yeah i don't mind and you're not being intrusive at all!! well firstly, i made posts pointing out that horny smut fic of pedo/incest/rape on ao3 written for sexual gratification and to giggle over in the comments about how hot it is and to inflate the author's ego is abhorrent and in no way justified or free of criticism just bc people cream their pants over it, and in no way the same as a piece of writing which earnestly explores dark subjects (which i myself do like to read when it's genuine published literature and not bad fanfiction porn). then the freaks found them (via that crusty bitch bullet, btw you vile cunt if you or your enabler cronies see this i hope you choke and die and your parents find the nasty shit you're into and never pray for you in death) and got me blacklisted for it. they also called me and my friends fags for saying cp is bad but for some reason twitter sniped my account for being CALLED a fag which like.... crazy business but that was the initial reason.

but lowkey even before that i was getting put off by the number of followers i had and being aware of so many people seeing my posts, as well as overall fic culture on twitter. so even if ww3 never occurred i would have retreated to priv eventually, and the main reason for that is, sorry if this sounds mean, but i don't really wish to engage in it? there's a very real fixation on numbers/stats and engagement as well as the expectations that come with mutuals/following other writers to continually be reading and boosting and promoing other fics, which i unfortunately don't really have the bandwidth for, and i'd feel bad for not being able to keep up with the whole positive reinforcement circle in its entirety. i'm good with not making promo posts for my works or having a bigger readership if that's the exchange. i also am pretty nitpicky and have gotten a lot more selective about who i read from bc i've been scorned by finding out writers i used to enjoy are peddling and/or turning a blind eye to the plague of cp/incest and the like, which made me extremely sad to discover.

also, not a fan of how divisive the 'nsfw'/sfw sides of twt have gotten, and how any discussions of rps MUST be done from a separate porn account, even if they're not sexual at all. along w other things like how the censoring defeats its own purpose when censored names and consequently nsfw posts are now easily searchable, how the weird unofficial 'rules' are touted around yet impossible to truly uphold (i wouldn't want minors following me either but 'age in bio or block' doesn't work, kids will lie and you won't know, which i say as a kid who lied about being older on the internet for like a decade, and hounding people over things like that feels more like virtue signalling if anything), the real porn addiction these people have and inability to see a member breathe without coming up with a smut thread, yet refuse to acknowledge etc etc.

so in short, it's just another case of me applying the cardinal fandom rule of only engaging with a few trusted mutuals and officials/update accounts and ignoring the rest of what's going on for the best and tbh only way to truly enjoy it

oo well i like to write from them both bc either way i get to write abt one half of minsung and they're both my silly little favs, but writing from jisung pov challenges me more as a writer. which in part is bc i can relate to minho a bit more, and i don't like to project or limit myself to only writing characters who i can be like kinnie over, and bc it's also fun to think abt how jisung sees him too. but also, as all of skz and minho have said, jisung wears all his emotions on his face which imo makes things more tricky than easy when it comes to writing from his pov in order to portray things w the nuance they deserve. so i wouldn't say i like one more than the other per se, but i do make things harder for myself on purpose sdkjfkdj

omg sorry for the delay in replying, i totally forgot i made this account 🧍‍♂️ but thank you soo much, it means a lot to hear that <33

hmm well i do have a wip but it's more an collection of different scenes and some rough character points which i'd feel bad for sharing if only bc it's not the best it could be yet, BUT, essentially, it's an exploration of minsung being more established together and their bleaker outputs on morality which sounds edgy and angsty now that i say it but it's not!! and would also expound on jisung's relationship with jeongin. since the fic itself is based off a show, where the mc has an estranged son, i decided to have him be an estranged foster brother of jisung's who he wants to be better for, and who gets along with minho too.

tbh i can't guarantee when it would ever be polished up enough for posting, but i'm definitely keeping in mind the interest it's garnered, which, thank you for!!

thank you soo much for the kind words <33 honestly though i don’t think what i have to offer is anything special or new, but i did my best to explain how i see it as well as i could.

i contended with how to answer this for a while tbh, bc i've seen these conversations come up before on twt and some people get very personally offended and outright nasty by strangers' individual perceptions of these guys when, at the end of the day, we don't know these idols. like as much insight as we have to them and how personal their vlogs and everything we're shown may seem, the surveilled self can never be authentic (even if they themselves aren't intentionally hiding anything) and no matter what, there's gonna be so much we just don't know abt them as individuals and their relationship.

and i think it’s bc of that that the main two ways people go abt writing minsung fic is to either a) treat them as face claims and write straight up ocs w different names and everything, or b) reduce the boys to one to two watered down stereotypes in order to assign premade tropes they already know they like onto them

the first is something i totally see the reason behind, but it’s definitely not why i’m invested in minsung fic (the delusions dictate everything….), and the second is just. hmm. will not get into that essay today!!

so while there are some traits i definitely feel are integral to minsung at their cores, i don’t like to have them as points existing on their own when i write. as in, don’t focus on it as a trope or trait or single word description but show how they can retain their personal qualities regardless of the situation they’ve been placed in..

it's no so much don'ts, but the easiest way i do this is reading something back and asking myself ‘but would he do this?’ like it’s very basic but that’s really how it goes, and not just for minsung either. eg. i think changb ends up w the shorter end of the stick a lot and gets boiled down to snarky mean gay friend life advisor (and felix too tbh) but if i read him calling minho a useless gay bitch or something my first and immediate thought is ‘he would NOTTT say that shit at all!!’ and i stop reading and the same principle applies to writing.

for me one of the biggest appeals of minsung fic (and rpf in general too) is how it relies entirely on their characters and dynamic, no matter what universe you throw them in bc that’s all you have. like if it isn’t canon compliant irl fic then there’s no other canon the way fiction fandoms have to follow, so you can have minsung be minsung in any scenario as long as you keep them themselves and don’t wipe away what makes them unique to fit the au you've placed them in. and i like to see how i can twist the tropes or aus themselves around into scenarios that minsung would find themselves in bc of the steps they’d take based on what we know of them.

minsung are genuinely so bonkers insane and weird abt each other that i don’t think anyone could come up w something that’s not as crazy as the shit they end up doing irl anyway, so for minsung as a unit i find it comes easier once i focus on characterizing them separately first. so then it’s like ok, jisung is charismatic and confident, loves to make the people he loves happy but is also so lazy and enjoyes being doted on, and minho is very self assured re: himself and his weirdness, assertive and loves to be annoying on purpose, but cute without even trying and soo quick to fluster when jisung’s babying him. and the way they play around w each other like that, on equal footing every time, comes from who they are and what they need and how they fill that for each other. and that can present itself through different actions based on the setting, but the fundamentals to their relationships will remain the same.

hope that all made sense!! and i highly suggest looking into tips and resources for writing in general as well bc it’s always helpful when you want to and enjoy working on the craft itself. tbf though, i do think there’s a difference between good writing and good fic, bc yes many times fics can be works of art on par w published literature, but they can fall flat as fic if characterization is skipped over by molding them to the point where they retain no original traits, but are able to fit into a compellingly written narrative. so good writing, but no longer the guys you’d want to be reading abt, which is what makes fic fun in the first place, and why i really try my best to capture the complexity of their personalities and dynamic as best as i can based on what we’re able to glean from minsung and what the kids have to say abt them themselves.