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l o l c&p from old meme

[(Anonymous)]

lol how come so much fic in this fandom is all written in the same exact style? don't get me wrong, it's NICE, and people do it well, but so few writers have a distinct style. all the middling-to-good writers write in almost the same exact way and it's the writers who do it with almost no flaws that seem to get popular.

i mean, they all start with similar convoluted sentences that are kind of quirky and attention-grabbing ("jinki believes that when jonghyun smiles - and he smiles all the time, when they're onstage or when they're in bed or over breakfast or in the bathroom - it's like a piece of rainbow exploding on the seashore.") or convoluted and exposition-y ("when kibum comes to, they tell him that taemin was there the entire time, holding him and whispering in his ear hyung it's gonna be ok") with over-the-top metaphors thrown in the middle ("jonghyun is yellow sweaters and vibrant jelly beans. minho is a warm winter blanket wrapped around a purring cat, waiting for the summer to disperse.") and brief, vague moments of something approaching action ("they fuck in the sewer drain one night, words of shame and desperation clinging to their tongues.") and then the cleverly heart-warming/heart-wrenching "subtle" last line ("and as jinki walks out into the restless night, clumsy and inelegant, kibum thinks he has never looked as graceful as he does in that moment.")

i'm joking a little, but i hope i'm not the only one who's noticed this? it's not a terrible style or anything, but i think it's why people have said that kpop fandom doesn't have very many "great" writers. it's like everyone's trying to one-up each other on this one style.

Re: l o l c&p from old meme

[(Anonymous)]

lol there was so much of this in 2008