#minhyang...

[christakisbang]

[likeadayaway]

overprotective of the clumsy baby 10/10

[hyuninho]

christening my account check out my super cool venn diagram which is totally convincing you as to why you should write hyuninho

[iyenly]

healing by third intention pairing : minho x jeongin genre : canon divergence, future fic, post-disbandment, aged up characters, angst with a happy ending, friends to lovers, reunions, falling in love, emotional hurt/comfort, classical music warnings : body image, past abusive relationship, drug use wc : incomplete (100k expected) link : ao3

summary : “so, what happened?” minho asks, topping up their drinks.

jeongin swallows around the lump in his throat. “we had an argument on top of the eiffel tower. the most romantic place in the world… and she dumped me.”

eight years after emigrating to france, jeongin returns to seoul, aimless, struggling and broke. he’s hoping for a quiet resurrection, but soon finds himself at lee minho’s 40th birthday party, coming face-to-face with the seven former members of stray kids that he estranged himself from.

everything is screaming at jeongin to run away again, but the timeless allure of minho draws him closer and closer. it’s one last chance at love, but jeongin must scramble to stitch up the pieces of his broken, bleeding heart before the torrent of his own misfortune drowns him alive.

[solarfyn]

author's note

i honestly don't even know how to get into this... lskdflskdfl alright

hiii i'm sol and this is my favorite fic i wrote in 2024, so i wanted to talk a little bit about my writing process! we'll see if this becomes a series...

hotel california is a really short one at 2.3k words. it's definitely the furthest i've stepped from my comfort zone. major character death, heavy angst, and hyuninho were all tags that seemed extremely daunting as i never venture into them as a reader, so i was surprised (and proud!) with myself when i was able to crank this fic out in a day.

it was a gift for my dear mila (disturbedreams on ao3) (hyuninho Pioneer)

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

it started with me spamming both a google doc lovingly named "dump" and also my Very Secret discord server where i am the Sole member.

at first (not shown), i wanted to let minho and jeongin arrive at "hotel california". it was going to be a horror-ish, magical realism-ish fic where hotel california is Actually a place that exists. the original outline looked something like this:

minhyang go to hotel california, turns out it's just as they imagined, but the hotel is slightly different for each of them. minho brushes it off as sleep deprivation, but jeongin (who was napping the whole car ride) convinces him to start exploring the hotel. it's strangely empty, and minho can't shake the nagging feeling in his head that something's not quite right. as the night goes on, the hotel feels more sinister, like it's trying to trap them, like it's Sentient. when the sun comes up, it kills them.

but then i thought. wait. it wasn't Their dream to go to hotel california, it was hyunjin's. so the Vision shifted once again. i realized i wasn't equipped enough to write a horror fic, so instead of making the fic scary and Strange, i wanted to make it hurt.

from the beginning of the writing process, i knew that everyone was going to die. even though hyunjin isn't in the fic at all (only in flashbacks), i wanted to find a way to write the fic so that it was surrounding him and his death. if i let the hotel kill minhyang, then it would make the Hotel the focus of the fic, not hyunjin.

and so i reworked it. it was up to the reader's interpretation as to what hotel california Really Was, but for me, it wasn't a real place, it was Death.

when hotel california plays on the radio towards the end of the fic, it's an omen of death, and the only connection minhyang have left of hyunjin.

Hotel California eventually became a code word. An inside joke. Where are you going this winter? Jeongin asked right before break. And Hyunjin said, Hotel California. Where’s your next class? Hyunjin asked Minho a month later, who, of course, said Hotel California with a cheeky grin.

it's up to the reader to decide if hyunjin and minho were suicidal or not, i didn't make it explicitly told. i added this flasback as an introduction for the song, why they like it, etc. while also forming hyunjin as a character. it's difficult to humanize a character when they're dead as the fic starts, and i had a wonderful time trying to write who hyunjin was, even when he's not present.

jeongin is an interesting character. there isn't a moment in this fic where he interacts with hotel california without minho or hyunjin prompting him. exhibit b:

A week after the funeral, Minho knocked on Jeongin’s door. Pack a bag, he said simply, holding up a duffel of his own. Jeongin had stared at him for a couple seconds, eyes as dead as his, before his face morphed into something like confusion. Where— Hotel California. We’re going. Or, I’m going. Are you? Within fifteen minutes, they were on the road westwards. Jeongin didn’t even question it. Didn’t even have the energy to tell Minho that Hotel California didn’t exist.

hyunjin answers jeongin's question with hotel california in the flashback. minho does the same in the present, and at the end of the fic, accidentally (?) kills them both in the process.

so is hotel california a escape in paradise, or is it death? or perhaps both???

that's Really what i wanted the reader to think about. i'm not sure if i executed it correctly, but i tried to make minho and jeongin's death beautiful, as a contrast to hyunjin's. in the fic, we only get to see minho discovering hyunjin's already-cold body. it's been hours. it's clinical, it's a bit liminal and not quite right. i really wanted to emphasize how minho (alive) was hot and red and messy with tears, while hyunjin (dead) was cold and blue and clean.

anyway, back to minhyang's death.

When Minho was in high school, he learned about the stars. They burn by fusing hydrogen into helium. The bigger the star, the higher core temperature. Therefore, large stars use up the hydrogen faster, and die out faster. The biggest stars turn into supernovas and explode upon death—they affect everything around them. Minho doesn’t know when the red tail lights turned into the white headlights in front of him. It looks like there’s a supernova in front of him—shining and flooding his eyes as it gets bigger and bigger. How interesting. How strange. Jeongin’s breathing has leveled out once again, which means Minho’s alone, facing this star that burns so brilliantly. His grip on the wheel falters. The star spreads its wings, flooding the car and Minho’s vision with such luminosity. It hurts, but Minho can’t seem to close his eyes. The brightness—it reminds him of something. Of someone. It’s just like Hyunjin.

both the starting and ending paragraphs of the fic surround hyunjin. he's the reason for everything that happens in this fic.

at this point, minho is extremely tired from grieving and driving, and is literally falling asleep at the wheel, which causes his and jeongin's death. i wanted to make sure jeongin was asleep when he passes (he doesn't feel any pain), and minho's not quite mentally present, so he doesn't as well.

people always talk about the "light at the end of the tunnel" when they talk about death, so i wanted to take that cliche theme and make it a little it more abstract. a little bit more artistic, since hyunjin is an artist at heart in every universe, and of course it rubbed off on minho and jeongin.

the red tail lights turning into white headlights was the moment when minho veers into the opposite lane, and he ends up in a head-on collision with a truck (which is why the "star" was so bright and big, as opposed to a regular car's lights)

minho talks about the stars and supernovas he learned about in high school, and implicitly compares hyunjin to a supernova. he's not talking about himself when he's about to die, he's thinking about seeing hyunjin in everything beautiful.

okay PHEW!!!! i'm done hehehe as you can see i'm really proud of this fic--so much that i'm honestly not concerned about the statistics? which is a crazy statement coming from me because ya girl loves statistics and numbers. if you read this far, thank you!!! so much love and i may write more of these. we'll see. no promises <3

[minhyangs]

minho telling a story & making jeongin laugh in skz-talker ep. 41

[sunstormrecs]

ship Kim Seungmin/Yang Jeongin | I.N, Lee Minho | Lee Know/Yang Jeongin | I.N

tags Polyamory, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Spitroasting, i THINK that counts as spitroasting..., Face-Fucking, Bottom Yang Jeongin | I.N, Top Lee Minho | Lee Know, Top Kim Seungmin, Rimming, Married Kim Seungmin/Lee Minho | Lee Know, Domestic Fluff, Threesome - M/M/M, Yang Jeongin | I.N-centric

summary “What would you guys even want to do with me?”

“Oh, babe. If you were curious about that, all you had to do was ask.” Seungmin tucks a hand under Jeongin’s chin, tilts his face towards the sky, and says, “We’re gonna fuck you ‘til you’re too dumb to speak, of course.”

