8 Works by manofthemer
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i'm a hot mess (so if you like it) by manofthemer for sunflush
Fandoms: ใจซ่อนรัก | The Secret of Us (TV 2024)
02 Oct 2025
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A figure, hunched over in the doorway, panting. She's swearing grey sweatpants, loose and slung low on her hips, showing off long, long legs, and—Fahlada notes, as the girl straightens, still catching her breath—a tank top that reads: SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA.
It wouldn't be atypical attire in a lecture theatre elsewhere in the same building. But compared to the fitted athleisure most others in the gym are sporting, the girl sticks out like a sore thumb.
The most significant detail of her outfit, though, is the oversized varsity jacket stretching over her shoulders.
Fahlada's eyes trail up to her face, placing her instantly. Knows what the jacket will read if the girl turns around:
VARISITY BASKETBALL
EARN
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Earn smiles sheepishly, looking straight at Fahlada. "I'm really sorry I'm late! Have you already started?"
Varsity cheer captain Fahlada has a lot on her plate this season, balancing med school with her newfound captaincy. The basketball team's star shooter showing up for try-outs doesn't make things any easier.
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They're nose to nose, like this. And the truth has held up against the test of time, and this immeasurable distance between them. Chaeryeong's grey eyes are still breathtaking like this, darkened in anger, the sky moments before a storm breaks.
The last time they'd been this close, almost a year ago, exactly, Chaeryeong had kissed her goodbye.
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Her heart feels weak for another reason entirely, now, a familiar, shameful one. Her mind is healthy, racing ahead.
Foolish heart, falling back into old patterns—a known rhythm, a risky one. She doesn't bother praying for Eunbi not to hear it—if she never has before, she won't start now.
"Unnie," she mumbles into Eunbi's hair.
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until the tower collapses by manofthemer for sunflush
Fandoms: ใจซ่อนรัก | The Secret of Us (TV 2024)
15 Feb 2025
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"You will never be free of her," her mother says. "That is your penance, you realise?"
"No," says Fahlada. She stares down at the nameless body on her lap, throat bleeding in rivulets. Tastes the blood on the back of her fangs and feels nothing. "No, it's my love. It always was."
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"What do you say?" Jaemin asks, pushing his chin up in an impression of haughty noblemen. "Will you be my companion?"
There are many things Jeno could say, in this moment. I am not worthy, or, I am not a toy for you to play with.
Instead, he gives Jaemin what the prince is so clearly trying to coax out of him — a smile. "If that is what you want, then I will."
When Jaemin smiles back, this time, it's blinding, brilliant, beautiful, and real.
Falling in love with him is easy, after that.
Jeno’s father was a king and the son of kings.
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When he looks over, Mark Lee is already looking back.
Donghyuck knows, from his time down a rabbit hole on the internet, that the average human blinks ten to twenty times per minute, and blinks only last one-tenth of a second. It's an inconsequential thing, it should be an inconsequential thing.
For a moment, the sun shines particularly bright through the windows, casting Mark in a beautiful golden hue, and Donghyuck blinks.
He opens his eyes, and Mark is gone.
There's something about Mark Lee that makes Donghyuck want to simultaneously kiss him and get as far away from him as possible.
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i can never wait (for the morning to rise) by manofthemer for evenings (offshores)
Fandoms: NCT (Band)
31 Jan 2021
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“Until next time!” The vigilante’s legs are already dangling over the ledge. With a roguish wink and that infuriating smile, he disappears into the night, true to his name.
His earpiece beeps again, and this time it’s Taeyong’s voice that comes through instead. “Did you forget to tell Shade that he’s allowed to use any of our actual doors, again?”
Kun just sighs defeatedly. “I would have, but he’d just complain that it ruins his aesthetic.”
Kun is the head medic at NeoTech, and Ten makes a habit of breaking into the infirmary.
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- Part 1 of in the middle of the night
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"You don't have to show me your face, you know. Aren't you worried about keeping your identity a secret?"
There’s silence between them for a beat, before the guy starts giggling. Kun doesn’t know what he’d expected, but it certainly wasn’t this.
“Sorry,” the guy says, gasping through his laughter, “It’s just, it’s way too late for that now. Like, half of SM is after me right now, so you understand if I find that hilarious.”
Everyone wonders how the head medic at NeoTech and the infamous vigilante Shade first met.
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- Part 2 of in the middle of the night