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༺ Still Into You chanyeol / jongin 【 M 】

In which Jongin and Chanyeol have been dating for a really long time.

# fem!jongin # established relationship # fluff # non-graphic smut

༺ You're Just Like Christmas Day baekhyun & chen 【 T 】

Jongdae schemes a plan to get back at Baekhyun after he pulled a prank, but the prank Jongdae comes up with isn't only internationally embarrassing, but a test.

# canon # idols # christmas

༺ Stupid Cupid baekhyun / chen 【 T 】 ( DISCONTINUED )

Baekhyun and Jongdae wake up one day to find they are descendants of Cupid, and to go along with Cupid's wishes, they must have their friends fall in love, and in the process, they fall in love with each other.

# university au # cupid au # matchmaking # friends to lovers

༺ Arizona 17:12 chanyeol / jongin 【 G 】

Chanyeol finds himself lost in Arizona, though he doesn't know why, and doesn't know how he got here...

# exodus / pathcode # mythology undertones # tw: fire

༺ didn't expect our first time to be during an apocalypse baekhyun / kyungsoo 【 G 】

Sure, a fantasy of Kyungsoo's was to have his crush Byun Baekhyun in his room and in his bed but the only problem here is his there is an apocalypse going on outside. What fun.

# paranorman au # ghosts / poltergeists # zombie apocalypse

༺ tales of the greenhouse luhan / jongdae 【 G 】

Being the town's apothecary, Luhan was expected to keep up the garden. With orders flowing in every day, he had been agonizing over the very messy notes Minseok had left him. But try as he might, the plants were slowly but surely dying, and it was only May.

One of his regulars, Baekhyun, with his beautiful elven mind, had remembered that Luhan's neighbour is a garden fae. Luhan was desperate at this point, so talking to his gorgeous and very intimidating neighbour was something he was just going to have to do.

# elves & fae # magic # fantasy

༺ lunch for the soft heart chanyeol / jongin 【 T 】

Perhaps Jongin's new and temporary job as a secretary is too good to be true, so when he gets free lunches everyday from an anonymous "Chanyeol", Jongin is almost 100% sure he is being slowly poisoned.

# office au # single dad chanyeol # comedy

༺ blood soup for the vampire soul yixing / sehun 【 M 】

Something stirred in Yixing, and he woke up, practically hissing at the sunlight that came in through the curtains.

Sehun was almost definitely sure he's a vampire.

Or, Sehun is an idiot who watches too much Twilight and Yixing has bad drinking habits.

# vampires (kinda) # comedy # drunkeness # crack-ish

LOONA

༺ divine jungeun / heejin 【 G 】

An upcoming war is looming over Anool’s head and Princess Heejin is given the duty to seal the evil. She is struggling with unlocking her power and feeling inferior is a given. What doesn’t help is that she is given a personal knight, who is too caring for Heejin’s liking.

# botw/legend of zelda au # royalty au

OTHER

༺ the heir jongin / soojung & seulgi / sehun 【 T 】

Following an alternate version of what we know and love to be Hogwarts, Kim Jongin, Kang Seulgi, Jung Soojung, and Oh Sehun are faced with the everlasting classism and prejudice against each house. The Gryffindor, the mighty and the annoying within the castle create conflict and take advantage of their long-winning House and Quidditch Cup. The other houses are not as rambunctious and hearty, though when a surprising attack on the Gryffindor that point fingers all towards the Slytherin house, it is up to the Head Boy Jongin and Head Girl Soojung, as well as the house representatives, Seulgi and Sehun, to figure out who attacked Gryffindor and why.

# hogwarts / hp!au # school # magic

my first proper post here about my writing process.

do you have a character or story idea but have no idea actually what to do with it? well, let's use cliches!

your writing teacher or any writing aid has probably told you: avoid cliches wherever you can. and it makes sense, cliches are cliches for a reason, they're overdone, they're annoying, they add nothing to the writing space. if you're trying to get published, it will do nothing to help your story standout amongst the millions of others trying to do the same thing.

but here's the thing— cliches exist for a reason! sometimes, they just happen as natural progressions of things, spring as a metaphor for rebirth, the rain creating a gloomy vibe. or they are extremely common in real life, rich families not being very close, a book reader wanting to become a book writer, and the like.

so how can you take the advice given to you by writing aids but also understanding that cliches just make sense?

