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@reminiscem
“I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it.”
From Interstellar
Saying "with all due respect" before saying something rude is such a beautiful cherry on top. Like not only do I think you are a fucking idiot, but I'm also not reluctant to let you know that as far as I'm concerned, you rank so far beneath me that I have no obligation to pretend that you have dignity.
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”
— Haruki Murakami
I suppose I get why Omniscient Reader's LA was so critiqued.
It robbed us of ORV's original essence.
That aching pain while reading about a character you secretly do not want to resemble, gone.
When I read ORV for the first time, it was as if I was reading about myself: my flaws, my insecurities, my little routines and hobbies I so desperately tried to hide.
Yet they were all there, perfectly described in a 551 chapter novel I never thought could be so able to impress me.
I don't want to admit the truth, that readers always resemble the characters they fall in love with, in one way, or another.
For the first time I had the possibility of seeing myself entirely.
Getting to know my inner soul, realising that happy endings are just illusions, scream, and shout, get mad at characters, as if they could hear me.
As if I were one of them.
Eventually, by the end of the novel I didn't even realise I had already become ORV's most proudest product: a reader, a fragment, a soul.
I always was, always have been.
This is what ORV truly felt like to me, it saved me from drowning in an ocean of desperation and suffering.
ORV is, to me, what TWSA was for Kim Dokja.
A journey where the destination is unknown, but at the end of which you will discover that every single individual you know has never known yourself as well as those pages.
And this is what the live action will never give us.
I absolutely love Tom Sturridge's performance as Dream, because he is able to convey so many emotions through a single micro expression. No one else could play Dream in my eyes.
The character communicates without even talking, that is extremely rare.
And I ADORE how Dream spends time worrying if he is actually capable of love, without realising that many of the choices he makes are driven by love.
Him comforting Delirium, being for her what Death was for him when he needed it the most.
Him going on a journey to find Destruction, to silently understanding his reasons, when he chooses not to stay.
Him, taking the life of his own son, letting him go because that was his wish, even though he fears a world without Orpheus in it. Still, he puts his son's will over his personal needs, the biggest act of love.
A king, worrying about single matters which could still cause enormous problems, even if that means risking it all for one single figure.
Unlike "every king that has ever lived", the Endless King of Dreams cares about his kingdom and his guests.
The Prince of Stories wishes to create one in which everything ties and fits perfectly.
DREAM & DELIRIUM The Sandman | 2.05 "The Song of Orpheus"
The Fallen Angel
Epilogue: The Author's Words.
The Epilogue was made to psychologically destroy readers.
“That was the exact same face of Kim Dokja she remembered.
The man who came to her 1863rd regression turn. The man who she wanted to see again. The detestable man with his own brand of ass-kissing.
The man who lied really easily.
The man who she enjoyed being around, since they could lie about something together and snicker among themselves.
"----"
The man, who didn't remember her.”
The Bathing Pool (Hubert Robert, 1733 - 1808)
「 I was just too afraid
Of what I could not name 」
- Casket Cassette, Gravity
Love Letters To Ghosts.
At your lowest, you realize a lot.
And when YJH, alone, in space, read the novel HSY wrote, he finally felt like he could understand Kim Dokja just a little.
That novel became his only hope, what kept him from dying, from going insane.
He even managed to know himself in a way he had never imagined; not a regressor, not anymore, but a reader too, a character who escaped by breaking the chains, a man whose purpose is still being sought.
And perhaps, that was the only end he was looking for, the only version worth fighting for, what now allows him to take a look at his ■■.
Perhaps, KDJ and YJH have never been so close like in those exact moments: So distant, yet so close, maybe even one single individual.
«Stories began leaking out from the ripped-open gaps of the tattered spacesuit. Bit by bit, he was losing his strength. His lengthy regression journey. Yoo Joonghyuk instinctively realized that this was his conclusion.
'This is the end I wished to see'.
