utteringly_otterish
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It is an unnatural sight. The sea moves in a way no body of water should ever be able to.
Run. They should run, Seungmin thinks. It's not a tsunami. For a moment, it looks like…he doesn't even know. A giant bubble in the sea? A frozen wave? But then the water parts, and it's a machine. A huge machine, on three massive legs, rising taller, taller, impossibly tall as it straightens to standing.
It towers above them, even though it's so far out to sea.
"Seungmin…." Jisung pulls on his sleeve, frantically. "Please Seungmin, we need to go."
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Or: The War of the Worlds crossover that nobody asked for but I wrote anyways.
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After a bad breakup that leaves him homeless and broke, Seungmin moves into a rundown house to begin rebuilding his life.
Felix is the ghost haunting his house.
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The saying goes “bad things happen in threes.” Seungmin thinks there might be some truth to that.
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Three coincidences lead Stay to think Seunglix is real. Maybe Stays are onto something.
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- Part 1 of Three Things
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When Merlin uses the Cup of Life to make Arthur invincible, something goes wrong. Arthur is immortal, but now Merlin is dying.
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Arthur’s new at school, and he’s a jock, so he probably shouldn’t be seen hanging around with nerds like Merlin. Right?
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Ever since moving to the United States, he had bottled up his feelings, moving through the world with utmost discipline and deliberation. Teachers always commented that he was so mature for his age, in a world where students skipped class to smoke weed behind the bleachers and seventeen-year-olds still threw food at each other in the cafeteria. He had been the President of National Honor Society, the captain of the baseball team, and in his junior year, he’d even stepped in to cover a minor role in the school musical, when it became apparent that the dude was suffering from an intense bout of food poisoning. Keeping oneself rigidly within the lines was the only way to succeed, for a young boy who immigrated from Korea with a thick accent and wired glasses that were too big for his face. Seungmin didn’t do feelings.
Though that would probably explain the tightness in his chest whenever someone so much as mentioned Felix’s name in his vicinity.
In which Seungmin struggles to reconcile romantic feelings, friendships, and his cultural identity in his second year of college.
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Bookmarked by utteringly_otterish
18 Jun 2026
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Four case-control studies that are about control, in four different ways.
Each story stands alone and can be read independently of the others, but they are interwoven and personally I think (hope!) some of the fun is the multiple POV on certain moments that comes from reading them all.
The timeline follows a span of events that overlap, but from 'earliest' to 'latest' the Cases follow posting order, ie 35 first and 143 last, and if you don't have a preference then that's the order I would recommend reading them in.
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Bookmarked by utteringly_otterish
02 Oct 2025
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Case Control Series by theproblematique
Four case-control studies that are about control, in four different ways.
Each story stands alone and can be read independently of the others, but they are interwoven and personally I think (hope!) some of the fun is the multiple POV on certain moments that comes from reading them all.
The timeline follows a span of events that overlap, but from 'earliest' to 'latest' the Cases follow posting order, ie 35 first and 143 last, and if you don't have a preference then that's the order I would recommend reading them in.
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“Then he said the sex was mediocre and that it was because of me,” Minho seethes, pacing back and forth across his dorm, phone held up to his ear. “And that we could try again tomorrow.”
On the other end of the line, Changbin seems to be in a fit of laughter. Minho is much less amused, lips pressed into a tight line while he waits for his best friend to console him.
“Oh, that’s brutal,” Changbin cackles. “Well, will you?”
“No,” Minho hisses. “It was one hundred percent mediocre because of him, and we will one hundred percent not be trying again tomorrow.”
or: Minho has what may just be the worst one-night stand of his life. Jisung takes every opportunity afterwards to make it up to him.
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Bookmarked by utteringly_otterish
07 Dec 2025
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“Then he said the sex was mediocre and that it was because of me,” Minho seethes, pacing back and forth across his dorm, phone held up to his ear. “And that we could try again tomorrow.”
On the other end of the line, Changbin seems to be in a fit of laughter. Minho is much less amused, lips pressed into a tight line while he waits for his best friend to console him.
“Oh, that’s brutal,” Changbin cackles. “Well, will you?”
“No,” Minho hisses. “It was one hundred percent mediocre because of him, and we will one hundred percent not be trying again tomorrow.”
or: Minho has what may just be the worst one-night stand of his life. Jisung takes every opportunity afterwards to make it up to him.