hey honey<3 what a lovely message this is :')
I'm so glad you've decided to participate! especially since you say you've been wanting to write for long. i hope it's an exciting and fulfilling process<3 i don't know who you are, but i hope i stumble upon your work once posting starts so i can give it some love<3 (you're also very free to come here or into my DMs to tell me which fic is yours<3)

sorry i'm not participating :') my schedule has been very busy, and last year it was such a crunch at the end and overall stressful to manage to write during such busy times. and i'm an anxious person who hates having to rush things like that haha. so i will gladly cheer from the sidelines this time and read and support all the lovely fics we'll get<3 and i will be back to writing at some point (hopefully soon) so expect some more yaoi from me haha

thank you again for the message<3 have a good day and a good journey through your msf endeavors<3

hey honey!!! thank you so much for the kind words and i'm so sorry for the late reply wahh. i'm so happy you enjoyed this fic omg<3 i loved making them struggle and be codependent and loving and i'm glad you enjoyed it heh<333

also yay for concert!!!! i hope you had a good time (i'm sure you did duh)! also yay for pulling your sister in the minsung rabbit hole! i hope she's already hooked by now lmao. in all honesty, i think my way of being introduced to the kids and to minsung was far from traditional lmao so i don't really know what the best (??) approach is. but i do know many minsungers are big fans of yongbok sausage's videos. the little minsung moment compilations are enough to drive any shipper mad!!!! honestly i don't think it would be hard to lure someone in lmao because minsung are just THAT crazy good! their chemistry and bond and love is so easy to notice and fall in love with<3 idk if your sister is a fan of rpf but honestly some minsung baby moments and some newer moments and then some classic fics should be enough to do the trick lmao.

let me know how it goes i'm sooo curious to know if your sister becomes a minsunger!!!

oh honey. this was so painful and so relatable to read. it's like you're describing my recent thoughts exactly lol. if you can get a look into some of my messages with friends it just sounds like i'm on the verge of either deleting my account and going off the grid, OR posting all my wips without a second thought because fuck it lol.

in all honesty though, i think many people go through similar thoughts and doubts. it's the ordeal of being known i guess lol. i'm not exactly sure i can give you the best advice on how to deal with it (since, like i said, i'm currently going through something very similar) but i can say it's definitely worth it to share your stories, and yes, even if it gets little interaction and even if it's not the best piece of literature to ever exist. (please keep in mind that it's veryyy doubtful that any fic writers considers their fics to be the epitome of literature, and it's also very doubtful that fic readers grade the fics they read like that as well! i've read this somewhere and i like to remind myself of it sometimes: it's not a competition, it's an open buffet. more good fics is purely more good fics! the existence of good fics doesn't mean other fics lose their value or drop down to second place!) and of course, consuming and liking fiction is entirely subjective! so yes, i can assure you someone will read and absolutely love the fic you write!

one last thing i wanna mention which has been keeping me going and stopping me from actually deleting everything<3 is having good friends who stop you from doing stupid shit lmao. i'm not saying that choosing this is stupid, but choosing something as drastic as giving up writing or deleting your account or whatever, should not be made while you're in a moment of frustration, and having friends who remind you of the light at the end of the tunnel or whatever lol, certainly helps in moving past these moments of frustration so that you can make whatever decision you want to make with a clear head! that's what i consider the most important thing.
i fully support you no matter what you wish to do!!!! this IS a fun hobby after all, even if it sometimes doesn't feel like it. just, at least, try to make it fun for You as much as you can!

hey honey. yay for starting to write! i can very easily and very confidently tell you that you're not the only one! there's no correct way or speed to write. i don't think this is how it should be evaluated at all. i think there are many factors that makes writing slow or fast, and it includes what type of story you're writing, and how clear it is in your head before you open the doc to write, and also most importantly in your case: how much practice you got!
if you're only just starting out, it's perfectly normal for it to take a while! i feel like the most important thing to do is not let it frustrate you! because the frustration will only make it even harder to write, and will leave you unsatisfied with what you produce. it's perfectly okay to take your time with it. i've been writing for a while now, and while some of my fics were written in a couple of days, some of them took me a whole year! so there's no right or wrong here. try to remind yourself of that. it's very cheesy but enjoying the process is really why we do this. there's no deadline with fics (i guess except for fests lol) so you can take your time with your story to tell it properly!
have a good time writing honey<3

