Bait Lists
Bait Lists
Like the bait on a fishing hook, if you want to entice a writer, you should know what they are weak for. We are not empaths but fortunately, we all love exposing ourselves. Wanting to prompt? Have a look here for some inspiration. Baiting makes writers excited about your prompt. Sprinkle some fake-dating or enemies-to-lovers and you'll make us weak at the knees Content creators, open your heart and comment below about the ideas you want to write or draw. Need ideas?
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hwa bait
- nostalgia for a past that is no longer accessible
- mundane liminal spaces like airports and gas stations and hotel rooms
- science fiction/magical realism - AUs with a feature that strains the relationship
- LINK CLICK AU (everyone watch Link Click it's a time travel thriller!)
- re: drawing, any anime/manhua/game AU is juicy hwa bait
I'm noctiluce@twitter
wren bait
•jeonghan (+/- seokmin, seungcheol, wonwoo & mingyu)
•it's about X but it's also about Y
•jeongcheol
places/themes/settings:
• the spaces where you are waiting to be seen, or disappear to for regrouping.
• musings on home.
• time loop. time travel. the spectre of the past.
• the breakup (romantic/group dissolving/friendships)
• yogyakarta battle trip.
inspiration:
• foxing lyrics.
• hanif abdurraqib poems.
• if i can't have love then i want power lyrics and/or concept
i'm infrequenced on twt.
peb bait
- the end of the (or of a) world
- ruminating on stuff that hurts, picking at scabs, the feeling when you bite your fingernails down just a little too short
- found family/people that feel like home
- what ifs
- swords !! !!
im @/thesolemneyed on twitter :3
stickie bait
✫ slice of life, little moments + snapshots, non linear narratives
✫ comedic situations or funny takes on normal situations?
✫ meet cutes in weird places
✫ superpowers, office au, enemies to lovers !!!, childhood friends, fic with older characters (post college), !!! reunions after a timeskip
✫ things change, but we all stay the same, or alternatively, thing stay the same, but we've changed
✫ anything involving minghao, seungcheol, junhui, wonwoo
I'm
em bait
-casual domesticity and casual intimacy
-hierarchies of any sort (age, talent, captain/lieutenant, experience, etc)
*especially subverting these
-loyalty kink
-general themes: grief, ghosts, names, memory
-spy aus
-group telepathy/soul bonds/empathy
re: drawing
-picture references!!
-portraits
-moody landscapes
I'm on twitter
mina bait
> Poetry as inspiration.
> anything involving magical realism/dreams/slight horror /sports (hockey or soccer) / the old guard.
> i vibe with all ships and i love rarepairs including crossovers but i have a soft spot for anything involving wonwoo jihoon vernon and chan tbh.
i'm on twitter @florulentae (and also @ ao3 under the same user)
risa bait
✧ wonhui.... and minwon
✧ jun
✧ pristin/svt (i know... in 2021......)
themes
✧ people who don't know how to talk to each other
✧ resentment towards someone you (used to) like or love
✧ [parks and recs meme] it's about the History between people that have gone through pain together that no outsider can ever hope to understand.
✧ calling it anything but love
✧ practicality in the face of romance (alternatively: duty vs love)
inspiration
✧ taylor swift lyrics [i'm going through a reputation phase especially]
✧ latching onto one specific thing a sebong said and using that to extrapolate fictionalized character study
last year's bait list / main twt haengseol / writing twt likewaterising
esterbaiting furiously
♡ bleak and gentle at the same time, homecoming
♡ jeonghan, mingyu, seungcheol, seungkwan, vernon, minghao, joshua
♡ love at first sight but not in an "oh" way more like an "oh no", kid fic where the kids are awful and funny
♡ fic prompts that are based on tiktoks lmfao, if someone posts a catboy prompt i will fill it that is an ester soupgyuhan née yilinges guarantee
i'm on twitter at soupgyuhan
klavbait
-fantasy/horror AUs
-the intersection of Love Is A Choice and Forced Intimacy (fake dating/bodyswap/soulmates/etc)
-generally: home, nature/weather, isolation/loneliness, domesticity, hope
-EXO cameos
-any Minghao or Mingyu ship
I’m klavvrites on twitter!
ki bait
- space cowboys. or in general, slice of life with a twist
- coming of age, complicated and ambiguous and messy relationships, unhappy endings, people Figuring Things Out
- long-suffering sigh Wong Kar Wai Or Whatever
- power dynamics and number one boyisms and the loneliness of feeling like love is something to be earned
- arthurkyeom T__T swords!!!!
