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One ravenously lonely beta (and proud!). One fumbling wash-out of an alpha. Two unrequited crushes. And a convenient, harmless loophole. Don't we all deserve to be a little selfish sometimes?
It was nice. It had been nice for months now. But nice wasn't a thing you could hold… keep.
Nice was the nature of the business.
The shop, Rumi, occupied a hiatus—a break between life and love. The customers came and went, and Mira would be no different.
Only she was. And that truth blackened beneath Rumi's fingertips, curling at the edges like surrender.
Rumi let it burn.
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05 Oct 2026
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Rumi adjusted her mask, then scanned the line of water. The sea was already speaking to her in small shifts—the pull of a current under the surface, the way the light fractured just before the drop-off.
When she struck out towards the deeper areas, Mira followed. Not close enough to interfere, but never far enough to lose. A steady presence just off Rumi's shoulder, camera angled slightly downward, always tracking without crowding.
Rumi moved the way she always did. Down.
The water took her without hesitation.
Rumi has spent her life rooted to the island and the sea that shaped her; Mira comes to Jeju to help document a disappearing way of life and the changing sea around it. As the project unfolds, the distance between observer and subject begins to narrow.
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26 Sep 2026
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Terms And Conditions - Part I
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Mira Kang only needs three things from a roommate situation: privacy, low sunlight, and people who don’t ask unnecessary questions about why she keeps medical supplies in a locked mini-fridge.Rumi Vey’s oddly specific questionnaire and Zoey’s chaotic night-shift schedule seem, against all odds, to provide exactly that.
Mira is a vampire. Her roommates are human. Probably. Either way, the rent is reasonable, the cat is unsettling, and everyone has agreed to respect each other’s privacy. What could possibly go wrong?
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- Part 1 of The Things We Let In
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17 Sep 2026
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i would stay forever if you say don't go by phoenix_inthe_fire
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
10 Sep 2026
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"Have a nice life, Rumi," Zoey says ultimately. "Your five minutes are over."
Rumi feared it might come to this. She didn't really deserve anything better. Still, she pulls the final trick up her sleeve out from the pocket of her jeans. The box is velvet beneath her finger tips. She takes one knee in the center of Zoey's kitchen and flips the top to reveal the diamond ring sitting in a silk bed.
"Oh you've gotta be fucking kidding me," Zoey breathes in absolute shock. "Rumi, stand up. Right now."
"Zoey—" Rumi swallows against the lump in her throat. "I know—I know you really, really don't like me. And I—And I get that but if you won't forgive me at least let me do this for you—"
"Rumi, I'm so serious. Stand up! What are you doing? Is that a ring real?" Zoey's voice pitches high enough to ring just on the edge of unpleasant but still Rumi remains steadfast.
"Will you marry me before I deploy?" Rumi rushes out in a tremulous breath.
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11 Sep 2026
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It’s always a little strange, she thinks, once you get something you’ve wanted for so long, especially if it’s the thing, the one big thing that’s always seemed so impossible to imagine ever being yours—but it is, now. It’s Rumi’s now. She’s theirs, now.
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- Part 2 of triptych
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17 Aug 2026