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saplecutie · 17h
I am re-reading the start of Joy! again before i get to the last chapter and i am blown away like rereading it makes me catch so many references and scenes with better clarity and understanding of characters and their actions! I have so many jumbled feelings that i will come back to let you later properly. Ik jungkook is grief laddered rn here but he picks cues from every character but yoongi idk if i am reading too much into it and i really wanna shake him into action cause chapter 4 cliffhanger is too cruel and its 5 in the morning how am i supposed to go to sleep now when they whole fic is hurting me in the right away!!!¡! Hope you are well! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
(your message reminded me i still haven’t found the time to edit the fic and it’s already friday 😵💫) i do think rereading joy for the second time might be even more fun than the first 😭 i keep thinking how confused people might have been when in chapter 1 jungkook randomly lashes out on yoongi right after the investors meeting like HEODHSODJ as for jungkook picking up clues from anyone but yoongi—i do think that there are many factors playing into it, like at first he’s just so angry at him he won’t listen to yoongi, and then, once he comes to terms with yoongi and all feelings flow back, it’s more like that he trusts him so much that he can’t even imagine yoongi NOT telling him something hahaha so for sure yoongi has always been the best person to get jungkook into “the game” — and whether it’s jiwon’s masterful plan or a very serendipitious coincidence, i guess we’ll never know ;) thank you so much for your reading and such a lovely message! i hope you are all healthy and happy too ❤️🩹
saplecutie · 3d
Ahhh few months ago i was completely obsessed with running up that hill and i remembered not wanting to finish the fic cuz it was such a perfect masterpiece that i have been looking for that time. Now i feel exactly the same with JOY, after also spending much time to find good fics, only to find out they were both written by you!!! Im so so grateful for all the amazing pieces u made for us 😭😭 Honestly JOY is one of the best fics ive ever read and im not ready to move on from this universe LMAO. Surely after this im binge reading all your works <3333
saplecutie · 3d
Just finished reading 'JOY!' and, although I left a comment, I needed to elaborate a bit. Just, you have a way of writing, especially the protrayal of Jungkook and how he sometimes doesn’t believe that Jiwon really left, that made me ache deep in my chest for a loss that wasn’t mine. Been a while since something moved me like that, and it's all thanks to your unbelievable writing skills. Thank you so much, I'll keep reading, you keep taking care of yourself :]
thank you so much - for reading joy and for leaving a comment and for coming on here, too. if i managed to make you feel that deep loss of jiwon - a character who wasn't there at all - then joyverse has served its purpose and it makes me melancholically happy. thank you. keep healthy and happy (and hopefully reading a variety of stories you enjoy and move you deeply! :D)
(p.s.: personally i think this is one of the cruelest grief tricks our brain does to us lol)
saplecutie · 5d
I've been pushing off reading JOY cause you always move something inside me with your fics. It's like touching a wound that I didn't knew was there but your words always find it. Like an ibuprofen going around my body just to find the right spot to soothe the pain.
And I'm always grateful for that, grateful for all the things you put out there and the time and live you give to your works.
- 🫀
hello dear heart anon! thank you so much for your kind words today ❤️🩹 i’m
glad my fics do this kind of trick on you! i hope this invisible wound will stop hurting one day for you & you won’t require any ibuprofen to soothe the pain. sending lots of love and hugs 🩵 thank you for being here
saplecutie · 4d
omg ler so jungkook and his father didn't know she had cancer? I remember Jungkook's line "you let her go alone in the car that night" or something along those lines......were they told that she was in a car crash? didn't they see her? how could they not have known :((
i assume they were told about the car accident & that she passed away on the spot. they had only accessed her at the funerals in south korea (while she died in the us) and at that point there was nothing left to see of her, so they wouldn’t be able to know the truth unless they looked through the med result papers and i don’t think that’s what they were thinking about back then. since jiwon was in the usa and jungkook resents that whole country (+ jiwons bff literally Broke His Heart in Hawaii and i don’t think jungkook wanted to see any of them anymore) and his dad is also busy at work, i think their only way of communication was through the phone and it wasn’t that hard to hide it. besides, she mentions that her relationship with dad and jungkook was complicated: sometimes they were super close, sometimes they were not. i can assume dad and jk didn’t think much of the distance between them—they thought they would have more time to make up with jiwon. and sometimes the cancer patients seem Fine until the very end, only the last few weeks when it gets really bad and then really Good all of a sudden, and then gone. life. just unfortunate circumstances and jiwon’s well orchestrated plan of her life and aftermath of it. 🫂
saplecutie · 5d
It is me, jakarta reader! once again u have written an amazingg story!! It all wraps up so so sooo well in the end...all of the questions tied up very nicely :)
It was a journey, reading it, I feel relieved at the end, just like Jungkook does...
While reading it, some parts left me confused, some parts makes me feel joy, some parts makes me feel like I am angry at Jungkook, some parts let us peek at what Yoongi is going through beneath it all. You, Lera, had written a story not just for us to read, you bring us through their journey together....
