to Earth, Kim Dokja"
227 yes kdj yjh is clearly trying to steal your valour and send you back to earth thats why hes doing ID theft
228 Kdj: this person is so beautiful, beyond words.
↳ (—_—): How Beautiful Are They?
↳ kdj: ... 3 YJH's.
↳ (—_—): YAY!
229 peanut gallery: kdj arent you gay?? dont look at women...
Foodie and [tech] guy yjh [-> cant read my own writing]
YJH & JHY transphobic beef
231 yjh hiding in a tree
omg. doggie. sounds like it looks like my dog
↳ STANDS ON TWO LEGS. okay.
↳ the dog blew hmo out of the house.
↳ "The confrontation between man and dog was filled with unbelievable tension"
232 "There were probably no dogs in the Star System stronger than the Breaking the Sky Master"
3 METER TALL WOMEN! SHE SMOKES A PIPE!
233 Yjh is just being spanked... have i got that right?
gah kdj's constellation messages kill me
yjh prespective on kdj clownery beloved
234 yjh puts kdj behind himself as kdj does his saying inflammatory shit thing
235 via Yjh -> uriel is really strict and lofty when she doesnt have fujo brain rot
yjh 100 years old? more??
yjh said this and thought he was talking like kdj -> AHA!
Breaking the Sky Sword wasn't originally for men -> the problem of gender can be resolved "CWLTCS is snorting"
↳ complex emotions about that huh?
236 OUR nebula
cowboy carriage footman?
Novel revision yjh: It would have been nice if he had come with me
kdj being given story food -> me: wow just like silverwing! (sunwing in particular... i think)
237 "Yes, an unexpected accident. An accident that happens accidentally"
KDJ SICKO MODE/angry protective dad mode
ORO castle... Immeasurable Austerity -> I think rich people eat the poor maybe
DO appreciate kdjs constant "Dream Bigger" energy
238 persephone and uriel being little dokhyuk shits
kdj problems time
kdj trying to hype up his comfort novel on social media to no avail
240 "Please tell me exactly precisely."
okay so lotr
"It might be time to admit it. I had become the 'constellation' I hated"
Iris loves che and early marx hell yeah girl (1 point to orv teens and being really philosophically well read)
↳ oh seriously hell yeah girl
↳ "Iris cursed something that wasn't 'capital' ... the star stream" Hmm, Debatable
241 kdj I wish I could offer something to this scared child but i can only do this trade! -> i mean, you are saving her life?
Eoren's sword. Eowyn... Arwen? -> only women can wield it. yep checks out
242 once again I realise how great Yjh is -> yeah.. I know bud
"Yjh overcame (breaking the sky sword female only nature) with great effort." hmm. mh hm. yup. arduously, I bet. sure man, w/e
Rotating: now there are some very juicy tid bits here with yjh past hinting, and a few scenes from his pov even. similarly kdj confronting, just a bit, the means towards his end are leading to him to some interesting places. that said, in an effort to motivate myself to just read the dang thing. i feel myself really just focusing on giggling at all the delightful dokhyuk baiting and the more just comical aspects. like. horton hears a WHO CARES-- THIS DOG CAN DUEL. in order to get the joy of having fun notes on and thoughts about this story, i must in fact, keep reading it.
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generallypo · 4 years
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[   Constellation ’Director of the False Last Act’ is looking at you.   ]
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dark academia!hsy, yeeee! the white coat is fantastic, but unlike kdj and yjh, she doesn’t really switch up the color scheme. no, her bum-aesthetic purple hoodie does not count. i think she’s super hot. i yell about how much i love her under the cut.
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yo han sooyoung is actually amazing, incredible, powerful, witty, drop-dead sexy... what makes her so irresistible? let me explain
1) yeah, kdj takes the kdj company to end of the scenarios, but please. how many times does he have to kill himself to get there? not to mention his intentional (and unintentional) kill count? 
sure, he does the job, but damn is he kind of inefficient about it. say what you like about hsy’s methods or personality, but the 1863rd round far surpasses the 1864th in terms of the lives preserved while still managing to take the team to the end.
without the benefit of cheat-like knowledge, skills, and resurrections, hsy almost single-handedly orchestrates the events of the 1863rd round to a satisfying finale. kmw, problematic as he is, survives and becomes an admittedly better person, yjh finds a timeline where he can rest in peace, and the rest of the cast have their eyes set on the hopeful end of all scenarios. all this, while only being HALF of a person (hsy originally split off into two after misusing her avatar ability). do her actions lead to the happiest ending? no. but it’s the one that sacrifices the least and saves the most. for the greater good, in other words. 
hsy may be an intrinsically selfish person, but unlike kdj, she has the ability to grasp the entire picture and avoid tunnel-visioning into a crappier, more convoluted and self-sacrificial solution. ironically, it ends up saving more lives. perks of being a talented writer, i guess. 
and the 1864th hsy emerges as a leader in her own right as well. the epilogue arc shows her assuming roughly the same role as her 1863rd self in kdj’s absence: yjh breaks off from the main group (AND BECOMES A TERRORIST AKFDJDSLKSL HAHAHA) to assume a similarly antagonistic role to the remaining members of kdj company. as a result, she’s the most powerful lawful incarnation remaining, and once more the incarnations circle around her for direction.
