Anosmia -- prologue
Measure it out in grams; Jinki/Minho, Kibum/Minho; PG-13
note: I'm posting this for no better reason than that it was raining when I woke up. Back when I first sketched out the prologue inside my head, it wasn't like this at all. But that was so long ago that I forgot what I'd wanted to write. «Anosmia» will be a series of related short pieces ( Read more... )
note: I'm posting this for no better reason than that it was raining when I woke up. Back when I first sketched out the prologue inside my head, it wasn't like this at all. But that was so long ago that I forgot what I'd wanted to write. «Anosmia» will be a series of related short pieces ( Read more... )
I never wrote much before last year when I jumped on the fanfic bandwagon, haha. But I have written some originals. They tend to sprout from the fragments of my dreams. And I have this thing for dreaming about dystopic sci-fi worlds. So. :D Oh, and then there is this one set in my own Gundam universe because I was a Gundam 00 fan back in the day. But it was more about the people on different sides of the war rather than the Gundams. Not that I called them Gundams. All the backcronyms for it have been embarrassing/nonsensical. Ahem.
Oh, that was exactly what happened for me too. I thought it was about the girl in the foreground lol. The elf thing...well, I hope I won't offend whoever else happens to read this comment. They've been through a lot as a fandom, but you know, there were some not so bright moments. :/ I just feel that it's one thing to "protect" your own, another to tear somebody else down and apart. That was literally my first impression of kpop culture. That's also where my fear of fandoms stems from, that people who might be perfectly good people in other aspects of their lives would band together and so willingly hurt another human being. And the hate, god, it was like 1984, Two Minutes Hate, a self-feeding fervor. The slogan shouting. The mindlessness. The collective identity... Good things comes out of fandom solidarity all the time, like with donations and such, but this was a time where the direction was bad. But I know every fandom, kpop or not, has its share of the pretty and the ugly, the sane and the insane. I just hope I continue to meet the reasonable fans!
The prospect of losing touch is scary, I know. I still have friends from middle school, but I'm not as close to them as back then. It's hard when we're scattered across thousands of square miles (or square kilometers, I should say). It's also hard because we're on different career paths, so we have less in common than before. But there's facebook and skype and holidays, and we make time to do things together whenever we're all in the same place. You have to make more of an effort, but if they are good friends, it's worth it. And if you fall out of touch, well, it just happens. I wrote about it in my first Onho fic lolol----
I guess that's how a lot of things work.
You don't see a reason to stop. You don't see how it could possibly ever end.
...and then it just does.
That it -- whatever it was -- was actually capable of coming to an end doesn't necessarily make any more sense after the fact.
But there is a difference. Because the change has already happened.
And there isn't much that we can do about something that has already happened.
We just live with it.
The fic has nothing to do with me personally, but feelings about losing a childhood friend comes out of what happened to me and my best friend back in grade school. She moved to the other side of the planet. We tried to keep talking by borrowing our parents' email accounts, but we were just too young. Our efforts weren't enough.
Being older means you're able to do more, and maybe that will be enough. :)
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LOL isn't your English teacher nice. xD Is there actually a word limit/preferred length for that one response? And we rarely ever got to do creating writing in high school. = 3= Show me the candle story when you're done~ Can you light the candle repeatedly? I think I'd light mine to check when I'll die and then blow it out and live. And once I've reached a milestone in life, I'll check again and plan the next step...or something. This reminds me of when my high school bio class discussed the implications of genetic screening for predispositions to diseases. Whether or not you'd want to know your chances of dying from all sorts of things at whatever age. I was one of the I-want-to-know's.
Rationality can be rare resource. It's all about the feelings. And us fangirls (and them fanboys) have too many feelings (and too much of each), lol.
It always sucks when you think about what could have been, but you know, people come, people go. It's really hard to keep childhood friends, especially with how common it is nowadays to go somewhere far away for university, for work. :'( I've basically fallen out of touch with all my friends from elementary school. ><
Sunburns are bad; even too much of a tan is very bad. Technically even just the very beginning of a tan is a sign that your skin is trying to protect itself from UV-induced DNA damage. And god, photo-aging can be very, very dramatic. (I'm not saying don't go out in the sun, since you do need to activate your vitamin D, haha~) I haven't heard that about tomatoes though. :O
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