花樣年華

[hwarium]

visitors book

thank you for visiting my corner of the internet *__* I love hearing about people's lives so please drop a comment and introduce yourself, anon commenting is allowed for this post! You can tell me anything, including:

• how you found me
• what you use dreamwidth for
• a piece of media you enjoyed but wish more people tried it out
• something that has made you happy recently

about

hwa
b. 1990s
favourite genre: science-fiction
weakness: sleeping on time
current concern: u-turns on my motorbike

brøther, I cräve the forbidden lämp

welcome to my personal journal ♡ I'm a longtime kpop stan (svt!), reader and fandom enthusiast. You can check out my reading or cooking tags to start.

Here, you can find essays like:

• learning how to be reflective about reading;
• sliding scale of tinhat comfort; and
• how I want to live this life.

I post my fandom meta in a separate account, @salutant. That's where you can find essays like seventeen's Love Languages, lore posts like dorm arrangements and translations. All of my seventeen writings are compiled into a masterlist here.

credits and permissions

credits

• dreamwidth layout is by tumblr user strulovic, some css taken from london fog by girlrock, and some customisations are my own (post tbc).
• as always, I always refer to the touchstone dreamwidth html/css post by girlrock.
• icon by twitter user itsres98.
• post art is by Kamome Shirahama, of the character Easthies from the manga Witch Hat Atelier.
• ui/ux inspiration taken from the tumblr themes:
  • lilac and zinnia by seyche;
  • golden by softcodes;
  • ignorance and bliss by glenthemes;
  • faults by solocodes;
  • terra by kosmique;
  • thin air by pneuma-themes

permissions

for all of my work, I provide blanket permission for non-commmercial derivative work in the form of:

• translations;
• podfics; and
• fanart.

I'm happy for transformative works to be created (you don't need my permission!) This would include adaptations such as music or fanart, commentary, or a fic remix. I would be grateful if you could link back to the orignal work and let me know (I love the fandom economy, we are all doing this for free and for fun!!).

html/css/formatting ref [TBC]

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work in progress, come back in 10 business days

Comments

hello!

[(Anonymous)]

hello! i discovered your ao3 way back, i don't remember how exactly but i was a carat and i liked reading fics hahaha.

i actually rediscovered/came back to your account for sort of selfish reasons T-T i haven't kept up with svt in a long while , and i've moved on to a different group. my only problem is they have virtually no fandom outside their country (they're not a kpop group) and even their home fans aren't keen on rpf. so i was really struggling, to the point that i've taken it upon myself to try writing for them. but i've never written anything before and no matter what i tried i could never be satisfied with my output. so, i had the genius idea of looking up all my old fave svt fics to try and take notes from them and that's how i found your account and fell in love with your writing all over again. and how i realized it was gonna be a while before i could make anything i can be really really proud of :')

but seriously, your blog and writing has been so helpful in my own writing journey. i hope i'll be able to weave emotions and character into my prose the way you do, someday!

side note, but tinatting on idols really is an amazing way to work on your character writing, isn't it?? maybe it's because they're real living people who don't exist within the context of a story the way fictional characters do, and how everything about them is in that vague liminal space between real and not real, that you have to give your own meaning to every little thing they do, but it feels more holistic? than say, writing a character analysis on a fictional character.

Re: hello!

[hwarium]

welcome back and thank you for dropping a comment and sharing your journey! it makes me happy to hear how me throwing a little tinhat whimsy onto the internet has ended up helping you.

tinhatting is the best <3 I find that writing (rendering a scene) and imagining (world building) uses different muscles, and sometimes it's difficult to do both at the same time, so it's useful to revisit my old thoughts -- it feels like cheat sheet! Same for writing certain characters after a long period, it feels like I'm able to refresh and step into the headspace more easily because past me has put in the work.

all the best! writing will never not involve a struggle, but the act of persevering will always be rewarded!

(also -- you've caught me in the middle of renovating my dreamwidth layout so apologies for any wack colours or formatting!)