Break the world's shell.

🥀|🌹 They/them | 17+🌹|🥀 RGU + ORV + assorted media sideblog ⚠️BEWARE: Heavy topics ahead, DDdnR⚠️ (mostly RGU analysis). I do my best to treat all topics with respect.

[muninnhuginn]

love it when characters do a sacrifice play ostensibly to save others but mostly so they don't have to face themselves

[prokopetz]

Level 1: The text supports a transgender reading of the protagonist.

Level 2: The text supports a transgender reading of the author.

Level 3: The text supports a transgender reading of the reader.

[swagophile]

they kicked me out of the bar for being too chuuni they took one look at my dramatic hair swoosh and my mallgoth accsssories and my giant blade possessed by the soul of an evil spirit and they said Youre outta here buddy. they picked me up by my scruff and put me outside i threatened to unleash an infernal blast and everything and they just told me to beat ir and come back in a decade idfk what to do i'm 32

[konoko]

sorry i'm being an absent friend i'm being an absent self too

[orvretranslationproject]

could you please do the scene in chapter 267 where yjh changes form? thank you

In honor of the fact this scene will be in the webtoon chapter releasing tomorrow, happy Punisher day.

[lunarthesugarglider]

google search how to induce ego death with cherry tomatoes

[lunarthesugarglider]

google search cherry tomato overdonse symptoms

These are results for cherry tomato overdose symptoms

Search instead for cherry tomato overdonse symptoms

[lunarthesugarglider]

google search hospital

[gumy-shark]

blorbo from my shows helping me change my patterns for the healthier but in a reverse way

[gumy-shark]

”blorbo would want you to eat healthier/have a better sleep schedule/whatever”: yeah they’re not the only one

“blorbo would do this. blorbo would think these patterns are normal and healthy. blorbo would also fall into this exact self-loathing spiral over not being able to change”: I NEED TO GET BETTER NOW

[billymayslesbian]

see i know a lot of the problems with scales of f/f vs m/m content on ao3 comes from misogyny but i think a not insignificant factor has to do with most people writing f/f centric content having higher standards for their output. m/m writers will literally publish anything

[illeoust]

inspired by Andrew Lyman

[panvani]

There's this huge mythos around Dark Themes that posits that Dark Themes in writing are treated with disdain/suspicion, or that authors that write about Dark Themes are subject to substantially more investigation or criticism within the industry at large compared to authors that don't write Dark Themes. And like. Obviously if your story contains upsetting content, you're more frequently going to hear about people refusing to engage with your story out of hand, but... this is almost always based on personal comfort/preference, rather than Moral, Artistic Opposition. I know plenty of people who won't watch a movie if a dog dies in it, but you don't see swarms of people boycotting John Wick.

The conventional wisdom that stories with Dark Themes will be less popular is pretty obviously untrue if you consider anything about pop culture in almost any period of history. If we speak in recent pop culture (as is generally meant)... Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is incredibly well known for its depiction of rape/CSA/incest, as is Stephen King's It. Star Wars is subject to parody for its recurrent themes of incest. These are incredibly popular, socially acceptable, mainstream works, criticism of which (on the basis of their content) has done nothing to stop each from making completely insane amounts of money. Whenever I see people claim that a work is avant-garde for its Dark Themes, it's almost always a work that has been incredibly commercially successful with no large critical backlash-- take, for example, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, which occupies shelves upon shelves of display cases in Barnes and Noble despite its depiction of multiple explicit CSA and self harm scenes.

What works are subject to scrutiny ostensibly on the basis of their 'dark themes,' like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita or Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, tend to be far more tame by comparison-- The Bluest Eye contains one extremely short and exceptionally dry description of a man raping his daughter, and Lolita contains no explicit sexual scenes at all. Actually what causes these works to be subject to criticism is the fact that they depict child abuse in a way which causes reader discomfort, rather than excitement. Nabokov actually joked about how he was strongly criticized for the lack of child sex abuse scenes in his novel, and attempts to ban Morrison's novel are usually transparently racist.

And, I mean, sure, there is an extent population that will become strongly critical of a work after learning that it has themes of abuse, regardless of the actual execution of these themes... but somehow whenever I see authors talk about how they're basically Christ on the cross for including a child rape scene in their novel (or fanfiction), they do so from a place of artistic and cultural success, and are lauded for doing so. It's just... immensely tiring.

