thebest
This tag belongs to the Additional Tags Category.
Parent tags (more general):
This tag has not been marked common and can't be filtered on (yet).
Bookmarks which have used it as a tag:
Pages Navigation
-
You Say That You're Fine (But You Laugh When You Lie) by glaucous_seas
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band)
30 May 2024
Tags
Summary
The scent of rusted metal, the drag of the strings, the ache on his thumb where the skin had been chipped off by a single mistake when he'd misangled the plectrum. He opened his eyes to see the scene in front of him again—the same venue—the same equipment—the same guitar. Jisung could barely make out much of the current happenings. His fingers were attuned with the guitar that they simply played with a mind of their own. This was his last show.
Music flowed through him like blood in his arteries and creativity flowed through his veins back to his heart - on the outside, he had the perfect life - the dream internship and university selection. But did he deserve any of it?
(Yeah. Yeah, he did. The neighbors of his new apartment, seven musicians who'd just lost their guitarist were compelled to prove that to him.)
Series
- Part 13 of Stray Kids Angst Works
-
Rotten Work by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
30 Jun 2021
Tags
Summary
Jin Ling hadn’t thought to keep track of Wei Wuxian.
Clearly that had been a mistake.
-
Tags
Summary
“Hyunjin is dead,” Jeongin breathed. He looked up to see the others stare back at him with wide eyes, Hyunjin towering over them at the back, the light from the window in the hallway lighting up his figure. “They told me he was dead.”
Hyunjin's dark eyes found Jeongin’s tearful ones.
“Not dead,” Hyunjin said with a poisonous smile. “Just gay.”
Or: Jeongin has spent years mourning the loss of his first love, a love he was told by his church was sinful and wrong, but one he just couldn't stop from blooming in his chest. Now, years later, Jeongin meets Hyunjin again, very alive and also very different from how he used to be back in their shared church.
Series
- Part 1 of We Strive For The Forbidden
-
Tags
Summary
He had spent many weeks, months even, thinking about his feelings and what they meant, but he hadn’t been able to come up with a word to describe it yet. Perhaps one day he would, and then he could finally become Minho’s -
“Ah, lover!” Minho exclaimed happily, making Seungmin choke on his coffee, his eyes wide.
Or, Seungmin and Minho solve crosswords together on a Sunday morning when Seungmin realizes what love is.
-
The wonders of modern technology! by nachtofthedead
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Oct 2024
Tags
Summary
As he’s lying on the bed recuperating after one of these sessions, Shen Qingqiu grumbles, “I ought to just get you a fleshlight to use… Spare these old hips of mine…”
Luo Binghe immediately massages his hips with a curious smile. “What does Shizun mean?”
Shen Qingqiu resolutely shuts his mouth.
Shen Qingqiu takes matters into his own hands and moves the world of PIDW into a new era: the fleshlight revolution.
Bookmarked by PandaTheAsexualPandaThePansexualPanda
09 Oct 2024
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
Omfg hot~*
-
Tags
Summary
With his daughter away for the year on a magic show tour, Phoenix’s life is upended enough as it is. The realization that his childhood best friend and courtroom rival may be in love with him, and the complicated feelings that come with that, are the last things he needs.
Written for narumitsu week 2020, each chapter loosely based around the prompts: family, marriage, free day, pining, opposites, AU, hurt/comfort, and future.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,397
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 465
- Kudos:
- 2,440
- Bookmarks:
- 577
- Hits:
- 37,077
Bookmarked by Skiter_Cat5394
15 Dec 2024
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
Oh. My. God.
I cannot even cohere rn. It is 0444. I have been sitting at my desk for the past like. Three and a half ish hours. This is genuinely one of the best things I’ve ever read. I can’t even explain why bc i think disssecting it would make me lose this loose feeling i have rn. I nearly forgot what happened at the start bc i was so invested in this, and I remembered that oh yeah this kicked off bc gumshoe drunkenly revealed edgey’s feelings when second to ladt chapter phoenix was like “someday hell tell miles. He has the perfect plan” and i was like what does that meaOHHHHH and then i was like HES PROPOSIN OMGOMGOGOGMGNG
Trucy’a letter made me cry. Well not actually but like AGH.
I love everyones characterization here and the way you made things so grainy and realistic and not picture perfect and anshsjssjjs. And the way that you made it clear relationships *are* hard and *do* require work/effort to maintain, but also made it clear phiphi was being a little too anxious and that it didn’t ruin his and miles’ friendship and OH BY THE WAY??? FUCK YOU FOR HAVING PHOENIX REJECT MILES AT FIRST. THAG WAS EVIL AS HELL. (/lh) You need to be locked up in angst prison bc POOKIE. This isn’t even like the tear-jerking stuff I’m used, it’s just so //real// and miscommunication and issues that arise from past trauma and the way you covered phiphi’s trust issues and iris(omg iris) and KAY OH GOD MY GIRL. THAT BOMB SCENE??? SCREW YOU THAT WAS SO FUCKED UP I WAS ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT IM SO SERIOUS THAT WAS AMAZING AND OHOENIX ////FELL??!!!???//// EVIL.
