op drop the 2min authors so i can pine with you

but oh this is a really interesting question. tbh i've only been here a year so there are lots of writers who have had a huge gap between posting and i've never noticed because i'm still going through their backlog. i also still can't really tell you who the "classic" minsung writers are.

but hmmmm to at least try to answer your question, maybe martyrsdaughter? i'd love to see more minsung from noonwitching? not a specific author, but i'd sell my soul for this fic to be finished: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55042834

it's been a while since i read it, but i was deeply obsessed with the minho characterization, and the premise is SO. GOOD. AUUGHHH. i'm gonna reread it rn byeeee

yes!!!!!!! i come from a really small rural town (like, REALLY small. we're talking a population less than 1000) and have Complicated Feelings on what it was like to grow up there. i think a lot about fic where jisung and minho were bffs in high school and on the day of graduation, jisung kissed him, and when minho said nothing in return, he fled and pretty much never talked to him again. cut to years later, jisung is fresh out of flunking out of an idol program and returns home to live with his family, catching up with his old high school friends. he runs into minho in the grocery slash hardware slash fucking deli or whatever weird shit small towns are up to. they start talking, minho mentions he's there because he's renovating the house he just bought (probably one in the town square, somewhere they would have walked by to get to school every day while jisung whined about [pop punk voice] getting out of this shithole town so it's WILD that minho decided to not only stay but buy a house there).

they have coffee and things aren't as awkward as they could be. really, it seems like they could be friends again. so minho invites jisung over to help renovate the house and it's actually kind of fun, so he keeps coming over. and obviously they fall back in love. probably at one point they're forced to address the elephant in the room and jisung is like "you didn't kiss me back!!!!!" and minho is like "you didn't give me time to react!!!! then never talked to me again!!!!!!!" and then they kiss some more probably. that's what i'd write if i feel like i could execute it well, because i have soooooo many feelings about what it's like to grow up somewhere and return with totally new eyes - for the worse or for the better, and i think it'd be interesting to see a minho who's made peace with his life vs a jisung who doesn't know what he wants anymore but knows it Isn't Staying Here.

unless......unless...........

i sketched out a bit a long ass time ago, but i don't know that i'll ever actually be able to write it at the level i'd want to, you know?

but here's a bit of jisung and seungmin:

“You look like you saw a ghost.”

“Close.” Jisung watches the glove box until it softens. “Minho. At Park’s.”

Seungmin’s face eases into a neutral expression. “How bad?”

“Not bad.” He swallows. “He looks good.”

“Yeah.” Eyes on the windshield. “He looks like he sleeps.”

Jisung laughs once. It sounds wrong. “I sleep. All I do is sleep.”

Not like he has anything better since he left Seoul.

Since you failed, his brain offers.

“Could’ve fooled me.”

Jisung swats his shoulder. “Shut up. It was… I don’t know. Weird.”

“When’s the last time you talked?”

“Graduation.”

“Shit.”

“You knew that."

“I know you stopped,” Seungmin says. He doesn’t look over. “I don’t know why.”

Jisung presses his tongue to a molar. Old habit. “It’s—complicated.”

That’s one word. The truth sits where it always sits: I kissed him. He said nothing. I left.

Six years of best friends — of living in each other’s pockets — gone in a blink.

Seungmin’s grip tightens until the leather creaks. “It always is with you two.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Nothing,” he says, too innocent. “Just—do you think of him as unfinished business?”

“Not really.” Another half-truth. He’s good at those.

“You want to see him again?”

“I wasn’t planning on it.”

“That’s not what I asked.”

The pine tree swings from the mirror. “He bought a house.”

