oh hey! I wasn't sure if I'd see you over on my side again but ofc I'm very happy to 🥹 but you must know you've dealt a critical hit to my heart this day because hhfhsdgfshjgahjsdg they ARE soulmates!! and no one can get between that!!! 😭😭 I almost think the little bits of jealousy are just a way of showing affection, because they're weird little dudes (who match eo's energy of course, as soulmates do), and also of showing others that they are, in fact, exclusive 😉 it's just the little possessive things they do too, like how they can't be near each other in a group photo without grabbing a shoulder or backhugging or whatever other kind of skinship to make all the others look like a collective third wheel... I'm getting carried away but basically yes these giggly gay mfs are the bane of my existence and I thank them for it every damn day

aaaahhh anon, thank you so much 🥺💕 it's honestly my favourite too, both a flower in the rain and the one you loved, they mean a lot to me so it makes me especially happy when others love those fics as much as I do 😭

and SDJFHSJ I DO IN FACT KNOW THE SONG LMAO I had a brief vocaloid phase when I was in high school... suffice it to say, I'm old af and that was a long time ago for me so I completely forgot about it and was Not thinking about it at all while I was writing either of those fics, but!! it's always really cool to me when people draw connections between my fics and different songs/media that I didn't even think about, especially if I did know about it at one point... I hope you don't mind me going full nerd on you for a sec but for my master's thesis I compared the process of dreaming with the process of creating, because they both draw on a complex concoction of memories and knowledge and experiences to synthesise something "new"... and the same happens in reverse! with everything we encounter, the way we make sense of it is by making connections between it and our previous backlog of things we've learned and experienced 🥹 so everything we consume and create is constantly engaging in this network, passing from one brain to another, and I find there to be something really beautiful about that... basically, I feel very honoured and humbled to be able to create something that can serve as a piece of that network... if that makes sense...

ANYWAY thank you again very much for this ask 😭😭 I hope you have a lovely day <3

hii!! I can help you with this query 🫡 the first time it was mentioned was in the "find trouble inside" video that they released before troubleshooting came out talking about each of the songs, and when they got to talking about walking to the moon jiseok was saying that they were having trouble with the melody for the chorus, so he told jooyeon to grab the mic and just keep trying, and again, and again, until they landed on something. It's here at about 13:32 (in case the time stamp on the link doesn't work): https://youtu.be/mDU2pfvr93U?si=WRlNr3KY0k-HdJcx&t=812

there are a couple other times they've talked about it, referring to it has jiseok having "squeezed" the melody out of jooyeon... I think they talked about it on a radio show or livestream maybe?? but while my memory is fairly good I'm like godawful at actually keeping track of clips and stuff, but one mention I can find of it is here: https://x.com/jooyeonsfan/status/1791286695310299178 and interestingly both of them have referred to it as their favourite song at one point or another, especially jooyeon... jooyeon reeeaally loves that song...

so, basically, walking to the moon is jooseok's biological daughter

oh hi!! I'm guessing you probably follow my priv which I suppose narrows down who you are but I'll respect the mysterious cloak and not look too closely 🫡 I do really appreciate you sending this though, thank you, that was really kind of you considering you're not even in the xh loop atm 😭💕 I wouldn't worry about it too much, I know there's a rift between what I feel and what the reality is... I feel terribly guilty whenever I get down about these things because I really am grateful for the response I receive and I'm probably just being greedy, but honestly with every multichapter fic I've published, there's come a point towards the middle where I get into a slump and get discouraged by a drop in interactions/engagements, mostly comments 🥲 I don't want this to get too long so I'll just say that there's this evil slug that lives in my head that will notice a totally normal and expected decrease in engagement and use it against me to whisper directly into my brain folds that I'm not good enough to keep my readers interested and eventually everyone's gonna stop reading and no one even likes or cares about me all that much, and I know the slug is full of shit, fuck that slug, but for a slug he's really weirdly loud and sticky and he makes it so hard to focus on what's real and good and positive 😞

