wow wow wow this literally made my head explode from how good and perfect it is!! You not only filled my prompt but you went above and beyond my expectations so THANK YOU!!
I love how you used dual perspectives, giving us insight into how both of them feel about this fraught relationship they’re in. The thick almost unbearable tension during jihoon’s call with the other artist’s company was AMAZING..I was holding my breath with every word I read. Mingyu being childish and teasing and needy yet also having this inexplicable hold over jihoon (and jihoon knowing it too..) the way you wrote sex throughout the story felt so raw and desperate, rooted firmly in the complex emotional arrangement they’re in. I loved it!!
This part: “You want me to give you everything, don’t you, Mingyu?” Jihoon says, breathless and with the slightest spike of hurt. I could, I could. But what have you given me?
AAAGGHHGJJ felt like the ultimate gut punch when I read it…a perfect encapsulation of the dynamic I was imagining when I prompted this. Mingyu being shameless about what he wants, how he wants to be pampered and praised and given the world, jihoon being almost begrudgingly willing to do it bc he’s just as obsessed with mingyu as mingyu is with him, yet he resents this role he’s been put in even though he won’t do anything about it. The part where jihoon is mulling over what it would have been like if they both hadn’t “made it” was also such an expert way of tying in idolverse angst..the way that fame is this blessing that has given jihoon his beloved studio, his work, his mingyu…the way it’s given mingyu his wealth and fans and his jihoon…yet they both are forced to be in this weird in between secret relationship because of it. Not to mention the “child in mingyu” that needs approval and isn’t satisfied with approval from fans alone (bc who can ever be fully satisfied with such a strange, impersonal yet intimate kind of love?)
Thank you again for filling this im so so impressed and delighted to have read it. Your style is exactly up my alley and I will be rereading this again and again!
Re: [FILL] YOU BROKE IT. NOW WEAR IT BROKEN.
I love how you used dual perspectives, giving us insight into how both of them feel about this fraught relationship they’re in. The thick almost unbearable tension during jihoon’s call with the other artist’s company was AMAZING..I was holding my breath with every word I read. Mingyu being childish and teasing and needy yet also having this inexplicable hold over jihoon (and jihoon knowing it too..) the way you wrote sex throughout the story felt so raw and desperate, rooted firmly in the complex emotional arrangement they’re in. I loved it!!
This part: “You want me to give you everything, don’t you, Mingyu?” Jihoon says, breathless and with the slightest spike of hurt. I could, I could. But what have you given me?
AAAGGHHGJJ felt like the ultimate gut punch when I read it…a perfect encapsulation of the dynamic I was imagining when I prompted this. Mingyu being shameless about what he wants, how he wants to be pampered and praised and given the world, jihoon being almost begrudgingly willing to do it bc he’s just as obsessed with mingyu as mingyu is with him, yet he resents this role he’s been put in even though he won’t do anything about it. The part where jihoon is mulling over what it would have been like if they both hadn’t “made it” was also such an expert way of tying in idolverse angst..the way that fame is this blessing that has given jihoon his beloved studio, his work, his mingyu…the way it’s given mingyu his wealth and fans and his jihoon…yet they both are forced to be in this weird in between secret relationship because of it. Not to mention the “child in mingyu” that needs approval and isn’t satisfied with approval from fans alone (bc who can ever be fully satisfied with such a strange, impersonal yet intimate kind of love?)
Thank you again for filling this im so so impressed and delighted to have read it. Your style is exactly up my alley and I will be rereading this again and again!