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seungjin // meet-cute oneshot
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07/08/2023hello and welcome to the âglue song (seungjin)â series!if you probably havenât noticed already, the title is named after a lyric from beabadoobeeâs glue song because i was inspired to write this series after hearing it!listen here !i donât have anything to say in particular about this oneshot.. itâs merely a story that i word vomited whenever i was free because the brainworms for a florist au were so much i was itching to just get them out onto a doc.maybe it's terribly obvious but, i am a hopeless romantic - a lot of my friends say that i have a similar personality to hyunjin actually - and i love soft aesthetic aus with happy/open endings where things end in a lovely way with people loving and learning and growing and just ugh iâm so soft hahafor the longest time i was obsessed with the dark aesthetics like night girl/boy or emo/grunge which, yes, i still love them very much and they are still a dear part of me, but sometimes i want to indulge in the pure sunshine-type romance that rarely ever shows up in the world anymore.and i guess thatâs what this whole series is basically; me trying to put my longing for the perfect romance into a story and make the characters realistic while still giving them the happy ending i always wanted for myself.it almost makes me feel like a proud mother lolik a lot of people are like me - hopeless romantics who had to face the wrath of the hurtful world onto our sensitive hearts, and while it sounds cringey, itâs true. love was never kind to a lot of us, so if i can at least write about my feelings and share it with others, it makes dealing with it a lot easier.i hope that when you read this series too, you feel the same, and if anyone out there is similar to me, that this series calls out to you, tells you that you arenât alone or unloveable or anything of the sort. you are a precious soul whose heart only wants to be filled with all the love it can take in.letâs treasure the moments we have with the people around us, process our thoughts in ways that make them easier to deal with, and live each second taking in love not just from people, but from the air, the sun, the clouds, whatever beautiful thing you can capture with your star-filled eyes.thank you for reading this whole rant lol and i hope you stay tuned for the rest of this little series of mine!
i've never known someone like you
seungjin // remake of "you've been hiding in plain sight"
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19/04/2024i don't really have much to say about this fic tbhit's merely a remake of the first fic because when i rereading it, i found a lot of things that i wanted to change before starting to write the chaptered continuation (which i will get around to writing i promise!)"you've been hiding in plain sight" was my first ever fic for seungjin (and skz in general) so there are a lot of stereotypical and, for lack of better word, "cringey" aspects of the plot that i needed to change.in this version of the meet-cute, i don't specify that the florist is really seungmin but it's kind of obvious from the descriptions that i gave from hyunjin's pov.. i wanted to make it in this way mainly because i felt like i needed to emphasize the strangers part of "strangers to lovers", if that makes sense.i wrote this for a dear friend of mine for her birthday because i treasure her so much and i honestly feel like the development for this series later on is going to be something i would like for her to enjoy <3 ily liri mwahif you read until here thank you so much for taking the time to go through my little silly author's notes. you are a blessing!
don't forget to kiss me (or else you'll have to miss me)
seungjin // chaptered fic cont.
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tangled in love, stuck by you
jeonglix // spin-off oneshot
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let me first start by saying that this jeonglix spin-off fic was not planned at all. i was really burnt out from uni and writing âdonât forget to kiss meâ (iâll call it dftkm since the name is too long) that i really didnât know if i could write anything for a while.idrk what it was that sparked up the brainworms again but i think it was when i was listening to my playlist and glue song came on again⌠i hadnât listened to it since i finished the seungjin story and when i heard it and reminisced the aesthetic that i had tried to portray in my stories, i think i fell in love with this series and au all over again.i didnât feel like writing more seungjin because, to me, dftkm was kind of conclusive and continuing it on would mean changing the dynamic and adding more unnecessary plot devices to an already finished piece.so i thought about it, gave the story another read, and realized that i had completely forgotten about the side characters and the side ship. jeonglix actually provided a lot of plot opportunity of dftkm like the whole seungmin jeongin drama.then i was like BAM brainery and decided to write a spin-off from the perspective of the side ship. i wanted to write about their story of how they got together, and how their lives later intertwined with seungjinâs.here is a screenshot from my story outline - a plan of sorts. itâs quite blocky and rough and almost unintelligible at some points, but it really helped me with the story writing ..
