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oooh this is kind of a hard one, I have so many songs in my playlist where I was like this is them!! but let's see!

"Girl Almighty" by One Direction

"Easily" by Bruno Major

"reckless driving" by Lizzy McAlpine and Ben Kessler

"Where do we go now?" by Gracie Abrams

"Timeless" by Taylor Swift

aww thank you for asking! this is a one-shot filling in the scene right after the power goes out at Eun Yoo's house after The Airport Scene. so, yknow,,, there's a bit of smooching 🧍🏻‍♀️

it's pretty short, so posting a snippet would kinda spoil it, but here is my current description for it! (might change it too but that is the idea :))

Eun Yoo might regret this later. Really, all the reasons she told herself not to do this are still very valid. But then, no one has ever talked to her the way Eun Gyeol does. And she really, really, can’t bear being called Se Kyeong anymore.

ooooh okay! this was actually supposed to be part 1 of my already partially published Live Up To Your Name fic, “on a crowded street in 1944…”. the two fics are meant to be companion pieces, each one exploring the dynamic of our otp set in a different time period.

so this story takes place in 1592, just before the Japanese invasion of Joseon (this is also the setting of the actual show before the main character time travels to 2017). Lady Yeon Kyung, 23, must move to her uncle’s house after her grandfather and guardian dies. she has plans to follow in her grandpa’s footsteps and become a doctor, an acupuncturist. however, her uncle, the Minister of War, intends to make an auspicious match for her instead. the match is royal physician Lord Yoo, whom she does not care for. meanwhile, she tries to do as much medical work as she can get away with, and in the process she meets “lowly” physician Heo Im. their friendship becomes love, but before anything else can happen, the Japanese attack, and everything is thrown into chaos.

when I was doing research for this fic, I was actually super stoked to find out that they did have female physicians in Joseon — Confusian beliefs made male doctors treating women a taboo, so women were trained as doctors to take care of women. I think it’s a super cool detail and gives more historical validity to Yeon Kyung’s wish to be a doctor; it even aligns with her motivations to be a surgeon in canon.

aaaanyway, I would really like to continue work on this fic! I have a couple of scenes in the first chapter written, but I also have a rough outline of most of the story as well as a handful of scenes that’ll fit in later on. here’s one of those scenes for your pre-viewing pleasure 😉

And oh, these new feelings — this urge and this need to hold her, watch over her, to keep her safe and happy and alive. Love and war had altered him so. Where before it had been just him and his career, now it was Yeon Kyung first, and then him, consumed with the need to hold her hands and kiss her face and touch her hair and to do anything for her.

Miscommunication: D. Once upon a time, I had a WIP that relied heavily on the miscommunication trope but before I finished writing it I grew to hate it so much that I never went back because I didn’t know how to retroactively fix what I’d already published. JUST TALK ABOUT IT, PEOPLE!!! But on rare occasions I might keep reading, if I’m very intrigued or there’s a miraculously good explanation for why they’re not communicating.

Only One Bed: MY BELOVED. A, but specifically when it leads to other sorts of shenanigans/subversions and very much NOT when it just leads to anything nsfw. I simply love scenarios that appear scandalous but actually have a legitimate, completely innocent explanation.

Love Triangles: C. I do usually say that I hate it with a passion, but the truth is I don’t mind it much when it’s a) well-written and b) not dragged out. So it really depends. It takes a good writer for sure.

Constellations, Hesitations

The cadence of my heart (and how it echos your name)

thanks so much for the ask! <3

Constellations, Hesitations

Fandom: Mansfield Park

Pairing: Fanny Price x Edmund Bertram

It’s a lovely spring night at Mansfield. The Crawfords’ names haven’t been spoken here in years, everything is peaceful, and Fanny couldn’t be happier that Edmund is staying over for the night. She thinks nothing of it when he asks her to go stargazing in the garden with him, just like they always used to.

Edmund does not seem nearly as calm or untroubled as she does.

Or, the night things changed.

Anyways, even though I didn’t watch Live Up To Your Name, I still read this anyway (because I just read fics when they seem interesting), so I was wondering about your thought process cause I loved the tension 😍 ——— His eyes widen. “You were lost? In this cold? That's terrible. How long had you been lost for?”

“Oh, about five minutes. Last night was the first time I came here, so I couldn’t remember the way.”

He nods. “Were you— were you supposed to be meeting your boyfriend? Because he was here. He left about five minutes ago.”

“You mean Jae-ha?”

“Yes.”

“Well— yes, I was trying to catch up to him.”

“You two seem very familiar with each other,” interrupts Mak-gae.

Yeon Kyung and Im both laugh lightly.

“We actually, uh, knew each other,” Yeon Kyung explains.

“Oh, really?”

“Yes, we met last night when she was here with her boyfriend.”

“Not my boyfriend,” Yeon Kyung corrects him.

“…Oh. Not your boyfriend.”

“Just my friend.”

“Just your friend,” he repeats mechanically. The weight of the words seems to hang in the air between them.

They look at each other for a very long five seconds before Mak-gae, eyeing them suspiciously, clears her throat. “Dear me, I feel like an intruder all of a sudden.”

This breaks the spell.

Yeon Kyung looks away before he does. “So anyway, I was here with — ahem — said friend last night, and your brother happened to be here as well.”

“Well, how about that?” smiles Mak-gae. “And here you two are again.”

“Here we are,” they agree, mirth sparkling in the eyes of both.

okay since I’m answering asks about my writing it’s finally (!!!!) time to answer this. sorry for the delay 🧍🏻‍♀️

thank you so much for the love btw!! and I’m going to be long-winded and a little pedantic, so I’m placing it under the cut :)

Hope your wrist feels better. How’d it go today? Hopefully not too painful 🙏

Praying for that wrist recovery because they are so important omg!!!

Thank you!! The wrist brace helped a lot. I just got home and took it off to get ready for bed and everything and I definitely feel better than I did last night. Party was eh, the dancing wasn’t very good, but at least I got to see some old friends and just be there for my cousin :)

Ask game: Eleven, Love Dive, and Payback!

eleven: what skill/accomplishment/thing about yourself makes you feel like an 11/10?

Hmm that's a tough one. Maybe my sense of humor? I know that I do have moments (on occasion) where I'm like oh yeah,, I'm a catch 🤩 but it's just more of a sum total of things about myself than something specific.

love dive: if you confessed your feelings to someone, how would you do it?

That's a terrifying thing to consider because I've been perfectly happy to go my whole life thinking that the other person will do the confessing for me lolol. But if I was going to confess to someone, I think I'd write him a letter.

payback: name your favorite ive song!

"Shine With Me"! I think it's so pretty and hopeful and also the shine metaphor?? You know I'm going to think of Yichan and Cheong-ah 🙈

Thank you for the ask @mintandcreme and sorry I'm so late to responding! 🫶🏼