#tbh i don't know enough about korn to be posting about it but at this point who gives a fuck

[the-cookie-of-doom]

3, 5, 29? O:

3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

As far as KP goes, Every Side of You! But across all of my years in fandom, I'm very proud of myself for writing Estranged. It's 111K, and it was my first real long fic. I think before that, my second-longest fic was like 30k? Lol just kidding, my next-longest fic was 27k. So finishing that story was the first time I really felt like I could be a professional author? It showed I was actually capable of stringing together a coherent story long enough to fill a book, and it felt really good. (And I did it at 19! Started it, anyway, I was 20 when I finished lol)

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

Tbh most of them??? God knows I don't have enough time to write all the shit that comes through my brain on a daily basis, shout out to the ADHD. And historically, anytime I say "I'm not going to write this thing," talking about it inevitably makes me start writing it, only to later abandon it. So. decline to answer?

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

I'm actually garbage at editing! I almost never cut scenes out. I have a doc from exactly one fic full of rejected scenes, but it's from Estranged, and I haven't written enough for KP to have anything else lol A small idea I don't presently have time for: it's inspired by Kim's first scene with Korn where he says Korn only accepts ex-military/police, or people he raises himself as body guards (which is a fascinating thing to say). Pete is taken in by the TKs as a young teen, after his father dies. His grand mother is too old/frail/sick to really care for him, but Korn offers room, board, a job, and top-tier care for her, and he has nothing to lose. So Korn wants him to learn how to kill? It's not too different from what he's already used to. He's brought up alongside Kim, who's a year or two younger than him, just hitting his rebellious teen years. He joins Kim for his studies and training, and they become friends. Korn encourages it; Kim should have the company of someone other than his brothers, after all, he can't spend his life a recluse. Then, Kim steps out of line. And he's expecting to be punished as usual, but when Korn summons him to his office, Pete is there. Korn makes him choose a punishment with the expectation that Pete will be the one suffering it, not Kim. Pete isn't surprised. Korn is very like his father, after all, he might even have expected he would be used as Kim's whipping boy eventually. Once their friendship had time to grow and mature enough that Kim wouldn't want to see him hurt. It's an effective lesson. Too effective. That is the day Kim decides to leave, and his gone before the year ends. When Korn later assigns Pete as his bodyguard, Kim refuses; he won't let Pete be hurt for him again.

#cookie speaks #thank you!