#comments:oby

[thepixelelf]

Give Shua a raise and a vacation

I can't I'm just the author and in charge of the entire universe

[thepixelelf]

Hi! I've really been enjoying oby and I'd like to ask a question about it if that's ok? As I was reading, I thought about the amount of planning that must go into it. How do you go about planning a long series like that or any fic in general? Do you sit down and plan them or is it more of a you start off with an idea and it develops as it goes? I'm curious because I know whenever I'm doing art, I'll maybe have the vaguest sketch but then the final piece is completely different ahaha. I enjoy learning how other people think, sorry about the random question haha

I love this question!

Fun fact, the initial idea for Oh Baby, You came to me while I was in Taiwan in May/June 2022, about 11 months before the masterlist was finally posted! At the time, I was stuck in a govt mandated covid hotel with my mom for 10 days and unemployed (the best combination for fic ideas to brew). I made all the fake twt profiles in that hotel room, drafted a basic plot summary (like the one on the masterlist), and then let the wip sit for many months.

I was actually pretty scared to try and tackle something like oby-- it's got relatively heavy themes for something like an smau, and I don't exactly have a great record with completing series, but the level of support and love oby has received really helped!! I feel so lucky to have you awesome readers 💕

As for my planning process, it's actually quite simple! I basically start out with keystone moments-- sometimes I write them down, but sometimes I just keep them in mind. For instance, the oby list (in my mind, not in writing) looked a little something like this:

You took Mingyu's scandal baby, resulting in Jihoon misunderstanding the situation and making Wonwoo cut you out of his life

3 years later, Wonwoo moves back and into the apartment across the hall on the same day as Orion's bday party

CEO Cheol sees you at Mingyu's house and starts to suspect you and Mingyu are Orion's parents

Cheol starts going on "dates" with you, and you feel happy and liked in a romantic sense for the first time in years

Confrontation at the concert where everything comes to light

(more but I'm not spoiling <3)

You can probably tell, but I didn't exactly stick to this plan!! While I do have keystone moments in mind, I usually let my character's lead the way. However I think they'd react to a situation, I let them, even if it messes my timeline up a little. Sometimes this leads to things taking a lot longer than I expect, and sometimes actually makes readers hate characters that I think are justified (to an extent) lol

Anyways, I basically write every chapter the night before, always with the next keystone moment in mind, and the overall plot too.

I don't know if you've ever read or plan to read my tbz smau Hood, but that ended up being 100+ parts, and took over a year for me to write (with a couple breaks). Still, I always knew how it was going to end, I just needed to guide my characters there!

I do kind of the same thing with long written fics, just without the whole one chapter per week thing

I hope this answered your curiosities :] feel free to ask me any other questions 💕

[thepixelelf]

tbh if i was my i wouldn’t get back with wonwoo, even if it was a misunderstanding he never bothered to hear her out even after cooling off, i feel like he should’ve trusted her more

That's totally fair! I'm definitely in the same boat lol

fic mentioned: oh baby, you

[thepixelelf]

headcanon that oby jeonghan has built in mt alert, so when anything happen involving and/or regarding mt and orion he’d get stressed all of a sudden.

like he could be getting ready to sleep when all of a sudden he feels stressed and have the need to make an nda

[thepixelelf]

i know he's not one of the main MAIN characters but im absolutely loving soonyoung in oby and his presence in mt life 💓 the one friend who stood by them all the while, believing them from the start.. and the last update "mt senses are tingling" AHHHHHH!!!! i love a good supportive and loyal friend!

also the way i assumed the google search has to be from ww, wz or chan BUT THEN I SAW THE ACC PIC AKDHDKDVEUB I FORGOT HE EXISTED

Yes Soonyoung really stepped up to the plate!! Ik he wasn't too glaringly prominent in the first leg of it all, but Soonyoung genuinely is a good friend to mt :] what a loyal cutie

And yes we're seeing the return of Seungcheol into the narrative 👀 what chaos will happen next I wonder

fic mentioned: oh baby, you

[thepixelelf]

anon I wanted to answer your ask without giving spoilers to anyone else but yes! your guess is pretty close!!

[thepixelelf]

Can i ask you who's YOUR favourite oby character ? 👀

Who's the most fun to write ?

Who's the most challenging ?

Who's the most rewarding ? Not necessarily the hardest to write who makes you go 🥵 at the end of each of their scenes (lol) but like the one(s) whose arc you're most excited to develop and/or to see completed

BONUS question : your fav oby dynamic?

(If you cant tell i'm having a lot of fun reading oby 😅 ik it deals with mature and grownup themes but they're all so silly, you cant help laugh/facepalm/root for them/with them! Thanks for sharing your work with us 💕)

Omg my favourite character is Orion!! The series ended up being an smau for multiple reasons, but if it wasn't one, his presence would be much much more prominent! The title is Oh Baby You after all :) his opinion of Wonwoo and other characters is really important, but unfortunately he doesn't even know what twitter is so he isn't saying much in the smau 😅

As for the most fun character to write, I have to give that and your bonus question to Joshua and Seungcheol! I think their dynamic is so funny and stupid lol

The most challenging are definitely Jihoon and Chan. I wanted characters who did bad things (for plot, y'know?) but I didn't want them to necessarily be bad people. These two and Seungcheol are the characters that are least like their irl inspirations, in my opinion

For the character whose arc I'm most excited to develop, that's gonna have to go to the main man Wonwoo!!! He's finally got his drive back-- it was kinda tedious just writing him moping tbvh

(I also love the prettyboy(gn) posse dynamic! just a bunch of besties <3)

Thanks so much for reading and enjoying oby! Have a great rest of your day, love

[thepixelelf]

hi, sorry stupid question, but what does MT stand for in that wonwoo smau?

I've never answered this straight on before (idk why I just love a silly little secret I guess lol) but I'll put it under the readmore!

MT is for "empty"! It comes from the character arguing for the glass being half empty in a casual debate