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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)?

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From:

nagi_schwarz

I think I first encountered RPF back in boyband days (we're talking NSYNC and BSB) and I loved both canon fics and also AUs and also weird crossover rarepairs (to the writer who made JC/Eminem WORK, kudos to you, wherever you are), which I think influenced my reading and writing preferences once I started getting into Kpop rpf. I first encountered it back around 2010 because an LJ friend wrote suju rpf, but I was only casually into kpop so I didn't read any of her fics. Then a friend of mine super into MX started dropping MX prompts in a prompt community I wrote in a lot (though mainly for other fandoms), and I figured I'd write a gift for her (I love writing for my friends) and then it just kind of evolved from there.

I think for me the most important part of any fic, be it AU or canon-verse (idol-verse, whatever your terminology may be) is some semblance of character consistency. Like...in Astro most of us know Dongmin, bless his adorable little heart, is a massive scaredy-cat. Jumps at the smallest things. So to have him take the lead and be the brave one in a haunted house would just...totally throw me off. It's also the reason I'm generally hesitant to write in a fandom where I don't feel like I have a good grasp of who the characters are, because I wouldn't want to do the fandom a disservice and have things be totally OOC. Other than that, I'm not super picky about the broad strokes of a fic as far as themes or world-building.

I myself love magic/scifi AUs and also interesting job AUs, and also weird and random crossover pairings (I am the purveyor of the only Shownu/Rocky fic out there I'm pretty sure) if someone makes them work well. I also like interesting character dynamics, and if the fic is mostly a romance, a relationship built most likely on friendship or a long-standing acquaintance. Also I am a sucker for soulmate AUs if they have a cool twist, like "you're colorblind till you meet your soulmate, except one of them is just genetically colorblind and will never see color".

From:

jonquilles

Oh, yes about the characterization, and consistency is a really great way of putting it! I know a lot of people who think that since it's all made up anyways, characterization doesn't matter, but I definitely fall more on the side of wanting that consistency. While it's true we don't know them personally, they are presenting parts of themselves to the audience, and I do think it's important! (Also personally, characterization and voice are my favourites things to write lol)

From:

nagi_schwarz

I think the tricky thing about canon fics and characterization is different writers have varying levels of engagement with canon, so stuff that seems obvious to me about a character may totally be unknown to another writer who has seen different content.

From:

jonquilles

Very true- I've definitely run into that with some of the groups I'm into, where members who are really big personalities on variety shows or performing are actually pretty quiet or introverted outside of those situations!

From:

blackcatofmisery

It's great how so many of us have friends to thank for getting into Kpop. _{Sometimes I dunno if I should thank them or curse them, though... I never expected to have so many ~*~feelings~*~ for these groups. ;w;}

I'm with you on characterization in fic, and I know I hold back from contributing to a fandom if I'm not familiar with the members' characters. What really tickles my pickle, though, is when a writer can take someone like Dongmin, for example, and put them in a situation that would usually throw them off yet still handle it and even flourish. Overcoming personal obstacles or fears in a way that makes sense.

=^..^=~

From:

nagi_schwarz

I absolutely appreciate an author who can have a character change and grow in new and unexpected ways over the course of a story. If the author had set up Dongmin’s character growth before the haunted house, I would love to see him brave up and take the lead, but without that development it would just seem OOC to me.