#famedbasemagic3

[minjungfmd]

self para / famed base

summary / minjung on her way to mcountdown pre-recording, and her thoughts on being put into too many things at once. warnings / none wc / 429

she’s walking through the hallways of the venue. too many years, and this feels like home number eight — familiarity writes itself in each room, each memory of walking behind the scenes, loitering away the hours until she’s up to perform. this time’s no different, and she carves out a new memory of double booked schedules and a pre-recording under her belt. 

“we have to pre-record today, and you’ll be back in a few days.”

what she hears from her manager, hours before when she’s inside the van through the early hours of morning. it’s all about routine, get in — listen to the schedules she has to brace herself for. and it’s years of observations and learning through mistakes that already have her ready on her feet, prepped for the quick run through of events.

“pre-record bbibbi then perform it live? is gold star suddenly calling me unreliable?” 

“no — but your unreliability also has you forgetting about the christmas base project.” her manager’s coy smile peeks through the front mirror, and minjung tosses a strand of hair past her shoulders. incredulity of a sharp tongue that drives tit-for-tat in conversations, and she has her arms poised across her chest, eyes geared towards the free-of rush hour on the highway.

many options to choose from, and she could prime herself to pull together ten minutes of rest. but ten minutes don’t beat out the hours she’ll have waiting around backstage. the early-morning brings the sun peaking past the clouds, and she’s failed to scrimmage up any more light to scribble something in the notebook nestled deep in her backpack. when all fails, she reverts back to her thoughts — imagination searching for something worth value to pass time today.

christmas season, and there’s no holiday cheer when schedules compounded result in the mismanagement of time. she has no time to trace back the christmas trees and holiday music that blasts in the speakers. no time to partake in the fancy formalities of a ‘merry christmas’ and santa-doused decor. instead, her time’s managed with one schedule to the next, blurring the days together till december disappears in a blink of an eye.

but she should be used to it by now. 

used to the end of the year commiseration correlating to packed schedules, jammed together for the free-for-all of the company. early year beginnings to pave the way for the rest — it’s just a cycle of dominos toppling one after another. so, what’s another pre-recording that deters the taste of christmas further?

[fmdxsuji]

summary: the whole day’s been filled with activities for the base magic album, and suji wants to go home date: december 16th location: dance practice room word count: 502 words ooc note: n/a

for something that was supposed to be a special project, suji thinks that this base magic album is taking up a lot of her time. there’s so many special videos that have to be filmed and extra activities that are being piled up on her schedule board. guess it’s good for fans who want to see her during this end of the year period seeing that equinox won’t be performing at any of the year-end gayo’s. she’ll be participating alone and emceeing for mbc’s, but she doesn’t know if that news has been released just yet. perhaps she should start paying more attention.

the whole day’s been packed with activities regarding the album, and she thinks they should be allowed to go home by now. but no, the idols are stuck in a practice room, dressed up in holiday wear. suji’s never been the type to go all out so she sticks with regular clothing and a reindeer headband. if she’s feeling more up to it, maybe she’ll grab one of the rudolph noses too and play around with it. 

with how random the selection of artists was for this project, she thinks it’s going to take a lot of effort for her to look like she’s getting along with all of them. there were a couple friendly faces, of course, but not enough where she felt like she could really let loose and be silly for the dance practice. she’ll leave that for some of the other artists who feel more comfortable with that. 

pre-recording dear santa was pretty easy. the song was fun and fit well with the holiday spirit, and she enjoyed being able to sing on stage. filming a dance practice was never on top of her fun activities list, and she thinks that it’ll probably be observed by the nanosecond by fans who will have tunnel vision for their idol and their idol only. seems kind of pointless to have them come altogether and film this video. suji thinks fans might appreciate a beauty cam version instead where it’s just solo shots of each person singing. 

she’d prefer it as well because it’d take less time to film. once she was done singing her lines, she could leave. however, since this dance practice video was supposed to be a group effort, she realizes that she’ll probably be here till midnight, and she’ll be expected to look all lively and in the holiday mood throughout the whole time. 

suji’s usually not much of a complainer because she knows what comes with this job, but she thinks this is all too extra. plus, the day’s been so long that she thinks it would have been better to schedule this for another day though she realizes that having all these idol members come together in one day probably wasn’t easy to begin with. 

whatever the reason is, all she wants now more than ever is to go home. back to her apartment and cat so she could go to bed.

[fmdduri]

@fmdjace:

duri is something that duri has become really fond of, especially for christmas decorating. though, going through the decorations, they didn’t seem very christmasy. it felt more like wintery decorations, but he’s more than okay with that, considering how much he really likes winter. but, it seemed to be rather cozy and wasn’t going to be too hard to decide where everything should end up going in the room, right? duri at least thought so, to say the least. 

he had been pulling things out of the box that was given to him, eyes looking over the different items that were there. he placed them on the floor, one by one, just so that he can get a better look at them. the visual aid always seemed to help when it came to decorating a space and yes, duri did get that off of a home improvement show that he found online. yes, he did also binge it one time. he seemingly always did that with cooking shows and home improvement shows, he was like a little old lady. 

his eyes looked up from the pieces on the floor, noticing a familiar face. “jace!” he called out, his smile beaming a bit more now. “are you doing anything right now?” he asked, head tilted a bit. “do you want to help me decorate the room?”

