1) fic that is my pride and joy:

forever is a feeling (like i could retire right now and be happy about it. 48k words, dude. holy shit) and maybe closer than we’ve ever been? the things i like the most about other people’s fics are present here, in the humor, the background characters and relationships, people having whole and fulfilled lives outside of their romance. i hate rereading my own fics but sharing my writing over the last few years, these are the ones i feel the most confident in.

7) a fic that you didn’t expect to be popular:

my most read fic is still dk/scoups boyfriend for hire, and dk/scoups is one of the rarest rare pairs. every so often someone will find it and comment which makes me so happy, but it also reminds me that it’s time to go back to writing rare pairs.

also jeonghan/yuta still makes me giggle. what if we were two sex pests fucking in the inki bathroom

5) do you use a beta reader?

orwyn #1 cheerleader aside, lately i don't and i think it's pretty evidently to my detriment. however, my criteria for beta reading is that they need to understand my intent, writing style, and not be afraid to tear the bitch (my draft) to shreds. i've also gotten significantly more impatient so the thought of waiting on someone to read the fic before i'm free of it makes me feel evil.

that being said, i am in the market for a new beta reader bc everyone is booked and busy (has a "job" and "cannot take time" to "read my kpop yaoi")

8) what wip are you most excited about?

i think the ones i want to be completed the most are the spirited away AU, negative space remix, and infidelity fic. i also recently saw obsession and just finished reading the script, and i really want to try my hand at writing horror like that.....

12) would you ever accept requests or commissions?

the short answer is that i don't do commissions.

the long answer is:
i cannot follow through on requests or commissions because that is not how i operate creatively, and i still have three outstanding charity commissions to write at this time - all now years late. however, i have had people message me with ideas and let me go back and forth with them on things that have developed into fics - that, i'm usually open to. like i think the best fic is collaborative or for the writer and their 5 sicko friends.

my hottest take is that not everyone is on the team some of them just root for them okay let's go

scoups: i've written him as both, but tbh, i do see him more as a mary jane watson/lana lang than an outright hero. he's still very important, but he's behind the scenes and boosting morale. he would be the friend who somehow wakes up with the hero's powers and get a little evil.
jeonghan: villain is so trite... i've also written him as both, but i do think he'd excel in a hero setting. but like, early hero, before his back is against the wall. think like s1 barry allen, raimiverse spider-man. nothing so earnest, but he'd be actively running away from it. alternative thought is a canary. (i have Thoughts about jihan as the canaries.)
joshua: betty cooper serial killer gene himself is a villain, specifically to the tune of eli ever from the villains series by ve schwab.
woozi: green arrow.
wonwoo: he's the friend who is the last to know what's happening. not even the guy in the chair, he's just the guy who everyone knows and is like. what are you all talking about.
hoshi: bombastic hero or minor villain, there is no in between. i have written hoshi as a hero, and i've written wonwoo as a villain, and i think that those two in particular play off each other in a way that would be fun and fascinating, but tbh hoshi's the in-universe "my cabbages!" cart guy
jun: well-meaning and kind of sinister benefactor. no one knows his intentions but him.
dk: my dream role for him in my mind palace - and is something that i am actively drafting right now - is the pissed off best friend of the hero who becomes their biggest adversary. he's the harry osborn/lex luthor/everything about you pisses me off and you rejected me and i don't know if i want you or want to be you and have everything you have more. i'm really crazy about this ask me how
mingyu: he's either very rich guy with too much time and technology a la ray palmer/tony stark, or he's like. someone's watchtower. really big into strategy, this one. too pure for this world, good, also if ever made evil, would be unstoppable.
minghao: someone's pissed off partner. like i think he would be fun to give powers but do nothing with because it would only complicate his life more, and the few times he has done things, people expect things from him.
seungkwan: villain. debate your mom.
vernon: he has no idea what is going on but he does get saved while on public transit. alternatively, he's the ganke/ned leeds.
dino: and say this with me: CORRUPTION ARC. i just finished a book about a henchman temp agency (it's called "hench" and it's kind of hamfisted at points, but very good!) and i think that he would be swayed by the promise of benefits (there are none) and get too attached to the "meat" (the muscle). i think his ambition and ability to be a chameleon would serve him well.

