Exactly!

Exactly! 🥹

Vet!Soobin. That's it. That's the thought.

The 'write for yourself uwu' culture shift has done real damage to fic writers imo. I recently had a post on the importance of strategic commenting break containment and I'm surprised by how many strangers who rb it in agreement feel the need to reassure in the tags that they do write for themselves, but...

There is a kernel of truth in the heart of this sentiment--if you only chase stats, you are unlikely to find joy in your writing. At the same time, I think we've veered too far in the other direction.

It is only natural to want engagement and the write for yourself crowd often overlooks how communal an effort fic writing usually is. So many story ideas are born from casual discussions about h/c's and favourite scenes and what ifs and the comment box is a cornerstone of this process. Not only can the discussions in the comment box be a hub for idea generation on their own, but even when the said idea generation takes place in DMs or Discord chats, commenting is often the first/easiest way into befriending authors; it's where community building starts.

Further, the write for yourself crowd similarly overlooks that the things a writer can write for themselves are often vast and many at any given time, and relative engagement levels across fandoms/ships can play a large part in which of those ideas a writer chooses to pursue--or whether they choose to publish their finished work at all.

In sum, I don't think we need to be this apologetic as writers for wanting feedback and engagement for what we post -- writing is hard work and it's only human that we want something external out of it in turn, however rewarding the process might intrinsically be.

Nobody asked, but here’s some Pokémon that remind me of SKZ members!

Prompts!

feel free to use any of these ✨️

"You’ll be bored of him in two weeks, I guarantee it."

"You’re going to choose him, aren’t you?"

"It wasn’t my fault the power went out. I was just trying to make toast."

"It’s a shame nobody is going to see how good you look tonight... Oh, I cancelled our plans. I need you all to myself."

"We’re criminals, not savages."

"Forget what I said about being quiet. I need to hear you."

"You look lonely. I can fix that."

"Prove to me that this isn’t all in my head."

"Let me give you what you’ve been missing."

"I dare you to untie me."

"...But that's between me and the government."

Happy Yoongi day 🪷

Ethereal-

Uhm hello? Who is driving this bus? How do you go from that Light concept to this? I'm sat here shaken to my core. What do I do with myself? I was not ready, I hadn't recovered from the blonde ot5 prince concept...