That is a very good motto in life. I should make a poster of that and stick it on my wall.
Ah, uni. Fine :) I managed to achieve College Scholarship status last semester (with some trips to the hospital and the emergency room here and there). I guess, being away from the chaos of fandom did me good. Education-wise.
But now, all my friends have graduated, with Latin Honors- all of them (/jealous here). So I am now busying myself with orgs. If last year I have 0 organizations, I am now a member of 4 :) And it's killing me.
You? You're majoring in history? I didn't know this!
it is a good motto. one of my (hopeful) plans is to do really well at uni this year and then apply for one of the prestigious schools in england and transfer over there for my third year. so i really need to buckle down. it is good incentive though haha.
i'm doing an extended-major in history and a single-major in english literature. and i'm really having the time of my life at the moment. i've been able to focus my knowledge and look at things at a further depth... it's really getting to the point where i look at history and think i could do this for the rest of my life. which is where you want to be i think.
Okay, so you know I was sort of expecting you to write something. I was holding on to the hope that you will, even if you won't make it in cause you've said you are bad with deadlines (me too, me too) SO when the deadline was up and you still haven't posted anything, I was still expecting something.
Was I too much?
Sorry, yes?
Anyways, the fic.
You really do AUs so much justice it's like you own it.
Have you read Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"? I think I may have mentioned what I major in so this fic really is just-
I remembered that book while reading this fic. I know it's a different kind of war, and they fought it in different ways, and that they both have different roles and it's not like Frankl's "war" was anything like Jiyong's "war" but I think there's a resemblance like-
-they both were detached from home then was flung into this place that is so different and so not normal that they start to lose who they are, who they were. And they do things that are not them, that are not who they were, that they wouldn'
( ... )
I TRIED TO SUBMIT THIS IN THE COMP!! i thought it was on Pacific Daylight Time... not Korean Time. sigh...
i really didn't know if i was going to be able to pull my shit together and get something out... but i figured if i centred it around a subject i was interested in (warfare and its effects) i'd be able to keep my focus. guess it worked haha.
i just love au-s. i find them a lot more enjoyable to write because you can be as flexible as you want. you can change the characters, you can keep them the same and you can explore lifestyles separate from your own. i really enjoy au-s.
one thing that intrigues me above all else is how war (both fighting it and witnessing its consequences) effects people. how people can come home from that and get married and have three kids and never again mention what went on over -(whichever)- seas.
i wanted to explore that. and i know i have no idea (i hope that many of us never have any idea.) but i hope i did it justice somewhat.
i think if your write a story focusing on an area you're interested and knowledgable in it can only help your writing. it keeps you focused and your knowledge gives your writing a depth and flow that it may lack in other circumstances...
i think au-s help switch up your writing as well. you know, if you always write them strictly in the band it's hard to have variety. whereas there are a million (plausible or not haha) au-ideas that you can use... i'm also always worried that if i write them as a band if they're not in-character it's more noticable...
i've always found that aspect of war extremely interesting. i'm studying a course on the vietnam war next semester and i hope they spend some time on it.
Yes, I know what you mean. I always write them as Big Bang and sometimes it's hard to deviate from what I already wrote. Like, I have this idea but I can't write it out cause it doesn't seem them.
But then again, my major is Behavioral Sciences, and trying to study Jiyong and Seungri's psyche is so very interesting. I get to apply what I learn from classes to the fics that I write. So I guess that's a plus.
Vietnam. I do not know much on it even though it is part of Asia. And I'm sure we studied it sometime during 2nd year of high school in Asian History. But I forget things easily. Aioooo~
:)
Anyways, I really like this piece. And I might try to adapt your techniques in the future. Thank you thank you!
I have this idea but I can't write it out cause it doesn't seem them...
you should write it anyway. i mean, fanfiction isn't them, you know? all my stories are bollocks (they never happened and they're likely never to happen)... but if you take a situation and write how you think they'd react to that situation it can still be in-character no matter how farfetched the idea...
i think... (i also think that it allows you as the author to explore how you'd react in that situation, which is fun...)
the war in vietnam was the first subject that hooked me into history... i owe it a lot and i hope to do it justice when i study it next semester.
