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Name: Kim Age: 26 (27 in September) Writing Blog URL(s): @jinterlude​   

Nationality: Filipino-American Languages: English  Star Sign: Virgo MBTI: ISFJ-T Favorite color: Any shade of blue  Favorite food: Ah, I have so many, but I really do love ramen & this Filipino noodle dish my grandma makes. Favorite movie: West Side Story. A close second is Pride & Prejudice (2005) Favorite ice cream flavor: Rocky Road  Favorite animal: Pandas Go-to karaoke song: Upside Down by A*Teens (I think I just dated myself) 

What fandom(s) do you write for? Mainly BTS, but I have written for SVT, EXO, GOT7, Monsta X, B.A.P, & NCT

When did you post your first piece? Oh dang, when? Hmm… I want to say Oct. 2016 (?) on my first blog (I had deleted and came back to Tumblr).

Do you write fluff/angst/crack/general/smut, combo, etc? Why? I mostly write a combo because it just happens that way! My main genres are: fluff, romance, & humor/crack. 

Do you write OCs, X Readers, Ships...etc? I mainly write OCs stories because that’s what makes me the happiest when it comes to writing, but I still write x reader fics for drabbles and oneshots. 

Why did you decide to write for Tumblr? Funny story. The reason why I started writing for Tumblr is because an old group of friends said that I should write a funny story based on a college class of mine, so I did and here we are. 

What inspires you to write? Usually, it’s my imagination, but other times it’s either the song I’m listening to or even the show I’m currently watching. Right now, my inspiration draws from anime. 

What genres/AUs do you enjoy writing the most? Genre wise, I love writing fluff & romance. AUs wise, I’m a sucker for Royal/Royalty. Mafia/Gang & Soulmate AUs would be a close second. 

What do you hope your readers take away from your work? Oh, wow. I honestly never thought about that before. I think for me, the one thing I hope my readers get from my stories is at the end of the day, please do something that will make you happy. Your own happiness should always be a top priority for you. 

What do you do when you hit a rough spot creatively? I take a break! Instead of forcing myself out of the creativity slump, I just take a break and let my mind recharge. Then, I go back to my outline and look over while listening to music that I know will spark some creativity juices. 

What is your favorite work and why? Your most successful? My favorite works (yes, I couldn’t pick just one) are my Royal!AU Seokjin series (Fight for Me & Our Second Chance). I love the amount of time and effort I put into those two stories, and I’m simply in awe at the world and characters I created. My second favorite is my latest Seokjin oneshot, Protecting Each Other. It’s my first story that exceeded 10,000 words, and I’m just proud of how that turned out. Successful wise, I would say it’s, This Little String. It’s a Soulmate!Taehyung oneshot based around the red-string of fate, and every other month, I see someone like and/or reblog it, so I say that’s pretty successful!

Who is your favorite person to write about? Seokjin hands down. I mean, not only is he one of my ultimate biases, but for some reason my creative banks dishes out ideas and inspiration for him like it’s nothing. 

Do you think there’s a difference between writing fanfiction vs. completely original prose? I personally don’t think so. You are still writing original content that derails from the source material (or adds to it), all you have to do is just replace your idols’ name with an original character name, and there you go. What do you think makes a good story? For me, I’d say that if you’re honestly proud of the end product, then that story is good, and your readers will see that. What is your writing process like? First I get an idea, or I like to call it, “it appeared to me in a vision,” then I outline it (if the idea lingers in my brain), and then I start writing and editing. Sometimes I’d sprint with my fellow writers on a server I’m in, and other times, I’d put on music and just let my brain go wild. Most of the time, I’m sprinting with friends. 

Would you ever repurpose a fic into a completely original story? If I had the time, probably. I can see my Royal!AU series becoming an original story with different characters and an expanded plotline. What tropes do you love, and what tropes can’t you stand? I am a sucker for F2L I (friends to lovers)! I just love the idea of dating someone who’s your best friend, so why not date your best friend, if the feelings are mutual of course! As for tropes, I dislike, I can’t say that I have any. I think it’s because (and I feel so bad for this), I don’t really read much stories other than what my mutual friends have written. 

How much would you say audience feedback/engagement means to you? It means the world to me because I do like knowing if I’m doing something right or if I need to go back and edit something for clarity. Mainly, I get likes and reblogs (with no feedback), and while it’s still nice of someone for taking the time to like and reblog something, I would like some feedback, please. I’m still grateful no matter what, though!

