ahhh yes… my story of getting into txt ficdom is very closely tied to me getting into sookai (who stood out to me in a duo in all of their content before i ever looked into fic). like anyone who enjoys sookai cutaepatootae’s works, especially close to home, and dracometria’s, were formative to me. but tbh it almost feels unique that i was around writing txt fics at the time they were written and still am now lmao, there aren’t a lot of us compared to how many people have joined! like a lot of people i was surprised when i started getting more into ficdom and they weren’t as popular as they were when i first started writing txt.

tbh i think that in the future of sookai its going to be important to think not of what it Was but what sookai are Now, i don’t think a lot of people have a real understanding of who sookai are as they’ve aged and their relationship has matured because their old understanding of it was based on their youth and kai’s dependency on soobin. there’s so much to their relationship now, and they still love each other so much even though their dynamics aren’t so much based on that dependency anymore. why sookai was so popular back then and why it isn’t as much now might be one and the same, but there’s a lot of appeal to them now that should be celebrated more!