#rereading and catching up with everything again was a wild ride hahaha

[shubaka]

Continuation of that long, ridiculous kimchay idol resort au thing.

Part 1 is this way Part 2 is over here (last addition Oct 23, 2024)

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@subtextsays @mightyyoiko

Chay shimmies around the trunk of the coconut tree and does his best to keep his body out of the direct line of sight from the beach.

The armed men gather around the tangled mess of parachutes that Chay and the others had left on the beach when they first arrived. He watches as the men split up into three pairs. One pair starts walking along the shoreline, no doubt tasked with checking and securing the perimeter of the island. One pair heads further inland in the direction of the abandoned resort. The final pair return to the speedboat to keep watch. And the last figure, the man who had been shouting orders, begins walking.

Towards Chay.

Chay quietly starts cutting at the stem of a particularly hefty coconut. Just in case.

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Kim feels his phone vibrate and loses a smidge of the tension in his shoulders as he reads Arm's latest text.

Khun Nu located. Coordinates attached. Extraction in process. Chan to report within 24hrs or back up will be deployed.

There's not much Kim can do about his brother and Chay, but there is something that he can do.

He stalks out to the beach where the huddle of penguins idols-to-be and surveys their work. Tawan has been lowered feet first into a long narrow hole (he's impressed with their ability to dig so deep so quickly). Two boys have him propped up by the armpits as the others carefully fill in the hole with wet sand.

In a pleasing turn of events, he notices that Tawan is facing the slowly setting sun. As soon as the jerk is packed into the sand up to his neck, Kim positions himself between Tawan and the sun before slapping the man awake.

Tawan blinks up at Kim's foreboding figure. The face, cast in shadow and twisted in a sickeningly sweet sneer. The bright glow of the sun behind him. The row of idols caging them in from the sides. "Fuck," thinks Tawan.

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Gun calls Vegas in for a quick meeting. Vegas learns that Tankhun went missing during a flight back from the idol resort, but word around the compound is that they've pinpointed his location to a smaller nearby island.

They have a few men inside the rescue team.

It would be such a shame if Korn's eldest son never makes it home.

Wouldn't it be an even bigger shame if the other two brothers never make it home from the other island too?

Vegas knows it's not a rhetorical question.

[kithtaehyung]

HIIIII RYENNNNN!!!!!

I feel like I’m wiping cobwebs off my blog writing this message right now 😭😭

I wanted to come on here and check up on you, as well as wish you an extremely belated HAPPY 3TANNIVERSARY!!!!

I hope you’re doing well and your life hasn’t been too hectic and stressful lately!

Ever since I started working full time, I’ve felt like I haven’t had the chance to sit down and catch up on all the things I’ve missed, or even read silently for fun. It’s basically been work, eat, sleep, repeat. I’ve tried to like posts here and there, but I want you to know that I still see your notifications everyday, and have you in my thoughts all the time!!

I can’t believe 3tan is 3 years old… I remember coming across it when you had only just released Stay. It’s crazy just how much has happened since then, in real life and in their story. I gotta say, I’ve read MANYYY fanfics in my life, but I don’t think there’s a single one that has left an impact on me like 3tan. Maybe it’s because I found it at such an early time and have had the opportunity to follow along with you, but when I think about and try to remember stories I read that I truly loved, 3tan is one of the first that comes to mind!!

Speaking of it coming to mind, at work today (I work at a daycare), I had to peel 20 tangerines for the kiddos’ snack and the FIRST thing I thought of when I saw them was 3tan. I couldn’t stop smirking while trying to peel every single one of them in one piece, and my coworker kept looking at me like I was a weirdo. Like sorry, but you just wouldn’t get it!!! 😂🥹

Anyways, all that being said I am in HUGE need of a reread — which I seriously enjoy because I always seem to discover new things when I do — and I’m hoping to find more time in my evenings to be on here and update myself on all the things!!

(P.S. I saw your coloring books which are absolutely adorable and they’re definitely being added to my collection once I get paid on Friday. 🤪 I also saw little snippets of Minted and BOYYYY am I excited to eventually read it!! 👀)

- Abby 🫶🫶

ABBYYYYY HELLO MY LOVE HOW ARE YOU??

thank you for all the well wishes, it's been fun and a real blur of a year these past few months hahaha. def hectic around here, but honestly i'm excited for everything that's to come - if i do all of this right!

3tan is 3.. what a wild fact! i'm so damn happy you enjoy it and very grateful to have you with me on this journey for so long. it's been quite the ride, especially with all the fun we got ourselves into these past 3 years lmaooooo i can never look at yoongi in chairs the same way ever again!!

THE TANGERINE STORY IS SO CUTE!!! you really have to know to be in the know and your coworker was notttt in the know hahaha. 20 is so much but tbh.. i could scarf all of those down sdlkfjjskdl

have fun on the reread journey! take your time, savor all the parts, those details are fun as hell when y'all catch them. also! happy to get the coloring books out, too! those took a longgg time but it was all worth it! as far as minted.... hoooo boy. you have fun with that yoongi and reader, that's all i'm gonna say LOL

[theriu]

(More!) Impressions of “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”

(Previous impressions can be found HERE)

UPDATE: So apparently it is always raining in the Zora domain until you beat the giant metal elephant and so it was never, ever going to stop raining so I could climb the side of the bridge and shortcut into the kingdom, so I literally wasted an hour sitting on a cliffside and ranting at the rain for nothing. At least I got some cleaning done. Rain is still annoying but I’m less mad at it now.

I love having so much money but it does make me feel less enthused when I do an adventure side quest collecting dragonflies across the country and all I get is a “measly” 100 rupees. WEALTH CHANGES YOU

Dude who even needs heart containers when you can cook a bunch of durian and turnips and you SUDDENLY HAVE LIKE 20 HEARTS HAHAHA COME AT ME NOW YOU BIG FREAKIN’ MONSTER CENTAUR

On the negative side you better have like seven of those dishes ‘cause the giant monster centaur will take like 13 hearts in one go if you mistime your dodge jump.

WHY. IS. IT. SO HARD. TO GET. BACK. UP. BEFORE. THE GUARDIAN. BLASTS YOU AGAIN THISISSOUNFAIR!!!

The helpful hints they give during the loading screens are actually VERY helpful sometimes! I honestly did not know until like the third tower that you can sprint. Or that horses follow roads automatically. Or, just now, as I was rereading a list of them online to remember examples, that bokoblins will run if menaced by bees. Does this mean I can throw a beehive at them??? I must test this…

Did you know that if you fly up high and then fall and then try to shoot your bow you will SLOW-MO ACTION AIM LIKE A TIME-PAUSING SUPERHERO? Well you would have learned eventually because that’s how you beat the elephant but regardless, IT IS FREAKIN’ COOL

YOU. CAN. RIDE. THE BEARS.

YOU CAN ALSO RIDE THE DEER!!!!!!!

Best way to solve a puzzle ever: decide you want to see if you can ride the deer. Catch and ride a deer. Walk up to the accordion bird who tells you a riddle. Realize that the answer to the riddle is literally “ride a deer” because you are currently sitting on a deer caught in this very field and the answer is literally under your nose. You still have to go out and catch the boy deer because you’re riding the girl deer but even so. ACCIDENTAL BRILLIANCE

Unlimited bombs solve everything. Don’t want to be pounded by a Hinox? Bomb it. Find a skull-cave full of bokoblins? Climb up the back side and shoot bombs through the nose socket until they are decimated. Need fish and don’t want to chase them? Bomb them and they will float the surface. BOMBS ARE GREAT

Also if you switch rapidly back and forth between the square bomb and the round bomb you can bomb twice as fast!!!

Just don’t bomb yourself. You will feel Really Dumb every time.

It’s great how Beedle the traveling salesman is at every stable you pass, and when you initially go to each stable manually, it even seems realistic that you’d “just run into him again!” The facade starts to break down a little when you, like me, stock up on arrows by jumping from stable to stable, and Beedle is ALWAYS THERE even when you JUST SAW HIM TEN SECONDS AGO. Beedle: Actually a teleporter???

Going to the Great Fairy Fountain is like walking into a tailor shop only to find that the tailor is a gigantic burlesque dancer who wants to breath on all your clothes. In short: it is kinda awkward (although to be fair not NEARLY as awkward as those… ladies… from Ocarina of Time. *shudder*)

I seem to be creating a personal trend of trying to get into major areas through the backdoor only to find that it is impossible. I mean, I was gonna have to explore back here anyway, but dangit, I wanted to get to the Korok Forest sooner…

Awww, what do you mean I can’t bring my horse to Goron City? *sees lava* *heat rises* *clothes burst into actual flames* Ah, yes. I see.

HOT HOT HOT HOT WHY AM I STOPPING TO FIGHT THIS MAGMA ROCK MONSTER HOT HOT HOT WHAT DO YOU MEAN EATING A MEAL CANCELLED ONE OF MY FIREPROOF POTIONS HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!!!