ISTG IF YOU ALL DONโT USE THE โKEEP READINGโ THING ON YOUR FICS Iโ BRO ๐ญ ITโS SO ANNOYING. IS IT SERIOUSLY THAT HARD TO TAP THE DAMN WAVE ICON AND SAVE US THE TROUBLE OF ENDLESS SCROLLING???
seriously. it makes the text hard to read. idc if thatโs a fic title or some sublabels on your pinned postโitโs hard to read! there are also fonts that appear as question marks to some devices. please stick to normal fonts or at least use something easy to read. also, pls donโt make your titles either too big or too small!
2. url/percent encoding in hyperlinks
if the start of a post has things like emoji, special character, stylized font, non latin letters, it most likely appears as a series of hexadecimal digits & percent signs (that you need to erase) in the url. when you paste the link anywhere and open it, it leads mobile users to their web browser instead of just being able to view the post in the tumblr app.
and if the poster has the โhide [username] from people without an accountโ setting toggled on... unless the viewer is logged in on their tumblr mobile web browser too, they cannot view the post.
if youโre on desktop and have never experienced this problem, please go to the app and see the inconvenience for yourself.
in the middle of writing this guide, i figured out a solution...? tip #15
3. use the โkeep readingโ feature!
nobody wants to scroll forever on a post just to reach the next one. ๐ซฉ itโs the last icon to your right that looks like a wave/zigzag and has a line above and below it. or you can just type :readmore: then press enter and itโs done. also keep in mind that when you edit your posts and move this thing or edit content above itโit sometimes disappears, so double check!
4. changing your username changes your urlsโso pls fix your hyperlinks.
if you change your username, it changes the url of your posts too. so that means you have to change the hyperlinks on your posts/masterlists because it would just lead to nowhere if the links still contain your old username.
also this means that if you try to do โview original postโ on a reblog of your post with your old username, it would lead to error.
5. your text color should not be an eyesore.
if youโre going to have color on your text, pls make sure theyโre readable on both light and dark mode and that it doesnโt hurt peopleโs eyes.
how to do the gradient color thing? go to this site, enter your text, choose your colors, i suggest to choose โhorizontal (line by line)โ for fade type, tap the generate button, check if readable on light & dark mode, copy the color code, go to tumblr web browser, edit your post and press the settings icon, find โtext editorโ and switch it to html, and paste your code.
6. yes, you can change the date on your post.
pls stop asking writers about this. ๐ญ open tumblr on web browser, edit your post & click the settings icon, find โpost dateโ and change the date and/or time there.
7. tumblr only allows 1,000 blocks per post.
a block is a paragraph. every time you hit enter, thatโs a new block. even if it only contains one word or character. keep this in mind if youโre posting long fics so you can plan ahead on what to do if it exceeds 1,000 blocks. if you hit the limit, a warning pops up and you can actually still post it but you cannot have more than 1k blocks. any more paragraphs wonโt save or update.
8. set your fic text to normal size.
unless youโre writing drabbles (works around 1k) or displaying the details to your ficโplease stop. itโs hard to read. thatโs it. leave it as it is. donโt you dare press that <s> icon to edit the actual fic. it is annoying!!! (idk am i alone in this)
also, please use paragraph breaks! unless youโre compressing your fic to avoid hitting the block limit (to which i suggest you should just consider making a next part), itโs hard to read walls of text. donโt be surprised if people skip your fic because the paragraphs are too damn long. itโs worse if you have long paragraphs + the <s> size. ๐ซฉ
9. tag nsfw works accordingly!
there are so many nsfw works out there with no proper labels or itโs too small. and whatโs the point of putting a label if itโs barely visible? ๐คจ if youโre going to do it through banners/dividers, same thing applies. make sure itโs clear.
10. include the word count in fic details.
as much as possible. a lot of writers avoid this because they seem to think that seeing the word count would make readers scroll away. i think itโs considerate for writers to do it because it can help the reader estimate how much time they should spare to read it. i understand if you draft on tumblr where itโs hard to copy your whole text because it only allows copying per block, but if youโre using other platforms? please calculate the word count or its estimate, at least.