[fmdduri]

@minjungfmd​:

duri was looking forward to the radio show, as these were always things that he managed to enjoy. perhaps that’s why duri was good at variety, he was someone that just always had a good time with whatever they were doing. nonetheless, duri was rather excited and ready to promote the album whilst on the radio show, something that he became rather conditioned to do over the last almost ten years as an idol. it’s something you get used to and know what to do, that’s for sure. 

he was dressed in a festive outfit. he had a big, fluffy, christmas sweater adorning his muscular torso, with pants that matched the sweater’s accent color, and sneakers that went with the assemble. not to mention, he had a santa hat upon his head - always choosing to go for the santa route and who can blame him for that, right? duri is just as jolly and happy as santa claus is, so it seemingly just makes sense. but, the outfit was nice because he was very comfortable. 

duri had been a bit excited, however, when he heard that minjung was apart of the team that he was with to go onto radio shows. this time, things would probably be more fun, considering there were cameras around again, and not like the last time, where duri and minjung were keeping duri from panicing within a hospital. before going to his chair, he greets the host, giving a bow, and coming up with a wide smile upon his lips. he decides to choose the chair that was next to the other, and it probably helped that that’s where the host was pointing him towards. 

“are you looking forward to today?” he asked the other, beaming before getting in front of the microphones before the show would begin.

[famedbase]

base music: christmas album, part three

timeline: december 13 - december 30

points available: up to 11 points for muses on the album

deadline: january 2, 2022 at 11:59pm est / january 3, 2022, at 1:59pm kst

for the third (and final) portion of the project, the idols involved in the christmas album will focus on releasing the album and doing mini promotional activities.

all prompt completions for this period should be tagged #famedbasemagic3.

reminder that the open spots can still be taken by submitting here.

in-’verse info

the album will be released on december 20. on december 16, a few days before the album release, the idols on the album will hold a special pre-release listening party at a ski lodge for forty fans. base has opened a special selection process where fans (living in south korea) can submit something such as a letter, cover, or fanart of their favorite artist participating in the album for a chance to win attendance at the pre-release listening party. base staff will narrow the submissions down to about ten or fifteen per idol and will then allow each idol to look through and select two fans to attend the listening party. eight additional fans will be chosen by random lottery.

any currently promoting idols on the album will pre-record their music show performance for mcountdown on the morning of december 16 and will not be present at the live recording. in the afternoon, all of the idols on the album will arrive at the ski lodge where they will help decorate the event room at the ski lodge the listening party will be in. this will be filmed. (this is an example of how the room will be set up and decorated — simple, white, and warm with basic decorations, except there will be sixteen chairs at the front of the room, one for each idol in the album.) the idols will also help to prepare special ‘gift packages’ for the fans consisting of goods such as winter snacks, hot chocolate mix, hats and mittens, and posters from the christmas album photoshoot. the fans will arrive that evening and the listening party event will be about two hours. the fans will be asked to surrender their phones and any other recording devices at the door. the idols will play all of the songs on the album for them and they’ll get to talk a little about their experiences. the listening party will conclude with a fan q&a about the album and a mini fansign of the posters in the ‘gift package’.

that night, after the pre-release listening party, all of the idols will be bused back to seoul, where a practice room has been rented to film a special "practice” version of “all i want” with all of the idols in festive costumes such as santa and reindeer costumes (example 1, example 2). this video will be released as a milestone reward.

the album will not be promoted on music shows but on the day after the album comes out (december 21), the idols will be split into two groups (the first group consisting of those singing all i want for christmas is you and joy ‘; the second group consisting of those singing dear santa, just because, and the carol). they will go on two separate radio shows where they will chat with the host and give radio show performances of their songs (except all i want). they’ll be dressed festively for the radio shows. 

on december 30, the whole group will film the final part of their accompanying reality show. they’ll all be taken to a busy shopping district with a film crew and be given their mission: they have two hours to promote their album as many times as they can. promotion can be anything from asking a shop owner to play their song over to shop speakers to buying supplies and making posters to finding a spot to give a free performance of one of the songs. they’re welcome to split off into smaller groups or stay all together but the film crew will keep track of their “promotion points” and for each point earned, base will donate ₩1,000,000 to charity in their name.

at the end of the filming, the idols will take to a stage in a part of the shopping district and perform each song off of the album for unsuspecting shoppers before leaving. videos of these performances by the film crew will be uploaded to youtube later.

mun info

though it is now past the deadline listed on the original post, muses may still be submitted to participate in the project, but you may not join in on writing for the schedules until your muse has been added to the original post.

any further questions should be directed to the main’s ask box!

points roundup

total available points for muses involved in the album: 11 points (none of the prompts count toward monthly limits.)

+2 points each: up to four listening party / radio show / reality show threads of at least six posts by the deadline (for up to eight points total)

+3 points: a self-para of any part of this three-week period of at least 400 words (does not count toward monthly limit)

please remember to tag with #famedbasemagic3.