Ooooh I never get questions like this! Honestly, I think the number one best advice I can give is to be active on twt. Follow writers you like and people who post things you like, interact with posts beyond just liking, reach out to authors of the fics you enjoy and dm them and tell them how much you enjoyed their work(s). It can be a little scary, especially if you're shy like I am, but putting yourself out there is really the key. As you do this, you'll naturally pick up mutuals, and those easily form into friendships, and then you'll meet more mutuals and friends through them. You'll find writer friends specific through this process

It also helps if you use your fics to get involved in the community. Obviously, events are an option, but also making promo tweets/threads for your fics and tagging fic promo accs who will repost your promos helps circulate your fics. The more eyes on your fics, the more readers who will love them (yay) and sometimes those readers will reach out to you directly to tell you so and chat about your work(s). I'm pretty reserved about my circle, but many of the friendships and acquaintance-ships I have formed through receiving such DMs. Also, post other things not related to your fics; this could help increase odds of engagement over additional shared interest. What other groups do you like? What music, movies, shows, dramas, books do you like? Participate in those little trends that go around every now and then, like right now the dead dove tier list is a thing. These things help show your personal interests too. There are also discord servers, but I'm actively terrified of discord, so i can't really touch on that

All of this will help you out, but being super active and involved on twt is #1. Thanks for your question, and I hope you finds lots of good writer friends!! <3

I don't think I've ever actually had anyone tell me here or in DMs that they really like it lol. I have like 2 fics with no smut, and they don't really get any attention (just checked and they're both the lowest in hits and kudos of all my fics). Because of that, I kinda feel like............. what's the point. Like I know I'm not supposed to care about how a fic performs, but if it doesn't do well, then I feel like I've failed, so then I avoid doing the same thing again because I'm scared of the cycle repeating lol

What part of it did you like the most? The angst? The angst of cheating specifically? If you could elaborate further, I might be able to do something similar in the future!

This whole message is so lovely and nice but the last part is what made me feel the proudest HAHAHA

I actually just decided to start adding that to my normal links, and I honestly didn't know how long it would take for anyone to notice, and I'm so so so glad you told me that it worked on you. Like that actually just made my whole entire week!

Anyway - BACK TO BUSINESS - thank you!! I've always felt like atmosphere wasn't really my strong suit, and I had kind of just given up on trying to improve that because I felt I never made any progress, no matter how intentional I was trying to be. It's interesting to see that once I decide to just not focus on it, it seems to be pretty good lol

At this point, I've written a good number of unhinged characters, and usually I always have so much fun with it..... This Minho, though, is impossible to have fun with, and writing through his pov emphasizes that. I really wanted to lean into the creep factor (and there's more of this in ch 4, which is still currently a wip) to make him as sickening and disgusting as possible, and honestlyyyy it has taken a toll on me. I've written abusive relationships and noncon (though usually it's the porn-y kind where the victim ends up enjoying it by the end) before with no problem, but Minsung's dynamic in this is just in a completely different league. Writing this Minho has been so difficult, but I'm relieved to hear that it seems to be paying off. His creepiness, neuroticism, paranoia, self-centeredness - I wanted them all to be present and palpable so his pov could be fascinating. I guess in some ways I think of it as a lite version of a character study

Thanks for your message, I really appreciate it 💙

Thank you!! A lot of people seem to be asking me about this series haha but I promise there are going to be more parts! If I'm ever thinking about ending it, I'll definitely let you guys know in the A/N. Currently, I have a whole list of ideas for more parts, but I want to work on them gradually instead of all at once. There will absolutely be another part this year, maybe (hopefully) even 2 or 3.

Even pretty recently, I began writing a little bit of one (Obstruction of Justice), but I think that's gonna have to wait on the back burner for a while because I feel like other parts need to come first for it to really make sense. Right now, I'm trying to wrap up TSNC, and then after that will probably be a Chanlix fic (I'm thinking either a yandere vampire thing, or another idea I just came up with yesterday over on twt - an age gap omegaverse Vietnam War-era AU that takes place in the US South that's inspired by 'The Notebook' and The Zombies song, 'Time of the Season'). I'm quite literally drowning in fic ideas, but I really like working on COC in-between other stuff or whenever I don't feel like committing to a full-length multi-chaptered series, so it's not going to end anytime soon :)

Well, I don't know if I can truly say there'll never be a continuation to DBSNTM, but it's not something I'm interested in. As I said on twt, the 3rd part would've been based around the 12 Rods song, 'Revolute' and would've been around their first Christmas as college students (probably around finals, not actually Christmas, because my idea was to show them doing well in a bigger, more diverse college town).

