[COMMENTARY] 34 minutes late 🐈‍⬛🍒

[yurilution]

34 minutes late
rating: general
pairing: kim nakyoung/seo dahyun (tripleS)
word count: 2,083

suddenly im becoming a real writer so why not do a little commentary... ive always wanted to lol
anyways: the 710 vice president finally earns her title by finally writing her second favorite pairing (and at least half succeeds at it)
(this is a reupload! i accidentally deleted the entry while trying to edit it sorry ^^;)

personal thoughts (or why i hate this fic and posted it anyways)

• my favorite thing in the world (second to chaebin) is nadaz. i think the idea being nadaz itself was a HUGE source of motivation for me? i've been wanting to write nadaz since forever but i've only got one half wip that's anywhere close to seeing the light of day, where ive got about a billion for the other pairs i like. im obsessed with them like crazy but writing them doesn't come to me as easily? which makes me sad!!! i think that's why i was so desperate to get this one out, because i finally had a nadaz idea i thought i could take to the end
• anyways, the only other thing i love in this world as much as yuri is my friends and my bestie mello has been absolutely toiling away in the nadaz tag all by himself and frankly as the vice president of nadaz nation it's MY job to help him. honestly this fic would not have been possible without him (not only for giving me the hot cheeto idea but also for making my 710 brainbugs worse) and i was determined to finish it for him bc i know he's been BEGGING for more nadaz. honestly it's the reason i even ended up posting it in the first place (perhaps i should've gifted it? perhaps that's a milestone to achieve another day though...)
• but really... im not super confident in it 😭 (im really never confident in the things i write but) im super well researched on chaebin to the point i can write whatever and know it's accurate but nadaz is not chaebin and i think my #1 fear is that i haven't quite gotten them right... there were things i could've referenced or things i could've researched more and im also really dedicated to canon compliance so my other #1 fear is that this will be completely disproven by a fromm message within the hour HOWEVER !!! i know these worries are kinda dumb 😭
• also THIS FIC IS A MAJOR RUSHJOB!!! i got the concept at 12pm and chatted with mello about it, actually picked up the pen at 5pm and then posted at 2am. i think it being rushed kinda shows (esp in the intro) but really... when i do think objectively about it though 2k in around 9 hours or so (prob more like 7 bc i had to get food and eat lol) is honestly pretty good for something not half bad? if only i could write this much all the time though 💀
• something im learning is that i might be a bit of a buzzer beater lol. birthday wish was also started from scratch and posted late (dec 4th my timezone) while this one was posted a few hours after valentines... this is def some kind of bad habit i gained from school but ig i just work well under pressure?

what i based it on (and what i wish i based it on)

• again i really like canon compliance and i try my best to incorporate references to things that actually happened wherever possible but... i didn't do that as much as i wanted to here! i probably would've gone combing through fromm and concert interactions a bit more if i had more time lol
• i think i subconsciously took a lot from what dahyun said about nakyoung in these fromm messages. the thing about nadaz is that the two of them are complete goofball idiots who are also each other's safe spaces. really they're so fucking sweet and cute and i really tried to incorporate not only how silly they are but also how fond they are of each other. (and i think...i overused the word laugh a little while trying to do this lol. but how could i not! they're simply too giddy around each other)
• there was some sort of message that soda wrote to naky for her birthday (i believe it was some sort of birthday cafe? if you have yurilution priv access the translation is here) where she said “there's an understanding that only the two of us have” and that REALLY stuck with me. because when you look at the way they interact and talk to each other there really is! if i had more time i would've fleshed it out a bit more i think, but it was something that i absolutely had to mention at least a little bit
• i made a bit of an assumption that dahyun has bad spice tolerance based on her reaction to eating a spicy pepper while eating with naky. also i do think her reaction to the spice in the fic is maybe a littttle bit delayed but the comedic timing was too good not to do it lol ^^~ soda def would have eaten that whole bag if naky didn't stop her cause she likes her too damn much
• anyways...i wish i made soda more flustered!!! she's def head over heels for naky in the fic (though tbh i could've sold that more too) but i would've liked to make her just a littttttle less composed about it. there's veryyyy little hits of it here and there in the fic but i love dahyun in their first live together getting flustered from just one look from naky and even though she's not as bad abt it nowadays she def still gets flustered around her... i think it's super cute! missed opportunity!
• something i really wanted to reference but couldn't make fit was this live where soda makes a cute pun with the rising lyrics and makes naky crack up, before she leans against her and says “i like you like this” because it's really like the best nadaz moment of all time... you can still see some similarities to what i wrote (naky curling into soda like a cat and the very important through-line of these two laughing and smiling at each other every second) but i wanted to take the line specifically! because naky really does love soda the way she is 🥹

