Ok But The Orv Epilogue Grabbing You By The Face And Going "HEY YOU. YEAH YOU. READING THIS. YOU READING

The Demon King of Salvation & The Golden and Endless Witch Beatrice | 😈🦋

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Today is a battlefield, and I am the only soldier. Anxiety, self-doubt, intrusive memories- they all showed up, dragging their sharp edges through my mind.

The magical thinking whispered lies about escape, about fixing everything if I could just be someone else. I’ve been fighting them all day, and now I’m too drained to even think about self-care. Survival may be the only thing I can manage today

ocd is honestly fucking soul destroying. it's 4am and for the first time in years, tonight I've managed to alter one of my compulsions and take one of the rules out and it feels like - like the world is coming to an end. every atom in my body feels like it's screaming at me to do the compulsion over again and i can't make it stop. i feel like something terrible is going to happen to my family and it will all be my fault bc I couldn't just do the stupid fucking compulsion like I was supposed to and its hell this is hell I am in hell

Suicidal (fruity) bastards who will do anything to protect their loved ones but think they are unlovable and that no one cares about them

Fell in love with the storyline

Got Plopped In a Ghost Story, You Still Gotta Work: A visual primer for English speakers

This took me a week. I did this for ORV like 4 years ago so it felt like my moral obligation to make one again.

Some notes on character designs and images without text:

Gorals and domestic goats look very different, but in Manor of the Blind attention is put into how these two are similar and contrasting, the truly noble Go Yeongeun with the white goat and the sinister Baek Saheon with the black goat. I also picked a literal goral instead of a mountain goat (which are naturally white) because gorals look more like roe deers than goats, making the 3 of them more closely linked.

Because this is a horror novel and unnatural features aren't mentioned, I tried to keep this as grounded as possible. Sorry to the three WHABs I eliminated in cold blood ⭐

Another hardliner of of grounded designs is Jin Nasol, who gets the most ostentatious anime character treatment besides Jay in fanart. She is coldly utilitarian and prizes efficiency over all else, there is no way that woman has bangs

I am not giving Park Minseong brown hair. There is nothing wrong with a good warm black

Lee Jaheon is often depicted as an adorable little newt in fanart, but a huge part of why he is so hysterical is that he is scary, so I picked more intimidating lizard traits so he functions in both dramatic heroic scenes and eating granola bars with the wrappers still on. He gets to keep the newt mask though

I gave Braun white gloves at first but I saw a Braun cosplayer and a demon possessed me. I have no idea what colour is canon. who doesnt love black leather

Making Jang Heo-un the "sharp eyes meek personality" trope made my brain light up so good. I was trying to contrast with the relaxed eyes of the easygoing Park Minseong to make them more obviously different but this feels cosmically correct

You can use these pics in whatever. ⬆️

when your boyfriend lets you fly 🪽

Encouragement

dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.