Updates: How I plan to continue

Hello everybody, Yovely here.

Now I know you all haven't heard of me in years and I won't any make excuses and tell you straight up why that is: I simply lost interest in K-Pop as a whole. It's simply too tiring for me to keep up with all the new bands, with all their new members and all the scandals, and although I still occasionally listen to one ore two songs the whole concept of K-Pop grew in over my head. As a fandom which is constantly changing, adapting and updating (which isn't bad, but in fact relatively good) I find myself left behind. And instead of trying to keep up I have turned to other fandoms, other outlets while almost forgetting about K-Pop as a whole and I have been content with my decision.

Still, sometimes I will wonder, sometimes I'm curious or I have an idea for a fanfic and while my fingers itch to write it down I hesitate because of my gap and self-appointed view as an outsider.

Now we all know the aggressive fans. And while normally I tend to steer clear of such fans, there are instances where it is nigh to impossible to do that, especially when it comes to what I mentioned: me writing fanfiction as a person who is so far removed from the fandom she can only ever write AUs with her protagonists being totally out of character.

And herein lies the problem: Many of the aggressive fans think I do not have the right to write about their favourite stars when I do not know every little detail about them, and I respect that because to them the bands are dear.

And although I can respect that, I feel discomfitted because as a writer, as someone who creates content being straight out told to "scram" because I am not actively cheering for a band hurts.

It's not like I pull stories out of my behind, in fact I put work and thoughts and hours of research into it, and true I might not know what X-ssi ate yesterday or who Y-ssi collaborated with, but trust me I do try to catch up when I decide to write about X/Y-ssi.

Now excuse me for all this ranting, I just want to say it's frustrating.

 

I will give you a real example here: As some of you may know I wrote Kris/Chen fanfiction, but since Kris left EXO many have told me that I should not write about them anymore and it makes me wonder "Why?". Aren't there a ton of people still writing about former TVXQ*s Jaejoong and TVXQ's Yunho? Alright, a ton might stretch it a lot, but still...

 

 

Mostly people try to be friendly about it, giving me advice to not do it or stating their opinion, but some straight out try to prohibit me doing it, getting insulting and generally toxic. Being met with such an enviroment made me leave the community in the first place although I had planned it only be a while but now it turned into years and I have mellowed out about the whole affair and so I decided for myself:

 

I will occasionally continue writing fanfiction about ships that may not be legitimate (if they ever were) anymore and I will do so in my own pace at my own leisure. I do not want to be hurried and I will probably not post something (new) I haven't at least outlined and mostly finished already.

So yes, I am coming back into this community although it may be with just my big toe and just from time to time :) at least now I have the courage to stride confidentally.

Now to the REAL updates:

When love begins will get cleaned up, I will tweak it here and there and most important it will finally get a conclusion in the 3rd chapter.

Wu Dynasty will also be cleaned, corrected and I will definitely finish this.

And finally Twisted and tainted will also be cleaned, corrected and updated.

All will happen at my own leisure.

 

Thank you for reading and have a nice day,

Your truly

Yovely

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