Omg thank you for listening!! I, for one, am not ready for the angst lol. Chicken jk is a bit of an enigma and I am scared but excited to un-enigma him. However, I wouldn’t say this playlist is emblematic of the angst we’re going to be served in the fic. I pictured it instead as the songs Jk listens to on a moody ride home that he relates to to varying degrees. It goes through some angry vibes, some too sincere vibes, some existential vibes, some disillusioned vibes. It’s more of an insight to his character, the bravado he shows the world and what’s hidden beneath🫣

I’m so happy sunrise makes you happy?!? 😭 this means a lot because I am a bit concerned it’s boring but HEY I am not bored writing it. Also I am extra happy about you being able to picture everything. That’s one of my favorite compliments to receive because I see it all when I write it and am just tying to describe what I see! Just trying to give a little ambience! Vibes, if you will. But I /am/ sorry for keeping you waiting 💔 I have to work overtime for half the year (we are currently in that half) so I don’t have much time to write :/ sad days ☹️ If I could spend all day writing, I would. Thank you so much for sending me such a sweet message 🫂

babe what are we talking about ?

Oh you are going to be /so/ pleased with me just wait

Like for ALL of them?? Alright ☺️

(I do have behind the scene threads for a lot of my fics under my pinned, those will all be more coherent than this)

golden: I was watching a video tour of Juilliard’s campus and was like hmm…

Second sun: I was finishing up with golden and thought I wasn’t going to write another fic, but I just kept thinking about tk on a pirate ship in a sea of blue. I came up with what is now the summary on ao3. Then I stopped thinking about it because I knew I couldn’t start writing it unless I had a plot figured out. Well after a few months of not thinking, the plot came to me and I wrote it all out and I knew I was in business 🌊

This is for life: I had written a few snippets of it just on my own, thinking about Friendship, and then saw the bts90sfest and was like hey, that could work for this, so I signed up for the fest 🤷‍♀️ OMG WAIT I just remembered I wrote that first snippet in the CUTEST cafe with a very good friend of mine as company 🥰 so she (and my whole friend group I still have from college) was the inspo I guess lol

Cotbm: I was browsing the prompts for the tkendgame fest and was interested in a few of them, but when I read this prompt I just KNEW I had to write it. I knew the characters immediately, and the world I wanted to put them in. A lot of tk’s back story and the premise of the story was already laid out in the prompt so I just had to make sure it all logically connected (and do something I never thought I would do: flashbacks) as well as figure out how to have things play out. Tbh I never expected to write a mafia au so my interest in the prompt surprised me. But once I claimed it I knew I was going to write the trope /my/ way and I… def did.

Lover boy listen: I listen to a LOT of audiobooks and get annoyed when I get a bad narrator who ruins the entire experience. One day this happened and I was like you know who would never do this to me? Kim Taehyung. That guy, he has a great voice. And the idea just developed from there. It first started just as a little idea I posted on Twitter. After I finished second sun, I felt like I couldn’t write anything, so I wanted to veer completely left of my usual writing style. I also always wanted to write an old school café au.

I dim the lights: I wrote a little snippet of it when I was writing cotbm and then just put it on the back burner. (Are we seeing a theme I have ideas and they have to cook at least a few months in my brain before they’re ready) I saw the one setting fest was happening and was like, what is the smallest setting I can think of? A couch. And then I was like, you know what? I could use that one snippet I wrote that one time for this.

Sunrise: I read a book, and I was like, I want to write a fic like this. Which is hilarious because sunrise isn’t like that book at ALL. I was consumed by the characters though, and the setting. Like I can see everything: the /feel/ of things and them and how they will be. It’s all very clearly in my head so here we are. (The book was Family Meal by Bryan Washington. I say this because I mention a different book in ch 3 of Sunrise and I want to preemptively make it clear that book wasn’t the inspo for the fic. And again, Family Meal is NOTHING like sunrise it is not a romance.)

Hello! I do really love this idea, however I don’t really take requests 😬 I have thought about doing commissions before but I would set my prices so high no one would want to commission me for anything lol.

Honestly, I’m just very committed to sunrise, phantom au, and the second sun epilogue at the moment so I don’t have much room for anything else. But I very much appreciate the love! I would def read a taekook x the bear fic though it’s such a good idea (also imagine me putting taehyung in yet another kitchen lol poor guy)

love you too

This is so so so sweet thank you 😘! To be honest, I don’t feel underrated and I don’t mind my numbers/stats. I’m quite content at the moment (which wasn’t always the case) with how many followers I have and how many people read my stories. I also think it’s unrealistic to compare myself, who began promoting my fics on Twitter in late 2022, to people who were here from 2018-2021. I came late to the game; I will never reach the numbers of writers who wrote during that peak time.

I feel like I’ve carved out a nice little space for myself in the tk fanfiction world and people stumble upon it from time to time. Whether or not those people choose to read my stories doesn’t really matter (I consider it to be their loss lol) because the reaction I get from the very lovely people who do read my stories is enough for me.

Thank you I can’t wait to write more of it and them. My life has been very busy lately and will remain so for the foreseeable future but I hope I can get back to writing soon🫶🏻

Hellooo! Sunrise is going to be long, maybe not second sun long but around 75k to 100k (probably, I’m bad at anticipating word count)