#midam kpop au

[witchern]

wip wednesday.

once again nobody tagged me, i just wanted to prove that this midam k-pop au DOES exist in a google doc somewhere xoxo

The concert tickets were a surprise from Jo. 

At first Adam resisted—strongly, loudly, childishly—but he was worn down by the prospect of spending the night as just another anonymous face in a crowd of thousands, losing himself to the music he’d come to enjoy. He was sick of the monotony of his clinic shifts, sick of being stuck in his own head, sick of drowning in his own thoughts, so yeah: a K-pop concert with his best friend sounded like a good idea. 

The fact that he’d be watching Michael perform in person wasn’t lost on him either. In spite of the fact that Adam was trying to furiously backpedal and undo any attraction he felt toward the man, he couldn’t unsee the hours of music video footage, performance recordings, award ceremonies, and interviews that he’d already watched. In other words: he knew just how talented Michael really was. And he was about to see it all in person. 

ARKangel had apparently sold enough tickets to completely sell out Madison Square Garden, because of course they did. Adam hurried to cross the street and craned his neck looking for the west entrance where he and Jo had agreed to meet up after she got out of work. There were still two hours before the show began but the sidewalk was already packed with fans waiting patiently in line to get in; Adam had to duck and weave through throngs of people, stunned yet again that all these American fans were here to see four guys from Korea. 

Adam finally gave up on the search and called her so she could direct him to her exact spot in front of a lamp post. She waved frantically at him, grinning from ear to ear as he approached and they hung up. 

“You look a little too excited. What’s going on?” Adam asked, narrowing his eyes. 

“What? I can’t be excited to pop my best friend’s K-pop concert cherry?”

“That’s…the most repulsive sentence you’ve ever strung together.” Adam’s suspicious gaze landed on a folded T-shirt Jo had draped across her shoulder. “What’s that?”

“This is for you. To wear. Tonight.” 

And with a flourish, Jo whipped the shirt out and unfolded it. It was a baseball tee with neon purple stripes—ARKangel’s signature color—and the band’s logo on the right chest. Adam actually thought it looked pretty cool…until Jo flipped it around to show the back, where the name ‘MICHAEL’ was emblazoned in bold neon lettering where a last name would normally appear on a real baseball jersey. 

Adam’s cheeks burned with embarrassment. “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.”

“Nope. You’re one of us tonight. Put this on, Milligan.”

Adam finally noticed she was already wearing a matching shirt. “Who are you wearing, then?”

Jo turned so he could see ‘GABRIEL’ branded on her back. 

Adam snatched the Michael shirt with unnecessary force. “I hate this so much.”

“Nobody asked.” 

He slipped the shirt over his plain black tee and left it unbuttoned, feeling more and more like he wanted to find the nearest sewer entrance and crawl in. Jo, on the other hand, was grinning so hard he was surprised her face didn’t break in half. 

“And that’s not even the best part,” she said ominously.

“Oh god. What else is there?”

Jo just kept grinning and beckoned him to follow her through the crowd to wait in line. “We gotta get in a merch line as soon as possible. You need a lightstick.”

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wip wednesday

nobody tagged me, i just wanted to do it <333 here's a snippet from the elusive midam k-pop au that i swear is coming soon!!

Adam had expected never to see Michael again, so when the guy reappeared the following night during his shift, Adam was so stunned that his mouth dropped open. 

Michael was in a similarly nondescript outfit as the night before—jeans and a gray hoodie this time—but unlike the previous night, he was wearing makeup. 

If Michael looked hot before, now he looked fucking ethereal. A thin line of black eyeliner sharpened his gaze and there was a gentle dusting of silver and metallic gray eyeshadow on his lids. His cheeks were highlighted, glittering in the fluorescent light whenever he moved. It also looked like there was a light layer of a dark matte red color on his lips, and—fucking shit, Adam hadn’t noticed this the other night, but apparently he had three piercings in one ear, each one now with a small silver earring dangling down. 

“Uh.” Adam’s next words got caught in his throat and he almost choked on his own tongue.

Michael, to his credit, didn’t seem to notice Adam’s distress—or if he did, he was so used to people reacting like that to him that he’d just learned to ignore it. “I’m glad you’re working tonight. I was afraid your schedule would’ve changed and I wouldn’t get the chance to thank you properly.”

“Um.” Adam was fucking salivating. “You. Hi.”

Michael’s smile was blinding. “Hi.”

What the fuck. 

