see, mittens, i have a whole storyline and a reason (a very good one) why minho hid his pregnancy and then jeongin for five entire years but my brain is just so oversaturated with an entire host of other things i don't know when i can get back to it so that i can put it into writing and flesh it out TT but what i will tell you is that they resolve it, chan gets to watch jeongin grow up, and minchan get married, mated, and have another baby (a girl this time bc minchan as girl dads are so special to me) and live happily ever after <33

also, thank you so, so much for enjoying my writing, mittens, it really does mean the world to me <33

oh. ohhh. oh this one, ali, wow. i never thought of soyeon and chan before, but now i'm not going to stop thinking about soyeon and chan. i see so many parallels too, and i'm going to list a few of the first ones that popped into my mind.

1. starting in this cut-throat industry at a very young age.
   both of them got thrust into this horrifically intense world when they were just literal children. chan left home by himself the moment he turned 13. soyeon was slaving under cube when she was a teenager. they both learned everything they could by themselves and ended up becoming masters of their trade, except they don't believe that since they still strive to be even better, always itching to improve.

2. the constant shit they get for their "visuals".
   i have seen the nastiest, ugliest things said about chan and soyeon where people just shit on them for not complying with the kbs and it's just so fucking vile. i remember soyeon during unpretty rapstar and the ugly shit that the contestants, judges, and every tom, dick, and harry were saying about her and it still pisses me off. it's just crazy bc i genuinely think soyeon's hot as fuck? but then again, incels will incel, ig *shrug. and then there's chan, too. still people are nasty towards him bc they don't like the way he looks when he legit looks like a fucking greek god? i think it's bc it's impossible to shit on people like chan and soyeon based on their talents and skill, so these assholes will attack them in the most shallow way possible.

3. their 'respect me, i respect you, don't respect me, then fuck you' attitude.
   i adore them both for this mindset bc they both clearly know their worth and there's little else that's as wonderful to see as that. jeon soyeon gets hate every fortnight for calling out incel bullshit. chan lost chan's room bc he was making an accurate observation. chan also gets hate the moment he tries to draw a boundary but he sticks to what he says even when people get ridiculously upset by it. they're both in an industry where the ideal is to be cookie-cutter picture perfect no matter how unrealistic it is, and neither of them are scared to call bullshit, bullshit (as they should). people like chan and soyeon remind everyone else that these idols are just like us, with jobs and struggles and personal lives, when a huge number of people don't see them beyond a doll dressed up pretty to sing and perform.

4. the slut shaming.
   all i'm gonna say about this is i vividly remember when nxde came out (and then klaxxon, and a whole other host of incidents both predating and current), and the 'oh, the only reason chan's solo is doing so well is bc he gets naked on stage.' like, stop. get some help. eat some grass. talk to actual people.

5. being so insanely skillful.
   chan and soyeon have both sacrificed so much to get to where they are today. and they're proud of it bc it has made them the powerhouses they are now. both of them are so insanely talented, but they've also amassed literal oceans of skill by failing and trying and failing and trying again until they get it as close to as perfect bc talent can only get you so far. chan and soyeon know their crafts inside and out, and that's sth genuinely rare in any sort of work environment bc the majority of people don't bother to learn more than the bare minimum, another aspect that sets them apart but on level with each other.

6. being the leader.
   i think this one is self-explanatory. they know what it's like to be responsible for not just their own individual dreams, but for an entire group made up of kids when they were kids themselves. they sacrificed their childhoods to give their teammates sth as close to a childhood as they can get in their line of work, and they found families in them. seriously tho, the found family vibes go so hard with idle and skz, ali, it's kinda insane.

i can honestly go on and on about the parallels to chan and soeyon bc your ask just opened up a whole slew of possibilities for me, and i'm honestly so thankful that you sent this in bc now i have another beautiful pairing i never knew i needed in my life <33

got my neurons quaking a little with this one mittens, iwl.

just imagining german-shepherd-hybrid chan who's really protective over minho, aggresive even, sometimes, being gently but firmly swatted on his nose when he growls at minho's friends. chan tucking his ears and tail back, giving minho the most lethal puppy-dog eyes, whining bc he's sorry, he didn't mean to growl at minho's friends, he just doesn't like it when other people's scent clings to minho bc only chan's scent should do that-

and minho being like, "puppy, i've trained you better than this, i thought you wanted to be a good boy for me?" and chan is devastated, he doesn't want minho think that he's a bad boy bc he isn't, he's a good boy, the best boy, so he tries to deal with all of minho's stinky friends when they go over for an outdoor bbq.

chan doesn't growl when they hug minho bc he's minho's good boy. chan doesn't even make a face when the other dog-hybrid, seungmin, cheekily rubs his face aaall over minho, his stupid golden ears flopping everywhere, his matching fluffy tail wagging a mile a minute while he grins at chan over minho's shoulder.

