15 Works by Lorbender
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JEONGGUK
Well, so I took a semester off from school, and then I took another semester off, and so at that point, if you’re doing the math, I’d taken a year off. My parents thought I was going back this fall, so I told them I was heading to school and I really came here. To see you.SEOKJIN
(ostensibly in answer to JEONGGUK, but really in the broader existential sense)
...Why me?JEONGGUK
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"'I do cause her a lot of trouble,' Tae mutters, twisting her hands on the table. 'I just...she’s so nice to me. Idon’twannafuckitup.'
'You are the most powerful diviner of the past century,' says Seojun patiently. 'You’ve probably saved her life at least five times, three of which were because you were saving the lives of every person in the four realms at once and she happened to be living on earth. I doubt she’s being nice to you out of pity.'"Tae's got to keep the fabric of spacetime from rupturing while her friends attempt to save the universe by getting married. As if all this weren't enough, well, there's also her very inconvenient feelings for Jin.
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- Part 3 of Nearly Witches
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“'Why the hell are you bothering with all of this?' says Yoonji, crossing her arms. 'I’m no diviner, but I don’t think you need to resort to amateur theatrics to get that girl to be interested in you.'
'I wish I could believe that you’re not just saying that so I won’t drag you into more of my plans,' says Jimin, 'but I do not. Can't believe you got carried and petted. Unfair.'
'Well, maybe next time you should be the one in need of rescuing, you ungrateful little–' Yoonji breaks off when she sees the look on Jimin’s face. 'Wait. No. Don’t actually do that. Fuck.'”Mediwitch Park goes to lengths (read: hell) to get Detective Jeon's attention. Against all odds, it works.
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- Part 2 of Nearly Witches
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"'What the hell is going on,' says Jin. 'Is someone hurt?'
'You didn’t call me down here just for a regular old vibe check, did you?' Tae says, setting Yeontan down.
'No,' Yoonji says, lifting her chin. 'We need some real divination from you tonight. Namjoo is missing.'"Magic should make it simpler to deal with one's feelings. Spoiler alert: it doesn't.
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- Part 1 of Nearly Witches
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"In a truly shocking turn of events, Yoonji hears Hobi when she comes in.
In this instance, 'a truly shocking turn of events' can also be read to mean 'an extremely intentional manner that Yoonji carefully set up.'
Creative liberties."Yoonji and Hobi are very lucky. They get a lot of time to love each other.
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It ain't no big thing (I know I like dancing with you) by Lorbender
Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band)
28 Jun 2021
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“'You’re running a marathon right now,' Yeosang points out, wiping sweat from his brow artistically, as though as an illustrative diagram. 'I hardly think kissing someone is the hardest thing you’re going to do today.'
'Excuse me, I signed up for physical strain, not emotional strain!' says Yunho. 'Eyes on the prize! Head in the game! Ah-agh!'
(Okay, in his defense, he finished a couple coherent thoughts there before devolving into stressed onomatopoeic expressions of abject fear.)"Mingi and Yunho are kind of a mess. Even they know they didn't kiss just because they were supposed to.
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“'Speaking of women,' Namjoo says.
Yoonji glares at her over the rim of her bottle. 'What?'
'Nothing,' Namjoo says innocently. 'Just a helpful conversation starter. A prompt. A Mad-Lib, if you will. ‘Speaking of women…’ fill in the blank. A verbal Rorschach test. Quick, what’s the first word that comes to mind when you think ‘women?’'
'You can’t talk around me in circles until I get dizzy,' says Yoonji. 'I’ve known you too long for that. It doesn’t work on me anymore.'"Namjoo and Yoonji are best friends. That's more than enough.
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- Part 2 of Miss Jeon-geniality
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"'Could you lay off me for one second?'
'Could you listen to me for one op and not do something stupid that could get you fired and/or killed? You think I like having to save your ass every damn day of my life?'
'I like the use of ‘and/or’ there,' JK says drily. 'Like the implication that I could possibly get killed, then fired. Posthumous demotion. Also, like you’d care if I died.'
