Do You Hear That? No Nightingales

::::::::::::::::::::::: That sounds, um… Lonely? Yeah. But you said it wasn’t. I’m a demon. I lied. ::::::::::::::::::::::

[cfeather]

yjh’s birthdays in different world lines

[enlightened-nacho]

Redraw of The Lobster (2015)

[targetedknowledge]

[theweirdhybrid]

I just had the horrifying realization that “You Can’t Catch Me Now” from The Hunger Games fits Kim Dokja to an absolutely horrifying degree and I actually just ruined my own night wtf. It’s a song about haunting the narrative and Kim Dokja is literally haunting it from the very first sentence despite being right in front of us.

Kim Dokja the man with the blurry face. Kim Dokja the man who everyone knows but nobody can quite remember what he looks like. Kim Dokja who nobody remembers the name of quite right. Kim Dokja who carefully crafts plans that make sure everyone comes out alive at the cost of his own life. Kim Dokja who everyone is looking for, hoping for, praying for and pleading for. Kim Dokja who everyone chases after but can never catch. Kim Dokja who hides in the night sky, watching everyone with so much love in his heart and being unable to see that they too are looking back, wishing that he would come back to them.

Kim Dokja who haunts the narrative, despite being right in front of us.

Kim Dokja, the Reader.

[omniscient-readers-reblogger]

⭐️ Op’s tags bc they deserve to be seen ⭐️ ⬆️

[junjaaa]

There is nothing less romantic than cooking with someone in the way lol...Yjh wouldnt mind listening to dokja yapping tho. he would pretend putting tomatoes in the dish to see if dokja is paying attention to anything other than his bazongas

[junjaaa]

I just learned the existence of kkoma kdjs in the side stories…i cant believe its real 😭🥺

[bliphany]

The problem with making my way through too many (?) orv fics in a relatively short time and without keeping a note is that, now I have this lovely little domestic detail jumping up and down in my head but I don’t know where I read it from!

The detail is: KDJ very often asked YJH to drive home safely after the latter drive him home. It’s AU fic most likely. And I am 60% sure that happened pre relationship and KDJ just acted out of habit/very naturally but it then became a connection between them. That’s really gentle and cute.

And now it’s impossible to go back to about 100 fics and search for it…. My best guess for now is probably Reasons to Live by twi_v but I’ll have to re read it to be sure (which I will anyway, because new chapters just dropped recently and I need to refresh my memory)

Anyway, my memory is so bad I am a bit annoyed lol

[1000saiaruji]

“The Oldest Dream. The world’s most omniscient yet powerless god.”

[tsukithewolf]

Thinking about how Yu Junghyeok wanted to find his parents in the Yu Mia Side Story, and then him choosing to accept Kim Dokja as his "parent" after his conversation with Lee Sugyeong. 🥺

"My parent is a fool who loves novels."

[glumdelay]

Playing god Trying out a bit more realistic proportions and shading! I love the snowglobe concept and wanted to do a bit more character study for Crowley

[tsukithewolf]

The Most Ancient Dream, 1863 Han Suyeong/TLS123, and Secretive Plotter are the ACTUAL representations of the Reader-Writer-Protagonist bond. They're the most extreme examples of each. A person who lives only to read, only to write, and only to live a story.

Han Suyeong, Kim Dokja, and Yu Junghyeok are meant to break those chains that bound them, freeing them (and themselves) from that cycle.

[makidraw]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I'm still waiting for a new chapter every week for six months now. I love it so much that I can't just pass by and not draw art for this masterpiece, so I recommend you read it again!

[bliphany]

I feel it’s so interesting that, in the meta language in ORV, a PLAUSIBLY STORM is basically a punishment for BAD STORYTELLING 😆 (as in: ignoring the commonly accepted ways of plotting/tropes).

And the act of constellations/outer gods giving their plausibility support willingly so that a certain character can create the story he wants is like they saying: Oh I WISH to see this version of his so much more than I care about how this story WAS USED TO BE TOLD.

So, the plausibility is a scale that tilts under the combined influence of storytelling convention, popular tropes at a certain point of time, and the power of readers’ WISH.

Come to think of it, this is how stories change and evolve in our world, too. How the authors took this rule of storytelling and made it into the foundation rule of the new world that was Star Stream just like gravity in our physical world was the first few things that made me fall in love with ORV.

(And from then on, I just started to use that term in my book discussion with friends, such like: “do you think this novel really has enough plausibility or it just comes from the fact that its author is famous?” yk… like a nerd 😆)

[makidraw]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I'm still waiting for a new chapter every week for six months now. I love it so much that I can't just pass by and not draw art for this masterpiece, so I recommend you read it again!

[fullmoonisle]

good omens | sappho, fragment 147 (translated by anne carson)

[gotyouanyway]

anything u think about YOUR life after 10pm is bs to be ignored. anything u think about a character’s life after 10pm should be posted about online and expanded on for paragraphs. :)

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