#if any of yall can think of a better au name hmu

[disastermages]

A Different Kind of Gusu Trio

"It's only for a year, A-Li" That's what her father had told her when he and her mother told her that she would be attending Gusu Lan's lecture. Her skin had paled and her stomach had dropped. It had always been planned that she would attend the lectures when her brothers were old enough to accompany her.

A whole year without either of her brothers next to her when she hadn't been by herself since A-Cheng could walk on his own. The thought of it hadn't sat well with her when they'd broken the news and it didn't sit well with her when she'd set off a few days ago, A-Cheng and A-Xian both crying as they'd hugged her goodbye.

"It isn't goodbye forever, I bet you two won't even notice I'm gone." She'd said, brushing A-Xian's nose with her finger and petting A-Cheng's head with her other hand. Fears gnawed at her as she forced herself to climb into the boat. Would they keep each other out of trouble and not squabble like she asked? Would they behave themselves so Mother wouldn't get angry at them? Would they eat enough without her there?

Those same fears still chew and tear at her nerves as she stands by herself at the gates of Cloud Recesses, her eyes down cast until someone shoves hard against her back, their laughter loud and mean as her knees hit the ground.

Jiang Yanli doesn't look back at first, she can't, her eyes are stinging too hard and she can already hear her mother's reprimand in her mind.

But then there's another, louder voice cutting through the laughing and strangling it out. Jiang Yanli turns and freezes as she sees them, Nie Mingjue holding Wen Xu by the collar, both of their faces red and angry. "Do you think you can pick on others just because they're alone and you're not?" Nie Mingjue demands, shaking Wen Xu as he speaks, not looking at Jiang Yanli as she pulls herself back to her feet, her sword held unsteady in her hand.

She means to tell him that it's fine, it was probably her own fault anyway, but the words are frozen in her throat.

There's more shouting, Wen Xu reminding Nie Mingjue that his father is excellency and that he'll do as he pleases, Nie Mingjue declaring that he doesn't care, that he had no right to do what he'd done. The longer it goes on the more words that build up in Jiang Yanli's throat until another, calmer voice cuts through all the arguing.

"What's going on here? Mingjue?" Lan Xichen stands tall, his eyebrows knit together as he looks across the scene in front of him, from the way Nie Mingjue releases Wen Xu's robes to the dirt stains decorating the lower half of Jiang Yanli's own, his usually smiling face turning into a fine line.

"Young Master Wen shoved Lady Jiang into the dirt." Nie Mingjue says plainly, nodding his head towards her as her grip tightens on her sword.

Rage takes over Wen Xu's face, his glare whipping between the three of them. "That's a lie! She tripped on her own!" Jiang Yanli swallows and forces herself to loosen her hold on her sword as Lan Xichen turns his eyes on her.

"Lady Jiang," he says patiently, and Jiang Yanli tries to bow, but her arms are caught and lowered as Lan Xichen takes another step forward, "which is the truth?"

A moment of silence passes as Jiang Yanli holds her sword with both hands, her throat still tight, but loosening just enough to say, "I was pushed." She's careful not to say any name in particular, after all, she hadn't exactly seen who had pushed her, she had only heard them laughing at her.

"I see." Lan Xichen says, clasping both of his hands behind his back before he turns away from Jiang Yanli and back to Wen Xu and Nie Mingjue. "Young Master Wen, my uncle tells me that this will be the first time in many years that the Lan clan of Gusu has hosted disciples of the Wen clan." The smile comes back to Lan Xichen's face as he speaks and Jiang Yanli only bears the weight of Wen Xu's glare for a moment before Nie Mingjue is putting his body between them.

"Please allow me to impart two of our rules now, do not bully others and do not harass female cultivators." Lan Xichen's tone is kind, but it leaves no room for argument and only then does Jiang Yanli feel the stinging in her knees stop. "Any further disturbances will result in disciplinary action."

The words alone sent a chill down Jiang Yanli's spine, she'd only heard of Gusu Lan's punishments and decided long before her arrival that she'd do anything she could to avoid them. Another moment of silence passes between the four of them before Wen Xu turns away with a growl and stalks back down the mountain, the Wen disciples following after him soon after.

