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my fav thing about one of my current wips is that mnsng are lesbians that's it
hello!! in the past i always almost wrote jsng as the main character’s in my fics but recently all my new ideas have mnho has the main character/written from his pov.
i don’t know what prompted this but either way i’m having a lot of fun! i really like to write from his perspective and also to write jsng through his eyes.
anyway, i haven’t been following you for super long so i haven’t gotten around to reading any of your fics yet. which one do you suggest i start reading first? <3
hi! nice to meet you! what you’re describing about mnho and writing the world (and jsvng!) through his eyes is exactly why i he’s my favorite pov to write. i have so much fun with him and i hope you do too! when i first got into 5kz most of my wips were made to be written in jsvng’s pov, but now i rarely write from his pov anymore. </3 one wip i’m working on right now is jsvng pov And jsvng-centric though! so i’m excited about that.
and about my fics, it’s such an honor that you want to read them! lucky for you, i don’t have many (two and one third to be precise). i’d recommend reading “it only takes a taste” first, since it’s my most lighthearted fic, and /then/ “fragments of a boy in blue”, which is both a little more complex And my absolute pride and joy. you can also read the only public chapter of “vitamin, dopamine” and come yell at me here for putting it on hiatus.
i hope you like what you find! thank you so much for this ask. <3
Not even kisding my friend i have like 15 wips and i will be using ur excuse to send like 15 asks here to rant my writers block away if u dont mind
im so in love with the concept omfg little hnie walking into a room in a good and illuminating the whole thing he is so precious ... a tiny thing walking around with flowers on his skin ... him saying i hate u when he is being teased like he isn't a little oven sprouting little flowers here and there ... head in hands im gonna cry
everything in this concept is so so endearing and unique. the escalations of it all seem so interesting like i can see him as a frustrated teenager bc he just can't keep shit to himself .... the vines... and earthquakes.. so many thoughts toni .. a kiss to ur brain
could he be cured ..? omg funky witch apprentice mnh who works for a witch who makes svng's monthly potions to keep him at bay and he has no idea why in hell the shop is always a little warm and cloudy when he comes by but he is also terribly enamoured
the romantic aspect of it is so cute but i feel so bad at the same time .. having to rationalise ur pain b4 anything else .. hnie ill protect u ... ill survive the storms for u .. omg anyway pls do share more whenever i am ready to get on one knee
u get it! little hnnie giggling and smiling and filling a room with light. when you’re little your emotions are a lot more fleeting so i imagine there’d be a lot of cold and rain followed immediately by warmth and light (which causes rainbows!), ie: falling, scraping his knee, but getting one of the cool band-aids and having his mom kiss it better. my cutesie. i cry…
i imagine that even if curses and magic exist in this world, having a curse like this since birth can be very isolating, even moreso throughout high school, when /everything/ is an excuse to feel alienated. jisvng learns very young to keep to himself and hide from the world, but this also means that the few relationships he allows himself to have (his mom, a few friends) are as close and strong as can be.
i think there wouldn’t be a cure per se as this is a curse and not a disease, but i never thought of what it would take to really make the curse go away for good. i always imagined that mnho would be someone who would try to help jsvng find a way to “cure” himself (with magic! like you said!) because that’s what jsvng has wanted his whole life, to be normal. but through mnho, falling in love with him and being loved back so intensely and purely, jsvng learns that maybe he doesn’t need to “fix” himself at all, as this is a part of who he is.
thank u for the brainworms please please share anything else u might want (!!!) !!!
toni .... toni .. pls .. tell me more abt weather curse jsng .. toni plez . toni.. my knees ..
HAI. omg. don’t mind if i do!
so jisvng’s mother was cursed when she was pregnant with him and he was born with the weather curse. at its core it’s a little like hanahaki? the curse exists as a consequence or punishment for jisvng’s mother’s decisions in love, but instead of just manifesting when jisvng is in love and it is unrequited, it manifests… always. it’s like an extension to how his body feels and expresses different emotions.
the most basic ones are joy and sadness, which manifest as warmth and cold respectively. pure, unrestrained happiness presents as warmth all over the body and a faint glow that resembles the sun, whereas intense sadness or depression can feel like a freezing, numbing cold. ice can even spread over his skin if it’s /that/ bad.
the one i like the most is love. not only in the romantic sense but in every sense possible, love presents in the form of flowers growing and spreading across jisvng’s skin. each flower represents something different; some grow when he feels loved and appreciated, some when he feels beautiful, some when he’s the one loving and appreciated and wanting someone. the flowers usually don’t last longer than a few days, but they can grow back with any wave of intense love or affection.
of course, pretty and poetic as it all seems, having a weather curse is inconvenient most of the times. frustration and anger cause storms that can at best be bothersome and at worst put himself and others in danger. envy and jealousy make vines grow up his limbs, and they rot with the intensity of the feeling. jisvng doesn’t know how to control the curse completely, even after years of trying. the best he could find was to try and feel as little as possible when he’s in public—but this has consequences, of course. and there are still situations where he can’t help himself; moments where his anxiety is too strong and manifests as a small earthquake, moments where he fills a room with fog from embarrassment, moments where he stands in front of the person he loves most and can’t help a variety of flowers from blooming all over his skin, no matter how ashamed he may be of being seen like that.
so… yeah. those are the basics. i could talk about him literally Forever. i’m not sure where to go with this idea but it means the world to me so please share any thoughts / hcs / questions if u want!!
bro u got them @ lkprotect in ur qrt be careful 😭
oh managing to write as a student and while having a job isn’t an easy feat.. i mainly just consumed stuff bc i was just so tired to sit down and write even when i had ideas, and when i did it was like before classes at 6am or in transit or smth😭 but i applaud u for still wanting to create something in your limited free time. ahh the kudos issue (im pretty much struggling with that rn so i really get u. i wish i could offer help…)
thinking abt writing and sitting down and writing will be a bit less stressful if u developed the idea in ur brain and just wrote when u can (on weekends or short breaks for example) i hope u find a pattern that works for u so that u could get a rewind time from real life by writing a bit!!
i’ve found outlining doesn’t really work for me oftentimes. ofc with longer fics i feel the need to properly outline but it’s mostly me raw dogging it and coming up with stuff on the spot or while going on abt my day and adding it to the notes lol i get how outlining could be restrictive sometimes so yeah try things out when u can!! :)
it really is hard! i think with my job being remote + in tech the fact that i spend 40 hours a week looking at a screen feeling my brain melt out of my ears adds to it definitely. in my free time, the idea of staying inside with my laptop doesn’t feel too tempting. maybe i should try writing at a café or someplace nice… ah idk idk idk. anyway,
i agree with everything else you said, from the kudos thing to developing ideas in my mind and trying to find time to write them to the outlining thing! i think, in general terms, it’s so easy for something we do as a hobby for our own enjoyment to become a little tedious or heavy. for me, i’m a creative, i’m majoring in an art-related, creation-based field. not writing makes me feel weird because i know it’s what i want to do, i know i like to do it, so i feel like i should be able to. but! bills don’t pay themselves.
thank u again ^^ love love love to talk to other people about this stuff. makes me feel like i’m not going crazy hehe
hi toni, idk if it’s that u can’t write bc ur tired or ur tired bc u can’t put ur ideas in words. but if it’s the latter i suggest just writing down gibberish with no regard to punctuation or grammar or correct sentence structure or any of that. it’s like ur outlining but not really? ur just brainstorming in a doc or in notes, or even by hand. u could also observe by reading smth from someone who’s written a similar idea and see how they executed it, not saying u should copy them but yk just for a bit of inspiration if it’s a common troupe or tag or smth. also u could brainstorm with a friend about it, oftentimes talking abt our writing with someone makes us come up with new ideas to fill in the gaps, in case ur stuck somewhere. also this usually happens bc u have high expectations so try to lower them AND DONT READ BACK AS U WRITE just dump everything down and go back to read a day later or smth. hope this helps!!
hi hi hi! thank u so much for taking the time to send this, it really means a lot. ^^
i would say it’s a mix of not writing because i’m tired (i’m a part time uni student, i also work full time in front of my laptop and it is killing my brain little by little), and writing itself feels more tiring because i haven’t done it in a way that felt fulfilling (ie, how i feel after writing it, kudos or not, feels proportional to the effort and time spent doing it). because i’m tired i don’t write, and the longer i think about writing and how badly i miss it without actually doing it, the more dreadful and frustrating the idea of sitting down and trying to write becomes.
but your point about just writing without a care for grammar and punctuation and structure is really good! i do tend to get carried away by outlining to the point i find it hard to go back and Rewrite Things Properly, but i think i’ll keep trying to find some middle ground where i’m writing more than just planning what to write but in a carefree enough way that i’m not killing myself over every little sentence. i hope that’ll make me feel better and make things seem easier in general.
sorry for the mini essay. thanks again for ur message ^^
i wanted to drop in and say your thread was incredibly well written and imo you gave so much more grace then that author deserved (`ー´). the usage of the 🥺 emoji in a serious conversation actually made me nauseous. much lov & support!!!
hewwo. fings i like about mnsng in fic are :
1 banter.....oh how i love banter.... they bicker and argue and make fun of each other all the time . and then they end up making out against the wall about it
2 this is more specific but i like how when they're the side ship and their relationship is portrayed as two weirdos who match each other's freak..... like omg don't mind their Freaky Telepathical Connection it's just mnho and jsng ..... yeah theyre like that all the time....yea. ....
3 MUTUAL OBSESSION ...... i love when theyre insane about each other . well . . self explanatory
i have more..... but these three are what I thought of off the top of my head :3c
screams into pillow. my little weirdos who match each other's freak... so insane about each other and so crazy in general that everyone around them kind of... stares... not understanding most of what they're talking about... but /they/ know... and the mutual obsession!! they would kill and die and commit several crimes for each other. climb mountains. run marathons. they feel like dying whenever the other so much as leaves the room. aaaaaahhhh i love them so much ! I Might Die. thank u beambeammm-nim
Do you like any ships other than mnsvng? What's your favorite ship / friendship for each 5KZ member?
i like a lot of ships that aren't mnsvng!! i just. must keep them together. do not separate. the other six members in all their possible combinations are wonderful to me. here's my favs (not censoring since it won't make the cut):
Top 3 favorite tropes about mnsvng??? Either just silly head cannons or fic wise
hi fin! let me think. ummm. this could be super wide or super specific depending on how deep i dig in the little mnsvng box in my brain. ummmmmmm.
rough with everyone but careful with each other - this is mostly talked about on mnho's side but i lovee when we see it from both of them. how they're not afraid to get rough with anyone else (either by talking harshly, the way they touch or don't touch their other friends, etc) but with each other they're careful and always know how to stop. they get close enough to each other's boundaries that they can have fun without ever crossing it. they don't treat one another like they're fragile, it's more like... the way you'd treat something that is precious to you, something that's one of a kind. you still like it the most and want to have fun with it but always in such a way that you would never cause it any harm.
everyone knows they're dating except them - AAAAHHHHH. one of the mnsvng tropes i've read most and also. kind of. descriptive of how they are irl (in my humble opinion). being so comfortable with each other that the lines of how to define their relationship are blurry but they don't care, they don't even think about it. sure, they spend their every waking moment with each other in some way, either physically or through text, calls, little notes, acts of service. they think about each other whenever they're apart, include them in every thought and decision. so naturally, everyone thinks they're together - especially the people that met them after their relationship had evolved into this. friends and family and acquaintances at work assume that they're dating. people at bars and clubs don't even try to flirt with one of them because the other is always There, making it very clear that they belong to each other. add a little "but everyone does that, we're just best friends, sure i love him more than anyone in this world and would rather die than be apart from him but - ohhh" moment and you've got the perfect trope.
"i hate everyone in the world but you" - this is pretty personal as it's from a wip that never saw the light of day, but i particularly like it when one of them (in my head it's usually jsvng because of said wip, but it can be mnho, too!) has become cold and distant from people because of the experiences that they've had, they've spent years of their life trying very hard and very consciously to build a wall between themselves and the rest of the world, and yet here comes mnho (or jsvng!) to tear that all down without even trying. they don't make each other softer; they still hate the world, but they hate it together, hand in hand. the intimacy that comes with letting your walls down for just that one person, allowing yourself to trust, allowing yourself to be cared for, looked after, known. learning that there was nothing /wrong/ with them, that it was just a matter of the right person coming along to show them that they could and should be loved the right way, to show them that the world can be a beautiful place if they let it.
i'm so fucken wordy when it comes to them. like. you could ask me what i think their favorite color is and i would write a 10 page essay. Anyway. hope this answered your question :] would love to hear your favorite tropes as well!
what do your other fics or wips remind you off? like you said fragments reminds you of the ocean? that’s so interesting :o
!!! i love this question. i don’t know what it says about me that i already have an answer for this:
it only takes a taste: easy, caramel lattes and coffee shop brownies (the ones that come all wrapped up?) and homemade cheesecake with berries
fragments of a boy in blue: the ocean and the sky, like i said, but also warm sand under my feet, the smell of dirt roads after morning dew, sunscreen and chlorine and the smell of shampoo and soap in the shower after a long day in the sun
vitamin, dopamine: this is gonna sound gross but sweat—more the sensation than the smell, sweat from so many bodies sticking together in the audience before a concert, sweat from exertion after long hours jumping on stage, sweat from being under the spotlight. but also perfume, a little on the fruity side, and scented candles, and key lime pie.
i don’t know if this makes any sense. it has a lot to do with how i’m feeling when i write, how much i’m able to see and hear and feel these stories as i write them. thank you for such a lovely question ^_^
hello :) what's your favorite fic you've written?
hi! thinking only about my 5kz fics i definitely have to say fragments. it's my most personal piece so far (my current wip will probably be a close second) and it's the one i'm most proud of. i also wrote it all while on a trip to the beach which was the most amazing part of my summer, so i always remember the sea and the bright blue sky when i think of it. but i love all two and a half fics i've posted! i'm proud of all of them and if even one other person is moved by my words even from far far away, that makes me feel like i did well. <3
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