#I'M SCARED OF POSTGRAD

[tolerateit]

the friend group is Going Through It in their internships/unis, meanwhile me

[doomedyuri]

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i should be so happy atm but i feel unfulfilled and trapped and like i just want to take off somewhere nobody knows me to start over :)

[enid-coleslaw]

living with the consequences of my own (self-inflicted) stunted social development

[avonne-writes]

Gale’s oral fixation + John’s big thighs 😍❤️‍🔥

Criminally hot 🔥 I had to write a drabble. This is set in my modern AU where they're postgrad students and best friends with benefits already in love with each other but scared to confess it.

Exam papers flutter on the desk of Gale's supervisor as the fragrant spring breeze swirls in through the open window. The Astrophysics department's small office smells like old bookshelves, leather and coffee, more comforting than the Business School's sterile ultramodern building. But John isn't here to examine the decor - he came to entertain Gale because he thought it was unfair that he had to be holed up inside, grading papers when the weather was so nice.

That, and because John wanted to kiss him.

It's all he can think about lately. His best friend's lips, their plump cushion under his own, the taste of them, soft skin between John's teeth. Given their amazing, perfect, completely causal agreement that they'd help each other out quick and easy if needed, he didn’t have any hangups about it. But he did think it would be weird to just ask to make out without an end goal, so he pretended to be horny as an excuse, even though he wasn't.

He just didn't count on Gale being the one who'd be too turned on to resist a quickie right where they could be caught anytime.

"Jesus Christ, Buck." John hisses in the rolling chair of Gale's supervisor, his hips twitching to thrust into Gale's hand. In the grip of Gale's pale fingers, he throbs with hot need, Gale's spit slicking his length to make the friction just right as Gale strokes him. "Warn a guy next time."

"Warn?" Gale asks, lust low in his voice. He’s kneeling between John's spread legs, halfway under the desk. With his free hand, he tugs John's trousers and boxers down to bare his thighs completely.

"We started this whole thing because you said it would be convenient. That we could have each other anytime, no strings attached." He presses his lips to John's right thigh and bites down gently, his teeth digging into John's muscle. "I want you now."

"Fuck." John breathes out, gripping the armrests. He needs to swallow the moans already pressing at his throat, the guttural, helpless noises he tends to make in Gale's bedroom, because they're one curious professor away from scandal. "Can we close the window at least?"

"Nah." Gale nuzzles his thigh again, the corner of his lips curling into a smile. "I know you'll be a good boy, John."

John throws his head back against the headrest. "I'm really not."

He feels the huff of Gale's laugh on his leg. "Yes, you are." Gale sucks on a strip of John's skin noisily until it colours pink, sensitive. His expression is pure bliss. "My good boy."

A surprised whimper escapes John's throat. "What?"

Gale freezes for a moment, as if caught, but he goes back to rubbing and kissing John's thigh a second later. "Nothing."

"I don’t know what came over you." John mumbles breathlessly, slouching in the chair to give Gale better access to his cock, to chase Gale's teasing hand. His own fingers find their way to Gale's blond hair and tug as Gale leaves a hard bite on the meat of his thigh to mirror his work on the other side.

When Gale bats his right hand away, he puts the left on Gale's head instead. Gale gives him an exasperated look, then sits back on his haunches to get away from his demanding touch. His eyes roam over John's body lazily, his fist still moving up and down.

"You didn't sit like that on purpose?"

"Hm." John hums, pushing into Gale's hand. The chair rolls back a little, so he tightens the cradle of his legs around Gale's torso to stay in place. "Like what?"

"Like you wanted your dick sucked."

John closes his eyes as a wave of heat rolls down from the top of his head to his toes. "You have an oral fixation, I swear."

"Uh-huh." Gale just hums, his entire focus on John's cock now. He strokes his left hand over the bruises he sucked into the meat of John's right thigh, then he cups John's balls.

"Ah, fuck. You don’t even deny it."

