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

[lachrymosy]

ALLYYYYYYY ok obv I knew about the 2NE1 origin story, and I knew you were a fan of 1D, but I don't think I knew 1D was directly responsible for the rise of AO3 user saturnalyia! We all benefit as readers now because that band broke up and sent you to kpop hahaha!

Reading your platonic ideal of a fic description, I totally understand how we became friends via AO3 comments actually haha. I feel like what we look for in fic isn't identical but it's really adjacent and complementary? I feel like where you're looking for "intimacy but not the kind of intimacy we want," I'm often at more of a place of "intimacy but it's hollow or impossible to have." Maybe this is part of why we really enjoy each other's fic even when we have different focuses!

PACRIM AU PACRIM AU PACRIM AU literally just waiting for all your fic hehe!

[arundels]

haha that domino meme with "simon cowell forms one direction" all the way to "faking it" sjdjlskf

Your comment on our adjacent fic tastes is so interesting! I completely agree that it's really similar but not identical, which gives us loads to talk about. In a way I feel like maybe there's a slight tone / focus difference between what we like as well - in both cases there's that distance from the One True Intimacy but I'm obsessed with all the intimacy that the characters do have and how close they're getting, whereas you focus is on that final distance that just can't be bridged? All different ways of looking at the same thing perhaps!

God don't remind me about pacrim au I need to finish my fest fics so I can go back to it... I told you think on discord but I re-read it yesterday and got the end of the stuff I'd wrote and it was like, WHERE IS THE REST OF IT OP except I'm OP