11. โsaveโ button on the app can be weird.
if youโve experienced this, youโre not alone. on the app, double check if itโs set as โsave as draftโ before you press the blue save button. this isnโt a problem on web browser and you donโt have to worry about it. idk if tumblr has fixed this bug yet.
12. sites for cute fonts and emojis!
13. you can block anons.
if you ever receive prickly asks in your inbox, you can block them. go to the ask, press three dot menu, tap โblock senderโ. here is a more detailed experiment someone did to demonstrate how it works. (also did you know you can send asks to your own blog?)
14. tumblrโs 30-day policy.
in case youโre not aware, tumblr has this new system. i know, it sucks. so think carefully before you delete your account.
this is also the reason why you now donโt immediately see the typical โ-deactivated123456โ after the usernames of blogs who deactivated. itโd take 30 days after they deleted their account.
also explains why if you create/change your user and tumblr says itโs taken, but you check for the url and the blog is non-existent, that means the username you want belonged to someone who had just recently deleted their account.
15. custom urls exist!
did you know that you can actually change the url of your posts? this is done on web browser. edit your post, tap settings icon, at the very top it says โcustom urlโ. you can change that.
i experimented and this is actually a good solution to the url encoding! so, you donโt really have to sacrifice making pretty titles. just make sure the url is clean. (i figured this would only be a solution for the writers themselves though because if they do not customize the url, itโs still up to us to clean the links when viewing or sharing it...)
note: i noticed that even when i set up a custom url, if i edit the post on the app, it defaults back to the old url. but if i set a custom url again and edit my post on web browser, the custom url stays. idk if itโs a bug on my side? maybe this platform just really hates mobile users ๐ซฉ
16. content filters exist!
want to stop seeing certain stuff? go to settings > preferences > content filtering > filtered tags & filtered post content. add keywords there.
on web browser, the path is just account > filtered tags & filtered post content.
17. 30-image limit
yes, you can post up to 30 images but this can only be done on tumblr web browser, not the app! re-arranging it on the app is still okay, but adding more than 10 is really not doable here.
also apparently some people donโt know how to arrange the photos, which is just long press/click and drag; same thing with blocks/paragraphs. and you can only stack up to 3 photos beside each other!
18. featured tags on your blog
to help navigate a blog through tags, this thing exists! you can customize what appears on yours. go to blog settings > featured tags. the path is the same on web browser, except youโd see the tags displayed by viewing a blog, press the search icon beside posts and itโd show popular tags.
19. link in description!
want to try it? copy the template below!
<a href="URL">Link Text</a>
20. blog archive
did you know that you can actually view all the posts a blog has through their archive? web browser thing. press the three dot menu under their username and click โview archiveโ. or you can also just type on your browser:
username.tumblr.com/archive
21. app recs!
writing: writer journal, notion, obsidian, novelist, google docs
smau: memi message, twinote, funsta
gfx: ibis paint x, canva, phonto, sketchbook
22. visibility toggles
the 3 on the left, itโs explained in the photos... i just wanted to let you know they exist in case youโre not aware or would like to turn them on (or explain why you canโt view some peopleโs posts or search them up). the one on the right is something that you should really be aware of. ๐ฌ
23. description and inbox visibility
i noticed that if your description is blank + your avatar is hidden, it makes your askbox button disappear. users would have to press the three dot menu beside the โfollowโ button and only there would you see the askbox again. (this problem just happens on the app)
24. carrd pages!
carrd is a site where you can build a page to introduce yourself and your blog! you can search up templates right on the site, google, tumblr (search #carrd templates), or youtube tutorials!
my favorites: one | two | three | four | five
i heard about strawpage too but iโve never tried it and i think it requires more skill...
25. weird spacing on app
if youโre copying your fic from another platform and paste it on tumblr app, you might notice that the spacing doubles and itโs a hassle to adjust each paragraph. but if you do it on web browser, the spacing is normal; no need to adjust anymore. this is why i always create my drafts first on the web browser and just edit it later on the app (easier for me).
