I get inspo from a variety of things! Some main ones:
1. Music is a big one, this is (part of) why I look up the lyrics to everything I listen to!
2. A show/movie I'm watching and I want to capture a similar energy. Film brings out a lot of emotions in me I want to capture
3. I also love re-reading old favorite fics and really sitting with why I like them and what specifically this story is trying to share with me. I have... quite a few of my favorite fics downloaded in Kindle format so I can read them on my phone LOL
4. Also books!! But I don't read a ton, rather I want to capture the vibe of a specific writer's style or explore a theme that they have too. I currently have a new wip rattling around in my brain that's a retelling of a palahniuk book
5. canon content and/or idol interactions. Sometimes I just see how two people act around each other and find it either super weird or endearing and I think "what if these two people were experiencing [x thing], how would they react" and build a story from there
6. real life experiences. Quite a few of my fics are based off of things I or people around me have gone through. my uhhh sign language jiung wip I recently shared is an example of something I've gone through/am going through
7. unironically, therapy LOL