lala-pipo

[lala-pipo]

Hey, shy reader here. I’ve read that youre thinking about deleting your tumblr and before that happens I just wanted to let you know that I adore your writing. You’ve been one of my favorite authors in this fandom for years now, but you’ve really outdone yourself with your new story. I've read fics in so many fandoms and on so many sites and yet I can’t remember ever coming across something written so professionally? It almost feels illegal to read it for free. This story should have a million clicks and if it were possible I would leave a 100 kudos on it. I’m so curious on how this story is going to end. Just so you know you have me sitting on the edge of my seat. Also, thank you for putting so much effort into researching all this stuff, it feels like I’m actually learning something while reading. lol This story is not even finished yet, but I can already tell that it's going to be on my list of alltime favorites.

Thank you so much! 🥺 That's so sweet! I'm glad you're enjoying this story! It means a lot. I do enjoy me some reasearch, not gonna lie. 😂 I think it also makes things a little easier to understand. But I still took a lot of creative freedom with this story.

I'm still pondering whether to delete this tumblr or not. Maybe I keep it up as an archive, but don't update it anymore. I'm not sure, but thanks so much for reaching out. It means a lot to see people appreciating one's work. ❤️

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] Dragon and Sun 5/10

Pairing: Jonghyun x Taemin (JongTae - SHINee)

Genre: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Historical, Forbidden Love, Mutual Pining, Romance, Sexual Content, First Time

Rating: Explicit

Chapter(s): 5/10

Complete Word Count: 39k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Joseon in the middle of the 15th century after the introduction of the Korean alphabet by King Sejong the Great. Crown Prince Taemin lives at a time when the Neo-Confucian elite called sinjin sadaebu prevails in the kingdom. Spending his existence in a golden cage, Taemin is burdened with unwanted tasks in the midst of a drought that plagues Hanseong. Wanting to flee his destiny of becoming the next king, the only bright spot in the crown prince’s otherwise gloomy life is his personal guardian named Jonghyun.

>>Can be read on Ao3<<

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] Dragon and Sun 4/10

Pairing: Jonghyun x Taemin (JongTae)

Genre: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Historical, Forbidden Love, Mutual Pining, Romance, Sexual Content, First Time

Rating: Explicit

Chapter(s): 4/10

Complete Word Count: 26k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Joseon in the middle of the 15th century after the introduction of the Korean alphabet by King Sejong the Great. Crown Prince Taemin lives at a time when the Neo-Confucian elite called sinjin sadaebu prevails in the kingdom. Spending his existence in a golden cage, Taemin is burdened with unwanted tasks in the midst of a drought that plagues Hanseong. Wanting to flee his destiny of becoming the next king, the only bright spot in the crown prince’s otherwise gloomy life is his personal guardian named Jonghyun.

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] Dragon and Sun 3/10

Pairing: Jonghyun x Taemin (JongTae)

Genre: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Historical, Forbidden Love, Mutual Pining, Romance, Sexual Content, First Time

Rating: Explicit

Chapter(s): 3/10

Complete Word Count: 16k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Joseon in the middle of the 15th century after the introduction of the Korean alphabet by King Sejong the Great. Crown Prince Taemin lives at a time when the Neo-Confucian elite called sinjin sadaebu prevails in the kingdom. Spending his existence in a golden cage, Taemin is burdened with unwanted tasks in the midst of a drought that plagues Hanseong. Wanting to flee his destiny of becoming the next king, the only bright spot in the crown prince’s otherwise gloomy life is his personal guardian named Jonghyun.

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] Dragon and Sun 2/10

Pairing: Jonghyun x Taemin (JongTae)

Genre: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Historical, Forbidden Love, Mutual Pining, Romance, Sexual Content, First Time

Rating: Explicit

Chapter(s): 2/10

Complete Word Count: 9k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Joseon in the middle of the 15th century after the introduction of the Korean alphabet by King Sejong the Great. Crown Prince Taemin lives at a time when the Neo-Confucian elite called sinjin sadaebu prevails in the kingdom. Spending his existence in a golden cage, Taemin is burdened with unwanted tasks in the midst of a drought that plagues Hanseong. Wanting to flee his destiny of becoming the next king, the only bright spot in the crown prince’s otherwise gloomy life is his personal guardian named Jonghyun.

