i haven't been on tumblr in a while but I suddenly remembered your fic of jaemin in a zombie apocalypse and chenle in hunger games. broke out in a cold sweat when i couldn't find it immediately because they are my absolute faves. i literally went fic by fic on my reblogged posts to search for it and oh my goodness im glad it's still here. thank u kind author
hello! the jaemin zombie au might be mine but the chenle hunger games au isn’t 😭 would you care to share the chenle one with me tho? i don’t think i’ve ever read an nct hunger games au.
also thank you for still thinking of the fic even if it’s been years 🥺💓 i’ve been thinking of taking my writing off the platform but i’m taking this as a sign not to do so.
I have a question for you about the Enhypen Collab 🙈
I have an nsfw account (very inactive), and I'm still evaluating if I might have some nsfw elements in my Collab story. Maybe violence or some mildly explicit scenes, idk - but the way my ideas are going, the odds seem pretty high of me killing somebody in cold blood (for the plot)
Would it be okay if I posted my story on that account, if I do write something that doesn't fit as sfw? 🙈🙈 ( @silkentragedies is the account btw)
hello el! 💗 yes, it's alright! i see no problem here as i understand needing or wanting to keep themes separate through blogs. given the theme of the collab, this isn't the first time a writer reached out to me so don't 'ya worry ahaha
is silkentragedies a known sideblog of yours? i'm thinking of just tagging both sleepylixie & silkentragedies on the collab post in case people don't recognize you on the other account.
surprise bectha totally didn't expect me 🥴 n e ways, managed to choose only 5 intead of 12 hahahaha totally joking hahahaha sorry 😔😔 // 1 - 23 - 44 - 57 - 129
i totally did not expect you, not at all HAHA thank you for your enthusiasm regarding my book ramblings x.x it's nice to have someone discuss books with me here bc i literally have nobody *cries
book recs ask game!
#1 - a book that is close to your heart
looking for alaska by john green. i'm not really sure what's with that book?? it's not a 5-star read and i keep finding more and more flaws on it every time i reread it but i do it anyway. i think it's close to my heart in a way that even i can't figure out yet.
#23 - a book that is currently on your TBR
the thief by fuminori nakamura. someone i trust reviewed it as 'what the fuck did i just read' and i think that's the only criteria for my tbr atm :D all i know is it's crime/thriller/mystery and ik the japanese always nail that so i have high expectations. here's to hoping that i won't hate it!
#44 - your favourite fantasy novel
it's a tie between six of crows by leigh bardugo and iron widow by xiran jay zhao. both are interesting but on opposite ends of the fantasy(?) spectrum. (also these aren't high fantasy, really can't get into those i'm sorry :<) the former is more tied to magic while the latter is more involved in sci-fi. 5-star reads with well-written characters (read as strong women), highly recommend them :]
#57 - a book you want to hit bonk your head with
i think i've mentioned this before but a little life by hanya yanagihara. maybe if i bonk my head with it, it would match the heartache this goddamn book put me through.
#129 - a book with beautiful prose
aside from vuong's books that i'm sure you know HAHA, the white book by han kang!!! paragraphs upon paragraphs of good writing man. not a spoiler, but the author's just basically metaphorically writing about white things and how they relate to the central plot but it's sooooo well done. i wanna write like that ;n;
me when i saw how many numbers this ask had !! thank you so much ivy, i hope my recs deliver somehow ;n; (also this had me thinking harder than i did on an essay i just submitted HJSHA I LOVE IT)
book recs ask game!
#17 - a book with a yellow cover
men without women by haruki murakami, a short story collection about men with no bitches /j,, the stories aren't correlated to one another and i had no major takeaway but i enjoyed 1 story out of the 7 which was the independent organ (bc i related to the guy and it got pretty sad, i like that shit). this feels like a compilation of murakami's random thoughts, literal ideas out of nowhere and inherently hard to find any deeper meaning into it but maybe that's just my lack of analytical skill.
#25 - a book by your favourite author
unfortunately, i no longer have a favorite author but the last one i acknowledged was marie lu so... legend. prolly her most popular work but not my favorite. her writing has the ability to single-handedly bring me out of reading slumps and i think i read almost every book she wrote. got a few world-building, plot-twisting techniques from her too!!
