oreoguk

When I was in first grade, he took me shopping for new school clothes — which was huge because, as the youngest of six kids, I lived in hand-me-downs.

He bought me a little navy blue, polka dot dress with a Peter Pan collar and red alphabet buttons. But, on picture day, I lost one of the buttons on the playground. I had a total meltdown because my brother spent his own money to make sure I had this new dress and I ruined it. I was a mess, totally inconsolable.

My teacher was also the mom of one of my brother’s best friends. She told him, and he, my brother and the entire football team searched the playground after practice for my lost button. Which they actually found.

My brother sewed the button back on himself in the car all while trying to explain that he wouldn’t have been mad even if I did lose it.

It was just a button and a dress.

food as a love language

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

As a child, I nearly died of illness. When my parents would say, “We went though a hard time with you,” I thought, “I’ve caused so much hardship for them,” and felt I couldn’t endure my uneasiness. So I didn’t have a happy childhood that I look back on with nostalgia. I passed as a “good kid,” the one among my siblings who was most obedient and gentle. When, at some point, I realized that I had just been matching myself to my parents’ expectations, I became so distressed that I wanted to scream in humiliation. This is why I do remember seeing for the first time beauty in the simple eyes of the cicada or feeling amazed that the tips of the legs of crayfish were scissors, but I erased from my memory how I related to other people. 

I put on a cheerful front when I was among my friends. But inside was a timid self full of anxiety and fear.”

𝙂𝙇𝙄𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝙊𝘿𝙀: 𝙖𝙣 𝙣𝙘𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 !

Welcome to GLITCH MODE; an rpg starring none other than the nct dream members! In each mission, you will take on the role of a new character and play through the story quest to reach the end!

[MAIN MENU]: from controllers and professional gaming pc’s, to head sets and twitch subs— the boys have it all. competitive, smart and ever ready to win, they begin to realize that there’s another prize lying out in the real world for them, the prize of your heart.

[SETTINGS]: fluff, angst, gamer! au, streamer! au, various trope pairings, fluff, angst, comedy, romance, suggestive, food, profanity, etc. warnings and themes will be added with every individual fic.

[DURATION]: speedrun: 3k | playthrough: 9k

[NEW GAME]: START (latest release)

▸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝟐 | na jaemin

version: streamer! jaemin, gamer! jaemin, friends with benefits au, profanity, fluff, slight comedy, angst duration: tba closed beta test: Na Jaemin has always been player 1, the one at the top of the player chart with all the wins and everything he could possibly want. Being the best sometimes got to his head and unfortunately for you, you were the girl who was hopelessly in love with him, eager to please. It’s sad really, the fact he only ever saw you as player 2.

CLICK TO PLAY!

▸𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐒𝟓 | lee donghyuck

version: streamer! hyuck, gamer! hyuck, established relationship au, profanity, comedy, fluff, slight angst duration: tba closed beta test: Your boyfriend is sweet and considerate, always looking out for you and making sure to be there for you. You had met him in one of your college classes and although you had been with him for over two years, sometimes you wonder if he loved his PlayStation 5 more than he loved you.

CLICK TO PLAY!

▸𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 | lee jeno

version: gamer! jeno, streamer! jeno, enemies to lovers but also friends to lovers, profanity, fluff, comedy, angst duration: tba closed beta test: Lee Jeno is the epitome of everything you could ever hate, and the feeling is mutual. You’ve competed in almost everything against each other, determined to gain the upper hand. On a totally unrelated note, that fun streamer you’re pretty good friends with is thinking about doing a face reveal.

CLICK TO PLAY!

▸𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄 | zhong chenle

version: gamer! chenle, streamer! chenle, friends to lovers, profanity, fluff, comedy, mutual pining, angst duration: tba closed beta test: Zhong Chenle wasn’t the type of guy to get nervous easily. He had known his worth ever since he was a little kid, so it wasn’t often that he found his palms sweating and words stumbling over each other. The only time that happened was when you were involved.

CLICK TO PLAY!

▸𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑 | mark lee

version: gamer! mark, streamer! mark, strangers to lovers, profanity, fluff, comedy, angst duration: tba closed beta test: Mark Lee was popular, there was no doubt about that. Being one of the most relevant twitch streamers tended to do that to you in the online world as well as the offline one. That popularity led to a plethora of people falling for his sweet demeanor and pretty smile, so you knew that winning his heart would be a challenging game it itself.

CLICK TO PLAY!

▸𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐒 | huang renjun

version: gamer! renjun, streamer! renjun, exes to lovers, profanity, fluff, comedy, angst duration: tba closed beta test: You’re heard of crying in the club, now get ready for crying on your DS! There was only one person in the world who managed to get you doing that and it was none other than your darling ex-boyfriend; Huang Renjun. The world hates you though, because you end up having to compete against him in a gaming competition. Using a DS.

