If a cup is broken, can it be fixed? Suppose you gather every last shard. You spend countless patient hours fitting them back together. You fill the cracks not with invisible glue, but with liquid gold-the ancient art of kintsugi. You do not hide the breaks. You illuminate them. The mended cup is now more beautiful for having been broken. But what then? Can it still hold scalding tea? Will it bear the heat, or will the golden seams betray it? Is it stronger at the breaks, or forever more fragile? And is the time, the pain, the hope poured into its repair worth the risk of it shattering once more? Because cups are fragile. Hearts are, too. Are his mates worthy of being trusted with his heart a second time? And has he learned the most devastating lesson of all-that sometimes, to survive, you must learn how to hold yourself? [Cross-posted on AO3 under the same username]

Loneliness: a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. Chan feels lonely. Which sounds, objectively, ridiculous. He's an idol. The moment he steps outside, he's swallowed by a horde of staff and security. He performs in sold-out stadiums to seas of screaming fans. He's part of Seventeen, one of the largest, most successful boy bands of his generation - a miracle of thirteen. He is, technically, almost never alone. His work is his life, and his life is twelve other people. Alphas and omegas who orbit each other with an instinctual gravity, he watches from the periphery. So the statement feels juvenile. A bratty complaint. And yet. The loneliness isn't in the lack of bodies, but in the quality of the space between them. Is it because he's the maknae? The only 99-liner without a same-aged friend in the group? Or is it the simpler, more brutal truth he circles back to every time? He is a beta. The only one in a pack of alphas and omegas. And in the silent calculus of pack dynamics, sometimes that just means you're alone in a room full of people who are supposed to be yours. [Cross-posted on AO3 under the same username]

Chan is just a college student. Just an almost-graduate college student. Unlike his brother, he isn't good at much. What he is good as, is the little habit he picked up when their mom passed away; calling the cancer ward and trying talking to a complete stranger in an attempt to cheer them up. Not once was he connected to the same patient. Until the day that he is. Seungcheol is a patient at the same ward Chan constantly calls. When they're connected a second time, he is the one that does the cheering up and that is how their routine starts. Their phone calls which turn into visits which ultimately turn into adventures. But Seungcheol won't be around forever. And they know that, so they make every day last. When things take a terrible turn, it puts Chan in a position to face things he never thought he would be facing and he needs to make a decision before its too late.

↳ #SVT. [COMPLETED] ¡! ❀┊ ❝ oops, i did it again... ❞┊ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - lee chan, a 7th year hufflepuff student at hogwarts has a serious dilemma. at first it was just a crush. before he knew it... it was twelve crushes. while outside forces threaten his survival, he's fighting a fierce inner battle simultaneously. can he keep stringing them all along without anyone noticing when they all seem to be frustratingly connected, or will he have to face the consequence of making a decision he can never take back? ✎... 세분틴 (chan centric!) ⓒCARATOLOGY, 2023

vernon introduces chan to his friends. things instantly go wrong from there. - started: 22.02.19 - completed: 22.04.21 #1 in Dino ; 22.03.04 #1 in Dokyeom ; 22.03.19 #3 in Mingyu ; 22.04.24 #3 in Seventeen ; 22.04.25 #1 in Woozi ; 22.06.11

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" i could send him all the letters I'd want, but the only day he'll reply is this one spring day. " ❀ soonchan -- epistolary ❀ ❀ completed on 071517 ❀ © aeromunakata

"No matter what?" The blonde's eyes twinkled with hope as he stared up ever so lovingly at the younger. "No matter what." The black-haired junior looked down to the smaller elder with a gaze so affectionate it instantaneously reassured the other as the shorter felt arms wrapping around his waist. Maybe everything will be alright for once.

❛ are you this flirty with everyone? ❜ ❛ what do you mean, sweetheart? ❜ . . . . . CANDYHYUCKS © 2018

Boo Seungkwan's mom is desperate for him to get over with Hansol and set him up on a date with her high school friend's son, Kim Mingyu.