sunsburst on twitter
bait list from last yr
lilli bait
- magic, space, soulmates (especially tattoos), time loops, supernatural, sports (volley/football/ice skating)
- enemies (to friends/fuckbuddies) to lovers, complicated relationships, relationships without a label, one-sided relationships
- banter but also love in the form of non-verbal communication, alcohol-induced revelations or moments, miscommunication, tender wound tending
- halsey or fob lyrics (big sigh)
- jeonghan, joshua, hochi, mingyu
- jihan :/ and any ot3 really
- btsvt or svtrv or any crossover ship lol
starryhoch on twt
nana bait
> (difficult) (somewhat homoerotic) friendship dynamics between a domineering person and their significantly less domineering friend
> seokgyu but also any combination of bss + mingyu. anything mingyu centric
> wrestling/combat as a form of romance or courting
> gender changes/nonbinary characters
> aus that deal with grief, insecurity, failure, trauma, dreams. heavily implying scifi/magical realism/urban fantasy here
> will gladly consume anything unsettling and liminal
> *tired sigh* star wars aus.....
> rarepairs and rare ot3s/triangulations
i'm halfplaced on twitter
pammie bait
○ idolverse
○ Friends to fumbling lovers
○ hurt/comfort! bandaids on bullet holes!
○ Found family/dynamic + deep platonic relationships
○ Assumed unrequited. Dumbasses
○ the horror of being loved more than you can love back (+500000 if u actually can love as much back u just don't know it yet)
○ bittersweet/ambiguous/open endings
i am
nikki bait!
- Lee Chan | Dino
- svt, nct (especially jaehyun, mark, xiaojun, yangyang), 99liners, RV Yeri
- ........wonwoo.
SORRY THIS IS SO LONG idk how to work html D:GENRES
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METHODS/QUESTIONS
INSPIRATION
i'm ieechanism on twt and capricornia on ao3!
telluriche bait
◦ also nct (haechan, jaemin)
◦ futurefic
◦ non-svt au but still idolverse/adjacent kpop career (solo artists, vocal/dance trainer, producer, etc.)
◦ moral ambiguity... especially related to ambition/greed in idolverse settings
◦ ambiguous/casual sexual relationships
◦ Straight people having Gay relations (see above point)
◦ 부윈, 밍른, 원른. iykyk 🤷.
◦ Writing inspiration is usually inspired directly from a situation (gosev eps, variety shows, etc.) and continuing/elaborating on something
citadis@ao3
isi bait
♡ minghao n joshua!!!!
♡ wonwoo and vernon and woozi secondarily
♡ also boogyu. feels essential 2 say
♡ rarepairs, crossovers (with nct/ptg/skz) and ot3s!! bonus if you would be originating an ao3 tag
♡ FRIENDS WITH GIRLS please. let them know women
tropes, themes, and motifs (half of this was wren dragging me but it’s accurate so here goes):
♡ colors, textures, prose — art as medium and as subject
♡ “tenderness, not just in atmosphere but in how people regard each other and themselves”
♡ fairy tales, retold or rewritten
♡ musical theatre — plot, structure, “i want” in a song, moments unspooled over minutes
♡ it’s about the hands
♡ rivalry — especially one-sided
♡ catboys but not hybrids.
♡ coldplay lyrics
i can be found at pixiepower (ao3), pixiepowerao3 (writing twitter) and eightpaint (personal twitter)!
hook, line, and sinker
- REPRESSED JEON WONWOO
- ao3 tag Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
- canon divergence or alternate reality bait also works!
- if you request dk/jaehyun even in the year 2021 i will unfortunately be forced to write it (つ﹏<)・゚。
bewearer (twt) | yoonbot (iverins) (ao3)
[numbersusername] bait
> CONTRAST and subverted expectations... fem/manlet/younger top & masc/Big/older bottom rights basically
> Male Rituals, repression, internalized homophobia
> really anything BBBcore
> ugly realism, mundanity
> ambiguity
> obscure/unprecedented AUs. the less likely it's possible to summarize it in an existing ao3 tag the better
> ❤horror❤
> rarepairs of mid-level popularity
> ot3s...
> 97z
> Wonwoo.
i am heartened on ao3 ~~
em bait!
• exes meeting up again
• friends to not friends to ??
• basically just fics where they knew each other and then had a falling out and then saw each other again
• canon character meta that's not necessarily tied to a relationship
• found familyisms
• tender, gentle feelings
• shitty comedy
• repressed jeon wonwoo
• have I mentioned the jicheol (also: wonchan, seokhan, seokhoon, wonchancheol)
preferred povs: scoups, woozi, dk, wonwoo
I can be found at:
how to bait sunsparrow
- misunderstandings and reconcilation
- slice of life
- trust
- wonhui
I am TheSunSparrow on Twitter!
the how you can harm pb manual
• seokhoon/minwon/seokgyu
• divorce/breakup/relearning each other/animosity that lingers like a bad aftertaste
• gen introspection
• it's about X but really it's about Y
also (big sigh)
-bbb anything
-trains/cars/flights/airports you get the gist
-97s crossovers (jungkook/anyone in svt T_T)
-cooking/food
ok that's enough.
