Paired novels SVSSS and Omniscient Readers' Viewpoint, and their perspectives on the relationship between reader, work, and author, and the way these things transform each other in their interplay
@Betty YES I think about this all the time
@soph_sol just need more people to read this.... 1000k translated novel that, wait, no, hold on, I know this sounds like a garbage male power fantasy, but!
@Betty lol yes! I'm actually reading the webtoon adaptation of it as part of a book club with friends, which makes it far more approachable to actually work your way through!
@villainousfriend @Betty oh it is EXCELLENT. one moment while I go find @ryfulets extremely convincing review of it
@villainousfriend @Betty @ryfulets here you go! https://skygiants.dreamwidth.org/637791.html contains some spoilers, but like, the book is SO long, you'll have forgotten them by the time you get to the point where they're relevant :P
@Betty @ryfulets @villainousfriend @soph_sol is this the kind of thing that perhaps has a secret fandom .epub version or did you all just read it on webnovel.com?
@Satsuma @Betty @ryfulets @villainousfriend looks like you can find a pdf version here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OmniscientReader/comments/pxd79a/omniscient_readers_viewpoint_webnovel_pdfversions/ but idk about epup I'm afraid!
@Betty @villainousfriend @ryfulets @soph_sol i have gotten through an alarming number of pages on pdf in the last 24 hours
it’s definitely an Experience. not sure i could explain to anyone what that experience actually *is* but
@Satsuma @villainousfriend @ryfulets @soph_sol everything happens so much
@Betty @Satsuma @villainousfriend @soph_sol Events Start Coming And They Do Not Stop Coming
@ryfulets @villainousfriend @soph_sol @Betty i need to go read some fanfic where everyone gets to like, take a bath and then get a full nights sleep
@Satsuma @villainousfriend @soph_sol @Betty great news for when you hit chapter 400 or so
@ryfulets @Betty @soph_sol @villainousfriend it better be a VERY luxurious bath with scented candles and everything 😂
@Betty @ryfulets @soph_sol @villainousfriend these weirdos are SO obsessed with eachother
they’ve probably touched like four times and barely talk and yet the homoeroticism is somehow off the charts
@ryfulets @Betty i meant homoerotic more in the Barbara Kreuger ( https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63019 ) sense than actually shipping them rn
Tho their habit using eachothers names constantly may convince me otherwise if it keeps up
@Satsuma @Betty i do ship it but in a way where the mutual obsession and highly specific dynamic is pleasing, compelling and Romantic whether or not one cares or thinks they care if any particular bits touch; unfortunately, 95% of the fanfic cares more about the bits touching than the highly specific dynamic --
@Satsuma @ryfulets I am personally "That feeling was friendship, but neither of them had ever experienced it before," but I enjoy it very much.
And, like, yeah, if you've never experienced that before of course it would make you insane!