I realised that what I feel during and after reading JOY is like Jungkook, Yoongi, and the game crew, and all of the character in processing grief and just living <3
I hope this message finds you and brings you a little comfort and makes you feel joy just like you did to me with your writing (though i am no author like you hehehe)....I hope you too, deal with your grief kindly, especially to yourself, Lera
Thank you for writing this story. Here is one of my favorite line from JOY! "And it is kind of nice to be able to exist multidimensionally with someone in this lifetime"
I hope we can find our JOY!Yoongi just like JOY!Jungkook did in this lifetime!! Cheers, until next time ;))
helloooooo it’s so nice hearing from you!!!! i’m so glad i managed to tie up it all nicely, i was honestly worried about it HAHA the big reveal has always been meant to be there, but all the loose threads of the side plots… oh it was a challenge fr!
thank you so much for all of your kind words, today and always 🫶 if i managed to do all of that, then ive succeeded! when i just started writing the story, i wanted the game office and people inside just to feel as real as possible, like that one liminal space you want to come back to again and again; people you want to gossip together with, take coffee breaks with, work with. that’s been the entire goal all this time.
and don’t worry! your messages always bring me joy one way or another 🩵 i wish i could say i was healed through writing this story—sadly, my newfound grief is so recent, joy! - that i started writing before he passed away - only became an initial distraction, a world that could be perfectable, a world i had control over at the most turbulent time. harder times are coming, but i have people around me who hold me together & taking an escape in my own worlds always helps, too. (Sorry Didn’t Mean To Get So Personal but Alas)
seems like a lot of people have taken a liking in this specific like. hehehe
thank you so much!!! i definitely wish everyone their own joy yoongi to find them that’s a good person to have near you🥹
thank you! stay healthy and happy—until next time:) 🩵
saplecutie · 5d
Ler when can we expect the update i have to work this weekend and im tellinf myself at least i have joy! Update to look forward to 😭
saplecutie · 6d
I just want you to know that i havent read a single zombie/apocalypse fic since you finished washing machine heart,,it has my heart in clutches
thank you so much 😭😭💜 it’s been so many years since ive finished it too! i’d still encourage you to reach out and read more of this genre, from variety of authors and artists! each has their own spin to the trope and it’s always done so beautifully! but thank you so much once again, it’s a very flattering message to receive and i appreciate it! 💜
saplecutie · 13d
Oh thank you so much for sharing! Would it be a bother to share some of your favorite fanfic authors also? Have a lovely day <3
saplecutie · 13d
Hello! I would like to ask you to share some of your favorite authors with us! <3
helloooo! margaret atwood (her pen game…) fredrik backman (read almost everything from him and cried and laughed every time and kind of wish to be like him when i grow up) and i tend to enjoy most of the taylor jenkins reid books and i once binge read all of haruki murakami despite atrocious sexualization of female characters but honestly i don’t think i have this many authors of whom i read this many works? i tend to mostly read sporadically without paying attention to who wrote it 😵💫
saplecutie · 13d
just finished silver springs and now i'm just imagining min pd-nim being the writer behind every saplecute aus which makes so much sense because his real-life partner jeon jungkook is actually the same jeon jungkook-but-different in every saplecute universe...
him writing JOY : hey honey could you look at me for a second...Ah yes perfect "Jungkook, bored and disinterested, in a suit and with his hair styled perfectly on one side—"
(it's also so endearing to think about him making them find each other and fall in love in everything he writes, what a romantic LOL)
also him writing a story about grief but more so about joy and community years after the very intense Right Place (2028) just makes me think it must've healed something for him :')
Also I love Bae Ara, what a queen
And just want to tell you how amazing it is that you've been able to create this saplecute multiverse and me being able to make those delulu fan connections really speaks a lot on your ability to write poignant stories with characters that are different every time but still the same at their core!! thank you for writing saplecute-nim
wait that is so cute i’m clutching this message close to my heart and never letting it go… like that’s a canon imo. that’s just totally something min pd would do😭😭😭😭😭 im sure he dresses jungkook up too, just to see different characters in him but also just to #Look at him. and the way he WOULD actually write them finding each other in all the different universes just to fall in love again and again after he and jungkook get together in silver springs 😭😭😭😭😭😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 for sure JOY! would be a creation of his older years once he’s ready to let it go and accept the good things, too🥹
i’m so glad you believe in bae ara supremacy, she is such an iconic character for me not going to lie LOL
and thank you so much but it’s all you too 💜 i love playing around like this. and i guess i just like to write too much around the same themes happening to different characters, with hope that they will choose the same path of kindness, community and love after all—and some easier, some longer, they usually do 💜 heh thank you so much for your reading and this message!!!! i hope you have a lovely day/night!
saplecutie · 15d
hii… not trying to be overexcited here (already am) but.. did you.. did you see that writers for relief reached a new milestone before you even posted the new chapters for dragon king?? 🫣🫣
saplecutie · 16d
heeyy! im sorry it comes out of nowhere but i hv been meaning to ask you about boyhood
Jungkook calls yoongi sunbae for the longest time. Then, after yoongi came home from military, he asked Jungkook to call him hyung and he did and said it hurts.
