@flrite replied to your post: By My Side, a Hogwarts AU (8/75)
Omg this was so angsty. Does this mean minho has some special healing skill? And i hate damian already
@flrite replied to your post: By My Side, a Hogwarts AU (9/75)
I have missed your writing... i loved all the details here
Yeah, Damian (and his friends) is a little shit...I’m not a fan lol....about the healing, I think yes, he does. I don’t know how much I’ll discuss it in the actual story, but he does have an affinity for Herbology and is naturally empathetic enough to want to reach out and help people who are hurting. I think HAU!Minho is an empath (same as irl Minho but that’s just my opinion) so it’s just something that comes very naturally for him.
Also, thank you???? It’s nice to know that someone enjoys my writing enough to miss it lol I just wish I didn’t have such long gaps between chapter updates, but life gets in the way, you know? Anyways, thanks again it means a lot ^^
flrite replied to your post “Teaching in Korea Discoveries 1: Kim Heechul is a household name. My...”
I am curious, how popular is shinee there?
Surprisingly, more than I was expecting... I’ve tried to get tickets twice now for things and they sell out every time. Also, every time I bring up shinee as being my favourite band, people either respond with “ring ding dong” or “dibidibidis bling bling is Jonghyun” which is equally hilarious and confusing because how did that transcend everything??
SHINee Nature AU: " “I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea and the hearts of friends.” or the one where Onew (and Key) help Minho after a long day. (Onminkey/Onho; ~2.1K)
**There’s going to be a part 2 eventually!!!
“Oh Minho,” Kibum started, “my beautiful brier rose, everything you make is lovely."
“What if I tried changing my wingspan? Do you think that would help?”
“I don’t know. Jonghyun, I said I see birds fly through my storms but that doesn’t mean that I write meticulous notes on how they fly and their measurements or anything. I just let them do their flying thing.”
Upon discovering that his power allowed him to turn into not just regular and realistic animals but also bizarre hybrids, Jonghyun had enlisted Taemin to help him figure out how to fly through storms. At the start of their brainstorming session, there had been many great ideas; as time went on however, the ideas had begun to dwindle. Now they were laying on the beach and watching seabirds fly past to try and get ideas. Minho watched them from further up the beach. If his counting was correct, this was the ninth time that Jonghyun had suggested a wingspan change.
“Whatever I’m just going to think storms and change into a bird and whatever I turn into is what I’m going to go with.” Jonghyun huffed, sitting up. He quickly changed forms, ending up as something between a petrel and a pelican. Both Taemin and Minho laughed at the sight, earning what was assumed to be a glare from bird Jonghyun. How someone could manage to be so expressive as a bird, Minho would never know.
“I’m sorry, Jonghyun, you should be able to see yourself. You’re literally the funniest and ugliest bird I’ve ever seen,” Taemin laughed as he stood, “Are you ready?”
Bird Jonghyun glared again then waved his head around in some semblance of a nod and shot off into the sky, Taemin trailing behind with clouds already forming around him.
Minho was a little upset that the two hadn’t said goodbye before they left, but it wasn’t the first time so he tried to let it go. In order to distract himself, he decided to try to grow something new. He had brought his book outside with him in anticipation of this. After flipping through for a while, he decided to try making some passionflowers. He’d always had trouble with purple flowers and the odd look of the flowers made it twice the challenge. He carefully set the book next to him in the sand and closed his eyes. Putting his hands to the ground, he tried to imagine what the flower was like, slowly moving upward to raise the flower. When he finished and he opened his eyes he was immediately met with disappointment. Not only was his purple passionflower not purple, but the trademark filament petals were too thick. It looked like some bizarre, mutant daisy. So he tried again. The flower came out the same, only with a pink hue to it. Again. Same flower. After 100 blossoms he was no closer to growing a purple flower, much less a passionflower. To try and mitigate his growing frustration, he moved away from his patch of disappointments and tried to grow roses. Roses were easy for him, especially since Kibum had started visiting more. He put his hands to the sand and pulled up his roses. When he examined them, they were malformed. The petals weren’t the right sizes, the colors were uneven, and some of them could barely stay upright. He tried again and again and again, with the same result. Beyond frustrated, he tried to force all the blossoms back down under the sand.
Jinki almost forgot that he wanted to go by the island until he ran into Kibum.
“Hey there, old man. I’m on my way to visit Minbabe, do you want to come too?” he asked. Jinki nodded and the two headed off. When they arrived, both were caught off guard by the sight of Minho on the beach. He was curled up with his head in his hands, with hundreds of dying flowers around him at his feet. Kibum reached the beach before Jinki did.