..... + minghao
deadwines on twitter// deadwine on ao3
nj bait
- 97z. especially seokgyu
- [grits teeth] seokhan
- growing up. those long summers when you're a teenager that feel like the world has stood still
- classical/classic literature
- bickering to lovers
- quasi-historical/historical fantasy
- power dynamics and subversion of them
- the mortifying ordeal of being known
- The8/RM
- characters who know what/who they want but their sense of duty to (something) stops them getting what/who they want
(i'm @/seokmin_liker on twt and seokmin_liker on ao3!!)
vee starter pack
★ any junhui/soonyoung/wonwoo/jihoon permutation (4P2/3/4 + other kpop 96 liners welcome)
★ minwon
★ leaderline
themes/tropes:
★ doomed romance or the milder ver.: irreconcilable differences
★ love vs. duty
★ people who lost everything to find each other
★ morally ambiguous/corrupt characters, the more deranged the better
★ murder mysteries...especially in the style of kindaichi / detective school Q
★ stories written in the stars; prophesied relationships with a twist; all roads lead me to you
inspiration:
★ svt lyrics/MVs
★ (sigh) halsey, MUNA, FLETCHER
bloominsummer on twitter & ao3
foolproof guide: chels edition
wow, who is she, this one who writes one thing every three years or so
characters/pairings:
✧ unfortunately (?) a one-track mind that only writes mingyu/wonwoo
✧ likely to include jeonghan or 96z in some capacity
tropes/themes:
✧ yearning, pain, pining, pain, longing, oh and pain
✧ vividly dreamy settings - where is this weird place with pastel plants and back alleys bathed in neon? or this cobblestone street with a train on a rooftop?
✧ ......... character death or smth
✧ unhappy or unresolved endings
✧ an exploration of intimacy, both physical and emotional
✧ maybe no one sees you the way i do, and i would die before i let them see it too
✧ grey areas; the more shades the better (hah)
✧ hope in despair - the world is falling apart but let me hold you one last time
✧ all the AUs!!! soft spot for sci-fi and dystopia
✧ coming to understand that feelings are non-linear
✧ hinging your world on one person with drastic (violent) consequences. i would move mountains for you; i must die but i refuse to unless it's by your hand; if we were destined to burn then the world will burn with us
mishi bait!!
biases/ships
✩ seungkwan!!! vernon!!! shows off my shiny verkwanist badge
✩ any iteration of 95line
✩ also mingyu + seokmin. i love two big puppies
themes/tropes
✩ pining... unrequited, mutual, silent. all of it!
✩ post apocalyptic/dystopian/survival!!! (see also: hunger games)
✩ SPACE!!!! also scifi in general bc it's easier to do in drabble form
✩ magical realism/urban fantasy (unfortunately: harry potter)
✩ ...dysfunctional/unhealthy rlships
✩ open endings always
✩ soulmateisms, i will love you in this life and the next
✩ inception AU, sorry for being this way
✩ also silly romcom fluff when i'm not in emo mode
✩ dumbasses in love
inspo
✩ DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, sufjan stevens, mitski, carly rae jepsen & any of the boygenius girls
✩ richard siken, virginia wolf, pablo neruda!!!
✩ movie quotes!!! esp for AU scenarios
i'm ninety5line on twt and slidetackle on ao3!
kei fish bait
- hoshi, seungkwan, seokmin
- especially soonwoo, 97z, verkwanisms
- boogyu t-t
- hoshi
themes/tropes:
- the mortifying ordeal of gender identity
- idolverse/canon adjacents
- vampires, witches, shapeshifters, elves, supernatural creatures the whole party
- harry potter? arcane? hades?
- end of the world AUs (+ searching for each other before the world ends)
- slice of life! finding adventure in the grocery aisle!
