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byulsgrease · 3 years

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you've never been one to obsess about your soulmate, assuming you'll figure it out when the time is right. but seriously, what kind of nonsense has yours been writing about recently?

(eventual moonbyul / wheein x gender neutral reader, soulmate!au, trainee/idol!au, ~1.2k words)

a/n: wheein bias wrecker anon! I might've had too much fun with your req and so this is gonna be my first soulmate au 🤠 while byul and wheein don't actually appear in this part (does that make this a prologue? idk), I promise they'll make their appearance soon enough :)

cw: struggles of being a trainee (weight + food talk)

The claps from your dance instructor ring out in the mirrored studio, calling everyone to attention before they send you off for the day. Everyone stands around listening to whatever niceties they're talking about, asking the rhetorical questions of whether all of you want this, how everyone needs to work harder, etc. How many years has it been now, almost three? Evaluations went pretty well recently and you've certainly demonstrated signs of growth since you started, but debut? Who knows. Does anyone, really?

But right now it's late and you're hungry, hoping that your growling stomach isn't loud enough to pierce through the lecture. You're respectfully tuned out anyway, since it's all old news. Nothing you haven't heard before. They clap again once their spiel ends and everyone disperses. Your eyes catch Hyejin's on your way out of the studio, sharing a funny face and an eyeroll before disappearing into the herd of trainees shuffling to the lockers.

Your locker opens with a routine spin of the dial, taking care to slow down and line up the numbers properly so you're not stuck having to do it over again. The inside's pretty cute for a metallic rectangle— it's really the only space of your own besides your notebook. Pictures of your family, old school friends, and fellow trainee friends line the sides beneath a tiny string of battery-powered fairy lights. It's not much, but always a humbling reminder of why you're here.

Unzipping your bag, you take out a pair of slides and drop them on the floor while stepping out of your sneakers. There's not much else in your bag, just a change of clothes and your notebook, of course. Everyone has one. Anything inside could be drawn, written, scribbled, painted. It’s your personal creative space and no one else's, but with two conditions:

You can't write your name in it, not even your initials. Of course everyone tried to as kids against their parents commands, but letters simply sink into the page, disappearing as if they'd never been written at all.

You can only mark up one side. Pages on the right side are for you, and the left side pages fill themselves. Fill themselves with what? you asked your parents. They gave you a non-answer, saying you'd figure it out someday. Great. Only other thing they bothered to tell you was that your right-hand pages were someone's left-hand ones. So someone can see what I put here? Their confirmation sounded rather casual, which you found weird. Someone out there was watching what you put in? But you got used to it, especially since every person owns one. It's a novelty for children anyway. Mark up a page however you want, knowing that someone out in the would will see, and sit back to watch whatever randomness shows up on the left side.

Your left side pages were actually empty for quite a while, save for the occasional "UGGHHH" followed by a typical childish annoyance scrawled messily across the entirety of the page in marker. Not that notebook use was mandatory, but parents usually encouraged it because it kept their kids occupied. There wasn't much you could do about empty pages, nor did you care most of the time, but it did leave you a little jealous of other kids at school who'd sometimes open theirs and be greeted with cute watercolor paintings, mini murals, or skillfully written poetry.

For you, the notebook's served many uses. As a kid it was random doodles and poorly-drawn fantasy scenarios— escapism, perhaps. In middle school it was angsty poems and random journal entries about the random happenings of your life. For the first half of high school it became your to-do list, keeping track of school assignments. And on the rarest occasion, song lyrics. Visual art was never your medium of choice, music came more easily. But drawing staff lines for music notation in the notebook usually ended up being too tedious, so your original stuff was mostly relegated to voice memos on your phone. And now? Who knows. Trainee life may as well be a blur. Sing, dance, talk, eat if you can afford to, sleep, repeat. It's hard to find the energy to write anything most days. Whenever you feel like checking, the left side has random jottings, nearly illegible most of the time.

It wasn't until you got older that you realized that whoever read your entries on the was the same person generating content on the left. And supposedly the person you're supposed to be with for the rest of time? What kind of system is that? I'm just supposed to trust blindly? having asked your parents in exasperation after figuring it out. Again with more non-answers— it had worked for them, didn't it? There's also the obvious question of why people don't just write directly to each other, but whatever. You're still young, no need to obsess over "the one" unlike some of your classmates. If it's meant to be, it'll happen, you figure. And it obviously is, you've got a notebook with (semi-)filled left side pages. What more could you ask for?

The cacophony of clanging lockers opening and closing starts to die down as people leave. Hyejin's head pops out from behind the locker door, laughing in your face when you flinch.

"Ready to go?"

"Yeah, one sec. Man, I'm starving,” you remark while slipping the bag straps on your back and closing the locker door. You don't even want to know how strapped for cash you are, probably in for another night of boiled eggs and canned kimchi.

“Wanna go out for food?” she immediately asks, eyes alight at the prospect of getting to eat something besides convenience store food.

"I wish. Actually, you wish," you smirk with longing in your eyes. The "no" doesn't even have to be said, weigh-ins are way too soon to risk it. She hangs her head, jokingly dejected as you swing an arm around her shoulder to walk out of the company building together.

