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When Namjoon is injured during the summer hunt and abandoned by his pod, he finds a quiet piece of coast where he can waste away in solitude. He isn’t prepared for the bright, beautiful man who lives just up the beach and seems determined to help him heal.
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catching summer’s tide (and feelings) by joondimples
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
13 Aug 2025
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With three months left to finish his first draft, novelist Kim Namjoon escapes to a beach town for the summer, hoping for a miracle to fix his writer’s block. Then he meets Jungkook, the hot surfer next door who insists that living a little might be exactly what he needs.
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Bookmarked by notlastnvm
04 Aug 2025
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«Finally, to Jungkook, who pulled me out of my worst writer’s block and dragged me outside to remind me that life isn’t meant to be paused while I work, but lived alongside it. You filled this summer with so much warmth and laughter, and helped me rediscover not just the story, but the joy behind why I write at all. You taught me another way to live, and showed me a kind of beauty I might never have discovered if it weren’t for you. Thank you for welcoming me with open arms and for making sure I stayed alive between all my all-nighters. Thank you for showing up exactly when you did. This book, in more ways than one, exists because of you.»
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“Wait, let me get this straight. You… Asked me… To meet with you today… To ask if I would /pretend/ to go out with you.”
“... Basically, yeah,” Yoongi says flatly.
Jimin stares at him with a terrifyingly unreadable expression, and then abruptly starts cackling.
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Yoongi has accidentally led his friends to believe that he'll bring his boyfriend to their university reunion- his boyfriend who does not exist. Enter Jimin, his subordinate at work who makes the problem worse but makes Yoongi's life as a whole so much better.
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Bookmarked by notlastnvm
20 Jul 2025
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Really soft and funny too. I related with Yoongi's personal situation, this line hit me especially hard:
“I’m scared that I missed my chance to make my life the way that I want it, and now I’m stuck living with what I have. I hoped by now that I’d have made more for myself, but I’ve got nothing to show for my life and I think about it every day."
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Namjoon is contemplating whether he’s doing the right thing: resigning from his teaching job. It's a learning progress*.
*When you have already started, you can’t easily let go and must move forward.
or for those who wanted to quit their jobs and needed a time to ponder. a reminder. a reset.
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They’re in the middle of watching The Holiday when Jeongguk asks, like he does every day and has done every day for the past two hundred and seventy-six days—“Hyung, can I kiss you?”
(or: five times jeongguk asks to kiss yoongi and one time he does.)
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17 May 2025
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"You don’t have to cut yourself off from other people just because you think you deserve it or something. Or because you aren’t allowed to be happy. You are.”