Omg ok WHAT A SCENE TO CHOOSE. This moment is when the boys took over and just wrote the whole story by themselves skfjdhs. Sometimes writing is like seeing vague snapshots of locations on a moodboard where you can see your characters at, and that was v much this initial section of Hey Stud. I thought about ice rinks and winter house parties in my old icy Canadian suburb, and I could just see the boys there… But when it was time to actually put them there, Tae hiding out where he thinks no one will notice him, and JK immediately noticing him and beelining for him, the two of them tucked away on the landing, almost like they’re in their own bubble? That was all them. JK bringing up their NYE kiss felt like such a confrontation on the one hand, and yet he can’t actually say the words? All the dialogue of that fic is just these two edging around their feelings until it finally isn’t, and I think that almost bled into the ambiance somehow. There was something so private about their love story that’s so specifically attached to those uni winter breaks in suburbia, where it’s like this lawless set of days where time barely exists so you can pull off more of what isn’t the norm? And that’s how this love story felt to me. It’s something they never expected to happen, and it doesn’t make sense inside their lives but the urgency (and also the SHYNESS god they were so FRAGILE) is there and they have all this extra time on their side, so suddenly it all comes together… just magical hahaha