OMNISCIENT READER’S VIEWPOINT ANCHOR / SPOILERS— https://daonovel.com/novel/omniscient-readers-viewpoint/

im going to mostly be posting screencaps of scenes ive already seen in the webtoon until ive passed the point the webtoon’s at i think & then i’ll re-evaluate

go scam boy go!

and they were narrative foils… ( oh my god they were narrative foils ) i’m insane that this wasn’t in the webtoon. he tested you by throwing you into the mouth of a sea serpent!

has some kind of fucking… stroke. translating that as “original sin”…… BRO. it’s truly about who you are when you’ve already made the choice to survive at all costs

i’m about to hit the landlord scenario fuck yes lee jihye my love my soul you are EVERYTHING

there’s really something so special about light novels / translated web novels. the language they use is so incredibly utilitarian toward description but every time there’s a really good line it hits me like a bolt of lightning

i think Because of the fact that the translations tend toward utter simplicity & straightforwardness the emotion of lines that are translated so simply / directly is really…… intimate isn’t the word. but it’s very moving to me

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im having a great time with the landlord chapters rn. “the torture of hope” is a LOT

“there was an unknown emotion in yu junghyeok’s eyes” gay ass.

experiences an emotion. thanks orv for whatever the fuck this is

i’m nearly caught up to chapter 42 aka the chapter that made me lose all domestication & be like “this is the only thing i’m going to think or talk about for the next week”. vibrates. but first lee jihye character growth.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh shit is omnireader actually like, GAY gay? I Did Not Expect That One For Some Reason

i guess it’s either actually gay or “we’re going to make gay jokes about our leads” gay and i’ll find out when i find out

yoo sangah is so sweet and wonderful i’m love of her

kim dokja ***** counter: 1

has ten consecutive strokes reading this

help the first apostle is even more flaccid than i ever imagined

this novel…… segueing immediately from “here’s an overpowered ability” to “that you can only keep if you don’t kill anyone” to “it is now time to ruminate on what counts as having killed someone”

like i see you! i see you! after all these asides & monologues about the altered ethics of the world, i am paying attention & perceiving the themes

aaayyyyyyyy chapter 69! opening strong with another good volley of kim dokja and yu junghyeok Just Saying Each Other’s Names when they cross paths

“i don’t want to be the king of ugly humans like you” sick burn bro your soul is empty

oh for once the constellations are being helpful

“if only i were yu junghyeok” says high school boy whose mom **********

i take back any nice thing i said about this book now that i have to muscle my way thru SA implications. ill do it tomorrow

the writer / reader……… i reluctantly like han sooyoung

[ derealization ] has activated!

kim dokja you are broken inside

yu junghyeok really walked two days on broken glass while poisoned to get to kim dokja huh. gay ass.

YOO SANGAH I HAVE FEELINGS FOR YOU

name-dropping constellations really is the “shout-out to the sponsors” of orv

this fucking…… hitman reborn shit

it’s time for every single supporting cast character to take a level in fucking crazy i see

characters being like “what are you, gay?” about dokja and junghyeok count: 3

the structure of this story really is… almost perfectly suited for making the emotional climaxes hit different. the thinning of the barrier between dokja’s “story” and “reality”, the relationship between him as a reader and the constellations as viewers…

is it a bit clumsy in places? sure. but it’s very direct, in the way it continues to circle back around the tragedy of living through something vs the catharsis of watching a tragedy. anyway “what are you, gay?” count: 4

and immediately on the heels of that the “what are you, gay?” count jumps to 5. y’all definitely should’ve told me omnireader was gay from the start i didn’t even consider that as a possibility when i started running my mouth about the webtoon

KIM NAMWOON?????? THIS BITCH IS RELEVANT AGAIN??????

it really does kill me that dokja & junghyeok have such INTENSE rancid chemistry but every time a character does the tropey “haha you don’t have to worry about competition” to the clueless protag who thinks he’s straight it’s SO FLACCID

i’m not as mad as i could be because i didn’t go into orv for the apparently canon (?) ship & would have made content regardless but god this trope was my least favorite part of scum villain, an already bad book, so.

the constellations eat stories this is not a drill i’m theorycrafting as we speak

kim dokja there is something deeply wrong with you but we don’t have time to get into all that

the orv author said you WILL remember what japan did to south korea

the archangel uriel is a fujo you heard it here first folks

at first i was like “aww i didn’t expect this story to be gay” and now i’m like “wait i remembered why i hate it when these types of novels canonize the main couple” let ME do the work all you have to do is provide the chemistry and stop making things homophobically gay

i have never hoped more that a story would be censored for gay content than i’m hoping that orv will be censored for the webtoon so i can keep enjoying the vibes between dokja and junghyeok without All This Other Crap getting in the way ( im not serious im just mad )

“killed by the person he loves the most” go to hell!!!!

