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thinking about non-sexual intimacy with skz. chan draping your body on top of his because he likes to feel the pressure of your weight on him as a physical reminder of your presence. minho holding your hand to his cheek while you watch movies together, and you can feel his skin heat up under your palm. changbin nuzzling his face into your stomach whenever he gets the chance, going at it harder when you laugh from how it tickles. hyunjin having his hands buried into your hair all the time twirling and braiding random strands together absentmindedly. jisung resting his chin on your neck, shoulder, thigh, wherever is most convenient for him. felix tangling your fingers together at all moments like he would die without touching you all the time. seungmin pressing kisses into your skin whenever he passes by you, no matter what you're doing. jeongin moving your arms around his waist for a hug because he doesn't like to ask for it, he'll take it for himself.
i hate when something happens and people start with the "dont trust ur idols" and "all idols are terrible people and u shouldnt think otherwise" ...... i think it’s normal to think ur favourite idols are good people and we shouldn’t be blaming fans who are shocked and upset by the news. ofc they can get fucked if they’re defending him but tweets like "all idols are secretly awful" are not helping anyone. i think it’s good to believe people u meet / know / look up to are good people unless ur proven otherwise
CURRENTLY WATCHING | you, locke & key, blacklist, a quiet place pt. 2, shadow and bone season 1 (yes i’m behind). kdramas: my demon, wonderful world (cha eunwoo !!!)
i’ve been doing more reading than anything hehe so adding this for funnsies: king of wrath, crave, a court of wings and ruin (acotar 3), sanctuary of the shadow, a heart so fierce and broken (cursebreakers 2), heir of fire (tog 3)
FAV COLOR | yellow, matcha green, pastel pink
SPICY/SWEET/SAVORY | generally savory, but i have a huuuge sweet tooth so…
RELATIONSHIP STATUS | single w a potential interest…? i haven’t even seen or met the man only heard about him BUT he’s tall, has black hair, and works out so well shall see
CURRENT OBSESSION | choi seungcheol. always. also mingyu. and eunwoo in wonderful world??? HELLO?!??! anyway. photography and music and usual. also the books i’m reading bc they got me giggling screaming crying all within the span of a chapter. it’s an emotional rollercoaster fr
in a parallel universe or another world or a different life,
we sit across from each other
at the kitchen table
and go over the grocery list.
— trista mateer, the dogs i have kissed
your mind was wandering again, you’re aware, but you can’t help that all the neatly lined up colourful cereal boxes remind you so much of him — of the last moments of your happiness.
“i’m going to make it my life mission to try all the cereals in the world,” seungcheol announced as he pushed the cart down the aisle.
he stopped to pick up a box of limited edition froot loops, inspecting the back of the box before dropping it into the cart.
you stood on the other end of the aisle watching him with the fondest smile on your face. this was the exact moment you’d realised you found contentment in your little grocery shopping dates. you had thought it was silly how something that seemed so insignificant was capable of putting you in such a state of pure bliss. you remember thinking everything he did was so endearing to you and you thought this would be it. he was the one. this was the man that would be your forever. you were so sure of it.
you’re brought back to reality when your cart hits another cart that was turning the corner and the impact sends you jolting forward.
“i’m so sor—” you choke on your words when your gaze lands on the face of the man standing before you. “s-seungcheol?”
his eyes widen when he realises it’s you that’s in front of him.
“y/n?”
“hey seungcheol,” you force a smile then looks at the ground to avoid his eyes. your heart starts racing so fast you think you’re actually going to pass out at any moment.
he clears his throat, a habit of nervousness, and the sound makes you look up at him again.
“i didn’t expect to run into you here.” if you weren’t paying attention you would have missed the slight tremble in his voice.
“uhh yeah i still live in this neighbourhood actually.”
he nods with a nearly inaudible hum then there’s an awkward silence before he speaks again.
“do you maybe want to go somewhere and catch up? it’s been a while since we’ve seen each other.” he suggests hopefully.
you shouldn’t, you know you shouldn’t. but you answer before you can stop yourself. “i’d love to.”
you find yourself in the small, cozy cafe you and him used to frequent after your many grocery runs.
“the usual?” he asks as you pull one of the chairs out.
you nod and he quickly makes his way to the counter.