The entire build up to the saving miles mission was amazing and GUMSHOE OH GOD IM GONNA CRY and the way he’s obviously hurt but will stop at nothing to make sure those he cares about are safe and just the complexities of that situation and andna dnans. Snansns
GENUINELY better than novels.Your pacing too like aaahhdhhsissijfjfksjdshhs
Also: trucy. Trucy baby girl. My baby. She’s so. Oh my god.
ATHENA I love you athena i see you trying to help your boss and I love you and andnandns
That reunion okay guess ill sob and wail and explodes and
It is now 0455 and its thankfully the weekend but girlie. Girlie.
This is amazing
-
Tags
Summary
“You didn’t have to bring the tray to us,” Chan softly says to someone Jisung presumes it’s Seungmin. “I would’ve just taken the drinks from the counter myself.”
The figure places the tray on the table without bumping into Jisung’s not-sleeping figure (a feat to be sure, considering how Jisung probably took up half the table) and laughs. “No one’s here yet, right? I don’t really have anything to do.”
Wait a minute.
Someone starts stroking his head, and Jisung knows it’s not Chan because Chan’s fingers are thick and heavy and hesitant in the way he handles Jisung like porcelain. These fingers are confident, like they knew exactly where the slope of Jisung’s head started and ended, like they knew him, and Jisung’s hit with a train of raw familiarity. It’s so familiar, so achingly familiar, and the strength of it immediately wakes him more than any cup of coffee would.
or, Minho comes back, old feelings resurface and the student council grows sick of the unresolved tension between their secretary and their vice-president.
-
Maybe I have To Be Good To You, Just To Prove I Can Be Good by Bex_carma
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band)
06 Feb 2024
Tags
Summary
Han Jisung, after many schools and many expulsions, is given a last chance to live with his Grandpa in the small town of DeerCreek and attend the local high school. Han - nervous, neglected, and moody - just wants to keep his head down. An odd group of boys nicknamed "The StrayKids" have other ideas for him.
Series
- Part 1 of The Town of DeerCreek
-
Tags
Summary
Alone, that is what he is meant to be. Every day Minho wakes to a world obsessed with soulmates. Music, television, and books all celebrate the soul’s quest for its perfect mate. Minho doesn’t have one. It’s been a struggle but he’s come to accept it. That is until he meets Han Jisung.
***
Pushing away from the warmth holding him he looks into his mother’s eyes. Eyes filled with fear and heartbreak blink back at him.
“Eomma. I don’t have a soulmate.”
________________________________________“Perfection.”
The single word demolishes the dam keeping his emotions at bay. Heavy sobs fall from him as he leans against Felix. Years of worry, anxiety, and fear are washed away by the tide of his soulmate’s affection. His soulmate had found him and they think he is perfect. Him? The blind boy who feels the need to hustle for affection and prove his worth. Him, Han Jisung is perfect in the eyes of his soulmate.
-
Tags
Summary
“I lived my entire life only able to feel a single emotion,” Chan spats. “I lived 26 years, with only disgust reaping my insides apart.”
“But we’re here now,” Jisung pleads. “If you just meet Changbin—”
“Then what, Jisung? Huh? Then what?" Chan snorts. “I’ll be so much happier knowing what terror feels like?”
Jisung looks at him with scorching eyes. Chan’s not sure if it’s pain or anger. “Then you’ll learn how to be human.”
Or,
Humans are born able to feel only one emotion out of eight until they meet their soulmates. Chan’s 26 and all he can feel is disgust.
-
Chan's Extensive Guide to Dealing With Frostbite by BBQkitten
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band)
08 Jul 2023
Tags
Summary
“It’s not the first time we’ve had an omega wait out their heat in our guest bedroom. And since it’s just the two of us we figured you might be alright to nest in our home. We wouldn’t have tried anything—”
Chan shook his head, reaching down to lace his fingers with the alpha’s in reassurance. “I didn’t think you would have,” he breathed, still shocked that Minho and Changbin figured out he was going into heat before he did. “It’s just— it’s too early. My heat’s not due for another couple of months.”
Changbin swore, wrapping his arm around Chan’s shoulder as he bracketed the omega. “Shit,” he hissed. “You don’t think— did we cause it?”
He shrugged helplessly. “Considering I didn’t even realize? Probably. It’s fine though,” he reassured, feeling sick to his stomach at his next words. “It’s probably just a pseudo heat, you know? A day or two and I’ll be back to normal.”
OR
Chan keeps suppressing his heat. He knows it's not good for him but he's got it under control.
Until he doesn't.
Series
-
Tags
Summary
Minho blinks sightlessly as his pants are discarded. He feels the weight of Chan crawling over him, the bed dipping on either side of his thighs where Chan’s knees sink into the mattress. The exquisite torment of Chan’s tongue laving over his throat, measured and methodical.