26. running out of fic ideas?
you can search through #writing prompts here on tumblr and even on pinterest too! you can also think in categories for inspo such as: songs, movies, tropes/reversed tropes, existing media franchise, foods, random photos on pinterest, etc. or start opening requests if youโre not doing that yet. brainstorming with friends too. thereโs endless possibilities! just pls do not use ai. #writing tips here on tumblr also exists!
27. main blogs and side blogs
many people seem to not be aware of the differences between the two. hereโs what iโve gathered through research and experience, but cmiiw: both main blogs & side blogs can post, reblog stuff, send anonymous asks, respond to asks, and they share an algorithm too; only the blog settings (drafts, visibility, etc.) are different on each one. main differences are that a main blog can follow blogs, like posts, send asks (anonymously or not)โa side blog canโt do any of those.
why i mentioned the โanonymously or notโ is because the action of sending asks will always be defaulted from your main blog whether youโre on anon or not. so if you happen to block an anon... youโre blocking someoneโs main blog from sending anonymous asks to you. idk if this info would come in handy somehow. pls refer to tip #13 for detailed explanation of blocking anons.
this is all that i was able to think of. lmk if you want me to add/clarify anything else! iโll update this if i can think of more stuff. if you really need to save this, pls reblog or take screenshots or else you lose this if i ever delete my blog lol hope it helped! โก
โ โ โ โ โ ๐pider-sense VERSUS common sense... ุุ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐
๐ฒ๐ข ๐๐๐. who said spider-man was smart? yeah, they can dodge bullets and save the city without breaking a sweat, but the second it comes to you, their brains completely turn off... but they really do mean well.
๐บ๐ ๐๐พ๐๐๐บ๐๐๐๐พ๐ ๐โโstupid things the boys have done, and spider-man is always at the crime scene, one way or another.
๐ผ๐. ( ๐ฉน ) ot5!cortis spider-man!cortis college!au 257O words a lot of property damage they're kinda dumb it's fine โก
JAMES
there's a loud thud against your bedroom window.
you don't even look up from your laptop at first because you already know who it is. sure enough, when you pull back the blinds, james is hanging upside down from the glass in his full spider-suit. he's holding a greasy brown paper bag in one hand and a giant bouquet of pink flowers in the other.
you slide the window open, and he immediately swings himself inside, landing on his feet with a soft thump. he pulls his mask up past his nose, leaving his mouth free, and gives you a huge, proud grin.
a little too proud.
"happy anniversary, baby!" he says, holding out the flowers and the food. "i got the noodles you like from that place downtown. i almost dropped them twice dodging a bird, but we made it."
you look at the flowers, then down at your oversized t-shirt and grey sweatpants, and then at the screen of your laptop that's currently open to a thirty-page history PDF.
you wince. you hate the conversation you're about to have.
"...james," you say slowly.
"yeah?" he's already walking over to your bed, setting the takeout bag down on your blanket. "i was thinking we could eat first and then go watch a movie. i brought clothes in my backpack soโ"
"james. what day is it?"
he blinks, stopping in his tracks. you watch him tilt his head "it's friday."
"it's wednesday."
james stares at you. the mask on his head shifts as his eyes widen underneath it. "no it's not. it's friday."
"it is literally wednesday night," you say, pointing a finger at your laptop screen where the date is displayed in big white numbers. "our anniversary is on friday. in two days."
he steps closer, leaning his face so close to the screen his nose almost touches it. he stares at the screen for three whole seconds before pulling back, looking completely horrified.
"no way," he whispers. "how is it wednesday? i swear to god yesterday was thursday."
"how could yesterday be thursday if today is wednesday?"
"i don't know!" he groans, throwing his hands up in the air. he drops onto the edge of your bed, burying his face in his gloved hands. "my brain is fried. i spent two hours stopping a bank robbery this morning, i thought the week was over!"
you can't help but laugh at him. you walk over and sit down next to him, gently tugging at the edge of his mask until it slides off completely, revealing his messy hair and poutingg face.