“calm down, calm down,” you chant to yourself quietly, taking deep breaths in between while settling into the cushioned seat of the chair.
it was easy to convince yourself you had moved on when you were alone in your dark room, but now that seungcheol was in front of you it was a different story.
seungcheol returns to the table with two mugs and places one in front of you. “two sugars right?”
your heart skips a beat at the fact that he remembers something about you, even if it was just a minor detail, and you can’t help but feel pathetic at the realisation.
you nod again, not really trusting yourself to speak, afraid that your voice might betray you.
he takes a sip from his mug. “how have you been y/n?”
“horrible, awful, absolutely miserable,” the words run through your thoughts but ultimately you decide to go with “i’ve been fine.”
he gives you a smile, one that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “i’m really glad to hear that.”
you wrap your hands around the mug, hoping the warmth will calm you down. seungcheol’s eyes drop to your hands and he reaches out to cover them with his own.
“are you cold?” his voice laced with genuine concern.
you pull your hands back and his face immediately drops.
“y/n i’m so sorry,” he starts to blabble. “i don’t know why i did that i guess it’s just a reflex and i wasn’t really thinki—”
“it’s fine cheol,” you cut him off, not realising you had used his nickname unknowingly.
but he catches it and it makes his heart ache. he’d missed it so much and he never thought he’d be able to hear that nickname from your mouth again.
“guess there’s some old habits you’ve yet to kick too.” a bitter smile makes it’s way onto his face and you feel a pang in your chest. it’s as if your heart was breaking all over again for the very first time.
the memories of your first heartbreak suddenly comes rushing back.
the night you and seungcheol decided to go your separate ways, the night he chose to give you up in favour of pursuing his career, the night where so many things would end up broken forever.
your favourite mug that was his first ever gift to you, promises that were made at 4am when he held you so impossibly close to him as the world around you grew so quiet you could literally hear his heart beating and it felt like only the two of you existed in that very moment, your dreams that also turned into his until he realised they weren’t what he wanted anymore, your heart that he swore he would hold onto so gently and carefully and the love you once shared that you thought was so powerful and nothing would ever be able to come between you — the love that you thought would have been enough to get you through everything.
he notices you’re suddenly deep in thought and he hopes you’re thinking the same things as him. but you’re not.
“y/n,” he calls out apprehensively and you snap out of your thoughts.
“hmm?” your hand clasp the mug again and your other hand rests on the table.
he exhales shakily as he prepares himself to speak.
“cheol?” you urge softly.
“y/n, i know i fucked up. really badly,” he lets out a brittle laugh at that. “but this whole time i’ve been away i’ve really been thinking.” he looks at your hand that’s still on the table and for a second he almost reaches out for it and only deciding against it when he remembers your reaction from earlier.
you stay silent, not quite sure where this conversation is heading.
seungcheol searches your eyes, hoping to find something that will give him his answer or just a slight hint even, but all he finds is sorrow. sorrow that he’d caused.
he continues, “i still love you y/n, and if you’d just give me a chance to fix this — fix us, i promise i’ll do better. i’ll never fuck it up or hurt you again.”
you feel your entire body stiffen and you tighten your fingers around the mug. an unexplainable feeling washes over you.
you don’t understand. you’d thought that you’d jump at any opportunity to get back together with the man that’s currently sitting opposite you. the very same man that consumes all the thoughts through your sleepless nights. all those nights you’d spent lying in bed awake imagining this exact scenario.
you’d thought that getting back together with seungcheol would make everything right again so why aren’t you happy right now?
worry takes over seungcheol’s entire being as you remain silent. he doesn’t want to push you but he’s impatient, a trait you used to nag at him about.
his warm hand finds your cold one carefully on the table and he looks at you with raised brows and soft, brown eyes, pleading silently and you so badly want to give in.
you want to lean into his touch, feel his arms around you, kiss his soft lips but you know you shouldn’t.
“cheol,” you breathe out, sliding your hand out from under his. “you know i love you. i always have and i always will.”
seungcheol’s heart drops because he knows where you’re going with this.
“… but?” you can hear all his regret in that one single word.
“we fell apart for a reason cheol and i don’t think i can go through another heartbreak again. especially not with you. it’s too painful cheol.” it hurts you to say this when all you want is to embrace him again.
“it’ll be different this time.” there’s a desperation in his voice that tugs at your heart but you know you can’t give in.
you will yourself to look away from him and your eyes land on the bags of groceries on the table next to you and for a second you let yourself indulge in the fantasy of being able to do something as simple as grocery shopping with seungcheol again, walking side by side down the aisle as you push the cart while looking at the grocery list you had written together in the kitchen of the tiny home you’d once shared. you’d give anything to go back to when things were that easy and to be able to do the one thing with him that brought you an indescribable amount of joy just a mere 6 months ago.