It’s only when they’re all out of sight that Nie Mingjue steps out from in front of her, his shoulders relaxing as he turns to look at Lan Xichen. “Since when does Zewu-Jun spend his time reciting Lan sect rules at other people?”

The rest of the tension breaks as Lan Xichen’s smile becomes genuine as he stifles a laugh. “One must know the rules well before they can begin to find the loopholes in them, Mingjue.” They both laugh then and even Jiang Yanli can feel a smile pulling back onto her face before she can school it into something more serious.

“Thank you both for your help, I’m sorry to cause such trouble.” Jiang Yanli says, bowing before either of them can reach out and stop her again, the laughter dying on her lips when she feels a hand on her shoulder and a warm presence at her side.

“Lady Jiang shouldn’t be the one apologizing.” Nie Mingjue says firmly, his arms crossed over his chest when she looks up again, hoping that the surprise isn’t too obvious on her face when Lan Xichen nods in agreement.

“I doubt we’ll be hearing any apologies from the Wen.” Lan Xichen says, taking his hand off Jiang Yanli’s shoulder with an exasperation that she’s sure she wasn’t meant to see, but it makes her smile all the same.

Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue are still talking as they turn and walk towards the stairs, and Jiang Yanli lingers at the bottom, wondering if she’d be allowed to follow or if they’d already decided to move on from her. It takes her a moment too long to realize that they’re waiting for her, only following along when her name is called.

~

In their first month, Jiang Yanli had simply thought they’d grown protective of her, one or both of them lingering around her constantly in case Wen Xu had entertained any other thoughts of tormenting her.

By their third month in Cloud Recesses, Jiang Yanli had come to understand she’d thought wrong. Somewhere between the second and third month, they’d stopped calling her Lady Jiang when it was only the three of them, settling for just Yanli instead. It wasn’t proper, but Jiang Yanli had decided she wouldn’t care.

They had both sat near her during classes and during meal times, asking after her brothers on the days that letters came, and she had done the same, smiling widely whenever it led to trading stories back and forth.

“I don’t believe you, Lan Wangji is such a sweet boy.” The surprise is clear in her voice as her eyes widen. Maybe sweet isn’t the word, polite, maybe, observant, certainly, but even so, Jiang Yanli can’t believe it when Lan Xichen tells her he’d gone through a biting phase when he was small. The first time she’d met him, she’d wanted to pinch his cheeks in a fit of missing her own brothers.

“It’s true,” Nie Mingjue says, setting down his teacup with a laugh of his own, “Huaisang and Wangji were both biters, it’s the first thing we had in common.”

“Wangji and Huaisang bit others for different reasons,” Lan Xichen interjects, but doesn’t interrupt, leaning forward to refill their tea cups before he continues, “Huaisang bit to get his way, Wangji bit when he wanted to be left alone.” As if to emphasize his point, Lan Xichen rolls back his sleeve to the elbow, exposing a tiny bite mark on his inner forearm, the scar having turned white and hard to see over the years.

“Uncle brought us along to a meeting and told me to make sure Wangji didn’t wander off, I had only been holding him for an hour when he decided he didn’t want to be touched anymore.” Jiang Yanli has to raise a hand to her mouth to hold back the giggle that comes, imagining a much smaller Lan Xichen with an even smaller Lan Wangji attached to his arm and not letting go.

“A-Cheng went through a phase where he would run off any chance he got, he would always kick and scream whenever I managed to catch him.” She smiles at the memories now, but they’d been terrifying then, chasing him through the streets as fast as her legs could carry her, hoping that he wouldn’t fall into the lake.

“Better than all the animals A-Sang sneaks into Unclean Realm.” Nie Mingjue says with a shake of his head, emptying his cup again, Jiang Yanli refills their cups this time.

“I thought you said he stopped.” Lan Xichen shares a look with her and Jiang Yanli can only smile.

“He stopped for six months.” They’re all quiet and serious for a moment before the laughter comes again.