"so... your spider-sense can literally tell you when a car is about to hit you from behind, but you can't check a calendar?" you ask, teasing him.
"shut up," he mutters, though a little smile twitches at the corner of his mouth. "the calendar app doesn't tingle when it's important."
"clearly," you laugh, taking one of the pink flowers out of the bouquet and smelling it. "what are we gonna do with all this food now? i'm supposed to be studying for midterms."
james looks up at you, his eyes softening as he reaches out to wrap an arm around your waist, pulling you into his side. "well, since i already bought it... we eat it now. and then on friday, i guess i just have to take you out again."
"again?"
"yeah," he says, pressing a warm kiss to your cheek before grabbing a pair of chopsticks from the bag. "i gotta make up for getting my days mixed up, right?"
JUHOON
you're standing on a chair in your room, on your tiptoes, stretching your arm as high as you can to grab a jar of peanut butter from the top shelf of your closet.
suddenly, thereโs a crash. way, way too loud for the peacefulness of your home
you jump so hard you almost knock the chair over. plastic snaps, a lamp falls, and a blur of red and blue comes tumbling straight through your open window, tearing your window blinds completely off the wall before landing in a dramatic, superhero crouch on your floorboards.
what the fuck.
juhoon pops up instantly, his mask already pulling back over his face, eyes wide with adrenaline.
"i got you!" he yells, looking around the room frantically. "where are they? who's attacking you?"
you stand there on top of the chair, staring at him. then you look down at the crumpled, broken blinds lying in a sad heap on your carpet.
"bro," you say flatly.
he blinks, his head darting around your completely empty place. "nuh-uh. i felt it. my spider-sense literally spiked so hard my head hurt. i thought you were getting ambushed."
"juhoon," you frown, holding up the plastic tub in your hand. "i was reaching for peanut butter."
he stops. he looks at you, then at the peanut butter, then down at his feet where the ruind blinds are tangled around his boots.
"peanut butter?" he asks, his voice dropping into a squeak.
"yes. peanut butter."
"you were... struggling?"
"i was on my tiptoes!" you exclaim, stepping down off the chair and gesturing at the disaster near your window. "why would your spider-sense go off over peanut butter?"
juhoon rubs the back of his neck, his cheeks turning bright red as he looks at the damage he just caused. "i don't know! maybe it thought you were gonna fall off the chair? or maybe... maybe the peanut butter was expired?"
"it's unopened!"
"this is your fault. why were you so stressed over peanut butter? your heart rate literally spiked, baby."
"i was hungry, okay? and i thought i was gonna starve because i couldn't reach it! stop deflecting!"
"okay, fine, my bad!" he groans, dropping his hands to his sides and staring at the broken plastic on the floor. "i was just trying to be a good boyfriend and save you! i felt the tingle, and i panicked!"
you sigh, walking over to him and poking his chest. "you tore my blinds off the frame."
"i can fix it," he says quickly, pulling the tangled mess up from the carpet. a second later, a piece of plastic snaps right off in his hand. this is one of the many times he hates the super strength.
he freezes, looking down at the broken piece, then looks up at you with huge eyes. "...i will buy you new blinds. or maybe i can web it together. no one will ever know."
"webbing my window shut is not fixing it!"
he raises his hands in defense, slightly scared that you'll throw the jar at him. "okay, okay, i'll buy new ones."
"you better," you laugh, shaking your head as you pop the lid off the peanut butter. "and next time your head tingles when i'm in my own home, just knock like a normal person."
"noted," juhoon mutters, crouching down to try and hide the broken plastic under your desk. "no more saving you from high shelves."
MARTIN
you and martin are sitting on your bed, sharing a bag of chips as he talks about a crime he stopped earlier, when a knock echoes from your front door.
"hey, open up. it's the landlord, i need to check the radiator."
martin instantly freezes. his eyes go wide. "oh my god," he whispers, his voice pitching up an octave. "it's the cops. they found me."