Gale looks up at him from under his lashes as he leans forward. His body warm between John's thighs, his lips glistening.

"Why deny it?" He shrugs and kisses the tip of John's cock. Closing his eyes, he runs his pink tongue up the underside of it to the head, catching the drops of moisture beading there slowly from the torturous pleasure he inflicts on John's body. When John grunts, Gale looks at him again. There’s a playful glint in his eyes. "Be a good boy now, Bucky."

John puts his right hand back on Gale's head and presses his left fist to his mouth as hot, warm suction slides down his length and pulls his pleasure right out of his soul. Shadows pass behind the opaque glass of the door opposite him, people walking down the corridor. The star charts on the walls mirror the stars he sees behind his eyes as Gale sucks him leisurely, without a care in the world. No one walks into Astrophysics at four p.m. on a Friday, right? John prays, and squeezes his eyes shut against the pleasure as he thrusts into Gale's mouth.

He's gonna cancel his plans of going out and take Gale home again tonight.

[dyslexicandakeyboard]

Some Reverse!BatFamily Headcannons

(I have a reverse!BatFamily AU. Some things never change but a lot of things do so this is just for fun)

Damian is a vegan and has been since he was quite young due to his love of animals and that he once choked on a chicken bone.

Jason reads fanfiction of Pride and Prejudice and is a author of a viral ongoing fic that is a crossover of all of Jane Austen's works but set in a post apocalyptic world.

Dick has hypoglycaemia and is prone to fainting.

Bruce *turning to Dick*: Okay and you need to--DICK

Dick: *falling off the roof*

Cassandra can mimic the Kardashian's voices with startling accuracy and is a lover of most reality Tv.

Stephanie is not squeamish at all.

Bruce: *tries to not vomit as he watches Steph stuff her hand in a live person to get a bullet.*

Bruce got motion sickness as soon as he got the kids.

Duke learned to knit and crochet. But he hates it because he's the designated art and crafts kid in the house and so people just ask him to do shit for them for free.

Tim is still the shortest despite being the second oldest.

Damian went to college and got a Bachelors degree in environmentalism and a studied law at postgrad. He's a famous environmentalist lawyer. Family nicknames him Marshall to Damain's annonyence.

Dick wants to model for reasons (Kory) but Bruce won't let him unless he got a Olympic medal. Dick got one and Bruce has moved the goalpost to five Olympic gold medals. Dick has three.

Jason and Bruce are very similar in their interests and how they rebelled. It annoys them to no end and pleases Alfred.

Stephanie wants to become a gynaecologist when she's older and volunteers at the Leslie's clinic during the summer.

TIm is a slacker and gets the worst grades. He still hasn't graduated yet.

Bruce: How's your degree going

Tim: Well, you see, I'm taking engineering classes right now. I'm going to finish my actual degree but...

Cassandra accidentally scares all the batfamily due to her quietness.

Cass: *is living*

Jason *coming out of the bathroom*: FUCK

Bruce denies that he snores despite the batkids having evidence. He says that they're "fabricating evidence" and that "even if it was true" it's not "permissible in court" since it was obtain through "illegal means".

Alfred still treats Bruce like a child.

Jason's favourite food is burritos.

Bruce hosts weekly meetings to talk over their week and to announce things. Evey one hates it.

[frantic-studying]

Hi!

If you've found this blog turn away because it's gonna be a freak show of hot balls. I am making this without the intention of anyone ever seeing it but if it happens to help you....

The gist: I'm premed in my gap year (studying for the MCAT, working as a scribe, and trying to shadow/volunteer) but I'm so lazy.

How to combat laziness? Document my journey!

How to make it fun? Be a pre-med influencer!

But I'm scared of being perceived? Be anonymous on tumblr!

My tagging system for searching down below!

