A fond and fruitful yearly tradition, participants are invited to examine themselves and create a 'bait list' of the concepts they are interested in creating. It is a cheat sheet to a creator's Achilles' heel, the window to their soul.
If you're thinking about prompting, take a peak here for some inspiration. Craft a prompt to be a bait and it increases the chances for the prompt to be filled.
Need ideas?
Genres and AUs - Formula 1 brainrot or a Pacific Rim devout? Perhaps 2026 is the year of gothic revivals and YA dragon riding military school love trianbles.
Tropes and Dynamics- enemies to lovers or enemies AND lovers, coffee shop meet cute or yet another customer service cursed interaction?
Media - just give it to us straight. Are you weak for an Ada Limón or Louise Glück quote? Is Frankenstein and Mickey 17 living in you head rent-free. Maybe it's the Pitt or Wicked or Epic the Musical.
✧ greek myth AUs and themes of hubris and destiny - this year I've consumed a lot of related media like hades (the game), hadestown (the musical), epic (the musical), illiad... there's something comforting about reading a tragedies :') ✧ (turns up to the bar, orders the usual) love stories where something gets in the way: duty, class inequality, maladaptive performance idolhood etc ✧ baity media: haruki murakami, sofia samatar, raven cycle, michael ondaatje, science fiction, FRANKENSTEIN IS ON MY MIND ✧ I swear jeonghan's dyson hairdryer that if someone prompts murakami's sputnik sweetheart I WILL WRITE IT. guaranteed bait seungcheol guaranteed
⋆ missing thirds ⋆ body horror, and the horror of having a body ⋆ choi seungcheol's canonical love for romance movies with themes of devotion until death ⋆ right person, wrong place ⋆ "love is a choice" ⋆ olivie blake quotes, but especially from alone with you in the ether or anything from januaries ⋆ hanif abdurraqib ⋆ blah blah blah pete wentz's livejournal posts, bandom, tight pants and eyeliner blah blah blah ⋆ doppelgangers and lookalikes and clones and ghosts (who's haunting who?) ⋆ hayley williams and jensen mcrae lyrics, severance (tv show), materialists (movie), frankenstein (2025), i saw the tv glow (2024)
-i have no thoughts no vibes, please try your best to bait me to do anything other than my customary haoxing/haokook fills OR last-minute minghao posting because i dont see enough of him in the masterlist.
-i still like grief and melancholy and slice of life and minghao and wonu and seokhoon.
-no literature, movie or song has kept me as occupied this year as the dramatic arc of the bulgarian men's volleyball team OR the showmanship of melissa vargas at the mens and womens world volleyball championships respectively. so take that as you will.
-wish-fulfilling for friends is still the best motivator to get me to write anything.
I don’t think I’ve actually ever posted a fill in a prompt meme before (cut my teeth on the inception kink meme but I was too shy to ever hit post) but I am ready to try this year! curse me
Love a good urban fantasy au, soulmate au (my favorite), tbh anything where I get to alter the idolverse with fun worldbuilding (omegaverse; magical realism, etc), modern royal aus
I am a sucker for rivals to lovers, outsider pov, idiots to lovers
I feel like the media I’d love to do fic with is going to be extremely niche, however The Hollows by Kim Harrison, Hidden Legacy by Ilona Andrews, Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya, The Mummy 1999 ver (please make someone a Librarian). I also got really into volleyball last year (give me an excuse to reserach the korean league; I mean I know Blanche coaches the Skywalkers so I am prepared).
○ deep sci-fi AUs. aliens, robots, space, solarpunk, timey-wimey shenanigans, repercussions of new technology, etc. (relatedly, octavia butler or ursula k le guin quotes) ○ sports AUs!! ○ idolverse with a twist ○ poetry from carl phillips, richard siken, natalie diaz / lyrics from wicked, linkin park, halsey ○ my kingdom for a prompt that quotes from a scholarly journal
✧ this will be my first time participating in 17hols, beware! ✧ my heart beats for romantic comedies, yearning fools, a good meet-cute scenario, soulmates, and lovers doomed by the narrative. ✧ friends to almost lovers to enemies to friendship resurrected with lingering wounds which refuse to heal is crack to me… ✧ for further inspiration, advise discographies of david bowie, the magnetic fields, kate bush, talking heads, and amy winehouse. plus, if you svt-ify arcane (2021), you will get the keys to my heart.
actually super excited for 17hols this yr! my bait list would be:
✧ any form of mecha au (pacrim, neon genesis evangelion, gundam, u name it) ✧ childhood best friends to lovers ✧ anything remotely inspired by gitling by jopey arnaldo, lost in translation by sofia coppola, past lives by celine song. tldr: a language only you two could quite understand, a love that dwells in silence and unsaid words, but still a form of understanding. ✧ esports au (as a t1 fan).
I'm not sure what to put as my guesses last year were so off base..already limbering up my hands though im very keen
Maybe: - humanity or the lack thereof - excuses to be niche and weird and maybe do worldbuilding that'll never see the light of day - predicting ill kinda be in the mood for dancing on the blurry line of horror - gender - escapism - capricorn projecting - hao...
