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🔎anon: so genuine question, is... the deliberate long (albeit slow) commenting alright, or is the attention burdensome (if so, please text STOP to 091-maglensanon- )
(also, pat pats, it's hard, but I hope things get at least a bit better for you soon (ideally they get a lot better, but-) )
Hi, anon. Any way you feel comfortable to, honestly. Thank you for still opting to comment even though I yeeted to hiatus. And thank you for checking on me. I will still finish Off the record hopefully and a couple of other drafts but won't post anything on twt besides my perfume thread.
I hope so too.
🔎anon: yes. :D (I hope you liked it!)
(yeah the potentially incredibly funny thing (to me) was that at the time of the guess the anon game I was already sitting on like three pages of notes so far for teddy bear to bed, of all things, which i'd grabbed like a month back completely at random for this exact exercise, but you said "there are still limits to the bendability tbh. Otherwise I might have written the hybrid sequel a number of people want" and i thought okay, I can't start with that one, I can't do that to them)
Are you joking, anon? I loved it! I need tho to sit down and properly reply. Preferably in gdocs first like I do with some retro asks. Because as you might've seen on twitter, my stupid ass clicked on cancel mid comment.
Also eh, I would've loved to receive any comment to any fic really. But to receive one to Good Enough surely was unexpected and very welcome 🤧 Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, really. I legit teared up ytd
tbh i love everything smut in day6 fics huweuehuehe but i bark if it's sungjin bottoming ;)
Ohoooo, anon. I see you, I see you 😏
Honestly I read any and every sunbri fics to exist I don't care about genre as long as I can read the pairing but personally i love it when there's a bit of pinning and sexual tension involved.
Strongest soldier 🙂↕️ Thank you for the answer anon!
🔎anon: okay I came here mostly to scream about "man car door hook hand" because just /oh my god/ but also uh. (looks at my notes and the timing of everything) if I can get these together in a reasonable amount of time I could potentially do something incredibly funny (to me)
(I do write! though, it's mostly original stuff right now, and tangibly getting nerdy about other people's writing, but i DO write :D I have not... been making big moves in d6 circles, though; that's your hint. but if my rambling ever makes it out of paper/retrospring, the game, I think, might be immediately given away)
I am... extremely on board with the worship (and the bullying), thank you for the delicious food
I try, with the analyses :D and i'm glad you like them! (it benefits me a lot too, to think about why this or that might happen, or be written in a certain way, so it's a win-win situation?)
Notes and timing? I am intrigued, what are you on about, anon?
Oho, I see. Not been making big moves but been making some I guess takes notes Man this is so thrilling.
You're always welcome, anon ❤
To be honest, I feel like I should employ your tactics and maybe comment other people more too. But I read unfortunately so little. I am trying to sneak some in between writing these days. Mostly my other fandoms with old men yaoi
🔎anon: like a raccoon when the light switches on, I run upon being noticed...
THAT SAID. I CAME BACK
FLUSTERED YELLING, YOU REALLY WROTE IT, asdakjf I can't laugh at how bendable your brainworms are, i WISH mine were still like that. "dark venus kyh". my goodness. ""You are having a sleep paralysis," a smooth voice helpfully supplies." sdjhajsjdfk the way you describe yh is /so sexy/. the biceps. the thick thighs. I could name every instance but suffice to say every time his body gets mentioned there's a complimentary adjective and I'm SO HERE FOR IT, pour one out for psj
//chinhands the contrast is everything to me, yh's beauty (his long legs, his lithe and dreamlike body) vs the slight "bro, what" (because in this moment that's supposed to be terrifying for sj (and still is, kinda) he's quoting sj's /nmwk article/) versus the PHYSICAL PAIN HE'S CAUSING SJ AND HOW CASUAL HE IS ABOUT IT, HOW CHILL, PLEASE THAT'S SO HOT OF HIM,
(I... it will probably come as no surprise but I did look up sleep paralysis and alien abduction after the mention of that, and that's so neat, I didn't know that)
kicking my feet cus the wip found the intended audience It's just a wip so far but I'm pleased that you like it, anon. I do say that, but there are still limits to the bendability tbh. Otherwise I might have written the hybrid sequel a number of people want 🥲 but that's beside the point. Also, do you write too? 😶🌫️ I have this little game I play called try to guess the anon, as in if I ever encountered them in wild. For some reason I feel like you might be one ao3 author, the ☕🍑🍵 one. But that's just a guess.