i am trying to find where i said this oh my god sldghdkgfhds first of all wherever you found me saying this thank you i do in fact say shit like this because i do want people to ask me about it and then i get to evaluate my intent and i don't think i did it well here but. we move!

there are... a lot of ways to approach this and i have been typing for what feels like an hour but i think that the important things are this:

• i, infrequency, do not believe that monogamy is practical in an idolverse setting. so i don't write it. there are versions of jeongcheol i have written where something close to it exists, but i don't think it's "smart" or "practical" to tie yourself down to one person for any of your relationship needs, least of all one of your coworkers. it's also a plausible deniability thing, because if you're that way with everyone in some way, then who's gonna notice. moving on.

• but seungcheol does play favorites, and he's been pretty vocal about how if he was a carat, he'd gravitate towards jeonghan initially for looks, then mingyu. guy who will not let you forget that he likes boys.

• both versions of jeongcheol are in some sort of vague, undefined relationship that other members know is Their Thing (canon, to me) and give them a wide berth. mingyu does cross that line, though, because he's been there since day one (real, canon) and Gets them. also like, whatever the hell mingyu and jeonghan have going on is so weird. please look up the live where gyuhan roleplay a breakup. and jeonghan is out to dinner with his family. it's so weird. no one asked them to do all that.

• young gods is very specifically about approaching a FinDom relationship. pavlove is general D/s but also an extended dog joke. (more on that here: https://infrequencies.dreamwidth.org/68590.html)

the first bedroom scene in pavlove is the same bedroom scene in young gods, but the approach, dialogue, and intention are different. the base occurrence is the same. there's a line about jeonghan taking his wallet that gets skimmed over in pavlove, but it's not the focal point of the fic.

in my worm brain, they're the same because both fics start after that insane gyuhancheol live where mingyu and jeonghan perv out over scoups being shirtless. as a non-carat, i'm throwing a lot of "this is a thing that happened btw" at you and sorry but like. they're literally Unwell about each other. choose a pairing for this group and you can probably find something deranged about them.

so like tl;dr is it an "au" technically yes, is it more of a remix or self-reference, also yes. did i actually just take one scene from a fic and use it as a base for another while blocked to see where it goes. maybe so

so like. there's a huge gap between the background namgi that i wanted to write for this and the namgi that i actually wrote, but the tl;dr for both parties is that the weird liminal space between friendship and not-quite-dating looks very different for both of them.

for namjoon, he needs it to be defined as something. they've been in this space together for so long that he's starting to wonder if yoongi even actually likes him (he does) and sought out that affection in someone else. multiple someones, actually; jeonghan is not the first and probably won't be the last.

for jeonghan, it's still new enough that it feels fragile, but he's dealing with it by being spiteful. namjoon has made peace with not thinking of yoongi as his partner or someone that "belongs" to him, where jeonghan very clearly does not feel that way about seungcheol in the few times he's brought up during the hookup. also, there's a heart next to seungcheol's name in his phone.

the biggest takeaway i think is that they're a lot more vulnerable with each other than they are with their respective counterpoints, able to pick up on each other's wants and ask for what they want, which is something that they hopefully take with them because the lines of communication - literally - are open to them at the end.

i genuinely wish i could say yes, but the answer is most likely no… unless someone would like to take it over. the fest is, unfortunately, too big for just two people to run, especially when said people are working full time jobs that require creative output there as well. i do think that it would require at least 2-3 people who can manage graphic design if it returned at the same volume, and 2 people managing the logistics end. i can reach out to nova to see if she has templates we can pass on if there’s interest, and i have all the passwords, verbiage templates, etc. though i know that many people have worked to fill that gap in our absence. (someone do a female artist only round if you’re real)

also genuinely thank you for loving this fest! it was the only thing that kept me sane when i lost my first job in the creative industry and a labor of love with my two best friends. i still remember sitting in a boba shop back in 2019 brainstorming if we were gonna do one direction or pop punk for a bts fest :’) we never expected it to be what it became!