☀️ literally anything fucked up or disturbed or upsetting ☀️ ive been consuming a lot of interview with the vampire so. i guess. vampires. blood sucking. biting. the horrors of immortality ☀️ "a heart's a heavy burden" ☀️ the line between where devotion and hatred blurs ☀️ honestly at this point i just want to write something please let me be awful in a word document thank you god bless
belated bait post from me now that i'm on a bit of a tear filling things!
-exes (including ex best friends), people haunting the narrative, grief, forgetting, wishing to forget -opportunities for weird speculative bents on everyday life -i'll always be a hoe for idolverse -jeongcheol and/or jeonghan in general (again i am who i am) -weird gender stuff -self-hatred and/or dealing with insecurities poorly/taking them out on other people -cities at night, the smear of streetlights from the passenger seat of a car or train, the anonymity of getting lost in a crowd, constantly discovering new angles of a place you love or love to hate
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✧ (turns up to the bar, orders the usual) love stories where something gets in the way: duty, class inequality, maladaptive performance idolhood etc
✧ baity media: haruki murakami, sofia samatar, raven cycle, michael ondaatje, science fiction, FRANKENSTEIN IS ON MY MIND
✧ I swear jeonghan's dyson hairdryer that if someone prompts murakami's sputnik sweetheart I WILL WRITE IT. guaranteed bait seungcheol guaranteed
bait me, baby
⋆ missing thirds
⋆ body horror, and the horror of having a body
⋆ choi seungcheol's canonical love for romance movies with themes of devotion until death
⋆ right person, wrong place
⋆ "love is a choice"
⋆ olivie blake quotes, but especially from alone with you in the ether or anything from januaries
⋆ hanif abdurraqib
⋆ blah blah blah pete wentz's livejournal posts, bandom, tight pants and eyeliner blah blah blah
⋆ doppelgangers and lookalikes and clones and ghosts (who's haunting who?)
⋆ hayley williams and jensen mcrae lyrics, severance (tv show), materialists (movie), frankenstein (2025), i saw the tv glow (2024)
unb(ai/ea)table
-i still like grief and melancholy and slice of life and minghao and wonu and seokhoon.
-no literature, movie or song has kept me as occupied this year as the dramatic arc of the bulgarian men's volleyball team OR the showmanship of melissa vargas at the mens and womens world volleyball championships respectively. so take that as you will.
-wish-fulfilling for friends is still the best motivator to get me to write anything.
🎣
curse mesee you in the ring
○ deep sci-fi AUs. aliens, robots, space, solarpunk, timey-wimey shenanigans, repercussions of new technology, etc. (relatedly, octavia butler or ursula k le guin quotes)
○ sports AUs!!
○ idolverse with a twist
○ poetry from carl phillips, richard siken, natalie diaz / lyrics from wicked, linkin park, halsey
○ my kingdom for a prompt that quotes from a scholarly journal
how to: bait me!
✧ this will be my first time participating in 17hols, beware!
✧ my heart beats for romantic comedies, yearning fools, a good meet-cute scenario, soulmates, and lovers doomed by the narrative.
✧ friends to almost lovers to enemies to friendship resurrected with lingering wounds which refuse to heal is crack to me…
✧ for further inspiration, advise discographies of david bowie, the magnetic fields, kate bush, talking heads, and amy winehouse. plus, if you svt-ify arcane (2021), you will get the keys to my heart.
go go juice!
✧ any form of mecha au (pacrim, neon genesis evangelion, gundam, u name it)
✧ childhood best friends to lovers
✧ anything remotely inspired by gitling by jopey arnaldo, lost in translation by sofia coppola, past lives by celine song. tldr: a language only you two could quite understand, a love that dwells in silence and unsaid words, but still a form of understanding.
✧ esports au (as a t1 fan).
digging for worms
Maybe:
- humanity or the lack thereof
- excuses to be niche and weird and maybe do worldbuilding that'll never see the light of day
- predicting ill kinda be in the mood for dancing on the blurry line of horror
- gender
- escapism
- capricorn projecting
- hao...
a writing writer who writes
☀️ ive been consuming a lot of interview with the vampire so. i guess. vampires. blood sucking. biting. the horrors of immortality
☀️ "a heart's a heavy burden"
☀️ the line between where devotion and hatred blurs
☀️ honestly at this point i just want to write something please let me be awful in a word document thank you god bless
no subject
-exes (including ex best friends), people haunting the narrative, grief, forgetting, wishing to forget
-opportunities for weird speculative bents on everyday life
-i'll always be a hoe for idolverse
-jeongcheol and/or jeonghan in general (again i am who i am)
-weird gender stuff
-self-hatred and/or dealing with insecurities poorly/taking them out on other people
-cities at night, the smear of streetlights from the passenger seat of a car or train, the anonymity of getting lost in a crowd, constantly discovering new angles of a place you love or love to hate