I feel like fics are my outlet to 🧎 worship Yonk a little since outside that I usually bully him a little bit, lightheartedly of course. He's obviously hot but I'm in denial.
I didn't know it either. I was curious what info is there on sleep paralysis at all so I went onto Wikipedia and did have a surprisingly fun time reading.
Thank you for giving my scribbles such a deep analysis each time, 🔎 anon. Ngl it flatters me a lot. Like A LOT, a lot. Makes me think 'hey maybe I do actually write well' hshsgs. Hope to finish this one for you some time in near future
hi, i'm your shy fans and avid reader! i just want to tell you, thank you for keep writing and i love all your sungbri fics in general and your writing style over all.. also, i don't intend to rush you or anything, but i've been craving your 18+ explicit sungbri fic (those hot cheetos on ao3).. ≧ᗜ≦ keep up the good work ٩(^ᗜ^ )و
Hi hi anon! Thank you so much for overcoming your shyness and leaving me your message ❤️ Ah, you mean canon-compliant smvt? Because as for smvt in general I currently do have an ongoing work which is office au 😉 I will take note of your request, anon, rest assured, I always have drafts for that one collection on standby. The last one I started was about t!SJ in a skirt 🤓 also even though yiddies oneshot is planned to be one day posted outside the collection, spiritually I think it belongs to it.
Thank you so much once again for reading and anticipating my work 🙇
🪷 : wow ! Thank you for dark Kang venus and pool boy fic. I’ll reread again once I’m done with all my homework.
Hi lotus-anon 👋 Thank you for giving them attention 🙇
🔎anon: the first tmi wasn't something i think i need to hide, there was just a very short point in my life where i didn't take care of myself very well and they were rightly distressed (it'd passed, by the time i was telling them about it), but thank you! the gesture is very kind. I will let you know :D
(for all that i think the shape of yh's lips is very charming (mostly when he's speaking or singing, but in particular that sorta triangle shape that also frames his front teeth real cutely...) the slightly embarrassing confession though is that i don't... zoom in well enough to notice if they're chapped or not... hdkdsfj)
regarding the sexy sleep paralysis demon! if that /was/ the bit that could have come across as a writing prompt, I wasn't fishing for a fic, but if it's something you're interested in, I wouldn't be opposed :D mostly I just wanted to share the mental image, because the "Nude, smooth, eyes gleaming, lips red, hair tousled, kneeling in front" had me by the skull and would absolutely not let go (me, already going bananas over his lips: WAHOO), and then "crawling onto [sj]’s lap like a creature, a monster from under your bed, a sleep paralysis demon, inescapable" happened and i was like. psj. people probably WISH their sleep paralysis demons were this sexy and messy.
i will say though!! the way you write these two here is very... like, yes, I really shouldn't take them at face value, and they're so interesting for that
I have thought that it's because of his teeth honestly https://bit.ly/3AA6ZuY haha. I usually like to describe how plush his bottom lip is 🤌 Also he has a very cute cupid bow when he's not smiling. To my defense 😭 I was not even zooming, it's just in recent contents before the show with that actor it was so noticeable that as a bbirongdan, I couldn't help but joke a little 🙇
Okay, now that you describing it back at me again I am kinda curious. Partially cus sleep paralysis demon thing is kinda common trope but I haven't yet tried it. So far I only had succubus/incubus idea in my brain (or wip in my docs).
Thank you for the praise honestly 😭 I am so blessed with affectionate audience for this fic I cannot ever stop feeling grateful
🔎anon: his lips, on the other hand, do drive me slightly insane. (His chest in general also but specifically his lips here.)
