ANON HOW DID YOU KNOW!!!! i'm OBSESSED with that clip!!! i talked about it on my cc way back when here, and what i said there about hobi and why i find it interesting for him definitely still stands! also jimin gets sooo proud of himself and smug, i love when he gets like that and puffs out his chest and kinda looks down his nose at people. he tries to make himself all Big and Tall, like a little chick puffing out its feathers 😤 i always wonder what bangtan would have turned out like if jimin had been higher up in the age hierarchy, or even been the leader, specifically as he was around debut. because like, he absolutely got much gentler as time went on but that boy loves Power and i feel like there's a possibility he might have ruled with an iron fist lol! but also, his relationship with jungkook is very open to jungkook questioning his authority and i think jungkook treats him like a same-age friend the most out of all the members, especially as time has gone on (they were pricklier with each other early on imo), so i think he could've done a good job too. ANYWAY, i do think that like jihope's relationship is so close partly because jimin is very willing to baby hoseok and make sure he's alright and care for him in the way he wants to be cared for, so they have a lot of true reciprocity there. and i also always think it's SOO interesting when he tries to flip the script and get all authoritative, of course!! like i said before, he likes to be in charge!!

hi!! boy do i!!! so i recommended a few here (ignore the link to previous recs there, it goes to my moments and moments are dead now 😭), but i always have more!

in media res by almostblue, canon compliant with trans hobi, a really beautiful character study of the two of them and how they are with each other
apart but never separate by ooka, soulmates au, lots of complicated feelings treated carefully
evergreen by seokabunny, road trip and camping and good boys!
10/10, would do again by starchase, a classic for a reason!! friends with benefits and first times and developing feelings
even though i'm satisfied by swellow, trans jungkook, VERY hot and tender
hold onto me by crycoby, a really cute spin on the fake dating trope, and i always LOVE coby's prose so much
fooled around and fell in love by thegreatwall0fsam, really sweet feelings development and jungkook has so much trust for all his hyungs here, so good
twenty-two (over soon) by kerobbi, shotgunning and slow syrupy touching
at worst, the world will sing along by rearrange, travel fic where meeting someone feels like fate
you're all the hurt i need by nunu_noodles, vampire au that i'm fucking FULL BLAST obsessed with, i've read this like at least 3 times, i'll never be over it

and i'm gonna stop there, but i could certainly go on! let me know if you have any particular genres, lengths, type of fic, whatever, and i can filter more for you, this was kind of haphazard ✨ happy reading, and please let the authors know if you like any of these fics!!! pass on the love 💕

some authors i like who write lots of hopekook include (in no particular order) onlyhuman, crycoby, swellow, daydreamnoona, contra_band, nunu_noodles, starchase, seokabunny, and kooksveins! i've read multiple hopekooks by all of them and always enjoyed myself, so i definitely recommend visiting any of their profiles for more good stuff!

and my bookmarks on ao3 are public too, so you can filter through those for hopekook if you want more options! i have over 100 hopekook fics in there, though, so it might be a little overwhelming 🤗

oooooooooh this one was Formative for me!!! after i'd been in the fandom for a while i went back in my youtube history out of curiosity to see what i was watching as i was first getting into them (i was ushered into armydom entirely by youtube rabbit holes and qdeoks' archive), and the first week was like a bunch of dance practices and mvs and also this compilation of hopekook moments someone had made 😂 i found what i liked EARLY i guess! i searched my youtube history just now to see if i could find it again, but i must have cleared it since then bc there's nothing older than mid-2019 in there 🥲 but YEAH this one i was like 👀👀 okay hmm 👀 then apparently basically immediately started writing fanfic about them (i started emotional transparency like 2 weeks into being an army lmao)
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we've been taking a bit of a break on no other homeland since finishing the last chapter (entirely my fault lol, due partly to the whole writer's block thing, and also due to me having too many wips 😮‍💨), but i hope to get back to it soon! i've been having trouble focusing and finding time for it, but!!!! this is gonna be the LAST CHAPTER!!! the end is in sight!!! it's gonna be mostly a lot of smut lol 🫠