'I optimize my chances of guessing right. And of course I’d care,' Yoonji says; JK’s eyes flick to her of their own accord. 'Who would I nag? I’d have so much pent-up aggression.'"Agent JK Jeon hates a lot of things that Yoonji Min, the voice in her earpiece, does. Convincing her to go undercover in this stupid pageant doesn't even break the top five.
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- Part 1 of Miss Jeon-geniality
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“Yoonji pulls up her shirt to just below her eyes and glares at Hobi over its neck. ‘Trying to date you is like one of those drug ads. Constant inundation of you smiling and looking perfect, meanwhile a voiceover goes, ‘Fainting, dizziness, liver failure, or death may occur.’’
‘That’s...pretty accurate, actually,’ Hobi says.”Hobi is cursed. Yoonji is the best kind of skeptic.
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- Part 3 of There is perfection in you also
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"Tae suddenly says, 'I could kiss you if you wanted.'
'Sorry, what?'
'You like kissing, I like kissing. We can just do whatever we want, just the two of us. No need to bring in a third party.'
'Eliminate the middleman,' says Jimin. 'That’s very smart.'
'So, do you want to?'
'I’m still in my nice clothes.'
'Is that a rule? We can’t kiss when you’re wearing nice clothes?'
'Yes,' says Jimin. 'I can only kiss someone when I’m wearing footie pajamas, it’s a pathology, I’m working on it but it’s baby steps, be sensitive, Tae.'"Tae and Jimin are roommates. Jimin can fly, and Tae makes her want to stop pretending she can't.
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- Part 2 of There is perfection in you also
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"She looks a little bit like a super-hot 19th-century English governess, and also like herself, and Namjoo isn’t sure exactly how she managed to find the absolute nexus of the things that would make her weak with attraction, but. Once again. Here she is. At this party. Vaguely weak with attraction.
There are a lot of reasons why this isn’t a good idea, says her inner monologue, a lot of reasons why Jin is the least advisable person in any room, and damn. Namjoo was going over Whitman and thinking some stupid shit trying to avoid this particular speech, which comes up whenever she sees Jin and she pretty much stops digesting properly.
(But here we go again.)”Namjoo always falls in love with the least advisable person, and that's Jin, because she's perfect and also not interested. Namjoo thinks.
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- Part 1 of There is perfection in you also
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“'Have you seen the new hand-embroidered Louis Vuitton silk three-piece we have in?' the assistant asks him, holding up an embroidered waistcoat for Seokjin’s attention. 'Just arrived last weekend.'
'Louis Vuitton has only done machine-embroidery since 2013,' Seokjin says, 'and silk can’t be safely embroidered on a large scale. I modeled this piece for Louis in May. Check GQ, that was me.'
He turns back to the mirror. 'Boys, you’re looking at the future husband of Conrad Turlington IV,' he tells them as they crowd around him. He gives himself The Smile, and it’s so pretty even he gets a little dizzy."
Turns out Stanford Law School–and Seokjin–might be a bit different than he expects.
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"As his world collapsed around him, Draco Malfoy reflected that everything had been going just fine until Goyle dropped the wrong damn hair into the potion."
He'd really just been trying to play a prank, a dumb practical joke like all the others he and Potter had lobbed at each other over the years like two crazed players of that Muggle game where everyone's heads went back and forth. But when everything in Draco Malfoy's life changes abruptly, and Potter suddenly has the power to hurt him, their contest of wills becomes something more—something that could fundamentally change the course of not only both their lives, but also their world.
[On most likely permanent hiatus, subject to change.]
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Draco Malfoy is used to being in the background. But when he has a vision that shows him exactly what he's missing, and he travels to England to find it, he finds himself wanting to be the center of attention.
At least as far as Hermione Granger is concerned.
(A retelling of The Fact Remains from Draco's POV.)
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- Part 2 of The Fact Remains
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Hermione Granger is perfectly used to surprises.
One surprise she isn't expecting is her eternal crush, Draco Malfoy, vocalist of Musique Fort Longtemps, putting out a drawing of her on his social media.
Or him saying the drawing is of his soulmate.Series
- Part 1 of The Fact Remains