MCAT studying: #mcat; #mcat studying; #aamc; will tag day/week of studying; will tag resources I'm using

Scribing: #medicalscribe; #scribeamerica; #scribe

Generic tags: #premed; #gapyear; #study blog; #studyblr; #post grad life; #study motivation

Other tags: #postgrad; #volunteer; #shadowing; #clinical hours

[nelyafinwe]

i have now reached Mentor Status to some youngsters back home doing their uni admittance exams this year, and to which one of my cousins is giving free classes on the subjects he is good at (STEM) to help them pass said uni admittance exams, but he relentlessly reffed me and sold me to the few of them that already think they want to follow an intl law career (keyword: think)

and now i am burdened with the task to tell these youngins that intl law can be a burning passion for fucking years, but that i have yet not had a long-term job or financial stability since i started pursuing this postgrad education and career path years ago, to the few of them insane (corageous? intrepid?) enough to want to message me bc they want to try.

i want them to have a passion like i did (and by gods, i still do) but i don't want to crush them with the reality that this job market is insanely overcompetitive, overworked, and severely underpaid. i'll need to calibrate myself to be able to give them my honest life review without crushing their aspirations to death with the reality of it all - not only the financial one, because this field is extremely elitist and expensive, and my family could afford how expensive my career is, but the reality that one's mental health might be very fucked because of the level of horrific shit one sees daily at work. i'm more scared of doing these kids wrong by being too harsh and not giving them enough to feed their dreams/ambitions (like i allowed myself to, but also like i could afford to!) than i am of fucking up my own career because of a stupid ass decision related to my work yknow. bc if fuck my career up that's on me, but if i steer these kids towards an illusion i am fucking their lives up.

[subbysobbygirl]

What are you studying? What got you into that field as well if there is anything you’d want to contribute in your field of study to further expand, what is it ?

don't want to write too much, but I did neuroscience in my undergrad. finished my premed courses and was scarily close to going to med school, before deciding last minute to swerve. I'm a novelist (promise my writing is a bit better than my blog), so I was able to get funding to pursue a writing postgrad.

which is just as terrifying as the medical path, btw, but in a different way (like as people not considered employees by our publishers, how tf do we get healthcare?? i don't know? i'm scared??)

x

[iamart31]

Twenty-Something

When you're twenty-three, almost a year postgrad with a B.S in psychology. But you lowkey don't feel twenty-three. You still feel like you don't know what to do with your life, the same way you felt a year ago. (But apparently this is normal for young adults from 20-25- In this society it doesn't seem normal, though). You don't have a dream job, don't care about making money, but at the same time you do care. So you feel like being an entrepreneur would be the best possible route, but you don't know exactly what that path will look like for you, because you're into so many things, and you know that you don't want work to feel like work. You want it to feel fulfilling and exploratory, like a quest. You even want the mundane to feel special. But at the same time, you're scared to take risks. Scared to be present with yourself in a way that doesn't fuel the cycle of stagnancy and the constant circulation of, "I don't know." And not because you truly, don't know. But because you keep second guessing every idea you have. Succumbing to the thoughts that bind your true sense of expression and willpower. The truth in "I don't know," comes from second guessing if it's worth it, to bet on yourself. To not be self avoidant or neglectful to the important things.

One of the things I'm trying to integrate more are: activities, practices, and promises that help me to build self trust, reliance, and confidence. Sometimes, it's definitely hard to convince myself why sticking to my own routines and boundaries, is important.

[sassypotatoe1]

So like I was mildly agoraphobic and more severely agoraphobic through high school and then in varsity, and the best thing for it is literally also the worst thing from the sufferer's perspective, and that's actually going out and doing new things.

Mine most likely stemmed from my autism, so whatever was an extension of my space was safe to me, and everything outside of that was scary as fuck. A'capella and class was home to me too, so it was safe. It was a regular, set and predictable setting. I needed a safe person with me to do literally anything else.