~

Six months into their time at Cloud Recesses, Sect Leader Lan deems them ready enough to go on a nighthunt together under his supervision, though the Wen disciples all but demand to take the lead on the hunt, getting them lost and halfway into another town before Lan Qiren takes back control of the hunt.

The hour is too late to consider returning to Cloud Recesses, and after a lengthy lecture, they’re brought to an inn to pass the night, and after Lan Qiren has turned in for the evening, Jiang Yanli and Lan Xichen are snuck into Nie Mingjue’s room, a bulky Nie sect robe draped over Jiang Yanli to keep her from getting caught.

“I have a surprise for both of you.” Nie Mingjue says before he produces two pots of wine from behind his back with a grin on his face. Jiang Yanli’s mouth hangs open as she turns to look at Lan Xichen, he’s not frowning but he’s not smiling either.

“We shouldn’t drink on a nighthunt, Mingjue.” Lan Xichen says, though he doesn’t sound firm in his decision at all.

“But we aren’t on a nighthunt anymore.” Nie Mingjue reminds the both of them, sitting down at the table and opening one of the pots before filling three cups. “The Wen made sure of that.” Nie Mingjue’s words seem to strike something within Lan Xichen, the fine line of his mouth easing into a smile again, though there’s an edge of mischief to it now.

“So they did.” Lan Xichen says, always able to find a loophole in the rules he’d grown up by, Jiang Yanli envies him for it sometimes.

Both Nie Mingjue and Lan Xichen pick up their cups at the same time, toasting to each other before they turn to her. Jiang Yanli only hesitates for a moment before she picks up her own cup, neither of her parents get drunk easily, she should be fine, shouldn’t she?

Letting herself relax, Jiang Yanli toasts to both of them before she downs the cup behind the sleeve of her borrowed robe, laughing at the both of them when they look at her with wide eyes. It’s easy to ignore the burn of the wine in her throat when it feels as though she’s getting away with something.

Nie Mingjue is the next to drink, looking at Lan Xichen as though he were daring him to do it now, and Lan Xichen doesn’t back down from the challenge. He downs the cup in one go and within the next second he’s face down on the table and both Nie Mingjue and Jiang Yanli are on their feet, leaning over him.

“Mingjue,” Jiang Yanli says, having gotten over how strange it sounded to call him so casually after the last few months of the both of them insisting upon it, “doesn’t the Lan sect have a weakness to alcohol?” Her hand is on Lan Xichen’s back now, the other resting on his shoulder while Nie Mingjue tapped his fingers against Lan Xichen’s cheek.

“I didn’t think it would only take a cup.” Nie Mingjue says, more confused than defensive as he wraps an arm around Lan Xichen’s belly, lifting him up easily and letting his head loll back. “Help me get him into the bed.” Jiang Yanli nods as she rises to her feet, keeping one hand on Lan Xichen as they walk him to the bed, pulling the quilt back when they get there, just like she’d done for A-Cheng and A-Xian back home.

She steps aside to let Nie Mingjue take off Lan Xichen’s boots before she folds his arms over his chest and pulls the quilt up to his chin, smiling to herself when she hears him begin to snore lightly.

Back at the table, Nie Mingjue refills both of their cups with a shake of his head, though the smile on his face is clear. “Do you think everyone in the Lan sect has that reaction?” Jiang Yanli asks as she sits back down, easing the borrowed robe off her shoulders and setting it to the side gently, the wine was already starting to make her feel warm.

“This is the first time I’ve ever seen a Lan drunk.” Nie Mingjue confesses, turning halfway to look at Lan Xichen as he sleeps. “We’re going to have to tell him that he snores.” Jiang Yanli laughs into her cup at that, looking up once more to make sure her friend was still sleeping soundly in Nie Mingjue’s bed.

She and Nie Mingjue keep their voices light and quiet as they keep drinking, two more cups for Jiang Yanli as the warm, fuzzy feeling starts to set in, and the rest of the bottle for Nie Mingjue who doesn’t seem bothered at all. It lasts for about an hour when Lan Xichen sits bolt upright in Nie Mingjue’s bed and makes to get up, but he stumbles and catches both of their attention.