Sexy sleep paralysis demon yh...
I tend... to not reread previous chapters before reading the newest one, which is my loss I think just on a proper reading experience and appreciation level, but on the other hand it really is so fuckin funky to read yh's... seduction, because the way psj is so... I don't want to say not into it, because he is, but the way his feelings are so messy about it has me feeling some kinda way I don't know how to phrase but DOES involve the magnifying glass. My goodness.
I have sort of complicated relationship with his boobage area. I stubbornly say it doesn't entice me, but it obviously does, otherwise why am I using a whole separate tag for them and dedicate fics to his tits in crisis Yesss, lips*...
*when moisturized
Is this a subtle hint on a prompt? You'd want such a fic, anon?
I mean, understandable to be honest. This monstrosity already sits at 32k. I tend not to reread that often even, dk if it impacts the cohesion much. Generally it was made like themed smut potpourri of sorts and only later some development started to get mixed in. I'd say don't take their pov and behavior as 100% credible but I don't know if this is a spoiler of sorts. Also not sure if I did write it in a way it could be doubted, which I hope it could be hshshs.
Re: feet again. That damned Young One private feetpic collection broke me. Now I can't stop mentioning feet. I mean that's prolly cuz I discovered some things along the way about my own preferences? (。_。) tmi I guess but yeah. Expect random zoom ins for character's feet across different fics.
🔎anon: this is... entirely random and most likely TMI, but the mentions of yh's feet reminded me of your other fic with the. Feet kink. I have his wikifeet tab just lying there open on my browser now; I'm not personally interested in feet in general but now once in a while I catch myself wondering about his specifically. It's great for when I accidentally tell my friends something too awful about myself and need to distract them from it 🤘
Got me cackling here, anon. Don't be shy to spill more TMIs. Tho do mention if you want me to not share it on twitter.
Then, it seems, I succeeded in giving you a brainrot on feet. It's funny how the way you describe your interest somewhat matches your emoji origin. If you told me you are interested in his feet from purely scientific point I'd go 'valid'. How it goes? 'Uuuuh, anyway, here's a whole page on feet of critically acclaimed singer and lyricist kyh from d6?' Hope you don't have to do this too often, i.e. don't feel bad about telling something awful about yourself to this extent that you need to cover it up. Even though I don't know the full context.
🔍anon: regarding focus, personally I'm a "one more chapter before bed, I swear" kind of guy, so honestly if you have my attention it's harder to pause than to finish.
I've been thinking about it, and I think in fanfic it's easier to start reading. With original works it's a little more difficult to start, especially with speculative fiction, because you have to get used to the world AND the characters, so in the beginning at least its easy to pause and wander off; In fanfic, even if it's set in a buckwild AU, it's with characters we already know and care about, so it's easier to be there and go "oh my goodness, and what happens NEXT?" ASGHAJDJS this is all my own experience though, and guesswork, I can't speak for anyone else. But this is my answer to the focus question
Hey hey! It does make a lot of sense. But for me the problem is that it happens with fanfiction too. But then again might be adhd thing. Thank you for sharing your point of view!
hey it's me again the same anon who ranted about views. not to be dramatic but i kinda teared up reading your reply lol thank you for replying to me anyway even if my whole rant was nonsensical i honestly thought you wouldn't because one of the reasons i didn't tweet it on main was because i was afraid it might start a discourse and it's something we dont need rn esp in the midst of psj1. ultimately i was just really embarrassed to be feeling salty about something i never thought of before lol. but you're right. i didn't think about how different the fandom's situation is from before. i only mentioned the hexagon thing bc it's what appeared on my yt page but i also felt the same way about ootb and pilmo prior to all this. i thought hey these releasesdl deserve so much hype. and you know honestly after listening to 30 and seeing how well received it was all i could feel was proud. of sj and of the fandom also. like wow we all waited for this. sj too. and here we all are back and enjoying his comeback. seeing the results of sj's hardowrk also really made me think again. not only was i proud and emotional of sj's growth but somehow im also proud of mydays because i thought oh everyone coming back might mean we're all also doing better than we did a few years ago? haha big stretch and i know im still nonsensical but anyway thanks :)
You're welcome, anon. I'm glad I was able to have comforted (?) you in a way. I'm sure if these debuts/comebacks were to happen now they would have received the attention they always deserved. Plus. With d6 organic growth, you never know, they might pick up suddenly again. A Journey did it in a way, and might do it again but even stronger. Hope you're having a great day, anon, and happy sj1!