"it's literally my landlord, martin," you whisper back, scrambling off the bed. "just go out the window! you haveโyou have the web... things!"
instead of doing the logical thing and jumping out the open window two feet away from him, martin completely panics. he scrambles off the bed, looks around your tiny bedroom like a trapped animal, and spots your plastic blue laundry basket in the corner.
before you can even ask what he's doing, he dives toward it, flips the basket upside down, and squeezes his entire six-foot frame underneath it.
it doesn't work at all.
the basket is sitting at a forty-five-degree angle on top of his back, his red-and-blue limbs poking out from under the edges in every single direction. he's curled up in the tightest fetal position humanly possible, completely motionless.
you stand there in total silence, staring at him.
"martin?" you ask.
"shhh!" a muffled voice comes from beneath the blue plastic. "i'm hiding"
"how are you supposed to be this city's savior?" you ask, pinching the bridge of your nose as the landlord knocks again, harder this time. "you look like a discarded superhero costume in a hamper. except, like, not discarded at all, because everyone can tell you're wearing it, man."
"i'm invisible," martin insists, the basket shifting as he speaks. "just answer the door. act natural."
"you are literally five times bigger than the basket!"
"i'm using stealth tactics!" he whispers fiercely. "go!"
you let out a long, suffering sigh, quickly smoothing down your shirt before walking out into the hallway to open the front door. you manage to distract your landlord for two minutes, talking endlessly about how the radiator works totally fine and sending him on his way.
when you lock the door and walk back into your bedroom, martin is still sitting under the basket, completely stilll.
you walk over and nudge his hip with the toe of your shoe. "he's gone, james bond. you can come out."
the plastic basket slowly tilts up, and martin pulls his mask up past his mouth, looking up at you from the floor with a shit-eating grin.
"see?" he says, dusting off his knees as he untangles himself from the laundry. "worked like a charm. he didn't see a thing."
"he didn't even come into the room, babe."
"because my stealth aura protected us," he says smoothly, standing up and pulling you into a hug, resting his chin on top of your head. "you're welcome, by the way."
you roll your eyes, wrapping your arms around his waist.
new york is doomed.
SEAN
you're sitting at your desk trying to finish an assignment when you hear a steady, annoying drip coming from the bathroom.
sean, who is hanging out on your bed in his full spider-suit with the mask rolled up to his nose, perks his ears up. "is that the sink again?"
"yeah," you sigh, leaning back in your chair. "itโs been doing that all day. Iโm gonna have to call my landlord tomorrow."
"don't waste your money," sean says, immediately hopping off the bed with a confident smile. "i can fix it. i fix stuff all the time."
"sean, no," you say, turning around in your chair. "you don't need to do thatโ"
"it's literally fine, it's just a loose valve," he says, already strolling into your tiny bathroom. "i'll just tighten it a little bit. two seconds."
you get up to follow him, but before you can even cross the room, there's a loud snap.
a second later, a blast of water hits the ceiling.
"ohโshit!" sean yells.
you burst into the bathroom to find a full-blown indoor water fountain blasting straight up from the broken pipe under the sink. water is raining down off the ceiling, soaking the walls, the towels, and sean, who is frantically trying to cover the burst pipe with his bare hands.
"sean!" you exclaim, wiping the spray off your face. "what did you do?"
"i barely touched it!" he yells back, his suit completely drenched and clinging to him as water shoots between his fingers. "i turned it like two millimeters!"
"you have super-strength, you idiot. dude, you snapped the metal."
"i thought it was rusted!" he whines, trying to use a web-shooter to cap the pipe, but the water pressure is so high it just blasts the webbing right into his own face. he wipes a clump of wet web off his forehead, looking totally overwhelmed. "okay, panic over, where's the main shut-off valve?"