What has been one of the biggest factors of your success (of any size)? I think it’s the support of my amazing group of friends/mutuals! It’s thanks to their support that my work is reaching a wider audience, and it just means the world to me that they read my blood, sweat, and tears. I love them so much, especially my close friend, Jey (softjeon on Tumblr)!

Coffee or tea? What are you ordering? For coffee, my go-to is a Caramel Macchiato with Soy Milk (from Starbucks), but lately I’ve been using my Keurig, so I just Peppermint Mocha and 3 tsps of Sugar (I can’t stand bitter coffee lol). For tea, I really like Mango green tea from Gongcha (another boba place chain). 

Dream job (whether you have a job or not)? My dream job is to be an elementary school teacher, however, I am currently working on becoming a social worker where my population will still focus on children/students. So, it’s a good compromise!

If you could have one superpower, what would you choose?  If I could have one superpower, it would be cryokinesis aka ice manipulation!  

If you could visit a historical era, which would you choose? Oh, that’s a tough one, but if I had to choose one, I would go for the 1960s so I can see the Beatles live!

If you could restart your life, knowing what you do now, would you? No, because it’s thanks to those life lessons that I grow up to be who I currently am. Sometimes you have to go through those harsh experiences to be a better version of yourself!

Would you rather fight 100 chicken-sized horses or one horse-sized chicken? One horse-sized chicken, then I can feed my family for months. 

If you were a trope in a teen high school movie, what would you have been? Oh, hands down, I would be the stereotypical geek/nerd. Though, I was called a “preppy” in 9th grade, so that was a first. 

Do you believe in aliens/supernatural creatures? Yup, especially ghosts! 

Fun fact about yourself that not everyone would know? I can say the alphabet backwards! 

Do you think fanfic writers get unfairly judged? Oh, hands down, especially when it comes to writing smut. I’ve seen other blogs condemn writers who write smut about real people, but my thing is that these idols are merely face claims for a character that the author is writing about. 

Do you think art can be a medium for change? I think so! Every artist has a voice, especially with what’s going on recently, we need to be able to use our voices to spread light on certain issues. 

Do you ever feel there are times when you’re writing for others, rather than yourself? I used to think that way, especially when it came to writing x reader inserts since I know that’s what “sells” to the Tumblr audience. Now, I’m perfectly happy with writing x OC stories, and I’m content with my stories getting at least 5 notes. If it breaks 10 notes, then that’s a success!

Do you ever feel like people have misunderstood you or your writing at times? If they did, then I wouldn’t know. Most of the time, I think my writing is okay with people. 

Do your offline friends/loved ones know you write for Tumblr? Yes, my soul friend managed my old blog once upon a time and actually read one of my smuts. I was so embarrassed! But at least he said it was tastefully written, so that’s a bonus? 

What is one thing you wish you could tell your followers? Always remember that it is okay to take breaks/go on hiatus! 

Do you have any advice for aspiring writers who might be too scared to put themselves out there? My advice to those who want to start writing but are too afraid put themselves out there is to simply go for it. I was that person who was afraid to put their writing out there for the world to see, especially with some already established BTS writers on Tumblr, but I went for it. At first, it might be discouraging but know that your mutuals/friends will always be your number one supporter! Use their support as a motivator to keep writing and finding your groove! Then, eventually, all of your readers will start trickling in and showering you with the love and support you deserve!

Are there any times when you regret joining Tumblr? I wouldn’t say regret joining but more like allowing my life to be revolved around it. At one point in my life, it felt like a second job/chore for me, and Tumblr should never be that type of site! 

Do you have any mutuals who have been particularly formative/supportive in your Tumblr journey? Oh, I have so many! The ones that come to mind are definitely Jey (softjeon), Beanie (jinned), Nina (j-sope), Kenz (parksfilter), Renae (mygsii), Atlas (astraljoon), & Niah (randomkoalablog) to name a few! I love these amazing people so much and cherish their friendship to the moon and back!

Pick a quote to end your interview with: "Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious … and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

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[23:32] somni: afasrtawetasrysdrysutdutdsut

[23:33] Nathan: ?

[23:33] somni: trees with clarity sometime?

[23:33] somni: the textrees

[23:34] Nathan: Yesss

[23:36] somni: it seems like lots of people want to speak in trees but no one is sure how to

also i want to speak treely

hm

[23:37] Nathan: Hmmmmmmm

[23:38] Nathan: So I think what you want is less a tree.... and more a graph? of sorts

[23:38] Nathan: I think it would be useful to be able to like...

