Spooktober 2023, Day 31/31. BTS Fic: true colours (shining through)

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Title: true colours (shining through)
Author: kat_lair 
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Pairing: Kim Namjoon | RM/Min Yoongi | Suga
Tags: Alternate Universe - Non-Famous, Friends to Lovers, Hair Dyeing, Hair Washing, Feelings
Rating: T
Word count: 3,648
Disclaimer: Not real!

Summary:

“Oh my god, hyung!” The bathroom looks like a set from a slasher movie, red streaks of colour everywhere, on the floor, over the sink, the toilet… There’s even what looks like a bloody handprint on the mirror. “Are you hurt? Is that…” Namjoon finally takes in Yoongi himself. He’s topless, kneeling over the bathtub, his hands and half of his head covered in the same bright red substance that Namjoon is reasonably sure is not actually blood because if that was the case, Yoongi would not be giving him the very lively glare he’s currently sending in Namjoon’s direction. Or talking.

“It’s not blood,” Yoongi all but growls, pacifying Namjoon's panic brain. “It’s hair dye.”

Author notes: Spooktober 2023, Day 31/31. Prompt/theme: orange. This fic is brought to you by Min Yoongi’s orange hair. Title obviously from Cyndi Lauper (the original MV is a trip, but I really enjoyed this more recent acoustic rendition). Fic is unbetaed as it needed to be posted before end of 2023. Because of my personality. If you spot a typo/mistake, you absolutely can and should tell me about it.

true colours (shining through) on AO3

( true colours (shining through) )

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BOOM! (writing/fic talk)

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Wow Kat, what's that sound? Well, glad you asked. It's the sound of me SMASHING through my 75k getyourwordsout goal! BOOM! We're currently >78k and there's still a day to go.

*smug*

Much of the words came from a) co-writing done with dreamersdare and b) because I churned over 24k for Spooktober fics/ficlets, even if some of that churning happened after Christmas lol. Posting most of them back-to-back was a really interesting experience actually and I have some reflections.

( (under the cut, it's all very self indulgent) )

I was always going to do a Spooktober Masterlist for my own amusement. I know I'm about to list all of these for the 2023 Fic Round Up soon (well... Sometime in Jan?) anyway but there everything will be by fandom so let me just induldge my love of lists *pets the list* so, here, Spooktober Fics in posting order (links will take you to AO3 but if you prefer DW for reading, everything is under the spooktober 2023 tag.

( List under a cut due to length! )

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I have signed up getyourwordsout again because I love their spreadsheets. I've gone for the 150k optimistically even though I've never achieved that. It's good to have goals or something?

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Finally, I wanted to flail about being podficced!!

The lovely pezzax_podfics podficced under his wing (TXT, Choi Soobin/Choi Yeonjun) and turned a tiny ficlet into a full-blown audio drama with music and sound effects and it is so, so extremely cool I absolutely lost mine when listening. Also, please appreciate the cover art! (akdkjsj wings!)

The most awesome pieces0fstars podficced Volcano (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) and holy shit the emotional impact the recording packs... Look, I obviously had a lot of emotions about the concepts which I wrote immediately after the song dropped. But the thing is, I wrote the fic so I knew what was in the fucker and yet, YET, I was absolutely choked up, clutching my heart, because the performance got that exact frayed, desperate edge I tried to convey in words and... Yeah, please listen.

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