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STRANGE FRUIT 🫒 by THE_JIKOOK_CODE
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, Actor RPF, Mamamoo, SHINee, Sungwoon - Fandom
23 Jun 2025
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In 1900s Japanese-protectorate Korea, twin brothers are born under blood and resistance. One carries a volatile ancient force known as the Haemun. The other is fated to anchor it. Abandoned by their high society birth family and raised by community revolutionaries in the heart of Busan, they grow up as gifted musicians with a secret: they’re cursed--bound to each other by something older than magic, more volatile than death.
Years later, Jungkook and Junghyun’s return to Busan--alongside Junghyun’s wife, Daya, a Creole Hoodoo priestess--sets off a chain of events that breaks the Veil separating the living from vampiric spirits. At the center of it all is Park Jimin, a mesmerizing resonance singer whose voice tears through reality and whose fate is bound to Jungkook’s in ways neither of them understand yet.
As ancient forces rise and the city teeters on the edge of annihilation, the Jeon twins, Jimin, Daya, and a secretive resistance must fight to contain a war between soul and spirit--or be consumed by it. Strange Fruit is a visceral supernatural epic about music that transcends realms, political and spiritual resistance, and survival--wrapped in Korean myth, underground jazz, and traditional Korean music fusion. -
i dreaded a parting to come (when we met again) by shenzhenblues for slothjae
Fandoms: SEVENTEEN (Band)
12 Jun 2025
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Set in 1930s Korea, Hansol is a gifted pianist in a hidden jazz club. There, he meets Chan, a captivating underground dancer whose fierce spirit ignites something deep in Hansol’s heart. As their love blossoms, the harsh realities of society threaten to tear them apart.
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A Game of Tag by DamnFineCupOfCoffee
Fandoms: アカギ | Akagi, 福本 ALLSTARS | Fukumoto ALLSTARS (Manga)
29 Apr 2025
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During the Japanese imperial occupation of Korea, two lives scattered amongst the many. The coddled son of a capitalist, freshly hatched out from the loins of an ancient and twisted family line. Then, the stranger. A phantom boy in torn clothes.
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Gyeongheung-gun is being tormented by Kissin' Karina, a bandit defying the empire's rule to kill the soldiers maintaining peace.
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Yu Jimin is just a servant as far as anybody else knows. With the backing of the wealthy Lady she serves, she has been doing what she can to resist the rule over the wild lands at the northernmost reaches of the land whose name she mustn't speak. Stealing weapons is simple until she finds a weapon which shouldn't exist.
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For two hundred years, vampyre Park Jimin has hunted and suppressed wayward spirits and beasts, ensuring that the Underworld of Korea remains shrouded from the eyes of humans. It is the task for which he was sired, the sole purpose for which he exists, and the burden which has taken almost everything from him. He neither needs nor wants a partner– especially not some foolish boy whose doe eyes are far too innocent for the hunt. But a creature out of Jimin's shadowy past has returned to Seoul, and with it comes the realization that Jeongguk may hold just as large a stake in the storm brewing on the horizon as he does.
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Durante a década de 40, quando o Japão dominava impiedosamente a Coreia, o japonês Akio Hiroto - ou melhor, Kim Taehyung -, aspirava em ser o orgulho de seu pai e da nação nipônica. Isso até conhecer e se apaixonar por Park Jimin, um coreano de vida boêmia, que odeia japoneses e secretamente luta pela liberdade do seu país
ocupação japonesa | 1940 | vmin | enemies to lovers
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The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th century of immigrant workers (chiefly Japanese, Okinawan, and Korean) in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States and Canada selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidates.
In the fall of 1914, Jimin heads to America to meet his new husband for the first time, excited for every opportunity that was about to come to him. However, nothing seems to be as he imagined. His husband looks nothing like his picture, he can't go to town without receiving dirty looks from people on the street, and the owner of a local Korean shop is far too kind and charming for Jimin's married self to handle.
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In the gnawing cold of Imperial Japan’s winter in 1943, there, stood a young woman from formerly colonized Joseon before an enigmatic lady. Lost, starved, and freezing in the midst of her journey seeking for her brother, the young woman found herself into a predicament where she must make an irreversible decision. Would the lady, by offering her hand, be a guiding candle in the midst of war, or just another blade meant to carve another layer of abhorrence and prejudice in the young woman’s heart?
This is a fic originally from my Tumblr account written for the following hero x villain prompt:
“Don’t move,” her voice was so gentle despite everything. Even if Hero wanted to disobey, they couldn’t. All they could do was shiver in the cold wind. Why? What’s happening to them? They wanted – no needed - to run away but it felt like their lungs would collapse the second they would move. “You’ll be alright,” Villain whispered in their ear.