"I don't want this to get too long," she says, and then proceeds to come up with an entire slug analogy rather than just saying "I'm mentally ill", but like... it is what it is 😭 ultimately I don't write to get validation, I write because I like writing, but I guess maybe sometimes I do need validation 1) to shut that fucking slug up and 2) to feel like my effort is worth something, I guess? so, again, thank you 🥺 for partly selfish reasons I do hope you get your jooseok brainworms back soon, but honestly the tag is lowkey thriving these days (I too have not been keeping up 🙃) so there'll be a veritable feast waiting for you upon your triumphant return! 💕

suddenly remembering another anon who asked me recently about any jealous moments between jooseok and I didn't have anything for them 😭 but if you don't mind straying into the realm of headcanons, I believe jiseok has said in the past (in the 02z live perhaps...? I don't remember) that he's the jealous type, and I'm sure jooyeon knows this, and perhaps that's part of the reason why he rarely plays along with fans' flirting 🤔 or like at that first fansign of live and fall era when jooyeon had those flowers and gunil asked him who they were for, he was 100% absolutely supposed to offer them to the fans, but instead he offered them to jiseok, who got "upset" and told jooyeon not to do these kinds of things. I think he was probably secretly pleased 🥰 but of course it was a lose/lose game for poor joo, who would have made his bf jealous if he'd offered the flowers to the fans, but instead got told off for being too obvious. and that's why he started hitting jiseok with the bouquet LMAO

because they are in fact the madness of two what can I say 🤷‍♀️ IF I've listened to it... what do you take me for, someone who didn't have an obsessive fall out boy phase at the age of 17?? 😔 underrated masterpiece fr, I have a lot of nostalgia attached to the (shipped) gold standard specifically but honestly their whole discography up to & including save rock and roll was kinda the soundtrack to my last year of high school 🥲 fun fact, the centuries music video came out on my bday that year!

and I hope you don't mind me answering your other two fob-related asks here as well to cut down on twt spam 😭😭 1) golden ALSO underrated and 2) smfs is indeed peak ur so right 🙏

ah I'm glad! as I said, I really do love talking about writing hehe. and this is going to be another long answer because, what a coincidence! I also love talking about music! but I fear I have caused a miiild misunderstanding because there's a massive rift of difference between the music I listen to while actually physically writing and the music I listen to around the time that I am in the trenches with a writing project or to help myself get into the right mindset for writing. because I mainly listen to instrumental soundtracks while writing, if anything at all, to block out external noise more than anything... otherwise I can't focus 😅

and actually I have to admit......... I've never really listened to much green day LMAO sorry jiseok. when I was a teenager I was into paramore, fall out boy, mcr, panic at the disco, as well as muse to a lesser degree, and then in my first year of uni I got into all time low and twenty one pilots, but I somehow just never got into green day beyond a few songs 😭 on another note, I actually was going to make a playlist for the boys in the band, but tho I have the list, I never turned it into a play-list. but I can copy/paste that list:

My Chemical Romance - The Sharpest Lives (this is actually where the title is from; the lyric "I love all the poison away with the boys in the band"... at one point the title was "away with the boys in the band" but the "away with" got done away with)
Hot Milk - HORROR SHOW
Bring Me The Horizon - MANTRA
Muse - Time is Running Out
5SOS - TEARS!
Fall Out Boy - Golden
Caskets - Lost in Echoes
Muse - Starlight
Sleep Token - Aqua Regia
YUNGBLUD - fleabag
Bring Me The Horizon - Oh No (this I also listened to a lot towards the end of writing a flower in the rain)
Bad Omens - Just Pretend
Bring Me The Horizon - sugar honey ice & tea (s h i & t 🤝 f-u-c-k y-o-u)
Caskets - Guiding Light
Holding Absence - Liminal
ONE OK ROCK - Make It Out Alive
Caskets - The Only Ones
Sleep Token - Rain
Caskets - Clarity
Bad Omens - The Grey
Caskets - Silhouettes (this one I listened to a Lot in the midst of writing chapters 21 through 24 (roughly))
Young K - natural (song that describes jooseok)

the caskets songs are probably the most notable!! they're the band I was really into around august/september last year when I was finishing up tbitb... and while I'm here I may as well go through some other songs that have been influential to my fics so here u go:

5SOS - Moodswings (I listened to this a Lot while writing between the cracks)
Fall Out Boy - Heaven, Iowa (hurricane darling... along with the entirety of fob's so much for stardust album, which is an absolute masterpiece)
Bring Me The Horizon - i don't know what to say (a flower in the rain is basically just a 30k-word songfic of this song)
Sleep Token - Chokehold (I'm sure you can probably guess this one)
Crash and Burn - Dayseeker (the one you loved)
(I also listened to a lot of dayseeker while writing wings of light, but no specific song comes to mind)
Memphis May Fire - The Fight Within (brighter than the stars)
I See Stars - Yellow King (also brighter than the stars)

I honestly could probably make a full playlist for brighter than the stars, including the songs mentioned in the fic... I wonder if there'd be interest in that? 🤔 anyway, another long answer indeed sdfjsgh but I hope this is once again the kind of thing you were looking for!! 😭