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You’re my favourite haobin writer <3 I’m currently so obsessed with all our rapture. There has never been a fic I enjoyed this much before really thank you so much for creating this story 🩷
Hi do you know if did something happen to @neulbinism ? her acc is gone
thank you soo much for ch 6 !! i found the motivation to finish drawing ot9 ~~ https://postimg.cc/jLRXk8xb https://i.postimg.cc/kXbpGZLB/aor-ot9-fixed.jpg i hope you like how the rest of it turned out ~~
WAHHHHHHH THIS IS SO PERFECT AND UTTERLY WONDERFUL i love that you drew the hanbin, matthew and gyuvin trio in their casual quidditch gear, like you captured the vibes of all of these groups and their interactions so perfectly i still cannot believe i get to see them with my own eyes, like this is THEM!!!! even the little chibi reactions to jiwoong are just spot on aaaaaaa i cannot express how much i love this thank you so much for drawing them i have saved this a thousand times over and will never stop smiling when i look at it🥹🥹🩷
hi! this is wild that I’m starting with this, but tbh recently I’ve found myself losing interest in bnb, and it kind of makes me sad. and as silly as it might sound, one of the things I’ve been holding out on is your ‘all our rapture.’ I was happy to see that you updated, bc I love reading your fic 🥹 i love the world you built (ik hp is established), but just the mystery (that I’m so curious about!) and lore and the characters you’ve made is so interesting. i love their dynamics too. just the way you write bnb’s relationship here is so soft, and makes me feel things. i always look forward to their scenes 🥹 i know it will take a while to complete this fic, but i’m hoping i could hold out for that long before i (potentially) leave or completely lose interest in bnb 😭 but atm, i look forward to your updates and ily for this fic 🫶
hi! aw i feel really touched that my fic is one of the things tethering you to bnb🥹 i’m really glad that you’re enjoying everything so far, and i’m planning to update now with regularity (every two weeks) so hopefully the wait isn’t too long for you and that you’ll be able to hold out interest for this ship!! they truly are so special to me, i love writing about them and even just you enjoying their scenes together where i share a little about what i see and enjoy in their relationship and dynamic makes me happy! i’m hoping you find that spark for them again, but also understand that ebbing and flowing interest is a very normal part of fandom haha either way, thank you for reading!!🩷
i think about aor at least once a day ♡ i can never find a fic that writes a couple’s dynamic as beautiful as your portrayal of binneul in aor. it's the way that i try to savour every word each time u release a chapter, wanting more and more (kicking my feet and giggling at their sweet moments). i love the lore and the backstory, but i also wouldn't mind a whole chapter of just bin and neul being in absolute LOVE because i can never get enough of the beauty that is ur writing. aaa, i hope i didn't overwhelm u but i just wanted u to know :’)
omg you have just given me permission to be even more indulgent and worse with my binneul brainrot whasklfkd this makes me so happy because writing scenes where binneul can just be together and be in love and learn more about each other are really my absolute favorites, and still what i want to be at the core of this fic regardless of how big i’ve accidentally spun this mystery into LOL i’m so glad you sent this to me, thank you for loving them so much🥹🥹
https://retrospring.net/@haobabygirl/a/113047977737585278 nooo thank YOUUUU im so so elated you like it... i might have to send an updated ver after i correct some anatomy errors but YAAYYAYA
fanart anon here !! https://postimg.cc/ThCQhymX
https://i.postimg.cc/gkP7S82r/aor-syuff-1.jpg
i will finish ot9 as soon as my workload lightens but i hope it does them justic thank youuu!
I SCREAM I CRY A MILLION TIMES!!!!!!!!!! i can’t believe you drew multiple scenes, i can’t believe i am looking at the scenes that i wrote brought to life by your beautiful amazing art!!!!! i’m obsessed with that binini in the hufflepuff scarf😭😭😭 and taerae and gunwook decked out in their full ravenclaw gear for the game🥹🥹 and of course ricky and hao comforting baby yujin wahhhhhhh it feels surreal to see this version of haobin together like this with the hand in the shoulder and the WAIST!! thank you thank you i am so honored and i am so happy i love this so much🩷🩷🩷
hellooo !! I wanted to ask if it was okay to send you fanart of all our rapture somehow? I once tried sending it your twt dms with the hope you wouldn’t see it (cuz I don’t think I’d have time to complete the full page during my semester + I am inactive on twt) but I hoped to gift you some of my appreciation for your bnb somehow :’>>>
hii omg yes of course it’s okay for you to send me fanart i am so giddy that you made some and would love to see it!! i know twt dms are so weird (i’ve been restricted a few times after just trying to dm people i don’t follow and then the message never sends😭) but that might be easiest, otherwise you could upload it to an image hosting platform and send that link through here? though dms is probably best haha let me know if it glitches or won’t let you though and i can also try dming you if that’s okay! thank you so much for making art for my fic!!
