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velveteen
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First of all, thank you again, dear reader, for making it through my almost 4k of I don’t even know what (I guess it can be described as seulgi meta (but I don’t even know her that well so I’m so sorry seulgi stans ;;)). And also the following is just dump of stuff I wrote on the side while writing this story. So I apologize for the randomness.

The story mentioned briefly is one of my childhood stories The Velveteen Rabbit, where a toy rabbit goes on a quest for his owner’s love so that he can become Real.

The religion part of this was just supposed to be a contrast to the growth of the characters, and by no means a jab at all at the church and organized religion. I wanted Seulgi be more like a sheltered choir girl who kind of grows into the woman she's meant to be

In case it isn’t clear, Seulgi is a lithromantic and Sungjoo is an aromantic. A lithromantic is described to be as someone who “naturally experiencing romantic love without desire for reciprocation” (x), or basically someone who likes relationships in theory but not in practice. The extent of this extends to being uncomfortable with returned affection to being downright repulsed by the idea of sharing intimate moments in reality.

The spectrum of ual and romantic orientation is so wide and so varied so I thought I’d try writing some of the lesser known orientations, I don’t know if I did it justice or not.

Every piece I write is something about me and what I think, but t

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jenyer
#1
ok i read this on ao3 so i think i'll bring my comment here and let me just say i'm screaming and there's a lot of caps ok wait here it comes--

I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO READ BECAUSE GOD KNOWS HOW I FIND GOOD GEMS AND??? THIS???? OH MY GOD THIS IS A REALLY GOOD FIND @ 11:37PM OF TODAY AND I AM LITERALLY SCREECHING AT MY SCREEN BECAUSE I THOUGHT OF SEULGI/SUNGJOO AT SOME POINT BUT I NEVER THOUGHT IT'D COME TRUE IN THE FORM OF A FIC AND THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL JUST FOR THIS THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH NOW I'M GONNA CRY WHICH SEEMS TO BE MY HABIT TO DO WHEN I FIND A GOOD READ AND THIS WAS MORE THAN A GOOD READ I JUST WANT TO SOB MAYBE I DON'T-- I CAN'T-- OH MY GOD thank you i'll stop with the caps now
straightjacket
#2
Chapter 2: I love what I have read from you these last few days and I love this particularly. I was originally looking for UNIQ fanfic and came across your account on a Google search, really. Your style and the topics you touch upon are interesting and unique so I will try to keep up and read everything else. Thank you for sharing it.
OnASnowyDay
#3
this sounds really good!!
bluedreaming
#4
Actually this sounds really cool