[23:39] Nathan: Okay so Alice makes a post, Bob Carol and Dan all reply to Alice's post but not to each other, Emily comes along and wants to make a reply that's directly in response to both Alice and Carol

[23:40] somni: mhm!

[23:41] somni: yes! i think i was worried people wouldnt be interested in this

[23:41] somni: 4chan does this

[23:43] somni: hmmmm i think it might be nice to have replies sequential by default with the option to swipe sideways?

so if alice says 'hello there are two conversations going on here' then bob or carol can branch their replies sideways

[23:43] Nathan: I am ambiguously people and definitely interested

[23:44] Nathan: So what I'd do here

[23:44] somni: i am definitely  interested i think it is possible to do without having things be too complex

[23:44] somni:

[23:46] Nathan: is I'd have a button on a post that says 'reply' and when you hit that, you go into [compose box] and it says 'replying to [name]'s post "[first ten characters]..."' and you click that and have the option to check all the little boxes you want for 'which posts in this graph are you replying to'

[23:46] Nathan: or if you don't want to do that you just leave it alone

[23:47] somni: hmm so you click on each post's reply button?

[23:48] Nathan: like 'by default you are replying to one post, if you hit this button you can then hit buttons for more posts and be replying to all of them'

[23:49] somni: (oh! an alt view of the graph could be nested channels! hm somehow)

[23:49] somni: it would be nice to have a [change mode] menu so you could view the graph in several ways

[23:49] somni: like a brainstorm thing

[23:50] somni: hmmmm but then you have to index all the posts in the textbox reply thing and give them each a button?

[23:51] somni: why do humans want to reply to several posts?

because several people are doing kind of the same thing and they have a response for all of them

[23:52] somni: ..........pacing is a thing

it would be nice if things were as fast as irc or discord and not slow like reddit

[23:52] somni: hmmmmmm a lot of graph-y things seem to slow down

[23:52] Nathan: Like you know how there's a button on discord where you can show a reblog graph?

[23:52] somni: yeah!

[23:53] Nathan: Something that displays similarly to that might work

[23:53] somni: and if you hover over a thing you can see snippets of text

[23:53] Nathan: OH you know what else looks right? that polyamory graph thing

[23:54] somni: !!!!!! the one with the spring physics interface?

[23:54] Nathan: Yeah!!

[23:54] somni: that is nice

[23:55] somni: hm how would you represent a graph as nested folders

[23:57] somni: i guess you could have an expanded linear view where things look like 4chan and a condensed linear view where you swipe left to get to the next branch of the first branching node above the post you are swiping left on

[23:57] somni: and also reddit threadview?

[23:57] somni: oooh everyone should be able to give the trees their own nicknames too

[23:57] somni: to make things less confusing if a confusing name is chosen by the maker of the tree

1 May 2018

[00:00] somni: also it would be cool to have an information overload version where you look at everysingle new reply to things in parallel

[00:00] somni: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mspaintadventures/images/4/43/Complete_Bullshit.gif/revision/latest?cb=20180322211926

[00:09] somni: i think the MAIN one will be the swiping left one

[00:10] somni: oooooh what if its like the google play store and people can make their own userinterfaces and use them???????

[00:11] somni: for too long have people laboured under the chains of not being able to change what their user interface looks like from their end or modify nicknames of their friends or give nicknames to channels!!!!!

[00:11] somni: being able to give nicknames to channels would skim some stuff off of the dabate about channel names

[00:12] somni: um you would have to have some convergence if you are talking about them with other people

[00:12] somni: oooh

[00:12] Nathan: omg

[00:14] somni: what if when alice nicknames #politics to #arguing and then talks to bob (who nicknames it #agora) and says 'this conversation is going on in #arguing' bob sees 'this conversation is going on in #agora'??

[00:15] Nathan: YES

[00:15] Nathan: channel ID numbers, server-side

[00:15] Nathan: nicknames, client-side

[00:16] Nathan: 'set default nickname' for inputting a name when creating a thread

[00:18] somni: ooh and line-segments of posts should be able to be hyperlinked to too! like a use-mention distinction

(replying to a set of posts is use and linking to them is mention)

and linking to them makes the line-segement you are linking to glow gold (or another colour) and centers your linear view on the first post in the line-segment

[00:19] somni: hmmm do threads have names?

ooh i think line-segments or [line-segments with all descendents of the last node] should be able to be given nicknames and put in a folder

[00:20] somni: so you can come back to them or get alerts on them?