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] Dragon and Sun 1/10

Pairing: Jonghyun x Taemin (JongTae)

Genre: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910), Alternate Universe - Historical, Forbidden Love, Mutual Pining, Romance, Sexual Content, First Time

Rating: Explicit

Chapter(s): 1/10

Complete Word Count: 4.9k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Joseon in the middle of the 15th century after the introduction of the Korean alphabet by King Sejong the Great. Crown Prince Taemin lives at a time when the Neo-Confucian elite called sinjin sadaebu prevails in the kingdom. Spending his existence in a golden cage, Taemin is burdened with unwanted tasks in the midst of a drought that plagues Hanseong. Wanting to flee his destiny of becoming the next king, the only bright spot in the crown prince’s otherwise gloomy life is his personal guardian named Jonghyun.

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

I've finally got some more book prints. I'm so excited. I especially love how 'Perfect 10' and '(w)HELP!' turned out. The covers match the stories' themes perfectly. 'Stories about the moon' includes all Jonghyun oneshots since 2016 with little images above every new story.

I enjoyed designing covers for these stories way too much. They will look cute in my bookshelves for sure. I tried different styles to see what I like the most, and the covers of 'Perfect 10' and '(w)HELP!' really speak to me, they are very colorful and cute.

[lala-pipo]

Have you thought about writing Love on Four Legs from Jonghyun’s POV? I’d love to read what he was thinking throughout the story.

Hello Nony,

Love on Four Legs? That's a name I haven't heard in a while. 😅

No, not really to be honest. I've never thought about what it would look like from his perspective... although it would probably have been interesting now that you've mentioned it. 🤔 But this story is so old now...over a decade that I don't have any plans on ever dwelling in that universe again. 😊

[lala-pipo]

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] From Gangnam to Seongdong 4/4

Pairing: Onew x Taemin (OnTae)

Genre: AU - Adult Life, Romance, P*rn with plot

Rating: NC-17

Chapter(s): 4/4

Complete Word Count: 51k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Taemin (26) changed from a joyous backpacker to a stressed-out office worker in a mere few months. Instead of traveling through Europe, he’s chained to an office desk in Seoul and hates his life. Trying to escape reality by seeking refuge in his daydreams, the face of someone he has tried to forget since his departure from Rome keeps appearing, and makes everything worse…

Sequel to: From Berlin to Rome

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] From Gangnam to Seongdong -3/4-

Pairing: Onew x Taemin (OnTae)

Genre: AU - Adult Life, Romance, P*rn with plot, Massage

Rating: NC-17

Chapter(s): 3/4

Current Word Count: 32k+ (chapter length: 11k+)

Warning(s): None

Summary: Taemin (26) changed from a joyous backpacker to a stressed-out office worker in a mere few months. Instead of traveling through Europe, he’s chained to an office desk in Seoul and hates his life. Trying to escape reality by seeking refuge in his daydreams, the face of someone he has tried to forget since his departure from Rome keeps appearing, and makes everything worse…

Sequel to: From Berlin to Rome

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] From Gangnam to Seongdong -2/3-

Pairing: Onew x Taemin (OnTae) Genre: AU - Adult Life, Romance, P*rn with plot, Massage Rating: NC-17 Chapter(s): 2/3 Current Word Count: 20k+ (chapter length: 10k+) Warning(s): None Summary: Taemin (26) changed from a joyous backpacker to a stressed-out office worker in a mere few months. Instead of traveling through Europe, he’s chained to an office desk in Seoul and hates his life. Trying to escape reality by seeking refuge in his daydreams, the face of someone he has tried to forget since his departure from Rome keeps appearing, and makes everything worse… Sequel to: From Berlin to Rome

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

❤️ 2021 Wrap-Up! ❤️

I think it's a cute tradition, so I wanted to do one for 2021 as well. Unfortunately, 2021 was as bad as 2020 was...so I'm not even sure what to say at this point anymore. Let's hope that 2022 is going to be better? Hopefully. Remember that post I made in the beginning of 2021 with my 'Writing Plans For 2021'? Hahahaha... Go me! :')

But I did write a few other things. So let's go.

Aikkoong: JongTae, Rating: T, Word Count: 4k+ (Status: complete)

Summary: Taemin has a cat now and Jonghyun is jealous.

