The Kestrel Sings

Now for the third year in a row, I have been roped into filling out the 2025 kpop tierlist (a bit of a misnomer, actually, because it ostensibly only lists title tracks to individual releases, and even then is missing some songs, or oddly lists others. For example, tripleS' Q&A is on the tierlist despite not being a title track). In one part as reason to compare and yap with friends, and in part to prompt me to listen to a bunch of music outside of my usual tastes.

It also happens to be a great way to discuss my thoughts on 2025's releases and reveals a lot about my tastes. Also, my tier names are funny and I like attention. Therefore...

I've been wanting to do a little glimpse into the world of Where Another Sky Hangs and its four installments, Lovers in the Night, Strangers in the Light, Is It Going Too Fast for You, and We Don't Need to Put No Label on It Do We Now for a while now. A lot of this has just been hanging in my head but sharing is caring and it feels right to do justice by all the thoughts I've had going in my head about the little pieces that never got put onto paper but are crucial to the world-building/tickle me somehow.

Initially this was a whole document full of notes, but I figure that the better way to do this is to go through each document and make comments on it so you can see my thought processes through the whole making of this project. 

Things that pertain to multiple fics, or is better served by being pointed out here, will be below.

WARNING: Contains spoilers for the above-mentioned fics. If you intend to read any of them unspoiled and have not yet done so, this is your point of no return.
( Here There Be Spoilers )