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she raised an index finger to her mouth in an attempt to mimic a hushing motion. however, despite her intentions, the buzz rushing through her body only made the gesture appear like a sporadic wagging. "shhh, shhhh!" her response remained the exact opposite of quiet, but minyoung bobbed her head along in agreement with the other. "quiet, quiet." the muddled murmuring remained in time with the nodding of her head.

"eonnie, are we really done already? we just got started." minyoung whined with a pout, her pleading eyes waiting for a favorable response.

her cup gently tapped along side the other's, following minyoung's lead. as she was taking long sips of her drink, mari almost choked at minyoung's shamelessness and loudness. letting out a laugh herself, mari gave a few gentle smacks on the other's arm as she let out a slightly slurred hush. "you need to be quiet! everyone is staring at us!" she exclaimed, not doing much to avoid drawing attention to the both of them. the burning looks of judgement can be felt on mari as she turned around and almost rolled her eyes at strangers, despite the fact they weren't doing anything to the two of them. "another?! already?! should we slow down before we get kicked out?"

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while i work on the replies that i said i'd get to last night.........here's a starter call!!! you can find some thread ideas under the cut below, just comment the respective emoji if you're interested <3 i'm gonna do my best to keep them short (max 1 paragraph hopefully) to hopefully be able to get to replies faster during the event

🔥 it's just you two left at the bonfire. the silence is loud, but neither of you are getting up to leave

🍜 you're on a late-night snack run at the general store with your basket fully loaded, but you don't realize that you forgot your wallet until you've reached the register. minyoung is tired of waiting and pays for you (vice versa works too!)

🍹you both enjoy the bottomless margaritas a little too much, and now neither of you can find your way back to your respective yurts

🦢 oversized floaties in the middle of the ocean was a good idea until minyoung remembered one of her fatal flaws: she can't swim very well and she's drifted out too far. please notice her arms waving around and send help !!

🏆you vs minyoung on the inflatable obstacle course. loser has to grant the winner (1) wish during the weekend trip

🧜‍♀️you want to rent out a boat to visit the caves, but don't want to go alone. minyoung is busy lounging around the beach and gets dragged along on your escapade

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despite the season, minyoung admittedly never had suntanning on her summer bucket list. however, she'd been enjoying the beachside vacation more than she'd anticipated prior to her arrival. "maybe being away from the computer screen isn't so bad after all." she hummed quietly to herself, leaning back to rest against her carefully placed towel...or so she thought. flecks of sand continued to annoy every part of her body, eventually making its way into her mouth, bringing her to a boiling point. "yes, you are!" minyoung shrieked, removing her sunglasses aggressively to get a clear look at the culprit. "what do you think you're doing?!"

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there'd be 16 rooms ... no, 24 rooms. he'd also sculpt a terrace around the lower level and perhaps a courtyard with a fountain. he'd be remiss if he forgot the dormer windows and mansard roofing. all that currently lay before him for the time being was an expanse of sand, though. soon enough, it'd be a strikingly adequate sandcastle all made by yunseong's hands. it was a skill he'd gleaned growing up on the beaches of yangyang city, along with surfing. as he got to work scooping a few buckets of damp sand into measured piles in front of him, his sculpting tool began etching out the rough beginnings of the structure. he was having to displace quite a bit of dry sand to get to what he needed, and as he risked a glance behind him, he realized where he was moving it all too. he saw minyoung's beach towel barely visible beneath piles of glistening sand. "oh, uh ... my bad," is yunseong's dumbfounded response.

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at the risk of losing this blog too, i wanted to announce to everyone that tumblr has unfortunately deleted my blog for zurie, my blog for jinam and the main so i'm kind of at my wit's end right now. i've contacted tumblr, but that can take literal weeks to resolve, so i'm thinking of trying to remake the main and hope for the best. just wanted to reiterate to everyone that sunsetkrp is NOT closed despite the termination of the main !!