“Zewu-Jun, you should lie down,” Jiang Yanli scolds lightly, standing up and wobbling on her feet for a moment, Lan Xichen is half way back to the table by the time the world stops spinning and she can put her hands on his arms to stop him from going out the door.

“I promised Wangji I would bring him something back.” Lan Xichen says it as though it’s the only thing he needs to explain as he pushes past Jiang Yanli, moving quickly towards the door, only to be stopped by Nie Mingjue’s hand on his wrist.

“You bring Wangji presents all the time, he’ll be fine if you skip it this one time.” Nie Mingjue says, not letting go of Lan Xichen even when he pulls.

“We can always stop on our way back,” Jiang Yanli tries, “I’ll help you look.”

Something sour crosses Lan Xichen’s face then, his arm dropping for just a moment. “Uncle won’t want to stop on the way back.” He says petulantly before he wrenches his wrist out of Nie Mingjue’s grip and nearly falls out the door as he leaves.

The world screeches to a halt as Jiang Yanli and Nie Mingjue look at the door and then each other before they set off after Lan Xichen the next second, no longer caring about hiding Jiang Yanli underneath another sect’s robe.

Being as drunk as he is should’ve slowed Lan Xichen down, but he’s gone with a flutter of white as they round a corner, hissing his name in a desperate attempt not to wake up the entire inn.

“Xichen!” Nie Mingjue whisper-shouts, pulling apart curtains as though he expected Lan Xichen was only leading them in a game of drunken hide and seek.

“Zewu-Jun!” Jiang Yanli whispers, squinting to see into the darkened dining room when a trail of light coming in catches her attention. “Mingjue.” She calls, her eyes widened as she stares into the empty street.

“Fuck.”

They spend the next two hours chasing after flashes of white and glints of a silver headpiece, Jiang Yanli’s lungs burning in her chest as she bends forward on her knees to catch her breath. It might have been easier to find him if they had split up, but Nie Mingjue had rejected the very idea of it, refusing to leave her alone in the dark for even a moment.

“If I had known he was going to be like this, I wouldn’t have even bought the wine.” Nie Mingjue says, propping against a tree as he grumbles, rubbing at the back of his neck. Straightening herself up again, Jiang Yanli puts a hand on his arm and tries to smile as best she can.

“We’ll find him,” She promises Nie Mingjue that because they would, they would find Lan Xichen and bring him back to the inn and put him back to bed, she would make sure of it.

Nie Mingjue looks as though he’s about to say something when something else catches his attention and his eyes widen, lifting up an arm to point behind her. “There! He’s right there!”

Jiang Yanli turns and gathers her skirts in her hands, running ahead of Nie Mingjue when she sees Lan Xichen kneeling before a merchant’s cart, inspecting their wares as carefully as he could while still drunk.

“Yanli!” Lan Xichen calls, smiling widely and waving with his free hand as she approaches, “I’ve found something for him!” Sighing, Jiang Yanli can’t help but smile back as she comes to squat down next to him, eyes on the wood carved rabbit held preciously in his hand.

“I think that’s a very nice gift for your brother, Zewu-Jun.” Jiang Yanli says, partially an appeasement, partially truth as she tapped her fingernail against the ear of it.

“Xichen!” He corrects, fist closing over the rabbit tightly and making her chuckle.

“Lan Wangji loves all the rabbits you bring him, Xichen.” She tries again as Nie Mingjue finally catches up to them, not nearly as enthralled with the wooden rabbit as the both of them were.

“Is that what you’re getting for him?” Nie Mingjue pants and Jiang Yanli shoots him an apologetic look for making him chase after her too.

“Yes!” Xichen answers cheerfully, reaching for his money pouch and seeming to have forgotten that he’d left it in Nie Mingjue’s room.

“I’ve got it.” Jiang Yanli says quickly, mumbling with the merchant for just a moment as they negotiate the price and Nie Mingjue pulls Lan Xichen away, his grip tighter to keep him from running off again.

They walk back to the inn slowly after that, Lan Xichen between the two of them when he suddenly slumps forward and Nie Mingjue has to scramble to catch him.

