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“Is that what this is?” Tashi says, clenching her fists. “You’re throwing a hissy fit now because, what, I didn’t marry you ten years ago? Because Art didn’t pick up your calls?”
“Because I have no idea what I am to you if I don’t have tennis, Tashi."
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Or, Tashi, Art and Patrick finally define the relationship.
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- Part 3 of betting on losing dogs
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29 Jun 2024
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"I've dated plenty of chicks, man. None of them wanted to marry me. That's not what I was for."
"What were you for?" Art spits at him, his eyes are cold as ice.
Patrick smiles. A bead of sweat travels down his neck. Art follows it down, down to his dick.
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filling the sauna scene shaped void in this tag. technically pwp but to me the emotional arc is significant.
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29 Jun 2024
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Minho does that. He used to, at least. Somehow he cut Seungmin to the bone, for years. When Seungmin was a trainee, he thought that Minho was just like that. The reality was much more complicated. Minho fashioned himself to whatever company he kept. Warm and tender with Felix. Competitive with Changbin. Telepathic with Jisung.
Who was he with Seungmin? Barely cruel. Teasing. Minho used to hold a magnifying glass to the things Seungmin hid so well.
Maybe that’s why Minho didn’t try to reach out after that morning. He’d figured out that Seungmin was a coward a long time ago.
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26 Aug 2023
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Jimin squeezes his eyes shut for a second and holds his breath before he says, "I'll tell them it's a stage outfit. It is a stage outfit. I'll say something about how style is different in the future and that the concept team put me in it. I'll tell them that I hate it and then steal some of your hyungs' basketball shorts to wear until I can figure out how to go home, okay? They don't have to know."
"You don't though," comes the whisper. "You don't hate it. It's what— "
Jimin feels his arms constrict almost automatically, like he wants to pull this crying thing on his chest down into his ribs where it can't possibly be hurt by anything else. "The concept team did what I asked them to do, yeah," Jimin answers.
"So they know."
All Jimin can do is nod into his hair and say, "They know."
(Or: after falling asleep on the Like Crazy set, Jimin wakes up face to face with a very angry, freshly debuted, version of himself.)
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22 Jun 2023
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Chris waits for Felix to laugh, but Felix doesn’t laugh. If Chris didn’t know better, he’d say Felix looked betrayed.
“You’re straight,” Felix says.
Or, Chris gets drunk with Felix after Felix comes back to Seoul, and he realizes that he’s not the person he’s spent his life trying to be.
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22 Jun 2023
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“Mike, I need to ask you a question. You don’t have to tell me the answer, but I need you to think about it.”
“Shoot.”
Hiroto says, “What are you willing to do to bring her back?”
(Or: Mike Townsend knows what he's gotta do.)
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15 Jun 2023
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The rest of the team is faltering. They remember another game that seemed endless, remember the darkness and the horrible light that punctuated it. Dot remembers too, of course, but they don't falter, even though the game is tied and the extra innings are looming. The ball must be thrown, and so it is. Nothing can change that. Dot can only stop if the flames come for them someday too, and so they pitch, and do not allow themself to think of fire.
(Jaylen Hotdogfingers hits Workman Gloom with a pitch, Workman Gloom hits their final home run, and PolkaDot Patterson hits rock bottom.)
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- Part 2 of the price of perfection
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14 Jun 2023
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“Let me dye your hair,” Jisung says, and it’s not a request. It’s more of a plea, tinged with something tight that promises a meltdown if Hyunjin is not extremely careful with how he proceeds. “It looks like shit and I can fix it.”
Hyunjin shifts, stretches. “Well, fuck, Jisung-ah. Tell me how you really feel.”
Jisung stares at him, unblinking. Hyunjin sighs and stands up.
Sometimes, it doesn't matter how hard you love someone.
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12 Jun 2023
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seungmong_22
Hi, Hyunjin! My name is Seungmin. I'm Felix's friend, I hope he's mentioned me before…? Ha. We met online two years ago.
I know it's unexpected
But I kind of need your help
hyuntothejin
Me???
After 2 years of online friendship, Seungmin has finally found the time and saved up enough money to visit Felix for his birthday. In order for the surprise to work, he recruits the help of Felix's brother, Hyunjin, and together they spend the next three months forging a plan as well as a friendship of their own— or maybe something more.
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12 Jun 2023
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"The day Hyunjin’s glorious return to matchmaking plants its first seeds, he’s slated to guest on Lee Felix’s ASMR YouTube channel."