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( ♡ ) closed starter for : ↳ @whnheartsbrks

"cheers!!!" lifting her cup to clink up against the other's was almost a robotic motion at this point. how many drinks had the two managed to go through now? two? three? five?? minyoung couldn't recall. "i think this beach outing thing couldn't have come at a better time for your summer collection!" her words were slurred together to form a messy sentence, loud enough for the entire bar to hear. had it not been for her volume, the excitable thoughts would have been incomprehensible. "and we're soooo lucky that i'm so pretty!!!" after a fit of giggles, minyoung downed the beverage in only a few long sips through her straw. "i'm ready for another! how about you??"

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( ♡ ) closed starter for : ↳ @bezeniths

"and this is exactly why i chose to stay on the beach!" minyoung whined out. her crying fortunately did not last long before she was rushing to cover her mouth with both hands to avoid the potential mess that threatened to leap out from the depths of her stomach. to say she that wasn't at least somewhat interested in the possibility of a whale sighting would have been a lie. however, she knew her limits, and was beginning to regret not burying herself in the sand back when she had a chance. "how much longer could this possibly take us??"

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in the past, he was a distraction, born solely out of her own curiosity. if one were to question how the pair had come to be, minyoung wouldn’t be able to produce an answer, for she was unsure of the details herself. in her age of adolescence, it was something she simply wanted to experience. all she really knew was that she appreciated their shared interest in the cinematic arts. hearing anything besides, ‘it was just good’,  as a response when asking about a film was truly a holy grail, and more than enough of a reason to want to keep baek eunwoo in her life.

though she’d never admit it aloud, she rather enjoyed being kept company, as opposed to her solo cinema outings. even having to explain the events of the film in real time for the other had been more amusing than annoying.

at his words, minyoung could only squint her eyes in a half-hearted glare before resigning with a heavy sigh. “there’s no winning with you.” she mumbled the words under her breath as she widened her stride to catch up with the other’s pace. for a moment, she questioned the meaning behind his words, wondering if there was more concern for her than necessary. but she was quick to shake off the thought with a playful comment of her own. “if that happens, you have to promise me that even if turn into a chair, you’ll continue to keep me company no matter where i travel to.”

eyeing the door to the convenience store ahead of them, minyoung stopped in her tracks. “is the ice cream on you, mister bar owner? i did just move after all– and that’s expensive!”

the cozy comfort of a movie theater always managed to lure eunwoo into a dangerous sleepiness. to his luck it had rained outside, the scent of summer rain now seeping life back into him as he filled his lungs with the familiar scent. he gave himself a good stretch, hands intertwined above his head, genuinely not used to sitting for such a long period of time. eunwoo had spent the majority of the film flicking between the subtitles and trying to understand the japanese film with his broken language skills, sometimes getting a bit lost in translation. minyoung would chuckle and shake her head when he asked for what a character just said because he tried to listen and not read - and leave him hanging in his own chosen fate, of course. 

eunwoo would really have to keep it together at work tomorrow and not clumsily answer with the truth when asked what he had been up to the night before. uttering the word movies put everyone into a state of high alert, revving up their engines to tease him. it was a known code word for spending time with minyoung again, a fact everyone took great joy in annoying him about. for the rest of the world it seemed a thing of astronomical unlikeliness to stay friends with your ex. somehow, eunwoo had rarely questioned it. it wasn’t like they were an integral part of each other’s lives, bound by memories - at this point the comfort of knowing each other and their overlapping interest kept ushering them together. 

although at times, eunwoo wondered if that was truly all.

he dissipated the thought whenever it crept up on him. their romance (if one could even call it that) had been so short-lived and casual that it would have been foolish to assume anything else. but at times he would lay awake after their movie outings, twisting and turning one of minyoung’s sentences in his head, wondering about its true meaning. more than once had he been told that he would not notice an obvious sign sent his way even if it was written on the wall. but to assume that minyoung was sending him those signs felt so pretentious, he cringed at himself whenever his imagination got ahead of him.

“even more of a reason to walk you home. you don’t know the neighborhood yet, what if you get lost? step into a puddle that ends up being a portal to another world?” eunwoo asked, a reference to the movie they just saw. coincidentally, they just split to avoid a large puddle blocking the way, walking side by side again after the danger had been avoided. he pointed to the convenience store at the corner they were heading to. “i think i can survive it if we get ice cream on the way.”