Need to go pick up multivitamins at the pharmacy I've never been to? Safe person with me for the entire process. Need to take my laptop in because my mom accidentally fucked up the screen by closing it on a book and putting a heavy weight on it? Safe person had to take me and support me through the exchange required to book in my laptop for repairs, and then again to collect it.

If I could stay home I absolutely did, and during the first years of covid I stayed in my room for an entire year and a half. I didn't even leave to go to the kitchen, so I didn't eat and I lost a lot of weight. There were other factors too but this was a pretty big one. When we could go back to university I opted for the online classes, because we had to use the bigger lecture halls for social distancing purposes and I haven't been there so it wasn't an extension of my safe space.

I spent a year after my postgrad at home, doing online work, starting to renovate a flat on the property for myself and recovering from the clusterfuck that was my postgrad degree, because my mental health absolutely destroyed itself during that time. Then I started to work, on my parents' insistence, and the office quickly became an extension of my safe space. I started seeing a psychiatrist because I was pursuing an autism diagnosis, and she actually did psychotherapy along with the clinical interventions, and she noted that I self isolate and stick to mental safe spaces.

So she told me to join a club. I was starting to notice loss of muscle tone and conditioning, so I joined an exercise class. The trainer stopped presenting the classes so I joined a social club. Then another. It was awkward and terrifying and clique-y, so I left. I was thinking about what to try next to stop myself from falling into the agoraphobia again, when I had to cover the opening of a new sports club for work.

Work has been great for getting me to go to new places and do new things, because I'm a community journalist and we have to work closely with the community. I can't just sit at my desk and call people for interviews, I need to go out and do things in person. So when I went to cover the opening of the sports club, and the chairperson said that they want it to be a safe space for women and the youth, that supports them in the sport, I thought "fuck it" and signed up.

I play ladies league, every Monday night, at different clubs across the district. I made friends, my team mate's husband coached me, I had social games and tournaments, I got to know a LOT of people, and it's an environment that's entirely unpredictable and ever-changing. It's terrifying. It's perfect.

My social skills improved, my organization and time management improved, I stopped hoarding and actually decluttered my room, my depression became much easier to manage, I was doing better at my job, I wasn't alone and I wasn't lonely and I was having fun.

Now I'm used to it. It's an extension of my safe space, it's become a predictable environment, it's no longer terrifying. It's time for a new New. It's insane that the fix for "scared of being in an unfamiliar space and doing unfamiliar things" is "be in unfamiliar spaces and do unfamiliar things". I hate that it is. A lot of the time I just want to be in my room for days on end doing the same old things. But what made leaving my safe space so much easier was to make everything an extension of my safe space. I'm never going to stop being terrified of going out and doing things, but it's become much easier because I forced myself to do it.

So if you suffer from agoraphobia too, my advice is to say fuck it and do the scary things. Even if you have to revert to your space to recover the first few times. It's like jumping into a cold pool. If you wade in it's uncomfortable for a really long time before it's fun. If you dive in it's uncomfortable for a few seconds. If you can't swim you use a flotation device, but however you do it you'll acclimate to the water eventually, and what waits on the other side of that process is more than worth it.

You can always get out of the pool to warm back up before going in again, but now you know what to expect the next time you get in. And if you have to use a flotation device (a safe person supporting you) that's fine too. It's just a safety measure so you don't drown. But don't avoid the pool altogether because you know it'll be cold.

[primalspice]

caroline: A2, A10, A17, B1, B9, B13, C1, C3, D2, D3, E2, E6, F4, F8, G3, G5, H5, H9, I5, J2, J7, L5

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A2: What alignment are they? Chaotic neutral, lawful evil, et cetera…

Lawful neutral I think??? I'm never good at assigning these but she does value rules and order (or at least her own interpretation of these things) above most other things. It's also kinda her main conflict though since her severe interpretations of how people should act Stifles her. My second choice would be chaotic neutral since she Is kinda in the process of twisting those rules to get to..wherever she needs to be. One may say she's using Bruno and his employment of her to do such a thing but I think it'd be too generous of an interpretation (theyre really just friends >w<)

A10: Does your OC compromise easily? Too easily?

