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  1. Public Bookmark 94

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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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    29 Jun 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 49

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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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