#jjh

[jentlemahae]

[aquarius-johnny]

bestfriend!jaehyun who loves to hang out with you; it doesn’t matter the time, place, or activity, he loves to be in your presence because you give him this sense of peace he’s longed for for so long.

bestfriend!jaehyun who spends so much time with you, your family basically sees him as another child of theirs, inviting him to every family outing, family vacation, and even wondering where he is when he isn’t around.

bestfriend!jaehyun who gets along with your family to the point where your niece and nephew are constantly asking for him and squeals in excitement when you tell them he’s coming over to see them.

bestfriend!jaehyun who randomly brings you your favorite convenience store snacks while you’re stuck babysitting your brother’s children while they’re out.

bestfriend!jaehyun who lifts your young niece into his arms when she comes running towards him, attempting to give him the biggest hug with her tiny frame.

bestfriend!jaehyun who plays video games with your young nephew and purposely loses, so he can make your nephew feel like he’s on top of the world because he “beat an adult” at video games.

bestfriend!jaehyun who watches whatever your niece wants to watch without any complaint, while they’re both sunk into the sofa and her leaning into his side babbling on and on about characters in the show he knows nothing about.

bestfriend!jaehyun who helps your nephew with his homework while having the patience of a saint.

bestfriend!jaehyun who lets your niece paint his finger nails and plays princess tea parties with her because everyone else is busy.

bestfriend!jaehyun who comes up with a secret handshake with your nephew because he wants him to feel like a “cool kid,” making sure to do the handshake every time he comes over.

bestfriend!jaehyun who will check for monsters in your niece’s room because she asked him, telling the monsters he’ll “beat them up” if they ever scare your niece while she’s sleeping.

bestfriend!jaehyun who secretly throws loving glances at you throughout your entire friendship, knowing he would rather be your boyfriend instead just your best friend.

bestfriend!jaehyun who decides against telling you his feelings because he knows you’re afraid of losing a solid friendship if a relationship with him goes bad.

bestfriend!jaehyun who stays your best friend because he doesn’t want to lose you, so he chooses to love you from afar, holding onto the hope one day you’ll return his feelings.

[flaminghotyourmom]

everytime i read this i start violently SOBBING.

"jae?"

summary: jaehyun buys johnny and mark some cuervo shots. he forgets the one thing that everyone says—stay away from your phone when you're drunk. note: jaehyun finishing his undergrad thesis, johnny and mark as a support system, and a lot of swearing/profanities, really. genre: pure and raging angst | word count: 1.7k — “one bott?” johnny asked.

“sure! this one’s on me.” jaehyun, with a sheepish grin on his face, replied. his cheeks were now hinting a shade of red. fucking adorable.

so why is jaehyun suddenly ecstatic about drinking cuervo and gulping it down straight as if it was… an ordinary non-alcoholic drink?

give the guy his moment. jaehyun’s thesis-making era has finally landed in the area of responsibility. out of all the frameworks and methods to be potentially used for his study (verbatim. legendary thesis), he is anxious. as much as he wants to bag that best thesis nomination from his architecture department, the thought of just getting it at the end of the sem sounds more convincing and realistic which is, well, quite a lonely take from a former A student turned mediocre due to sudden burnout, but that’s life now for some after the unforgiving turn of events embedded in the 2020 history records.

to tl;dr, jaehyun needs a drink and to get drunk. let him be, please? he’s used to bragging about his high alcohol tolerance but his primary goal is to get shitfaced, excuse the expression. a good hangover is needed by the morning; something to make him feel human again. the world is spinning quickly, and he needed to slow time just a little bit to cue his hazy vision and low inhibitions.

so the second cuervo arrived, right? jaehyun thanked the waiter and johnny and mark couldn’t help but laugh at how he was currently losing it all. he holds the golden bottle, his eyes fixed on the shot glasses, and when he poured, the drink spilled on the table. at this point, being drunk is no longer an excuse. his eyesight has also become worst over the years. what’s up with this guy, anyway? just go get yourself a LASIK surgery (to which jaehyun would only reply via text so dryly: lol)

johnny snatched the bottle from jaehyun and poured it into their shot glasses. in this kind of scenario, one would actually tap out and advise the rest who refuse to follow, but dang!, as the younger bro always says, it seems like jaehyun needed this the most. johnny knew the stress as he has already graduated (but still chose to enroll for a master’s degree afterward because the MA sneak beside his name sounds lit!), and mark is amused by jaehyun’s clumsy state anyways.

