あったかいと

once again thinking abt ORV as one of the most brilliant and self-aware genre commentaries ever, cus' isekai/transmigration is-- in my experience-- a deeply lonely genre. the yearning to be plucked from the stress and apparent dead spiral of real life and dropped into a setting where you matter somehow. the fact that this transmigration is often by way of death, completely abandoning the real world, is particularly telling and... bleak. but whether it's a recognition of being 'the most baddass dude', the narrative satisfaction of trying to 'fix' the plot of a doomed story, or even just befriending characters we've laughed and cried for, we want so badly to be a part of something more.

and the way ORV recognizes that and doesn't mock it, but gently reminds us that... real life isn't removed from that. it may not be as straightforward and 'narratively' satisfying as a constructed story, but we can enact change in the world around us, and we can find connection and solidarity in others. the things we want from escapism are things we often can achieve in real life, at least on a small scale. if only we recognize the inherent depth and complexity of others as, y'know, fully-realized human individuals. hell, if we recognize ourselves as more than simple characters with set paths and tropes.

ORV takes every opportunity to remind us that we are not alone, no matter how bleak and isolated we feel. our lives are constantly touching others and vis-versa, and we leaves marks on the world we can't possibly predict. we matter, we always always matter

Uhhh (b)friends coat

petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

in hindsight, pitching something that would be deemed a fair bit strange by some standards to a site teeming with already incredibly strange people was a mistake. apologies tumblr users i’d forgotten where i was

Image ID: screenshot of tags reading "#who doesnt do this"

@sororia04s You can attest to how often I say "Alas"

imagine being the guy who designed the leaning tower of Pisa without considering the actual foundation first, only to find out that centuries later your tower is literally known as the "leaning tower", and people travel from the other side of the world to look at your little fucked up tower and take photos of themselves pretending to hold up your little fucked up leaning tower to stop it from falling over because you, personally, fucked your little tower up so bad.

like how would that make you feel. how are you supposed to process that.

the children yearn for the queerbait

I can tell you're not really flipping a coin.

I didn't flip a coin as I didn't have one on me, and so I picked using odds/evens off my battery percentage which I had no idea what it was until I looked. Hope that's okay

That's a valid substitute

gigachad qui gon would never leave shmi in slavery. source: i said so

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kotone design by @sunkitty143!

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silly comic about Shinsous love life

big if true

My dark souls character waiting to load while watching me mash the "similar face" button