"i don't know where the main valve is, this is an apartment building!"
water is already ankle-deep on your bathroom floor and spilling out into the hallway. sean looks at the ruined room, then down at the snapped pipe in his hands, and finally back at you with wide, puppy-dog eyes full of sheer terror
"i'm so sorry," he squeaks, his voice cracking as he stands there soaking wet under the literal waterfall. "i was just trying to be sweet."
you stare at him, water dripping off the hem of your shirt, and let out a long, exhausted laugh because if you don't laugh, you'll cry. "get out of the way, spidey. go grab every single towel i own."
"on it!" he shouts, rushing to help. and immediately slipping on the tile.
"jesus," you mutter.
KEONHO
it's around two in the morning when a noise echoes from your kitchen, followed by a muffled groan and the sound of a refrigerator door swinging open and shut repeatedly.
you rub the sleep from your eyes, stumble out of bed, and walk into the kitchen, flipping the light switch on.
keonho is stuck.
he's lying flat on his back on the floor, his legs propped up against the lower cabinets, completely wrapped in white webbing that ties him directly to the kitchen counter. half a slice of cold pepperoni pizza is still clutched in his gloved hand.
you stand in the doorway, staring at him.
"keonho," you say softly, your voice slightly raspy from sleep. "what are you doing?"
he slowly turns his head toward you, his spider-mask rolled up to his nose, showing a mouth full of pizza. he swallows hard before speaking.
"i was on patrol," he explains carefully, pointing the half-eaten pizza at you. "and i got hungry. so i swung by to check on youโand the fridge."
"and how did you end up webbed to the counter?"
"i tried to be stealthy and open the door with a web string," he mutters, looking extremely embarrassed as he tries and fails to wiggle his arms. "the shooter got caught on the handle, i tripped over my own feet, panicked, hit the button like five times, and... yeah."
you let out a long sigh and turn around, grabbing a pair of kitchen scissors from the holder by the microwave.
"wait, wait, stop," keonho says, watching you step closer with the scissors.
"what? i'm cutting you free."
"you can't," he sighs sadly, letting his head drop back against the floorboards with a dull thud. "the web formula is high-tensile strength. scissors won't cut through it."
"are you serious?" you ask, poking the white webbing with the sharp edge. sure enough, the blades don't even make a dent. "so how do you get out?"
"it... takes two hours to dissolve naturally," he says quietly, refusing to make eye contact with you now.
you stare down at him in disbelief. "you're gonna be stuck to my kitchen floor until four in the morning because you wanted a slice of leftover pizza?"
cold. cold leftover pizza.
"it's really good pizza," he whines weakly, taking another small bite. "do you... wanna sit down here with me? i can share."
you roll your eyes, but you grab a blanket from the couch, throw it over his chest so he doesn't freeze, and sit down right on the floor next to him, taking a bite of the pizza.
"you're unbelievable, kono," you laugh softly.
"yeah, yeah," keonho grins, chewing happily. "wake me up in two hours."
๐ญ this took longer than expected bcs i couldn't decide whether to write a full scenario or just do hcs. i hope this matched what you had in mind. ๐นญ
ZHAO YUFAN
gets oddly serious whenever someone implies you "settled" for him. suddenly he's sitting up straighter, talking clearer, and proving himself.
he gets weirdly competitive about taking care of you even when you're literally only a year or two older than him. if you mention your shoulder hurts, he's already dragging a chair over so you can sit while he finishes whatever you were doing. he acts smug about it too, talking about how you're getting old, then immediately dodges when you try to hit him for it.
during stressful situations, he's pacing around talking fast while you sit there staring at him until he eventually slows down on his own. sometimes he catches himself thinking that maybe this is what people mean when they talk about wanting someone who feels safe.
obsessed with hearing stories from before you met him. random details about old classmates, terrible fashion phases, or part time jobs you had before him. he listens like you're telling him forbidden historical records because technically you were alive longer than him by a tiny margin and for some reason he thinks that's funny.
thinks being younger makes him naturally more athletic until you beat him at something once. after that, he starts accusing you of having veteran experience because you had one extra year to develop hand-eye coordination.
