hmm i think i wrote one or two fics when i was in middle/high school for teen titans, haha, but besides that i never wrote fiction until i started getting into kpop rpf in the past few years. i've been writing poetry since i was young and have some works published, but it really never occurred to me to transition to fiction even though reading is such a great joy of mine - probably because i didn't have any particular stories in mind that didn't feel derivative or self-indulgent? not that fiction can't be those things, just that i was holding myself to a made-up and somewhat meaningless "higher" standard, as i often do... regardless, those concerns are kind of mitigated by the circumstances of kpop rpf imo so maybe that's why i was more willing to try it after reading a lot of good fic and entrenching myself in content until i'd developed very serious brainworms that needed to be excised. i don't work on "original" fiction regularly, but i do think the more abstract/thematic explorations that i've been able to do w rpf have led me to be more interested in doing the same outside of rpf context - but don't hold me to it haha