whenever i set out to write an au fic, i have to find an anchor in canon. like, something i can tie back together with in the actual people, otherwise it's not the right au for me. when i lost the bet with klarisse (and actually I started writing this the minute she made her first guess) i tried to think about what kind of au would work with yixing, and it has to be something i know about: for me, both the canon and the irl knowledge are both mandatory before i can even begin to au. so thank you for noticing-- it's really important to me that they aren't just "guys with exo member's names" but that they feel like the exo members, and that the world feels real (not always /realistic/, but real). That's something that i go back and edit for a lot. <3 <3 <3 <3
to me, when i write something this long, it has to have several themes. an aesthetic theme, as well as an emotional theme. and you got it ;______; which makes me so happy, because yes, the emotional themes this time were about Yixing reconnecting to the part of himself that loves, and connecting to Jongin who is also afraid to demand too much and. Well. I never know if I'm successful or not but it's kind of thrilling to hear it worked for you ;_____;
i always feel like when i write i'm on my jongin soapbox. i can see where all these different interpretations of him come from-- they all make sense! but that's just not how I see him, and so i always want to try my best to make him three-dimensional... he seems like such a complicated, contradictory person, (for example, how he hates to be touched but LOVES to do the touching) and even though we're barely getting to know exo, there's already a lot of evidence to contradict the idea that he's arrogant so i... yeah, i always try to make him a little soft, but i aged him up a little, for this :)
((when i write ust i make myself angry lol because YES they needed to bang))
sob, and just... this whole comment is... it's so /nice/ and when i saw it i just kind of bawled because i'm actually the most terrified long-fic writer in the world and you were so excited and i was sure i would disappoint you but i /didn't/ and that makes me so relieved and happy and ;_____________; <3
so thank you so much for reading and commenting and ;____;
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Date: 2012-09-18 04:02 pm (UTC)whenever i set out to write an au fic, i have to find an anchor in canon. like, something i can tie back together with in the actual people, otherwise it's not the right au for me. when i lost the bet with klarisse (and actually I started writing this the minute she made her first guess) i tried to think about what kind of au would work with yixing, and it has to be something i know about: for me, both the canon and the irl knowledge are both mandatory before i can even begin to au. so thank you for noticing-- it's really important to me that they aren't just "guys with exo member's names" but that they feel like the exo members, and that the world feels real (not always /realistic/, but real). That's something that i go back and edit for a lot. <3 <3 <3 <3
to me, when i write something this long, it has to have several themes. an aesthetic theme, as well as an emotional theme. and you got it ;______; which makes me so happy, because yes, the emotional themes this time were about Yixing reconnecting to the part of himself that loves, and connecting to Jongin who is also afraid to demand too much and. Well. I never know if I'm successful or not but it's kind of thrilling to hear it worked for you ;_____;
i always feel like when i write i'm on my jongin soapbox. i can see where all these different interpretations of him come from-- they all make sense! but that's just not how I see him, and so i always want to try my best to make him three-dimensional... he seems like such a complicated, contradictory person, (for example, how he hates to be touched but LOVES to do the touching) and even though we're barely getting to know exo, there's already a lot of evidence to contradict the idea that he's arrogant so i... yeah, i always try to make him a little soft, but i aged him up a little, for this :)
((when i write ust i make myself angry lol because YES they needed to bang))
sob, and just... this whole comment is... it's so /nice/ and when i saw it i just kind of bawled because i'm actually the most terrified long-fic writer in the world and you were so excited and i was sure i would disappoint you but i /didn't/ and that makes me so relieved and happy and ;_____________; <3
so thank you so much for reading and commenting and ;____;
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