KIM JUHOON
he trusts your judgment more than anyone else's. if he's unsure about something, he unconsciously looks at you first before answering. it's not because he's dependent on you, but because your opinion genuinely matters to him more than anyone else's in the room.
he likes hearing you talk about things you're interested in, even if he knows absolutely nothing about the topic. you could be rambling about the most random thing and he'll still listen carefully, asking questions just because he likes hearing your voice get more animated.
does reasearch about your interests so he can keep up in conversations.
if someone jokes about him being younger he doesn't get embarrassed. i think he just doesn't give a shit about the tiny tiny gap.
juhoon doesn't interrupt people often, but he interrupts you constantly in tiny ways. it's more like quietly pushing his drink toward you because he knows you'll steal a sip anyway, pulling your sleeve because he wants to show you something, or muttering "look" whenever he spots something that reminds him of you.
sometimes he says unexpectedly sweet things so casually. you'll be complaining about something small and he quietly says, "i like taking care of you though," before returning to whatever he was doing.
he communicates affection through presence more than words. if you're cooking, he's sitting on the counter nearby scrolling on his phone. if you're studying, he's stretched across your bed doing his own thing in silence.
EDWARDS MARTIN
makes jokes about being "a younger man" every single chance he gets.
loves listening to you talk when you're tired. the sleepy version of you that mumbles nonsense, loses track of sentences, and squints at him because you can barely stay awake anymore completely ruins him. he never interrupts either. he just watches you with the fondest expression, thinking about how lucky he is that you chose him out of everybody else.
asks questions that make you stare at him in silence. "so when you were my age, what was life like?" in the most serious tone imaginable, despite the age gap being microscopic.
absolutely shameless about flirting with you in front of other people because he enjoys seeing you get caught off guard.
quietly memorizes things you mention once and brings them up months later. it can be a snack you liked in childhood, a book you read years ago, a perfume you miss. suddenly it's sitting on the kitchen counter because he found it somewhere. when you ask how he remembered that, he genuinely looks confused because of course he remembered. you told him. why wouldn't he?
the kind of boyfriend who brags about you constantly. "yeah she told me about that already." "my girlfriend actually knows a lot about this." like alright man we get it.
the type to become weirdly sentimental about growing old together. he'll randomly pause and think about how badly he wants to keep experiencing life with you years from now. gray hair, wrinkles, boring grocery trips, arguments over furniture. all of it.
EOM SEONGHYEON
seonghyeon used to say his type was someone younger because he liked the idea of taking care of somebody. but he met you and realized what he actually liked was feeling comfortable with someone.
incredibly affectionate in small ways. fixing the strap of your bag while you're talking, pulling you closer by the waist absentmindedly, rubbing circles on your palm during long drives. it's all so natural that sometimes you don't even notice he's doing it until later.
gets weirdly happy whenever you refer to the two of you as we. "we should buy groceries later" or "we need to leave soon" make him smile without realizing it. he likes the feeling of belonging somewhere with you.
really admires how independent you are. he likes that you have your own routines, opinions, and life outside of him.
the type to silently stare while you're doing something simple because he finds maturity attractive in a very specific way???
loves making you laugh specifically when you're trying to stay serious. the second he sees you fighting a smile, he commits harder to the bit just to hear you finally crack.
AHN KEONHO
weaponizes your age when he's losing arguments as a joke. if you catch him doing something annoying, suddenly he's smiling and going, "you should be more mature than this."
follows you around the apartment while you're doing things just to keep talking to you. you'll be in the kitchen or folding laundry and he's leaning against the counter discussing something completely random because he likes existing in the same space as you.
"you're getting cranky because you skipped lunch." "no i'm not." five minutes later he's eating the sandwich you handed him without another word.
like juhoon, keonho likes hearing your opinions on everything. which jacket looks better, how he should reply to a text, whether his hair looks fine. the second you answer, your opinion becomes the correct one in his head forever. if somebody disagrees, he immediately goes, "yeah but she said this one."
definitely says "you're so wise" in the most unserious tone imaginable.