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Oscar doesn’t have a problem with his soulmate. It’s his soulmate who has the fucking problem.
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- Part 1 of if and only if
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Bookmarked by fizzypeach (taro_up)
16 Jul 2025
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"If you die in that arena I'll never forgive you," says Minho. "So come back home."
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Bookmarked by taro_up
10 Jan 2025
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The bookstore on the corner is freezing. It also happens to be quiet enough for Junhui to get some work done, and the man behind the counter is cute. That's 2 to 1.
Though, Junhui must admit, it gets weird.
Bookmarked by taro_up
07 Dec 2024
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Jisung wants Minho to be his new hobby. Learning each tick and hum. The way his bones creak and his breath tumbles from his lips. He wants to become an expert.
He thinks Minho could be the hobby that sticks. The thing that will finally stop the clock on his humiliating, slow demise— his deterioration into nothing but soil, and dirt, and the dust of flower petals that never grow correctly.
He’ll have to see.
(OR: Jisung is saving himself for his step-brother; Minho is home for the summer.)
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Bookmarked by taro_up
16 Sep 2024
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“We want to take pairs of recently matched soulmates who haven’t met yet, cover their marks, and put them in a luxury villa for six weeks. The aim of the game is for contestants to figure out who their soulmate is through living together and going on dates.”
“And you want me to be a contestant?” Minho asks.
“That’s right,” the TV producer confirms. “There is over five billion won in it for whoever guesses correctly.”
Minho’s hand tightens around his phone. “Five billion?”
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Minho never envisioned he’d meet his soulmate through a reality TV show, of all things, but when he’s invited on Written in the Stars, a show in which the contestants need to figure out who their soulmate is through living together and dating one another, he figures he might as well give it a shot. He’ll come out of it knowing who his soulmate is and with a cash prize if he manages to guess correctly, and how hard can that be, really, to guess who’s the one for you? They’re your soulmate, after all.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
09 Sep 2024
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two things i love: soulmate aus and reality dating shows :3
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Minghao can be reserved, but he’s not at all too shy to drop the name of his alma mater. Mingyu nods appreciatively, and Minghao is warmed by a surge of pride. “Very impressive. So what you’re saying is one day, you’ll own the Snack N’ Supply instead of working it?”
Minghao can’t help the way his nose wrinkles at the thought. “I don’t think this is the kind of place I’d buy, even if I was in the market.”
“Right, you’d rather buy the whole beach?”
Minghao laughs, light and breathy. He feels hypnotized by this guy. “Yeah, exactly. The whole beach. I’ll be the boss of all of you.”
Mingyu nods again, a sparkle in his eyes. “I wouldn’t mind being bossed around by you.”
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Following his college graduation, Minghao decides (against his better judgment) to spend his last summer of freedom in the Southern California beach town of Playa Adora, where nobody gets up before 10 a.m. and you're never more than a mile from the water. He expects he'll get some sun, relax, and maybe make a new friend or two.
He does not expect Kim Mingyu. And he certainly doesn't expect to fall in love.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
20 Aug 2024
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a fic to reread in the dead of winter when i want to be reminded that the warmth of sunlight and true love are real things
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Wonwoo is a grieving salary man. Jihoon has a website and many, many bills to pay. Oh, and he can do much more than just talk to the dead.
(Minghao was. Then he becomes an is, and no one really knows what that means, least of all Jihoon.)
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Finally — and the piece that seals Jihoon’s fate entirely — is the man’s face: something otherworldly, glowing with pretty makeup, long hair pinned back with butterfly clips. He looks simultaneously confident and flustered somehow, arriving at the end of the stage but blushing beyond what has been dusted over the apples of his cheeks.
He’s the most beautiful person Jihoon has ever seen.
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Or, Jihoon's friends take him to the strip club and he's immediately infatuated with Mingyu, one of the dancers.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
27 Jun 2024
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Wonwoo's luck in love hits an all-time low when he discovers his two unrelated crushes are not only taken, but taken by each other.
Luck has a funny way of coming back around, though. And sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
25 May 2024
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The forest is older than Minghao knows, despite how much of itself it shares with him. Minghao lives off its generosity, foraging for wild mushrooms and berries to feed himself and kindling to keep his fire lit. The forest only asks for fertilizer in exchange. Once a year its branches part to make way for a stranger and once a year Minghao plucks a pomegranate to give to them. He dissects the poison fruit, as he’s done so many times before, feeds his visitor the ruby seeds, and leads their failing body to lay against the roots of the Great Red Oak without a guilty conscience. However, Seungcheol’s arrival is different. The forest knows that he is different. Despite it all, Minghao has a job to do… if only he can go through with it.
