2025 Bait List

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Bait Lists A bait list is a list of things someone is interested in creating. It is a cheat sheet to a writer's Achilles' heel, the window to their soul. Wanting to prompt? Have a look here for some inspiration. Baiting makes writers excited about your prompt and increases the chances of it being filled. Content creators, confess your brainrot habits and the media that has you in its clutches. Need ideas? Genres - high school meet cute? supernatural investigators? pacific rim? Dynamics - casual intimacy? enemies to lovers? love triangles Media - Han Kang, Formula 1, Sabrina Carpenter lyrics, Arcane Season 2 (Check out the 2023 bait list and the 2021 bingo post). Please don't reply to bait lists On dreamwidth, you can't edit a comment once someone has replied to it. Creators, feel free to drop your socials if you want to get yelled at. Navigation ABOUT FAQ TWITTER BAITS ✧ 2025 ROUND: QUOTES ✧ 2025 FILLS MASTERLIST ARCHIVE: 2021 ARCHIVE: 2022 ARCHIVE: 2023 NOTION DATABASE

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mel bait

[moonlitmelodiesfic]

we are so back!! can't wait for my fav annual writing event yay!

biases:
- anything jeonghan, anything minghao
- jeonghao, jeongkwan, gyuhao, seokhao, jeongcheol, cheolhao
- woozi...???

ideas:
- anything idolverse or character study (on vulnerability, identity (idol vs. self; public vs. private; conflicting cultural identities), introspection, homesickness for foreign idols, the ever-expanding hunger for love, the want to be desired, etc)
- the mortifying ordeal of being known/loved; to be loved is to be known, etc
- the mundane horror of idol-life offstage
- grieving a past, despising change/current circumstances
- forced proximity
- magic/curses/the burden of having to hide parts of yourself from public scrutiny for safety
- greek mythology
- WICKED (movie or musical; the elphie/glinda/fiyero triangulation, or even nessa and boq's dynamic)

moonlitmel on bsky