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After scrounging up whatever food you call dinner, taking a shower, and flopping into bed, you open up your notebook and grab the random pen laying on your dresser, unsure of what you'll write about tonight. There's chicken scratch on the left page already, ballpoint pen. It's actually legible today, though: In my room every day I see your smile.

What the hell does that mean? Whose smile, yours? You haven't even met yet.

Call me everyday every night, hug me everywhere every time

Utter nonsense. Maybe meeting soulmates is just a huge game of catch-up once everything's finally revealed, surely yours will be. There’s just so many questions. Moving to the right side, you jot down a list of cheat meal ideas along with some assorted notes and pointers from practice that you want to work on tomorrow, drawing little characters next to each list item for fun. After accidentally drawing a random squiggle from jolting yourself awake and feeling the heaviness in your eyelids, you cap your pen and shut your notebook, placing it back in your bag. With the lights out, the last thought you have before sleep consumes you is why haven't you ever tried writing directly to each other after all this time?

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#using their real predebut photos feels like a disservice lmaoo #girl crush is my fave cf tho :D #requested #💥 anon #mamamoo imagines #gg fic #mamamoo x reader #hwasa x reader #mamamoo fanfic #kpop fic #girl group fic #moonbyul imagines #hwasa imagines #wheein imagines #mamamoo scenarios #soulmate au

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md3artjournal · 2 years

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It suddenly occurs to me that after all my years of switching from drawing directly with ink, because I was sick of having to ink my pencil drawings (and my ink lines never being as good as my original pencil linework), I'm suddenly growing more interested in digitally tracing my traditional artwork---once I finally open my new touchscreen laptop.

I mean, I keep looking at everyone else's art and how all their different colored lines soften their art, and I want to get that effect too! ;o;! For a few years, I started collecting technical pens with different colored inks, but it turns out a lot of those nibs don't feel right to me for sketching. Definitely fine for outlining and inking pencil drawings, but I didn't want to return to all that tracing inking again. If it wasn't a brushpen, I didn't want to draw with it. But then I discovered that I really like drawing with fountain pens, and fountain pens could have any color ink you wanted, as long as they didn't clog the nib with pigment-based sediments. I was about to invest in a collection of many colored fountain pen inks. I was even considering that Platinum brand of bottle inks, especially made for color mixing. But I had to face it: No matter what I drew with traditionally, I draw so small and my paper is so cheap, that once I scan my artwork and blow it up for merch, it's just so grainy. And I'm too nervous about messing up expensive paper to ever draw with it. If I wanted that clean look that everyone else in artist alley was getting, I needed to learn to draw digitally. At the same time, my current laptop was repeatedly telling me it was on its last legs. So I did my shopping research, I got a new touchscreen laptop with stylus pen for Black Friday, and...It's still sitting in its box. I need to unbox that thing. And at this point, my big motivation to do so, is seeing everyone's fanart every day, and how nice these multicolored lines are. And how smooth and clean everyone's art is! *o* The only way my traditional illustrations could get away with my grainy, blurry paper, is if I went back to watercolors. But I had multiple reasons for dumping that medium. I mean, I love drawing in charcoal and pastels too, but one of the big reasons I stayed with ink/markers is because it's so clean to work with. I procrastinate less, when I know my hands aren't going to get smudgy, I can work anywhere, I don't have to make sure I have level surfaces for cups of water, and brushes, and rags. ---What am I rambling about again? Anyway, I really should get to unboxing my new laptop and practicing digitally tracing all my traditional fanart.

#rambling #please ignore my idiocy #finding my art style #art mediums

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knotenvater · 7 years

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Hey I'm your GrayTear exchange mate! I saw that you wanted canon-compliant fluff of the pre-relationship kind, do you have any other preferences I can accomodate? I'm a writer so I'll deliver you a fanfic if that's okay. Hope to do you justice!

Oh, right! I’d been meaning to ask you what kind of ‘gift’ I should be expecting (a fanfic is great btw)! My favorite fanfics to read are usually slow-burn, but it doesn’t have to be super long, it’d just be nice if you could just not make it a love-at-first-sight kind of thing (if that’s okay)? I’d ask you to steer clear of smut, but I know I don’t have to tell you that. By the way, if you’re thinking of having other ships with other characters in the background and would first like to check on what I like, I have a ship meme on my blog under the hashtag ‘fairy tail ship meme’ (but if you wanna write something that I don’t ship into the fanfic, do it). I hope that’s enough for you to go on. If you need anything more specific, don’t hesitate to ask me and I’ll try to tell you something else that could help you. Don’t stress about it, I’m sure I’ll love it :)

I am going to be making you some fan art (hopefully that’s okay). I saw that you’d be cool with anything but smut (which is amazing bc same). Do you have any ideas or preferences (specific prompts, favorite character outfits, etc.) that I could use? Additionally, I am a traditional artist and not a digital one but I have a few media I can use if you have a preference for any (namely colored pencils, copic markers and watercolor). I can also use more than one. Hopefully I’ll make you something you’ll like :)

#graytear exchange

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