MAOâS JULY READS
Hello! I am Mao, I have wanted to start a fic recommendation account since I discovered Tumblr (late bloomer), getting back into fanfiction makes me so nostalgic and I truly love the community around it! so please stick around and indulge yourself in some of my favorite reads. Iâm hoping to start doing a monthly updated list!đ
Before we get started I have a wide variety of taste, please read all warnings and descriptions carefully ! MDNI always! Whether you like Angst, Fluff, Smut, Ect⊠there is something here for you. If youâre still here please sit back and enjoy some of Maoâs hot and drama filled recommendations very fitting for this July monthâŁïž.
a collection of One shots, Ongoing & completed series, drabbles, and whatever else floats my boat! if you happen to see your fic on here please know it was a pleasure to read !
Yoongi
Teenage Dirtbag
when you move back to your hometown after a decade away, the familiar feels distantäžyour childhood bedroom hollow, memories faint, and faces half-forgotten. then, thereâs one you almost donât recognize at all: min yoongi. you expect mint hair, a leather jacket and the permanent scowl plastered across the once troublesome young manâs face. instead, you find your older brotherâs reckless best friend and the crush you never quite outgrew to be. . .different. older. composed. magnetic in a quieter, more dangerous light. the edge is still there, but refined and softened into a lazy smirk, sharpened behind wire-rimmed glasses. he carries himself like he no longer has to prove anything and it makes him even harder to ignore. youâre all grown up now, but so is he. standing in front of the boy who stole your first kiss, you realize that the feelings you long buried as a teenager have come rushing back like they never left.
Magic & Mayhem
So your relationship with Namjoon has gone to shit. Your solution? Hit up a sex shop and try to salvage things in the bedroom instead of dealing with the real issues. (Solid plan, right?) What you didnât expect is to walk out with a blind box and pull a toy called SUGAâmagical, stupidly hot, and guarantees to fix your 99 problems, but he actually becomes one.
Youâre No Good For Me
Plagued by filthy dreams of your stepfather, you canât help yourself as you play with your new toy, imagining your stepfather, Yoongi, as the one youâre riding instead.
Jungkook
The One Who Stayed
For fifteen years, Y/N loved the same person in silence. She watched him grow up beside her, watched him fall in love, and watched him build a life that never included her. But when tragedy changes everything, old feelings, buried grief, and painful truths begin to surface, forcing her to confront the love she thought she had long outgrown. Filled with heartbreak, longing, betrayal, and healing, this is the story of two people who meet at the wrong time, lose themselves along the way, and discover that some loves survive even after everything else falls apart.
Years Between Us
They say having feelings for your brotherâs best friend is never a good ideaâŠ
Kiss It Better
in which a divorce lawyer who believes in love chases after a retired wedding planner that doesn't
Selfish
âI am so fucking selfish for you, and I am done seeing and helping you go on dates that you have right in front of my fucking face because Iâm obligated to take your orders and pretend I donât want to be the man sitting in front of you the whole, damn, time.â
Donât Lock The Back Door
every night, Prince Jeon Jungkook finds himself swept up in a village girl's bakery where they share sugar and laughter, but one day, he stumbles across her injuries taken from defending helpless children and he spends the day tending to her, before unleashing his rage on the aggressors.
Business Proposal
you were supposed to sabotage your best friend's blind date. make him lose interest. scare him off a little, maybe accidentally insult his ego enough that hed go home and tell his parents there had been âno chemistry.â you were absolutely not supposed to make him want to marry her. or technically you in her form.
Jimin
Walk With Me
Your brother has always been flighty. The type of person who would pick up your call from the depths of a cave in Kentucky on a random Tuesday, only to be halfway across the country by Wednesday on the lookout for the next big Bigfoot sighting. So no one really bat an eye when he disappeared into the woods of New Mexico with a flashlight and a dream of hunting down the âDeadwood Wardensâ, yet another mythological legend you didnât believe in that he felt was his 'destiny' to prove.
But then he stopped calling. And it turns out the woods were a lot scarier in person than in the photos.
With the help of a local who knows the woods like the back of his hand, you should be out of here with your stupid brother in no time! Not that you were worried or anything â after all, it wasnât like those campfire stories of men in wide-brimmed hats coming to steal the souls of unsuspecting trespassers were true. It was only a coincidence that Jimin, your friendly woodsman, wore a hat just like the ones taped on your brother's wall....right?