“maybe in a parallel universe, another world or a different life we’d sit across from each other at the kitchen table and go over the grocery list,” you manage to get out shakily, voice cracking slightly as tears threaten to spill from your eyes, “but not in this life cheol. it won’t be anymore. you had your chance.”
standing up in a rush, your thighs push the chair back causing the legs of the chair to scrape the floor loudly, you grab all your belongings and hastily make your way out of the cafe without looking back.
seungcheol opens the glove compartment in his car as he gets ready to drive home. his hand reaches around blindly, searching for his phone charger until he feels a piece of paper that he doesn’t remember was in there. he pulls it out, thinking it was an old receipt until he looks at it properly and recognises the handwriting — your handwriting.
it was the last grocery list you wrote together.
he scans through the entire list and he finally breaks when he sees the slightly faded words on the very bottom of the list, “i ♡ you”.
when seungcheol opens the front door of your house, it seems like everything is upside down. the living room looks like a mess with your daughter's toys all spread out - he was kind of guilty about this, i mean, she didn't really need that many toys to play with.
the kitchen is filled with vegetables all over the counter, kkuma is cutely on two paws as she tries to reach it; if only she was human sized, maybe she could...
and lastly, seungcheol could hear your daughter crying all the way from her bedroom, with your desperate pleas also being heard, asking her to calm down a bit.
"what's wrong?", he asks the moment he steps into the lilac colored bedroom.
"appa~", your daughter runs to him, hugging his legs with all the strength she has.
"hey, baby. why are you crying?"
as seungcheol picks her up, you sigh - half in relief, half in frustration. you really wanted to do something nice for seungcheol, especially when he does so much for you, so you tried your best to make a proper dinner, clean around the house, give kkuma a bath, but all these things are extremely hard when you have an hyperactive 3 years old who's, by the way, the biggest daddy's girl to ever exist.
"she keeps asking for mr. cuddles, but won't accept it when i give it to her", you gesture to the plushie you have on your hand.
"babe... it's because that's not mr. cuddles", seungcheol tries to bite back a laugh. "that's giggly, the tiger plushie soonyoung gave it to her on her last birthday. mr. cuddles is the panda plushie i bought her two months ago, remember?"
seungcheol walks with his daughter hanging on his neck to her closet, opening and reaching for mr. cuddles on the top shelf.
"i put it here this morning because kkuma was trying to get it, i'm sorry", and as he hands the toy to your daughter, you're not really sure who he's talking to, you or her.
"thank you, appa", your daughter kisses his cheek.
"you're welcome, baby girl~"
if you didn't love them so much, with all your heart, forever, to death - you would perhaps roll your eyes at the scene.
"why does she have to be such a daddy's girl? i literally carried her for 9 months!"
"aw, it's okay, babe. you're daddy's girl too."
"seungcheol!", you almost scream, but the bastard just smirks at you.
a/n: inspired by one of @cxffecoupx's headcanons about dad girl!seungcheol. please check it out, they're amazing. ❤️🍒
This drama follows the stories of the men of Hwarang, an elite warrior group loyal only to the king of the Silla era. However, a twist in the story is that the current king is in hiding. The previous king was assassinated when the current king was a child, so the king is in hiding until he is powerful enough to protect himself. Until then, his mother, the Queen Regent rules. The story predominantly follows the king, Kim Ji Dwi/Sam Maek Jong, an orphan commoner who doesn't know his own ancestry and assumes the identity of his best friend (Kim Sun Woo), Gae-Sae, and Kim Sun Woo's sister and doctor of the Hwarang warriors, Kim Ahro.
Phew. 😵 That was a long explanation. And that's not even spoiling anything. Now, to the ratings!
Extremely complicated political drama: 10/10
Hilarious wise old man mentor: 10/10
Adorable side couple: 20/10
THEY ARE UNJUSTLY UNDERRATED AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE! BAN RYU AND SOOYEON FOREVER! 💘
Love triangle that isn't infuriating: 8/10. Minus 2 points for being predictable.
Morally ambiguous queen that I'm not sure if I like or not: 10/10
Sexy Shower Scene: 10000/10
I'll leave the shower scene with a cast like Park Seojoon, Park Hyungsik, and Shinee's Minho up to your imagination 😉 Check out this underrated gem and give it the love it deserves!