hiiiii!!! i just wanted to let you know that reading your works has inspired me to start fic writing again after years of hiatus 🥹 do you have any tips/advice/anything to share on how you get ideas & write fics?
hii omg this make me so happy! congratulations on returning to writing, and i’m really glad that i could help you find interest and motivation in it again!!
as for tips, the best thing that i’ve ever done for myself is to get in the habit of writing every day - i think building it gradually through 100, and then 200, and then 500 words a day over the course of months has been so useful! long word counts no longer feel daunting and writing has just become another natural part of my day that doesn’t feel like a big task.
for inspo, i keep a separate doc that is just for ideas — one liners and prompts that i think of randomly while making dinner or in the shower or before bed that i’ll just jot down. some bits in there are like three to five paragraph passages that i felt compelled to write after seeing a photograph or even seeing like a clip of a video! the doc has become this huge unwieldy thing after years of upkeep lmao but it doesn’t feel daunting bc they’re not real wips and it’s been invaluable whenever i’m stumped or am looking for something that i want to start writing.
and my last piece of advice is about two years ago i started keeping a list in my notes app titled ‘words to use in writing’ and it’s just words that i come across while reading or in my every day life that i’m like oh this is such a specific word that conveys emotion, or oh i never thought about using this word in this way before. i draw on it regularly when i am writing and it has been so, so helpful. it’s almost like a personal thesaurus, except it’s all words that i already know the meaning of but which i never would have conjured up on my own to use if that makes sense. some examples of words in there are: drowsy, serene, dewy, unsettle, malady, gossamer.
basically the tldr is that making my own pool of specially-tailored resources (of things that i know i like writing about, things that i naturally gravitate towards) has been so helpful for writing! i hope this has been useful, and good luck!! if you’d ever like to share your writing with me, i’d love to read it!
thank you so much for writing cupidland🥺 it's been a really long time since i feel a lot of things after i read a fic. i'm so happy that i could even read your other works, and i couldn't wait for the next ones! ily<33
sorry to ask who is smiles? i don't recognize that name!
Just read the new chapter and I want to say that every moment of haobin being alone felt so intimate. I usually feel like I’m intruding on them with most of haobin moments irl but it’s my first time feeling like this while reading a fic too. I think it’s also because you’re so good at writing their chemistry and how crazy the tension between them is whenever they’re together
i feel the same way too! even though the snippets and behinds of them are short, whenever i see them giggling between themselves or their unwavering eye contact or their lingering touches and natural holds or even just when their eyes meet it feels so intimate and like we are seeing something that feels so special it should be private. i’m so glad that my writing can capture that feeling!! their chemistry is truly just insane ;; thank you so much for this🩷
have you write other fics for a diff fandom before? in my years of kpop i've only encountered two fic authors that leave such a lasting impression to me (love and thankful all the authors regardless) and it's you and smiles. your way of story stelling is perfect and alot of times i have to pause reading and just ponder to take it all in you know. thank you so much for sharing your works to us 🥹🥰
i previously wrote for txt! all my old fics are still up on the same ao3 acc though my handle back then was hueningkai LOL so am probably best recognized by that! i have not read smiles’s works but i have seen extremely flattering comparisons to a super popular fic of theirs and cupidland for which i am honored!! thank you so much for loving my writing as well🩷
omgg i'm not the asker you said this to but i saw the reply where you mentioned hearing about some interesting ongoing fics!! do you mind sharing them? i've been looking for more to read and have read ur fics soo many times
ahhh thank you so much for enjoying my fics!! and yes omg the main one i’m waiting to complete is sharpa’s on our way back to new now: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55183969 a friend is currently reading it and gave it a big recommendation so i’m excited to start when it’s done!
and i think everyone is already reading this one but the summer king by soda!! https://archiveofourown.org/works/55797496 i also read the sun prince after it completed so i want to similarly binge the sequel hehe
i’m v intrigued by julia’s pirate au, that line on the horizon (this sea we sail), so i am Awaiting Updates and will be looking forward to when i read! https://archiveofourown.org/works/56369812
and lastly from the jebefest fic, lost summers by ddungjjanghaom: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58057897/chapters/147809839 i told no one this but i clocked it was theirs from the description alone when fics were being posted whaljflah i actually still have to read soooooo many of their fics, but i read their first one, just as much, and really enjoyed it so i’ve been a fan ever since!
Can I ask how you came up with the title cupidland? It's so fitting!
i tend to title my fics based on vibe instead of direct references to them (with my puppy hao and stalker bin fics being big exceptions), so when i saw the phrase cupidland in a photo on a stray tweet on my fyp it immediately stuck with me. i just felt like it was so cute and fun, which was my original intention for this fic lol, and i’m also a sucker for all things about love and this fic is SO much about love it just clicked! i’m really glad you like it as well!!
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