[00:20] somni: hmmm alerts might be ouch after a while, but muting things would be an option

[00:21] somni: so likeee you take clippings of the graph and make those a kind of channel if you want and you can name the clipping and also save it in a client-side folder system

[00:23] somni: ooohhh and if there is a line-segment/tread(?) you want to reply to later you can take a clipping of it and put it in a folder in the sidebar to respond to later or see if people replied

[00:24] Nathan: hee

[00:24] Nathan: this sounds extremely complicated I love it

[00:25] somni: okay! how to do alerts? hmm maybe @-ing people is good?

people can get alerts on their clippings or mute them

[00:25] somni: the folder system for threads is like channels and in the sidebar

[00:27] Nathan: Hmmmm, yeah, collapsible folders will be a needed thing

[00:29] somni: on the sidebar there would be like the public universe of graphs and then below that the folders of threads that you make

[00:30] somni: and you could maybe have an optional bot that puts threads into an archive folder after a bit of time (but remembers their original folders so you can revert it)

this could help things from being a mess

and also you could have threads that you pin to folders and are not swept by the bot

[00:32] somni: !!!!! >public

this reminds me, people could set their reply to a post to only be viewable to certain people and all replies are only viewable by these people

or they gain mod powers over the descendents of a thread

and its noted on their post and all descendents who is modding the thread(edited)

[00:33] somni: that way you can get discussions with different moderators on the same graph

hmm

[00:36] somni: and people can mute users or threads and descendents of threads and have their posts be collapsed into [posts blocked] nodes

[00:37] somni: i think the hyperlink thing would be really good for having longer discussions and not forgetting things that much

[00:39] somni: umm like if a thread made a good point everyone could link to it instead of repeating things, wikilike

ooh you could have a copy/paste option for threads in your sidebar that allows you to link to them

[00:46] somni: extra-special bonus feature: you can export threads to wikis and it take everything (unless it is a thread under different mods in which case the mods need to approve) in the thread and everything they link to and everything that stuff links to and uploads it to a wiki for lots of people to peruse

[00:48] somni: --

ooh and an option to have tabbed threads!!

[00:48] somni: or horizontally parallel threads

[00:50] Nathan: .......gdi

[00:51] Nathan: I want to talk more about this but also I have therapy tomorrow so I need to like... actually sleep at all before then

[00:51] somni: nodnod

[00:51] somni: .........maybe your therapist would have some ideas about this

[00:52] somni: okay yes

[01:03] somni: hm i guess with threads replacing channels your nickname for a thread would link to a threadset and display as a your nickname to other people unless other people gave it another nickname (less certain on this)

[01:05] somni: ooh and getting snippets/line segments and storing them on the touch screen could be easy if you go into brainstorm view and draw a line across the graph and then lift up your finger and it gives you a prompt to label the thread and after its labeled it [less certain] goes in a default folder and can be afterwards resorted[less certain]

[01:09] somni: hmmm, or you could have a popup that allows you to give it names and tags (seperated by commas) and the tags sort the threads like folders?

tags seem to be better than folders (and kind of replacing them?) because sometimes a thread is relevant to more than one folder?

[01:10] somni: oooh and definitely all the nicknames and tags and threads and graphs and stuff can be colour-coded client-side too

[01:13] somni: -- also a rectalinear graph format like for family trees

also a twitter-like format where all the latest threads are stacked

[01:15] somni: --

[01:16] somni: hm how to format/display posts that are replies to multiple previous posts in linear format?

[01:20] somni: oh and when you change threads you can create a clickable link that takes you right where the node you branch off of is and put a link on your post below the node that takes you to where the end of the conversation happened

[01:20] somni: (this is just the hyperlinks!)

[01:21] somni: okay and when a post gets deleted, i gets replaced with a post that reads [deleted] but retains its connections

[01:22] Nathan: Nodnod

[01:23] Nathan: Um right sleeping >.>

[01:23] Nathan: Zzzzzzzzz

[01:23] somni: *switches off the lights*

[01:24] Nathan: what about edits do we want edit history like facebook has or edits with a label that just says it's been edited or

[01:24] Nathan: Um zzzzzzzzzzzz >.>

[01:24] somni: (hm and you can release your mod-powers from affecting a sub-graph, but once there are no more mods, no one can retroactively claim mod powers)

[01:26] somni: i like the discord edit system but edit history could be nice. OOH! for longer time-scale things/ slower rate you could have a bunch of editors for one post

