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Thank you, Max!!! I think I spent more time organising the list than I do writing them but it was nice to see everything lined up this way 🥺

Okay, so Darkest Hour is actually a mix between two different ideas of mine involving DPR Ian and Jungkook. The first idea came from a cancelled collab that I joined featuring Jungkook as Vampire L'estat (Interview with the Vampire...the movie, not the show/Queen of the Damned). In QOTD, L'estat got famous by becoming a lead for a metal band and I wanted this version of him to write with Jungkook's character. Then Ian came in the mix as the werewolf rival fighting over YN/reader character.

The second idea was a rockstar au feat both boys as band members/rivals. I got this idea after seeing these pics circulating on twitter/X while DPR was on tour which, at the same time, also made me imagine him as a werewolf

Mixed with Jungkook's photoshoot, it just seemed perfect

Since I already had the idea with Vampire Jungkook as a musician, I figured it would be best to combined the two. It didn't click until I put both ideas together on my notion page like this and thought it might be more interesting to have the two ideas written together lol

Sweet Little Lies is actually a continuation from my other Jungkook fic, Slow And Steady. It's about painter jungkook and YN as his pregnant wife. The story involved infidelity so I got people getting mad at me and Jungkook *coughs* for a while.

The original piece was a commission fic and I don't normally write sequels for commissions unless the person who ordered the first fic requested me to. This never happened, so the sequel was never planned. But then a lot of people wanted to see YN getting a revenge and a happy ending, and then I was invited in a collab with art/museum theme where BTS members are known as people working around art museums. So I'm using this as an excuse to write a closure fic for Jungkook and reader.

Here are some pics that I use as reference for this story:

hahaha. i appreciate the visual.

the hyunjin flashdance one i've had (looks), good god, since july of 2022. it's as deep as the title, loosely based on the classic 80s film flashdance, but with Hyunjin as our working class man by day and provocative dancer by night.

chan escort is...pretty much what it sounds like. and the most recent thing on this list as in, i worked on it last week.

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Thank you! I shut off my notifications and ignored my family while I was at work 💀. I occasionally glanced out the window between frantic work emails. Narcolepsy made me late for work, so I got extra sleep by accident--a gift for myself.

I miss you too, friend! I'm getting that itch to travel because it's been so long. But where do I go if there aren't any concert events within reach? 💀💀💀

I want more metaverse shows from any group. I'd pay. I enjoyed the virtual shows from a couple years ago. I'd totally bring my Fortnite account back online if it means I don't have to get on a plane and be coughed on. It'll be me, all the European stans who get unfairly skipped on "world tours," and all the ones who didn't get that Verified Fan presale code. 🤣

Max omg 🥰

So the Cozy Bookshop AU title is a cheeky mislead and a tough one to talk about because...well, here's the synopsis:

Kim Namjoon, an entirely regular man meets you, an entirely regular woman, in the completely normal bookshop you own. A very normal romance between you follows. Assassin organizations, supernatural energies, sadistic cults, demonic entities, alternate dimensions, shapeshifting oracles, predatory vampires, disgusting amounts of firepower, and additional not-so-normal elements may or may not be included.

It's a very fun world to write in, everyone has a secret or four, there's conspiracies, action, lots of blood, betrayal, dimension hopping, and too much kissing cause you know me!

As for Size Matters, this got sparked by my exploration into Omegaverse. I talked about it a little bit in this post.

Omega Y/N hiding out from her new cuddly lovesick alpha bf Namjoon at her best friend beta Yoongi’s house because Joon’s in pre-rut and she’s not ready to handle a knot that size.

Dw, Yoongi will help 🥺🥺

Oop, Namjoon found them.

Oop, Yoongi’s roommate, dom daddy alpha Hoseok just got back.

MAX! hello! thank you for dropping in (many months ago, whoops) you're an absolute sweetheart 💕 I've been doing good, just not on here that often lately. And honestly, I think my algorithm took that personally, cuz it only shows me kpop stuff months after it happens now, tsk

I hope you've been well too! What have been your favourite releases lately?? what have I missed?

thank you, max🫶

Max, hello 🥺🥺

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

It has happened a couple of times, actually. One of my old stories, Undo, talked about a toxic relationship with self-destructive characters finding their way to healing. I wrote that fic only about a year after I got out of an abusive relationship so that was fun haha. For some reason, delving into that territory became something that helped me cope. Being able to write the topic in a more grey area (not completely black and white and without glorifying the toxicity) and simply focusing on the human flaws helped me see things differently about writing dark topics and building characters. I think that was the moment when I learned that writing imperfect characters with flaws made them feel more human.

Another, more recent, experience with writing out of my comfort zone happened with Cinnamon Bliss. Writing about grief has always been hard for me, because I tend to use my own personal emotions and trauma as reference so I can "give" that same emotions to my characters. Again, I found it comforting and healing to be able to put this into writing, even though it was something that I used to avoid in the past (eg. talk about character death). Through the process of writing this story, I can say that I learned a lot more on how to illustrate grief through the characters' emotions without being overdramatic (I suck at explaining this, sorry) and how to narrate some events through dialogues and expressions, because it did took me a while to do this. I'm actually glad that I got to write this piece, since I found that the story helped some of my readers to find comfort and healing through it, which is something that I never expected would happen when I first thought of it.

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