“Had I known I could quiet you so easily, I’d have done this much sooner,” Chan says, planting an elbow beside Minho’s head to lean over him. He rubs his other wrist over Minho’s chest, his neck, marking him further and watching ravenously as the black wells of Minho’s pupils spread wider and wider.
Minho parts his lips to speak. Closes them. He opens them to try again but manages only a rasping whine, teeming with need.
Their love bloomed long before Minho took Chan as one of his royal attendants—perhaps even years before they understood what love truly was. Yet, as a prince, Minho has always known that the duties of his station are inescapable. Now, with the weight of his impending arranged marriage hanging like a funeral shroud over their heads, Minho and Chan must face the unspoken truth:
That this may be their very last night together.
-
Tags
Summary
With every brush of his hand, every word he says to charm Jisung’s dad, the way he holds Jisung and the eagerness to spend time together, it gets harder to remember that it’s all just for show. And Jisung hates himself for it, he really does, because that thought he keeps pushing into the abyss of his mind resurfaces every time, empowered by the flame in Minho’s eyes when he looks at Jisung.
(One drunken night leads Jisung to release songs he wrote for people he’s had crushes on throughout his life, earning him confrontations and feelings he has never been ready for.)
[ 250316: FIC HAS BEEN EDITED, READ NOTES ]
-
Tags
Summary
“We’re actors after all, aren’t we?” Jisung says light-heartedly, forcing his voice to sound playful when he really just wants to turn his back on all of this and go home. “What’s some more pretending off the screen?”
(Jisung gets involved in a scandal that threatens to haunt his career forever. In a desperate attempt to save his reputation, he does things he never thought he would: gets a lead role in a drama and fake-dates his co-star.)
Series
- Part 1 of don’t have to fake it all the time
-
Tags
Summary
“I’m calling from the Seoul National Medical Centre. We have you listed here as the emergency contact for a Han Jisung. Do I have the right person?”
(Three years ago, Minho broke Jisung's heart with a single phone call. It's ironic then, that the universe decides to return the favour.)
Series
- Part 1 of hbm verse
-
Tags
Summary
Minho takes a shuddering breath and murmurs out the window, "And, what am I even sad about? I have my dream and I have my family at the same time. I get to do what I love with the people I love. I don't get to be upset about anything."
"That's not true, Minho," Chan says, turning a corner.
"Isn't it?" Minho sighs, feeling his sadness coil up inside of him.
"As long as you're human, you're allowed to feel upset," Chan says through a frown.
"What if I'm just sad because that's how I feel?"
"Then that's it, Minho. I'm sad because that's how I feel. That's it and that's enough of a reason."
Minho looks at him. "But then I'm just being a baby! Why should I feel sad if everything's okay? I should be happy! I should be grateful!"
"I don't know, Minho," Chan begins, turning his body to face him and give him all of his attention. "Maybe it's okay to just feel sad. We all have those days; there doesn't have to be a grand meaning attached to any of our emotions. We're all human and human beings feel, whatever the reason, or the lack of one. And that's okay. That's what makes us beautiful."
or the one where Chan helps Minho understand that he is not alone in his sadness.
-
Tags
Summary
Chan cannot sleep. He hasn't been able to have a good night rest for years now, and life only makes it harder for him to keep going with all the mental exhaustion. So, with his mother's support and his doctor's advise he ends up packing his things to spend some time in his grandmother's village after years of no visiting.
What he doesn't expect is to meet Minho.
Inspired by Catch The Stars by Ryerim.
-
Tags
Summary
"Hyunjin, what's it like being the—the beta of Stray Kids," Hyunjin reads out, a slight tilt to his head.
Comments were flying across his screen after he'd spoken. There were things like "is it fun???" and "don't you get lonely? ☹" and then the occasional "what do u do during heats ㅋㅋㅋ"
"Well," he starts slowly—mindfully, almost. "It's—well, Seungmin is a beta too, of course, but—" he sucks in a breath, considering. "For me specifically, I think it's—definitely nice?"
Everyone knows that suppressants are damaging for omegas to take; forcefully subduing their secondary gender is something life-threatening.
Hwang Hyunjin has been on suppressants since he was 16.
-
Tags
Summary
All they had to do to help Jisung with his project, was go to couples therapy and tell the truth. Just the truth. 100% of the truth. Jisung even explicitly stated they should only tell the truth for the experiment to actually work. The only exception was one tiny, itsy-bitsy little lie- they weren’t even a real couple to begin with.
or
In which Jisung spends three months documenting his best friends falling in love.
-
Night at Cang Qiong Museum by Adventurewaffles
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Feb 2025
Tags
Summary
When Shen Yuan is forced to get a job he finds himself employed at the Cang Qiong Museum of Art and History. It suits him just fine until he takes over as the night security guard and discovers the museum’s greatest secret, all the exhibits come to life! Now he has to somehow keep an entire museum behaved while also being trailed by the legendary warlord, and Shen Yuan’s childhood hero, Luo Binghe.