CLICK TO PLAY!

▸𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑, 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐘 | park jisung

version: gamer! jisung, streamer! jisung, best friends to lovers, profanity, fluff, comedy, angst,  duration: 5.4k closed beta test: Jisung was the complete opposite of you, he liked peaceful games like animal crossing and you liked league. He liked story based games and you liked horror. Too bad that he was head over heels for you, because if there was one thing both his viewers and you liked to do, it was to make him suffer.

SUMMARY: there are complicated things that na jaemin will never understand or achieve: math, downing two bottles of beer at the same time, writing a good song and her, the synchronized swimmer in campus that he can’t stand.

but he continues with his life as if nothing happened; as if her smile wasn’t the rarest thing in this universe or her words didn’t get to his last nerve, until the verse she had written for her crush ended up being his first hit.

jaemin planned to keep it a secret, but apparently, he can’t hide anything from his biggest enemy and now, he’s not sure how he will be able to one, get another hit and two, get along well with his songwriter that did not even agree to be his songwriter on the first place.

tying a cherry with his tongue is way easier than getting along well with her.

TITLE: a cherry tied with the tongue PAIRING: na jaemin x reader GENRE: university!au ; enemies to lovers!au ; guitarist!jaemin ; synchronized swimmer!mc TYPE: fluff ; angst ; humor ; suggestive ; drama WORD COUNT: 21,093 words

Oceanic blue lingering around her, splashing in bubbles that she cannot burst, only to turn into transparent hues of her own skin when she comes to the surface. The sun glares down on her features, hair sticking to her face with so much power that it almost becomes a mask, but instead, she’s counting the seconds. A beat and four seconds later, her partner emerges from the water, golden in all the blue, light in all the shadows, salvation in water.

She doesn’t know how Donghyuck manages to do it. How his smile brightens each time that he gets a move right, synchronized with her every breath. It’s as though they were made to be there, in the campus’ pool as their trainer shouted each second into the air. One, two, three, four. Donghyuck is closer, sun-kissed in the paint-drops of freckles on the bridge of his nose. Then, he’s lifting her up by the waist, fingertips scalding, memorizing her every curve when she extends her arms and legs in front of herself.

She breathes in, sucks every little portion of her imbalance to stare forward, but with Donghyuck’s burning gaze from within her, the youth inside herself yells insecurities into her ears. Will he think she’s pretty from this position? Her arms start shaking, hands wanting nothing more than to reach for her bathing suit to see if it’s still in place. Her thighs follow soon after, quivering at the thought of her longtime crush holding her like she’s a feather, and soon after, the golden hues of Lee Donghyuck disappear to be exchanged by burning water entering her nostrils.

Summary: Even after drifting apart from your friend Jaemin 3 years ago, you still have a big fat cr*sh on him. You’ve convinced yourself that you’ll get over him someday, but maybe it’s better that you didn’t get over him after all because Jaemin has a big fat cr*sh on you too. All it takes is you telling him about your feelings and saying you like him. Well, telling the other him. Alternatively, in which you have a big fat cr*sh on Spider-man’s alter-ego and Spider-man has a big fat cr*sh on you.

Pairing(s): spider-man! na jaemin x gender neutral! reader (no pronouns used)

Genre: spider-man au, high school au, ex-friends to lovers au, fluff with a tiny bit of angst

Warnings: cursing, scene with an almost car accident, lots of insecurity from reader’s character lol, pining, also just an excessive amount of unnecessary scenes that have little to no interactions with jaemin

Word Count: ~15.3k

A/N: (reposted because tumblr was being dumb and not showing my fic in the tags)  dedicated to @daeguzen​​ (for help with the title and voting for this fic), @ivietea​​ @lovelyjsuh​​ @vinmylife​​ @glosseo​​ and @imoonstarstuff​​ for also voting for this (i probably would have never finished it otherwise hehe), and @dearyongs​​ for editing my awful comma splice filled work lol

    “You’re staring,” Jisung says. You tear your eyes away from the boy you were staring at and look down at your food.

    “I’m not,” you lie. You stab your fork into your lasagna a bit more aggressively than before and take a bite.

    “Liar,” Chenle says loudly. “You were staring at Jaemin again. Just admit that you have a crush on him.”

    “I don’t have a crush on anyone.” You glare at the younger boys who are staring you down in disbelief.

    “That’s like Lucas saying he doesn’t like food,” Jisung says.

    “Hey! I love food!” Lucas plops down in the empty space beside you and sets down his cafeteria tray that is filled with food.

    “Exactly,” Jisung emphasizes. “You love food, and (Y/N) loves Jaemin.”