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it's them 🥹

Wooyoung and Yunho from ATEEZ, winking and making a partner heart.

November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM

raethye

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A fresh ATEEZ #WIPwednesday snippet from my #FicYourFall project. Mr. Mystery can't stop staring... certain he KNOWS this person.

Alt text has the full excerpt.

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He knows he stares too much at that sharp face, that he’s hanging on every slurred vowel of the voice rushing through sentences like there’s only one breath allowed per speech. It’s a touch deeper and mellowed with the passage of time—so much time, too much time—enough that maybe this isn’t who he thinks.

He needs to listen closely to process the changes. And he doesn’t dare look away and miss something. Anything. Details.

It can’t be him.

Logic doesn’t stop him from crawling closer. From screaming the name lodged in his throat, that he has to say before he can’t breathe around it.

It can’t be him.

A single brush of fingers against his shatters his denial. The touch takes him back as though no time at all has passed, and his magic, his instincts—minimal as they are compared to a shifter—his everything seems to take flight. Within him, his magic surges and detonates, tearing through the barrier like tissue, and he knows.

It can only be him.

He couldn’t keep the name inside if he tried, and gods know he doesn’t want to try.

“Hongjoong?”

He knows immediately that he should have tried.

Because Hongjoong looks at him with a spark of startled fear, maybe a hint of suspicion, and… nothing else.

November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM

raethye

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Found this (from an issue of Exquisite Corpses)... and my first thought was that I probably took this because the foreground convo immediately made me snort-laugh something along the lines of, "omg, this is Hongjoong someday."

But then there's the background Pride & Prejudice 'hand flex' convo...

A panel from the comic book Exquisite Corpses showing snippets of multiple conversations happening at a party.

November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM

raethye

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For anyone who might also have a yearning... Mortal Appetites.

archiveofourown.org/works/41430663

A story moodboard featuring Jin and Taehyung of BTS, along with some wonderfully historically inaccurate images of Regency zombies, costumes, and paraphernalia. And also the hand hold moment from 2005's Pride & Prejudice film. You know, the one followed by the hand flex.

November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM

raethye

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A little ATEEZ #WIPwednesday snippet from my #FicYourFall project. Hongjoong and San are trying to connect with a mystery man... starting with a name.

Alt text has the full excerpt... not sure about the formatting on it, though. 🫣

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EXCERPT:

“How about a name, hm? Or are you gatekeeping that one?”

The man’s gaze darts toward San at the question, suspicion and fear bright in his odd, silver eyes.

San holds his hands up in surrender.

“It doesn’t have to be your name,” he says easily. “Just something you’re comfortable with us calling you. Since you clearly don’t like ahjussi.”

The man’s face is oddly expressive, despite all of the hair and dirt obscuring it. His eyes roll, but he clearly contemplates the idea before writing out, Bait – that’s what they call me.

“Bait. You mean like… a lure?” San asks with a scrunch of his nose. “Something used to—to catch something else? That kind of bait?”

Hongjoong can’t help the disgusted look he shoots San’s way. He sees his unease reflected in San’s dark eyes. What kind of dehumanizing—

The man taps the paper. That’s what they call me.

“Okay, but you want us to call you that?” Hongjoong asks, because he can’t find it in himself to agree to that at all. Screw that.

There’s just no way Left Eye didn’t know about Bait. No way that he wasn’t up to his eyeballs in whatever led to this poor man being locked up down here. The old man’s lucky he’s dead right now, or— Hongjoong takes a steadying breath and sits down on the floor, just beyond the edge of the circle.

“No objection from me,” he says gently, “if you want to be called literally anything else.”

November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM

raethye

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Looking for a fic to get you through 1/3 of ao3's projected downtime?

Mortal Appetites
- Explicit violence and sex, a/b/o themes 🔞
- aka Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and BTS and A/B/O (i apparently didn't know when to stop)
- 98.8K words, complete

archiveofourown.org/works/41430663

title card with images that suggest regency england, violence, zombies, and very pretty mean (seokjin and taehyung from kpop group BTS). the card reads: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a zombie—once having consumed brains—must be in want of more brains.

September 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM

raethye

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not the d+/max/hulu bundle announcing a price increase like 5 minutes after reinstating kimmel.

timing is everything... and you have none.

Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

A demonstrator holds a sign in response to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show outside Walt Disney Studios. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

September 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM

raethye

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a like for an answer?

March 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM

raethye

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new fic! (what's even happening here??)

It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Murder
❄️ M
❄️ 11.8K, complete
❄️ bts, taejin, christmassy fluff and murder, friends to lovers, mutual pining

The headline in bold, red print announced the 3rd Annual Murder-Mystery Getaway.

archiveofourown.org/works/61382215

bts member kim seokjin, looking bright-eyed and adorable in a winter scarf

bts member kim taehyung, looking equally adorable in a winter hat and jacket

December 18, 2024 at 12:23 AM

raethye

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a new fic? a new fic. short, sweet, and fluffy...

First Snow
❄️ Rating: T+
❄️ 3.5K, complete
❄️ atz, seonggi, christmas fluff, romance, neighbors to something more

Seonghwa gets caught in a freezing winter rain. And Mingi is warmer than the brightest summer day.

archiveofourown.org/works/61303699

atz members seonghwa and mingi, looking soft and gorgeous

December 14, 2024 at 3:10 AM

raethye

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 10/20

cover of The Lincoln Hunters by Wilson Tucker

November 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 9/20

cover of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

November 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 8/20

cover of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

November 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 7/20

cover of Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

November 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

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Stolen from @bunnakit.me... let's see what's rattling around in my brain

November 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM

raethye

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 6/20

cover of Magic's Pawn (Book One of The Last Herald-Mage) by Mercedes Lackey

cover of Magic's Promise (Book Two of The Last Herald-Mage) by Mercedes Lackey

cover of Magic's Price (Book Three of The Last Herald-Mage) by Mercedes Lackey

November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

@raethye.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 5/20

Centennial Edition cover of East of Eden by John Steinbeck

November 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

@raethye.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 4/20

cover of Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffery

November 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

@raethye.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 3/20

cover of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

November 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 2/20

cover of Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

November 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM

raethye

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Good morning, bsky

November 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM

raethye

@raethye.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky

💙📚
#books

#20BookChallenge
day 1/20