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its funny that the last anon talked about bad day because i just came to leave you a note about that same fic! i just had my first meltdown in a long time and i don’t have much of a support system to reach out to these days, so i hoped reading about someone else’s meltdown would help me come to terms with my own. and it did! it felt like i was reading something i wrote about myself, especially since the meltdown is still fresh in my mind. i will admit hao having hanbin’s support hurt a little (i’m jealous of hao) it almost felt like i could live through him for a moment and imagine what it would be like to live with someone that helped you instead of hurt you. thank you for writing bad day, i think it’s going to help me last through some bad days of my own
anon, i need you to first know that this message made me tear up ;—; secondly, thank you so much for your kind words, it means more to me than you will ever know ❤️ thirdly, please feel free to dm me if you feel comfortable enough to, i promise i would never judge you! 🌷🫂 let’s be friends!~ :D
lastly, i’m so happy you enjoyed the fic so much :,) good news for you: i really love the ‘world’ i created for this fic and i plan to write a sequel actually! i can’t promise when that will come out … but yippee!!!!!
thank you for writing 'bad day'. i only read it now but the fic made me feel so seen and understood. although the struggles hurt to read (and ouch relatable!), the way you wrote bnb was so heartwarming, you could feel the love they have for each other :(🤍!!!! it was so so good. youre a great writer <3
hihi~ just asking smth since it bothers me a bit w your witch bin fic, why are they using korean honorifics in such weird way? meaning hao called out hanbin-ah almost as soon as they met, bin using -ya/ah with woong nd neul but then using hyung the next second. so i dont rly know if you know how to use them or if its intentional, and if its intentional then id like to know why^^ its an interesting story nd youre getting better w storytelling♡
hi!! i want to first thank you for your kind words and say that i’m happy you’re enjoying the story!~ secondly, i am aware of how korean honorifics work. let me try to clear things up.
hao didn’t use ‘hanbin-ah’ with hanbin when they first met, it was after the fourth time they met. there was never any sort of line in the fic that proclaimed when they should start talking casually to one another, it’s just sort of implied that after meeting so many times they would do that. there fourth meeting was when hanbin showed up to the station unannounced and hao was flustered because he was emotional. the talk that they had was the signifier that they were getting closer. looking back on it though, maybe i do agree that it shouldn’t be until they start getting more close (middle of chapter 2), so i did go back and fix that, so thank you!~
as for hanbin calling jiwoong ‘jiwoong-hyung’: he did so throughout the entirety of the fic. keep in mind that they’re best friends and they can very well speak more casually, but i had hanbin always call him jiwoong-hyung because it felt right. there was only one time that hanbin called him ‘jiwoong-ah’ and it was because he was calling out to him in his office.
chapter 3 was the first time hanbin calls hao ‘hao-yah’, but like i said before, they are close at this point! you hadn’t commented about this, but i want to make it clear that that’s also why hanbin uses ‘-ah/ya’ with his witch friends (and they call him the same), because they are all close.
Thoughts on bot bin? 😞
i am a lot more neulbin leaning, but i believe they are switches! i enjoy writing nb so much more though, and when it comes to reading i enjoy nb more. but i don’t specifically seek out top/member bottom/member when i’m reading, and i don’t even really like to tag my fics as such bc i believe there’s no set way with them, ya know?~
also ps i thought this meant ‘robot bin’ and had a good laugh about that until i realized haha
only actually saw ur fic from ur twt but saw that it was backdated... just worried jt wont receive the traction it deserves because its publish date is a week ago so it wont show up on recent fics :/
hiii i really likes your “incentives” fic and i’m a linguistic student and i was wondering if it was okay to translate your fic as practice 🥹 i don’t intend on publishing it anywhere yet, but if you’re okay with me translating and later publishing the result i will definitely credit and tag your original work!
Hii!! Thank you for always being amazing and bringing some good energy to my tl <3 I hope your day goes great!
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