#the fiction

[deulleya]

"sometimes, life resembles fiction more than fiction itself."

the ninth instalment of my musical translation series — the story of a washed-up author that receives a second chance through a passionate editor, until his fiction starts turning into reality.

the videos are not mine, but all translations are my own. (also, happy birthday kim junyoung!!)

musical: the fiction (더 픽션)

cast (2023): [gray hunt] kim dovin, yoo seunghyun, kim junyoung │ park yoodeok, ju minjin, jeong donghwa • [white hismann] choi hoseung, lim junhyuk, hwang minsu, park sanghyuk • [hue decker] kim seohwan, bak junhyung, hong sungwon

synopsis: 1932, new york. black, the protagonist of gray hunt's serialised fiction "the man without a shadow" has inexplicably appeared in reality. a serial killer who etches a stigma upon the criminals he murders, black — both the fictional character and the mysterious real-life vigilante — earn the fervent support of the public. then, abruptly, the serialisation ends with the death of the author. suspicious of the circumstances surrounding gray hunt's death, the detective hue decker confronts white hismann, the editor that approached gray hunt to revive his career and lift him out of obscurity...

production: hj culture (twitter / youtube)

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이번에는 – this time

kim junyoung as gray hunt

The sound of the clock ticking The sound of the pages turning My heart races

Don’t have any expectations Or you’ll be disappointed again Will this time be any different?

This side of me is unfamiliar It’s been a long time since I felt this way My stories, which felt like my own mutterings Can I share them with others now?

Writing my heart into each word, and every sentence Now I shall harbor a new dream, one I couldn’t see before The moment I’ve been waiting for is right before my eyes With each line of fiction, will I be able to convey hope?

Writing my heart into each word, and every sentence The story rides on the wind, reaching the world again Can it become a comforting ray of hope to someone? With each line of fiction, will I be able to change the world?

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낙인 – stigma

kim junyoung as gray hunt and black, park jungwon as white hismann

[White] “The Man Without a Shadow” – the final instalment? Black decided upon his last candidate for judgment. His footsteps traced a path to the author’s house. Then came the sound of a knocking upon the door.

[White] The black shadow, visible through the door’s gap The unwavering eyes The cold and unsettling expression

[White] The author came face-to-face with a black silhouette. And the dark shadow met his gaze.

[Black] Don’t be nervous You’re the one who created me, after all The story that you started It’s time for me to end it

[White] The author stepped backwards. One step, and again, another. Then there was no longer anywhere to retreat, or escape, to.

[White] Black’s shadow, that engulfed the author

[Black] Don’t act clueless This is what you’ve chosen Your writhing black desire Now, it’s time to pay the price

I, who brands stigma upon sinners That scar remains forever It’s the price for playing with human lives You shall reap what you’ve sown

It’s too late to turn back You’ve fallen into the trap you laid The world will remember the tragedy of your death As a comedy

[White / Black] I, who brands stigma upon sinners It shall be imprinted upon your heart Now, it’s your turn No heaven exists for you

This is the final judgment This is the end

[ non-spliced, full cam video for stigma here. ]

[ original korean lyrics here. ]

[bebx]

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[pyroinfusedtiger]

Posting this everywhere til im not obsessed with it anymore

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[microsff]

"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I… oh… I love you too."

[pygmi-says-hi]

STOP DOING THIS IN INJURY FICS!!

Bleeding:

Blood is warm. if blood is cold, you’re really fucking feverish or the person is dead. it’s only sticky after it coagulates.

It smells! like iron, obv, but very metallic. heavy blood loss has a really potent smell, someone will notice.

Unless in a state of shock or fight-flight mode, a character will know they’re bleeding. stop with the ‘i didn’t even feel it’ yeah you did. drowsiness, confusion, pale complexion, nausea, clumsiness, and memory loss are symptoms to include.

blood flow ebbs. sometimes it’s really gushin’, other times it’s a trickle. could be the same wound at different points.

it’s slow. use this to your advantage! more sad writer times hehehe.

Stab wounds:

I have been mildly impaled with rebar on an occasion, so let me explain from experience. being stabbed is bizarre af. your body is soft. you can squish it, feel it jiggle when you move. whatever just stabbed you? not jiggly. it feels stiff and numb after the pain fades. often, stab wounds lead to nerve damage. hands, arms, feet, neck, all have more motor nerve clusters than the torso. fingers may go numb or useless if a tendon is nicked.

also, bleeding takes FOREVER to stop, as mentioned above.

if the wound has an exit wound, like a bullet clean through or a spear through the whole limb, DONT REMOVE THE OBJECT. character will die. leave it, bandage around it. could be a good opportunity for some touchy touchy :)

whump writers - good opportunity for caretaker angst and fluff w/ trying to manhandle whumpee into a good position to access both sites

Concussion:

despite the amnesia and confusion, people ain’t that articulate. even if they’re mumbling about how much they love (person) - if that’s ur trope - or a secret, it’s gonna make no sense. garbled nonsense, no full sentences, just a coupla words here and there.

if the concussion is mild, they’re gonna feel fine. until….bam! out like a light. kinda funny to witness, but also a good time for some caretaking fluff.

Fever:

you die at 110F. no 'oh no his fever is 120F!! ahhh!“ no his fever is 0F because he’s fucking dead. you lose consciousness around 103, sometimes less if it’s a child. brain damage occurs at over 104.

ACTUAL SYMPTOMS:

sluggishness

seizures (severe)

inability to speak clearly

feeling chilly/shivering

nausea

pain

delirium

symptoms increase as fever rises. slow build that secret sickness! feverish people can be irritable, maybe a bit of sass followed by some hurt/comfort. never hurt anybody.

ALSO about fevers - they absolutely can cause hallucinations. Sometimes these alter memory and future memory processing. they're scary shit guys.

fevers are a big deal! bad shit can happen! milk that till its dry (chill out) and get some good hurt/comfort whumpee shit.

keep writing u sadistic nerds xox love you

ALSO I FORGOT LEMME ADD ON:

YOU DIE AT 85F

sorry I forgot. at that point for a sustained period of time you're too cold to survive.

pt 2

also please stop traumadumping in the notes/tags, that's not the point of this post. it's really upsetting to see on my feed, so i'm muting the notifs for this post. if you have a question about this post, dm me, but i don't want a constant influx of traumatic stories. xox

[heartiella]

[fluorescentbrains]

me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off

[writeouswriter]

The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation

[aphel1on]

nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer

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[bluejay757]

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.