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anonymous · 8mo

i’ve been rewatching run bts from the beginning and all i can think about is little bird jk… you’re so accurate it’s scary!!! i always think about the scene in ch 1 where he puts nj’s shoes on for him and is just petting his calf staring up at him… how do you think of these things!!! love you and your writing

ahhhhh this makes me so happy!!! jungkook in little bird might genuinely be my favorite jk i've ever written! it's actually funny too bc i bookmarked this tweet recently bc i could've talked about little bird jungkook in a qRT, but then i never got around to it. but i do think about that all the time, that little bird is the only fic i've written where jungkook isn't part of the main ship, and when someone is a side character i think you're weirdly able to make their characterization much tighter and more unique, because you never have to get close enough to them for them to explain their actions.

and i do think there's something interesting about you saying run bts jk has been making you think of little bird jk, because i do think that like, run bts happens at more of a distance from the viewer than some of their other content, so like the difference between run bts jk and a weverse live jk is the difference between a little bird jk and one of my other jks. the second one is closer, more intimate, and has more of a chance to explain himself, and there's a kind of mundane softening that happens in that intimate space.

ANYWAY, what i mean to say is just that i had sooo much fun writing him being a grubby weird side character gremlin in little bird! i think the distance makes it easier to portray some truths about him that i wouldn't be able to fully capture in a fic where he's part of the main ship. it reminded me a lot of how i usually write taehyung as a side character, just fully reveling in his weirdnesses!

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