chan even lets the snow-leaopard hybrid hyunjin play with his tail bc minho likes hyunjin, thinks that he's cute (not as cute as chan, though, minho promised and minho never lied to chan, ever) and obediently allows the ragdoll hybrid - felix - groom the snarls out of his furry black tail after hyunjin's done with it.

and minho, who's been watching chan, looks so proud of him. proud of chan being a good boy, for getting along with the other hybrids, for not trying to bite - gently though, always gently bc he knows humans are fragile - changbin when he holds minho's hand for too long and chan only gets one of minho's hands to pet his hair and stroke his pointy ears.

chan's so happy, emboldened even, by minho's pride he can practically smell. chan shares some of the meat he'd gotten from minho with jisung who coos and ruffles his hair. chan doesn't try to tackle jeongin when he teases chan for getting sauce on his chin (it's on purpose anyway, minho always looks so pretty when he's helping chan clean up silly messes).

by the end of the day, chan is floating on cloud nine, being called good boy by minho so many times chan thinks that he could die happy. he even ends up in a pile of sleeping, satiated hybrids while their humans clean up around them, and bears with it when felix chews on chan's ear in his sleep.

when they go home, minho tells him that he did so well, that chan was the best puppy there ever was. and then he tells chan that since he was such a perfectly behaved hybrid, minho's going to take him out on even more outings with his friends so that chan can get used to being in front of others and chan barely holds back the whine bc he was so well-behaved just for minho so that he could see that chan could and not to encourage minho to spend even more time with his smelly friends when he could be spending time with chan instead :((

see, we could go in multiple directions for this mittens and i love every single one.

1. hyunjin as sabrina and jisung as barry (except jisung doesn't (allegedly) cheat on hyunjin). they get together but nobody knows until he appears as the male lead in hyunjin's music video and then everyone's speculating about pop princess hyunjin being involved with producer rockstar jisung.

2. hyunsung who meet in college where jisung is drunk out of his fucking mind and when he sees hyunjin for the first time, he proposes to her in one breath and throws up on her with the next. hyunjin is appalled and jisung grovels by trying to do nice things for her in exchange for ruining her expensive heels, but every attempt goes hilariously wrong (think he tries to bring her coffee and spills it on her accidentally. he buys her flowers but she's allergic to the specific kind he got her. he writes her a beautiful song but accidentally sends her the wrong audio file with WOW on it. he offers to do her laundry and misplaces all of her clothes.)

3. childhood rivals to friends to best friends to lovers hyunsung where jisung is one of those boyfriends who are so adorably loud and proud about every little thing their partner does. hyunjin's first attempt at making a complicated dish? jisung makes eleven separate posts across his social media about it, praising her. hyunjin accidentally goes viral for something on tiktok? jisung is making posts about being her boyfriend, telling everyone his favourite stories about hyunjin, asking hyunjin's followers to wish her a happy birthday, wish kkami a happy birthday, wish her parents on their anniversary, stuff like that bc he knows it'll make her happy, just gushing non-stop 24/7, all of his content is about hyunjinhyunjinhyunjin. hyunjin's first gallery opening? hyunjin's agent is T I R E D bc jisung is making the marketing team they've hired feel insecure since he's doing a better job than all of them combined. and hyunjin's reaction to all of this is to blush, whine, complain for show and beg jisung to, "please, baby, please, please, please don't embarrass me like this, learning to crosstitch so that i can embroider a blanket for bbama really isn't worth seventeen instagram posts in a row," all the while she basks in jisung's love and attention and praise bc there's nothing better than being adored so wholly and unashamedly.

ahh, i love hyunsung so much, mittens, if you have any more ideas, come yell at me about them, it's the absolute best <3333

hihiii, mittens!!

1. yes, it's going to be just chan and minho for the duration of chan's rut, but felix drops in a few times bc he's also in sydney with them during the break but so far, i have no plans of writing a minchanlix scene for it, but then again, who knows bc i have a terrible track record of my characters running away from me and doing whatever tf they want TT

2. i would love to, like genuinely, but i'm worried that i won't be able to do it justice? maybe i kinda already ventured into ot8 territory with make you feel my love, but so far i don't see ot8 on my horizon TT

3. the biggest (maybe even only?? lmao) reason why i believe i can manage to write what i do is bc i read a lot. my aunt got me into reading at a stupidly young age and then the habit stuck with me. i still read anything and everything i can get my hands on, so i tend to pick up a lot of new words and how to structure my sentences and how to tell a cohesive story and stuff through that.

