Weekly Fic Discussion

[lachrymosy]

Weekly Fic Discussion

Welcome again to kpop_fic! It's so so exciting to see so many different people joining in this community and sharing fics!

One idea arundels and I also had for this community was to have some regular discussion posts so that people have a chance to chat. So, here is our first Weekly Fic Discussion post!

This post can be used for any kind of fic discussion you want, but will also have a few prompt questions each week. We'll try to target both writers and readers with the prompt questions. 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:

• How did you get into reading/writing K-pop RPF?


• What is your platonic ideal of a K-pop fic (e.g. the elements you usually gravitate towards)?

Comments

[andersenmom]

When I started writing, it was RPF (Duran Duran, early 80s, before there was an internet or even name for it, in my teenage head). So getting into K-pop RPF wasn't even a problem.

My favorite ideal? Found Family. That's one reason I've always gravitated towards bands and groups, Power Rangers, etc. The idea of having friends you could count on, all of that.... I don't care what form it takes, AU or canon, whatever, I love the idea of a found family.

[arundels]

Found family and kpop rpf make so much sense! In a sense kpop groups are exactly that - and the most successful ones and the ones that do actually feel like a family. I love seeing that found family setting transposed onto AUs as well - show me all the thousand ways these people can find and love each other!

[andersenmom]

Yes, this exactly! That's what I loved about the bands of the 80's, the pop groups after that... Just this family that forms so fast. I just love it.

[celli]

I was really into Power Rangers for quite a while, that is awesome! And I love, love, love found family.

[andersenmom]

I love Adam! That was the most hilarious scene in that movie.

It took me forever to figure out what the connection was for all the things I was into. Bands, groups, Power Rangers, even Prince of Tennis. All found family.

[lachrymosy]

Oooh I often feel like what Kpop is selling is, primarily, a found family trope. But honestly? It's hard not to believe in it and feel affected by it, especially when they're honest about overcoming differences in order to work together towards the same goal. I love that too!

[andersenmom]

Exactly. And the fact that it's so fast because it's intense. I seriously love it.

And how they go from "you are my enemy" to "you're my teammate" - it takes a special sort of person who can do that.