I know. It's just really hard to write something I do not believe in. Like, I know it's so not what they would do. But as you have said, it's fiction. It's fanfiction for crying out loud and nothing we ever write will ever be true in any way.
Yesterday in Econ Anthro, our prof mentioned the Vietnam War and I remembered you. I think I remember a little now, but not much, how the Americans poked their nose into Vietnam's business. I can say more here, cause you know, I can say A LOT of things about this topic but i feel that this isn't the right place. haha.
Just know that the Vietnam War is not alone in the very long list of wars that are- uh. Yeah.
I'm busy. I am.
But.
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First time I read it, I looked like this -> -O.O-
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how are you going so far this year at uni?
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Ah, uni. Fine :) I managed to achieve College Scholarship status last semester (with some trips to the hospital and the emergency room here and there). I guess, being away from the chaos of fandom did me good. Education-wise.
But now, all my friends have graduated, with Latin Honors- all of them (/jealous here). So I am now busying myself with orgs. If last year I have 0 organizations, I am now a member of 4 :) And it's killing me.
You? You're majoring in history? I didn't know this!
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i'm doing an extended-major in history and a single-major in english literature. and i'm really having the time of my life at the moment. i've been able to focus my knowledge and look at things at a further depth... it's really getting to the point where i look at history and think i could do this for the rest of my life. which is where you want to be i think.
xx good luck with your uni!
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I wish you all the best :)
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Was I too much?
Sorry, yes?
Anyways, the fic.
You really do AUs so much justice it's like you own it.
Have you read Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"? I think I may have mentioned what I major in so this fic really is just-
I remembered that book while reading this fic. I know it's a different kind of war, and they fought it in different ways, and that they both have different roles and it's not like Frankl's "war" was anything like Jiyong's "war" but I think there's a resemblance like-
-they both were detached from home then was flung into this place that is so different and so not normal that they start to lose who they are, who they were. And they do things that are not them, that are not who they were, that they wouldn' ( ... )
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i really didn't know if i was going to be able to pull my shit together and get something out... but i figured if i centred it around a subject i was interested in (warfare and its effects) i'd be able to keep my focus. guess it worked haha.
i just love au-s. i find them a lot more enjoyable to write because you can be as flexible as you want. you can change the characters, you can keep them the same and you can explore lifestyles separate from your own. i really enjoy au-s.
one thing that intrigues me above all else is how war (both fighting it and witnessing its consequences) effects people. how people can come home from that and get married and have three kids and never again mention what went on over -(whichever)- seas.
i wanted to explore that. and i know i have no idea (i hope that many of us never have any idea.) but i hope i did it justice somewhat.
thank you xx <3
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i think au-s help switch up your writing as well. you know, if you always write them strictly in the band it's hard to have variety. whereas there are a million (plausible or not haha) au-ideas that you can use... i'm also always worried that if i write them as a band if they're not in-character it's more noticable...
i've always found that aspect of war extremely interesting. i'm studying a course on the vietnam war next semester and i hope they spend some time on it.
xxx
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But then again, my major is Behavioral Sciences, and trying to study Jiyong and Seungri's psyche is so very interesting. I get to apply what I learn from classes to the fics that I write. So I guess that's a plus.
Vietnam. I do not know much on it even though it is part of Asia. And I'm sure we studied it sometime during 2nd year of high school in Asian History. But I forget things easily. Aioooo~
:)
Anyways, I really like this piece. And I might try to adapt your techniques in the future. Thank you thank you!
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you should write it anyway. i mean, fanfiction isn't them, you know? all my stories are bollocks (they never happened and they're likely never to happen)... but if you take a situation and write how you think they'd react to that situation it can still be in-character no matter how farfetched the idea...
i think... (i also think that it allows you as the author to explore how you'd react in that situation, which is fun...)
the war in vietnam was the first subject that hooked me into history... i owe it a lot and i hope to do it justice when i study it next semester.
xxx
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Yesterday in Econ Anthro, our prof mentioned the Vietnam War and I remembered you. I think I remember a little now, but not much, how the Americans poked their nose into Vietnam's business. I can say more here, cause you know, I can say A LOT of things about this topic but i feel that this isn't the right place. haha.
Just know that the Vietnam War is not alone in the very long list of wars that are- uh. Yeah.
:)
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