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while i work on the replies that i said i'd get to last night.........here's a starter call!!! you can find some thread ideas under the cut below, just comment the respective emoji if you're interested <3 i'm gonna do my best to keep them short (max 1 paragraph hopefully) to hopefully be able to get to replies faster during the event

🔥 it's just you two left at the bonfire. the silence is loud, but neither of you are getting up to leave

🍜 you're on a late-night snack run at the general store with your basket fully loaded, but you don't realize that you forgot your wallet until you've reached the register. minyoung is tired of waiting and pays for you (vice versa works too!)

🍹you both enjoy the bottomless margaritas a little too much, and now neither of you can find your way back to your respective yurts

🦢 oversized floaties in the middle of the ocean was a good idea until minyoung remembered one of her fatal flaws: she can't swim very well and she's drifted out too far. please notice her arms waving around and send help !!

🏆you vs minyoung on the inflatable obstacle course. loser has to grant the winner (1) wish during the weekend trip

🧜‍♀️you want to rent out a boat to visit the caves, but don't want to go alone. minyoung is busy lounging around the beach and gets dragged along on your escapade

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ARIN for SINGLES KOREA, Feb. 2023

PHOTO Ryu Kyung Yoon STYLIST Lee Woo Min MAKE-UP Lee Shin-ae (Mepsi) HAIR Seoyoon (Mepsi)

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it had never occurred to her how long the commute from the train station to the mall could be until she'd started working. minyoung's recent shift in spendings had forcibly ended her days of catching taxis to drop her off directly at the entrance, causing her to get creative with shortening her walking route. through several attempts of trial and error, she'd eventually discovered that cutting through the midlight hotel grounds was the fastest and most efficient. the only thing now getting in her way were the dozens of signs indicating which path she should take throughout the garden. while she understood it's purpose, the pathway was paved in a roundabout manner, causing and inconvenience to her travel time. to be frank, she found it unnecessary⏤ more decorative than anything else. furthermore, it was merely a suggestion to take the path rather than a mandate, no? and so, minyoung decided that saving her own time by walking through the lawn was worth more than having to sit through another lecture from management regarding the importance of clocking in on time. today, however, minyoung made an exception to that thought, deciding that being lectured about her attendance record again was worth listening to the hotel's gardener talk to the shrubbery he cared for. she stood back silently, allowing the other to vent out frustrations regarding herself, curious about what more he had to say before clearing her throat with a cough to make her presence known. "i, for one, think that the morning glories made a fine point and should be asked about their opinions more. or why don't we ask the roses for their thoughts on me? they are my favorites, after all, so i hope they share nothing but good things."

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maybe jinam shouldn't have been making assumptions, but he felt he was well within his rights to do so considering the situation. he'd been cooling off inside the hotel on his lunch break and had now strolled back into the garden, energy renewed to power through the rest of his shift. he'd happened upon a disturbing sight in his return, however; the distinct outline of footprints in his beautiful, lush grass. maybe some would consider it a bit overbearing, but jinam had placed signs all around the garden informing visitors that the ample garden stepping stones were the preferred path, as opposed to the lawn he spent the entire spring nurturing and perfecting.

still, some people seemed to ignore the signs entirely — one of them being the owner of the footprints, or at least the person jinam assumed owned them. as he leaned down to attempt to fluff up the grass where she had stepped, his head tipped towards the flowerbed. "what's wrong with that minyoung, huh ? disrespecting you guys like this, as if you're not just as alive as she is," he expels a sigh, grumbling toward the direction of the white asiatic lilies as if they were keenly listening.

his head pops back, as though arguments were being made in the woman's favor. "what do you mean 'be understanding' ?? i'm defending you guys, here. besides, i'm pretty sure i never asked you, morning glories. you're not even supposed to be awake in the afternoon," he retorts, as if he'd just made some amazing comeback against a worthy opponent. it was a bit of a habit for him to vent to the vegetation he raised, as it was far easier to him than trying to converse with people. he winced inwardly, the thought of someone catching him in the act of something so embarrassing making his skin crawl.

