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

[moriendum]

first of all, love reading the comments here, not only for the RPF journeys but for the chance to see what everyone likes in fic <3 I can relate to so much of it!

I've been aware of fic since forever thanks to the harry potter fics I used to read as kid, so I think I just sort of accepted fic as part of any fandom experience? I can't remember if I ever had any issues with RPF; as soon as I got into suju in 2010, I started reading/writing kpop fic. my asianfanfics account was created in jan/2011, and I was using LJ and language-specific fic sites during that time too.

as for the ideal kpop fic, the appeal of RPF to me is characterization, so characterization that's based on what we know about the person is my favorite thing. I'll never get tired of canonverse because it tends to incorporate some stuff I love: found family, friends to lovers, self-discovery, roommates/living together, angst... but I love a good AU too, especially vampire AU and media fusion. (give me all the MV/book/movie-inspired fics!!!)

[nagi_schwarz]

I love book and movie fusion AUs! Also I am with you on characterization and seeing how people interpret what bits of “canon” they’ve seen or watched heard.

[moriendum]

omg yes! I love seeing authors interpret small "canon" things/perceived traits in their particular way and incorporate that into a story <3 like the example you gave in your comment - scaredy-cat member being a scaredy-cat in a fic would already pique my interest, but how that works in a specific situation and what that entails is entirely up to the author, and that's a lot of fun.