- morning after's (to stay over for breakfast or not to stay over for breakfast, that is the question)
- sports au, possibly
- dance, or any kind of performance!
other inspirations:
- frank ocean (SIGH), hozier, lorde
- uhh game of thrones? (sorry), sherlock holmes, sense8, stranger things
i'm freechurrow on twt & vampiredumpling on ao3!
sieun bait!
seungkwan
academia
longing/separation/physical distance
quiet moments
contemporary Koreanisms
platonic love
the night sky
guilt
i'm
how 2 trap lateralplosion
- minghao, vernon, joshua, jeonghan (+any combination thereof, but ESPECIALLY sol8, hongyoon, yoon8, hongsol, etc)
- you can get lav with sports. formula 1 or formula 2 hint hint
- futurefic idolverse! or any of those not quite canon, not quite AU in-betweens (especially post-disbandment)
- love is always a choice
- anything from bleak boyband bingo, esp the foreign idol board
- JOSHUA HONG IS ALWAYS FLYING THE PLANE. (aka hongwoen no reverse thank u)
- extended periods of time apart from the other person
- enlisting in the military and/or when military service is done
- post-apocalypse, survival games, found family
- right person, wrong time
- exes, and/or they're not my ex bc we were never together but they were something
- we kissed/had sex/hooked up Once and it irrevocably damaged our relationship forever
- selfishness vs selflessness (getting what you want but at what cost? etc)
- ugly/complicated feelings of jealousy, specifically: not knowing how to navigate the other person's close platonic relationships (i.e. best friends who are not you)
- extremely niche: any combo of the above 4 with nct dream's huang renjun
i'm at plosionlateral, lateralplosion, and highrisings!
niki bait
✿ 95z in any shape or form
✿ minghao/junhui or each of them individually tbh
themes/tropes
✿ any kind of yearning/unrequited love really
✿ when you love each other but Circumstances
✿ found family
✿ the mortifying ordeal of having to first identify your own feelings before expressing them
✿ soulmatisms, whether it works out or is horribly ill-fated
✿ love as hunger and/or possession
inspo
✿ taylor swift, any boygenius lyric, hozier, mitski
✿ most poetry really but especially ocean vuong, richard siken, anne carson
✿ the wong kar wai cinematic universe at large
indigo bait
pairings
- soonwoo
- 8jun (bilingualisms)
- gyuhan... and pairings with similar tensions... mismatches...
- mingyu/anyone jun/anyone chan/anyone
tropes and such
- barely-swallowed confessions, pining, it’s always been you
- companionship is the longest confession/being known is being loved
- friends to lovers in all varieties
- emphasis on quiet moments and liminal spaces and nighttime...
- blood motif (sorry)
- reincarnation aus... soulmate aus...
- damaged characters who are trying to be good; characters who get are dangerously enamored by the thing that scares them most; characters who are most scared of love
- whatever souls are made of yours and mine are the same (derogatory)
Rose bait
- Jeonghan, and the feeling of asking for help and having it given to you [MINGOOOOO]
- Wonwoo, Minghao, Mingyu and potentially also Jeonghan, interactions, them (tm) {it's in the CARE it's in the care}
- obviously I'm baitable with a/b/o or like soft non sexual kink, but this is old news
[find me on Twitter.]
auber_gine_dreams (leesa) bait
- any combo of enemies/friends/lovers, trope subversion (especially with a/b/o)
- Wonwoo and Seungcheol ships
- love is being consumed, emo kid nostalgia, bleak boyband bingo, poly negotiations
- if I have seen or read the thing then I will probably jump at the chance to make an AU out of it
- Richard Siken/Yves Olade quotes
you can find me @/woncheoling on twitter, or @/aubergine_ao3 for just fic things!
sticky bait
- pining / yearning / staring (non creepy)
- break up make up
- when they really like each other so much but don't know what to do about it )):
- super cliche romcom vibes !
- jealousy in a sexy way, in a you don't need to be but it's kinda hot way
- dumb stupid teens
on twt i am stickomode (i know, it's genius...)
melody bait (alternatively: ways to keep me up at night)
biases/fav ships (to write and read!):
- minghao/any (specifically: seokhao, gyuhao, haohan :'))
- jeonghan/any
- and really just any/any
elements that make me weak:
- *sighs* diasporic feelings!! relocating, the consequent struggle of cultural identity etc
- anything idolverse
- end of the world type feelings
- introspection
- liminalcore, liminal spaces, airports, hallways, transitory periods in life etc etc
- transience
- TSC AUS (the shadowhunter chronicles, but mainly tlh)
- re: above - the jamesxcordeliaxmatthew-isms of seokgyuhao, or jihancheol
- LESBIANS
- character studies! (gods these are hard but still)
- song of achilles
- soulmate aus
okay that's enough. i'm moonlitmel1 on twitter
Angel Bait (ill bite u)
Tropes: friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, established relationships, gender bending, Mpreg, Horror,
AUs: Sports!AU (cheerleading anyone…?), Rock Band!AU, College!AU,Superhero!AU, Magic!AU, Idolverse, etc
Media: Charlie’s Angels, Warm Bodies, Bad Buddy, The Umbrella Academy, Twilight, MCU
And more…if you know you know ;)
You can find me on twt here