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[missgowgow]

reading the orv side stories rn, wow yoo joonghyuk was really like this the whole time huh. yes yes, he’s lived through literally hundreds of lives watching everyone and everything he dares to care about get destroyed in the most brutal way possible for the entertainment of uncaring gods, but also ☝️ he’s been a low-empathy weirdo trying his best (his best is still kinda shit) since day 1. the trauma actually didn’t change his personality that much.

(also I love the detail that his thing about not eating food that other people cooked came from his first pre-trauma life, although to be fair, being food-poisoned by jealous coworkers is pretty traumatic, it just is small compared to aforementioned centuries of sisyphean torture)

[missgowgow]

I sent my little cousin abroad some books (some old faves I had doubles of, some new kid classics) and she sent back a letter saying that she liked them. unrelatedly, I started pirating a lot of my childhood fave books for my ereader and I’m now mentally going through them to figure out which ones to send her based on her age.

I also need to write a ‘hey kiddo, you’re 12 now, and that means you should learn internet piracy’ guide. ofc I’ll start with project gutenburg and standard ebooks (one of the books I sent her was an abridged copy of Anne of green gables) (I know those aren’t piracy but they’re gateway drugs).

the next obvious step is annas-archive but I can’t actually think of any warnings I’d need to give her? I’ve never actually had fake file problems or anything on annas-archive, is that something I should warn her about? I don’t think a child would care for libgen or the internet archive. thoughts?

[missgowgow]

downloaded the orv ebook and damn this thing is a brick, I’d probably say my actual reading time left is around 45 hours because I’m a fast reader but DAMN. I haven’t even caught up to the manhwa yet

[missgowgow]

it was at 10 during my drive home. it was so hazy that the sky was yellow and dim. the visibility was so bad that I was able to visually clock when the haze started to lift. also I saw people playing outdoor golf without a mask.

[missgowgow]

while I did not use these files, I cannot overstate my respect for whoever borrowed the fullmetal alchemist volumes from their library and scanned them incredibly neatly and uploaded them to annas-archive, those scans were so clean that it took me a sec to realize they weren’t fully digital. I did end up finding fully digital PDFs instead but again, I cannot overstate my respect for the grind

[missgowgow]

there’s a voice inside of me that’s saying to reread the orv novel before continuing the sequel since I’m still so conflicted on 49/51 and the choices that kimco made, but I think that’s the devil talking. I’m feeling like I need a fixed perspective on the ending before going into what’s essentially ‘a fix-it fic where everything actually got worse’

[missgowgow]

man I thought I understood the orv ending but starting the sequel has me googling ‘orv ending explained’. tbf, it does seem that I did understand the orv ending and having no idea wtf is going on at the start of the sequel seems to be normal but pls confirm. who is dansu ajussi and why is everyone an outer god or immortal or something? who is snowfield????

[missgowgow]

it’s such a shame that they cut this arc in fma:b