also thank you, that's very sweet! i've definitely been feeling much better the last couple of months, and lows like this seem to be a periodic part of the creative process for me. i think they force me to re-evaluate what i'm getting out of writing and reset things a little, so it's not entirely bad, even if it does suck in the moment 😭

hi!!! as of right now, takedown is nowhere, i haven't even started on the next chapter 😭 i felt very conflicted and anxious about the most recent chapter when i finished it, and those feelings kind of plunged me into a period of writer's block where i barely wrote anything for a couple of months right after it. april was the first month where i was writing consistently again, and i've been a little scared to think about takedown again i think, so i wasn't even thinking about the next chapter, just focusing on other stuff. (i've been writing a lot of my namkook exchange fic which is due in september, working on unfastening with beebalm, and i've also made some good progress on the next chapter of how good it felt 🤗)

i don't love going for so long without touching it at all; takedown is such a constant for me that it honestly does make me nervous to go for a long time without working on it. but at the same time i think i just needed some distance from it, and i've gone for periods of months before without working on it and my interest and enthusiasm has always returned. it's just been a long time since i felt that way! this past year was pretty prolific for me as far as takedown goes -- i wrote 43,000 words of it in the last year, and as soon as i'd finished a chapter i started on a new one right away, which i hadn't been doing with it since like, 2020.

anyway!!!!!! all that is to say, i think maybe i got a little burned out and needed a break. but!!! the timing of this message is actually a really weird coincidence, because literally last night as i was trying to fall asleep, i had a takedown thought and had to pull out my phone to leave myself a note so i didn't forget it!! and that was the FIRST time that's happened in like 3 months! so i think that means my brain is ready to start thinking about takedown again and organizing the next chapter in my head. so hopefully there will be another chapter this summer! we'll see!

i definitely agree with you here! personally, i find unusual world building in omegaverse interesting, but i tend to avoid more traditional omegaverse with plot because i feel like the more "standard" world building veers into like... turbo-charged patriarchy. obviously i'm just talking in very broad terms here, like i've written omegaverse (and i don't believe mine is perfect, i think it runs into some of these same problems!), i've enjoyed omegaverse fics as a reader, and i understand that it's a trope that a lot of people find very comforting and have a deep investment in. i'm just speaking about my personal views of it, not saying what anyone else is allowed to like or write or whatever. i kind of feel like omegaverse is a trope that was created to facilitate wet messy desperate power exchange smut, and it works very well within that context. but when the rules of that porn world get expanded beyond the confines of any particular sex scene and you have to make a functioning society out of it, for me it often begins to fray at the seams. it's easy to make a badwrong exploitative omegaverse society, less easy to make one where you're just gonna set your cute coffeeshop au or whatever, y'know. like, pasting the socialization of women onto omegas and the socialization of men onto alphas and turning it up to 11 doesn't feel good to me as a reader, so i always appreciate efforts to mix it up or re-imagine those things!

that's my preferred jimin tbh! we wrote him as an alpha in no other homeland bc i think it suits him. he likes to be in charge of other people, both in that way where he's very bossy but also in the way where he likes to make sure other people are okay! flying to a whole different country to be there for hobi's lollapalooza rehearsals, dragging jungkook into a castle in malta when he started hemming and hawing about how they could probably just see it online, all the times he's pretended to lead taehyung around on a leash... he likes to take the initiative to actively love and chaperone the people he cares about. also jimin loves to try to get a rise out of people, like he loves a silly argument or a prank or a trick that might make someone else annoyed and get him some attention! he likes the friction of conflict, i think, and he's pretty assertive with his feelings. i think jimin's very in touch with his femininity and very emotionally intelligent in a way that makes people default him to being an omega, but personally i think those traits are more interesting in the context of him being an alpha.