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I’m really only here for Omniscient Reader and I’ve definitely read it for more hours than this says I have.
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Ok, I can see it that way a bit XD
I think the farthest I got before now was around the end of their picnic day after the journey to the west. I stopped because I just needed a break, its a lot to get through and I probably had irl stuff to do without also dealing with the mindbending angst. By the time I picked up the novel again, I figured it would be best to go for a reread to remember context
Ah yes, dry saliva returns!
Hold on whaaat? Is that 11 lbs 14 oz? Dayum, poor mama hyunsung
I know she’s implying she’s the smart scarecrow and kdj is the cowardly lion, but honestly I see hsy as the one who fits cowardly best. Not that she is cowardly, but I’d say more than the others
Omg… and so he goes through it all again without his memories. All the way up until 1683 when he meets Hsy and kdj as we saw before. He created this event which will be his future. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂 𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒊𝒃𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇
That already seems like a spoiler to me…
Although if it’s an ending that negates the journey, as in “it was all a dream” or “they were already dead”, then yeah It’s gonna taint the story for me
This is my second time reading this novel, and yet I’ve never reached the ending. And yet, I absolutely consider ORV to be the best book/novel I’ve ever read. I don’t need to know the ending for the journey to have left it’s mark on me. So I say no, just like in the Journey to the West, it’s not about the ending.
I think I remember someone mentioning that tls was a sort of Korean pun or slang for god, but I’m not sure and don’t wanna look it up for fear of spoilers
Narrative is more powerful than historical
I think it’s that earlier this translator censored people who aren’t censored in-world
Making the Great War have their own genre lol
As a rereader, I forgot you.
Also HSY = foresight, YJH = hindsight, KDJ = insight (unless it’s about his own relationships lol)
Are they going to end up with a trio of great fables that relate back to the ot3 maybe? Ttswm = Hsy, Dws = kdj or yjh? There’s just so much that relates to them like this that I could see it happening (like how I see YJH as light, HSY as dark, KDJ as chaos, and writer, reader, protag parallels) (jeez imagine an orv noob trying to decode this 😅)
I feel like that wouldn’t be something you would want to advertise…
Laxmus isn’t the god, he’s a dedicated follower, so other followers won’t die if he dies, but they will die if Rex does
Ashley has always been male, and it’s a name that originally was used more for men