Yep, It Was Twilight. I Hold No Shame For It

Yep, it was twilight. I hold no shame for it

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Writing advice is all good and well, until you feeling you haven’t written anything right because you didn’t follow the “rules” other people have set.

Guilt is such a weird emotion at times. And also completely irrational as well.

I’ve been feeling really guilty these past few days cause I haven’t been able to sit down at write anything because I’ve been so tired.

And I shouldn’t even feel that guilty! Because one of my dogs literally just had her puppies on Monday! My sister and I have been up at all hours with her through the labor, helping her with cleaning and feeding the puppies, and monitoring them at all hours while also taking care of the farm and other dogs we have. So we are justifiably exhausted at this point.

I want to write so bad but my eyes hurt, my head hurts, I’ve been stress itching all over, and I only have enough energy to take care of all the animals then doomscroll for hours.

I say all this to say, guilt is a stupid emotion and I’d like to be rid of it now, thank you 😩

[For anyone interested; mom and babies are doing just fine, we had two born- a boy and a girl. This is her first and only litter, that was kinda sorta planned. The Mama’s name is Mochi (in honor of Jimin, yes I’m that nerdy) and she’s a year old Dalmatian. She was bred to our male, Indigo (that album is a masterpiece) so they are purebred, cutie little whiny babies. Kookie (my Dalmatian, Mochi is my sister’s as well as the male, I just got to name them) is very excited to play with these little babies when they are old enough 💜]

I saw a thread on twitter that was basically a rant by all these fans about how gross it was that some people shipped the BTS members. And I feel like, as a shipper/writer myself, I should at least get my thoughts out somewhere. So here it is.

I do not see any difference to shipping k-pop idols then when fans of other celebrities want them to date other people.

Now, do some people take it too far? Yes, absolutely. We should not be shoving this in their faces, or getting into fights because one ship is “better” or “makes more sense” than another.

Personally, I do not see myself shipping the actual people, if that makes sense, I’m shipping their stage persona. As much as we think we know these people, we don’t. And fans need to realize that.

I do believe that BTS are as genuine with us as they can be, but they are allowed to have a private life. They are allowed to hide their feelings about certain topics, people, or anything they want. They are people.

An argument could be made that we use their real names in our fanfiction, edits, etc, but even then I don’t feel like it’s their name in a sense. The Korean language is very complex and vast and it has meanings that could never translate to English. If anything we are using a translation of their names, almost like a stage name.

So, I say all that to say, as someone who used to feel very guilty about shipping the members, you are not gross for doing it. You are not doing anything wrong. And, as long as you aren’t being malicious or forceful with anyone, you are not hurting anyone by writing your fics or drawing your art or making edit videos or anything else in between.

Go read your fics, watch your videos, enjoy their music, make your art. Cause the people that’ll enjoy it with you are so much cooler than the ones that hate it 💜

The only thing I hate about being a writer now is that I can’t just enjoy a fic 😭 my inner editor just won’t shut up!!