The art of purple prose for bookhippie

[yeolliepopday]

For: bookhippie
Title: The Art of Purple Prose
Pairing: Chanyeol/Chen
Rating: PG-15
Length: 6.5k
Summary: Chanyeol is a starving poet. Jongdae likes to pretend that he isn’t a fan, because it does no good to his street cred. After all, Chanyeol’s poetry is dire.
(Who’s he kidding? Jongdae has no street cred anyway.)
Author’s note: I tried

Comments

[anonymous]

LOL reading this fic definitely is a great way to start my day!
i feel much healthier now, thanks for the laugh :D!

[cairistiona]

Thank you! :D

[hyukbins]

omggggggg this was such a pleasant reading, i really adore chenyeol and the whole chinguline relationship and this story made me so happy with it, i love the idea of chanyeol writing poetry and it did sound like something he'd write, jongdae was a really great character, i really liked how straight forward they were and how the pace of the story was just right!!!! oh and the characterizarion was a+++!!! thanks a lot for writing this, it's now one of my faves for this pairing <3

[cairistiona]

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed the Chenyeol and their relationship; Chinguline is absolutely one of the best things. :D Poetry is...interesting, and his poetry especially. ;) It was a lot of fun to write. XD

I'm glad you enjoyed the pace and the characterisation! Thank you again. :) And I'm sorry it took me so long to respond. I really appreciated the comment. ;;;

[thebakaberry]

This was the most adorable thing ever!!! Ngl I felt the second hand embarrassment from Chanyeol's poem and I'm so so relieved that it's actually not what he does for a living lol the plot twist (? Lowkey a plot twist?) came out of nowhere thought and it's so so cute that Chanyeol would subject himself to another month of torture for Jongdae. Also thank you thank you thank you so much for the outtakes like I'm literally crying at all of Kyungsoo's comments they're golden and also just the fact that Chanyeol's thesis (excuse me I can't quote bc I'm on mobile but I'll try my best) "reads like a thirteen year old's diary" this whole fic is just so pure and so great and honestly just what I needed. Thank you so much for writing this masterpiece ilysm <3333

[cairistiona]

Thank you for reading! I'm really glad you enjoyed it, even though Chanyeol's poetry was absolutely terrible and worth that embarrassment. Absolutely a plot twist. ;) He liked Jongdae so much, and I liked him enough to not make that poetry serious. :D

I had so much fun writing the outtakes! I could have written even more, but I thought that 9 would hopefully not exhaust readers. ^^

Thank you again! And I'm so sorry I took so long to respond to your comment. I really appreciated your comment. :)

[hangrua]

This is so adorable ; ; Reading this made me really happy.

Chanyeol's poems gave me really hard time to read, I always ended up laughing with embarassment, but thank God it wasn't real, or else I don't wanna know how Jongdae's gonna survive through those poems when they got together.
Baekhyun and Kyungsoo, they were greatest friends ever. I love their relationship, how they took care of Chanyeol and teased him about his terrible poems or Jongdae.

Thanks so much for writing this!

[cairistiona]

Thank you for reading this!

They were terrible, weren't they? I had so much fun writing them, but they really were absolutely awful things, and I couldn't put poor Jongdae through that for real. ;) His soul would have hurt too much.

Baekhyun and Kyungsoo were definitely fun friends! Everyone needs friends like those to love and tease you.

No problem! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I'm sorry it took me so long to respond--I really appreciated the comment!

[wek9876]

Ahhhhh i love all those poems. Cheesyyyyy and fluffyyy. I cracked up at the kitten poem. Hhhhaaahhaha and, all the outtakes, i wish i lived with them. ><

[cairistiona]

I'm glad you enjoyed the silliness of the poems and the outtakes! Everyone needs to live in a house of this much silliness, right? ;)

Thank you for reading! Sorry it took me so long to respond, I did really appreciate your comment!