Joining me this episode is a recurring guest from the first season who is a renowned writer known for her works such as YouRiko fanfics and Love Live Hellfire, fellow co-host of After School Writers, and one of my good friends, Lydinya! We talked about K-pop, her proofreading experience, and our love for TWICE, as well as our writing progresses and Lyd representing the YouRiko nation. We even talked about Aqours's latest single and last concert. Also, this became the longest episode of the podcast thus far, funny how the record was beaten after just one episode. Noah/Fallen: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hexagoncube Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/users/hexagoncube Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@hexagoncube Medium: https://hexagoncube.medium.com/ Lydinya: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lydinya Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/users/lydinya Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:48 Section 1: General Discussion 01:54 K-Pop 02:39 How Lyd got into TWICE 03:49 How Noah got into TWICE 09:07 Recent songs TWICE did 11:32 K-pop artists collaborating with Western artists 17:34 Does Lyd listen to other K-pop acts? 18:28 Did Lyd listen to all of TWICE albums? 20:27 Opinions of different languages versions for K-pop songs 24:59 A good example of a song done well in versions with different languages? 26:34 Over-population of new K-pop girl groups 33:29 Girl groups not getting the right management 37:43 Blackpink members releasing solo albums 38:59 One big hit in a mid album is not a good strategy 40:14 One important factor for a song to be successful 41:50 Noah misses old TWICE days, so does Lyd 43:53 Thoughts on ILLIT's 'Magnetic' 45:07 BTS dominating the music industry 47:34 Lyd naming all 7 BTS members 49:22 BTS songs discussion 52:55 Lyd's thoughts on Noah's writing from the past to now 55:21 Noah re-editing his first LL fic 58:37 Lyd hasn't published a fic in a long time 59:48 Creating OCs in fics can be hard sometimes 1:04:01 Does Lyd also find it difficult to not write OOC? 1:05:06 Section 2: Questions 1:05:21 Lyd's questions to Noah 1:59:17 Noah's questions to Lyd 2:37:40 Aqours latest single 'Eikyuu Hours' and last concert 2:44:35 Wrap Up