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Jeongin plans to spend Valentine's Day alone. His boyfriends have other plans.

[iyenly]

soft oaths upon bright cotton pairing : minho x jeongin genre : canon compliant, omegaverse, angst with a hopeful ending, secret relationship, mutual pining, hurt/comfort warnings : mpreg, mating cycles/in heat, smut, knotting, unplanned pregnancy, possessive behaviour, mention of drugs, discussion of abortion wc : 41k (complete, 3/3) link : ao3

summary : after four years of suppressants, jeongin’s body is rebelling against him. desperate to know what a knot feels like and during a stolen night on an america tour leg, salvation comes from a strange place when his minho-hyung agrees to provide.

for the next nine months, jeongin and minho are forced to navigate something even more complicated than a positive pregnancy test. their feelings for each other.

(or, minho accidentally knocks jeongin up.)

[iyenly]

the electricity of desperation pairing : minho x jeongin genre : street racing au, idol au, college au, meet-ugly, mutual pining, falling in love, road trips warnings : non-graphic smut, awkward sex, illegal activities, reckless driving, bittersweet ending (... or is it?) wc : 18k (complete, 2/2) link : ao3

summary : minho has never broken a rule in his life. as the leader of his idol group, he does what he is told: show no flaws, but be relatable. be compliant, but not useless. radiate sex appeal, but remain sexless.

when minho suddenly falls into the world of illegal street racing, all it takes is one look from the mysterious, fox-eyed wunderkind to lure him down a rabbit hole he isn’t sure he can survive without risking everything.

[an our castle of limbo alternate timeline.]

[iyenly]

𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒐 ✦ minjeᴏng ✦ zombie apocalypse au ✦ rated e ✦ chaptered longfic

commissioned artwork by @littledozerbaby

[iyenly]

our castle of limbo pairing : minho x jeongin genre : au - zombie apocalypse, angst, smut, sexuality crisis, lgbtq+ themes, kink exploration warnings : minor violence, blood and injury, near death experiences, mentions of past sexual harrassment wc : 67.5k, finished link : ao3

summary : three years have passed since the start of the zombie apocalypse. former kpop idol lee minho finds himself far away from the golden cage of his past life, now part of a group of survivors who are desperately trying to find a way to survive alongside the infected. the others are more sexually fluid in the wake of the apocalypse, and as the group’s token cishet, minho often feels like an outsider, having developed a cold, surly exterior to match.

change comes in the form of the passers’ newest recruit, yang jeongin, who blasts through minho’s fake exterior and leaves him questioning in ways he never thought possible.

[sunstormrecs]

ship Lee Minho | Lee Know/Yang Jeongin | I.N

tags Additional Tags: Female Lee Minho | Lee Know, MILF Lee Minho | Lee Know, Cunnilingus, Age Difference, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Oral Fixation, Body Worship 

summary “I heard once that all men are good at either bowling or eating pussy."

“Wow,” Jeongin says as he smooths his hand flat over her tummy. “Guess I’m the exception who’s great at both, huh?”

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In which Jeongin is good at either bowling or eating pussy, but definitely not both.

[3rachasninja]

Pls tag me when you finish this story 🙏🏻💜

soft oaths upon bright cotton pairing : minho x jeongin genre : canon compliant, omegaverse, angst with a hopeful ending, secret relationship, mutual pining, hurt/comfort warnings : mpreg, mating cycles/in heat, smut, knotting, unplanned pregnancy, possessive behaviour, mention of drugs, discussion of abortion wc : 24k (incomplete, 2/3) link : ao3

summary : after four years of suppressants, jeongin’s body is rebelling against him. desperate to know what a knot feels like and during a stolen night on an america tour leg, salvation comes from a strange place when his minho-hyung agrees to provide.

for the next nine months, jeongin and minho are forced to navigate something even more complicated than a positive pregnancy test. their feelings for each other.

(or, minho accidentally knocks jeongin up.)