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The Trials and Tribulations of Tuesdays: A Practical Guide to Gaslighting by Zhong Chenle by Year_of_Summer
Fandoms: NCT (Band)
27 Feb 2022
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Chenle and Jisung are two college students just trying to make it through freshman year on too much ramen and too few vegetables. Honestly, they’re making this whole ‘adulting’ thing work - at least, no one has burned down the dorm yet (Jisung did have a close call with some dino nuggies, but that’s ancient history).
Sure, both of them are painfully single and all their friends baby them, but they have each other - at this point they're practically soulmates. Then Chenle makes a joke that spins out of control, and suddenly the state of their beautiful broship is at stake.
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OR; sometimes the best way to find love is by accidentally gaslighting your best friend into believing you’ve been dating for three years
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- Part 1 of A Practical Guide to Gaslighting
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Bookmarked by xella
07 Apr 2026
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In his brain, it goes like this: everything Mark just said + them holding hands right now + Mark looking like he wants to jump off a plane + the out of place offense at Donghyuck not taking his offer seriously + him sitting here, with Donghyuck, not even watching the movie that was probably very loudly distracting him from completing his time-sensitive essay = the second epiphany.
Donghyuck's eyes widen. “Oh my god. You’re totally in love with me.”
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Bookmarked by xella
17 Mar 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
they are besties and yuck realizes mark is in love with him... yellow submarine... SO SWEET AND POETIC. teared up. read again on mark's last day in NCT
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Mark doesn’t know how it started, this thing he has with Johnny. He just knows that despite any better judgement, he doesn’t ever want it to end.
Or, the johnmark friends-with-benefits fic where Mark’s never been much interested in dating until a certain blonde-haired senior catches his eye and he starts to think that maybe relationships aren’t as pointless as they seem.
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Bookmarked by xella
14 Jun 2025
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To anyone watching, Sunoo and Riki are just two strangers whose paths run parallel, but never quite intersect.
But beneath Sunoo’s hoodie sleeve, invisible to everyone but him, a thin red string glows softly at his wrist. It winds off into the air, tangled and taut, disappearing into the distance. When Riki lifts his arm as he warms up for practice, the red string wrapped around his left wrist glints faintly under the sun.
Sunoo and Riki pretend not to notice the thread tying them together. Sunoo, still healing from a painful past, avoids the risk of being loved. Riki, quietly certain of his feelings, waits patiently in the silence between them.
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Two years in, Sunoo still thinks he’s temporary.
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“I know I like you more than you like me,” he lets out a sigh, wet, trembling, and heartbroken. “It’s okay, though. I don’t mind as long as you like me enough to be with me,” Sunoo’s fists close around Riki’s shirt. “I love you so much, Riki,” he rubs his face against Riki’s chest, tears dampening the fabric, “So much.”Series
- Part 2 of This Love is Ours