#fic: carousel

[yoonia]

For those of you who have read or are currently reading Carousel, you might know that I've been rewriting the story lately and posting it on Wattpad.

I was planning to post the final product here on Tumblr once I'm done, but since the chapters have grown A LOT, I don't think it would be as easy as editing the old chapters with the updated version (like what I did with Blood Moon Rising and The Stand-In) and I'm considering on keeping the old one for those of you who still want to read the original version.

So, please help me decide whether I should just keep it on Wattpad or should I post the new version somewhere else and how:

Please help share this around and share me your thoughts (or ideas) in the reblog or replies.

Thank you!!! <3

[rafterdarkr]

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

[dapper-lil-arts]

Darlings. is it gay when the phantom you created as a manifestation of your dreadfull loneliness takes the form of one of your closest friends.

Fanart of this pretty good horror rarijack fanfic, "The haunting of carroussel boutique" personaly i am surprised the writer didnt take the chance to point out how fucking funny this is. Me n kim started laughing about it during stream and i just had to draw this

[theashemarie]

behold the hardest summary i ever had to write

[yoonia]

Holy buckets. What a beautiful thing to wake up to. I've been having the hardest time the past few days and this is the best pick-me-up post to read ever.

Thank you to all the beautiful people who mentioned me and recommended my works. You are truly awesome!!!!

Author Appreciations T-1

To celebrate The K-Fic Collection’s one year anniversary, we decided that we’d host an Author Appreciation Event!

What that means, is that for the past couple of weeks, we had a form and our asks open for people to anonymously send notes of love and appreciation for k-pop authors on Tumblr. 

We received many notes and fic recommendations from many lovely people, and as promised we’ve compiled them into several posts based on alphabetical order.

We hope you enjoy reading the lovely notes and fics recommended below!

Appreciations for @wheeboo

“rania!!!! i think she has this way of creating moments within her stories that just feel so comforting, like a little escape to something soft. their work holds some of the most butterfly-inducing moments, down to tiny details that not everyone thinks of -- but rania does, and it's very much like a ribbon tying it all together.”

“Wheeboo has a lot of fics that have brought so much comfort to me. they also do a great job in writing stories that have very unique characters it's almost like I am in it too. They're also very relatable and I've seen them interact with people in their inbox with a lot of happiness and joy. They are a very lovely and talented writer!”

Recommended works by wheeboo

Catnaps

tell me that you love me

“I think this is my favorite story of theirs. the concept is written very well and has the good amount of romance, angst, and comfort. I esp love how they wrote joshua and the other characters in the story, and there's so many pretty quotes from here and the descriptions are wonderful. it's a very beautiful story :)”

Love

“Another good comfort story they have written. Wheeboo did a great job in writing what love is in the different love languages and especially with my bias from svt Wonwoo! He's a perfect fit for this concept and it just brings me so much comfort how reassuring this fic. I love to reread it from time to time”

paging dr. heartthrob

“I love this fic too. it does a great job in showing what burnout feels like and I am so in love with the tropes used. All the characters don't feel like side characters but they all play a different part in the story. i think wheeboo does a really great job at writing best friends to lovers stories and i'm all for it”

Appreciations for @wonustars

“Your fics are just so good, I have binged read a few already and I'm just so in love. I was sad that you won't be continuing writing here in Tumblr but I hope you had a good time while you were here. Thank you for writing”

Appreciations for @yoongihan

“Thea is such an unbelievably kind friend and a wonderful author! She is such a safe space when it comes to looking for advice about writing, and not to mention, her fics are so well done in terms of characterization. She truly embodies what it means to be an author, not just a writer in her work 💙”

Recommended works by yoongihan

Happenstance

“This fic feels like magic — it had me wishing I could run away to Scotland and have a meet cute of my own.”

Rebound

“It takes a special fic to give me a whole new ult bias and this fic did that for me!”

We're Friends

“This is one of the best (if not the best) Jeongin stories on tumblr!”

Appreciations for @yoonia

“I have been following Dia for years and devour everything she's written. Every genre and every AU that she writes is incredible and I enjoy her wide variety of fics, plus being able to write so many different tropes is such a skill. As a writer myself, it's so impressive and I think it's an honor to know her and to be able to read her works.”

“The Queen!!! Wonderful fics, every single one of them!!”

“Dia is truly a magician! I don’t know how she does it, but I’m truly just in awe of and so inspired by her ability to write. The attention and care she puts into world-building is second to none, and she always has the best and most encouraging tips for when you’re stuck with writing!”

Recommended works by yoonia

Carousel

“Carousel has been my all time favorite fanfic - across all fandoms - ever since I started reading it back when there were only 4 chapters released at the time. I come back to this whenever I need a pick-me-up as it's a comfort fanfic and I just love the way Dia writes. I can truly put myself into the story and lose myself for hours.”

Of Bears and Bonds

“I would sell my entire soul to see Of Bears and Bonds adapted to the big screen, it’s that good!”

Appreciations for @100vern

“An EXCEPTIONALLY talented writer and the only fanfic writer to EVER make me genuinely weep like a baby.”