#28 - a book you wish you could read as a beginner again
mentioned a thousand times atp, looking for alaska :'D by john green :'D the money i'd give just to reread that for the first time bc i have paragraphs of it memorized now HJSHA i think this sparked my love for angsty things
#42 - a book that made you want to scream by the time you got to the end
i had a different book for this at first until i remember this one read that was so bad i wanted to forget about it. never let this go by kazuo ishiguro. YES, the story had a serious topic in its undertone but i just couldn't appreciate it anymore with how much of a drag everything else was. it reads like one of those tiktok series vids that are like 'follow for part 2'. BITCH!! JUST GET ON WITH IT!! the number of times this book goes (not a spoiler, just a bad example) "i'll tell you why i burned the house down but first let me tell you about my friend's boyfriend" LIKE I CARE ABT THAT RN??? god just thinking abt it is making my blood boil
#50 - a book that made you cry a LOT
THERE IS ONLY ONE!!! HOUSE OF HADES BY RICK RIORDAN. i know, kinda hard to get to and i'm not even sure if this would make you cry. it had me bawling tho, tear-blurred vision as i waded to the last page. it was that bad. if you're looking for a tear-jerker that i know made others cry, a little life by hanya yanagihara.
#55 - a book with a satisfying ending
again, for me, it's a little life. there was something about how i finished that book that left me feeling relieved. not only bc it was one chonky ass book but bc i barely read things where the ending i want is the ending i actually get.
#60 - a book that you think about at 3am
things have gotten worse since we last spoke by eddie larocca. told in e-mail correspondence between two women, they have a 50 shades of grey-esque arrangement but it gets from 0 to 1000 so quick. i'm gonna step aside and let my review speak for itself.
#63 - a book that actually made you laugh out loud
the blood of olympus by rick riordan, last book of the hoo series. sorry my tearjerker and biggest laugh are from the same middle-grade series. adult fiction doesn't draw much emotions from me (except maybe frustration), they just leave me mortified.
#80 - a book that reminds you of a loved one
norwegian wood by haruki murakami. a close friend recommended this to me and because he said the book mirrored his life, it's forever tied with him now. while the story in itself didn't appeal to me that much, i had fun pointing out which parts of the book and his life overlapped.
#94 - a book about grieving
on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong. while the book doesn't explicitly state that it's about grieving, it reads like it is. it's almost as if the main character is grieving for a life he cannot have and mourning for people who are still alive.
#135 - recommend any book you like!
i think i recommended this before when i mentioned your writing reads like a murakami book HAHA after dark !!
very interested in paper towns, safety pin, and skyfall!! (you don’t have to answer all three lol)
i don't really mind answering all three, doodie! >:D
papertowns - ahhhh, throwback to missing seungmin hours in 2020. this story contains the night referenced in 'the lonely hearts club' where mc and seungmin hug it out to comfort each other in the middle of the night. i want to finish it someday but my blog contains one to many seungmin-comforting-mc fics. i actually posted a full excerpt of papertowns here !!
safety pin - talked about it here, you're getting all the ones with actual written parts XD
skyfall - the one we have in common but with vv far plots HAHA this skyfall is an attack on titan au and uses the skyfall title more for its definition rather than the 007 reference. (terminologies i'll use prolly won't make sense if you haven't watched aot but) it follows changbin who is chosen as one of 9 titanshifters and trained to fight for the republic's side. in training he meets mc, who is also a titanshifter but is set apart from the rest bc she's close to the ruling party and treated a bit differently. mc doesn't like what she's forced to do but she doesn't have a choice meanwhile changbin, after being sent to enemy territory, realizes that the side he's fighting for is in the wrong. together they (try to) escape and face the consequences of doing so.
top 5 pieces of media (books, movies, animes etc) that made u cry 😌
i don’t usually cry while consuming media but when i do, i remember 🥲
more than blue (2018 taiwanese movie, literally cried for the last 30 minutes)
up (i watched this in second grade, balled my eyes out next to my mom at the theaters)
violet evergarden (the anime series, the whole show wasn’t that sad but there was one episode that made me break down 🤸🏻♀️🕳)
house of hades - rick riordan (HAHA i can explain but i think that would spoil the story, finished the book thru blurred eyesight bc i was tearing up so much)
before the coffee gets cold - toshikazu kawaguchi (teared up at every story and i think that’s the most emotions a short story collection could ever got from me)
put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go
I recc this fic ! it's a pirate king au if that's fine with you. it's not solely focused on romance + it was one of my first ateez fics that I ever read but I keep going back to it cuz it's just written so beautifully and I've cried many a times over it too. if you decide to read it, then I hope you enjoy it <3
that wordcount is overwhelming but if i like this, i'll be good for days. months even. THANK YOU SO MUCH, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
