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sol x sunjae playlist!

oooh this is kind of a hard one, I have so many songs in my playlist where I was like this is them!! but let's see!

"Girl Almighty" by One Direction

"Easily" by Bruno Major

"reckless driving" by Lizzy McAlpine and Ben Kessler

"Where do we go now?" by Gracie Abrams

"Timeless" by Taylor Swift

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(just wrong enough to) make it feel right?

aww thank you for asking! this is a one-shot filling in the scene right after the power goes out at Eun Yoo's house after The Airport Scene. so, yknow,,, there's a bit of smooching 🧍🏻‍♀️

it's pretty short, so posting a snippet would kinda spoil it, but here is my current description for it! (might change it too but that is the idea :))

Eun Yoo might regret this later. Really, all the reasons she told herself not to do this are still very valid. But then, no one has ever talked to her the way Eun Gyeol does. And she really, really, can’t bear being called Se Kyeong anymore.

also, the title is from "Sparks Fly" which I think is such a Them song because of how it says hmm this relationship might be bad idea I should probably not get involved with this person but the thing is they are so sparkly and when I'm with them I forget all the reasons we shouldn't be together and if that isn't a perfect descriptor of Euneun having crises because they think they're in a relationship with a 28-year age gap I don't know what is!

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you still would’ve been mine?

ooooh okay! this was actually supposed to be part 1 of my already partially published Live Up To Your Name fic, “on a crowded street in 1944…”. the two fics are meant to be companion pieces, each one exploring the dynamic of our otp set in a different time period.

so this story takes place in 1592, just before the Japanese invasion of Joseon (this is also the setting of the actual show before the main character time travels to 2017). Lady Yeon Kyung, 23, must move to her uncle’s house after her grandfather and guardian dies. she has plans to follow in her grandpa’s footsteps and become a doctor, an acupuncturist. however, her uncle, the Minister of War, intends to make an auspicious match for her instead. the match is royal physician Lord Yoo, whom she does not care for. meanwhile, she tries to do as much medical work as she can get away with, and in the process she meets “lowly” physician Heo Im. their friendship becomes love, but before anything else can happen, the Japanese attack, and everything is thrown into chaos.

when I was doing research for this fic, I was actually super stoked to find out that they did have female physicians in Joseon — Confusian beliefs made male doctors treating women a taboo, so women were trained as doctors to take care of women. I think it’s a super cool detail and gives more historical validity to Yeon Kyung’s wish to be a doctor; it even aligns with her motivations to be a surgeon in canon.

aaaanyway, I would really like to continue work on this fic! I have a couple of scenes in the first chapter written, but I also have a rough outline of most of the story as well as a handful of scenes that’ll fit in later on. here’s one of those scenes for your pre-viewing pleasure 😉

And oh, these new feelings — this urge and this need to hold her, watch over her, to keep her safe and happy and alive. Love and war had altered him so. Where before it had been just him and his career, now it was Yeon Kyung first, and then him, consumed with the need to hold her hands and kiss her face and touch her hair and to do anything for her.

He almost felt that if it were up to him, he'd keep her safe in a secret house, far removed from everything, never needing to leave or experience the brutality of the war. And yet he knew he could never and should never stop her from doing what she loved and needed, from running into the aftermath of every conquest and battlefield and saving lives. Despite the horrors of it all, he could see that treating patients was where she shone.

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Trope Ask Game: Miscommunication, Only One Bed, and Love Triangles!

Miscommunication: D. Once upon a time, I had a WIP that relied heavily on the miscommunication trope but before I finished writing it I grew to hate it so much that I never went back because I didn’t know how to retroactively fix what I’d already published. JUST TALK ABOUT IT, PEOPLE!!! But on rare occasions I might keep reading, if I’m very intrigued or there’s a miraculously good explanation for why they’re not communicating.

Only One Bed: MY BELOVED. A, but specifically when it leads to other sorts of shenanigans/subversions and very much NOT when it just leads to anything nsfw. I simply love scenarios that appear scandalous but actually have a legitimate, completely innocent explanation.

Love Triangles: C. I do usually say that I hate it with a passion, but the truth is I don’t mind it much when it’s a) well-written and b) not dragged out. So it really depends. It takes a good writer for sure.

thank uuuu <3

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For the fanfic title ask! (I know I sent three, but just do whatever calls out to you of the three (pardon the titles - I didn’t feel as creative as I thought I would be)). Hold me close (and let me shatter)

Constellations, Hesitations

The cadence of my heart (and how it echos your name)

thanks so much for the ask! <3

Constellations, Hesitations

Fandom: Mansfield Park

Pairing: Fanny Price x Edmund Bertram

It’s a lovely spring night at Mansfield. The Crawfords’ names haven’t been spoken here in years, everything is peaceful, and Fanny couldn’t be happier that Edmund is staying over for the night. She thinks nothing of it when he asks her to go stargazing in the garden with him, just like they always used to.

Edmund does not seem nearly as calm or untroubled as she does.

Or, the night things changed.

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Hmmm, I’m not sure how many words this is (definitely not 500), but this is for the 500 word ask about your fanfiction thingy? You know? 😭😭😭

Anyways, even though I didn’t watch Live Up To Your Name, I still read this anyway (because I just read fics when they seem interesting), so I was wondering about your thought process cause I loved the tension 😍 ——— His eyes widen. “You were lost? In this cold? That's terrible. How long had you been lost for?”

“Oh, about five minutes. Last night was the first time I came here, so I couldn’t remember the way.”

He nods. “Were you— were you supposed to be meeting your boyfriend? Because he was here. He left about five minutes ago.”

