hi! i know this is well-intentioned, and i appreciate the feedback, but it's discouraging to hear! i self-edit all of my fics, along with being a full-time college student, so unfortunately, i miss a lot of mistakes. i am fully aware of plenty of grammatical mistakes with full out, and i fully intend to fix them. i actually took it down to edit it for a while, but i recieved a lot of comments to put it back up, so i decided to put it back up not fully edited to my standards! i'm in a position now that i really don't know what to do with this fic, because i dont want to take it away from people who are reading it, but i am also extremely unsatisfied with the grammar. I am also swamped with finishing all my wips and my school work. so sorry! im happy you enjoy it and took the time to read it! it means a lot to me! and i hope you can overlook the grammar until i find some time to fix it.

BUNNY!!! JISTARS ORIGIN STORY!!!! you always have the most introspective questions let me ponder back. i may have talked about this before but i forgot but the name star comes from a quote in the waves by Virigina Woolf because it's my favorite book and it made me think about a, literal, star personified and as something cute a whimisical and also devestatingly potent the quote is "“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.” and i thought if i was ever a star i would want to be this one and then decided that. then for JISTARS i just like my stuff in all caps sue me but the ji obviously from jisung and then star from that name and then i put them together because it kinda sounded like joestar from jjba and it made me laugh so i did that!!!

for fics that made me want to write in this fandom it's actually funny you asked because in the earlier months of 2024 i started to document my favorite fic writers and more or less start looking at them on twitter daily to stay up to date and i was like what?? this is so cool? all my favorite fic writers know each other?? and are friends??? it was like a giant cross over episode and it blew my mind and i thought Wow this is community. i actually just looked at a note page in my phone and laughed out loud, because it's like take a shot for every author on here that is now my friend and it's just so cute. i remember specifically i really liked angel leebitcore and cloudrages and bowlcuthanz and then this little story i distinctly remember reading on my ipad after freshly graduating high school that was for the juglar. and just after that i was like wow this is really cool i can keep up with authors on twitter.

in that same vein i discovered socmeds. i remember actually reading lai's and lunas socmeds VERY distinctly, which again makes me smile thinking back on it, so i would deadass refresh their twitter pages every day waiting for an update. and i just thought they were so funny and creative and i wanted to make one. i was also ruthlessly pummelled with dms on instagram from bots so i thought that idea would be funny.

in a twisted way, i always wrote my socmed with the intention of writing the fic prequel. i was really scared of breaking into the community, so i figured softlaunching my writing entrance with my socmed genuinely just coming out of left field was a good idea. i could have maybe gone a more traditional route, but i dont regret my decision because it led me here.

ive been reading, and reading fanfiction for a longggggg time, but i never thought i could write and was just sorta bewitched by the whole process. but i sat down one day during a break from school after a series of events in my life made me more confident about my abilities to write, and just tried it with a fic that will never see the light and was addicted, i think i wrote like 5k words in one sitting. it was super fun. but i lost that and didn't pick up writing again until the summer. and YEAH!

im really grateful that all my oomfs sorta found me and took me under their wing in the early stages, it was really encouraging. kay aka @quokkarizz was also really encouraging and helped me MAJOR and i mean MAJORLY with my writing and grammar because i knew NOTHING about fiction writing, like it was laughable, like i didn't even know i needed punctation in quotation marks laughable. so that was also like, lifechanging, advice. and YEAH. i look back really fondly to my start because i believe i had all these secret supporters who i know consider my friends helping me along the way. and it's just funny to see how fate falls into line. I HOPE THIS WASNT A LONG ANSWER (i know it was) AND THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION!!!

HI! jistars is good, how are u anon...do u know i love u. this is so sweet im going to cry. i think books really contribued to how i see love, as well as fanfiction in maybe more pivotal ages. i really gravitated towards books with like divine intervention, or magical systems that pushed things into action narratively. then in fanfictions i LOVEDDD soulmate aus and also childhood friends to lovers (which in a way is also just a soulmate au if you think about it, but that would be too long to explain in this) and i think all of these views on love impact the way i write. my view of love that really pushes me forward is that your person is just like... walking around and living their life right now. and that every action you take is already done and now you are just living it and that your paths are destined to meet already. so everyone has a partner that fate has already decided for them, and your paths will meet at a time already determined and entirely out of your control, and no actions you take will ever change this. so everyone has a soulmate-ish, in that sense, and everyone will connect with that soulmate because fate has decided it so. i think this is reflective in the way i write maybe, but im not too good at making observations about my own writing...so maybe one of u guys can spot this connection for me. thank u for this question Jistars feel very happy thinking about this and this is very thoughtful and introspective i like it.

HAHAH ACTUALLY NO! i actually really don't like romance as a genre, especially romantic comedy, so i never read it. i like to read poetry a lot, and memoirs, and just standard fiction! i think my fanfiction mirrors certain elements of all of this genres! so in a way yes! in terms of genres i like but don't think i could write would be anything that is reminiscent of modernist literature??? i LOVE modernism as a movement but i really like to use characters dialogue and their interactions with each other as a push to the narrative, so i don't think i could write a piece that is mostly description and internal in my fic, but i would love to try one time!!

THIS IS SO FUN!!! in my heart, i do believe that they think they are soulmates, but i think that perhaps the type of soulmates has changed or evolved as their relationship matured. in the beginning, in a lot of content their unabashedly BOTH call each other their soulmate or eternal companion. in this, i believe they think that they have found each other. it was relatively close to debut (only around a year after in the 2kr i'm thinking about) so it seems like this instant connection was a found one. but in recent content, like the 2kr your referencing, it does seem like they think they are made! i think this comes from their relationship maturing and deepening, and that they have grown so much and put so much work into their connection that they believe they are made. it takes work to keep a relationship, so this makes sense to me! so i think they believe both, depending on perspective and the stage their relationship is at, and i don't think either one is neccesarily better!! i also agree with your reading on minho!! i think he believes deep down it is fate because of that pull, but he isn't as on the record a hopeless romantic as ji, so he plays it off. but curiously, ji has recently been playing it off too. i think them becoming more private and secretive only shows how deep and intimate their conneciton has grown to be. but YES! i do believe they know and believe they are soulmates, even if they type may change or they may conceal it at points, i think they know.