[01:30] somni: ooh and also the giving people mod powers over graphs within a universe would be cool for collaborative blogs and stuff

[01:32] somni: and people can do the hyperlink join to create a seed of a new graph; but probably it would be a pain to allow people to copy/paste threads and continue them elsewhere? um what is the point of that? they can just start another node in response, declare mod powers and block people who they dont want to interact with

[01:37] somni: ooh another super special awesome export feature: exporting threads or graphs or subgraphs to textfiles

with threaded notation or something like 4chan reply things

[01:39] somni: another cool think would be to have a splitscreen, one with a brainstorm graph view and one with a linear view

and clicking different parts on the graph view gives you different parts of the linear view

[01:40] somni: and selecting a thread by drawing on the graph puts textcode in the textbox that hyperlinks to the thread (kind of like how links to names work in discord) and can give a prompt for a name and tags

[01:41] somni: (maybe that might be too much mental pressure to have the popup show every time)

[01:41] somni: im thinking that its about as intrusive as discord's autocomplete for names

[01:45] somni: (if you don't give it tags or give it the null tag, it doesn't enter your sidebar of threads)

[01:46] somni: (maybe having the tag and name choices come up each time you want to hyperlink to a section isn't the best)

[01:48] somni: --

OH YEAH METADATA CIRCLES

[01:49] somni: you can opt in to seeing whatever metadata you want on posts

[01:51] somni: like hearts, emotions reacts, up votes down votes, probability estimates, embedded buttons that let you donate money to the poster, tags

[01:52] somni: and then you can subscribe to metadata groups and see like all the ways a group of people up vote or downvote a thing and the people in the metadata ring decide who has membership in the ring

[01:55] somni: and then you can search, order, and filter posts by metadata from rings you subscribe to

[01:56] somni: !! like there could be a ring that tags posts with trigger warnings

[01:58] somni: so if you want to avoid posts with a certain kind of content, you subscribe to a metadata ring that tags for that kind of content and then block posts that have the tags you want to avoid

[01:59] somni: and if one group is bad at tagging for the thing you want to avoid, you can switch to subscribing to another ring or to two metadata rings at once and block posts when either tag it with your trigger!

[02:01] somni: and the metadata plug-ins dont come with the chat program but can be downloaded as plug-ins and anyone can upload a meta-data plug in

and you dont see the metadata unless you have the plug in and have the particular meta-data toggled to visible

[02:02] somni: OH! and bots can be members of meta-data rings

[02:03] somni: -- i expect rings to follow the power law where there is a big ring that lots of people are in and lots of people subscribe to by default and then there is a long tail of more niche rings

[02:06] somni: -- and metadata can be stuff like how much money taggers (as distinct from subscribers) in a given ring tip to a given post (and you can sort by tip amount OMG eeeeeeeeeee)

and it can be stuff like displaying how many child nodes a post has

[02:08] somni: (um which i guess is a little different because no rings, maybe really deterministic plug-ins like this can have a no-rings option or maybe just let people ignore (or not if they are interesting to them) any human rings that form)

[02:08] somni: also emoji reacts on discord and slack is an example of post metadata

[02:09] somni: hmmm maybe have an option such that you can set your metadata to public and people can form their own rings out of their friends with public metadata

[02:10] somni: [this feels like minutia] {okay but its exciting!!!!!}

[02:11] somni: and there should be a default ring with no mods that anyone can join for each metadata but people probably dont subscribe to because it ends up being terrible?

[02:12] somni: -- and then in settings you can configure where all the metadata symbols go on a given post

[02:16] somni: --

okay some metadata is filter-shaped and helps you Notice things

like you could download a filter that helps you notice haikus in posts and puts a green dot on the upper right corner of posts with haikus

[02:18] somni: (or set the dot to whatever part of the post you want in [settings]! (maybe want non-intersection with other filters/metadata??))

[02:20] somni: or you could set the metadata to invisible on posts but be able to search for posts such that haiku:1 in the search bar

[02:22] somni: which gives all the posts that have haikus in them

[02:28] somni: depending on how metadata and filter algs are run, this could slow things down a lot if you have a lot of them i think?? but the idea is you have a long tail of metadata and filters and most people only use one or two. but it's fiiiiiinee. allow :clap: people :clap: to :clap: break :clap: their :clap: minds :clap: with :clap: information :clap: overload :clap:

[02:29] somni: | want to be able to toggle {(visible, invisible), (active, inactive), (installed, uninstalled)} for metadata and filters