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The trials and tribulations of Hwang Hyunjin: influencer, young twenty-something, and gold medalist in making messes where they didn't exist before.
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17 Apr 2023
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File: yangjeongin-studentfiles2024.html
Search by Keyword: Kim Seungmin
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Seungmin enrolls his daughter in Jeongin's kindergarten class. The rest of the story is stored in Jeongin's inbox.- Language:
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13 Apr 2023
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Chan, frozen in place, grapples with the knowledge that this kid, living and breathing and fidgeting Jisung, standing at the height of the armrest with wide beady eyes, sunken cheeks and overlong hair, came out of his sister five years ago. It doesn’t make sense. None of it makes sense.
Five years. Five fucking years. It’s not like he expected her to have told him but–
And now he's responsible for him.
In which Chan learns love through his nephew, and maybe his best friend too.
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05 Mar 2023
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The two of them get engaged the summer after graduation. The announcement makes front page news in the Korean Herald and Hyunjin’s mom puts a clipping of it on the fridge right next to a copy of Seungmin’s senior thesis paper and acceptance letter into Harvard Business School. It’s the first time Hyunjin’s ever been featured there post-elementary school, when his macaroni art was just slightly more advanced than the other kids in his class, and the sight of it leaves a bitter taste in his mouth because he did nothing to deserve the spot of honor. Unless the culmination of his life’s success is simply marrying Kim Seungmin.
Hyunjin’s tasked with picking out their engagement rings, a pair of golden Tiffany bands. He sends Seungmin’s to him in the mail. His mom has to text Hyunjin the address. He doesn’t have Seungmin’s number saved in his phone.
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11 Jan 2023
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Most of the time, Jeongin loves the power that he was born with. He loves the flashes of memory he gets from every object that he touches and how it has always made the world feel so incredibly alive.
But it’s harder, in an idol group.
(Or: Jeongin wanders foreign cities to cope with magical-related illness and his hyungs worry. Their love feels both incredible and suffocating.)
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03 Jan 2023
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“Lix,” says Chan, softly. “Have you been unhappy?”
Felix swallows and it hurts like he’s gotten sick.
“We’ve all been unhappy,” Felix says. “Haven’t we?”
Or, when Chan returns to Sydney for the first time since the group’s disbandment, he and Felix are forced to reckon with their feelings for each other and the secrets they’ve been keeping to themselves.
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- Part 2 of all light comes in
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02 Jan 2023
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“How long are you sticking around?”
“At least a month.”
Jeongin’s brows creep up toward his hairline. “Right,” he says eventually. “Um.” He massages at his closed eyelids, like Hyunjin is giving him a migraine. “You still know your way around, right? Like, do you need a tour of where the bathroom is? Laundry? Linen closet?”
Hyunjin’s lip curls, halfway to a snarl. “I think I’ll manage.”
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Signed to a modeling agency at seventeen and working a nonstop five years since, all Hyunjin wants to do now is go home. But this summer, only his best friend’s brother is in town.
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31 Dec 2022
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20 Dec 2022
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“I’m out of clean clothes,” Minho grumbles in complaint. “I only packed enough outfits for a 2 or 3 day trip. How much longer is this going to take?”
“Believe it or not, Stockholming you into taking me back has proven to be a very long and drawn out process, hyung.”
Seungmin hops in the car after receiving his divorce papers in the mail. He types in the address on the navigation app on his phone. Destination: Minho or bust.
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24 Nov 2022
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A photo, slightly blurry, taken from a fan’s phone in the middle of a concert. Hyunjin’s hair is bright red, vivid enough that it looks real even through the screen, and Jisung has an arm slung over his shoulder. They look like they’re the only people on the stage; on the planet. It’s disarmingly intimate. There’s a tension that anybody can see: the way they’re singing, the way their bodies are turned towards each other almost subconsciously. They’re magnetic.
It’s not love, not yet, but it sure is something.
(The story of four kids in a band, told through bits and pieces of memories.)
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22 Nov 2022
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There's a terrible moment of silence once Chan finishes explaining their plan. Felix considers making a run for the door, but one of the members would probably tackle him first.
“So we’re not going with my plan to call Dispatch and make out with one of my friends outside?” Changbin asks, pouting a little. “I have a make-out boy on speed dial.”
“You still use speed dial?” Minho asks. “Are you my dongsaeng or what?”
After agreeing to a company-mandated romantic relationship for the cameras, Felix is forced to reexamine some long-held beliefs about his feelings for Chan.
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03 Nov 2022