“i think there’s beautiful rhythm to how jewel writes that pulls you in and doesn’t let go. it feels natural, effortless and just generally has you hooked the whole way through”

Recommended works by 100vern

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Thank you to everyone who sent in notes. We’re really happy that you participated in this event and helped us to show appreciation for some of the wonderful writers of k-pop Tumblr!

Appreciation compilation posts: A-C. D-E. F-G. H. I-L. M. N-R. S. T-1.

Run and created by Head Librarian Chee and Head Librarian JiJi. Updated: 13/06/2025.

[nerves-nebula]

new fucking chapter

[rosswood]

There are some stories that are never intended to be told. Not because they are not worth telling, but because the people who might have told them prefer to operate under the misapprehension that they are simply not very interesting. There are some things that can only be accomplished when you're not a main character - when you are not subject to the perils and privileges of a spotlight. This is one of them.

[valentinos-corner]

:3

Give me a lore dump on a random oc. I might not respond much since I'm horrible at responding but I would love to sit and listen to one of them.

YAYAYAYYAYAYYAYAYAYAYA

rummages

You got...

ROSE AND MONARCH! I've wanted to talk about them for a while now

Tw child neglect, sibling abuse, delusions, kidnapping, murder

Monarch was born to a pair of griffins blessed with a unique ability- plant magic, one of the rarer forms out there. However, he himself didn't possess his family's gift- instead, as he grew, he developed the power to puppet living being's bodies by pulling on their souls, like a marionette.

However, the soul has to be perfectly normal:

-It has to be of normal magical wavelength/magic level, no gods, no artificial beings

-It has to be normally shaped- so if the soul is scarred enough, either by forceful change by an outside magic user or enough psychological trauma, he won't be able to touch it. This also applies to Rift, who has exactly half a soul and therefore is immune

But for the first several years of his life, he was completely powerless- and so his parents saw him as something half-formed, a disgrace to their family.

As their marriage fell apart, by the time Monarch was six years old, a second egg had hatched. Rosewind Veil, the perfect little girl with a perfect gift.

And Monarch loved her.

Obsessively, furiously, terrifyingly, even. She was perfect, after all, and therefore worthy of his affection. But he had never been shown love- so he had no way to show it. His obsession would leave its marks on his very soul, manifesting into his eerie ability. He saw it as a gift from his sister to him, and so he began to test. And given he had no other people to test his power on, he used his sister.

And in those dark twilight days when Rose's body was not her own, when her brother was overwriting her gift with his own, she realized something. Her parents would not save her. In their eyes, Monarch could do nothing, nothing wrong, nothing right, nothing at all.

And slowly, little by little, those scars, that fear, built up. And there came a day when Rose's soul was broken enough that Monarch's magic could not touch her.

He was furious- after all, he had no way to know why the gift his sister had given him no longer worked. So he became violent, angry, demanding an answer from the twelve-year-old he himself had broken. And Rose, terrified, fled the house.

And this is where their stories diverge.

Rose was free. Finally, finally, her body was all her own. She collapsed in a daze in the first hotel she found- she could barely read the sign, did it matter?

But something seemed off. One by one, the other guests disappeared, and then reappeared a day or so later with a hollow, depressed look in their eyes. And so, she kept a watchful eye on the innkeeper one night, and saw the eerie, horrible manner with which Sozo staffed her hotel.

So that morning, Rose, fueled by the fear and violence with which she'd been raised, tried to tear the very building down around her. But she did not anticipate the wrath of the Starlit Spectre.

Sozo, Emissary of Pure Chaos, scarred Rose's body and rent her wings from her shoulders.

That was the day Rosewind Veil died.

But she escaped, somehow.

She couldn't remember how she'd found herself at the campfire. She could barely remember her name. Rose something. Her head was spinning. Spinning like a carousel. She'd been to a carousel once. Her one truly joyful memory of... who was that? She couldn't remember.

A cat-dragon and a small, shy kitten stared down at her. They had treated her wounds, they'd explained, against Peppermint- the cat-dragon's- better judgment. But Hecate- the purebred- had been scarred too, and didn't want to see anyone more die. Pepper, Rose, and Hecate spent weeks in the woods, slowly figuring out how to exist in the world that had broken them.

And eventually, they would find their way to Yasashi.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Monarch was horrified. His dear sister had hurt him. The only one who had embraced him, had loved him. Had she loved him? She'd looked at him with such disgust... how was he to know that she would not love his gift?

He had to find her. Find her, and bring her back to him. He knew that much.

And so Monarch left his household, left his hated parents behind, determined to find his darling Rose.

And now that he, his growth stunted by his cruel upbringing, was out in the world, he began to realize something.

He was powerful.

He could make people love him.

So to pass the time, he opened a theatre. A puppet theatre. And the puppets, how marvelous, were alive! And Monarch, their puppeteer.

His life became stagnant.

No matter how far he went, how long he searched, he never found his sister. He had no way of knowing she'd taken refuge with a god. As far as he knew, she was hiding from him. And it tore him apart.

His shows, the stories he told with the stolen bodies of those less powerful than he, became bloodier, more violent.