the thing that bothers me so much about these webnovel tropes wrt shipping the two leads is that it’s all just the exact same homoerotic friendship between two assumed straight characters but with a layer of fully homophobic commentary on top abt how they’re so in love actually

like. the relationship is there & is something i saw and recognized w/ my gay eyes before it ever crossed my mind that it would be acknowledged by canon. it exists. but canon acknowledging it truly just cheapens it bc canon will only make nudging jokes and homophobic gags abt it

SON WUKONG YOURE MY ONLY HO

please stop revising the translations you’re using for certain concepts 227 chapters deep i can’t do this

your understanding of the character “kim dokja” has increased

i’m obsessed that yu junghyeok has an attribute that does for him in games what omniscient reader’s viewpoint does for dokja in books

“oldest dream” count: 2

i broke the 300s while having my little insomnia waiting to do all the necessary things that need done today and i feel numb but in a good way. anyway we met the secretive plotter finally and I Am Theorycrafting

list of orv theories:

1. junghyeok’s sponsor is the oldest dream
2. the oldest dream is the power above the dokkaebis that keeps intervening in probability
3. the secretive plotter is the **** junghyeok or something similar
4. secretive plotter maintains the regression library

5. the fourth wall is a fragment of one of the oldest dream’s stigmas
6. all of orv is the “single story”
7. “■■” is desire
8. **** junghyeok is going to be integral to the “epilogue” or to “eternity” or both

OH LAST THEORY: all of orv *is* the epilogue and not the original third turn

fuck yeah based father of the rich night and queen of the darkest spring

“i really wanted a father like this” we get it you have huge issues

dokja & junghyeok

oh he left behind the watch…… howls brokenly

screams

OLDEST DREAM COUNT: 3!!

im dying under the weight of the double transphobia of both the author and the translator talking about jang hayoung PLEASE leave her alone

she’s obviously a trans woman but apparently the author uses neutral pronouns for her except when kim dokja is describing her and uses masc pronouns and whenever neutral pronouns are used the translator translates them as masc and she’s OBVIOUSLY A TRANS WOMAN PLEASE

i think if you declare your gender as feminine MORE than once and you can use a sword technique only women can use and you self-diagnose as [ gendered slur for coarse women ] you are simply a woman and i hate to see everything related to this in this novel

I THINK IF THE AUTHOR IS FINALLY USING FEMININE PRONOUNS TO REFER TO YOU IN YOUR VIEWPOINT CHAPTER…… and ↑ ALL THAT………… YOU ARE SIMPLY A WOMAN

obsessed that the translator literally quit on jang hayoung’s chapter go girl give us nothing

the new translator changed everyone’s names, swapped the word “story” that appears 100 time a chapter for the word “fable”, and put back in the honorifics that the first translator didn’t bother with. i wish i was dead

“if only i were yu junghyeok “ says man who has impersonated and been impersonated by yu junghyeok nearly half a dozen times and literally kinned him in high school https://twitter.com/alldesiring/status/1387656249316200449

“the idea that i could hurt her feelings excited me” BROKEN! INSIDE!

I WAS RIGHT BITCH!!!!! I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

well i guess that’s completely answered the question of “what happens to the world after junghyeok regresses”

I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT

im 110 chapters from the epilogue & i’m VERY MUCH in my mind palace rn. countdown to the oldest dream also being a yu junghyeok from another world / timeline / whatever

the me who was brained by steins;gate is having a blast while the rest of me is like “are there any OTHER yu junghyeok’s i should know about?”

shin yoosung… that’s my DAUGHTER

congratulations orv for making me cry over every single constellation i wish you ill

WELL………… THATS EVERY SINGLE ALT TIMELINE JUNGHYEOK ACCOUNTED FOR I GUESS.

HELLO?????

screams

the fourth wall is explaining the deal with the final wall this is not a drill

EVERYONE’S REVEALING THEIR ■■ THIS IS *NOT* A DRILL

even bihyung………

literally just cries big bitch tears for a minute

every time the narration mentions that dokja’s currently wearing two coats on top of each other during this super tense battle……

anna croft’s ■■ is “perfect night”

oh father of the rich night……… we’re really in it now

not mass-production maker pulling a fitzgerald bsd, killing him instantly

what the fuck. what the FUCK.

my longest “what the fuck” ever

chapter 516…… everything past this is the epilogue huh. i think i’m dying.

i swear to god if this dude turns back time ONE MORE TIME

i was really like “finally the last plot twist” and then they stunted on me in the epilogue. i hate books

551/551 wish i was dead

from the bottom of my heart i want you to know: not only did they not canonize the couple, an alt timeline version of one half of the couple is raising the other as a child on the fucking moon

you’re like “hey teddy what the fuck does that mean?” and from the BOTTOM of my heart i’m telling you it means exactly what it sounds like it means. on the moon. with parent-teacher conferences and all.

was it a good book that thoroughly entertained me for the majority of its chapter count? yes! did i like it? yes! am i feeling an incredibly strong negative emotion right now anyway? yes!

i’m gonna just sit with this ending and digest it and rotate it in my mind for a minute and then i guess i’m gonna revisit this thread and actually say what i feel but oh my GOD