identify what you want to expand. for this example i am going to use a character i had in mind, she has no plot line laid out for her, she was created as an OC for RP for different perspective practice but i never made her into anything bigger than that.

she is a typical hallmark protagonist, girl who is too focused on her job, has to move back to her small town when her father gets sick and has to take over her family's ancestral horse ranch. she is an accountant, so she's more than qualified for the job of managing the business' expenses, but she has no idea what to do with anything else. she's never had a close relationship with her father, and he never did with his family. we will call her violet.

identify the most cliche outcome. already this story is quite cliche, and there is nothing wrong with that! this can be a fun exercise, you can take from media you love and just plot out the first cliches that come to mind, and they can be as broad or as specific as you want.

violet and her father develop a closer and more understanding relationship as they learn from their other family members about the ways of ranch life.

a childhood friend of violet's works on the ranch, and they are very knowledgeable around horses (think hannah montana: the movie). they develop a romance together as he teaches her the life of the ranch.

or we take from book lovers by emily henry, violet meets someone in the small town who equally hates the small town life. but they make it work somehow (be careful w something like this, since it can seem like a pretty obvious take from a piece of media, nothing wrong w that imo but some people might take issue w it, but if its a fic you're writing then it's not really an issue).

violet learns her family's horse ranch actually houses a big secret within it. whether it be something horror/thriller-esque or something along the ends of fantasy, that depends on what you're more into/comfortable writing.

so here we have some ideas. they're either specific or broad, and you can choose one that you would want to read the most.

i am going to choose probably the most cliche idea here: the childhood best friend, just to get my point across.

expand on the cliche. now you can either keep going with the cliches:

the childhood friend had a crush on violet when they were young but never said anything about it. or the reverse.

the childhood best friend is thinking about leaving the small town, or wanting to leave the country, but stays because of violet.

a tragic event happens (like violet's dad passing) and violet pulls away from her best friend, unable to handle the grief.

an ex of violet's comes back into her life with the intention of taking her back to the city, and violet has to juggle her double life.

the childhood best friend is actually a girl, and one of them pushed the other away due to internalized homophobia.

the childhood best friend became a delinquent so now they're kind of the "bad influence" to violet, but one violet wants to fix (kinda like heartland, if any of y'all have seen that lol).

or, we can start the subversion of tropes. now subversion can be as out of pocket or as deep as you'd want to go, either small or big.

the childhood best friend is a girl, but they never had any feelings for each other, rather, the two did come out to each other but nothing came of it. it's only now that they are seeing this new side to each other as adults.

the relationship between the best friend and violet never develops into anything romantic, but there are hints to the reader that it happens, and maybe they try, but they both realize they don't actually feel it (either an incompatibility of sexuality like violet is a lesbian and bsf is a man, or something like that). the story is still very focused on their friendship, though.

violet is the one who actually knows how to ride horses while bsf doesn't, rather, they just know care. so violet is the one who teaches bsf how to ride or how to be a better rider, instead of the bsf teaching violet everything.

the bsf is actually a supernatural of sorts, and nobody knows except violet's family.

the bsf and violet are actually related (though this can be cliche), but they never realized it or knew. doesn't have to be a romantic story in this case but can... if thats what you want ig lol ?

the bsf is actually not a bsf, or maybe they were in elementary school, but the two had a falling out (maybe similar to regina and janis from mean girls?) in high school and became rivals or one of them bullied the other.

and you can take each idea and expand it further. just by doing this exercise not only do you have ONE idea that you like the most, but now you have like 30 ideas that you can go down the path of if you don't like your main one, or you can mix and match. this can get quite hectic so i'd recommend a better organizational source than just tumblr bulletpoints lol, but it can help you with just the brainstorming process. it's important to remember what cliches are problematic and which can easily be subverted with how much work you're willing to put into with research or your own life experiences if you wish to work with those problematic cliches, but keep in mind that people might call you out for it.

everything will be a cliche to someone, no matter how much you try, there will always be someone who sees it and think "i've read this probably 500 times before". thats not your fault, sometimes the most cliche can be fun! this is a starting off point to further complexity and depth, not necessarily the end all be all, so cliches can be present, but it's really when you look at them in context or the story as a whole is where your story can be unique.

anyway, idk how much i'll be posting writing tips but i hope this helped those who have ideas but have no idea where to even start with plotting. cliches can be a fun starting off point!