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Happy #hobiday 🥹🌈🩵🌟✨

a digital painting of jhope from bts performing killing it girl shirtless, wearing a black/blue bomber jacket

gotta celebrate like it’s your birthday

#HAPPYJHOPEDAY

digital art of hobi with platinum blonde hair, a nacklace with stars, a pink shirt with wide sleeves and grey skinny jeans. He's smiling and holding onto a mass of petals. Around his head is a sun-like halo and around his legs are ocean waves. Behind him are clouds that have flowers growing out of them and stars and at the top and bottom of the image are the words "Your hope".

My favourite boy ☀️🌸☁️

#art #btsfanart #Jhope #junghoseok #digitalart #hobi #bts

remember to pet your hobi to ensure optimal rest, as shown here by jk ♡

#MemoryLaneWithBangtanSubs #JHope D-2

It’s a good song!!

Paul Simon was THE hardest artist to pick a single song from because he is the goat. And yes, of course. Noh Jk should follow irl Hobi’s lead and write a song in reverence of HIS mama

Clarz inspired me to make my own playlist! There are so many forms of love and these are some songs that I really like exploring all those different beautiful forms. #whatisyourlovesong 💗 open.spotify.com/playlist/7LK...

It’s adorable!

I remember once seeing a very popular writer in this fandom say they’d never be comfortable with translations of the fic in languages they couldn’t read because otherwise how could they be sure it was as good quality??? I think that’s dumb

Someone posted a Ukrainian translation of one of my fics 🥰 if you want to read about sexy vampires in that language you can now do it here ao3.org/works/79421616 (or you can read the original in English here ao3.org/works/41569641)

Furthermore: I love to see BTS j-hope in a shirt that properly fits him

Wow wow wow wow wow I love bts

I just think: Hobi is frustrated he can’t find a man and so Jimin, who knows all the local gays, sets up a little meet and greet with all his friends and they hit it off and I think jk’s whole thing is basically I’m Gonna Give You Exactly What You Need, and we all know what that is

Basically a speed dating setup as an excuse to write jk being an exceptionally competent and romantic lover and doting all on hobi. (I’m doing super well mentally, WHY would you even think to ask!!!)

ANYWAY, I did have a fic idea this morning and it’s totally just a pwp and probably I won’t write it but also what if I did

My hope is that when I try to start regularly writing again, if only to finish WIPs, these thoughts don’t hold me back. I would like to recapture the enjoyment I once had. 🤷‍♀️

Maybe it’s because I’ve gone so long without writing? It’s been over two years since I have had any regular writing practice, and three since I was writing my own solo stuff on a daily basis. But I think time and distance have given me clarity about my own writing in a way that’s disconcerting.

a long fic, though I have my qualms with the way it develops, because it was not meant to be long when I started. Even that plot, though, is just a character study. The best thing I’ve ever written, hands down, is only half mine. I couldn’t do that again or alone.

to have a vocabulary that lends itself to thoughtful consideration of character or to describing moments in ways that are memorable. My writing, or at least most of it, lacks spark. It’s just there. It’s mid.

I got more bold, over time, with plot. Certainly A Truth So Loud is proof that I can write

sexiest, but that’s alright. It bothers me more that like….. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I can’t write a creative original story, even with extant characters. My attempts at plot feel clumsy, without a depth or nuance that I see in other writers’ work. I don’t read enough anymore

purple prose, which is common in romance of a certain age and which annoys me. It was avoiding fic tropes. When writing sex scenes, plain and unambiguous language seemed at once the easiest way to communicate and, in some ways, the sexiest. I think my style has evolved so I no longer think it’s the

patterns, no small observation only I can make that another writer would overlook. There are no ideas that aren’t found elsewhere. The way I use language is common, without the flair I endlessly admire in others’ writing.

For a while, I viewed this as a good thing. It was a case of avoiding

What has been bothering me lately is that, on reflection, there is so little substance to most of what I’ve written. The narrative arc is limited to an orgasm. And more crucially, there is nothing about the writing that someone else couldn’t do. There are no original metaphors, no unique thought

I’ve also never felt bad that most of what I write is porn. Porn is great. I like it, and it’s easy for me to write. It can be compelling, even when it’s the only thing in the fic. It can also just be sexy, without a deeper meaning, and objectively that’s a totally valid expression of creativity.

At that time, all I was reading was fic. I was a VORACIOUS reader as a child, but college and beyond sort of killed that part of me. So my fic is extremely fic-like, not literary. In an objective sense, this is fine. It is fic, not literature. It’s not going anywhere. I have no aspirations.

I felt really good about it when I started. My first fic still stands head and shoulders above most of the rest of my fic in terms of quality, although of course my writing style and preferences changed over time. For a long time, my fic was shaped by other fic too. You write what you know.

I wrote fic before BTS, but not much and not regularly. That fic was average, in the sense that I know grammar and sometimes the sentences are pleasing, but the ideas aren’t noteworthy and the execution is, in all cases, flawed.

Writing regularly for BTS was a huge new thing for me.

I used to think I was good at writing, like in high school when I wrote essays, but I think objectively I was average. I had a gifted-kid complex all through school, so whatever I thought about myself back then wasn’t totally right. The first time I ever tried to write creatively for real was fic.

The professional writing I do is so different from fic that it might as well have a different name. I also don’t… particularly care about the work writing. I have to do it, but more important than the writing is the thinking I do before the writing and the decision I make.

I care about fic writing.

Professionally, most of my job is writing. I am very good at my job. I am also published in scholarly journals 11 times and have 3 book chapters. Objectively, I must be an okay writer. I can communicate facts clearly enough that other professionals understand them, even those not in my field.