“You mean Jae-ha?”

“Yes.”

“Well— yes, I was trying to catch up to him.”

“You two seem very familiar with each other,” interrupts Mak-gae.

Yeon Kyung and Im both laugh lightly.

“We actually, uh, knew each other,” Yeon Kyung explains.

“Oh, really?”

“Yes, we met last night when she was here with her boyfriend.”

“Not my boyfriend,” Yeon Kyung corrects him.

“…Oh. Not your boyfriend.”

“Just my friend.”

“Just your friend,” he repeats mechanically. The weight of the words seems to hang in the air between them.

They look at each other for a very long five seconds before Mak-gae, eyeing them suspiciously, clears her throat. “Dear me, I feel like an intruder all of a sudden.”

This breaks the spell.

Yeon Kyung looks away before he does. “So anyway, I was here with — ahem — said friend last night, and your brother happened to be here as well.”

“Well, how about that?” smiles Mak-gae. “And here you two are again.”

“Here we are,” they agree, mirth sparkling in the eyes of both.

okay since I’m answering asks about my writing it’s finally (!!!!) time to answer this. sorry for the delay 🧍🏻‍♀️

thank you so much for the love btw!! and I’m going to be long-winded and a little pedantic, so I’m placing it under the cut :)

So in canon, Yeon Kyung is annoyed by Im’s attachment to her at first, but that’s because of the highly unusual circumstances they meet under. In this AU, though, they meet under normal circumstances (both as members of a minority in a foreign country), so I think she’d be drawn to him and his earnestness and interest in her from the get-go. And like, obviously they’re both a little guarded at first, because they’re meeting in a bar and yeah, it’s hard to trust new people in these surroundings, but this is an important moment for them both. Like, they’re both trying to play it cool, Im is slyly trying to find out if Jae-ha is her boyfriend, but he finds out that she was wandering around in the cold and he does worry because that’s his way — he’s interested in this woman he’s met and he hopes she’s safe and okay. So this act of coolness he’s somewhat putting on kind of cracks in this moment and he just starts asking her if she’s okay and how long she’d been lost for.

Yeon Kyung is still trying to keep it casual — after all, she worries even more than he does about staying safe, day in and day out, especially with the job she has. But Im’s concern and Mak-gae’s friendliness do start to get to her. I love having Mak-gae here as Im’s (step)sister because she’s very perceptive as well as friendly (and like, Yeon Kyung really needs a female friend in this city). She immediately sees that there’s more there than meets the eye, and she’s not afraid to point it out.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Im hinting that Jae-ha is Yeon Kyung’s boyfriend is also inspired by canon, though I kind of did a little reversal here. In canon, Yeon Kyung is annoyed by Im and then he sees her brighten up when Jae-ha visits her, so he assumes she has something going on with Jae-ha. But here, Im’s introduction to Jae-ha is actually hearing Yeon Kyung complain about him, and then seeing her being annoyed by how… I don’t wanna say possessive? but how much he’s like, up in her business. And like,, boyfriends can be like that too, sometimes, so he worries. And back to the present, he tries to figure out if that’s really the case. Which is a little confusing to Yeon Kyung at first, but then she’s also like ahh. he means Jae-ha.

Anyway, Mak-gae cuts in — “you two seem very familiar with each other.” I cannot stress enough how much she is, immediately, their first shipper. And this, of course, gives Im a chance to hint even more about Yeon Kyung’s relationship status, and she immediately has to jump in and clarify that no, Jae-ha is not her boyfriend. Which is definitely a huge relief to Im and leads to that little ✨moment✨ between them. It opens their acquaintance up to, perhaps, something more.

Also, Yeon Kyung looking away first! She’s still guarded, whereas Im is already like, deep in it from the start. But again, grateful for Mak-gae being there because she helps keep things from getting too complicated or too intense or awkward. She cuts in with just a little remark, just something honest, and snaps them back into reality so that they can keep developing that new friendship instead of getting stuck in their own heads about things.

And yeah! Those are my thoughts and the characters’ thoughts during this scene. This was actually so fun to go through and explain >< and it made me want to continue writing the next chapter as well! So thank you for this 🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Holaaa!!!

Hope your wrist feels better. How’d it go today? Hopefully not too painful 🙏

Praying for that wrist recovery because they are so important omg!!!

Thank you!! The wrist brace helped a lot. I just got home and took it off to get ready for bed and everything and I definitely feel better than I did last night. Party was eh, the dancing wasn’t very good, but at least I got to see some old friends and just be there for my cousin :)

And thank you again!!! Hopefully I’m better by Friday because I have a three day event and I don’t wanna be dealing with the pain or the brace by then 😮‍💨

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Umm, I’m kinda late to this. Sorry 😭😭😭

Ask game: Eleven, Love Dive, and Payback!

eleven: what skill/accomplishment/thing about yourself makes you feel like an 11/10?

Hmm that's a tough one. Maybe my sense of humor? I know that I do have moments (on occasion) where I'm like oh yeah,, I'm a catch 🤩 but it's just more of a sum total of things about myself than something specific.

love dive: if you confessed your feelings to someone, how would you do it?

That's a terrifying thing to consider because I've been perfectly happy to go my whole life thinking that the other person will do the confessing for me lolol. But if I was going to confess to someone, I think I'd write him a letter.

payback: name your favorite ive song!

"Shine With Me"! I think it's so pretty and hopeful and also the shine metaphor?? You know I'm going to think of Yichan and Cheong-ah 🙈

Thank you for the ask @mintandcreme and sorry I'm so late to responding! 🫶🏼

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