More ‘Straight Shooter’ lore yesssss I love that fic so much!!!!!!! Things I like to imagine after the ending: 1) JK about to go on his first mission and y/n cooing over him and fully kitting him out whilst Yoongi pouts 2) a rooftop date where Yoongi is like “sorry I’ve sniped here before but the view is beautiful” and y/n is like “you thought of me?? 🥺” 3) general domestic scenes in the Hobi/Yoongi/JK Household
I wrote this in like 20 minutes, thank you to @morndas for looking at this and assuring me it wasn't terrible (I haven't written anything in the straight shooter verse for literal years now)
a rooftop date where Yoongi is like “sorry I’ve sniped here before but the view is beautiful” and y/n is like “you thought of me?? 🥺”
straight shooter snippet ; 1
Familiarity breeds contempt, they say.
Yoongi doesn’t think so.
Then again, Yoongi’s found he doesn’t always agree with what everyone else says - what they say, what they think, what they do. Maybe it’s because he’s always hyperaware of his surroundings. He has to be in his line of work, after all. Contempt is a luxury he doesn’t allow himself to foster. A single slip-up and he could be dead.
The lower levels are looked down upon by those who live above. In the upper levels they turn up their noses, turn away from the grime and the filth, the decaying foundations that have been neglected for far too long. Dirty, ugly, abandoned, they say, even as they continue to build atop them, profit from them. There’s nothing beautiful down there.
But they don’t know the city like he does.
They don’t know about this secret perch, hidden atop a darkened skyscraper, dilapidated and hollow.
They don’t know that the lower city shines.
All the strata rise from here, a graduated terrace that ascends upwards and upwards. Each level sparkles and glitters, glowing even in the darkness, a kaleidoscope of neon colour that would be a riotous clamour if one were too close. Instead, from this distance it all blurs into one, a shimmering gradient that softens all the sharp edges of this place into something beautiful. Being at the bottom of this cascading array means that an onlooker can tilt their head back and never find an end to it all, almost, like they could lean further and further back and never fall. That they would be caught in this neverending ouroboros of light and life.
There’s nothing beautiful down there, they say, but Yoongi knows that’s not true.
Because, after all, you’re here.
You’re here in the lower city, and you’re here beside him. You’re here, staring up at all of these lights with eyes wide open, drinking in this view, the endless constellations that make up a city of man-made stars.
“It’s hardly easy to get up here,” you say. “Not exactly a great place for a tourist attraction, if that’s what you were planning.”
Yoongi lets himself smile. He’s been doing that a lot more recently. Smiling. Usually when you’re around.
(Who would have thought?)
“I was using it as a sniper’s nest,” Yoongi says. “I thought you’d like the view.”
You turn towards him. As far away as you are from all those lights, those shooting stars, you still shine brighter still. (Bold, brilliant, bright. Beautiful.)
“You thought of me?”
(Sniper rifle of your making braced against his body, staring down a scope that you’d built, weapon loaded with bullets that you’d designed. The remembered press of your lips on his temple, his mouth, his neck. The lights of the city haloed around his view even as he focused in on his target below.)
“Yes,” he says.
(It’s just you, and him, and the endless lights below you. In your own hidden world away from everything else.)
And - with no bite behind it, no hidden laughter, nothing but a rare moment of unguarded fondness - you smile.
–
Familiarity breeds contempt, they say, but there are some things that Yoongi grows more familiar with day by day and will never grow tired of.
Wanted to let you know that someone on wattpad has stolen your Peaches and Cream fic: https://www.wattpad.com/1312069199-%F0%9D%93%9F%F0%9D%93%B3%F0%9D%93%B6-%F0%9D%93%BC%F0%9D%93%B6%F0%9D%93%BE%F0%9D%93%BD-18%2B-peaches-and-cream
They have a LOT of stories in their PJM smut collection so there might be others of yours in there too.
