Shifting (??)

After much consternation, plentiful urging from my beta, a 45-minute lecture on the importance of Always Keeping The Faith and some tid bits I read on communal rioting...

I have an LJ.

Nothing much there yet, seeing as for now I'm only going to post things that I felt were my best works thusfar. Don't want to muddle it up with all my trash cause I hear LJ is all about status and classiness and being a snob (??)

But I feel like this is me breaking away from my roots, so to speak. Symbolically.

Eh... **shrugs**

Because despite it being one of my favorites, SHINee is dying. This fandom is dying. The inspiration is dying. And that era of amazing fics with really interesting ideas is dying. Two years ago I was a silent reader with all these brilliant short stories by legendary writers bookmarked safely on my laptop; reading them I felt I could try my hand at this, too, I could appreciate and understand my feelings for this brand new thing by writing, too.

Now, everything has turned into a sour fight between chestnut believers and non-believers. And when I go back to those fics that I once held in awe, I cringe.

So, no point really, ah?

 

Finally, a friend recently pointed out to me how I put a specific cultural flavor in all my stories, and so I'm going to try and stress on that from now on. I hope that doesn't get in the way of you guys enjoying the read.

 

 

 

This marks the end of the blather.

Jya na, bai bai~ **waves and runs**

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greyyy #1
And yes, Minkey on TV is adorbs! Hurhur.
greyyy #2
Nope! I'm a VIP and Homin-shipper. Ironic it may seem (with all the 'elitism' prominent in the BIGBANG fandom, but let me assure you LJ writers who write for the fandom are very welcoming, very nice and write so well (especially GTOP, but I don't ship GTOP as much as GRi, so...)

The TVXQ fandom has been around for a while, but I'm only immersed in the Homin part of it mostly. There's been a lot of changes; what's happening to the Shinee fandom now has already happened in the Homin fandom, so I do understand a little. But it's still a great place to be, you know because even with all the changes, Homin shippers are still producing pretty awesome pieces of writing.

Homin is my ultimate kpop OTP, followed by Hanchul (because that is a Shakespearean tragedy and I love and hate it so much) and then Gri. Haha. I only stumbled upon Shinee because of Onkey, which has to be my Shinee OTP, but I am loving Minkey so much as well. :3
greyyy #3
I love LJ. I'm actually from LJ, though not in Shinee fandom, I guess. I'm not sure about status and classiness and snobbery, but for my fandoms, there are more (and better-written) works posted on it. Plus when I first entered LJ, I got a warm welcome from my fandom, so...

I've only just started dabbling in the Shinee fandom, so uh, if you do have any recs (and I mainly read Key - Onkey, Minkey, Jongkey but not Taekey and definitely not OnTae or 2min) please let me know. (:
Alluring #4
I've heard somewhere that LJ is another place for fanfiction. I have visited them a couple of times, but the interface of the website was too alien for me to manage (I felt that it was somewhat a tumblr).

Anyway, I hope you'll regain the sense of fandom(?) that you're looking for. Subs aren't the only things important fanfictions, right?
Alluring #5
I don't know much about SHINee's fandom so I can't say much, but obviously, there has been a huge shift from them as the #1 popular tag to EXO. I find it tragic, really, that a one-year-old gang of twelve rookie idols dominated AFF through years of hard work of other fandoms. I can't blame anyone for that--I guess EXO is just more appealing--but it's still sad. There are way too many pointless EXO fics that are praised and worshipped because of the number of subscribers or comments or upvotes they have.
southpaw
#6
LJ is deader than aff, though. Fic wise. Or are you talking about other fandoms to post in?

I tried the LJ thing and bombed. So pretty much closed mine.
vainilla
#7
what does this means then? D:, you will leave aff?!
Taeberries
#8
Let's have a date on LJ! :)) I spend most of my time there than here (like right now). Lol.