ANYWAY!

that's it. that's the fic. i

i do! way back when, i was really involved in mass effect, then dragon age fandom. my main ships were shepard/kaidan, but i could fuck with shepard/garrus or shepard/liara. in dragon age, i was a lot more versatile. my main was probably hawke/fenris, but i read a LOT of fenris/anders, hawke/merrill, merrill/isabela, carver/whoever's-brave-enough-to-wade-into-THAT mess. i think a lot about this one fic where hawke writes a letter that outs herself as not having had sex for a decade or so, and everyone around her grabbing their gear and volunteering to fuck her. i only bring this up because i think about it A LOT, re: bang chan. he hasn't had sex in years. not because he doesn't want to, but because he's been so busy with his career and taking care of everyone else. it accidentally gets spilled that he hasn't had sex since debut and the team is more than willing to team up to make sure his needs are met. anyway. i just think about it a lot.

like, a lot.

right now, i'm playing baldur's gate, which i have thoroughly enjoyed but i'm not sure if i'll finish. nothing against the game, it's just fucking hard and i'm a weenie baby gamer. other than that, i've played a lot of animal crossing and mario kart lmao

oh i love this so much. your algorithm clocked you immediately, huh? it got me too. i think i watched one (1) buzzfeed clip and suddenly my entire feed was swallowed whole. i was so embarrassed to fall so thoroughly and so fast down the rabbit hole that i deleted all of my youtube history for at least two weeks, radio silent about the storm brewing inside me.

it's also my stay anniversary soon! i hope that means yours is approaching too.

and love a lee know bias, although i am, cough, biased myself in this arena. i wasn't a huge fan of hyunjin at first. not for any particular reason - i just didn't connect to him. somewhere along the way, he just clicked for me and rocketed up my list of biases. changbin would also be my bias if i had a choice in the matter. objectively, i think he is the Best One. the pillar of skz. all of their husband. what's not to love?

i hope you enjoy reading! happy to provide more if you ever run out. happy reading!

oh god anon, you’d think that because i spend about 99.999999% of my brain on these boys i’d have a better answer re: headcanon. the truth is, since i’m writing them so often, most of it gets poured straight into fic—so that’s the best place to see how i read them, individually and together.

minho: competent, curious, eccentric, loyal, nonjudgmental, focused, caring, disciplined, hardworking, humble. full of contradictions: cold face, warm core. playful, but a grinder. he wants you to read him as mysterious when the answer to most of his behavior is simply that he pays attention. he notices patterns, remembers the boring details, and acts like it’s nothing. a big, big heart he tries to hide.

jisung: witty, funny, passionate, pensive, loud, silly, shy, confident, curious, sensitive, individualistic; an artist. incredibly clever, swaggy (lol), charismatic—and also the world’s biggest loser. god, i love him. where minho is uncomfortable being truly seen, jisung craves it. he wants attention without translation: not to be decoded, just recognized. he performs until it turns real, and when it’s real he’s dazzling.

together: playful, comfortable, reassuring, they just get each other, lock and key. minho needs a gaze that won’t pry; jisung needs a gaze that won’t look away. they meet in the middle and call it comfort. i think they click so well they'd struggle with genuine conflict that needs, like. you know...a conversation.

as for fic, this one might have my favorite dynamic: loser=lover by taotu (https://archiveofourown.org/works/36982708)

waittt wait because of ME? ? you got into skz because of ME? anon tell me everything. who's your bias what do you ship where do you fall on the divide between christmas evel haters and enjoyers? these are the things i need to know.

i'm also so glad they've been able to help you navigate hard times. i feel the exact same way about them - i don't know that i would have made it through the last year and its increasingly fucking ghoulish escalations. it's nice to have a place that feels both safe and satisfying, and i'm happy you were able to find that too.

ummmm COMFORT fic, hmm. i don't know that my favorite fic is particularly comforting, because i like a LOT of angst and yearning and Characters Making Bad Decisions. otherwise, i just read a lot of porn lmao. i'll link some fic i tend to revisit a lot that also have happy endings:

• Whatever Else by Mntsnflrs (minsung, E, 32K): https://archiveofourown.org/works/53021944
• shut up kiss me hold me tight by ksmwifeguy (2min, M, 10k): https://archiveofourown.org/works/46858732
• shorelight by noonwitching (chanlix, E, 70k): https://archiveofourown.org/works/43961058
• Multistable Perception by scheherazaade (2min, 10k, E): https://archiveofourown.org/works/44365024
• Right Person, Wrong Number by honeyeaters (minsung, E, 40k): https://archiveofourown.org/works/59507176