Read if you like cute things. I mean the story is about Kkoong. It was the first of its kind. Now, Kkoong actually has her own tag on Ao3 lmao. Please give it some love.

I can only say ‘Happy Birthday!’: JongTae, Rating: E, Word Count: 3k+ (Status: complete)

Summary: After celebrating Jonghyun's birthday, Taemin wakes up next to him in a hotel bed...

Read if you like some cute, smutty JongTae.

I’m always alone in my small room: JongYu, Rating: T, Word Count: 20k+ (Status: complete)

Summary: Jinki and Jonghyun have been best friends all their lives, but for at least a third of that time Jinki has been secretly in love with the other.

Read if you like friends to lovers and JongYu. Up to this day I have no idea why this story has so little clicks. Like, it doesn't make any sense to me. You can't just all be reading smut for breakfast...come on.

When the red light turns on: JongTae, Rating: E, Word Count: 9k+ (Status: complete)

Summary: Jonghyun convinces Taemin to film a sex tape with him.

Read if you liked 'I can only say 'Happy Birthday!'' because this one is a sequel to it.

Perfect: JongTae, Rating: E, Word Count: 5k+ (Status: complete)

Summary: Taemin is perfect, so Jonghyun wants their first time to be perfect too.

Read if you like JongTae being disgustingly romantic.

Dorm Life: JongTae, Rating: E, Word Count: 314k+ (Status: complete)

Summary: Taemin is a boy from the countryside who moves to Seoul for his studies. As a freshman at university, he lives in a dormitory and shares an apartment with four other students. While thinking that university life is boring and nothing like he has imagined it to be, his flat-mates show him that there is more to the life in a dormitory than studying in solitude and sharing a kitchen that never gets cleaned. During a party at their dormitory, he ends up sleeping with one of his flat-mates, not realizing what experimenting around with him will lead to…

A journey of unrequited feelings, growth, heartbreak, and self-discovery begins in which Taemin learns what it takes to grow up and be an adult.

Read if you like JongTae. Like please go ahead and read it. I put so much energy into this story, and I'm happy that I was finally able to finish it in 2021.

From Gangnam to Seongdong: OnTae, Rating: E, Current Word Count: 10k+ (Status: incomplete)

Summary: Taemin (26) changed from a joyous backpacker to a stressed-out office worker in a mere few months. Instead of traveling through Europe, he’s chained to an office desk in Seoul and hates his life. Trying to escape reality by seeking refuge in his daydreams, the face of someone he has tried to forget since his departure from Rome keeps appearing, and makes everything worse…

Read if you like OnTae. It's a sequel of a oneshot I quite enjoyed writing in 2019.

That's certainly a lot of fic again. At least for my standards.

[lala-pipo]

[FIC] From Gangnam to Seongdong - 1/2 -

Pairing: Onew x Taemin (OnTae)

Genre: AU - Adult Life, Romance, P*rn with plot

Rating: NC-17

Chapter(s): 1/2

Current Word Count: 10k+

Warning(s): None

Summary: Taemin (26) changed from a joyous backpacker to a stressed-out office worker in a mere few months. Instead of traveling through Europe, he’s chained to an office desk in Seoul and hates his life. Trying to escape reality by seeking refuge in his daydreams, the face of someone he has tried to forget since his departure from Rome keeps appearing, and makes everything worse…

Sequel to: From Berlin to Rome

>> Can be read on Ao3 <<

[lala-pipo]

Hellooo lala-pipo san :D I hope you are doing well! I recently entered uni for Master's and I took a part time job, so I've been busy and haven't read the latest updates on Dorm Life :O I'm hoping I can clear out the exams in the upcoming week with flying colors and reward myself by re-reading it from the beginning until the end! :D I don't know if it's still 3rd of December in your time zone, or even when you read this message, since I heard you are going on a hiatus, but... Happy Birthday! 1/2

I hope you had a wonderful day, spent with the people you love! :) Wishing you all the best during this hiatus, whatever you are up to, wherever you are, all the successes for you! <3 Reading and analysing Dorm Life chapters literally was the one of the brightest and funnest parts of my life in 2020 and 2021. I was kinda having a quarter life crisis and your fan-fictions were sort of my solace <3 (this is a purely well-intentioned compliment, not to put pressure on you :D) 2/3

Lol I thought I could sum it up in 2 messages but oh well hahaha Sooo yeah! I just want to wish you all the best (because you deserve the best things ;)) and to thank you for working on the colossus fic that is Dorm Life! Otsukaresamadeshita! I'll probably leave another set of messages during Christmas break as I read through the fic again (if you don't mind lol), so until then! With lots of love, cricket anon <3 <3 <3 3/3

Cricket nony!!!