“mark, stop laughing.”

“oh, why?” mark looked at johnny with confusion.

“because next year, bro, you’re gonna be as shitfaced as jaehyun because of your thesis! haha!”

while the two bickers, the cuervo shots were going down on jaehyun like water. as he takes the nth shot of the night, he lowers the glass slowly and stared blankly at the two of them.

mark slightly gripped the hem of johnny’s shirt to break off the banter.

then he said “yo, the fuck?”

when the both of them faced jaehyun, his eyes were bloodshot… red?

“jaehyun, are you crying?” johnny asked.

“i broke… heart.” jaehyun muttered.

“huh?”

“shit, i broke it.”

“you broke what?”

mark dumbfounded, was just staring at jaehyun. johnny kept asking who, but jaehyun just keeps on speaking in codes.

“fuck, she said “i love you””

“dude... who?” mark asked. the atmosphere is getting serious as he mumbles what we can assume as his regrets. the two couldn’t really tell. at this point, jaehyun’s all over the place; incoherent.

“fuck,” jae cursed for the nth time. “i took it for fucking granted.”

“it was so exclusive. fuck, that ‘i love you’ was so exclusive.”

“fuck. fucking fool. the fuck, jae? i’m such a fucking headass.”

and bratatatat he goes. the other two gentlemen were listening attentively, hoping he’d spill a name or a clue of who he was referring to. but nothing comes out. as if jaehyun was stuck at the moment when the person said “i love you” to him. jaehyun was in a loop, like a broken record. and when he finally stopped blabbering and took another shot, his face was already on the table, and with eyes closed, he fell into a deep slumber.

and god, his position looks so uncomfortable. his arms were just hanging and flanging into the air. the younger noticed his state, so he decided to put jaehyun’s arms and palms over his legs.

“dude”, mark said to johnny. “are you sure he needs it for his thesis or that thing?”

—

when jaehyun woke up, mark was on his phone. johnny, on the other hand, was taking a puff from his vape that is wrapped around his neck. you know those dudes who are not so subtle about their vape life? displaying their vapes like an id, and is lit blue? strawberry-minty flavor, smells good though, in fair. but he would tell you to go away if ever you would want to try. “smoking kills!”, he would say. shoo!

“i feel like throwing up.”

“i’ll come with you. come on.” johnny offered.

they went inside the restaurant across from their al fresco space. johnny led the way toward the bathroom. the rest is history. jaehyun walked out from the bathroom stall and washed his hands and mouth. a little splash on his face was needed, too; just to sober up.

he is in fact, and indeed, sobered up; sound and with consciousness. he said “go ahead” to johnny and went back to their table. mark is texting, probably a hook-up, by now. but he never leaves the gang to give respect to the bro night. he was also curious about what happened to jaehyun, anyway.

but johnny isn’t surprised, like, at all. jaehyun is an eye candy in his university. he sure made his fair shares from time to time but the thing is, they don’t really talk about their flings and such. the pack isn’t a kiss-and-tell, the usual trashy friend group that reeks pride via body counts. and jaehyun would introduce if ever he gets in a situationship leading to commitment anyway. it’s just that mark has never seen this side of jaehyun.

but there is indeed a possibility that jaehyun has this hopeless romantic tendency given he must have watched 500 days of summer approximately 500 times by now, and still believes that summer finn is a bitch.

“drink some water”, mark handed a bottle.

“thanks.”