Usually yeah but she's pissed off about it the whole time. And the resent she feels about it builds up with each time she compromises until she explodes and then repeats cycle.

A17: What’s one of your OC’s proudest moments of themselves?

Finishing her postgrad and getting a job in research at UCLA. then it's ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE.

B1: Do they believe you have to give respect to get it, or get respect to give it?

She's trying really hard to live the get-respect-to-give-it lifestyle she's tired of being the worm.

B9: What kind of humor does your OC like the most? Slapstick, ironic, funny sounds, scare pranks, xD sO rAnDoM…

hurting him psychically and physically

B13: Do they have a large or small group of friends?

She has exactly one friend (Bruno). Maybe she has issues connecting with others due to how she has been burned in the past but more importantly she has a grating personality and no one wants to be around her for extended periods anyway <3

C1: Does your OC have a moral code? If not, how do they base their actions? If so, where does it come from, and how seriously do they take it?

She does but it's becoming more loose by the day. She lived half of her life very privileged and then had the midlife crisis that makes you gay and transgender against your will while already having established a life within your rather conservative circle... so she had to reassess a lot. I think her thoughts on what is taboo have changed extremely, but her thoughts on the type of work ethic one should have, how it's appropriate to act towards others, etc. have kinda remained strict. She'll recover one day <3

C3: Is it important for them to be with people (socially, intimately, whatever) whose major ideological tenets align with their own?

Yea I mean she tried for a long time to fit in with people who's values Don't align and she ended up quitting her lucrative and fulfilling job about it its very painful on her soul. Because of the emotional damage but also because she's right always and hates arguing with idiots.

D2: Do they believe in an afterlife?

No she's got to make the most of this while it lasts.

D3: How comfortable are they with the idea of death?

She doesn't want to die she barely feels as if shes started really living yet. She is definitely the most self-preserving of the bunch by far. Otherwise, though, she sees it through a pretty scientific/factual lens. It'll happen to everyone one day.

E2: Which of the nine types of intelligence is your OC strongest in? Weakest? (Linguistic, existential, naturalist, et cetera)

Best is Logical-Mathematical, worst is probably Interpersonal. SAD.

E6: Do they enjoy learning? Do they actively seek out sources of self-education?

Yes always. She loves research and reading and being an expert on topics that interest her. She takes pride in it.

F4: How clean are they overall with home upkeep?

Her home is very clean she doesnt live with anyone else so she doesnt have to worry about anyone elses mess :) i think she keeps it very modern (for the 2000s ofc) and kinda minimal. Prone to cat hair on furniture tho.

F8: How often are they home?

She's at home pretty much any time she's not working or doing necessary tasks or invited to go out by Bruno. She might occasionally go to the bar/other Vegas activities just because it's so near but it's not something she does regularly.

G3: Does your OC find their family supportive? If not, what would be an example why not?

No she is very disowned by her immediate family (parents, siblings??) for being A Queer but she might have a cool cousin or something maybe. Shes like 50 years old tho so shes over it she promises shes OVER IT she doesnt need them.

G5: Did they go through any typical phases growing up?

If being a precocious nerd and bringing that attitude into adulthood counts then Yes. Teacher's pet, star student, etc.

H5: Does your OC believe in marriage (or their culture’s equivalent)?

Maybe if the right person came along <3

H9: What are some things that your OC finds to be an instant turn-off in potential partners?

Being a slob :| or being someone who speaks over her or doesn't respect her opinions. Honestly probably a lot of other things too but thats just her being a hater.

I5: Are they a good cook?

I think she's sufficient at it. Probably doesn't have the greatest variety of recipes or techniques but she can make dinner.

J2: How politically aware are they?

She's not out protesting or anything but she's more aware than she ever has been before. Votes democrat but kinda thinks about it for a second too long.