In which the heart of the forest urges Minghao to heal.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
10 May 2024
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and if it's all a mirage? by mismatched (miscalculated) for capricornia
Fandoms: SEVENTEEN (Band)
28 Nov 2020
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“Okay?” Wonwoo whispers. “You can choose.”
“I can choose,” Chan repeats, so soft that it’s barely a sound at all, and another deep breath escapes him. He doesn’t let go of Wonwoo, anchoring himself to something. Something real.
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KALEIDOSCOPE Entertainment’s Lee Chan is spotted in Hongdae with Rapper Choi Jaewon and Unknown Woman.
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Minghao reaches across the table to take Mingyu’s hand in his. He’s got his assigned-therapy-friend look in his eyes.
“Mingyu-yah,” he says. “Please be reasonable. Boo Seungkwan-ssi from finance is not going to fall in love with you in twenty-one days. He doesn’t even know you.”
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Kim Mingyu's never met a challenge he can't overcome. Boo Seungkwan's harboring a deep, dark secret. Together, they are them.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
03 Apr 2024
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“Do you remember Lee Chan?” Seungkwan asks into the receiver, voice hesitant.
Seokmin starts at the name, sparking memory like wildfire. Lee Chan, three years his junior. They said he’d be the biggest thing to come out of this town. From time to time, Seokmin finds him wondering about him, the other golden boy, their precious child. Wonders what he had gone on to do, what he decided to make of himself. If he’s doing alright.
Does Seokmin know Lee Chan?
Of course he does. He’d be a fool not to.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
16 Mar 2024
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Wonwoo has a plan for this game. And if the timing is right, that plan might create a lucky space for Jeonghan to land safely inside. Wonwoo thinks about how it might work out a lot. Too much, probably, because if the timing is wrong in the end, he can’t risk the king for a pawn like Jeonghan.
Anyway, Jeonghan can take better care of himself than it might seem. People who bet on his downfall are gone now, and he’s still here. He must know what he’s doing.
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06 Mar 2024
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The prince has evaded dozens of suitors in four mating runs a year since he came of age almost a decade ago, all in this narrow rectangle of forest. His family has opened invitations across classes, across the world, and no one can catch him. Minghao can easily believe his athleticism is as remarkable as the rumors say, but that’s not the whole story. There’s no way.
Minghao came here to investigate a theory, and, peering into the cool darkness of this midday forest, he’s almost sure he’s right.
Bookmarked by taro_up
04 Mar 2024
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by taro_up
26 Feb 2024
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The experience of being tattooed by Minghao sticks with Hansol. That night, he thinks about Minghao’s head between his legs. Thinks about Minghao’s hands on his thigh, hot even through the gloves. How hard they had to press to keep him still.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
20 Feb 2024
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Sometimes, Wonwoo is the Chief of Korea's best intelligence agency. Sometimes, he's a different thing entirely, a human being with tender eyes and a pretty smile. Seungcheol doesn't mind either, as long as they remain together.
(Wonwoo struggles to express himself. Seungcheol never struggles to understand.)
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Bookmarked by taro_up
19 Jan 2024
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Jihoon has no idea what he should be doing here.
If the Bureau has a Standard Operating Procedure in place, to direct him on what to do in the extremely unlikely event he crash lands on a deserted island with a highly dangerous criminal, he’s never read it.
Other than sit tight and wait for rescue (and keep an eye on Seungcheol in case he somehow succeeds in building a raft and rowing away) he’s at a loss.It certainly doesn’t help that Seungcheol doesn’t see himself as a prisoner, and thus fails to subscribe to any of the typical prisoner behaviours one would expect. Sure, he might fashion himself a wicked looking knife out of scrap metal and leather, spend an hour sharpening it while he stares menacingly into the middle distance, but then he’ll go use that knife to make Jihoon a parasol out of palm tree fronds and insist he sit under it because—
“No offence, but you’re paler than a daikon radish. Until we get our hands on some sun block, you need to stay in the shade. In fact, here, take my shirt.”
It seems stupid to stay on your toes around a guy who is literally prepared to give you the shirt off his back.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
16 Jan 2024
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Seungcheol lets Wonwoo adopt a cat. It's a lot worse than he thought it would be.
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Bookmarked by taro_up
09 Jan 2024