actually, this story (as well as dftkm) were both written based off of an outline i made like the one above, and i was quite surprised since i never do that.usually, writing comes naturally to me - whatever i feel like fits in with what iâm writing at that moment is what comes down onto the document and eventually into the final story.. but i think this was a nice challenge; it helped me organize the plot a bit more and organize my time so that i was uploading regularly and not losing motivation halfway through.i probably will find it a bit difficult to carry on writing with this technique in the future, but it was fun to try something new, and maybe later when iâm feeling like it, i might do it again for a future book/series.now, iâll talk about the actual storyâs plot haha.there are a few things i wanted to talk about, mostly related to the chronology and characters of the fic..firstly, as you would have read, this fic actually doesnât run alongside dftkm, but before it - almost like a prequel. we see jeonglixâs relationship develop first and the troubles that come with it (haha plot).. along the way, i did try to give some hints to hyunjinâs love life, talking about how it was crumbling and that he was single, which hopefully let readers know that this was happening before he met seungmin.secondly, i think jisung played quite a large role in here, and lmao i think that may be my mistake as a fault in writerâs planing. at the beginning, i wanted felix and hyunjin to be thick as thieves, always going to each other whenever they needed support or just to have fun.but then i was like, shit, there is a part in dftkm where hyunjin doesnât know who felixâs boyfriend is,,,, as in felix completely doesnât even introduce jeongin to him at all and hyunjin only finds out what jeongin looks like when the whole drama with seungmin happened.so then i was like damn what do i do to make it more consistent and actually make it make sense. and then BAM brainery pt.2 and was like okay letâs have hyunjinâs love life tearing at the seams and felix feels guilty about talking to him about the guy he has a crush on.i still canât believe how big brain i was for that (please cut me some slack, it was 2am and i was sleep deprived, so thatâs really saying something).i then ended up making jisung a closer friend to felix that hyunjin, and so felix goes to jisung with all his boy problems and venting about his crush rather that hyunjin, and it fits so that hyunjin never knows about jeonginâs identity and is left oblivious until later.so yeah, it became felix and jisung openly gay besties rather than felix and hyunjin, sorry if you are disappointed by that lol.but i mean who doesnât love the jilix sunshine twins dynamic? if you say "me" i am in your walls :)also,chan.hahaadding chan into this fic was probably one of my favorite parts, because iâm such a sucker for chanlix interactions, and i love their dynamic so much! chan is like a responsible older brother who can still be fun with you and felix is the cool kid with so much natural aegyo and yet also an unsettling amount of swag.i love to write about them switching languages between korean and english as well, because it makes them seem closer as friends and really tight knit, which i think is a very key aspect of stray kidsâ interactions that is incredibly hard to replicate in content like fics. i am surely far from close to accurate, but i like to add little bits and dialogues that i think really match their dynamic.tbh, adding chan was also a last minute decision. i was wondering how the plot would be resolved (since there are two moments where there is a little bit of drama) and i didnât want jisung to literally be carrying the burden of felixâs love life on his poor baby girl shoulders.. so i was like âYEAH MATE AUSSIE RACHA FOREVERâyeah,,, and i wanted to give chan the feel of that reliable hyung who, whilst he gives excellent advice and words of wisdom, he doesnât hesitate to tell you things straight to your face and make sure you solve things on your own rather than always have a helping hand.in a way, itâs like a character development for felix.. he doesnât really know how to solve problems by himself because heâs never come across the opportunity to. and the first time a problem occurs with jeongin, chan is there to help them out, acting as the âmessenger owlâ between them (insert hermione granger voice).and during the second time where there is a problem, chan makes it a point to tell felix that nothing is going to be solved unless he works it out himself. yeah, it hurts, but itâs a harsh reality, and i wanted to portray felix realizing that and trying his best to do it for the first time.so maybe this fic is a romance, slice of life, but also a self-realization, coming of age (??), or a similar kind of thing. it would be odd for such a deep relationship to flourish without obstacles or learning things over time and the most important thing is how much youâve grown from those obstacles.this fic was something that i wrote also based off of myself really, mainly because i can relate so much to felix and the struggles he goes through with solving problems on his own and getting through obstacles in relationships and just life in general.i see very little felix-centric fics with these kinds of messages so i wanted to try and put on out there cuz ITS A NEED.uhm. so yeah thatâs about it for this authorâs note.. this turned out longer than i expected lmao but, as always, if you made it to here thank you so much for taking the time to read this. you are a blessing!