“My sweet summer blossom, what happened? Are you ok?” he asked, kneeling next to Minho. Minho looked up, obviously surprised at their appearance. It was plain that he’d been crying for a while and it made Jinki’s heart ache. He opened his mouth as if to explain what had happened, but the story was cut off by another sob. Jinki looked to Kibum and motioned towards the garden. Kibum took the hint, and together they coaxed Minho onto his feet, into the garden, and onto his hammock. They cradled him between them, with Jinki holding him and Kibum facing them. They let him cry for a while, knowing that if he was already this upset that any calm down tactics were useless. Eventually he calmed down but remained silent for a while.
“Jonghyun keeps finding new things to turn into and you all are always so amazed by it, especially Taemin now that Jonghyun can turn into birds. So I wanted to try to grow something new so that you guys would be excited at something I made too but it kept coming out all wrong and ugly. So I tried making roses because I know I can make those pretty and you like those but they came out wrong and ugly too,” he trailed off, fresh tears running down his cheeks.
“Oh Minho,” Kibum started, “my beautiful brier rose, everything you make is lovely. You don’t have to wear yourself out with bigger and fancier and more flowers to keep us interested. There’s no interest quota that you have to meet for us to keep visiting. You’re interesting enough without all that.”
Minho stayed quiet, brows furrowed in concentration and tears still occasionally slipping down his cheek. Jinki shifted so he could run his fingers through Minho’s hair while Kibum held one of Minho’s hands between his own. They laid there, Jinki humming and Kibum pressing small kisses into Minho’s knuckles. After a while, Kibum began shifting around, eventually falling out of the hammock. He sprang back to his feet before the other two could ask if he was ok.
“I have to go run an errand really quick but I’ll be back as quick as I can, ok?” He bent over and kissed Minho’s cheek then Jinkis forehead and then ran towards the gate. “I’ll be quicker than the wind I promise!”
There was a sudden breeze through the garden, indicating that Kibum had left. Minho began shifting around.
“You don’t have to roll over if you’re already comfortable, sprout,” Jinki whispered. Minho settled back as he had been and sighed.
“What had you been trying to make, sprout? I used to know a lot of land plants but I’ve been at sea so long that I only really know ones that grow on coastlines now.”
“They’re called passionflowers. I think my mom used to like them but I can only barely remember them.”
“Is that why you struggled with them? Because you don’t have the memory of them?”
“No, for some reason purple flowers are hard for me and then they have really weird parts to their flowers so I knew it was going to be hard from the start but usually I can kind of manage to figure something out after a few tries.”
“Are you a strong swimmer?”
“What?”
“You said you lived on the coast before, are you a strong swimmer?”
“I think I was? I haven’t really gone swimming since. I remember being in swimming competitions.”
“I found this weird plain of seagrass and I thought maybe you’d like to see it, but you’ll probably have to swim to some degree to get to it.”
“How long will it take to get there?”
“Not long.”
“Yeah, I’d like to see that.”
After maneuvering their way out of the hammock, they made their way to the beach. Jinki hurried into the water out of habit. He noticed that Minho wasn’t walking next to him and turned round. Minho was standing on the beach, staring out at the water.
“Are you sure you want to come out, sprout?”
“Yeah. I remembered the feeling of having to hold my breath during swim meets, so I’m trying to get some photosynthesis stuff going so that I don’t have to totally rely on breathing while we’re swimming.”
“Oh.”
As Jinki watched, green patches began to appear on Minho’s skin. When he was ready, Minho joined Jinki in the surf.
“So I’ll probably turn mostly to my water form, just out of habit, but I promise I won’t leave you. If you hold my hand, I think that’ll stay in human form but it may just be a ghost hand so don’t freak out.”
Minho nodded and they headed out. Jinki indicated when it was time to start swimming and true to his word, all but his hand quickly turned to seawater. Minho tried to balance breathing and not-breathing. He pulled Jinki’s ghost hand to the surface every few minutes and Jinki stilled the water where they rested so it was easier for Minho to breathe. When they got to the plain, it was teeming with multiple schools of fish and plenty of crabs. They pulled to the surface and Jinki made an effort to go back to his human form, at least above the waist.
“There’s so much!” Minho exclaimed.
“I know. It’s not uncommon for the meadows to be so big area wise, but it’s weird how dense it is.” Jinki explained.
“Is it really grass?”
“They’re really plants. I don’t think it’s proper grass though.”
“Weird.”