“so…”

johnny nudged mark. it was a signal to stop the interrogation. mark got social cues, thank god. they’ll let jaehyun spill at his own pace. the guy is still trying to recover. one of these days, he’ll remember and open up because perhaps, it did really get serious at some point.

but jaehyun opened his phone and checked his text messages. there was a message, waiting for a response sent almost ten months ago.

january 11, 2022, 01:11 am | you wrote:

home?

to which he now replied: november 10, 2022, 02:45 am | jaehyun wrote:

not yet

and i dont think ill everr be

jaehyun grabbed the half-empty cuervo and poured it into his glass. mind you, not the shot glass, the bottle itself. mark and johnny, once again, stared at each other. jaehyun poured the last bit of the golden bottle and drank it straight. he winced and his throat felt burning. he then continued typing on his phone.

october 10, 2022, 02:46 am | jaehyun wrote:

and i know it sounds tssstupid

but i think im still in love with you

not think

fuck

i am in love with you

ive always been in love with you

and i never said it

and i wish i couldve said it back whenever you say it

because fuck

you deserved to hear it so much

jaehyun was in the middle of his never-ending texts when his phone rang.

he let it ring a few times. the phone vibrating felt somehow pressuring for the guy. mark and johnny were just staring at jaehyun, waiting for his next move.

shit, it really is you.

-

jaehyun got up from his seat while gripping his phone quite tight and walked a few inches from their table, lingering on the feeling of the buzzes. he took a few deep breaths in and touched the green button.

“jaehyun? are you drunk?” he heard from the other side of the phone. “go home, please, jaehyun?”

jaehyun.

jaehyun. it’s no longer jae.

meanwhile, johnny and mark were squinting their eyes, trying to look out for the dumbstruck fool, trying to catch signals and connect the dots.

“jaehyun?”, he couldn’t breathe. it felt suffocating. “are you still there?”

“hey.”, jaehyun finally mustered up the courage to speak. “i know it’s been a while but-”

“do you need me to book you an uber, jaehyun?”

jaehyun. jaehyun. jaehyun. tears start to swell in jaehyun’s eyes. where the fuck did ‘jae’ go? he desperately wonders.

“please… please call me jae, please? love, please?”

“jaehyun…” you replied hesitantly. “times have changed.”

“just this time, please?” jaehyun desperately asked. “one last time. i just need to hear it again then i’ll go.”

the line felt silent despite the murmuring sounds of happy co-workers cheering for the weekend and the faint booming music to liven up the place. but jaehyun’s world is painted in monochrome; lonely, and lifeless.

“jae…”

“hey, love.”

“jae…”

“i’m gonna miss you so much; every single day, baby. every single day.”

“jae, jae, jae…”

hearing ‘jae’ coming from you sounds music to his ears.

and for the last time, he pretended it was just another call coming from you—those nights like this paralleled before when jaehyun refused to pick up your calls on a night out, shitfaced, while on the other line, there was you who were constantly worried on his whereabouts. but he always got home safely and always told you this:

“don’t wait for me okay?”

and then you played along.

“just go home safely, jae.”

but in a parallel universe, he wishes he ended the calls with this. and he finally said it, when it is now too late:

“i love you so much, love.”

and jaehyun heard a faint sob on the other line, just before the call abruptly ended.

-

jaehyun stared at his phone until everything became blurry and his tears flowed down his cheeks.

he opened the message app and scrolled through your thread, until he reached the last message you sent.

"home?"

but jaehyun, he was never coming home,

now that he has lost the keys along the way.

[gwenacega]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀starter para jjh ( @tbtuclastaff ) projeto chronos. ㅤ⸻ㅤ❝ i won't lie, if there's something still to take . . . ❞ — 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔, hozier.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀LEMBRANÇAS ESTAVAM SENDO O ASSUNTO PRINCIPAL QUE PERCORRIA A MENTE DE GUINEVERE NOS ÚLTIMOS DIAS. Justiça fosse feita, estava precisando lidar com uma carga grande que não estava sabendo associar direito ainda e tudo isso lhe causava dores de cabeça terríveis. Como se ela não as tivesse com frequência… Porém, dentre as memórias que redescobriu, lembrou-se de algo que não contou a ninguém: O convite de JJH e a sua ida até o Projeto Chronos. Era algo que pertencia apenas a ela. Por isso, sem saber exatamente como lidar com a própria mente, seguiu até o lugar que foi a primeira vez na esperança que ainda houvesse algo ali, as realidades pareciam conflitantes vez ou outras. Quando encontrou Taj e ele lhe chamou de Ginny mais uma vez ela soube que estava certa e decidiu relevar o erro dele, mais uma vez. Mas, para sua infelicidade, parecia que o professor estava ocupado. ⸻ Sem problemas, pode avisar que ficarei esperando aqui até que ele possa me atender. ⸻ Disse, decidida e ficou parada em algum canto qualquer. Balançou a mão boa como se pedisse distância. Ainda havia algo ali que ela precisava, ainda que não soubesse exatamente o que poderia ser. [ . . . ] Depois de algum tempo, quando notou a aproximação pode saber que ele estava disponível, finalmente. Não precisava enxergar para saber que a possibilidade de ser ele era enorme. ⸻ Professor, quantos anos. ⸻ Comentou, sorrindo suavemente, por mais que o sorriso fosse estranho. Havia desaprendido a sorrir. ⸻ Não me ofereceram nem um lugar para sentar, mas tudo bem. Gostaria de falar com o senhor, se puder me emprestar alguns minutos do seu tempo. ⸻ Era mais forte do que ela usar menções à tempo quando falava com ele.