not au and not sungbri related this time so idk if this rant is welcome haha it's okay not to answer or publish if you find this off! but i was looking at older solo stuff of the members and got a bit salty seeing how little views some of the content had like yonk's documentaries ? idk what to call it but the hexagon thing. tbh im kinda embarrassed to be feeling salty because im not one to care about views and i know as a fandom we dont either and i dont even really watch things to add to views but idk maybe im just salty in general today hahaha i just remember how we as a fandom usually excitedly ask him for content and i just noticed now how the episodes only have like 15-30k views. :((( that's like one city stop but im also aware of course that consuming content should be based on what we want to and enjoy so rationally speaking i know im just being salty for nothing. hahahaha anyway just wanted to rant im sorry for bringing this weird take to your retro lol im a embarrassed to tweet it on main so it's ok if you just ignore this it's up to you!!!! hahaha
Hey anon. I won't share not to spur discourse like it is usually picked up in our fandom, sadly, but I want to say, any feeling you feel is valid. I understand what you mean. Personally, I for example think Yonk's debut is a little underappreciated (like the MV and album), Guard You had really cool concept and a very badass MV. But then again, honestly, I don't have the right to complain as I (like a lot of people back then) was here and there and wasn't all that focused on streaming content. I think I still haven't watched his self-interviews from that time. I do own the album tho and listened to it a lot on repeat, I loved it more than lwn conceptually and musically tbh.
Re Yonk's actual comeback. I feel like there are several reasons contributing to this. First and the biggest is that the fandom was still relatively in slumber. Some people started only return after Piri's discharge, so there wasn't enough people to support his comeback in the first place. Second is Stuj was still experimenting with formats. Unfortunately, these little stop-documentaries, to me at least, were pretty forgettable, I don't remember what he was talking about in there. But it wasn't something that we didn't already know. One of them was about radio, I think? They're only for one bite and people are unlikely to rewatch them again.
Re asking for content and delivering it. I think music will come out anyway, so people usually are requesting something else. Afaik his vlog contents during festivals, his appearances on show etc gain pretty decent number of views. These little promo stuffs, I don't think they should be really regarded as a metric of anything. And even if you tend to compare with the current SJ solo, there was big anticipation of it, it was first teased almost 2 years ago, so it kind of expected that people rushed to see. Second is that they're big now and a big chunk of general public is intrigued by SJ's voice, so views likely come from there as well. To be honest, I think if Yonk was ever to comeback again, his solo would also gain much more traction this time.
It is okay to feel the way you feel but it is also important to evaluate your feelings and put them side to side with reason. Hope I was able to settle your sorrows, anon.
heyy ^^
i want to leave a comment on ao3, but i held back at last minute because i'm such a coward, i'm too shy to leave it in public so i hope you don't mind with this (again) hehe
(disclaimer: i was the same anon that leave you a message two months ago, talking and crying about how good your narration is in your wip; office au. the same dumb anon who dk how to put into words about your smut, until you came and save me with the "if you mean my smut is indeed hot without it being too porny" (<-- you're right with this tho, that's what i meant! hahahah) and i will talk about the same thing again today, about how i love the narration in your works, hopefully this won't bore you)
i wanna talk about your halloween entry!! i just finished read it this morning--well i was supposed to finish it last night, but my heart can't handle it, you once again really outdone yourself with the narration (the details ma'am!!!! love your big brain so much!!!), everything seems so real for me that i feel like i was gonna get jumpscared when the door was opened. i had to close the tab abruptly last night because of that scene lol
ok enough with me being the scaredy cat. i don't really like horror, i even despise it because i tend to overthink everything i read/see in horror content, and it led me to sleepless night. BUT!!!!! i need to read this one, because there's no way i would skip your fic. i didn't regret reading this, bcs aside from that one opened door scene, the rest doesn't scare me much, idk how, but your work somehow give me the sad feelings??? the plot is really unexpected tbh, i thought it would be too spooky that i had to drop it again, but turns out i was fine?? i mean, a little heartbroken here and there bcs the story was too painful for me, but i think i can sleep peacefully tonight.