Before Adam’s brain could rewire itself properly, Michael held out a full, steaming cup of coffee from the fancy cafe down the street. “It’s a night shift, right? You probably need all the caffeine you can get.”

Adam was seconds away from launching himself across the desk to kiss him and climb him like a tree. 

“You’re the greatest human being alive,” Adam finally managed to say, carefully taking the cup from Michael like it was the Holy Grail. “Thank you.” 

He took a grateful sip, trying not to make note of the way Michael was watching him. 

“So,” Adam said after his coffee sip, “are you feeling any better since yesterday?”

Michael nodded. “Much better. You were right—when I woke up this morning, it didn’t feel as awful as it had the other day. Time has put things in perspective. That, and my friends told me I was being too hard on myself.” 

Adam wondered briefly if he should mention the fact that the friend from the other day had given him Michael’s number, but maybe that would just make this more awkward than it needed to be. “It happens to the best of us. We all get our heads up our own asses about things we care about.”

Michael snorted at the word choice. 

Adam finally built up the courage to ask about the makeup. “I gotta ask. Where did you just come from where you decided to wear…” He indicated his face.

Michael touched his cheek gently, as if he’d forgotten all about the makeup. “Oh, this? It’s...for a costume. I’m a dancer.”

Ah, that explained it. “You look...you look good. Really, really good.” 

He couldn’t tell from the layer of highlighter on Michael’s face, but he was pretty sure the poor guy was blushing now. “Thank you. We have makeup artists who do our faces but I can do some of it myself. Good to know I don’t look like a raccoon.”

It was just by the grace of God that Adam was able to stop himself from responding, You’d make a sexy raccoon. What the fuck was it about Michael that made Adam lose the ability to act like a normal goddamn person?

[witchern]

this midam kpop au is getting, um, out of hand.

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i'm gonna try and finish either the kpop au or the next chapter of the haunted house fic for midam week and if i don't then i need one of y'all to hit me in the back of the head with a frying pan

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midam kpop au is going great, why do you ask?

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So. I was thinking about the kpop au, as one does, and I was wondering if you have a voice claim for Michael?

lasdkjfhajl first of all, i'm LIVING for how much you're looking forward to the kpop au, i gotta finish writing this sucker 😅

second of all, i hadn't thought of that, but now i am!! right now the closest voice claim i can think of is taeyong from nct (if you've never heard his voice, here's one of his solo songs). his singing voice his very smooth but there's a rougher tone when he raps that i really like and think would be neat for michael to have.

michael's actually the main dancer of the group and less of a vocalist though, which is part of the plot! (do not ask me how a silly kpop au came to have a plot, this thing literally grew legs and ran away from me at mach speed.)

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the kpop au has some visuals now ✌️

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midam kpop au likely WON'T be out this week because i'm physically incapable of keeping anything short.

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I am absolutely rattling with excitement for the kpop au 💗💗💗

aaaaaaa thank you!! 💕 i'm REALLY enjoying working on it so far – i know it's an au that probably only like 5 people are interested in, but idc. it's cute and fun, and i like taking a break from all the angst and pain in the other stuff i write. plus, we can NEVER have enough midam romcoms!

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the notes and outline for the kpop au is 6 pages and counting

this was supposed to be SHORT

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every few days i add a couple more sentences to the elusive midam kpop au so at this rate i'll be done in like 14 years xoxo

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you: hey gabby have you started writing that kpop midam au you mentioned earlier

me, several hours into listening to a spotify-generated kpop playlist: have i what

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🏅 📚 🧠 ?

🏅 What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).

i finished planning the midam kpop au and i was pretty proud of that! i'm usually the kind of writer who just makes shit up as they go along, and i've never really been good at planning things out ahead of time. but i've been forcing myself to get into the habit and it's been sooooo helpful whenever i get stuck, because i always have notes telling me where i'm supposed to go next. so yeah, planning that au was a big step!

📚 Do you read your own fic?

yes lmao. does anyone NOT do that?? i don't like rereading the old stuff, mostly because my writing has drastically improved since then and it's a little embarrassing for me to see all the shit i would change today. but yeah i do read my own fic from time to time lol.

🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?

i really wanna dive into a pacific rim au (midam, obviously) but i don't have anything in mind other than "big robots punch." which for some people would be enough lol, but i'm incapable of half-assing anything, so i'm stuck with just random vibes and concepts for this one right now.

ask me about fanfic!

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i haven't forgotten about the midam kpop au btw

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really the best part of a midam kpop AU is i have an excuse to make an absolutely BANGING spotify playlist