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He’s ready to close his eyes, get a few winks in while he’s sure they won’t be stopping anytime soon, when a shout comes from outside.
Gunwook hesitantly moves to peer out of the boxcar, following the ground slowly rolling beneath to a boy running alongside the train, a large briefcase in one hand.or
In 1958 Korea, while stowing away in a boxcar, Gunwook meets a fellow freight hopper, Matthew.
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Gunwook knows exactly how the whole sequence goes. He’s spent countless nights reliving this moment, staying up late enough to escape his solitary limbo and enter his recollection of heaven.
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Gunwook visits his last memory of Matthew again, watching everything play out in a familiar cosmo-filled bedroom.
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Matthew isn't sure if he’ll see Taerae again, given it took this long for them to meet once more. He’s not certain the other means what he said, if those words were simply courtesy. But still, Matthew hopes their paths won’t diverge—that he can keep Taerae in his life. Just for the summer.
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In the pressing heat of July, between listening to frequency 200.2 and doing anything to pass the time, a loneliness festers within Matthew. That is, until his old schoolmate, Taerae, comes back into his life.
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“Matthew?”
A small gasp escapes his own mouth, something notches in his throat but he manages to get out a single word. “Gunwook.”
He’s different, but he’s still Gunwook, and at the moment, it means everything.or
Matthew moves back to Korea after three years and runs into Gunwook again.
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He looks different—dyed blond hair, new clothes, some stranger accompanying him. Which is wrong, Taerae thinks, then he reconsiders just how long it's been. What’s ‘wrong’ is that Taerae hasn’t changed. He’s been stagnant in this ugly, self-deprecating aftermath that won’t go away, but really, he’s made no effort to get rid of it.
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Taerae sees Matthew a year after they break up
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“Do you think I would look good with nipple piercings?” Nico asks, staring appraisingly at herself in Euijoo’s long mirror.
Nico pulls her oversized shirt back to be tight against her chest, and because she never wears a bra, her small breasts are prominently outlined, nipples crested against the fabric. Euijoo glances down for a second before trailing her gaze back up to meet Nico’s eyes in the mirror.
“What made you think of that?” Euijoo swallows.
“I’ve been thinking about doing it for a while,” Nico explains, “But seeing Joohee’s piercing reminded me.”
The piercing would suit Nico, and Nico knows it.
“Yeah, you could pull it off.”
Or: Euijoo has been in Nico's orbit for as long as she can remember.
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09 Apr 2026
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literally everything i ever could’ve dreamed of
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If Jo had been lying down and facing the wall, then it would’ve been fine. It wouldn’t have mattered that he missed the extra pair of shoes in the foyer, he would’ve been fine leaving the door ajar. Yuma would’ve stumbled in and seen his still form, and assumed he was asleep.
But Jo forgot to lie down and face the wall. So Yuma stumbles in and finds him flinching through an orgasm, catching his release in a Kleenex, sighing out, “Kei-hyung–”
In October of 2018, six hundred and sixty-five million light years away from Earth, a small star was cannibalized in the dark void of space. It was just one-tenths the mass of our solar system’s sun. A postdoctoral fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute observed the phenomenon for three months, and deemed the entire affair to be wholly unremarkable. There was no funeral.
Or; An ode to AT2018hyz.
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16 Feb 2026
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“Yeah, why not,” Nicholas says with a laugh of his own, slumping back into his seat with crossed arms, a satisfied cat. “I wear a couple dresses and skirts and whatnot; you tell your uncle your girlfriend can’t speak Korean and then, boom. You and I get to live it up on the beach… Besides, I know how much you miss it there.”
He clears his throat, but his voice cracks anyway when he adds, “What kind of best friend would I be if I didn’t do this for you?”
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24 Feb 2026
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under the warmth and glamor of cannes, jo and yuma reconnect.
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yuma's in a band, jo's an up and coming actor. they broke up four years ago.
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Bookmarked by papayaz
19 Feb 2026
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soo good!!! i love the sort of mixed media of the story, song lyrics, and movie scripts,,,,seriously so cool
not to mention the way the relationships were crafted gahhh i could Not put this down <333
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It’s been a little over a month since their failed Drift, twenty-eight days since The Incident, and three weeks since they’d last seen each other at all. That had been right before Matthew got sent back to the mainland for additional treatments. And even then, they hadn’t really been able to speak much.
But he’s here now. Shouldn’t that be great?
In the shadows of the Jeju Shatterdome, scientist Kim Taerae and Jaeger pilot Seok Matthew strike up an unlikely friendship, though it inevitably blossoms into something-more-but-not-quite. That is, until one late night experiment threatens to compromise their carefully crafted dynamic for good. The Drift hides no secrets, after all.
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Bookmarked by papayaz
18 Jul 2025
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the way they wrote, crafted the plot, and pieced it together for the reader was so engaging and beautiful i aspire to be able to write like this someday <333