i cant judge 1863rd yoo joonghyuk for anything he did if han sooyoung appeared in front of me smoking a cigarette and telling me to kill myself for her i would also obey without hesitation. likewise if kim dokja appeared in front of me and pet my hair and told me to live forever i would follow his words too. really cant blame him for anything that happened in that timeline i think
Lee gilyoung the uncrowned king of seeing Kim Dokja as something beautiful and far far away
AO3 people skittering over to Tumblr together every time it goes down
Orv is suchhh a good fandom for fan analysis and meta and theories like what we do here on tumblr, because it IS that deep and you ARE meant to be reading into it, unlike a lot of other writers of media with big fandoms who seem to actively despise their fans and people analysing their work. I'm talking about bbc sherlock and supernatural here mainly, not to name names. Both of those have themes and motifs that you could read into, and many do, but it feels like you are stubbornly fighting against the writers to enjoy their work, rather than working with them to explore it to it's fullest.
But not orv. Here they even acknowledge the ridiculous nature of what they are trying to do with orv, and the critisisms a skeptic might have.
and here is what Sing Shong responds with through Han Sooyoung, but speaking directly to YOU.
You're MEANT to be reading into it!!! even IF the authors didn't intend something, it doesn't matter, because death of the author!!!!
So when you're looking at orv through the lense of freudian psychoanalysis or whatever you're DOING IT RIGHT! Sing Shong respect and allow this, and that's such a unique thing I've never gotten from another fandom before.
recommending orv to people who don’t like isekai is so hard bc i have to be like no trust me it gets philosophical and such and they’ll be like in what way. and i have to say well that’s a spoiler. so they’ll be like so when does it happen. and i have to say in the last 50ish chapters. but it’s especially great and stands out in a reread. and they’ll be like “so you want me to read 2.6 million words?” and i have to be like well. yes.
Started reading Omniscient Reader! and WOW I love them all already