It could've been a slightly more excellent conclusion. If he had made a different choice back then, or maybe, if he chose to go down the better direction, then…
Yoo Joonghyuk smiled bitterly.
In the end, he remained a regressor even until his final moment. He knew it. He knew there was no better conclusion than this.
He knew that, regardless of what choices he might have made in different moments of his life, he'd still end up regretting something about them.
Even then, he'd regret and eventually, repeat the result of all his regretting.»
One of my favourite quotes from "White Nights" is, and will forever remain:
“You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do.
I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life.”
The memory of someone is the best gift we can ever receive; it will last, until we'll no longer possess the strength to make it survive.
As long as the ghost of us lives in someone else's mind, we will never perish.
We spend entire lives trying to perfect our external image, only to be later remembered through fragments, nothing more, nothing less; mere aspects we are not even sure belong to us, yet they define us.
Haunted by the fear of being forgotten, blinded by such futile paranoias.
Empty existences, we believe in our meaningless identity, unaware of infinite exceptions which, in one way or another, have already started registering our presence, loving our personality, appreciating what we failed to protect.
invisible ink
I love her, she's my favourite character.
23 dicembre 1915, dalle trincee di combattimento.
“Non sono mai stato tanto attaccato alla vita.”
- Giuseppe Ungaretti, Il Porto Sepolto
So before I start simping over everyone, I really want to talk about something this weeks chapter shows us, that being Yoo Joonghyuk's willingness to help Dokja no matter what. Lets start with this scene:
We know what happened in the 2nd regression, we know the sheer amount of pain and torment YJH went through, specifically here in the first Murim. We'll see later in the story how much of a lasting impact this moment had on him, but right now I think it's important to realize that for a regressor like YJH this specific moment probably feels like it just happened. To him, he recently watched his world burn down around him and his companions bleed out in front of him. But yet he's here again. Now, I know it could be said that he's only here for some items like Dokja bribes him with, which is true, but at this point in time YJH believes that he can get by without learning from the Sword Saint at all. But yet. We see this happen:
Dokja calls for him, and even though it takes him a moment and it looks like he wont actually come, he does. He puts aside his past and stands up for Dokja when he needs him
This is a big moment for him, even if it doesn't seem like it. We as the reader know that YJH will need the skills he'll learn here in the later scenarios, but he doesn't know that. He sees his painful past and wants to run away from it (which is a consistent theme with him). But the very moment Dokja asks for his help, he's there.
I think this really starts to show just how deep YJH actually trusts Dokja. As harsh as he can be with him, when it really matters Joonghyuk will throw away his own wants and feelings to support Dokja. This is going to become more and more evident as the story goes on, ultimately culminating in the epilogues, but it's very fascinating to see that it all really started here, this being one of the first times Joonghyuk really starts to confront his painful past in service of Dokja.
But of course, he still looks cool as shit doing it:
I absolutely adore how they've portrayed transcendence here. It was always kind of hard for me reading the novel to picture transcendence, but seeing it here really puts into perspective how amazing the act of transcendence really is when it comes to Joonghyuk.
We also get to see him softer! I think this links back to my first point pretty well; Joonghyuk in the 2nd regression was a very very different character than the one we know. Obviously this is for many different reasons, but I do enjoy that we get to peak behind the curtain to see how he was before tragedy struck him. (Because remember, the 2nd regression is the first one that truly ends in tragedy, as far as we know the 1st ended pretty tame and the 0th. Well. We know how that ended).
BUT GODDAMN DID THEY HAVE TO ALSO GIVE US THIS IN THE SAME CHAPTER. HOOOO BOY DO I UNDERSTAND DOKJA A LOT MORE.
Speaking of, for all of us women enjoyers out there:
Mommy? Sorry, mommy? Sorry, Mommy?
I fucking love her and I want her to crush me with her big arms holy. I may be ace but I love a big powerful women. Hnnnn