Just look at these two!!! Ban Ryu x Sooyeon my beloved ❤️❤️❤️
ao3 author: *writes the most devestating ending to a 150k fic that simultaneously calls back to the first chapter and beautifully wraps up every theme in a few paragraphs*
also the ao3 author (in the endnotes): uwu i never know how to end these things T_T
thinking about showering with mingyu in the morning. the water is running down your body, but it isn't what's keeping you warm - mingyu's embrace is way hotter than the water's temperature.
"are you feeling any better?", he asks in a husky voice, hands caressing your back as he presses you against his chest.
it's such a mingyu thing to notice how you haven't slept well, and how tired your eyes look.
"no", you say, cheek squeezed against him. "the only thing that can make me feel better is staying like this for the rest of my life."
he chuckles, blinking away some of the teardrops from the shower.
"our water bill would go crazy."
mingyu likes how you laugh against him. i mean, we could even think about paying the highest water bill in the history of the universe if that meant he could hear you laugh like that nonstop.
joshua is for the girlies who are always yelled at, who are never seen enough, who have always been the listener but no one has ever been a listener towards them, who force themselves to stay bubbly in public just to avoid questions, who were never in any favoritism of anyone, who loves the beach but never been to any, who was the kid with crayons and hairclips collection to stay happy, who were always abandoned by friends in the halfway, who never got any apologies, who hates their scars to death, who are tired of keeping everything together.
seungcheol can't stop watching the way you interact with his son nowadays. he thinks you're in a miracle in the oddest way: you work from home and can watch his son if he needs you to, and his son fully adores you like you're family. today, he had asked if you could come over and watch his son (still recovering from a cold) while he ran to the grocery store. he promised you lunch and payment on top of it, and now that he's finished with lunch... he should be getting you both to come eat.
instead, he's just watching the way you're sitting at his son's craft table with him. he's sitting in your lap, little hands gripping crayons as he talks you through the fish he's drawing now (he's been in this 'all things aquatic' phase for as long as seungcheol can remember). and you're just nodding along, listening so attentively like this is the coolest thing you've ever heard.
seungcheol calls for his son, kneeling down and opening his arms. "let's go eat lunch."
immediately, his son drops his crayons and takes off toward him at full speed. he throws his arms around his neck, and seungcheol scoops him up to tote him off so that he can wash his hands before he eats. when he looks back at you, you're neatening up the mess his son left behind. you won't put it away (seungcheol is clear about that: he's trying to teach his son to put his toys away when he's done, and he knows that he'll go back to drawing once he's done eating), but there's something cute about the way you carefully make sure the crayons won't roll away.
there's something there, he thinks to himself as he's washing his hands alongside his son (demonstration, or something like that: just to show his son that everyone should be doing this to keep themselves healthy). he's not imagining it, is he? he knows he has friends who can drop things for him if he needs them to step in and be an uncle or an aunt for a bit, but you're... different. his son loves you more than any of seungcheol's other friends. you've taken his son out a few times for play dates at the park or trips to the aquarium when seungcheol needed some undisturbed rest from work. he's cared for you when you were sick the same way you've cared for him and his son when the times come. hell, you've even tagged along with him to help distract his son during the boring errands, just to make his day a little easier. it's almost like you're a second parent to--
he stops. you're like a parent to his son. when did you become a parent to his son? he washes his hands off and dries them before drying his son's, and he watches the kid hop down from his stool and immediately head to where you're washing your own hands. seungcheol pulls out his phone while he has the spare moment, and texts jeonghan: can you watch him this weekend if my neighbor says yes to a date?
the response back is almost immediate: oh? so you're finally doing it? good luck. (yes, i'll watch him)
and now he'll have to ask you, even if he starts to think twice about it. all that's left is to figure out how to do it. and he'll start thinking about that... after he watches you sneak his son extra goldfish crackers, just to see him smile.
"do you think our kids will have my eyes?", mingyu says.
you blankly stare at him, ignoring your phone now. "kids?"
"yeah, i mean...", mingyu shrugs. he's about to say something when it hits him. "oh my god, we've never talked about having kids, did we? i mean, i really want kids, if that's okay with you. shit, i-i'm sorry."
it's cute, actually, how his ears turn pink. talking about having kids isn't something you do just about 8 months into your relationship...
"baby, it's okay...", you put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "i do think our kids will have your eyes. and maybe your cute lips too."
...but then again, how could you not be so in love with kim mingyu to have your whole future planned already?
mingyu smiles at you. "no, i hope they have your lips. but i want them to have my skin tone!"