this is EVERYHTING. please allow me to run with it for a bit here. because your gurl chee was a big nerd in med school and i basically explained the entirety of the head and neck anatomy to my friends because our professor sucked (and because i had all the cranial nerves memorized bc as mentioned above, i'm a nerd)

so yeah, i like to think of jisung doing just that. being a nerd. atlas open on the desk next to him and very blushing minho sitting opposite him with his shirt off because jisung is explaining so diligently. and it's fine. it's cool. jisung touching him. tracing his tendons and muscles and fixing him with very focused eyes. jisung's fingers making him shiver. his murmured voice right next to his ear. minho being so turned on it hurts but it's so stupid because jisung is being a helpful friend, right? (not exactly because even though jisung is explaining, it's hard for him to miss minho's reaction and he's enjoying it a little too much). fast forward to them making out and their study session completely forgotten except for the time they start naming their favorite muscles and nerves on each other's body (also another thing yours truly often did). and yeah.

oh gosh honey this truly means a lot to me. i was having a conversation with a friend yesterday that made realise that some of the things i don't prefer reading aren't as unheard of as i originally thought. and it made me think that these things should be said on the tl and not just in private conversations. just as a reminder that it's okay to like what you like and avoid what you want to avoid. i think a lot of us sometimes forget that fanfiction is supposed to be a comfort place; characters you already know and love, familiar tropes. there's absolutely nothing wrong with trying to expand your horizon, of course. but doing so out of pressure of missing out and wanting to fit in with the crowd isn't the best way to go about it imo. and i'm guilty of doing that sometimes so yeah, again, a reminder that we all need from time to time. thank you for the message honey<3

hello honey<3 buckle in because this is probably gonna be a long one lol.

well. honestly. i don't think i have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to the formatting of a fic. i've seen people who are irked by using all lowercase for example, or justifying or not justifying the text, or using '~' in dialogue. but i think i'm mostly fine with all of that. i have my preferences of course, but i don't think any of this makes me pause or stop reading a fic for example.

my pet peeves are mostly about the writing itself. and those are (as are all pet peeves) entirely personal and me saying i don't particularly enjoy them doesn't mean anyone who writes them is at fault of course (with a few exceptions lol) but you asked my opinion so here goes~
(keeping this about minsung fics because it's what i mostly read)
my biggest pet peeves is when someone writes minsung as tools rather than characters. it makes them seem very one dimensional and far from their real selves.
i think it's in part because i don't usually read a lot of pwps, but my pet peeve is when their personalities outside of the bedroom seems to be nothing but an extension of their sexual roles. and this is not about their roles in the bedroom at all. i've read and enjoyed all sorts of different dynamics for them. i just don't like it when it seems like they think with their dicks throughout the day lol. like when jisung is painted as a brainless incompetent constantly anxious baby who just wants to be fucked. or when minho is written as a sadist (rather than tsundere which some people seem to miss that it's about not being good at showing the immense amount of care and love you have and hiding it behind a nonchalant front). i'm also not the biggest fan of either of them being painted as (previously thought they were straight until they realised they wanted the other) or when they are written as if they do not love the other (equally or at all) because seriously...have you SEEN how down bad they both are? unreal levels honestly...
and yeah. also just any exaggeration or overly stereotypical characterization of a certain trait and making it their whole personality (loser/nerdy/cocky/pretty/anxious...)
it's not that i'm against any of these tropes per se (again, with exceptions) but it just irks me when it is made to be the one and only character trait, especially when the aim is a full fledged story and not just a ficlet or pwp. i wouldn't feel intrigued to read through a longer fic if the characters don't seem like people but rather a tool to get themselves or the other dicked down lol, that's my main thing i guess
(i did not mention AUs or tropes or specific tags that I outright avoid because this is a different thing.) and yeah this might've been not what you were expecting but i hope you enjoyed this longish answer<3