2) independent, confident, competent (hot and kinda shameless about it). this woman has the most delightfully unrepentant attitude towards life -- how to defeat the man with the strongest defensive ability without dealing a single blow? summon a horde of your naked dancing clones to terrify his innocent sensibilities, and then cackle at his helplessness. the fact that her sponsor is literally the chuuni-est cringefest in the entire galaxy and she gives no fucks about him is just additional comedic gold. her undisguised disgust for what should otherwise be a highly respected/feared entity is a clear indicator of her supremely dominant position over everyone else, and i admire her consistent irreverence of everyone and everything.
hsy is the only character who can consistently bully kdj, brush off his deflections, and bully him again. 1863rd round hsy gives kdj about 50 migraines in the span of 5 minutes of conversation before confirming her superior wit. jhw comes close, but unfortunately, she actually respects the rat bastard. i wish i could mention yjh, but let’s be real: he -- and just about every existing version of him -- has been whipped for the guy for at least 250+ chapters now. 
hsy, on the other hand, has no regard for anything except herself... man, i respect that so much. what a queen. 
and i won’t lie! i didn’t like her in the first fifty or so chapters. plagiarism? homicide? kind-of-in-general-just-being-an-obstacle-to-kdj’s-plans? yeah, i almost fell into the trap of disliking her purely because she didn’t cave immediately in the grand scheme of kdj’s plotting -- thereby denying me the power rush that came with seeing kdj bulldoze his way through the puny attempts of small fry characters. she’s neither a friend nor a despicable foe, but rather someone who acts independently and in her own self-interest, WITH the ability to thwart major players if need be. aka, the one who frustrated kdj’s plans -- and me -- the most. 
going by my previous isekai/power-fantasy trope experience, i figured she’d get pegged into the sexy-but-sassy harem candidate, or get killed off if that didn’t work out. in hindsight, i’m just pretty fucking dumb, but honestly, i can accept that with gratitude -- 
-- because in fact. the whole ‘she-gets-in-my-way-so-she-either-goes-into-the-harem-or-dies’ trope in light novels/webnovels and the like, is, frankly, misogynistic and boring as hell. i had some admittedly low expectations for ORV, which consequently blasted my ass to the moon and left me there sobbing for 42 years as i mourned my stupidity and paid my respects to its incredible ending and character development. hsy is a particular delight, especially in her meta awareness of these tropes -- blatantly stating she isn’t obligated to kdj for saving her life and declaring the damsel-in-distress cliche as ridiculous, for example. 
and it really is, because suspension bridge effect aside, you’re not gonna want to bang a total shady stranger in the middle of the apocalypse. it’s the little statements of self-awareness, self-worth, and frankness that build up hsy’s charm. as ORV progresses, these little windows of her personality bloom as her presence takes stage center -- and then BAM! you really get to know how strong she is, how hugely capable of love she is, how subtly but wonderfully she expresses it, how she leads and protects those close to her, and how damn good she is at it. hsy is amazing. we stan an iconic queen -- no, black flameS EMPRESS. *kneeling*.
3) writes an entire EPIC, just to keep one lonely, broken fifteen-year-old alive. like. at that point in ORV, i knew. i knew. hsy is the fucking GOAT. seeing her spend the rest of her life on WOS, making sure it reaches completion because it’s the only thing that will sustain kdj until the advent of the scenarios... that hits too hard. inadvertently, it also damns the rest of the world to the terror and tragedy that the star stream brings.. but that’s the call she makes in order to save kdj’s life. 
obviously, there’s no precise beginning to the timelines -- ORV is so neatly crafted in its cycle of writer, protagonist, and reader -- but i’d have to argue that hsy holds the greatest power in the trinity. creating the existence known as ‘yoo joonghyuk’ and granting life-changing hope to an otherwise forgotten boy.. is pretty powerful. yjh, for the most part, is a slave to the scenarios (until he breaks free in the 1863rd and 1864th rounds, in particular), while kdj (unwittingly) admits it himself: he’s truly the most powerless god in existence. i forget exactly where he mentions it, but it’s in response to lgy’s reverent commentary that, with all his knowledge and presumed confidence, kdj seems like the protagonist of story or a god to him. kdj’s inner monologue, of course, is appropriately self-deprecating and scarily accurate.
in a lot of ways, WOS -- and ORV itself, really -- is a love letter to readers. it’s a two-way connection, writer and reader, between someone who creates with all their passions and someone who consumes and responds with equally sincere feelings. Ways Of Survival -- the story of a man who defied death and grief and great powers far beyond his being -- is a fictional guide to surviving in a ruined world. but to a battered, bullied, and ostracized boy, it’s not just escapism, or wish fulfilment anymore. WOS is the map to navigating the hell of his reality. there’s a certain power in the right words being spoken -- or in this case, written -- at the right time, even if it’s only for the temporary burst of endorphins upon reading an especially delightful chapter. even if it’s forgotten the next day, you’ve managed to connect. you’ve touched another person’s heart. you made them think about questions they’ve never considered before; maybe, you made them smile. 
what can i say but the honest truth? ORV, without a shadow of doubt, has most certainly reached me. i’m a goner for this story and its excellent characters -- long, long gone. something has changed, something that wasn’t there the previous day. 
the mark has been made on the reader -- small as it is, it’s irrevocable. behold, in all of its little magnificence: the power of a writer, and their story.
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