november is x-exo time! please join this round of shine on if there's an exo rare pair near and dear to your heart 👿💜 open to both fic and fanart. this round has no word count limit~ info & sign-ups:

this year has been exceptionally brutal in terms of the ongoing death of my fandom/ficdom, and we are still awaiting the devastation the potentially biggest calamity among all terrible exo events will bring 🫠

... do people realise just how many of these are ai-generated 🥲 it only took five months to get from 15 to 16 million

does anyone know of anything that was written about the concept of 'normies' and 'being weird' in a fandom context, in longer form? people talk a lot about it, but unless weird means kinky, i'm actually not too sure what any of it is supposed to mean, given fandom realities (of mine, at least)

starprints exchange #5 exo fanworks have been revealed ♡ participants: ACatWhoWrites, Chanye_oh_l, daesbeanie, dotdotmoon, Likedeadends, locketdreams, malemilf, mthrfluffer 🔗 ao3.org/collections/starprints_05/works ships: baeksoo, chanchen, chankai, chansoo, kaibaek, suchen, suchen&subaek, xiuhun

All COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN $10 off on reg comms if you're willing to pay all upfront in advance (from total) I am in dire straits 🙃 #commissions #mha #bnha

happy broken party 💔🎊 mv project postings day !! take a look at our collection for jongdae fic and art based on the mv, for so many pairings and many more to come 🫙🌸 masterlist: ao3.org/collections/brokenparty/profile masterthread: x.com/hailchen/status/1949397194177646963

i really enjoyed trying new things for this piece, tho i kinda feel i bit more than i can chew haha i hope you enjoy this drawing and the other works in the "broken party" party~~ have a nice day~

this blog post is currently going around on tumblr, if you considered reading it: spare yourself. it's deeply confusing, ill-structured, presents neither true arguments nor solid advice or solutions greerwrites.com/blog/2ae0f2a1-… the dysfunction of this metaphor is representative:

really wishing people didn't lock their fics as it turned out once again it didn't prevent being scraped at all (as many people said the first time around too) but,,, here we are 😔

is this what it feels like to be tempted by the devil (it's still not working my exo feelings are still too much of a mess. this would have had me crying for half a day just a few months ago)

reworked last year's post about invasive generative ai use in ficdom/on ao3. it's twice as long now and specific to exo, but may be interesting meta (?) to someone out there regardless 🔗 ao3.org/works/64822582

👹 2019- 👹 EXO, Byun Baekhyun/Kim Minseok | Xiumin 👹 E, 3.4k 👹 archiveofourown.org/works/64496524

go read it, it's angst archiveofourown.org/works/336399...

i think i might need to stop talking to myself on the internet but for now: happy suchen day from me to me 😔

sukai

this one as a poster please

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haven't heard minseok using fairies (or elsas) in a long long time, which is fascinating given how jongdae uses soondingies always. they do come from very different experiences on this obviously, but one would think minseok would use the solo fandom name he himself coined for his debut at some point

watched pineapple slice for the first time (along with the album trailer) and walked away with a xiubaek fic seed and maybe wanting to listen to the album. the lyrics of this song are so at odds with the mv it makes the mv deeply unserious, so i watched it 5+ times in a row, it was so fun 🥺

manually counted them and i have 300 browser tabs of things to read open on my phone 🫠 (does not include fic, which i download) it only got really bad when i hit 100 and couldn't see anymore how many there were

i miss chenkai so terribly

first time boiling an egg, at age 35 🫠

things i'll forever be waiting for because they Promised and i'm a fool: • chenkai rover dance challenge • exo cream soda first win livestream • junmyeon's redone version of the cream soda era xiusoo selfie that they did 'wrong' • xiuho coincidental meeting while filming dramas in early 2024 selfie

not jongin saying he talked to chatgpt about daily life things 😔 jongin, sweetheart

a friend told me 'i should have known it was your fic, it was slightly gross' yesterday. you write one tapeworm fic and then this 😭 (i may have written other slightly gross things. i don't remember anything in particular but i mean i Am trying)

nothing as gratifying as randomly picking a topic for a fic and then finding out it's an Actual Topic there :'

in more joyful news i told a friend about mouse spouse ⚡ and now they keep sending me things that remind them of mouse spouse ⚡, it's the cutest thing

so envious of fans who aren't creative, they can move on in a way i'll never be able to (plus the 🐇 genai endorsement i also have to sit with)

i hate april fools with a passion. doesn't matter if it's malicious or just for fun or even marked as such, i hate that there's an entire day dedicated to fooling people as if this didn't happen all day every day, as if lying wasn't super normalised, as if misinformation wasn't a huge issue

was expecting to get my heart broken on the anniversary day, but not like this. rip exo

is the expectation that participants read one another's fics and comment on them too much of an implicit one, especially with a small fest (and especially with a rare pair fest), does it need spelling out these days... i feel like it used to kind of work a while ago when there were more participants

CHEN 🫧

the list of innocuous things people who claim to love fic find so offputting they won't even read something is so long, i genuinely don't understand why they read fanfic in the first place

jongin is a great actor where the interpersonal is concerned, but is he good enough of one to pretend to hear about milk being the better choice to deal with too spicy food for the first time in his life at age 31?

the friend who sprints with me twice a week will only be sporadically available for the coming five weeks 😔 if i never finish a fic again that might be why

sitting in sinks. cat behaviour

first time noticing these 2016 chenkais ;u;

jongin comeback next week?? i joked about it being an april 1st comeback but omg 🫨 jongin how am i supposed to build up any stamina for this content wave when you've decided to turn the traditional comeback schedule upside down and we're not being eased into it via a teaser schedule

i haven't made you all look at this yet so it's high time. companion piece to my suchen 🥹💘❤️‍🩹

jongdae kept being so confidently wrong about minseok 🫢

it's a good morning to get some prompt pining in

so disheartening to see the internet filled with ai-generated song "interpretations"

official account bday post?? what on earth. there's no way sm has more issues with kyungsoo than it does with minseok, did they receive enough complaints to fold and change their stance on this matter, or

minseok reuniting exo(-cbx) again for a comeback and giving us new group content, minseok 🫠💛

only two more days to have something ready for minseok day 🫠

cbx activities confirmed, "for a good intention" 👀 but not in korea (and not japan either?), where could it possibly be (full conversation: twitter.com/xiubread/status/1904151038254559480)

230324 ♡ #KAI #카이 #Jongin

jongdae stealing the spotlight at minseok's fancon (he looked so good) and working on an mv... what is he up to, didn't he deny it being something bigger (like an album) not too long ago