My first foray into kpop rpf started in 2009, when I got into super junior and started writing this super dramatic donghae/OC fic on blogspot. Then around 2010 my irl friends made me write... super junior/shinee/self-insert OCs for our eyes only on lj (elmo fire gif). Nothing deep, we just wanted our favourite kpop boys to be in love with us!! That story is still floating around somewhere but pls don't ask me about it.
So I've been writing since I was a wee child and when I discovered a suju writing comm on lj around 2009 it sort of made sense for me to transition over to rpf. Because I'd always created my own characters, they sort of lacked the depth and personality that real people really had, and because idols to me at the time were like these public personas toeing the line between a fictional character and a real human, it was interesting to see how much of the essence of their personalities and character I could inject into a fictional character while also making sure I wasn't writing about that actual idol's life, the human. I used to be very fixated on exploring the duality of idols but these days it only pops up every now and then lol. Now I just think of my fics as movies where the idols are the actors!
My platonic ideal of a kpop fic: AUs! Because I see my own personal version of the idols I write as completely fictional, I prefer seeing them dropped into fictional settings in other people's work. That being said, if a canon is written well I'll read and love it 100%. I guess my actual ideal is just for fics to be written well, I love a fic that has depth and strong themes and characterisation that is true to the person without being overblown.
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My first foray into kpop rpf started in 2009, when I got into super junior and started writing this super dramatic donghae/OC fic on blogspot. Then around 2010 my irl friends made me write... super junior/shinee/self-insert OCs for our eyes only on lj (elmo fire gif). Nothing deep, we just wanted our favourite kpop boys to be in love with us!! That story is still floating around somewhere but pls don't ask me about it.
So I've been writing since I was a wee child and when I discovered a suju writing comm on lj around 2009 it sort of made sense for me to transition over to rpf. Because I'd always created my own characters, they sort of lacked the depth and personality that real people really had, and because idols to me at the time were like these public personas toeing the line between a fictional character and a real human, it was interesting to see how much of the essence of their personalities and character I could inject into a fictional character while also making sure I wasn't writing about that actual idol's life, the human. I used to be very fixated on exploring the duality of idols but these days it only pops up every now and then lol. Now I just think of my fics as movies where the idols are the actors!
My platonic ideal of a kpop fic: AUs! Because I see my own personal version of the idols I write as completely fictional, I prefer seeing them dropped into fictional settings in other people's work. That being said, if a canon is written well I'll read and love it 100%. I guess my actual ideal is just for fics to be written well, I love a fic that has depth and strong themes and characterisation that is true to the person without being overblown.