#tell me what im wearing!! gimmie those polyvore edits!! tell me exactly what im eating for dinner!

[alphabetboyluvr]

One thing that I felt unique about your writing is that, you never use y/n or ____ BUT the way you use name, (I hate when writer using name or she but put x reader) it just perfect you know? You still make us feel like it? like it is you, to be called byeol and diz, and B, it just everything (you can see my fav of yours is BD and OTTE) you never make us, reader to be left out? like this is us in the context and in the story. Thankyou <333

ahhh this is so lovely!! i actually have so many thoughts on character naming, and when i began to write reader inserts i absolutely knew i never wanted to write y/n, but i needed something --because who doesn't love the heartthrob saying their name in the middle of a heated row, or a bestie-to-luvr tenderly whispering it in the sanctuary of a darkened room?

personally for me i think names in and of themselves are really intimate. the way in which we address people signifies our closeness and ofc there are other ways we can do that, but we see it in BD with byeol & jk just insane he gets whenever he gets called koo - it's sparse, and it's rare, but it's only ever her and it always makes him a lil loopy <33

so with that in mind, i think it's important that the romantic leads have certain names (that aren't soppy pet names) to address each other by. it really scratches my brain - imagine idk bd!jimin calling B 'byeol', it just wouldn't work. DB on the other hand? just the right amount of teasing (and relates to an in-joke which again signifies their closeness without it reaching 'b' levels).

curiously obscure & specific nicknames are something i think i will always do!