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“Do you know what love is, Minho-hyung?”
“I have an idea,” Minho says, and all at once it feels like both a lie and too much of a truth. He looks for something in Jisung’s eyes, but it’s not there. He knows that it’s not there.
or: three christmases minho and jisung spend together, and the lifetimes in between.
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“It’s good,” Felix decides, after a minute. “That you’re trying something new. I think it’ll look cool.”
Jisung bites his tongue, focuses on breathing steadily. The record spins into the second-to-last song, and Freddie Mercury sings about something that Jisung doesn’t quite understand. Felix sings every word with precision, like he does get it.
He leans forward and whispers against Jisung’s ear, like they’re not alone, like he’s saying something secret.
He says, “I bet hyung’ll think it’s cool, too.”
or: five times jisung changed a part of himself for minho, and the one time he didn’t have to.
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I’m worth it, he doesn’t say. I’m worth it, fuck, I’m worth it. Please bet on me. I’m good and I’ll be better and I need this, I need this, I need this.
What he does say is not quite as honest, but it’s just as good. That’s how it works, is it not, the industry—a lie within a lie within a lie makes a person.
or: how hyunjin rises, how he falls, how he falls in love.
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Just as the bassist takes the final step towards the very center of the stage, instrument secured by a strong pair of hands and a purple and black neck strap, Seungmin says,
“Ladies, gentlemen, variations thereupon,” a beat of silence, then: “Han Jisung.”
or: minho gets hired to take pictures at the concert of an up-and-coming rock band, meets a pretty bassist, and learns how to stop surviving and start living.
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It’s natural—the way a volcano is natural, an ever-present threat, even when dormant, and yet people continue to build homes and lives around it. The way they don’t escape from it, only prepare as best as they can so that when fire and lava come flowing down, they’ll be ready.
Minho can only ever hope for that.
or: a study of color, fire, and love.
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I know you.
I’ll always know you.
I know you.The moon glows outside their window, pearlescence leaking into their floorboards.
Satoru, Suguru breathes. A finger pressed into the dip between his collarbones. The shadows swallowing them.
Bookmarked by irino
09 Sep 2023
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I carved out a place for you. It’s still there.
If you were to show up tomorrow, standing in the doorway like nothing happened, I’d probably hit you across the face really fucking hard, and then I’d forgive you.
I’d forgive you. I can’t tell whether that makes me ashamed or not.
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if you kiss me i think i'll feel better by skimmillk
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
22 Apr 2021
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“I think I’m dying.”
There was silence on the other end, long enough for Gojo to open his mouth to repeat what he said, or for an inkling of panic that the call had disconnected to start to sprout in the back of his mind, but Getou’s voice brought him back down with a simple:
“...What?”
or Gojo gets the flu and Getou takes care of him.
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(Here’s something that a harbinger of tragedy would never find the courage to admit: there are moments in between the bitter self-hatred and the visceral, tangible consequences of your sins in which you almost think you’re worthy of forgiveness; of second chances; of a life beyond your greatest regrets. It’s a unique brand of pain, and it looks like this:)
“Let me help you with this,” Satoru mumbles, so quietly that it’s almost reverent.
or: the aftermath of Shibuya, as told by one house-arrested Getou Suguru
Bookmarked by watchtheleaves (irino)
07 Sep 2023
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we have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. (crush, richard siken)
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“It was so different back then,” he said softly. “Nobody knew us or thought we would be anything. I could be bad. I could be bad and not care about it. Before we made it, we could do everything.”
He met Satoru’s gaze. What-once-was, sickening and familiar, the same red line forever tying their oldest promises together, sank through the gentle slant of his mouth.
“Wasn’t it fun?” Suguru whispered.
OR,
suguru takes up yuki’s offer to drum for her new band, intending for this tour to be his last one.
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24 Aug 2023
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"I haven't been kind to you."
"You were," Satoru immediately denied. "You are."
"I made a story about you and convinced myself it was true." Suguru wanted to yell, but he could only manage something incomplete. "What part about that was kind?"
Satoru squeezed his elbow. He could feel the jolt in his bone.
"You were trying to survive, weren't you?"
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cerulean skies by HamsterQinghua
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
20 Jun 2023
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“I’m in love with Satoru,” Suguru says again.
“So you’ve said,” Shoko says, sounding wearier than she has any right to be. “You want the good news or the bad news?” Suguru opens his mouth to answer, but Shoko apparently deems the answer unnecessary as she continues. “The good news is I’ve figured out what’s wrong with you, the bad news is that you probably won’t like it.”
Suguru stares at Shoko, hoping he doesn’t have to vocalize his obvious question.
“Whatever’s blocking your cursed energy also has the ability to stop you from saying certain things—specifically, lies,” she clarifies. “Basically, your body is forcing you to tell only the truth for the time being.” She shrugs. “If you try to resist, well. You know what happens.”
Suguru continues staring at Shoko.
“So it’s true, then?” he says slowly. “I’m in love with Satoru?”
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or, Suguru ingests a curse that forces him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
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Russian translation available here!
Ukrainian translation available here!