Weekly Fic Discussion

[lachrymosy]

(Bi)Weekly Fic Discussion

Welcome back to our (now every other) Weekly Fic Discussion post!

This post can be used for any kind of fic discussion you want, but there are also a few prompt questions each week. You can reply to all of them, one of them, or none of them if you have something else you want to talk about!

Feel free to post WIP snippets, ask others' opinion on characterization, share a clip that has broken your brain, etc.!

This week's prompt questions:

• What was the first Kpop fandom you read/wrote for?


• Tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote (any fandom).

Comments

[andersenmom]

the first Kpop fandom I ever wrote for was DBSK, when they were five. I miss them - they were so much a vocal group and I miss the a capella they used to do.

The plot of my first fanfic? I came to Kpop through Arashi - Jpop - and so I mixed the two. It was something about Xiah Junsu and Ohno Satoshi doing a duet. It's still up on my dreamwidth account.

ETA: Have any of you ever done research and had to rewrite most of what you'd already written? it's so frustrating!

ETA 2: My very first fanfic? that was 40 years ago, and I have no clue (definitely a self-insert fic). It was Duran Duran, though.

[celli]

My first reading/writing kpop fandom was BTS; I started reading fic for them in 2017 but didn't write anything until last year. (And I've since written/podficced 35 work, oops!

My very first fic ever was a crossover between two shows (Highlander and due South) and it was supposed to have action/adventure and all sorts of things. Except I never finished it. Double oops!

[lachrymosy]

The first Kpop fandom I ever wrote for (and read for, as far as I can remember) was the Wonder Girls. I can't actually remember the first fic I read but I do remember the first fic I wrote, which was mostly a genfic about the unpleasant side of idol life, so... nothing has changed in my RPF interests haha.

I remember the very first fic I ever posted was a Harry/Hermione fic about the final battle or something, maybe right before or after book 5 came out? That fic is lost to time and the depths of fanfiction.net, assuming I didn't delete it, though I bet I did. I suspect that technically the first fic I wrote was some handwritten Mary Sue OC-insert Harry Potter fic, like textbook Mary Sue with changing eye colors, unreasonable amounts of power, thinly veiled wish fulfillment, etc. Looking back on it, it was super fun haha. Handwritten Mary Sue fic really has its purpose!

[hitokage]

I think the first fic I wrote for Kpop fandom was Taebin/Seven? Alas, all that early stuff got lost in a computer crash (and then theft), so the earliest I still have access to is OT5 DBSK, which is pretty close to the same time, only I actually published some of that out where I could theoretically claim it back again. (But probably won't, because trash fans managed to chase me out TWICE, so fuck that.)

Uh, the first fic I ever wrote was almost forty years ago and a self-insert Greek mythology MESS that I'm not at all sorry to not have anymore. XD It wasn't meant for anyone else anyway, so it's fine.

[blackcatofmisery]

I think the first Kpop fandom I read for was SHINee, but I first wrote for EXO. Pretty sure. It's been a long while since The Beginning.

The very first fanfic I wrote, however, was way before I knew Kpop was a thing. Maybe first grade or something, there was some assignment to write a story. No idea the specifics, but I was always making stories and drawing stories and read a lot of mysteries. Through my brother, I was introduced to the Boxcar Children. The first fanfic I can recall (only because I found and recycled it recently) was for the Boxcar Children. I didn't read it; it was tossed with a pile of other old school assignments.

I can much more confidently date my first Kpop fic. It was a SeKai (EXO) fic posted in November, 2013, and it was about questioning the future and likelihood of being together as older people. One of the few canon-compliant stories I wrote before falling for the appeal of AUs.

=^..^=~

[bookishdagger]

The first kpop fandom I read for was BTS, which was also my first RPF fandom! The first fandom I wrote for was Seventeen, though.
My first fanfic ever was...okay, so when I was in middle school I loved the show My Babysitter's a Vampire and I had just read Twilight a few years prior. I guess the vampire crossover potentials were crackling in my brain, so I wrote fic about Reneesme as like, a secret childhood friend of Sarah and Erica. The fic was truly and profoundly terrible and I never finished it. That was actually the last fic I wrote until this time last year, and the last fic I posted until this January. So really my history is just that fic and then everything I've posted in the last 9 months lol

[kpopwinemom]

I actually don't know what the first k-pop fic I read would be! It could be from any number of fandoms, because I tend to look for specific tropes and if a fandom shows up, and the fic looks good, I'll read it.

This is how I got into k-pop fandom, actually: I already listened to some k-pop music (Exo, Big Bang, Super Junior, Girls Generation) and BTS was getting a lot a lot of fic appearing for them, AND their albums were showing up at the Target near my house. So it sort of compiled and I was like, well, everything around me is coming UP BTS so I might as well start getting into them fandom-wise. So in that regard, they were definitely the first k-pop group I started to seek out content for!

I don't even remember the first fic I wrote, I was writing them in my head really really young, and I'm honestly not sure what the first one I would have posted would have been, either - it might have been one for Max Ride, in 2006. I would have been in middle school. I simply refuse to give you more info on that account!

The first fic I posted to Ao3 is a Homestuck fic from 2011, the first BTS is a Namjoon/Yoongi HC piece from 2019, and the first fic on my current account was posted in 2021, and it's a Joshua/Junhui fake dating one shot!

[nagi_schwarz]

The first K-pop fandom I ever read for was Astro, but the first one I wrote for was Monsta X at a friend’s request.

The first fanfic I ever wrote was when I was still in single digits and it was for The Dark Crystal and my elder sister illustrated it for me.