(prompt credits to @raiha-storm65557 on tumblr)
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Tears like Petals, Blood like Rivers by MortalWithALaptop
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
26 Mar 2024
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Three decades after the Japanese occupation of Korea, Dokja turns eighteen. As is the custom for all Korean Omegas, he is to be married soon. His husband, Yu Junghyuk, defies what Dokja has always been taught of Alphas. Not only is he the kindest man Dokja has met, he also open new doors in Dokja's life that he never knew had been waiting for him to pass through.
As their marriage progresses, the tyranny of Japan over Korea becomes more and more vicious. Driving many of them to the brink of desperation. Dokja won't be exempt from it, no matter how wealthy his family might be.
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Phantom, 1933 by princetangerine
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band), Boys Planet (Korea TV)
13 Sep 2023
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In the heart of a nation under occupation, Sung Hanbin is a Phantom, involved underground resistance movements dedicated to liberating their homeland. The entire Shadow Corps being tasked with the perilous mission of assassinating the new Governor-General, his path unexpectedly intersects with Zhang Hao, the Head Secretary to the Deputy-General.
Adapted from "Phantom", 2023
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Son Chaeyoung reads a letter and stumbles upon a grave. Is it pure coincidence that the school's queen share the same name as Im Nayeon from the grave? Or...
A 2yeon/michaeng AU that unravels a love story during the Korean War.
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Within the embrace of the hills and the calling of the sea, blankets of grass lied awake in the midst; where Min Yoongi was raised, it was quiet, and where the serenity behind his glass window shed light, there was the rose of a withering bird, with feathers the likes of which he had never seen before.
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Hyunjin turns to look at Seungmin, and he feels his breath hitch. He's surprised by what he finds in Seungmin's usually kind eyes—an intoxicating cocktail of hurt, want, and adoration. He pitches into Seungmin's eyes, lost, and discovers that he doesn't want to find his way back out.
"Seungmin," he says softly. He doesn't trust his voice to speak any louder. "Seungmin, please help me understand-"
It's not wholly unexpected, or unwelcome, when Seungmin closes his eyes and leans in, his lips gently brushing against Hyunjin's.
or, Hyunjin chases after Seungmin over lifetimes and hopes he can outrun tragedy.
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In the wake of restoring balance between his world and Jeong Tae-eul's, Lee Gon has spent every possible moment seeking the door that will finally lead him back to her. He never considered the possibility that others might be able to access the place between worlds until he encounters Lee Eun-ju. She looks like his cousin Se-jin, but this version knows a rifle better than a scalpel and a field report better than a case study. As she takes refuge in his world, Lee Gon finds Eun-ju largely ignorant of the culture they are meant to share. In her world, the nation is a colony of Japan and the royal family has lived in exile for generations, their identity lost to a century of imperialism and forced assimilation. Lee Gon never wanted to be a teacher. Lee Eun-ju never wanted to be a queen. Revolution is brewing, however, and together they must make the last dragon of the Lee dynasty the leader her people need if Chosun is to regain its freedom.
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When You Were A Tadpole and I Was a Fish by Maliciouspixie5
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
29 Sep 2021
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This is for all those who have loved and lost, a little Halloween love story for the season. Min Yoongi and Park Jimin have been married for three years, by now there should be a solid commitment but Yoongi can’t stop himself from holding a piece of himself back. Jimin, at the end of his rope wants a family and all that goes with it or Yoongi needs to let him go. One haunting weekend will force Yoongi to face a past that isn’t his own and make him choose to live in the now.
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Kim Namjoon is an "official" paranormal investigator who runs a blog called Joonstigates.com. One day he gets a call to investigate Hwangbo Manor, but it's more than he ever bargained for. He creates a team of paranormal investigators to try and cleanse the house and rid the demons from within its walls. But what happens when the demons and ghosts start to target them and their relationships?
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The demon’s smile only grew wider at the sound, her eyes stitching into – a demon’s eyes cannot crinkle in a smile. She was not supposed to think that a demon’s regal face looked pretty.
1930s Korea/Japan AU: Seulgi only existed to slay demons. A debt changes things.
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1930s Joseon: Baekhyun is an assassin fighting alongside the rebel army to free Joseon from the Imperial Japanese rule. Kyungsoo is the heir of the Do Empire and a known ally of the Japanese government. Their fates become intertwined when Baekhyun is assigned to kill him.
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wonwoo reads old books and junhui changes face.
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kim taehyung lives in the marble room, accompanied by a handkerchief dyed red and a grand piano he has never touched. he never did think the arrival of min yoongi - the boy whose footsteps doesn't seem to touch the ground, would change anything.
a lit chandelier and gymnopédie no.1 in the middle of the night proves him wrong.