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

[bluedreaming]

I'm sad that I missed out the LJ heyday, though I have to admit that getting exo fics onto ao3 was a part of why my friend and I ran the exordium in 2015 (not the only reason!). But definitely re friends; my closest online friends are all from exo fandom <3
Now I'm curious about the 75% Heechul!

(Edit: I could be totally wrong, but did you start thekpop100 comm on LJ? I was just reminiscing about that)

[lachrymosy]

Ok first—yes I started thekpop100! (and handed it off to breakfirst at some point!) omg I was looking at your username for a while and trying to figure out if I remembered you from elsewhere on the internet (I was also a mod for kpop olymfics two different cycles, started an LJ comm called kpop_gen with my friend, etc.). I'm so glad you remember that! Honestly that was really a fun comm. Maybe we can recreate that kind of event here if there is interest!

The heyday of EXO fics though was really something else. Idk if any other kpop ficdom has loomed quite so large in the whole RPF space since haha! Like will anything ever reach the status of "anterograde tomorrow" in terms of immediate name recognition?

Re: Heechul, I found a fic meme from like 2008 or something a few months ago and it was truly like 3/4 of the ships people were prompting involved Heechul. Like... at that time he was just totally THE kpop boy. Everyone was busy projecting their depression onto him tbh. But the fic about him was really really good. This will always be my favorite Hanchul fic and also my platonic ideal of Kpop fic in general haha.