Inspired by the lyrics of the song, I was going to focus on them being publicly out as a couple and their hopes and dreams for the future as they start the first 'adult' chapter of their lives. The issue there, though, is that it really sends some conflict to make a compelling story, and from that perspective, the temptation of putting their relationship through some sort of test or trial to solidify it is too great... but emotionally, I don't want to do that lol. I thought about it more and realized that if I wanted it to be a 3-part series, then that needed to happen to get to the ultimate resolution, but if I left it as it is today, then it could just be a full stand-alone story that got a happy little epilogue, and that's honestly what I prefer for it.

Right now, my intentions and hopes for 2026 are too re-focus on dead dove and dark romance multi-chapter fics. Things like 'Little Prae' (Chanlix), 'I Can’t Hear You Over the Cicadas' (Minsung), 'I Saw This Really Cute Guy at the Grocery Store the Other Day' (also Chanlix), and even darker, more fucked up themes and ideas that I've never touched before. When I wrote ISTRCG, which was my first dark long fic, I really was just like 'Fuck it, I'm gonna write whatever I want, regardless of anything,' and it went completely off the rails, batshit insane, and I loved it. It was fun to write something like that, and I'm satisfied with the overall result. Readers loved it, and I think that's still my fic with the most comments despite being a year and a half old. When I started writing, one of my go-to tricks whenever I got stuck was to ask myself 'Ok, what's the most insane thing that could happen right now at this point in the story?' and that's basically what I would write. That's what I want my readers to expect from me again.

What I mean by saying all of that is just that currently, my interests lie in a totally different league than DBSNTM. While I don't intend to completely stop writing those nicer things, I'm shifting my focus right now. Like, I've been working on an extreme DDDNE Minsung fic for a while now, and I plan to start posting that sometime in early January.

Sorry for rambling, but thanks for your question! Happy new year to you too!! ♡

Hihi, thank you!! I hope the same for yourself and thank you for your question <3

How funny you ask....... This is certainly not everyone's cup of tea (cw: cisswap, noncon, pregnancy, dead dove), but something I've had fun thinking about lately is a potential continuation for my Kinktober fic, Turnabout Is Fair Play with Minho and cisswap Hyunjin.

If you're familiar already, my idea is that Hyunjin does in fact get pregnant from the events of that story. So it's several months later, and Minho loves watching heavily pregnant Hyunjin waddle around campus, tired, struggling academically and having no friends. He eventually makes his move and "offers" to tutor her in a particular class that she's struggling a lot in. Obviously, she's hesitant because she hates his guts now more than ever, but he pressures her to agree. Over time, their "relationship" builds, and Minho starts driving her to prenatal appointments and helping her with whatever else she needs (but this is conditional since, well, Minho is still obsessed with fucking her, who he still believes in the most beautiful girl in the world). It starts to wear on Hyunjin (who's been disowned by her parents and lost all her friends due to the pregnancy and the means in which it occurred), and she's really left with no other choice but to rely on Minho for support and friendship. His unwavering attraction to her also helps her to feel less gross and take more pride in her appearance like she used to, and she starts to depend on that emotionally. The spring semester ends, and Minho finds some shitty apartment nearby for them (without even asking Hyunjin if she wanted to move in with him), and then they basically become a couple. And that summer, Hyunjin gives birth to a baby girl that looks just like Minho :)

I just initially thinking about doing it in Minho's POV since the original was and because I wanted to show him taking pride in making Hyunjin miserable and emotionally dependent on him, BUT I think Hyunjin's POV would be fun too because then readers can see firsthand how her feelings change and how she breaks down over time. Maybe a switching POV? Idk lol but if anyone's interested in this idea, please let me know!!