thank you for bringing this to my attention (and thank you @augustbutwinter for flagging this to me too!). I don't actually have a wattpad account - I made one last time Peaches and Cream was plagiarised on Wattpad, funnily enough - but I can't remember my login, so that'll be something I have to look into,,, and see if I can log back in to report it,,,,
regardless, if anyone else wants to have a look to see if they recognise fics in the link, please feel free, and thank you again for keeping an eye out 💖
so happy you are back I really like your works specially a human touch it is one of my favourite I reread it all the time and by the way I have another account from which I used to send you messages your inactive for a long time I thought you would never come back so I started sending the fix I want to read afterwards to your messages I'm sorry if that made you uncomfortable please but please unblock me I want to read your work😭😭❤️ bye take care
HAH oh hello!! sorry, yes, I saw that someone was sending me a huge ton of messages and I wasn't sure that was about so I blocked them because it looked like spam - let me go unblock you now 💖
you appearing on my dash after such a long time away made me say “OMG THEYRE BACK” i got excited to see you there even if you disappear again. life must’ve been lifing </3
AWH thank you sweet thing 🥺 yes I have popped up a few times before now it's true, but I've been so busy for... well, a while now. life has definitely been lifing. but I think of you all fondly and hope you're doing well 💖
Do you ever plan on making a spin off of Hoseok in straight shooter? He's so ughhhh need more of him.
honestly if I had any ideas of a plot I absolutely would because I love that verse and I love hoseok and I love hoseok in that verse too,,, if anyone has any ideas please... slide into my ask box and let me know... (no but forreal I have NO plot ideas that I could build into a story WAH)
Would you ever be willing to give writing tips/writing lessons? I am utterly in love with your writing, have been for a while, but could never find the courage in me to ask. The way you craft universes and characters amd honestly everything makes me JSLAKSLALALKSLALSKS I go insane. It's truly mesmerizing. So I'd really appreciate it if you could share the behind the scenes with us. <33
this is so cute!! I already have a tag where I've given some advice to people (#joy.tips) whenever someone has asked, but I've never really given lessons and I wouldn't even know where to start! was there something in particular you were interested in? minus crafting universes/characters, I suppose 🤭
but as a general "behind the scenes" type thing? hmm... I would say with any story I write, it either starts in one of two ways:
I have a specific scene in my head (an interaction) and I build an entire world from there that the scene fits into
or
I have a theme/vibe I feel like writing (cyberpunk, fantasy, etc) and I build a world that has this theme and fit a story into it
that's being pretty reductive but everything sort of spirals out from there - the world a character is in will shape how they act, and how they act also shapes that world, so it's an interconnected process. I would say that as a writer my main focus is characters. external interactions (with each other, the world they inhabit, etc), internal emotions (how they think, feel, act), that's what makes my brain tick over.
Oh my goodness Joy!! I just saw your username on my dashboard and audibly gasped! So excited to see you and hope you are doing well!
hi my sweet!! it's so lovely to be getting such warm greetings from everyone (I still have a back log of messages to get through, but we won't think about that right now 😳). I'm excited to feel like I have the energy to dip a toe back in and show my face again! I'm doing very well - since I was last active I've moved into my own place, gotten a new job and met some wonderful people that I can now call friends. I'm very content right now. I hope you are too! 💖
I know you’ve made it clear that SS wouldn’t get a part 2 but that ask just reminded why I wanted one sb. It’s really an interesting world that you created, even Hoseoks character had me intrigued wanting to know more about his relationship with Yoongi.
Btw, I hope you’re doing well. Sending you lots of love 🥰
hello my love! I'll be honest I reread your first sentence a few times - I don't think I've ever said I wouldn't write a SS part 2, if I recall I think the only thing I said I wouldn't write a sequel to is burning bright (and generally that's a rule of thumb for any gift fic I write for people, as I only ever write those as standalones). and now I'm worried I said I wouldn't write a sequel and I've forgotten!! 😭 regardless! I also love hoseok's character, I love the dichotomy of hoseok being both cheerful and mysterious all at once (both in the fic and irl!) and I'm really pleased to see that other people are intrigued too. I had a lot of fun making that world to play in and write about and I think of it fondly.
