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TheNewKnack
@thenewknack.bsky.social
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xan || he/him || 34 || gay || ot7 || fic writer || mostly jikook/km || sometimes namseok || hobi biased || sometimes 🔞 || vers jikook enthusiast

📝: https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheNewKnack/works
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thenewknack.bsky.social
Had To Meet The Devil Just To Earn His Flame
#jikookau #ot7
UPDATED - Ch 2 added
🪦 modern gothic ghost story
🪦 angst, hurt/comfort
🪦 possession
🪦 paranormal
🪦 mystery
🪦 death but no MCD
🪦 side namseok and taegi
🪦 currently 14.5k

archiveofourown.org/works/725329...
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
the moodboards for every chapter
9 grid moodboard with thin pale tan border photos from left to right top row: jk with long fluffy hair, tucking it behind his ear, a stack of hand written letters, tiger lilly bouquet middle row: the gwangan bridge in busan, title card Dear My Valentine Ch2, Letters, the golden gate bridge in san francisco bottom row: white spirea flowers, hands writing a letter, jm with silver hair and a red sweater 9 grid moodboard with thin pale gree border photos from left to right top row: photo of the outside of narita airport in tokyo, two hands holding pinkies, jk with long hair wearing a ball cap and black tshirt middle row: japanese countryside photo of a river, title card Dear My Valentine Ch3 Tokyo, shibuya crossing in tokyo bottom row: jm with silver hair wearing a green sweater, inside a japanese cruise train lounge car, white walls with fixtures that look like trees and big windows, bookstore front 9 grid moodboard with thin grey border photos from left to right all in black and white top row: silver tipped fountain pen, photo of the back of a man walking away and pulling a suitcase at the airport, jm wearing a hooodie, laying down and hiding his face middle row: close up of jm face, title card Dear My Valentine Ch4 Endings, close up of jk face bottom row: two men hugging one in a white shirt you see the other's hands wrapped around him, the windows of an airport, fountain pens, ink and paper 9 grid moodboard with thin pale beige border photos from left to right top row: a curved banquet seating in front of a bay window with sun coming through the window, close up of jm smiling, exterior of victoran style homes in san francisco middle row: two sealed hand written letter with red wax seal, title card Dear My Valentine Ch5 Beginnings, the pages of a book bottom row: sunset over san francisco, clos up of jk smiling, sunset over the empire state building in new york
October 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
Dear My Valentine
#jikookau
COMPLETE - 5/5 Chapters
💌 fluff, angst
💌 chaptered
💌 author jm
💌 fan jk
💌 heart donor recipient jk
💌 jk centric
💌 love letters
💌 falling in love
💌 56.7K

archiveofourown.org/works/538025...
9 grid moodboard with thin pale orange border photos from left to right top row: book store, jk laying down reading a book, jk's hands wearing a silver bracelet middle row: a photo of a downhill street in busan, title card Dear My Valentine, a photo of a downhill street in san francisco bottom row: close up of. hands touching on top of a table, jm with silver hair looking over his shoulder, a stack of hand written letters
October 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
my choices differ as a writer and a reader so i chose for both
w=writer
r=reader
b=both
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
thenewknack.bsky.social
dang i almost forgot what today was

happy army independence day to all who celebrate 10/14/25 7 years free
tweet from 10/14/2018 from OKU that reads ' The Organization of the United Kpopers declares the ARMY expelled as of today' purple and white flag wtih the BTS logo in the center of a laurel wreath waving against a bright blue sky and fluffy white clouds
October 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
Dear My Valentine
#jikookau
COMPLETE - Ch5/Final added
💌 fluff, angst
💌 chaptered
💌 author jm
💌 fan jk
💌 heart donor recipient jk
💌 jk centric
💌 love letters
💌 falling in love
💌 56.6K

archiveofourown.org/works/538025...
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
eh, not as bad as i thought it would be
October 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
sooo just finished writing dmv — it's freaking done. holy freaking crap.

wow, still shocked how this story just exploded into so much more. kinda love it a lot.

on to editing she goes
green and beige google sheets chart columns titled: title, goal end, progress, status, i took the screenshot to show that i changed the status of the fic to editing
October 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
me yelling at myself in the notes about the love scene in dmv
a screenshot of fic outline notes that read: make love, (non-explicit and make it flowery you sappy fuck)
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
i thought about how cute it would be to finish up writing Dear My Valentine using the Love letter theme on ellipsus, but it hurts my eyes too much, guess i'll stick with Afterglow —

🎶leave. your body golden like the sUun and th moo—oon 🎶
screenshot of the colors of the love letter theme offered on the ellipsus site. its four shades of deep red
October 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
mid week word count dip seems to be normal for me 🤷
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
so yeah this just happened. 🎉
green, and white gsheet table titled: word count goal of the year goal: 80K year to date count: 80,015
October 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
thenewknack.bsky.social
my week so far
October 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
looked familiar 🥹
jimin at the dior event with pretty soft eyes, he looks like the lead in a romantic movie or show kate from bridgerton lookin up at anthony with soft and pretty yearning eyes
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
from dmv chapter 5, this was the only usage of the word in the entire chapter.

#wordgamewednesday #wipwednesday
The love of his life, the person who epitomized romance, and championed writing love letters was standing there in his home, looking like the love interest in a classic romance movie while equating him with romanticism. Fuck! If that didn't make his tummy get the fluttery butterflies, he wasn't sure what would.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
Dear My Valentine
#jikookau WIP #xanwips
UPDATED - ch 4 added
💌 fluff, angst
💌 chaptered wip
💌 author jm
💌 fan jk
💌 heart donor recipient jk
💌 jk centric
💌 love letters
💌 falling in love
💌 currently 43.1K

archiveofourown.org/works/538025...
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
time to reset, still can’t believe i wrote every single day of september i think it’s a first for me. let’s hope october is similarly kind to me.
green, white and beige google sheet with many graphs to track word count based on a year end goal. my goal was 80K green white and beige list of my daily start and daily end word counts. the last column automatically subtracts them to give me my daily count
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
ch 4 is in the can, locked and loaded
ch 5 is so danged close. close enough that i might post ch 4 tomorrow and ch 5 next week.
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
thenewknack.bsky.social
hoseok would like you to know that you are killin it girl
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
i know, it's crazy, especially given how bad it looked back in feb seriously i wrote 160 words for the entire month and jan was only a tiny bit better, i really didn't think i'd make it
September 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
welp, i passed last years total 80K i'm coming for you
a google docs chart it's green and white, one column is titled : year — there are 3 years beneath it 2025, 2024, and 2023. the second column is titled words there are three word count totals one per year. 76,945 for 2025 so far, 76,832 for 2024, and 64,580 for 2023
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
not too shabby
chart for the week starting september 22 . there is a pink background and the days of the week marked on the side with a space to fill in your word counts each day. mine were: 717, 880, 361, 750, 1613, 772 and 1219
September 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
thenewknack.bsky.social
yesterday was my highest wc of the month
September 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
i had a few sentences containing 'final' and not 'finally' however they revealed more than i was ready to tease for the next chapters.

i was thankful this word was chosen because it showed me i used 'finally' far too many times for my liking so i changed a few.

#wordgamewednesday #wipwednesday
In reality they were not the immovable stone. Instead they felt more like an autumn leaf preparing for that strong gust of wind that would finally untether them from the tree; shaky, unsure, fragile.
September 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
thenewknack.bsky.social
decided to play along
September 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM