#longDistance

[ipessimist1]

Haiku

Distance is the bridge that separates our two worlds- A bridge I must cross.

8:51 PM 26/9/24

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[thedeluluverse]

Author’s Note: Yes, I know the series was over by the summer, but in my Oc Nari au, it sounded better in the summer, lol. Let me know what y’all think, and get ready for the next 2 parts!

Summary: Summer is fast approaching, and your relationship with Tae has felt like a walk in dreamland so far! Naturally, neither of you is thrilled about the prospect of him leaving for Mexico to film a new show because it means being apart, but you are happy for him and promise to call him every night! But will that be necessary?

Pairing:  Jinny’s Kitchen era bf!Tae x oc!Nari. Mentions of the rest of Jinny’s crew but nothing romantic happens.

Rating: Mild (some teasing but nothing explicit)

Genre: slight angst, fluff, established relationship, series

Word Count: 1,570

Warnings: none really, besides separation anxiety and Tae being a little shit, haha

It is the middle of May, and the past 3 months of being the girlfriend of your stranger who turned into the love of your life, Kim Taehyung, has been absolute bliss.

While both of your schedules keep you more than occupied, he always makes time for you, and you relish being able to openly claim him as yours while seeing Jocelyn flounce amongst young bachelors like a dying fish every other week.

Something has seemed off with your boyfriend for the past couple of weeks. You are unable to pinpoint what is different, but his energy has definitely been altered by something.

He reassures you that he is fine and that you did nothing, even swearing it on Yeontan! Still, you know him better than he realizes and that doesn’t tame the worry in your heart.

The next week, you finally get the answer you have been asking for: he is leaving in 3 days to film a show in Mexico. How did you get this information from your guarded teddy bear? Tequila.

He had told you he was going to hang out with his friends Jung Yumi, Choi Wooshik, and Park Seo Joon after the gym and to not wait up as it had been a long time since he had seen them.

Well, you obviously didn’t listen and stayed up until he got home to make sure everything was all right and to sneak in a “hey” to his friends as they dropped him off after partaking in too many shots.

The second he plopped onto the couch, the waterworks started. Between sobs, he choked out the news that he feels like his life with you has just started.

He doesn’t want to leave you, but his manager already said that you couldn’t tag along but were more than welcome to visit him the last couple of days.

You sit there in a daze, rubbing his back while he cries into your shoulder and can’t believe that he has kept this from you. While you understand his reasoning, he knows about your separation anxiety.

You prefer to have a hefty heads-up before these types of things so you can slowly adjust. You’ll barely be past the depression about him leaving by the time he leaves.

Despite your annoyance at his strategy of information release, you do your best to postpone the depression and enjoy the next few days, helping him prepare and have as much fun as possible.

You know this is barely easier for him, and he has apologized profusely for not telling you sooner.

The day arrives for his departure, and you bring him to the airport and wish him and his friends safe travels with bleary eyes and continual “I love you’s” being exchanged between you.

You get home and cuddle up with Yeontan on the couch, feeling exhausted. Your emotions finally take over about 15 minutes later, and the waterworks are in full effect.

A while later, Tae shoots you a text that they have a brief layover before the next flight and that he already misses you and will call you as soon as he gets settled.

This only intensifies the tears, and it takes a miracle for you to settle down enough to pick up the phone about 5 minutes later when you see his manager calling your phone.

You answer immediately, asking if everything is okay, and he even further reassures you that they are fine and that he is about to tell you something confidential, not even to tell your boyfriend.

He apologized for saying that you couldn’t tag along before, but the decision wasn’t final yet. Your eyebrows are about to merge into one from being confusingly scrunched so much.

He explains that you will be leaving in 2 days to meet them in Mexico. A couple of episodes will already be shot, but he wants to surprise Tae (and the viewers) by having you join the crew.

He has already made accommodations for your heat sensitivity in advance, and everyone loves your relationship’s chemistry, so it would be an honor for you to guest star.

You think for a moment but decide not to live in fear and what if, and you agree! It is exceedingly difficult not to tell Tae the news when he calls that night, being the most pitiful puppy missing you so much and being homesick, but you can’t wait to see the look on his face when you spawn on set.

You arrive in Mexico a few days later at a nearby hotel so maintain the surprise and are given instructions on where to go, when, and given the Jinny’s Kitchen uniform.

It is tricky to Facetime Tae that night as you must make it look like you aren’t in the same time zone.

Luckily, he is exhausted, doesn’t suspect anything, and doesn’t even make a fuss about you ending the call earlier than usual because “you have an early photoshoot.”  

You drift off to sleep with the biggest grin on your face, knowing you get to be reunited with your boyfriend way ahead of schedule.

Bright and early the next morning, you arrive at the set, and the moment his eyes meet yours, he runs toward you like an excited puppy, lifts you, spins you around, and showers you with kisses until you both need oxygen.

Everyone on set can tell how much his energy shifts now that you are around and are impressed with your acting debut and how professional you are both being.

The viewers already know that you are together, but you both have jobs to do and can’t play around like when you cook at home.

After the first couple of days, he isn’t used to you in a negative way, but his cheeky side is peeking through now that the shock of you being there has lessened.

As the crew is doing the pre-shift interviews as all of you get ready for the day, he says, “Oh well, I am definitely not the intern now that Nari is here. I’ve been running this for 2-3 days before she got here. Don’t worry, I’ll make sure that is cleared up.” He says with a sly grin.

This remark is because the day before, you had gotten playfully sassy when he was trying to show you how to do something. Your reply was, “Um, I’m sorry. I’m the chef at home, so I think I can handle myself just fine, pretty boy; go check on the table 4.” giggling as he walked away.

The workday starts, and Tae calls a team meeting, shocking the older members with his boldness. Once everyone is gathered, he brings up an issue with his boss, Seo Jin. “Hyung, now that Nari is here, I think that we need to reconfigure the hierarchy of this establishment.”

You sit in the corner and roll your eyes only for a moment before they bug out of your head as the older man agrees with Tae. As Wooshik arrived a day before you, that makes you the true intern and the one with the least authority.

The whole time Seo Jin is explaining this amongst the other's discussion, you are glaring at your boyfriend while he has his tongue poking the inside of his cheek the whole time, looking the cockiest he has in a hot minute. Which is highly arousing. You won’t lie, but you are still annoyed.

You head to the back and start to gather the equipment the team will need to prep the snack foods of the day; Tae follows you with the excuse that nobody can make better rice than him so that he will start it.

Despite his attempts to show affection or joke around, you ignore him, fighting a smile because he is just your goofball boy that you are madly in love with and aren’t upset.

Dropping off the tools to Yumi and Seo Joon first, you return to the kitchen for the remaining items needed for the day. Chuckling to yourself about the events of the day so far, you get spun around and pinned to the fridge in a split second.

Tae has both of your hands in one of his above your head, and his other hand caresses your cheek, “Oh jagiya, now it’s official that you must listen to me. But that won’t be a problem; we both know how well you take instruction from me, right?”

With a smirk at your speechlessness, he gives you quick pecks on the forehead, nose, cheeks, and lips and turns to assist the others in prepping the food.

You remain frozen with heat pooling in your stomach for the next several seconds before Yumi comes to gather veggies from the fridge for the rolls.

Noticing your wide eyes, still leaning up against the fridge, she asks, “Nari, are you all right? You hadn’t been seen in a while.” Returning to Earth, you nod, saying, “Sorry, there were a few dishes, then I got overheated, so I just leaned against here a moment.” She nods with a smile, “Glad you are feeling better; we all get hot and bothered in a kitchen, so do what you need to, yeah?”

As she walks away, you grin, knowing the real reason you were back there, and mumble to yourself, “You can say that again.”

STAY TUNED FOR PART 2!

[agrossofworms]

distance and fondness.

sure, we are one of those long distance couples that spends all our time on video calls and texting. but isnt that still partnership?

watching them walk around getting ready for the day through the camera of their laptop, while i’m in my own bed, but it feels like if i wish just hard enough, i’m there too. maybe the distance wont be so crushing if i can spend that domestic time with them. counting the weeks, days, hours until i’m with you again.

this does not feel fond. this feels like an archaic longing, clawing at my ribcage until i can feel your skin on mine again.

let me come home.

[notesandnipplepiercings]

The Comedown

My head is spinning,

I am unmedicated.

My eyes are wide; now undilated,

like a seven-inch vinyl instead of a twelve.

I think I am unmedicated.

Three months will fly by,

as will the fifty days I need to wait until I see him.

I check his location every day. 

He’s enjoying his trip. I never see it because he lives without Snapchat for days, weeks at a time.

I removed my ex’s location and now I feel better.

But I saw him today,

In a club at 4am.

It’s ironic, really.

We didn’t do long distance for the singular reason that we wanted each other to have fun and not be preoccupied thinking about the other.

I picture him in this club in the foreign city now, locals admiring his tall stature, lakeside eyes, and bearlike facial hair.

I was in the same situation at the same time most of last week.

Friday 25th: home and asleep by 04:30

Saturday 26th: wore a push-up bra and did cocaine at a rave, sleeping by 5

Sunday 27th: drove 4 hours to spend a week with all boys

Monday 28th: greened out & at least 10 units consumed

Tuesday 30th: let a goth girl flirt with me for an hour because I needed companionship, arrived back at TS’s by 4am

Thursday 31st: atomic amount of ketamine consumed, thought a lot about kissing a girl but did not: was that because I knew she was just using me for drugs, or because I thought the validation laid with LA? Bedtime 3am.

Friday 1st: No flirting. Very good night. Nipples were semi-showing. Great bonding with friends. If he checked my Snapmaps what would he think? I wish he was there with me on ¾ a pill. I liked leaning on AM and reading him my journal but I would have preferred it to be LA. Bed by 6am.

It feels good to brag. I don’t think I’m actually having a bad comedown.

I do think I am unmedicated though. I liked the stimulant side of Friday.

I felt very calm. The voice in my head that can’t ever get its words out properly figured out how to speak that night. And how to shut up.

Would be more appropriate to get some lisdexamfetamine instead of relying on methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine. I want the irrelevant voice in my head that thinks he’s been intimate with other people to become mute.

[writing-from-the-closet]

END : Distance over You&Me

Hi, how are you?   Let’s stay on the call for a few hours or two.   I’ve been missing you   All day long.   Let’s stay on the call   For a few more songs. I can’t. I love you,   But you can’t be on my neck.   Wasted time, wasted days   On this stupid rectangle box. I have a life to live.   I’ve got some real things to finish.   You have your life online,   But this life of mine…

[phanfictioncatalogue]

2009 (Long Distance) Relationship Masterlist

Axiom of Infinity (ao3) - OliveTheHobbit, pttnwho

Summary: “We love each other in every reality possible, don’t we?”

In which Yazi Howell finally meets her girlfriend, and the love of her life, Fionna Lester.

Come Back, Be Here (ao3) - jestbee

Summary: Phil hates saying goodbye, he can't wait for the day he doesn't have to anymore.

Or

The five times Dan and Phil said goodbye in a train station, and the one time they didn’t.

Coming On Skype (ao3) - intoapuddle

Summary: The title says it all, really

computer love (ao3) - bloodyscarab

Summary: could it be your face i see, on my computer screen?

dancin in circles (ao3) - bloodyscarab

Summary: i fool myself swirl around as if i'm someone else your hands are mine

finally (ao3) - bloodyscarab

Summary: finally, you've come along the way i feel about you, just can't be wrong

hit the dial-up for affection (ao3) - dvp_95

Summary: Dan's wifi won't connect the Skype call.

I'll always come back to you (ao3) - croissantbleu (orphan_account)

Summary: "Dan always dreaded the goodbyes.

There was something so cruel in being on the way to meet his boyfriend, knowing they wouldn't get much time together before he had to leave again."

Or the one where Dan and Phil are in a long distance relationship

I Think I've Loved You Before (ao3) - milfbilvy

Summary: There is nothing Phil is more sure of than the fact that he and Dan were meant to find each other in every life.

Let The Salt Dry (ao3) - dandrogynous

Summary: “When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

- Aleksandar Hemon

2009 except Dan is a trans boy

oh, i'm jealous of the way. (ao3) - commonemergency

Summary: It’s not just that they get Phil’s time, but they also get Phil’s friendship.

Once in a Lifetime (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil smiled, a quick turn of the corners of his lips, his eyes twinkling slightly. A simple motion that made Dan weak in the knees.

“One video, just to try it out. Test the waters. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to make another video, I promise,” Phil held his pinky up for Dan to see. Dan barked out a laugh, doing the same.

“Fine,” Dan said, rolling his eyes with a smile.

Or, a 2009x2015 fluffy fic about Dan's first video.

the girl (ao3) - waveydnp

Summary: There’s only the two of you right now. The world belongs to you, as long as the sky is dark and you stay tucked up where no one else can see you.

Trust (ao3) - INeverHadMyInternetPhase (BirbWatcher)

Summary: Dan convinces his parents to let him go on holiday with the guy he met on the internet.

Tuck You In Every Night On The Phone (ao3) - cafephan

Summary: After their Skype call ends abruptly, Phil calls Dan to say goodnight in their own special fluffy way.

We Made These Memories For Ourselves (ao3) - sleeplessnightwithphan (sarah_cadabra)

Summary: Phil had only just gotten to meet Dan, had just has the best days of his life with him. Now, he has to watch helplessly as Dan has to get on the train to go back home, go away from Phil once more.

you > cuddles (ao3) - calvinahobbes

Summary: Dan wakes up alone, physically aching to cuddle someone.

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[cosybear2006]

It felt different this time, I came to his house exhausted, a low level of hope for our relationship. But it didn't happen, we didn't end like I expected it to, I give up too quickly. Instead, I'm on this train planning the next time I get to see him, when I can cry on his shoulder, rely on him. Touch his body again. Most people would emphasise that they do not mean this sexually, but I do. I don't want to admit it, but I'm a slut for his touch. I would do anything to be back in his bed, him touching my face telling me I'm his pretty girl, fucking me the way I want to be, laughing.

Laughing during sex? That's a bit odd isn't it, unless you've done it, you wouldn't understand. The small giggle between inside jokes, calling it coetus because your show is big bang theory. Feeling loved is what I mean. Last time I think we over did it. Feeling like a whore rather than his girlfriend. We talked it before I left, it felt weird last time. But I love him, truly. The conversation at 2am still makes me cry. Why can't this fucking train turn back.

I don't like home, I don't like going back to it. His home feels like my home. His mum saying hello to me and having genuine conversations, in comparison my mum will ask me to go with the dog as soon as I come through the door. She doesn't miss me, it hurts that someone elses mother loves you more than your own. It makes you feel genuinely useless in this life.

Before him I didn't have anything, no other family. IT'S NOT MY FAMILY, BUT IT FEELS MORE LIKE FAMILY THAN MY OWN. I'm not married to him, but I wear the most beautiful promise ring on my finger and his nans (bless her sweet bloody heart) christmas present to me. A gorgeous little anxiety ring, I spin it in exams and in lessons when I don't understand a simple word thst everyone else nods to. I love his grandma, she reminds me of my late gran, smells like her, talks like her. I love her. I love his whole family and I hope he never leaves, for my own sake.

I love him, all over the cosmos.

[lesbiansweet]

picturing my future by your side, falling in love with the idea of you and what we can be if life gives us the chance to are my biggest mistakes

[alltimefanfiction]

JACIE Jay-see \ d͡ʒˈe͡ɪsi \ See Jennifer Anna Clara Isabell Evans. A talented songwriter and producer who now has to return to the studio and do what she loves.

JACK Jak \ d͡ʒæk \ A guy ten years older than Jacie, who is no stranger to life’s twists and turns.

Officially deciding to stay married, Jack and Jacie now have to navigate how it affects their daily lives. When Jack leaves on tour again and Jacie stays behind in LA to continue her work as a songwriter and producer, their relationship is put against the test. Can they survive their first time apart?

click for prequels

[bosquenegro]

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Hello. Does anyone want to be penpals? I’m looking for someone to write letters to, share deep thoughts and send each other interesting stuff. Hopefully also mantain communication through digital media too so we can actually be long distance friends. I studied english during 14 years and I need to keep it going. 

PLEASE MESSAGE ME IF YOU’RE INTERESTED !

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[im-literally-just-a-girl]

It’s been 7 months since I last saw you. It feels like a dream. Best dream I’ve ever had.

[querran-cortar-tus-alas]

Estoy cansada de esperar algo que sé que no va a llegar.

No sé qué estoy haciendo, no sé a qué estoy jugando. No me merezco lo que me estoy haciendo pasar y lo peor es que sé que no me lo merezco y como una buena payasa sigo ahí. Esperando.

Esperandote.

Porque siempre te voy a querer y siemrpe te voy a esperar y me cago en todo porque lo odio. Quiero olvidarte.

Déjame marchar.

[everythingsucksbykate]

If only

The sheets don't cling to me the same way that you do. My head doesn't fit the mold of this pillow the way it does your chest. There is no warm body for me to toss my leg across to ensure a tight grip. There is no blanket of safety wrapped around me pulling me in protecting me from what dreams may harm me tonight. In the dark corners of the room, fear patiently waits for me to close my eyes. If only I had you, I would sleep safe.