J7: How much interest in environmental health do they have?

She finds it interesting to learn about and it somewhat concerned but I don't think she does more than the average person might. Recycle, stop using aerosols, drink from reusable bottles sometimes <3

L5: Which OC do you think is the most decent morally or behaviorally?  AKA, which is supposed to a “good guy”?

Out of my current four, she and Vic are the more reasonable of the bunch but theyre all just People. Vic might win over her tho because she's... not as willing to be outwardly mean and degrading towards others if angry LOL.

[tea-cryptid]

"Unlike petititions for civil rights, queer revels constitute a kind of activism that attacks the dominant notion of the natural. The queer is the taboo-breaker, the monstrous, the uncanny. Like the Phantom of the Opera, the queer dwells underground, below the operatic overtones of the dominant; frightening to look at, desiring, as it plays its own organ, producing its own music."

Sue-Ellen Case (1991) Tracking the Vampire

[thepoisonroom]

are you an "I can build a bookshelf" lesbian because that's all I aspire to be in life.

i can assemble a bookshelf and have but i’m not a woodworking lesbian YET! but becoming a furniture-assembly-and-small-home-repairs lesbian isn’t that hard i promise! there are so many great tutorials and books and i say this as someone who two years ago had to google how to install a coat rack

[jubileealbum]

see the Dream dream is to live in nyc even temporarily and i fully blame the fact that i listened to welcome to new york too many times when i was 14

[english-ness]

I booked an appointment to get an eval for my potentiel ad(h)d

I guess I have two months left to chicken out now

[lokislytherin]

IDEAS TO DROP BEFORE I FORGET THEM

1) teacher!seok x parent!jae

kind of inspired by this one wangxian au i read with a yuan being a preschooler but hyungseok is a primary school teacher, jaehye is The Problem Child (read: she never shuts up even when she's not meant to be talking) of his class of 7-8 year olds, jaeyeol is jaehye's older step-brother turned parent.

the jae sibs have a 20 year age gap so jaeyeol is around 28, jaeyeol's mom passed away years ago and he and kitae (blood bros) drifted away, hye is from another woman and after steve hong also passes away hye's mom is like Aight i do not want to deal with raising a child. and jaeyeol hates his father being absent all his life but he doesn't want hye to grow up in the foster system so he adopts jaehye even though he's a postgrad psych student (therapist jae!!! he doesn't talk much because he has the hex haywire voice and it's so deep it scares people but in reality it's just hot)

teacher!seok meets jae at a parent conference and he's like oh. Oh. this is the yeol-oppa jaehye adores so much. they start chatting purely bc jaehye is so chatty she's getting kind of behind in class and jaeyeol just sighs bc he's so busy at work he really wants to spend more time with jaehye but he doesn't have time and there's no butler in this au so it's just jae who's crazy busy and crazy rich by inheritance and hye who is a little demon and terrorizes every nanny bc she wants to spend time with her oppa!!

hyungseok is like if you don't mind... i could look after her until you finish work (school ends at 3pm, jae is a 9-5er) and jae's like Please. i'm so glad you said that

so they get a lot more private interaction time and they also coincidentally meet every now and then bc jaehye's harp class is close to the park where hyungseok walks his dogs so suddenly they have a whole routine where on the weekdays it's like

jaeyeol sends jaehye to school

jaehye picks jaehye up after work

sometimes hyungseok eats dinner with them bc hey, they're all going out to eat anyway, if nobody minds then they could all go together!

jaeyeol drives hyungseok home they say good night and they both kind of linger because nobody wants to say goodbye

and on the weekends it's like

jaeyeol sleeps in bc he finally gets a day off!!