I hope you're doing well too and sending love back 🥰
gasp joy !!! you're here !!! i kept checking back in now and again and when i saw you were still on hiatus i was a little worried !! glad you're okay <3
I'm here and I'm okay!! you're so sweet, thank you 💖💖 it's crazy how long it's been, I can't lie. the passage of time has felt so dilated and so much has been going on in my life that I've just been losing track but I'm okay! thank you for the concern 🥰 I hope you've all been doing well too!
I might be late to the party but brining bright is so so so incredibly well written. I’m such a sucker for a pacific rim au in general but your writing was so intricate and poetic.
honestly, thank you so much. I love burning bright a lot and it's still something I'm very proud of, and I'm so happy other people love it too!
How have you been Joy?? Are you still on hiatus and slowly easing back in? Or do you think you'll start writing again?
Good to see you!! 💜
hello my lovely!! gosh it's been a hot minute! I will say I consider myself technically still on hiatus but we'll see! I'm very busy at the moment but at the same time I'm feeling a lot happier so I'm more motivated to write, and it's been. very nice to see all the little messages you guys sent me when I popped my head in the other day! it's so lovely to hear from you 💖 but yes I've been good recently and it's only getting better :)
About your fic straight shooter, can you tell me why y/n gets angry at yoongi when he showed up? On which part did yoongi treat hoseok like dirt? Sorry for being dumb, I can't picked up a clue😅 love your fics
hi lovely! you're not the first person who's asked something similar to this, so looking back I perhaps wonder if I should've made it a bit clearer.
the reason y/n was angry is because she'd given him a huge level of trust and privilege (being able to go into her new workshop without needed prior confirmation + knowing where her new address was), and he walks into a meeting between y/n and hoseok and rather than waiting for them to finish interacting properly, he asserts himself in a way that he shouldn't, even though he knows both of them. in the past when he's been at the workshop he's been silent in the background when y/n interacts with other customers, so it's more obvious that he's doing it for A Reason.
the way he treats hoseok like dirt is a bit more nuanced, hm. in the underworld in this story, a lot of people go by a pseudonym/moniker, so revealing someone's true name without their consent goes against the implicit "code" they have. especially in this instance as yoongi is incredibly taciturn and never reveals his hand, or his emotions, or how he thinks/feels/who he knows, so it's quite a big deal. he interrupts their conversation by revealing he knows Hoseok personally, and that he's close enough to know the Hope Broker's real name, so it's twofold.
(and then when y/n asks him why he did that, rather than apologise or explain or whatever else, yoongi butts heads with her, which is what riles her up even more. so yeah! that's why.)
I hope that makes sense! reading back now I realise I could have expounded on it a bit and that y/n's reaction seems a bit OTT if the context isn't clear, as a lot of it is implicit but I didn't take the time to explain that implicit nature as much as I could have 💕
Yesterday, I wrote about a post about the whitewashing that can happen in BTS fanfics and why we need POC writers in general - and in the BTS fandom. Today, I have a post with more than 60 BTS fanfic authors of color. Shout out to the Possums, my various contacts, and my other moots for their help.
Please share and support these writers!
Please do not repost and only reblog. This post took over 6 hours to collate.
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The beauty of such a large and diverse BTS fandom is that there are so many talented ARMY authors in our fanfic communities. As I mentioned in my post about how whitewashed BTS fanfics can be, I get especially happy when I come across fellow POC writers. Thanks to my own reading and networks of BTS friends and writers, I’ve compiled a list of BTS fanfic writers of color as a jumping off point to explore more POC authors and content creators.
If you are a writer of color and I did not include you (or didn’t rec a fic of yours), it’s nothing personal. Sometimes, I don’t know if writers identify as POC or I just haven’t come across your fics yet. Feel free to comment with your handles and a fic to check out and I will try to add you or update when I get a chance (and if I don’t, at least it will be in the comments once the comment itself is approved or moderated).
Read more >>> (leads to my site and not tumblr)
I will try to tag as many of the writers as possible on the tumblr but I apologize if I miss you.
what an incredible work of love to put this list together and an incredible resource! I'm so flattered and honoured to be featured on here with so many other incredible poc authors, thank you so much for taking the time to make this 💕
