#5-9k

“You still wanna fight me, man?” Jisung challenges the guy, squaring him up, “My boyfriend here will rock your shit, he might not look it but he’s jacked under that sweater vest.” “That’s really not true,” Seungmin whispers furiously, fear in his eyes.

Snapshots from Jisung and Seungmin’s extremely normal and well-adjusted relationship.

My thoughts: yeah, just peak fiction here, they're an absolute mess and it's the best part of this fic

Jeongin puts his hands on their shoulders and squeezes, staring deep into their eyes to help convey the magnitude of the situation. "I just met… Officer Judy Hopps." He pauses, lets the info sink in. Hyunjin giggles. "Okay, that's funny." Seungmin squints. "Who was it?" "Some guy," Jeongin tells them, clearly disappointed in the basic knowledge he possesses on the bunny of his life. He sighs dreamily. "With arms the size of my head and a bubble butt I would like to get personal with."

At Chris Bang's annual Halloween party, the Judy to Jeongin's Nick falls from the sky like Cupid's arrow striking straight through his heart. It's a message. It's fate. In the movie, the fox gets the bunny. In real life, Jeongin will try his hardest to get the same ending. After all, life imitates art— isn't that what Hyunjin always says?

My thoughts: just some silly good fun

minho is cute: so when are u going to tell me all abt ur crush on our class president seungmin is cuter: i have no idea what you’re talking about minho is cute: u like hwang hyunjin u want to kiss his mouth u want to hold his hand seungmin is cuter: i don’t even know what a hand is

In which Kim Seungmin joins an extracurricular club, discovers that Hwang Hyunjin has the prettiest smile to have ever existed on Planet Earth and learns how to knit a hat (among other things).

My thoughts: bro really exposing himself by saying he doesn't know what a hand is instead of "no", this is incredible, soft high school romance

They say it starts slowly, at first.

Coughs are normal and common enough symptoms of other tamer diseases, to be dismissed as trivial. It’s only when they find themselves spitting up flowers onto their palms, do they realize what has happened.

Seungmin doesn’t find out until he is hunched over a toilet in an empty restroom, his throat burning and eyes tearing up, as a single pink petal detaches itself from the roof of his mouth, and floats down almost serenely into the water.

(or, love kills people. Seungmin doesn’t expect that he will ever be an outlier.)

My thoughts: throwing up an entire plant on the living room floor, god seungmin in this hurts my heart, also this minho? wow *appreciative applause*, what's it say about me that i've been enjoying (happy ending!) hanahaki fics so much recently

*fic rated General on AO3 but has sexual content--not explicit enough for Explicit, but not tame enough for Teen (and definitely not General- like bro what kind of General rating fic would use top/bottom tags even)--so i'm rating it Mature

“Is- is there something else?” “I don’t know Jisung, is there?” There is something wild in his grin, a little similar to when he saw Jisung in his skirt for the first time, which makes him shy. “Did you dress up like this because you knew I would be here?” "No." “Liar,” he laughs and before Jisung can realize what is happening he feels lips on his. Hungrier than ever. It’s like he’s being devoured, but slowly. Like Seungmin savor every cell of his tongue. Like he makes sure to lick their mixed salvia from all of his teeth and to bite the meat of his lips in the most delicious way. Jisung unconsciously closes the distance between them and relaxes when their chests are finally touching. He grabs Seungmin’s shoulders, and god, they still feel like home. Jisung wants to live in the fossette above his collarbone.

OR: Jisung's ex is going to be at the same party so he puts on a skirt.

My thoughts: fic would benefit from some copy editing but these characters are really good and it's worth a read, and the misunderstanding that caused their breakup? *pleading face emoji*, they're so obsessed with each other, don't do any of what they do kids it won't work out for you

He finds the younger boy in the kitchen, cooking up fried eggs for lunch. “Oh, Jinnie. Have you eaten yet? I can crack a couple more eggs on the stove if you’re hungry.” Unable to contain it, he professes, “Seungmin! Seungmin, I love you! I’m in love with you!” “Mhmm, sure,” Seungmin replies. “But what about the eggs?”

Hyunjin thinks they're just best friends with benefits. Seungmin knows him better than that.

My thoughts: this is a baller dynamic bro, hj's scheduled hookups diminishing over time and him excusing them for any reason besides him being in love with seungmin?, perfect

What’s the phrase again? You can take the player out of the game, you can text the player back and start up a strange but wholesome internet friendship with him before you unwittingly ask the player in real life to join a book club for two, you can fall deeper and deeper for him every day, you can tell the player all the things that make you swoon and now you can’t stop swooning, but you can’t take the game out of the player? Close enough.

Here is how Seungmin Kim, a mysterious arcade game challenger, and a book club intersect.

My thoughts: online! but also not!, book club i love u, they're incredibly so cute

On the last day of break before their final year of high school, Hyunjin runs to the half-court line with Seungmin's old, slightly deflated basketball and says that if he makes the shot, Seungmin has to grant his wish.

My thoughts: the atmosphere of this fic is really spot on, like it gets the slice of life coming of age anime vibe perfect, feel good, i did tear up at the end in the best way