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Questions from

kyuuketsukirui:
1. Wow, I just looked at your fic journal and that's a lot of DBSK fics! What got you hooked on them?
Good fanfic started it, and the boys themselves sealed the deal. I'm a sucker for the talented and dorkish. There are other fandoms that offer all of the above, of course, but somehow these were the ones that were right for me, or maybe it was just that I came across them at a time when I felt/feel like writing again.

2. What are your 5 favorite songs by them?
At the moment, Rising Sun, All In Vain, Dead End, 믿어요, Love In The Ice.

3. What are 5 songs (any artist) you're hooked on right now?
I'm not putting any DBSK songs here, just because there are five others up there.
Vienna Teng - Whatever You Want
Cake Or Death - Sweet Abuse
Orange Range - 以心電信
Anyband - TPL (Talk, Play, Love)
Kyo - Dernière Danse

4. What are your favorite things to write about?
Friendship. Relationships in general. Writing about small everyday moments in order to explore a character. Recently my brain's been very attached to random AUs, but I really don't know what that's about.

5. To read about?
Friendship. The growth of a relationship, whether that's the beginning of one or a change in an established one. Emotion or feelings, but not necessarily in so many words.

Questions from

1anonymous1:
1. What DBSK pairing do you like to write the most, and which do you like to write the least?
Like and least like is difficult to answer. OT5 is the most natural, definitely. And... most work used to be Jaeho, but I think I might have broken that block at last. LJ says my most written pairing is a tie between Jaejoong/Changmin and Jaejoong/Yoochun, and the least written are Jaejoong/Junsu and Yunho/Yoochun, but that's got a lot to do with what people requested too.

2. What's your favorite place you've been to and why? (You have so many to choose from, I couldn't resist)
Ohhh. Hard to say. They all have memories I wouldn't give up. But maybe Delphi. There's something about the feeling I had on that mountainside that I've never felt again, although the middle of the Nile came close. Something about the history, and the way the hundreds of tourists couldn't break the peace that seemed to touch every breath. That, and it was beautiful. (And a bonus: I don't have a Delphi picture uploaded, but here's the Nile.)

3. What's your favorite thing about being a doctor? Similarly, why did you become a doctor?
Well, I'm not quite a doctor yet, but anyway. I love the variety, the way that no two days are the same. Team that with the ability to make an instant, real difference to someone's life, and it's the most amazing thing. Why... because the stories I was told as a child were medical stories. Because I wanted to know more. Because I could see myself doing it for the rest of my life, the way I couldn't see anything else.

4. Name something you can't do without (and don't cheat and say oxygen or water or anything like that).
The stories in my head. I don't know what I'd do if one day I woke up without any more stories to tell myself. Life would be so much more boring, that's for sure.

5. What's your earliest childhood memory?
Early enough that I'm not sure if they're real memories or if I've pieced them together from a mishmash of memories, dreams, stories I was told and old photographs, but my first memories are of Oman. Of the desert and the sea, of learning to ride a bike at the edge of a village and driving through sand dunes to watch my parents catch crabs on the beach with equipment jury-rigged from surgical tools. I know I remember the light, and the smell of the desert, which always on some level says 'home' to me.