OnceABlueMoon

lets dance

ORV as textposts 10/???

I put my entire being into that background

epilogue

felt like drawing yjh kissing hsy's tears away

/ orv novel ch 491 spoilers

ah yes. the 5 walls of orv

All I'm saying is KDJ only learned two ways to express love and we didn't get nearly enough of the second 👀

Bonus Heewon & Hyunsung:

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[ID: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart of Kim Dokja and Biyoo. Kim Dokja lifts Biyoo in human form, holding her on his hip. They're both laughing and leaning into each other. He is labeled "Докча" ("Dokcha" - Dokja) and Biyoo is labeled "Дочка" ("Dochka" - Daughter). The drawing is in plain black lineart. /end ID]

dokja and daughter

it's june so i can post this now!

(version with plain background under the cut)

thinking about the ship of theseus as a concept and how it applies to kdj. how much of yourself can you cut away before you cant be called the same person anymore. how many times can you kill yourself before there stops being enough of you to be killed. how much of yourself can you tear into pieces and throw away before the callousness with which you do it becomes a fixed apathy. how many repairs can be made to the ship of theseus before it stops being his.

honestly feel like it applies to yhk in general really well too. han sooyoung and her avatars in a literal sense since she is quite literally sectioning herself off into pieces whenever she uses the skill; yoo joonghyuk more metaphorically since we see in the 1863rd round whats basically like. the stripped to nothing recognizable ship now returned to theseus (kdj). but i feel like with kdj its just The Worst because we look at the scenarios themselves and like kdjs half performative half genuine flippant reveals of his deepest traumas and at his thinly veiled suicide attempts (sacrifices) are just. hello? i mean each one of those just guts him further and further and we see the literal actual fourth wall continue thickening to the point where (given we observe in kcoms pov) who is kim dokja? whats left after you peel back all the skins hes discarded? what makes the ship of theseus the ship of theseus?

and then you throw in the sucker punch of the 49/51 debacle and the question stops being like a vague overhanging vibe to the story and instead becomes the focal point of it: how much of a person can you strip away before they stop being the person you know? and i really truly think orv answers this. it answers it in the most beautiful way possible and the answer is that if theseus loves the ship. its his ship. the ship of theseus can be 1% original parts, it can be 49%, it can be 99%, it doesnt matter. the ship of theseus is theseus' ship because he loves it and as long as it continues to be loved it will continue to sail under his name.

and idk. i think about that a lot. people love you regardless of how much they know about you and thats the point. being known often precludes being loved but sometimes people know you because they love you. the ship of theseus is his because he loves it. yeah.

As (alleged) ceo of yoohankim I have made it my mission to respond to all of the birthday art I received this weekend 🫡 we are stimulating the Economy!!! Most of the originals are on my Twitter, so go check them out!

Stay tuned for more :)

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” -Macbeth

that one scene on chapter 458.......

yoohankim goes to the beach

(sequel)