another thing i noticed is that ever since i started putting my work on ao3 and kept writing, i've improved a LOT. if you go to npmp and read chapters 7 through...12/13 ish, i think there's a visible change in writing (i'm slowly editing chapter by chapter bc i feel like my current style isn't super cohesive with some of the earlier chapters, and so far i've edited up to chapter 06).

so keep writing, and like with anything else, you're going to gain more confidence and get better at it (in my experience) :"))

i'm so happy you enjoy my writing, mittens, seriously. please come over and yap about anything, ask anything you'd like to bc i'm slowly relearning the joy of responding to retros- especially ones as lovely as yours <333

hope you're having the most amazing day/night <333

mittens. mittens, listen. there was a prompt for a bitching fic in the linoracha fest i participated and i wanted to write it so bad, like so bad. but then i thought, wow, i've already written quite a few for that fest and felt like it'd come across as greedy so i just. never finished what i started writing for it. i'm going to add in what i had written for that here and hope that you enioy it, and who knows? maybe one day i shall complete it bc linoracha is one of my favourite genres ever.

...
It starts with an offhand joke.

“Hyung, I swear. If I saw your tits on AlphaOne there’s literally no way I’d think you weren’t an omega.”

They’re in the gym, all four of them. Minho, Chan, Jisung, and Changbin. It’s a little past eight in the night and it was a tradition of sorts for them to hit the gym to destress after a long day of bending over and showing hole to the corporate gods.

Minho’s starfished on the exercise mats, cooling off when Changbin takes off his shirt and Jisung cracks his joke. Chan’s drinking water from his fancy little vsco-girl bottle but Minho’s eyes are immediately drawn away from their oldest alpha’s cock-sucking lips to their third-eldest’s fat tits.

Minho’s an equal opportunity alpha; he doesn’t really care what sub-gender he fucks as long as they’re wet and tight. He’s not so far up this toxic masculinity bullshit to not appreciate a good body just because it belongs to an alpha, and he immediately gets what Jisung means.

Even upside down, Changbin’s pecs are immaculate.

They look heavy. The perfect balance of muscle and fat. They’re perky, his skin is tan and dewy. His nipples are cute like little chocolate chips. There’s an obvious distention between Changbin’s muscular mid-section and his chest. Minho feels his mouth water as he absently watches a trickle of sweat slide down the valley of his pecs.

Changbin has the type of pecs that’d jiggle while he’s being fucked.

“You’re sick,” Changbin grumbles at Jisung even while he’s clearly trying to bite back a smile. “You’re like, genuinely sick in the head.”

“I’m not!” Jisung whines, waddling closer to Changbin, his hands outstretched. Changbin pushes him away with a hand to his face while Minho kicks Jisung in the shin when he gets a little too close to stepping on him.

“Lemme touch ‘em,” Jisung wheedles, very undeterred. “Just one squeeze- “

Changbin yells and swats at the youngest alpha. Jisung keens, playing up the hurt. He’s still trying to grope Changbin’s tits.

Minho idly watches as Changbin gets Jisung in a headlock. Chan sits down next to him, also content to just observe.

“How long will it take until Changbin realizes he’d given Jisung exactly what he’d been asking for?” Chan whispers. Minho snorts because he can see the absolute blissed out expression on Jisung’s face with Changbin’s beefy bicep and forearm blocking his airflow and the close proximity of his mouth to one of Changbin’s nipples.

“Too long,” Minho answers. Drags his eyes down Changbin’s body.

Corded neck. Muscular arms. Strong waist.

Tree trunk thighs.

Fat fucking pecs that glisten with sweat, Jisung’s face squished against one.

“He’s right though,” Minho murmurs, too low for anyone but Chan to hear. “Changbinnie would make a good omega.”

Chan peers down at Minho, his soft eyes sharp. Minho blinks up at the older alpha, guileless as a newborn pup.

“You prefer pussy,” Chan murmurs back like he’s trying to remind Minho of it. “Changbin doesn’t have a pussy.”

“I don’t prefer pussy,” Minho counters primly. “I like holes when they’re tight and wet.”

“Changbin’s hole won’t be wet,” Chan muses. “But it would be tight. We could make it wet though, so.”

Minho smirks up at his hyung.

“Think about Changbin’s hole often?”

Chan laughs, adorable squeaky giggle and all, playfully tugging some of Minho’s hair in retaliation.

“Don’t be crude,” he says like a hypocrite.

Minho rolls his eyes. Chan’s hands linger in his hair.

“Wanna fuck?” he poses his question.

Chan, to his credit, only blushes just a little. His fingertips are warm against Minho’s sweat-chilled forehead.

“We’ll head to Janus later?”

“Mm,” Minho hums, closing his eyes just as Changbin shrieks at Jisung.

“Get your fucking mouth off my nipple Jisung what the fuck?!”
…