What is up with sunbae between the two of them? I know sunbae is used like "senior" and therefore bot as close when someone allowed you to call them "hyung"
what is it that makes sunbae their secret and promise?? thank uuu!!
hello no worries i dont mind answering questions! their "sunbae" thing goes through several stages, but initially it starts as boyhood jungkook's shyness in front of yoongi as his crush/someone he looks up to. jungkook stage_chapter 1 is very young and polite and he can't allow himself to get closer to yoongi - so much unlike vmin who quickly form a bro/mentor relationship with yoongi. but as they grow closer, it just forms into this kind Thing between them. jungkook technically doesn't have to call yoongi sunbae anymore, but he does it because "sunbae" thing is also their reminders to keep it cute and behave properly. their struggles to form a proper relationship a lot of times relate to the distance between them, physical and hierarchy-wise: yoongi is older, yoongi, at stage 1, is more experience, yoongi holds a seniority over jungkook, they /can't/ be together. them holding onto this hierarchical status is like a secret & a promise - maybe, one day, when we can; for jungkook initially it's "once i debut", for yoongi it's forever "once i'm no longer haunted by myself". so when Yoongi starts to believe he's actually NEVER getting better, he asks jungkook to break it over them. and maybe he wants jungkook to believe for both of them for now that no, they actually can get over it. but jungkook stage 2 doesn't know yet what exactly holds yoongi back, so he just calls him hyung which hurts yoongi at the moment. (just got reminded how dramatic these two are LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) anyway i hope you'll be satisfied with my response!! i tried to explain it the best i could. maybe the boyhood lovers can help me out what makes sunbae special.
saplecutie · 16d
SPACE BOYS. I WAS JUST REREADING IT TODAY. TIME AND PLACE CALL ME JIN CAUSE I WILL BE THERE
saplecutie · 17d
Hi it is me again, Jakarta reader! i am back after finishing JOY. I shed a few tears bcs I read it in public and I dont wanna weep looking at my phone!!
Amazing! Chef's kiss, as always would recommend muah muah muah 100×
I will list some of my favorite thinga from the story:
1. The way Yoongi is written?! genius genius genius!!! I- wow. Like it was the perfect balance between the calm and low profile personality most Yoongi is usually written BUT HE IS SO PLAYFUL while still holding on to that wise calm personality, he is being goofy, playful but still THEE most polite boi CRYY (You make reading Yoongi so fun in this story!! will we get things from Yoongi POV wink wink)
Just the whole plot going. Your way of writing love story but not just focusing on it bcs in my opinion, life is more than just love story between two MC!! I always liked your story because of this, Lera :"))
It is such an interesting fic about how do people deal with grief, bcs there are so much ppl affected and each deal it with their unique way (I am interested in more of Jiwon and Seokjin dynamic lolol is it weird??)
Reading about the longing between Yoongi and Jungkook after being apart for sometimes like it-is-close-yet-so-far reminds me of boyhood in a way.
It also remind me of that fic where jungkook's brother was supposed to be king and Jungkook is an omega. Yoongi was his siblings friends first but then they both the people that connects them and bond over it
ANYWAY THAT IS ABT NOW HSHHSHS U LEAVE US HANGING WAAAH (pls I hope that Yoongi is just in the kitchen or going to that coffee shop for Jungkook T-T)
helloooo again!!! awwww sending you al the guys 🥹
1. honestly i sound like a broken record by now but i loved loved loved writing joyverse yoongi like he was such a breath of fresh air, lovely goofy and playful,,, as god intended him to be (and i don’t think i can provide yoongi pov for you in a official way but just know he’s usually just thinking how lovely and wonderful jungkook is and how much yoongi loves his scowlind and grumpy mood and how cute it makes hm 😭
2. thank you soooo much 😭 just the other day i told my friend that imo the best romance stories always happen in books that are Not about romance at all so im kind of trying to cheat here from time to time but i don’t think im anywhere close to winning this one just yet🙂↕️
3. right,,, like i really just wanted to write about grief manifesting in the various ways and love persevering (not at all because i do think im lowkey really love these two and this seokjin is one of my favorite seokjin’s ever???)
4. aw🥹 a longing is a must always!
5. haha yes !!! others told me about it as well and all i could say is that essentially joyverse is actually just a collection of all of my fics / themes / tropes put together in one story LMAO and i also like to call joyverse “an evil twin” of sokcho
hehehe thank yiu for your reading and such a lovely message 😭😭😭😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹🥹i’m so happy you’ve enjoyed!!!!! (hehehe and can’t wait for you to find out what happened)