kpop archaeologist

sorry i haven't updated in a while; i haven't been feeling my best.

today's sotd popped up in my study playlist today, and it brought me back to another old writing idea i had a long time ago. i hope you don't mind if i share it here. 

the idea's pretty simple. i thought about how people refer to their favorite kpop artists as royalty all the time, and was like, "huh. now what if that was real."

i didn't have a name for the entire universe / world itself, but i imagined a vast continent separated based on which group of monarchs ruled it. they were united under the group's leader, and each member had their own kingdom.

i mainly took inspo from older groups and am not entirely sure if this continues to be a thing, but i remember sometimes the members themselves even had solo fandoms with specific names (i don't mean solo stans, just like. for biases yk). so, then, their kingdom would be based off of what the imagery of their fandom name provided. like, say your fandom name was pearls. perhaps your kingdom would be by the sea, have a prominent shipbuilding industry, be known for high-quality aquatic jewelry and perhaps even aquatic wildlife conservation. or good seafood. 

it would affect appearances and history as well, of course. if we could go more abstract / varied name such as hydrangeas... what color of hydrangea, specifically? maybe blue. in general, blue represents calm or sorrow. so, if it were blue hydrangeas you specifically wanted to draw from, perhaps there'd be lots of calm sparkling rivers. or there would be a blue tint over the land, if it were in the north of the continent / kingdom and rather cold. blue could be your representative color, if you wanted to partner it with the general / group fandom color. and in terms of history, perhaps a great tragedy occurred some time ago, and blue hydrangeas became the motif of the kingdom to recognize and commemorate it.

and then, yk. there would be special festivals, traditions, etc. and of course you still have the general group's fandom name, so if you have both types of fandom, there would have to be some sort of balance... or maybe not! maybe there's magic. maybe not. maybe they have hydroelectric systems, maybe.............. *shrugs and makes vague gestures* the power of love powers their towns. it can happen!

the scope is vast. the options are limitless. what would you want your fandom name to be? and how would that show in your kingdom? i'm curious~

the story itself would take place long after all the kingdoms are gone, however. but nooooo oneeeee knowwwws whyyyyyyy~..............!!! the main character would be a historian / anthropologist of sorts, exploring each kingdom and documenting their findings. it would've been an epistolary-ish book, mainly told through diaries and notes, and sketches of artifacts n the like. maybe a few present-day newspaper articles, scraps of art left behind to form a greater context. i think it would be interesting to try and translate modern fandom dynamics and kpop history into what feels like a vaguely fantasy-ish pseudo-medieval world. but it's way beyond my current skill level, lolz. (honestly if i was into d&d i'd make it into a d&d campaign of traveling historians and other curious folks, but i know next to nothing about d&d.) maybe when i'm way older i'll return to it and something'll happen... 

... i'm sorry so many of my posts nowadays are just me dumping my brain's ideas from over the years. i straight up forgot about this one, though, until i heard this song again. weird. but things happen.

sotd: haunt muskie by c418