i've got a few hopefully wild ideas that are floating around that i'm trying to get out of my head.

i've got a onepact somno thing inspired by that yedam asmr challenge video and i still need to write jay getting cornered in the locker room by his bullies. good, strong things happening in the head there. i have also been playing around with a rich/private all-boys boarding school au for p1harmony i'm still fleshing out.

as far as new (for me) tags that i want to write fic for sometime this year, that extensive list covers &team, 8turn, all(h)ours, boynextdoor, kickflip, the wind and xikers! no guarantee i'll get to all or any of them, though.

ahh ty ty!! i've had the 8turn idea since their debut! and i don't know if i oversold the gender role thing but it would be set in a modern day world where the greaser subculture never went away. rock n roll is still king on the radio and ~biker gangs~ exist and they have territories and turf wars but it's so socially accepted that it's not looked down upon and teenagers/young adults definitely, like, spin their whole identity around boys buying/borrowing a bike or classic car and starting or joining a gang because gangs have their own social prestige (much like the high school clique trope) and girls getting matching bomber jackets and dolling themselves up and ~owning~ hangout spots with the ultimate goal of getting 'picked' by a dude in a high-ranking/popular gang. in this au, being picked isn't NECESSARILY the same as dating but it still effectively comes with the same rules... just amplified. (like, the gang and the jacket are publicly aligned and no other jackets are allowed to approach or flirt with that gang, etc.)

so the premise of the 8turn fic would be yoonsung wanting to gather a group of jackets and he personally chooses minho and haemin to be in his group but they meet a lot of social pushback at their school because a) guys ~aren't allowed~ to wear bomber jackets and b) what gang in their right minds would 'pick' guys???

lol i didn't mean to go on and on about this but it's on my mind and all i've been thinking about today, so......

lololl who KNOWS. what's crazy is that he could be pulling all of this out of his ass. what's even crazier is that there probably IS some truth to all of it. like, WHO KNOWSSSS. when he gets on weverse live or something, dude just TALKS and TALKS and makes noises for the sake of making noises and i said this several weeks back but i wouldn't be shocked if he was undiagnosed (more than likely ADHD or similar) and i mean that completely affectionately because some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth has me CACKLING. idk man he's like a firecracker you buy from under a tent in the summer and you light it and stand back but it don't go off and after a few seconds, you're like 'welp...' and then you get ready to pick it up but then it starts sparking so you stand back again but then the sparks fizzle out but now you're scared to reach for it again because you can't tell if it's a dud or not and i don't know where this analogy came from or if it even makes SENSE so thank you for putting up with me

oh wow, this is a tough question! humor is just something i sprinkle in, either in a snarky aside or some dramatic irony or in some pop culture reference only three other people might get. humor's so subjective because things i intend to be taken straight, some people view as jokes. haha but i think my favorite scene of Starting Lineup is the cheerleading audition scene and my favorite scene of Animal Kingdom is the dodgeball match!

but using the fics you listed as reference, The Uncanny Magic-User's Club, Haunt It Or List It, and #Superlatives are other examples of my lighter, more sitcom-y works that you might enjoy if you haven't already tried them out.

oh, i've got plenty of WIPS but the few i'm actively working on in some capacity are:

• i've been fixated on this modern Dionysus idea. the basic gist is that he's masquerading as a boy group idol and his influence literally turns stans into these obsessed, wild, frenzied mobs. it's been difficult trying to find the right angle to approach the story. like... is it told from an outsider's perspective who recognizes that everyone is acting crazy but who 'doesn't get the hype' at first but then slowly, irrevocably succumbs? or is it supposed to be this... seduction, of sorts? or is it told from the viewpoint of a god or chosen mortal who means to subdue him? and then, of course, there are the other worldbuilding questions such as "are gods known in this world? do they walk the earth often?" etc. etc. i originally intended for it to be a ship fic but now i'm also considering it being idol/reader. much to think about.

• i've been working on the next chapter of The One Handed Monk off and on for weeks now but my motivation has been super low because the fic has been flopping and as long as it is already, i've barely made a dent into the original material

• i talked about it ages ago but i've been wanting to write an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. i'm no longer as fixated on it as i was a few weeks back but the idea is still there. i think i settled on it being for EVNNE with Hanbin or Yunseo as the Titania figure and Jeonghyeon as his Oberon but that play is kind of like three different stories being told simultaneously so i'd want to make it a more focused experience which means trying to determine how much i can get away with cutting out.

• haven't settled on a group for this one yet but i want to write a post apocalyptic fic about a biker gang