Accidental Kidnap
Park Jimin, known in the underworldâs most dangerous circles as a ruthless drug lord whose smile usually preceded a murder gets caught in a surprise when heâs mistakenly kidnapped
Lights Out
In the high-stakes world of Formula One, there's no room for error. As Park Jimin's manager, Kim Y/N has lived by that rule for three years, keeping their relationship strictly professional to safeguard his shot at a championship. But when their secret feelings become impossible to ignore, their perfect partnership fractures. As the pressure intensifies on and off the track, they must confront the one thing they can't control: each other.
Taehyung
Out of Line
There are rules in footballâon the pitch, off the pitch, and especially around the team physioâs daughter. Taehyungâs only got one left to break. You werenât supposed to grow up around football. But you didâback when your dad worked for Barça, back when #8 still waved at you from the locker room tunnel. Youâve changed cities, changed colors, and still, you know better than to fall for a player. Especially one like Taehyung. Madridâs #2. Arrogant, egotistical, and so casually confident it makes your teeth clench. He likes games, slow smiles, and pushing people just to see how far theyâll go. You donât flirt back. You donât make it easy. And he has no idea what to do with that. Youâre not a fangirl. Youâre not impressed. And you sure as hell arenât scared of him. The only thing Taehyung hates more than losing⊠is coming second to a Barça boy. And heâs never been one to stay in line.
Hades Paints
All it took is an off key violin version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for you to possibly grow more hatred for your blue haired neighbor but what if your favorite Instagram Painter happens to be that same person.
Love At First Oink
when taehyung finds himself having to hide his brand new pet from his housemates, he turns to his trusty neighbour to help him keep his cover.
Seokjin
Our Last Summer
The sea gave you your first love. Time took him away. Now, after years apart, one unexpected return will force you to face the life, and the heart, you left behind.
Slippery When Wet
When your neighbor Jin is dealing with a leaky pipe in his kitchen, you rush to his aid. But oh no, now you're both soaked... Guess what happens next.
Off Limits
you've been lusting after your brotherâs best friend for a while now, ever since you met him at a house party, flirting it up a storm as you failed to realise who the other was. That was months ago now and things are still awkward, but you can't ignore the sexual tension that's simmers between the two of youâŠand it keeps getting worseâŠ
Namjoon
Right Person, Wrong Time
Being a woman in the legal world had never been easyâespecially not in a country like South Korea. That was why you had done everything in your power to achieve your goals; you sacrificed your personal life, your health, and even the love of your life just to reach the position you held today. At least, that was what you believed until you arrived at your best friendâs wedding and came face to face once again with the only person capable of unraveling every plan you had ever made.
Street Thing
on the side of a sunburnt los angeles road, you with a broken down car meet a man you can't stop thinking about. he's older, composed, impossibly charming, and far too experienced to be looking at you the way he does. you're used to immature love that never knew how to hold you properly. but with him, everything is different.
Whatâs Your Motive
in the bustling scene of new york city in the early 2000s, a guarded girl whoâs spent her life learning not to trust anyone, crosses paths with a rising underground rapper whoâs used to getting everything he wantsâuntil her.
Hoseok
Day Walkers
the apocalypse is at a all time high, you and your family are just trying to make it through day by day. but as time drags on, and storms arise, itâs harder and harder to hold on to what will inevitably slip through your fingers.
Under His Supervision
Y/N, A strong, bossy, independent business woman whoâs too much of a workaholic for her own good ends up bedridden. When her friend decides enough is enough against y/nâs complaints she hires a secretary assistantâŠhowever it doesnât take long for the tables to turn.
Back To Friends
Itâs been months since you and Hoseok started your friends-with-benefits arrangement, and somehow, things have only gotten more complicated ever since. So, in an attempt to make your heart forget the feelings itâs developed for your best friend, you decide to do the most logical thing you can think of: go partying and find another guy to spend the night with.
The Bride Of Ashmedai
You were born with only one purpose to fulfill: sacrifice your life to a Prince of Hell and save your entire lineage from eternal damnation. When blood trickled from your hand that night you were ready for doom or even worse, death. What you didnât expect was for you to find gentle eyes of molten chocolate waiting for you and a wanton tongue welcoming you home.
Hello? Is Anybody Home?
I would like to put this one under Hobi however it also reads as a Taehyung fic, either way I loved where this one went!
Your boyfriend went away on a bachelor's trip with his friends and came back...different. Perhaps it has something to do with the ghost that haunts your workplace who only cares to talk to you, or maybe they are entirely separate issues that just so happened to become problems at the same time. The thing you can't figure out though, is do you really care about the answer? Or are you okay just letting things be?