And the audience, unaware of the murder in front of them- believing them to be animated marionettes, brought to movement and voice by some other magic- clapped all the louder.

And as his puppet collection grew and dwindled and grew again and dwindled again from his reckless bloodshed, he found a favorite. An alien- an Aesykin- named Kairos. The only one he let keep autonomy. A beautiful doll, to be sure. He helped Monarch write his plays, lent him an ear- albeit an unwilling one- to shout to when the memories became dark.

But then Monarch's attention was drawn away by one more perfect.

Ink, God of Chaos, in one of his apathetic, cynical searches for entertainment amongst the mortal, stopped by Monarch's theatre during off-hours. Monarch, someone angry at being disturbed, attempted to pull on Ink's soul and add him to his collection.

But he was met with something he had not felt since his darling Rose had left him- powerlessness.

And Monarch was enthralled.

Ink, amused at this insolent mortal's attempt to take power over him, stayed a while. Monarch never stopped trying to collect him- what a beautiful face, after all. The audience would love him.

But after a while, the air shifted. Even Kairos, from his little prison, could feel something change.

Mutual non-hatred.

Affection, even.

[yoonia]

OMG AERIS THIS IS PERFECTION.

The visuals are stunning. Yoongi is stunning. The tone, the vibe, everything is perfect. Thank you so much! I love it!

"I promise you will not regret anything."

Party Favor #2 from Aeris’ 2K Celebration, requested by @yoonia

[yoonia]

An eye for an eye, and the whole world goes blind We'll survive this, you and I Onward to our last dream. Carousel by @yoonia, requested by @aeristudios

𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖘𝖔𝖒 𝖑𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖇𝖞: Dia's blogversary 2025

Note: Since Tumblr deleted the original post for no reason at all, I guess I'll be answering your ask/request this way instead T^T

Carousel has always been my precious baby, so it means a lot to me that you enjoyed the story. I've never pictured the story having a dark academia vibe to it, but working on this moodboard made me see it. Thank you for requesting this. I enjoyed making this a lot!

[claraxbarton]

Daily Words

Words: 3062

Excerpt:

[shiverandqueeef]

i think my latest fanfiction sojourn might be what finally pushes me over the edge into actually writing again. mostly because i haven't been so at odds with the popular fanon interpretations of a main pairing in uhhh actually possibly ever. it would mean having to subject myself to another rewatch of a movie for which I have the world's most tepid feelings but. Honestly I haven't felt this motivated to write in years. and it's not that the fics I've been reading are "bad" some of them are certified bangers I've just had the most unfortunate onset of 'nobody understands this character but me' syndrome come over me and like! i can either fume silently, complain about it annoyingly, or write what i want to see in the world. so! gonna ride this wave of irritation all the way to the bank baybee!!!!

[consistentsquash]

Sorry I have to scream somewhere after seeing your Reddit comment. CATULLUS 16 SHIPPED VOLDEMORT/DYLAN THOMAS. Dylan Thomas who wrote Do not go gentle into that good night. 🤣🤟

:D I feel folks get hung up on eldritcher's Tomarry or whatever but meanwhile the real deal is Voldemort crushing hard on famous poets, politicians and mathematicians. Obviously this is super reductive. These fics are incredibly hard to describe. But I love his dick thirst. Off the top of my head

Cat16 - Of course Dylan Thomas. Also everybody else. This Voldemort is the dickchaser. He just needs a dick with a pulse, ok?

EotF - Voldemort is chasing Viktor Krum's dick because he has got this crush on Vasil Levski, Bulgarian national hero. Also his crush on the Mahatma. In conclusion, his dick is into history.

Entschiedungsproblem - Alan Turing. Enough said.

Republic - the statue of Augustus. I mean.

Omphale - Agnes Sorrel the French King's sidechick with one boob fashion

I am definitely forgetting a lot of other cases of Voldemort's VIP dick thirst but yeah the only version with dick selfcontrol is the version in Pandemic probably. Which makes sense. He is a cryptobro. Cryptobros ain't getting any.

[bluerasbunny]

ooh man ichorous melody is gonna take me a lot of research...

[shadeswift99]

Literally the reason i love mind control fuckery in fic as much as i do is because Aadaph. And the totem of dying.... augh. yeah your TIZ team fics are like CLASSICS m8

Man it is SO easy to just straight up forget I did that. I wrote those. It makes me so happy every time someone tells me they're still thinking of them, I really should go reread them myself sometime. I still love writing Mind Fuckery a lot, though I mostly apply it to original characters now. Thank you for your comment anon, go forth and read more mind control 💙💙💙

[shey998244353]

i want to create my self-insert girl character and put her to the most harsh environment imaginable. I will make sure that she will receive every possible insult the world can ever utter. I will make sure that she will get her every single personality and identity crumble. I will make sure that she will cling to every tiny opportunity to escape from her misery only to lose it. I will make her cry and beg for mercy in vain. I will occasionally make her lose voice for doing pointless wailing. I will make her scream every name she knows. I will end every single chapter with the same sentence. But nobody came.