you did amazing in portraying younghyun's character. this time, it's a ghost character! do you even realize how amazing you are as a writer that you nailed both human and ghost emotions😉 (but yeah you're also the same writer that write from instruments' pov, i should've seen this one coming). i've read all your works (sorry for the less feedback from me, but i really read all of them and love them so much, will try to write more feedback in the future tho) and i can see how you always have a very deep emotions in your narrations, that's why i really love it so much, because most of the time you can convey how this character feels without pulling words out of their mouth.
sungjin is a clean freak, and you really nailed it when you describe everything that disgusts him from his pov. and i think maybe this is why i'm so sad and in so much pain when i reach the epilogue, because i feel so bad for younghyun, it's so unfair that he had to go through that accident T_T this might sounds so dumb to you, but when i read the story, i feel like i'm sungjin. that, until younghyun in the back seat saying "take me back, HYUNG" made me realize that i wasn't sungjin, because younghyun is in fact, older than me, damn.
anyway, this fic was a crazy ride, i know it's kinda an open ending, but atleast in my head, i sincerely wish sungjin is okay and can take him back to wherever younghyun need to be, and i hope younghyun can finally rest peacefully god please take away all his pain T_T i can't believe there will be a day that i feel bad for a ghost and want the best for them.
AND LAAAASSSSTTT, THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS DELIVERING AMAZING STORY, i swear if only we could meet in rl, i would give you the biggessttttt the tightessttttt hug because i'm really grateful of your existence in this life💙
(will be back here after i read your office au, i'm sorry i didn't realize that you reply my message, but i'm so glad that you decide to post it in chapter!!!!")
Dear Anon. I had to get up early today and was a little disgruntled by it when I woke up, but then I opened your message and it made my morning so so so much better. And when I say I was smiling at the screen of my phone like a fool reading it throughout?
It's okay anon, choose the format you're most comfortable with. I am happy as long as I get to see it, so it really doesn't matter if it is here or on ao3.
Nooooo, anon. Don't say that. You're perfectly fine with expressing yourself, don't bash yourself over nothing, please. Please, anon, you could never bore me, I am way too vain to get bored from praise, haha.
On one hand I feel sorry it spooked you this much, on the other I am flattered because I think making horror in a written form convincing enough to have effect is pretty difficult.
Oh, dear, but you don't have to! I don't get upset at my readers for not reading some fics. I write a lot and it is natural for some of it to be in clash with people's preferences or even possibly contain triggers. Don't push yourself to read something that might make you uncomfortable.
I for some reason love sad horror. There's a movie, not sure if you might want to watch it. Whispering Corridors 4: Voice (2005). It is not scary mostly but it is very sad and touching upon the topic of friendship a lot (mcs are two schoolgirls). There are a few scenes that made me absolutely bawl.
I am very touched by your kind words 😭 No no, anon, it doesn't sound dumb. In fact, a few people have mentioned this that they feel immersed with the POV character. This is actually quite an interesting point for me as I usually write 3d person POV rather than 1st. I want my writing to be immersive but more like in a sense of presence in POV character's head and behind their shoulder. Interesting to see how the borders blur in reader's perception.
Ngl, I felt sad for him as well as I was writing 😥 Felt sorry for him, but this is where my story lead me to in the end, I guess.
Oh, dear. Thank you for the sense of comfort you give me with your message!
Ohoo, do come back. I am thrilled to find out what are your thoughts on it 🙇♂️
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