WARNING: This is going to be LONG AND RAMBLING blog about something that means a lot to me personally and would probably only be of interest to the most engaged Incredible Things readers. If you just clicked this out of curiosity or for the new Kai fics, save time and just scroll down to the very bottom! 

So... omg. Yesterday was quite an emotional day for me because after writing and rewriting this note for quite some time, I can’t believe I finally get to post it. Incredible Things is finally complete.

I feel like a mountain of bricks has been taken off my shoulders, but at the same time I kind of miss those bricks being there and weirdly enough, I’m still trying to hold on to them.

Incredible Things took me 7 years. Seven – that’s nearly 1/4^th of the time I’ve been alive at this point (edit: I first wrote six because I'm dumb but 2015 to early 2022 is 7 isn't it). I went completely off the grid for about 3 years in 2018 but something in February 2021 made me want to come back to finish it. Word count wise, it’s also way longer than anyone in their right mind should ever spend on a fic. My first fic ever on this site (T-*gags* TPOHAST *gags*) averaged about 5k words per chapter I think? And I don’t know what happened but somewhere between growing up and finding my style (??), every chapter I wrote somehow turned into a book of its own.

There are so many things I wish I had done better with IT and I've always had a love/hate relationship with it, especially after coming back to it in 2021. But then again, the first chapter was born with very little planning on a bench at my sister's piano lesson place when I was 14, so I think that's a given – I have a love/hate relationship with pretty much everything I did when I was 14. But that's just being 14, isn't it? I finally published IT when I was 15 without much more planning because back then I didn't even have a concept of it, but right now at 22, I just want to give 14/15 y.o. Trish the biggest headpat for just... doing it lol. IT turned out gaining a lot more attention than I ever expected and it will probably remain as the largest thing I will ever accomplish on AFF.

IT is a lot of things to me - a collection of flaws and -ups, a piece I'm proud of yet too ashamed to share in real life, a growing inventory of words I know in my second language, a projected love story fantasy before I even had my first kiss, my adoration for Kim Jongin, and basically, a piece of me at this point. It has my high school self whining about everything in the A/Ns. It recorded me moving to a different country for Uni. It's proof of how I was dealing with life when I disappeared for 3 years, yet a testament to my commitment when I came back in February 2021. 

I'm happy that I ended up finishing IT when I'd say I'm in a really good place personal-life wise. I like how even though I spent a lot of time on this leisure activity, things are still going well in my academic and professional life as well as IRL relationships. I think I also would've written the later scenes much better in 2021. Another headpat to 15 y.o. Trish but also 21 y.o. Trish hehe. 

I'm rambling now, but I think at the end of all Things, what I want to say is that there so many things I wish I did differently with Incredible Things, but at the end of the day, it means so much to me and I never let go of it. Net-net, I'm happy with it. I'm happy to have written it, at least. I cherish it, and it made me feel cherished too. So thank you to everyone who also loved it <3 I'm especially proud of the bond we've formed with our characters. I just know fictional KaiSeulGuk are so happy right now. 

To IT readers, bonus IT content is not completely out of the possibility yet. If/when it comes, you'll see an update to the main story. For now, please enjoy where I ended IT hehe (at least it actually ended right?!?!)

So now that this chapter of my life is over, I can't wait to move on to new things! (And finish Rumour Has It of course). I've decided that I will never be writing anything as big and complex as Incredible Things again because my adult life simply can't handle it lol. Finishing IT in 2021 was tough as it was already LMAO like between studying, working, recruiting, other hobbies, moving, dating, and tweeting literally 24/7 in my OG fandom I honestly didn't know how I did it loool. (PS: if you want, but of course never feel obligated to, you can also support me on Ko-fi! Thank you so much if you do!)

The shorter and easier handle to stories I have in mind right now include: Good Grief (And Cute Tragedies), The Seven Secrets of Kim Jongin, and Heartburn. Yes, I posted all 3 in advance so that readers who rarely check AFF these days know what to wait for (if there is). A summary of these three: 

GOOD GRIEF (AND CUTE TRAGEDIES)
Summary: They say grief comes in five stages, but for 4th-year Business major Seo Iseul, it comes overnight – in the form of a cheating boyfriend, ruined senior year plans, a tragic karaoke incident (all thanks to Taylor Swift), and an unexpected new roommate named Kim Jongin.
Tags: roommate au, college au, enemies-to-something-more au, romcom, shortfic
 

THE SEVEN SECRETS OF KIM JONGIN
Summary: Star legal intern Seo Iseul gets unintentionally physical with her #1 rival and mortal nemesis Kim Jongin in her quest to prove that he’s hiding seven tattoos and should never get a return offer from Jung & Shim LLC.
Tags: law firm au, office au, enemies-to-confused-colleagues au, romcom, eventual , shortfic
 

HEARTBURN
Summary: Rising actress Choi Dahye has trouble containing her feelings for veteran actor Kim Jongin who is her on-screen father. Cue the cameras, lights, scandals, and… heartburn. 
Tags: celebrity au, romance, drama, some angst, (maybe) some , (everyone is )
 

Each title is hyperlinked, or you can also go to my AUTHORED STORIES page to check each one out in more detail. (Make sure to hit the follow author button on my profile if you want to get notified every time I publish a new story!).

After the scale of IT and its story stats, these 3 seem like babiessss lol I know I've lost a lot of active readers during my 3-year hiatus and there are barely any Jongin/OC fics on AFF these days (though I will single-handedly ensure his OC fic lineage does not end if I must!) so it'll be,,, quite interesting to see how these do XD but oh well I'm too in love with him what can I say HAHAH. So if you are too, I hope you'll join me on any of the stories that interest you. Some say I have magic in my hands and heart (lol) and I hope to hone it even better through these fics :) 

With that, at long last, that's all from me right now. Whew that's a ing long blog but in my defense I did tell you to scroll past. See you soon in a new RHI ch soon and take care! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope this one is filled with even more happiness, love, and success for you.