omlllll this is such a good question!!!!!! i feel like my answer is gonna be all over the place, but i've wanted to be a writer since i was about 5 so there's a lot to get through hehehe.

my first ever fave, fave, fave book is the outsiders by se hinton so i think that really got me started on the sort of stories and relationships i like to focus on. when i studied writing at uni i found a real love for hemingway and virginia woolf and oscar wilde. i also fell absolutely in loooove with the secret history by donna tartt and that really set me on my pretentious literature student path. i've also been reading a lot of trent dalton lately so there's a teeny shout out for an author a lil closer to home <3

AND FAVOURITE FICS ugh agshdjfhgda where do i even beginnnn. again, i've been reading fic for that many years now it's probably impossible to list all my faves, but i'll give a couple of shout outs (across all my ride or die fandoms, i hope that's okay). for the 1d fandom, i lived and breathed anything written by vashtaneradas, in the mdzs world I could read anything by occultings (microcomets), jo_laselle, and etymologyplayground over and over again. i also still fuck with the les mis fandom so hard, so lemme shout out tellthemstories, samyazaz, lady_ragnell, and sarahyyy.

And for skz!!!! (which is probably why u asked the question to begin with, heh) i'm always revisiting anything by aire (mntsnflrs), taotu, and adisadastra. they all write so beautifully, i get caught up every tiiime, but we've got so many talented writers in the fandom it's so hard to pick just a few!!!

trying to pick out a fave paragraph and sentence i've written is super hard too aghsdjhg heheh because i feel like i forget everything i've written as soon as i hit that 'post' button on ao3. but i did some trawling and here are some excerpts i'm expecially proud of:

from splintering:

"The thing was. He’d been lying, it turns out, when he’d said he’d never expected Minho to do anything. He hadn’t known it at the time, he only really just figured it out now – but it turns out that a part of him had been hoping for far more than he knew.

Tucked away, deep in his chest, he’d thought Minho might smile at learning Jisung loved him. It was absurd, given everything, but a tiny part of him had thought – maybe. Maybe.

How silly."

-- :(((((( SAD. SO SAAD. I wrote that fic in like one slightly manic afternoon so i was expecting it to be very messy and haphazard, but even in spite of that, this teeny lil section makes my heart ache a little.

from hazy days hehehe:

Chan gives Minho a very stern look, then says again, “They won’t do it again. The kitchen is a sacred, hook up free, space. And the pool.”

“Uh,” Jisung says.

Minho smiles sweet, saccharine.

“You horny fucks,” Jeongin says.

Chan looks a little winded by this new discovery, but he perseveres. “Okay, starting now, the kitchen and the pool are – intimacy free. Does everyone understand?”

“Yes, dad,” Minho sighs.

--writing ot8 just being goofy as a gang was one of my fave parts of this fic (outside of the minsung ofc!!) just letting them be silly and relaxing in each others company UGH it makes me so soft I LOVE THEM SMMMM.

and from here by me:

It’s like the world falls into slow motion. The only things Minho can register are tiny things. The bob of Jisung’s throat as he tries to swallow. The confusion that clouds his eyes – or fuck, his eye, because he can really only open the one -- which almost floats around the room, as if he’s seeing none of it at all.

Then they return to Minho.

He blinks, slow and heavy.

Once.

Twice.

Then he says, his voice barely anything, barely a whisper, almost drowned out by the machines around him, “Hyung. You’re here.”

-- WEEEH that's the scene that started the entire idea for hbm so it's very special to meeee.

ANYWAY YEAH sorry this answer is kinda huge, and sorry i wandered around with ur questions a lil hehe. THANK U FOR THEM THO hehehehe <3