about the context

• i struggled a bit about WHEN i wanted to set the fic. the initial idea was it being set on valentines and 710 celebrating buy buying vending machine snacks bc they've been too busy to plan anything else, until i realized they would NEVER be able to celebrate valentines day late at night bc there's absolutely no way they'd be back at the hotel before the day ended 😭 so the fic sorta started to revolve around that but i think it worked out a bit! it being a late celebration makes it sweeter in a way
  • i operated on a couple assumptions: when i went to my tour stop i got out at like 9:30 (and i only did up to hi touch) and the special live they had started at like 11:20 which i assume was after selfies, so the fic absolutely had to happen after midnight. 12:34 was the estimate i got to after assuming they went straight back to the hotel after the concert (though i still think it might be a little early?)
  • it being 34 minutes is completely arbitrary i just wanted it to not be an even time (though we can pretend it's a mintz reference lol)
  • but yeah it's set after their tempe stop cause that's the one on valentine's day! i was a bit hung up about writing something that would theoretically be happening “in the future” at the time i was writing but that's because im too worried about accuracy haha
• did you know? i looked up a bunch of vending machine pictures while thinking about my initial concept to try and figure out what item would realistically be #10 (since i desperately wanted her to pick 10 for dahyun's S number, half because i didn't want to decide on a candy lol but also because i love sentimental naky 🥹) and if vending machines do it by numbers #10 almost always the top corner and it's almost always chips and not candy 😭 but really that just made it even MORE perfect and really helped me form the plotline!
  • and ofc i have to shout out mello, who gave me the idea for the hot cheeto thing in the first place! i also stole the “it's hot like my love for you” line from him lol ❤️
• in my timezone the fic was posted 2 hours after valentines day ended, but that actually might have been the perfect time...? the fic concept is that it's a late valentines anyways so in a way it fits! but thinking about it more, i also seemingly posted it around the time the tempe concert activities ended which makes it even MORE perfect ???like i really posted it soooo close to the time the fic is actually set which i think is a bit beautiful in a way, i guess being a buzzer beater was worth it!

cut content (wow! like a real writer!)

• the initial beginning (that i couldn't really make work in time, and the start is always the hardest part for me lol) was going to be a lot more expanded! i would've included the texts alluded to in the intro with a little convo between them but i sort of had trouble figuring out how they'd text... i def would've said something about dahyun immediately dropping what she was doing in order to text naky and also naky already being in front of dahyun's door when she went outside to meet her. just generally showing more of how much they want to be with each other!
• the end got cut a little bit as well! i had a bit of trouble getting to a satisfying stopping place but i originally had a bit of silly banter where soda asks naky to kiss her again but naky says her lips are too spicy for her (and soda whines that naky likes spicy stuff lol)
  • also, cut line i thought was kind of okay: “And honestly, the kiss has absolutely made her better, because every single pain receptor in her brain has been completely overwritten by the feeling of Kim Nakyoung”

overall thoughts (or why i can't really hate this fic)

• really when i try to think objectively... i should really be kinda proud of myself 😭 a 2k one shot in a day is really nothing to sniff at and i finally got to write a pair that i've been obsessed over and dying to write since foreverrr
• like. i think the baby wav who watched badge war 1 and started shipping nadaz at first sight would be proud of current me for finishing it! and all my friends and most importantly the nadaz president are proud of me too + im finally participating in spreading the nadaz gospel so... yeah i am kinda proud of it :')
• if there's anything i hope i can do w this silly oneshot it's that i can convince people to gaf about nadaz a little more 😭 i tried to convey their silly sweet dynamic as best i could so i'm hoping people realize their potential and get a little more invested...!!! that's really my #1 goal with anything i do: to convince people to like my fav pairings a bit more 🥹❤️
• anyways, if you read this fic, thank you so much for reading! please love nadaz forever amen 🙏