“It must be after nine.” Jiang Yanli says quietly as she helps Nie Mingjue load Lan Xichen onto his back, keeping one hand on him as they start back up the hill again.

“I’m never going to let him live this down.” Nie Mingjue says, a bit too loudly as he adjusts his grip on Lan Xichen, glancing down at her with a grin on his face as the inn comes back into view, along with a familiar shape dressed in white who hadn’t seen them quite yet.

“I’ll deal with Sect Leader Lan,” Jiang Yanli says, pushing at Nie Mingjue’s arm, “take Xichen in through the kitchen and he won’t see either of you.” This was another game she’d played at home, distracting her mother with inane questions and conversation so her brothers could sneak back in and dodge punishments and lectures.

By the wild look in his eyes, Jiang Yanli can see that Nie Mingjue means to argue with her, but she pushes at him again and shakes her head. She could do this.

Another moment is wasted looking at each other for confirmation before Nie Mingjue goes, looking back as though he were still uncertain. Swallowing and lifting her chin up high, Jiang Yanli continues up the hill and towards Sect Leader Lan, but not saying a word until his eyes light upon her and he calls her name.

“Lady Jiang! What are you doing out at such an hour?” The admonishment is clear in his voice, but Jiang Yanli can only pretend to look ashamed in front of him.

“You see, Sect Leader Lan,” Jiang Yanli isn’t actually looking at him as she speaks, her nails digging into her palms, “during this time of the month, I cramp very badly and I can’t hold still, my physicians back home have always recommended that taking walks could alleviate such pains.” Her poor health was well known, but not discussed within the cultivation world, what’s one more thing wrong with her?

The next time Jiang Yanli dares to look up, she sees confusion, and then horrified understanding passes over Sect Leader Lan’s face like a summer storm, quickly and then gone when he pulls his face into his normal expression of neutral disdain.

“Very well, Lady Jiang,” Lan Qiren says finally, shifting uncomfortably in front of her, as though he were trying to put distance between the two of them. “See that you aren’t out too late.”

“Thank you, Sect Leader Lan.” Jiang Yanli says, bowing so he can’t see the smile that crosses her face. She’d like to think that XianXian would be proud of the trick she’d just played, but she doesn’t have time to dwell on the satisfaction before she has to walk past Sect Leader Lan and into the inn, praying he doesn’t follow after her as she meets Nie Mingjue and Lan Xichen on the stairs.

The two of them manage to put Lan Xichen to bed in his own room and sneak back into theirs before Lan Qiren makes his way back into the inn, and Jiang Yanli just barely manages to collapse into her bed before he sends a female disciple in to check her room.

Lan Xichen is ill tempered and sickened the next morning, vowing to them in secret that he would find a way to neutralize the effects of alcohol over breakfast. Nie Mingjue and Jiang Yanli don’t stop themselves from laughing at him.

~

The next six months of their time at Cloud Recesses pass by them more quietly than the first, regular classes turning into exams and physical exercises turning into sparring matches as they reach the end of their year of study. Jiang Yanli even manages to win a handful herself after Nie Mingjue had pulled her aside and taught her moves he’d shown to his own brother when he refused to wield a saber.

They sneak out past curfew to sit in the meadows and watch the stars, all three of them laying close together while Nie Mingjue counts out the constellations they can see before he claims that Nie Huaisang is better at astronomy than he is. They’re only caught once, and Jiang Yanli had avoided punishment only because Nie Mingjue had blocked her from Lan Qiren’s view.

At the end of the twelfth month, Jiang Yanli knows she’s altogether ready to go home and dreading having to leave her friends. They would still see each other, at sect meetings and conferences, but she wouldn’t be allowed to run free with them like she had, she was still betrothed to Jin Zixuan and people would talk.

Frowning to herself, Jiang Yanli forces herself to start packing, starting with her robes and then moving onto the trinkets she’d ended up with on their excursions to Caiyi Town when a knock drags her out of her thoughts and forces her back into the moment. “Come in.” She calls, hoping her voice isn’t as tight as it feels as the door slides open.

Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue both step through the door, boxes held nervously in their hands as they look back at the door, afraid they’d be ejected from the women’s dormitories at any moment. “We both wanted to bring you something before you left,” Lan Xichen starts slowly, holding his own box out to her, thumbs pressing into the sides of it as he looks over to Nie Mingjue as if asking for confirmation.

“Just something in case you ever feel like visiting either of us.” Nie Mingjue explains with a wave of his hand, “With a chaperone, probably.” That gets a laugh out of Jiang Yanli, remembering the night out in the meadows when Nie Mingjue had announced what he’d thought of her arranged marriage and the Jin sect as a whole. He’d pretended to be hurt when she offered to leave him off the guest list.

Stepping forward, she opens the boxes slowly, not because she doesn’t trust them, but because she thinks she knows what’s inside them already. Knowing doesn’t take away the surprise of seeing them, though, and Jiang Yanli can feel her heart squeeze as she opens both boxes, starting with Lan Xichen’s and then Nie Mingjue’s. Entry tokens, for both Unclean Realm and the Cloud Recesses, they had meant it when they said they wanted her to visit after the lectures were over.

Jiang Yanli doesn’t even realize she’s crying until one of them calls her name, her fingers lingering on both of the tokens. “Thank you both,” She says, leaning up on her toes to wrap an arm around each of their necks. For a moment, she thinks she’s maybe gone too far, but then two different arms are wrapping around her back, the bigger one squeezing both her and Lan Xichen.

She wouldn’t be allowed to run free with them after she left the lecture today, but she’d always remember when she could, and they’d always steal whatever moments they could at sect meetings and cultivation conferences, it was another promise they’d made together.

[jikookpancakes]

JIKOOK FIC RECS that no one asked for (2021)

but im giving anyway because THE TALENT IN THIS FANDOM IS INSANE

long post incoming!! this is probably just part 1 because i wont stop reading anytime soon so i’m inserting that link just in case i do make another one in the future

What’s a Soul Really Worth, Anyway? by thisneedsmorefilth - 130k words, fantasy, demon!jm, witch!jk, listen, this and the next one are my top 2 jikook fics of all time, so well-written, plot so exciting legit reads like a book, better than a lot of books tbh, the world-building is INSANE, jungkook and the gang accidentally summon demon!jimin and chaos ensue, especially for jungkook...and you know why!!!, so funny, angsty, cried so much, happy ending but listen to me: you gotta read the sequel too, YOU GOTTA.

Militat Omnis Amans: The Beginnings by edaen - 92k words, fantasy, werewolf!jk, vampire!jm, forbidden love, super slow burn but super worth it, JIKOOK IN THIS IS MY FAVORITE JIKOOK IN ANY FIC EVER EVER EVER, this is the ultimate all or nothing will freeze hell over for the other kind of love, and the way this is written is just so... how do i describe it. like you can just tell the author wanted to be very realistic with their feelings. you’ve seen the word count, this is SLOW burn. like you will legit feel their struggle to just be able to love each other and while it hurts, it’s also SO GLORIOUS. i love this one so much and if you like reading angst with happy ending but like cranked up to 200% then read this. bonus feels if you read the whole series

Until Dawn (series) by edaen - this is the long series where the previous one above is part of. highly rec if you love fantasy and you wanna read about bts being a rag tag group of supernatural beings fighting evil yay. also it makes the above fic more satisfying because you see more of jikook just being tgt and in love (with bonus angst because of course)

7 Signs by NamHyora - 27k words, secret spies au, abo, alpha!jk, omega!jm who is always used as a raven in their operations aka they use jimin and his attractive self to attract people and gather information or acquire targets and all that spy stuff, and his bestie alpha jk is not too happy about it hehe, friends to lovers, iove this one so much i wish it was longer but i think the author is planning to write a sequel!

