write me

he spent 1864 lifetimes reaching for the shadows beyond the cage just to realise what he wanted was the bars all along 🫶 crazy its craazzyyyyyy

kim dokja is incredible because the whole time we see him we are experiencing him through several layers of interference, the first layer being a literal psychological wall that shuts off his emotional responses without his permission in order to protect him (and we see a very different dokja when it’s gone) on top of that is his own habit of portraying himself very poorly and his complete unwillingness to admit when he wants something even to himself. but even further than that, the reveal that none of these words were even written by him, but by someone desperately trying to understand him by imagining how he felt to create three layers of separation from a whole, authentic kim dokja. all this to say i can make him do whatever the hell i want and no one can say its out of character because what even is that. he’s designed to be interpreted in universe. the narrative openly invites you to shuffle through the information it provides to build your own version of kim dokja based on what you choose to believe and what you toss aside. the world is your oyster. and kim dokja is the world. and i am eating him whole and cannibalizing him. and also i am making him have a really embarrassing panic attack at the grocery store. because i can. it’s really beautiful

i forgot if i already posted about this or if its too obvious to be even commented on but its crazy to me that orv is all about the walls we build around ourselves, and the novel ends with a door being opened in hopes of finding someone in the other room.

kim dokja should look like a guy i see at the gas starion at 9pm buying cup ramen and caffeinated water or like he could be my friends uncle or my weird neighbor who doesn’t do the polite neighbor wave when we see each other. kim dokja should be a natural inclusion in any environment. my eyes should catch on him just long enough to think “his shirt is inside out” and then smoothly pass over him with complete disaffection. he should look like a guy i maybe went to highschool with but im not sure so im not gonna say anything in case im wrong. kim dokja should illicit a feeling of warm familiarity by being comfortably indistinguishable from any other person i saw that day or any other day. like an actor in a toothpaste commercial. but not any of the celebrities. just the normal ass people they drag on camera to recite a script so you feel like you can actually trust what they’re saying because they look like your friends mom and not Kelly Clarkson. that’s kim dokja

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing