sweetpea · 2mo
hi. anna. my beloved. first off — happy new years!!!! i hope you spend your first day of 2025 well, with minimal keyboards in sight. unless you did spend your 2025 writing, in which case i might gently take your laptop (or pc? i don’t discriminate) from your hands and suggest you take a minute to appreciate…. the…. weather? or something equally non-ao3 related. but seriously, jokes aside, the last thing i expected after trust i seek was another fic! you’re kinda my stephan curry of enhypen rpf…. my goat…. Greatest Of All Time…. when i think you’re done giving you somehow give us more ㅠㅠㅠ BUT! i wanted to include some kind words about your new hjk hehe
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
- starting this story off with a blurb of heeseung informing us of his inability to tell stories…. and then leading into the story anyways. how profound. how chic. this is INCREDIBLY lizzy mcguire-esque and i love itttt
-this entire fic being a love letter to heesunjake if you squint and tilt your head at a 90 degree angle… i love it. heeseung holding jake to a pedestal who holds sunoo to an even higher regard like THIS IS ART ANNA
-i think sunjay in this universe would be the best of friends (4 years post heesun break up. i fear junior year sunoo and freshly graduated jay would fight over their opinions of heeseung lol)
- on a more serious note, this is such a beautiful story on self perception and the misunderstandings that can arise from the varying ideas one has of oneself AND others. the scene where heeseung calls jake an angel and he just softly asks for him not to call him that broke my heart…. to doubt your own goodness over a crush you’ve harbored for so long is so tragic and SUNOO. THE /sunoo/ OF IT ALL. oh how i love flawed characters and their depressing musings. thank you for this wonderful story anna banana fo fana.
me reading this knowing i spent all two days of 2025 so far writing in every spare moment i had: 🤓
HEHE HIII pls do take my laptop away honestly it's so bad sjhfketkjrjtk thank u for recognizing that i have a problem 🙏 AND I'M SO HONOURED TO BE UR GOAT. I LAUGHED OUT LOUDHFHWHFBDUFB i don't know what i've done to deserve the title but truly humbled honoured etc...
LOOOLLL it is very lizzy mcguire esque like. i wanted to have a little "i bet you're wondering how i got here" moment can u blame me !!!!!
and thank u for recognizing my life's purpose aka writing love letters to the messy heesunjake dynamic i could genuinely go On And On about them. and that was very much my intention with this fic like there's just so much going on there i'm obsessed...
AND YES OMG there was originally going to be a scene written where sunjay were going to interact but unfortunately it didn't survive the chopping block and i didn't end up writing it BUT they absolutely are friends now that jay is willing to reluctantly admit that heeseung has one or two flaws. maybe.
and thank u so much omg i really love the concept of misunderstandings and miscommunication, it just feels so quintessentially human to me like. no one's Ideas of each other and of themselves ever truly align with reality and i love thinking about the disconnect between the person u think u are and the person u actually are i think there's so much to Say there. love it. we never truly know ourselves or the people around us because there's Always a version of ourselves we won't know exists until a situation presents itself and forces it out of us. but it's in there and what if u don't like that version?? does that make u a bad person even though it might only be situational and it might not Always be you??? (no) (in my opinion) FASCINATING RIGHT. idk i'm definitely nonsensically rambling i'm just so pleased u get my vision hehe i too love my precious flawed tragic characters and i'm so glad u do as well thank u so much for sending this <3
sweetpea · 2mo
u cant keep getting away with making sunoo suffer!!!!! no but jokes aside, i usually do not pay attention to different levels of writing when im readings fics simply because its a pastime to me whatever but since you recently mentioned wanting to improve your writing, i realized how much more the writing pulled me in with auld lang syne! it felt just a tad bit more like i was watching a movie rather than reading a retelling of some stranger’s story so that honestly gave me secondhand pride and i just wanna say props to you, keep up the good work bud
STOPDHFJSHFBSYRHDH ok listen. listen. i think sunoo is probably the most interesting person on earth and that's why i put him in Situations. i just do it so he can always be the third most important character in a fic bc i'm obsessed with his brain i need him to be involved in the plot and unfortunately that means sometimes he must suffer.... BUT he's so fine in auld lang syne he's really just chilling while heejake spiral. love him for that...
and thank u for saying this!!!! i have such a hard time being objective about my own writing it always reads back to me like the worst sentences stringed together in the history of the english language so it's nice to hear that i might actually be improving :') thank u !!!!!! 🫶
sweetpea · 2mo
WAIT OK bc i feel like i'll be like one of your girls is SO SO underrated like it is maybbeeee one of my fav heejakes ever idk why but it just feels so real and raw and bc of ur other masterpieces i feel like she doesnt get enough love 💔💔
STOPPP honestly i am probably to blame for that bc i AM one of your girls' biggest hater... i've grown to love it but when i posted it i thought it was the worst thing i'd ever written AUDHFJEHRJSDH BUT. THANK U SO MUCH. this is very sweet i'm so glad someone out there is appreciating her the way she deserves ❤️❤️❤️
sweetpea · 2mo
“I’d never take the fall for you idiots. I only use my dad’s egregious wealth for good.” MY JAY 😭😭😭
I just finished rereading and saw this little detail in chapter 3 (I think) and it completely broke me, I love Jay's character so much:(, his resolution and relationship with Hoon has to be one of my favorite parts of trust i seek, the small clues of their relationship through the story until finally knowing what happened was very well written. their last dialogue, Jay finally doing something he cares about and realizing that Hoon is his future, was the most beautiful thing I read, and I really wanted to tell you how much trust i seek meant to me, your writing was beautiful and even these parts that were the simplest (in the sense that they were not the main plots) were so life changing, thank you very much Anna and i hope you had a really happy new year<3
OMGGGG TRUST I SEEK JAY APPRECIATION... I LIIIVEEEEE... i was honestly really happy with how his arc and his development turned out so thank u SO SO much for saying this !!!!!!! 🫶 i'm so happy u connected with the story wahhh it really means the world that fic is my baby 😭😭😭 i hope u had/have a wonderful new year too!!!! ❤️
sweetpea · 2mo
my dumb tiny fish brain can’t think about anything other than heewon after reading bug bites sos
sweetpea · 2mo
omg same anon here…this was an extra thought that popped up…idk how you feel about sungwon…or a heesungjaywon..???! yep just thoughts….hahahhaha
SUNGWON 🤤 it's actually so crazy i haven't written them yet like i need to get my shit together... i have a wip i just need it to write itself honestly... BUT YEAH LOVE THEM SO BAD i'm down for any sunghoon ship ever kekeke AND OMG HEESUNGJAYWON... DAMN... (my eyes cartoonishly bug out of my head and turn into little hearts) i mean i'm obsessed with every single combination of those four but TOGETHER?!?! i think my head would just explode. honestly.
sweetpea · 2mo
hello!!!!! i want to just start off by saying i am such a huge fan and this is in no means a question to pressure you…i just am the biggest sobbiest fan of yr jaywon fic (i’ve been re-reading it constantly and it does insane ridiculous things to my heart…) and i was just wondering…if you would consider writing this pairing again? i just love the way you potray their dynamics and the fEELINGS from jay to won really hurts me so good…yes…this is just my pitch attempt to the greatest fic writer…👀🥲❤️
omg omg THANK UUU aitdha appreciation always hits different cus that fic is my BABY... but to be so honest with you i have like. zero ideas for another jaywon right now 😭 i feel like i kind of said everything i have to say about them in aitdha and it'll probably be a while before i can write them again without just feeling like i'm repeating myself if that makes sense !!! i did love writing them sm and i basically sit and think about The Jaywon Dynamic all day long but unfortunately i have yet to translate that into a new fic plot for them so. i fear the answer is probably not anytime soon I'M SORRYYYY but thank u for asking and for enjoying aitdha ur so sweet!!!!! <3
sweetpea · 2mo
saw your tweets about the fic in 24h so im stopping by to say that you're amazing i am proud of you and i hope you're proud of yourself !! cant wait to read another one of your incredible works !!! take care ily,, 💕
sweetpea · 2mo
hiii anna this is me again, if you remember 🦉 i have already told you this but i want to tell you again before the year ends!!! i cant be thankful enough for you, for your works this year has been rough and tough for me i just lost my father few days ago after being a care-taker for like a year it's been sooo hard. but in my hardship im glad i find a solace of liking enhypen starting this year and what im back for reading fics again!!!! and truly grateful when im stumble upon your fics that i hold close to my heart ❤️ you means so much to me !!!!!! i hope you're always healthy <3
hi my love i do remember you ofc !!! (and i'm sorry i didn't see this right away ahh) thank you so much for sending this and i'm so so sorry for your loss, i can't imagine what you've been going through but i'm glad that enhypen and fics were a comfort for you and i'm so touched that my fics were part of that comfort <3 you're so strong but i hope you're taking time for yourself and resting and taking lots of care!!!!! <3 <3
sweetpea · 2mo
I know you said it takes in the 90s but is there a specific year I Trust You Seek takes place in?? I was thinking early 90s but the mention of cd players being new in the last chapter has me guessing it's closer to y2k lol
HI OMG got so excited when i saw this question i've been waiting for someone to ask so i can reveal how much thought i put into this... the fic takes place in december 1994/january 1995 so right in the mid 90s!!!! i literally was so strict with myself i had the 1994 calendar open the whole time i was writing so i could keep the dates consistent and i had myself looking up shit like when seatbelt laws were put in each state and like the playlist has no songs that would have come out after that i was not messing around 😭😭😭 cd players were still relatively new on the scene but according to my (admittedly not very thorough) research they were already kind of popping off by the mid 90s so there definitely could still be inaccuracies but i did my very best to make it match the year 🫡 THANKS FOR ASKING KEKE
sweetpea · 2mo
(all your works are but) bug bites was soo good it genuinely made me feel so many things
sweetpea · 2mo
ANNA THAT WAS SO PRETTY 😭 i can't believe it's over, every time i opened ao3 and entered each chapter of trust i seek i really felt like i was part o the team, locked in a boarding school during the holidays and finding warmth in not-so-stranger-colleagues. i can feel the amount of thought and love you poured in this story and, not to be cheesy or whatever, but for that i'm really grateful. love your works and love that i was able to come across this one too, just beautiful through and through.
because i'm a hopeful and sometimes excessivily positive person, i do hope things worked out for all of them <3 also happy holidays and thank you for such a sweet story! 🎄🎆🌟
sweetpea · 2mo
i’ve been an avid reader of ponyohoon for a while and can i just say the improvement in your writing is insaaaane! don’t get me wrong you’ve always been good, but you keep getting better! i will always support your works