Drop Like Confetti by annie_vi - 110k words, ceo!jk, age difference, age swap, ahhh i love this fic so much cause jimin smart and mature and has this no bs attitude, and he can keep up with jk despite the age gap and the difference in status/experiences, jk sexy dilf in this one eheh, i love it cause the drama/angst tackles a very real concern for such couples, like there’s no angst just for the sake of having angst, it really makes sense where they’re both coming from, they’re so whipped for eo too so love that for me

Fold it Up Like Origami by annie_vi - 99k words, gamer!jk, model!jm, same author as above and jk is so boyfriend goals in this one and in all this author’s fics in general like wow my standards are so high now i will legit be single forever just reading jikook fics (with no regrets), secret relationship due to their celeb status, well-written as usual, dialogues/banter in this author’s fics are just YES

The Tournament by kinkmins - 34k words, prince!jm, bodyguard!jk, abo, i’ll paste part of the summary here “Prince Jimin gets ready to hold a tournament where 50 alphas compete for a chance to court him, his father the king hires a new bodyguard who is a little too blunt and a little too talkative.“, i really love this oneeeee

Screwed Up and Brilliant by annie_vi - 113k words, escort!jk, jimin needed a date for a work event and in comes jungkook, escort extraordinaire with a no sex rule and jimin is just dasdkjfhasl, a lot of that “is this real or is he just acting” kinda angst, fluff smut angst

Like Everything Glows by annie_vi - 180k words, merman!jm, aquatic vet!jk, ok this is like my 4th rec from this author just read all their fics you’re welcome, this is their first fantasy fic but soso good, i rec’d this to someone who doesn’t really read fics and she really loved it and said “their love is so pure hhh”, she’s right

Track one: I love you by honeydice - 30k words, they’re “just” best friends, lots of pining it hurts, there’s some yoonmin and mentioned past jinmin in this so just noting in case, angst, denial of feelings, siiiiigh

InYou by edaen - 4k words, pwp :), abo, the morning after jikook mating, more sexytimes ensue + fluff

Falling For You Again by Rose_gold715 - 30k words, amnesia au, jk forgets about jimin and idk just something about this hits right in the feels. btw i don’t support the jk hated jm before in real life agenda so i don’t like this fic for that reason but i like this fic because i love me some good painful angst with happy ending.

The President’s Son by AmeliaBedelia - 55k words, bodyguard!jk, president’s son!jm, jk is assigned to shadow jm bc his life is under threat, and things develop :), jm is jk’s gay awakening :) :)

A Touch of Sin by pettey - 102k words, fantasy au, police officer!jk, supernatural!jm, shamanism, LOOK AT THE RANGE OF JIKOOK WRITERS YALL, this is such an interesting concept, so different from every other fic i’ve read, really well-written, sometimes you come across fics and you cant help but go “someone out there rly blessing me with this art for free”

Tears to the Tide by haromame - 65k words, abo, alpha!jk, omega!jm, honestly there’s not a lot of abo elements it’s focused more on jungkook having ptsd as he just came from war, established relationship jikook, he comes back home to jimin and things have just... changed. except their love ok THEY LOVE EO SO MUCH this made me cry so f much ugh so good tho.

Zero Hour by edaen - 5k words, canon compliant, a little drabble based around rosebowl jikook, it’s part of a series/collection of canon compliant jikook so if you’re looking for more canon compliant here you go!!, also if you can’t tell already i tend to like several things from a single author, i haven’t read their other fics im legit saving for sad days but i am confident enough to say their other fics are also rec-worthy.

Wonder by wordcouture - 7k words, im sorry in advance, mcd :( pls take care of yourself, i don’t like sad endings ok i don’t, but this is so popular and i was like, ok let’s see what the hype is all about, i get it now, :((((((((((((((((((((, well-written tho, bc the author will manage to crush your heart in just 7k words ha ha

The Omega Revolution by PinkBTS  - 158k words, abo, alpha!jk omega!jm, dystopian au, the hunger games more specifically mockingjay vibes, angst with happy ending but there’s some...things... lost along the way and i think that’s realistic for a dystopian war au, well-written

Blind Switch - 226k words, jockey!jk, rich spoiled brat!jm, jm gets exiled to his grandparents ranch where he meets jk yeehaw, im sorry for the yeehaw, anyway fluff smut angst enemies friends to lovers hurt/comfort slow burn happy ending, all the good stuff, ugh jk so boyfriend goals, also the amount of fluff in the later chapters thank u writer