[macchiatosdumptruck]

Just accidentally thought about how CK treats the relationship between Daniel and Miyagi and I got so mad I gave myself temporary brain damage

Because like. The entire first movie is about two lost souls finding one another.

And then CK?

Has an entire arc about how cringe it is for Daniel to look up to him? (If I see even one half assed"glaze" joke it's blocked on sight)

Meanwhile, while dismissing and downplaying and actively "tarnishing" (their word) Daniel and Miyagi's relationship, they also make sure to show how distant and toxic all other father son relationships are.

Johnny and Robby, first and foremost, which culminates in Robby apologizing to his own negligent father for what? Existing? Daring to want more?

Miguel and his bio father.

Daniel and Anthony (about how Daniel is closer to Sam)

Johnny and Sid.

And I think the most outrageous,to me, is Johnny and Kreese.

That guy tried to kill him TWICE. Johnny's entire s2 arc is finally coming to terms with how Kreese hurt him. How he doesn't need his acceptance.

In a show that looks down on a healthy father/son relationship, (Daniel and Miyagi) they go out of their way to undo character development so that the most toxic father figure in the show can have his "good job son" moment. (Kreese and Johnny)

[97-liners]

booseoksoon could do perfume but dojaejung could never do fighting (doyoung is too self conscious to be anything but couth on stage and jaehyun is too innately off-putting to energize an audience of humans. jungwoo would fit right in, though.)

[jentlemahae]

[everylittled]

Jung Ji Hoo

[nytgaih]

personally, mr ju jihoon owes me:

kingdom s3

trauma code s2

jirisan s2 (i deserve that extra 4 eps where writer-nim said she would've written in hyunjo proposing to yigang and them getting married on the mountain.)

along with the gods 3 & 4 (why is there a rating for pt 3 on mdl when its not even out yet. i mean for sure its good but how)

light shop s2

blood free s2 (i need my ceo x bodyguard to take down that ex-prime minister like PLEASE I NEED THAT SEQUEL. although the ao3 universe was good, i need TO SEE THEM AGAIN.)

i can't rmb what else rn but all i need is more, please and thank you.

[sukutrauma]

he's getting flashbacks

sukuna doesn't approve of this either

transcript:

"You okay, Gojo? You're just...staring." (?)

"All good, Yuji!" (this is his nephew? more like his son...) -

"Satoru-"

"-I know-"

"-You fucked up, Satoru." (oh god)

"I know..."

[nonstop97]

[ Jaehyun in the Fact Check Performance Video for anon :: 231119 ]

hope you enjoy :)

[mauvecardigans]

okay hear me out

yeah yeah i didn't crop it w/e

genuinely if this is any good i could pivot SO FAST into new accepted tkk canon (vs ck as an au)

SO

FAST.

[macchiatosdumptruck]

Fascinating to me how, in the narrative, winning isn't important, people should just be happy with their growth, unless it's Johnny.

Like. Why are they actively regressing his character at all times?

This is why he feels like a self insert, because you know the writers wanted him to win so badly because they saw themselves in him. And other people can lose, but not the cool guy. Because he's cool.

[zeninsama-moved]

new hc naoya hasn’t seen a single star wars movie

[prodbymaui]

Hi so I’m confused, is the jaehyun smut for guy reader?

none of my fics have male mcs, is there any part of the fic that made you thought otherwise?