I'm glad you're well and sound! I was already worried that you started to hate this story so much that you dropped it, but I'm relieved to hear that you just have been living your life. Congrats on starting your Master's degree. I wish you all the best for it. I also hope that your exams will be going well and that you will have some time to relax afterwards.

Wow - you remembered my birthday! lmao. Thank you! So many people who usually congratulate me in irl seem to have forgotten all about it this year, so it surprises me even more when someone on the internet remembered it. That's so kind of you! Thank you very much. The covid-19 numbers have skyrocketed in my country in the past few weeks again, so most people are very cautious about any kind of gatherings - therefore I didn't have much of a celebration. But the most important people in my life were present for dinner so that's all that matters. ^^

Thank you for your very kind words. I hope you will enjoy the remaining chapters as well. Reading from the beginning to the end in one go might actually be the best idea to enjoy the story to the fullest because I fear so many details in later chapters got unnoticed by readers because they couldn't remember details from previous chapters since my posting schedule was so inconsistent. :')

Random side note, I actually fulfilled a dream of mine and got Dorm Life printed for myself. It's so long that it fills two paperbacks with almost 700 pages each. So everyone who finished the story, you can give yourself a pat on the back - because that's a lot of pages...haha I hadn't realized I produced THAT much fic - but yeah. I hope the first volume will arrive on Monday. I reedited the first few chapters in the process of getting the book ready for printing and now I'm considering to exchange the reedited version with the one on Ao3, but I'm not sure yet. Anyway, I'm rambling into the void again. :')

Thanks so much for stopping by, cricket nony! I'm very happy to hear that you're fine and that my story helped you to find some enjoyment! <3 As always, please take good care of yourself and enjoy December to the fullest. <3

[lala-pipo]

omggg It's sad to read to me this because i love this fanfic so much :(( but i understand your side, hope u bounce back from the hiatus and keep writing other stories <33 love everything u write.

anyway if u change your mind about i will be supporting u, and i read "you are love" today!! and i have a curiosity..... if the two got to have sex, could jonghyun be the bottom? i don't know why, but i feel he would accept to be first rate...

((sorry english is not my first language im brazilian

I'm sorry that I can't tell you anything more uplifting. :( I always considered Dorm Life my You are Love 2.0...set in college instead of high school, but if JongTae isn't anything you like to read, then this story won't be for you :( That's an interesting question. 🤔 I remember that people back in the day were absolutely against Jonghyun being the bottom in this story, but those were different times - bottom!jonghyun has become far more common in fanfics since then. So, I'm not sure. I totally agree with you that YouAreLove!Jonghyun most likely would be totally okay with that, I'm not sure if YouAreLove!Key would be okay with it, though. haha Looking at their dynamic in the fic, both options would probably work really well. and no need to apologize at all, English isn't my first language either. ^^

[lala-pipo]

I wanted a little more of you are love :((

:((

At this point I'm not sure what to reply to messages like this anymore. I want to see this story finished as well...but in my head I'm so far away from this story that I can't even remember how I wanted to finish it. I mean it was my first SHINee project and I began working on it over 11 years ago at this point and while it's still very precious to me and did 'funnily enough' stand the test of fanfic time (as in it's still readable after 11 years without being too cringey) I just don't see me finishing it anymore.

I know that it was one of the more popular SHINee stories on LiveJournal back then, but unfortunately there are like five people left from those days that still might want to read it today. I responded to a comment earlier this year that I might go back to You are Love after finishing my other fanfic project (Dorm Life) this year, but as I'm currently on an indefinite hiatus, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

To add to that - my writing style has changed so much in the span of 11 years that this whole story feels like one big patchwork rug of my shifting writing styles at this point - and while I've always tried to adapt to my original style in later years - it was a rather tough undergoing which made working on this story even harder.

Anyway, long story short, sorry. :( Sorry that I can't give you a more uplifting answer. :(