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initially, minyoung was opposed to the idea of working such late hours in the mall. hell, she was opposed to the idea of working. but alas, she had to pay her bills somehow. surprisingly, though, it wasn't all that difficult to grow accustomed to the shifts. there were less people occupying the mall, which meant fewer opportunities to be recognized by mallgoers. additionally, there was a lack of watchful eyes to keep tabs on all of minyoung's hardwork (or lack thereof). besides, if she wasn't at the mall working, she'd be up until the sunrise gaming, so it was hardly a dent in her sleep schedule.

it wasn't above her to simply leave her post once the handful of late-night movie goers had straggled into their respective theaters. even as she strutted past the concessions bar, feeling the burning glare of her fellow employee, minyoung did not falter in her step. "i'm going on a bathroom break, obvi." while her announcement could hardly pass as a shout, her voice echoed through the empty lobby for anyone nearby to hear. these breaks had become a nightly routine of hers to wander around the mall in order to pass the time. it was also a good way of getting some chores out of the way since she wasn't going to stay back after shift to do them on her free time. no way!!

what happened next was completely outside of her regular expectations. an unexpected voice coming from behind, not only catching her off-guard, but embracing her. minyoung couldn't stop the scowl that formed on her face, even as she watched the other go through the motions of realizing the mistake they'd just made. even at the persistent apologies, minyoung could only cross her arms and roll her eyes. "most people would usually call out to the other person in order to avoid these kind of scenarios." an irritated sigh slipped from her lips as she shifted her weight to one side of her hips and ran her hand through her hair in further annoyance. "second, i am very cute⏤ cuter than most, really⏤ so it's really hard to believe that i could be mistaken for someone else, but i guess i'll just play along with whatever story that'll make you feel better. was there something that you wanted? a photo? and autograph, maybe? i am quite literally on the clock right now and have places to be."

when the lounge enters it's vacant hours and there's no one around to entertain, it takes everything within arisa to find things to keep herself busy ⏤ idle hands are the devil's workshop, after all. if left to her own devices with nothing to do on the clock, she may find herself in precarious situations due to her insatiable curiosity. such was the case for this night in particular; the group of male patrons that she was caring for had just made their exit, leaving her with a tip that quite honestly wasn't worth the amount of attention and coquetry she put into her service, but the money was still pocketed regardless. arisa attempts to busy herself by cleaning her portion of the bar along with every glass that had ever been of use or gazed upon, and when that was complete she also finds that eunwoo is nowhere to be found. and well, what else is there to do when your boss and good friend is unavailable to goof off with? it only makes sense to slip out of her place of business and into the vast expanse that makes up sunset galleria.

and just as the woman is about to make a beeline for sephora to see what new lip glosses are in, there's a familiar frame that catches her eye as she travels to a different location in the mall. there's a part of her that's certain that she knows them, a childhood friend that she reconnected with over social media who would tease about showing up to vesper lounge when she least expects it. but instead of clarifying the situation, arisa thinks it would be more interesting to turn the tables instead ⏤ she finds herself shuffling behind the person before encasing her arms around them roughly in a back hug, laughing at the prospective jolt they most likely felt, "you thought that you could sneak up on me like that, huh? i told you th⏤"

but how it plays out is that arisa is the one who ends up appalled at her own nature, as when she turns to look at their face, the person gazing back is unrecognizable, someone completely unknown to her. goosebumps graze her body as springs backwards with a gasp, hands in the air before they make way to cover tint of rose that blooms across her face, bowing profusely in the midst of her flustered moment. "oh⏤ oh my god i'm so so sorry! i didn't⏤ i thought that you were my friend because you guys look alike and we were joking around that they'd see me one day and i thought that day had come but you're not them and all and you're cute but i've never seen you in my life before and i didn't mean to assault you like that dear god please i'm so so so so sorry⏤"

open thread ♡ capped at three !

