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  1. Rec 16

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    Hey Chris.

    It gets better.

    It may not always feel like it, but one day, in the not-so-distant future, it gets better.

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    12 Aug 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    It gets better. Trust me, it gets better ❤️‍🩹

  2. Rec *

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    Kim Seokjin loves acting. That's what they'll put in his obituary, probably, right after his family details, because that's the only thing that matters about him. That, and that he's gay, and that his temper snapped one time and ruined his entire career before it had a chance to be what he knows it could have become.

    His last chance to prove himself comes in the form of a reality TV show, a Bachelor-style outing that will show he still has the softness to be a romantic lead. And it's embarrassing, and messy, and full of quirky guys and their weird habits and fame-seeking and secret agendas that he doesn't have the energy to deal with. But it's just a job, and Seokjin never turns down a chance when it's offered, and the biggest comfort of playing the starring role on Destined Hearts is that Seokjin knows his own heart will never be destined for anything but the screen.

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    30 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I took an age to read this, but it really is so fun. Dramatic and sappy in all the right ways while still managing to be real. Ive never seen someone write with such pretty words while keeping the narrative so grounded in the story's reality. A masterclass, really.

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    04 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Realized I hadn't bookmarked this series and that's a crime. This is everything to me. A long and winding journey through healing and life. I will read this for 10,000 years.

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    “Aigoo, you’re really one of us then.”

    “Oh. Um—” Jisung is aware that he really should clarify things, but words completely escape him at the moment.

    “Yeah.” The lone man of the group shoots him a small, yet strangely blinding smile. “We’re all single parents here.”

    “Oh.” Jisung, it seems, has completely fumbled his vocabulary.

    “Come sit with us,” the group’s leader gestures to him. “You can share our lamentations. We all help each other out here.”

    in which: Jisung’s life had been stuck in place for a while—same routines, same days, nothing really changing. Then he befriends a sharp-tongued teenager, somehow ends up in a single parents’ support group pretending to be his dad, and, for the first time in a long time, things start to move again.

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    28 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    You walk in thinking this is a romantic comedy and you leave with life lessons and having watched a man relearn how to live his life.

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    If you ever see this—
    if the universe hiccups,
    and you somehow land in a strange corner of the internet,
    where your silhouette is folded into someone else’s midnight—
    I hope you know:

    Someone’s been rooting for you.
    Quietly.
    Gently.
    Even if you don’t smile.
    Even if you never look over.
    Even if you’re not real.

    Goodnight, stranger.
    I’ll be here again tomorrow.

    – J

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    15 Sep 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The poetry of it all still haunts me. What a fic.