“If you want, you can swim around and feel the grass and everything as you want. I’ll stay close by and watch if you start struggling. When you’re done and want to go back, just come back up to this spot on the edge and stay up and I’ll come back over for you.”
Minho nodded, looking down at the water. He took a big breath and headed back down. He swam to a somewhat unoccupied spot before reaching out. It wasn’t as slimey as he was expecting but it still had the pliable feeling characteristic of aquatic plants. Taemin had asked him once if he could talk to plants, and while he couldn’t necessarily talk to them, there was definitely a connection that was unique to him. He moved between the surface and different spots in the meadow, trying to feel out as many plant as he could. After a few trips, he started feeling tired. He hadn’t seen Jinki in a while and thought about going to the meeting spot just to make sure he was still here. On the other hand, the seagrass was much softer than he had imagined and the thought of a nap crossed his mind. He let himself sink down until he was as close to laying on the grass as he could manage. Just before he closed his eyes, however, he felt himself being lifted up. When he broke the surface, Jinki was waiting.
“Are you okay? If you’re tired you should’ve told me.”
“I didn’t really realize it? It just kind of hit me all of a sudden and the grass is so much softer than I thought it would be.” MInho explained.
“Well, let’s just get you back home just to be safe. Do you think you can swim back or do you need me to carry you?”
Minho paused, trying to assess his state. He was definitely tired. The wind picked up around them, making a fair amount of wake.
“I’m just going to carry you, sprout. If I don’t bring you back home in one piece, Kibum will have more than words waiting for me.”
Minho nodded and tried to stifle a yawn. Jinki laughed, then dipped under the water. Minho felt himself being picked up again and slowly but surely they started back in the direction they had come. Somewhere along the way he managed to fall asleep and Jinki made sure to prop him up enough above the water that he wouldn’t start drowning again. When they got near the island, Jinki woke him up again, encouraging him to dip below the water. Kibum was waiting on the shore, a big bag laying next to him on the beach. Jinki turned back to his full human form, helping Minho walk up the beach. When they got to the shore, Jinki stayed back, waiting until Kibum had a hold of Minho.
“I have to go, sprout. I hope you had fun. Don’t forget, you can always talk to me!” he said, waving and heading back out into the water.
The song was originally supposed to be an onho duet, but after they recorded it, SM gave it to SHINee as a whole instead and basically Jinki got insecure because he thought it was because he didn’t do well enough on it himself that they changed it.
>actual translation
Baby always get things nearly in his grasp then it always gets taken away from him, I’m very bitter. And so is he. I’ll need to find the actual translation to this but I remember after that Jjong Correction: it was Minho not jjong who said something about there being other opportunities, and Jinki just deadass said something along the lines of: They’ll just take it away in the end anyway
I did! And thank you so much~ I’m really glad that you enjoyed it. It was honestly a labor of love, and I have so many people who honestly made this possible, including @vikt0rnikif0r0v for literally walking back into our hotel room the entire convention the weekend before this was due with the greeting ‘Did you write?’ and, above all else, @eorumverba for being supportive and encouraging and just There For Me when I was stressed about this and when I Completely Changed My Outline 2 days before the first draft deadline and just... I’m so happy and so thankful and so... I’m just glad that people liked this as much as they did;;;;
@flrite replied to your post: By My Side, a Hogwarts AU 5/?
I love all your fics! I cant wait to see the romance start. But has minho resolved his issuse with his family
!!!! Thank you! It means a lot…I’m excited for their eventual romance too, but like…that won’t be for quite a while lol
And no, they still have yet to respond to his letters and if I’m being honest, they won’t for the rest of his first year. I will say that most of it is just a lack of understanding how the wizarding postal service works…
flrite replied to your post “Jinki’s solo shots TT all his cuts, everything is in here, everything...”
Is there any way to watch it online?
Unfortunately, not at the moment :<. Our local streaming site, toggle, only streams selected programs, and Mubank wasn’t streamed live (meaning all of us had to watch it from the TV which is why all the recordings are of the TV screens). Another SG Shawol has emailed them to ask if they will upload the video but they say they can’t due to copyright infringements... there aren’t going to be any reruns either... We weren’t prepared for what Mediacorp was giving us, and now we are all left with recordings of TV screens.
For those who follow my Nature Spirit AU, I’ve been working on teh next part. It’s divided up into several “days” which I’m posting as chapters on other sites but I’m going to post all together in one post on here. If you want to keep up with them as they’re posted, they’re start at this chapter on AFF / AO3. Otherwise, just lookout for the full post that should be coming in a few days~