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just peeking in to apologize for my delay in replies!! work has kept me busy, but im hoping to get to at least my messages by this weekend! otherwise if you’re waiting on a starter from me or anything, pls pls give me a lil nudge! im very forgetful

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( ♡ ) closed starter for : ↳ @irregulrs

can a girl really stay friends with her ex? minyoung would answer yes without hesitation. of course, it was easy for her to think that way when she could hardly say that she ever harbored any romantic feelings for the other— they were just kids back then, after all. had she ever even uttered the "L" word in his presence? minyoung couldn't recall, but she knew that she at least liked his company and valued his presence in her life. they were comfortable. there was nothing more platonic than being walked home late at night after spending the last two hours sitting next to one another in an empty theater. really. she didn't mind watching every film ever released on her own, but she would also never deny the company of her favorite fellow cinephile. after all, if they hadn't watched it together, minyoung would eventually make her way to vesper lounge to talk eunwoo's ear off about them anyway. but she'd noticed the curious eyes of her co-workers and knew exactly when she was the topic of whispers amongst them. while she would normally pay them no mind, minyoung was increasingly becoming annoyed at the idea of the bar owner catching wind of the gossip and getting the wrong idea regarding their relationship. "you know that i moved, right? very recently. so i may even be in the complete opposite direction of your place." while her words were somewhat hostile, they still left some wiggle room to allow the other to turn back now and change his mind. however, the mild glare in her eyes was a small part of her indirectly communicating that leaving her alone in the dead of night would be a wrong horrible choice. "are you still okay with walking me home?"

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Are you saying you were upset all day because I didn’t take you with me to eat pasta?

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should i lie? the thought genuinely crossed her mind as she failed to respond to the other immediately. after all the airs she'd put up in the past— not to mention her mother's insistency to gloat to the whole neighborhood regarding her eldest child's glory days— how could she say now that she was just another cinema worker on the clock? but minyoung knew better. eileen would probably sniff out her bullshit in a second. "they don't." considering how long it took to respond, she'd still barely managed to spit out two simple words. "besides, even if they did, it would have been weeks ago. obviously." her sentence was barely audible, but it didn't actually matter to her if the other was able to hear or not. minyoung simply wanted to fill the tension in the air, created entirely out of her sheer embarrassment. honestly, she couldn't even bring herself to look eileen in the eye. "the movie itself is really good, though. i really appreciate the time they took developing miles and gwen's character arcs alongside each other." did anyone ask? no. so why was she still talking? minyoung herself couldn't even answer the question, but she was too far gone now to retract her statement and walk away awkwardly. "also, your theater is the third down the hall to the right. and i think someone is supposed to check your ticket. but that's just what i heard. of course, i wouldn't know anything about that. obviously!"

there's not many friends that eileen keeps in touch with, especially not from high school. moving to daegu right at the brink of her teenage years made her act out in more ways than one. and if high school wasn't already enough of a hellhole, her grandparent's constant judgement and comparison was the icing on the cake. maybe that's why she's learnt to be content with her own company and do her own thing. like coming to haesmuli cinema alone to catch a two p.m screening.

eileen steals a handful of popcorn from her fresh bag when she hears her name being called. she turns to the source with a curious expression. it takes a second for her to recognize the other but when she does it's unmistakable: lee minyoung was blinking back at her. of all the people from her past she could've run into, of course she runs into her.

"me? i'm here for spiderverse," her second viewing of it actually, "what are you doing here?" eileen gives minyoung a glance over before regaining some of the composure she's lost from the surprise and it's as if they're back in high school again. "ah, don't tell me. you're here to sign autographs and greet fans or something." she takes a moment to remember where exactly they were standing. "i didn't know sunset galleria did red carpet events."

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Margaret Atwood, from “He shifts from east to west”, Power Politics

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↪ TASK 001 : BUCKET LIST

hit challenger ( league )

save up enough money to move into a luxury apartment ALONE !!!

hit dmg ( cs-go )

call mom

travel abroad...somewhere nice

hit immortal ( valorant )

go back to school

explore acting again

buy a 4090 founders edition gpu