Impeachy

Soldiers after the great boop war (31/10/24 colourised)

Immortal Shen Qingqi… on what, does he ponder….

ah.

One thing I love about orv is that it initially bait and switches you by convincing you early on that the constellations are the "big bad" of the story - voyeuristic beings that gain enjoyment off the suffering of others - until the reveal that they are also going through their own scenarios. This mirrors how us as the readers are going through our own lives and our own struggles yet we consume media highlighting the experiences of others. We root for these characters, we follow their journeys, we see ourselves in them. And yet we're not villains - we're just surviving. We're escaping the struggles of our own lives by indulging in these worlds created by human imagination. Similarly, many of the constellations in orv do not have malicious intentions despite living off stories - uriel cares greatly for the incarnations she supports (as the "fangirl" archetype) and sun wukong and abfd also greatly support kimcom throughout their journey.

This is further solidified in the reveal of the oldest dream. Despite unintentionally creating worldlines through his imagination, the younger kim dokja was never a villain or "monster". He was simply a child who sook to escape the tragedies of his life through a webnovel. He depended on that novel to survive. And that was in no way the sin he thought it was - not even secretive plotter who had gone through countless regressions and witnessed the despair of the universe could hold it against him. Nor han sooyoung, nor yoo joonghyuk of the 1864th round, nor yoo sangah, nor anyone else in kimcom. No one thought dokja needed to atone for anything - they loved him and cared for him even when he couldn't love himself.

Just like kim dokja and just like the constellations, we are readers seeking an escape from the struggles of reality. And we too are loved - regardless of whether we know it or understand why.

a couple of eepies

i have mastered the super and evil boops, it is over

i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.

arcane makes me want to rip my face off

listening to the magnus archives is so fun because there will be this character who has spent his whole life letting other people put him down and just going along with what they said for the fear of being unwanted but when faced with the literal concept of loneliness threatening to overtake him he says “no, no more. i was manipulating YOU.” to this god like creature and it’s such a powerful moment but you can’t take it seriously bc also there’s a man running through a hall somewhere going “MAHHTINNNNN” and also said god like creature is arguing with another god like creature (who is his (ex?) husband) over a fucking BET they made regarding who got to end the world and keep aforementioned character’s boyfriend

(Across the Spider-Verse spoiler)

Oh hey it happened again

Here ya go, champs