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

[arundels]

You being cautious about rpf because of tinhatting is funny because I definitely got into rpf via tinhatting and overanalysed videos of the 1D boys... and then I got into fic and it was like, well this is more interesting if you think about them as characters, isn't it? It seems from this post and the comments that a lot of rpf writers end up falling into this latter category of treating it less as Real Person and more as Fiction! (or maybe just the kinds have dreamwidth journals... self-selection perhaps...)

Ahh hyperspecific industry aus I love them!! Honestly "setting as a character" is one of my fave things.

Feelings about where home is... As a person who has moved halfway across the world from where I grew up... Yes... Though in a way I find this makes it difficult for me to read or write about those topics in rpf - it makes me feel too many things and it's so personal that if it's not represented in exactly the way I experience it, it feels jarring. But maybe I just need to process my feelings about it more haha. If you ever wanna share your thoughts with me about this please do <3

Ensemble antics are also such a great thing - we need more gen fic where it's just "the characters do some goofy shit" haha

[bookishdagger]

haha yeah I definitely think there are some people for whom rpf is more akin to speculation/can get conspiratorial etc but the circles I run in are very conscious that it's all for fun which is where I like to be!!!

Yeahhh I am not an immigrant myself but in recent years, both because of family stuff and also just getting older I've been thinking a lot more about my parents as immigrants, and about how life-disrupting it really is to move away from home....also part of what drew me to biasing Joshua in the first place but that's a conversation for dms if you want to hear me ramble about that haha

AGREEEED about ensemble antics...esp for svt!!! i wanna see my silly goofy guys being silly and goofy!!

[arundels]

100% agree about your approach to rpf, tbh it's so much more freeing and fun not to take it too seriously. if you're not trying to "find out the truth" you can just explore whatever dynamics are interesting or compelling at any one moment

and I def wanna hear abt it feel free to dm me on twt / we can exchange discords if you want :) the thing about joshua is that he can hold so many immigrant experiences inside him... being an asian american and then moving away from home to become an immigrant on his own... sir are you trying to collect em all with the immigrant experience