Right; I'm still rather new and trying to accomodate myself to the site as well as all the bits and pieces it has to offer, so please bear with me :)

The thought that a very limited amount of people if not no one will read the post has come across my mind, but I figured typing it all out is better then keeping it to myself. 

Fanfictions has become another accessory to a typical 'K-pop' fan; not everyone wears it per se, but having it as part of your description is of the norm along with things such as tumblr, kakaotalk, and forums. Becoming a fan myself was already an unimaginable feat that I'd managed to seemingly overcome (not that I regret it in the slightest) but I was never really one to fangirl, let alone follow groups and then later proceed to read/write stories about them. As you can imagine the process of becoming a fan was a rather interesting one, I was confused and surprised with myself to say the least. Once I embraced it however, it became an emotional rollar coaster ride which never seems to let you have a break. 

Thinking about it now, throughout my entire time being a fan of korean music, I seem to have initially rejected alot of the things I love the most now. Even when it comes to songs, sometimes I'll have to listen to it a couple of times before truly getting into it. 

Likewise the thought of reading/writing fanfictions hadn't even crossed my mind, for me it was unthinkable and for various reasons.  

One of them being, when it comes to books and reading I am extremely picky; which is ironic since I enjoy a wide spectrum of genres. I think it has more to do with how the story is presented, I may be interested in the plot but not the writing style. Another reason was due to a common theme found in many fanfictions; shipping. 

I ship friendships; not ual relations between members of groups :) I have read a few boyXboy fanfictions (mostly because of friends) and I will admit to enjoying some of them, but I read them as they are sent to me and not because I have looked for them. Needless to say if I was alone at a book store I wouldn't be at the boyXboy section. 

Funny enough it was because a friend had specifically told me not to read fanfictions that I became curious. I decided to do a small search for myself and though I found a few to read with original characters; it was more to fill time rather then for enjoyment and so I never got into any. Truthfully the specific members I was looking for are shipped together quite a bit, trying to find something that was out of the norm in a site I wasn't accustomed to wasn't as easy as I'd hoped =.=''

It wasn't until a boring summer day which brought me back to the site, and when I came I was greeted by the featured section, which this time around caught my attention. Though at the time, I was still merely a casual fan of the group being promoted in the story, and if anything didn't know so much about the main member of the story. Looking back I'm glad I didn't as well, because I got to appreciate the character as the character of the story, rather then an idol playing the character of the story.

One of my guilty pleasures (I have many) being a well written drama romance, which the story had seemed to be about; I appreciated the authors writing style from the forward and decided to give it a go. 

I'm so glad I did. so so glad. To be honest I want to run to the author and give her a big hug, but I understand thats a bit odd coming from a hidden lurker.

It was one of the first stories I'd read which led me to change my perspective of fanfictions and allowed me to spend some time to search and find those other hidden jewels. In the end it became a group of authors which had caused me to make an account (.... also because some of their stories became subscribers only lol) and even maybe start thinking to make one of my own ;)

I'd like to thank each of those authors; but I'll do so in another post. I have a tendency of writing essays T_T

What can I say; looks like I've joined the fanfiction bandwagon ;)