Finally by Rose_gold715 - 12k words, abo, alpha!jk, omega!jm, angst with happy ending, jikook mate out of convenience and jimin runs away from jk and his pack feeling unloved and outcasted, but jungkook goes after him :((

Park Jimin’s Guide to Good Housekeeping by Ashlyn17 - 235k words, fantasy au, when i say jikook has the best fic writers i mean jikook has the best fic writers because THE WORLD-BUILDING in this one?, THE PLOT TWIST?, yesyesyes, jungkook is a powerful fae and jimin is assigned to be his housekeeper hehe, listen my entire fic rec has several that could be great netflix shows and this is definitely one of them

A Spell That Reminds Me of Your Name by Chimneycricket - 42k words, wizards!au, enemies to friends to lovers and the development felt natural, well-written plus the author sometimes makes art of their fics and other jikook fics and posts on twitter, both their fics and art are so good, i’ve heard good stuff about their other fics too :)

that’s it for now!

just a quick one about my preferences: idc about tops/bottoms, i read just about anything but i prefer fantasy and multi-chaptered fics, i love established relationship jikook so hmu with recs anytime, i don’t like reading anything with cheating and mcd, i love fics where jk and jm are just so friggin in love they are just IT for eo, and at the end of the day even if there are elements to the fics i wouldn’t normally read, as long as they’re well-written then i’m all for it

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Hey Kids additional notes

hey folks!! i’ve been working on expanding the I’m in Hell universe for the last few days, so i thought i’d make a bullet point list of will’s side of the story after the events of Hey Kids, Can You Rock and Roll?

if you haven’t read Hey Kids - do that first!

will struggles a LOT trying to raise bianca while going to classes. it’s usually fine in his lecture classes, but when he has labs, he can’t bring bianca with him

sometimes naomi’s schedule lines up just right that she can babysit, other times will begs a few of his classmates to watch her when they don’t have class

will hardly sleeps between his class schedule and taking care of a baby, and one night he goes out to the kitchen for a glass of water and finds naomi looking over budgets and he realizes that like,,, they really can’t afford to buy baby food and diapers or even a bed for bianca who is still sleeping in her baby carrier

will tries to think of any possibly way he can get a part time job where he can still study and work around his class schedule AND bring bianca with him so his mom doesnt have to work herself to the bone but there’s no way for it to work and all will can do is apply for as many scholarships as he possibly can because at least that’ll help in the long run kind of

it’s basically the last possible moment financially where will is practically in tears as he realizes that no, he can’t keep bianca, when Naomi comes inside with the mail and there’s an envelope with will’s name on it - but no address which means it must have been dropped off by hand - and there’s a note inside that says “consider this child support - don’t expect anything else” and a check for $5000 and will actually does burst into tears

it’s a stretch, but really its just enough for them to figure things out and will gets to keep bianca

it sounds like a lot but like. consider: a bed, clothes, food, diapers, that all adds up quick

the problem then becomes that legally,, will has no actual claim over bianca - they can’t really take her to the doctor, but naomi is able to sneak her in to see the pediatrician at the hospital she works as a nurse at, will won’t be able to put her in daycare or school - so will figures. time to get parental rights

bianca’s a little over a year old at this point, and the cheapest lawyer will can find tells him that will should have no problem getting parental rights

i don’t know anything about court processes or adoption or whatever but the way i see it. will shows up to court, apollo doesn’t, and the judge decides right then and there that will is clearly the more capable father

there’s still a lot of financial struggle - especially after will has to pay a laywer - and it gets worse when will graduates and has to start paying back his student loans, but Chiron recommended will to multiple great residency programs and that should help

unfortunately he’s either rejected because of the medical school he went to, or the residencies are already full, so will only gets into a lesser known, more local hospital, but at least he can still stay with naomi to save money

after his first year of residency, a spot opens up at a hospital in new york city, and while the pay is better, it’s still super expensive to live in new york, so will almost doesn’t take it, but once naomi convinces him, he moves away

boy oh boy that’s a lot of time to fill and i still skipped over a lot of it but i think i have the important stuff down!! if you have any questions or just want to talk about this au, hmu!! i’d love to talk to yall about it!!

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