jaehye smacks him until he wakes up bc wake up stupid oppa jaehye has harp class

jaehye goes to harp class and jaeyeol hangs out at a cafe and gets stared at for being the hot loner dilf sitting in the corner working on his computer

jaeyeol picks jaehye up from harp class

they meet hyungseok at the park bc he just finished going on a run with his dogs

they get lunch together because jaehye loves hyungseok's puppies LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO CUTE

jaeyeol's whipped the whole way through bc jaehye tells him Everything that goes on at school and he has never seen her so happy to go to school until her old teacher left and 'park seonsaengnim' took over as homeroom teacher and 'park seonsaengnim' is so nice to everyone and jaehye is actually Learning Things she just likes talking and when jaeyeol meets hyungseok for the first time he's already like Oh He's Hot

hyungseok doesn't realize he's pining until the very end where kouji's dad!gun (kouji is hye's classmate + 'archenemy') asks him out very bluntly and hyungseok's like wait. Wait. WAIT I'M SORRY I CAN'T ACCEPT YOUR CONFESSION I'M IN LOVE WITH JAEHYE'S OPPA

all the other parents (mijin and jinsung, sinu, etc) have a group chat without jae bc he looks so intimidating (the sheer businessman daddy energy is too strong) and they thought he and hyungseok had a Thing going on since the very beginning but no hyungseok is oblivious as hell and jae is shy as hell

2) winter olympics athletes au

if ao3 user agaybigay is here: hi. snowboarder jay go brr

in this au literally Everyone is there except for yujin's squad so you have

figure skating:

mijin + jinsung: pair skate, in love with each other but not dating, they've never medalled bc they're always 4th place, they beat japan's pride mitsuki and ryuhei out for third place in the fic

hyungseok: men's figure skating, aka south korea's national treasure, gold medalist

jaehye: women's figure skating, aka joy of south korea, youngest of the whole team

gun + dg: former multiple-time gold medalists, both retired now dg bc he didn't want to compete anymore and gun bc he injured his leg, they train the whole sk's figure skating team but mainly they just fight over daniel

gun used to compete for japan as yamazaki yuzuru but he moved back to korea to join korea team

snowboarding:

jae: silver medalist, the One Mysterious Guy who nobody knows anything about until his younger sister joins the team and she is number 1 oversharer. has a massive fanbase bc he's talented and his helmet hair is hot

haneul: gets a bronze medal in the year of the fic and it's her first medal, known for her very high jumps and flips like she's part of the sky

others

burn knuckles: luge. yeah. it was either this or curling and idk what's funnier actually

big deal + samuel seo: ice hockey, samuel is best attacker, jake is best defender, jerry is goalie, sinu is coach, lua is team manager

it's kind of like yoi with hyungseok pulling jaeyeol into a drunk pole-dance during the last national winter sports competition and jaeyeol being so gay for this gorgeous, sexy, absurdly flexible creature who fits against his body perfectly and hyungseok barely remembering anything bc he was so drunk he only remembers the person he danced with had warm hands and he remembers making a promise to that person but he doesn't remember what he promised

hyungseok has already admired jaeyeol for a while, jaeyeol is almost four years older than him here and it's jae-hyung's third olympics (he's 24 now and this is probably his last olympics), and hyungseok's always like wow... look at him... he's so cool 🥺🥺

they get to know each other as the olympics goes on bc they have to share the same hotel room, and ofc i have to bring the There Is Only One Bed trope in. they end up accidentally cuddling multiple times and then after watching jaeyeol snowboarding and ranking 1 hyungseok has a flashback like wait. Wait. he's the one i basically did a drunk strip-tease to. i promised him i'd kiss him if he won gold. he's now world champion. which means i have to kiss him. actually i have no problem with that

after jaeyeol wins gold they end up purposefully cuddling on the hotel bed. maybe they do Other Things too since the figure skating and snowboarding competitions are both over

3) he was a punk she did ballet but it's skateboarder hyungseok and ballet dancer jae bc hyungseok is too poor to afford after school clubs and jae is a rich boy forced to learn Rich Kid Things ie piano, ballet, violin, swimming, etc