(for xiujaemin) Megalopolitan

[kais]

For: xiujaemin

Title: Megalopolitan
Genre: streetart!au
Rating: PG-13
Length: 5,202 words
Summary: The skyline is beautiful at night, with its shimmering lights and dancing noise. The busy city never seems to sleep because neither does he.
Notes: Thank you for your lovely prompts, prompter. I strayed a bit from the idea on this one, but I hope you still

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[nocturnalrescue]

Omgomgomgomg i can comment yes yes yes

Ok ok so most importantly (not really but whatever) IKR THE GUY IN THE DOCUMENTARY GOT SO WEIRD HE WAS LIKE HAVING PEOPLE MAKE ART AND THEN SELLING IT AND SAYING HE DID IT LIKE WHAT???? AND HE WAS GETTING FAME BUT IT WAS THE WEIRD KIND OF FAME AND I WAS LIKE HOW THE HELL ARE PEOPLE DEALING WITH HIM?? My friend said he was trying to make a point about streetart or something but i was like.... nah.

I didnt want to delve into his mind he had a couple screws loose. I dont blame you for falling asleep ^^'

Oh gosh im so glad you liked it. First, i chose this prompt because i watched the documentary (i was up until like 1am watching the whole thing i felt so culture-conscious) and it immediately gave me ideas for the characters. It turns out that were going to watch it in my mixed media class before vacation starts so im like "hey i saw that." Also, im fascinated by street art and how it can be interpreted. I dont know if youve seen that stop motion video of stuff painted on buildings but its really cool. Also, i felt i had to add the part that streetart isnt just about the art, its also about the principle of doing graffiti and how thats received. I saw that on tumblr while i was planning this and it just made so much sense to add.

Also, interestingly enough, i was reading through the prompts you sent me and i saw the one about buying the boxes of negatives and i was like "hey wait a minute that sounds like the vivian maier story" and lo and behold: IT WAS. I thought that was just so cool because i went to see that documentary in the theaters with my dads fiance over the summer. I didnt choose it because i didnt know how i could make it into a fic but that struck me as so super cool that you gave me it and i knew more about it than someone else might/id seen it.

Im so glad that i ended up writing your favorite prompt though that makes me happy!!! I chose correctly! Yay!

Omg but im so glad you liked this. I wasnt super happy with it. Originally i wrote all the artsy parts during english class while we were supposed to be working on essays (whoops) and then i wrote the other stuff and added those in as i was going...? It was very uncontrolled and a rather unorganized and unhelpful way of doing it. Also i kind of rushed most of it because i was so super busy and i wasnt expecting to be so i didnt have much time to write it.

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[nocturnalrescue]

I feel like there are a bunch of things i should have gone more in depth with. Like ksoo and his british accent was so out of the blue there wasnt enough around that plot point it was mostly just me indulging myself in feels/trying to write a good reason for him to leave/idek i just did it. Also with his de quervains... ugh i mean i wanted to make him have some issue (dont ask me why i really dont know/remember) and i was doing a bunch of quick research for what it could be. It had to be something that inhibited his art in some way or gave him some grief. So i looked into optical issues and slight disabilities first and then settled on that because i suddenly thought hey what about some sort of bad operational issue (oh wait that phrasing sounds ew sorry) and i found d.q. Anyway, i felt that part was just out of sequence and random and ew. And i felt i didnt develop their relationship/explain what was going on between them enough. This story could have benefitted from another couple thousand words and some legitimate time put into it...

Oh wait!! I remember why i did the ksoo issue thing. It was because of this 'deleted scene':

"the anger and self hate is evident on kyungsoos face as he comes into view. there is a half-plastered face on the wall, hanging limply and dripping with the horrid smelling pink glue. kyungsoos hands are covered in it, as if he stuck them in melting cotton candy like he was hoping the sweetness would take away the bitterness he was feeling. hes getting it all over his ripped, painted jeans and his dark sweatshirt. its falling down off his head, revealing his blotched face and dark hair. in any other instance, he would be pulling it back up with hurried, shaking hand, but not now. he collapses against kai when he reaches him, lungs starved of air and heart stomping painfully in his chest, but he cant find it in himself to care. kyungsoo is shaking, shuddering like hes just been saved from the arctic waters and hes clinging on for dear life to kais sweater. its cold outside, below freezing maybe and jongins breath crystallizes in the air like a cloud of dust sprung up from a dusty attic. kyungsoos glue covered hands come up to clutch at the loops and twist of his sweater, leaving wet, cold rose prints of his hurt and his pain. jongin knows it will be hard to get them off later. that glue is far more resilient than the chemicals they try to use to remove it."

It was one of the first things i wrote and i didnt end up using it but it definitely influenced how the story went... i think at that time i was going to make him have mild depression, which i didnt end up following through with because i wanted to do such a thing justice but i didnt have the time to get too complex.

I dont know i mean the entire story is just a hodgepodge of stuff. I tried to get artsy but it didnt work because working those poetic paragraphs in didnt go too well...

BUT IM SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT AND I LOVE YOU TOO YOUR COMMENT MADE ME HAPPY THANK YOU

IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG TO REPLY TO IT ITS BEEN HORRIBLE BUT I DID IT AND YOURE A WONDERFUL PERSON DONT FORGET THAT ILL ADD YOU AS A FRIEND AS SOON AS I POST THIS

(This comment has taken me a half hour to write and i was supposed to be doing homework thats due today whoops also sorry this is so long omg)

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[xiujaemin]

wow your reply is really long. it takes quite a lot of dedication for that, right? i hope your fingers didn't hurt from too muc typing, though

writing while in the middle of class is what i do too lol (which is why i almost failed the subject. don't try this at home, kids!). good thing my prof didn't catch me writing parts of fics instead of taking down notes, though or did he just not care bcs he knows that none of us are listening anyway

i forgot to add in my previous comment that i liked how you incorporated the Jongin taking pictures of Kyungsoo too, instead of just filming, and developing the photos the traditional way. i'm sort of fond of the idea of having photos developed that way yes i am weird i know i am sorry .

tbh i would've liked it if you wrote the vivian maier one too, since the street art! au and that photography! au were my favorite prompts, but rly, my great need to have the street art! au written is just too much.

i feel like we're friends already haha. i hope we get to talk to each other more in the future!