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

Recount of the 41st regression by the Disaster of Floods, Shin Yoosung

based off of Ch. 44 of A Not so Fairy Tale (webtoon) by hyobin

"Do you know what Yoo Joonghyuk said after losing you?"

'In the future, sea battles will be difficult.'

'I lost a bad shield.'

—Chapter 103, Ep. 21 – Things That Can't Be Changed, ORV

[idionymon]

first time you talk to me: What's wrong with you? You make me sick to look at. Go and get eaten by wolves.

second time you talk to me: Well, aren't you a strange one. I know… Why don't I teach you my hidden sword technique?

[natequarter]

completely sober in the club googling WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

[rpfofficial]

we'll jump off that bridge when we get to it

[aziles]

funniest orv scene maybe is jhw finally not having to work within the good/evil morality restrictions and instead getting to execute people based off of who the groupchat thinks should die

[aziles]

SHE SAID

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

I think what would greatly benefit everyone's understanding of orv's worldbuilding is a passing aquaintance with the Cthulhu wiki. and this is the one and only case where the wiki is a BETTER source of information than the original works by Lovecraft, because the Cthulhu mythos is a "collaborative writing shared universe" and who's worldbuilding is vague and contradictory between authors. think Maurauders fandom or SCP foundation, only more classy than fanfiction.

Anyway, ORV takes a lot from the Cthulhu mythos, because it takes a lot from every myth in the world. The whole Outer God thing will make a lot more sense if you know what its supposed to be, the same way its easier to understand the Olympus constellations if you know the greek gods and their myths. The Majority of characters in orv are real mythological or historical figures and the outer gods are no different, I and maybe you are just less familiar with them.

Heres a small glossary of relevant information:

1. "great old ones" are sometimes mentioned in orv as spying on Kim Dokja, and mentioned by other Outer Gods as the most powerful beings. they're from the lovecraft stories.

They are "beyond imagination" i.e beyond Oldest Dream's Star Stream/the universe comprehended by humans and exist outside of it.

2. "The Great One" is what outer gods in ORV call the Oldest Dream. He seems to be the only Great One in the orv universe, but In the myths there are multiple and are described like this.

Gods of the dreamlands->oldest dream the connection is there. Take notice of how the Great One is protected by Nyarlathotep, hes important.

3. Have you ever wondered what was up with those "Shantaks" living in N'gai forest? These are from the myths too.

They have horse head like in orv and Nyarlathotep rules over/is allied with them.

4. The Nameless Mist that attacks the 73rd demon realm and causes KDJ to sign the outer god contract with SP and get sent to 1863rd round is also an Outer God from the myths. Specifically, it is one of Nyarlathotep's siblings.

5. Best for last, there is of course Nyarlathotep himself i.e The Crawling Chaos i.e Secretive Plotter.

Kim Dokja straight up thinks that SP is Nyarlathotep and calls him that to his face. he is right. While SP "neither confirms or denys being the Crawling Chaos/Nyarlathotep" he obviously...is him. (SP lies about his identity a lot. but this time he didnt even say he WASNT, just that it doesnt matter and to call him SP please). SingShong basically plagiarised everything about him completely from lovecraft

First of all, in their first meeting SP looks like a black shadow person with glowing white eyes, which is why Kim Dokja drew the conclusion that he was Nyarlathotep, since this is how he looks too

Nyarlathotep is the avatar of other outer gods an has a clear personality and is more rational and human than the rest (KDJ says this bout SP too)- he hates his masters (like SP hates his sponsor).

Kim Dokja once says that SP is like no other outer god because he actually speaks human language and can communicate clearly and rationally. Nyarlathotep is the only outer god who can do that and is the messager of them.

The event referenced here where Nyarlathotep causes people to go insane is mentioned in ORV too, as SP talked to the Recorders of Fear and drove them to insanity. He has darkness powers and knows the future of the universe that no one else does.

He looks like a human being and has a thousand different forms (like the different regressions).

He can shapeshift and possess people (SP does both. shapeshifts into YJH and possesses him)

Also as previously mentioned he protects the Great One (OD) and rules over Shantaks in the forest. On top of looking exactly like Nyarlathotep and having the same abilities as him and the same role and traits and literally getting told "You are Nyarlathotep" by Kim Dokja I think it is pretty safe to say that he IS Nyarlathotep.

Also, the reason why KDJ thinks SP can beat The Nameless Mist and calls him is because he thinks that is SP's/Nyarlathotep's sister. which is just kind of funny to me. go get your sibling dude its eating my planet

[berlogauwu]

who are u really