Story Summary Magic Shop Tags: AU: Coffee Shops, No-Angst Cozy Romcom, Strangers to Friends to Lovers Yoongi didn’t like it when things didn’t go his way. It only ever served to make him grumpy and irritable. One terrible, horrible, no-good Thursday morning, when things were definitely not going his way, the universe mercifully intervenes, and it leads him straight to Magic Shop. Or more accurately, it leads him to the shop’s idiosyncratic barista, Taehyung, and a newer, more gratifying protean existence he’d never thought he’d come to care for. OR ‘Magic Shop’, the tasteful brass lettering on the sign read, with a tagline right below it that said, ‘Come Pour Yourself a Moment of Magic.’ Rated G 10.8k Work in Progress Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83226191

╚𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐩╝
𝐀𝐎𝟑 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/83226191

For our final reveal of Round 1, we have another time-tested trope: the good ol' Coffee Shop AU ☕️

Hey! I just met you.. This is crazy.. Here's my number.. Be my fake mate? Maybe? Tags: Omegaverse, Fake Dating To qualify for a nice apartment (fuckin’ perfect apartment actually) Taehyung and Yoongi decide to fake a bond. What they didn’t realize is that they would be required to complete a 6-week Pack Compatibility Bootcamp, competing for the apartment against other couples. All they wanted was the apartment. But now they’re stuck doing scent-matching drills, couple yoga, and other coupley things without revealing that their relationship is in fact... Fake. They bicker nonstop. Taehyung wins every challenge. Yoongi’s awful at emotional honesty. But the closeness starts to blur the lines between acting and feeling, in ways neither expected. And maybe when it all ends, they’ll have to decide whether it was all pretend, or the new beginning they didn’t know they were waiting for. Rated M 5.4k Work in Progress Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83132686

╚𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮.. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲.. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.. 𝐁𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞? 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞?╝
𝐀𝐎𝟑 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/83132686

Ah, fake dating! An oldie, but always a reliable goodie 💜

Story Summary the (v) card Tags: Established Relationship, Loss of Virginity, First Time The one where Taehyung offers his virginity to his long-time boyfriend as a birthday gift. Rated E 16.4k Complete Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79255316

╚𝐭𝐡𝐞 (𝐯) 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝╝
𝐀𝐎𝟑 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/79255316
It's only right, we figured, that we follow up with a story that's as spicy as it is soft and all up in your feels🥰

Story Summary Opening credits Tags: Alternate Universe, Strangers to Lovers, Angst with happy ending “Are you scared?” he asked. Yoongi closed his eyes. He thought he was feeling many things at that moment, probably even a hint of fear. The dominating feeling, though, was the urge to cry. For the first time since he had understood he was gay, since he had learned that his want revolved around men, he felt completely himself. He loved that Taehyung, a young man, was eagerly looking at him, touching him and making him feel hot, wanted. It was wonderful to realize he was naked beneath him and he didn’t want anything else, and not feeling even a shred of shame was liberating. For that reason, “No,” he said, “I’m just feeling a lot.” Taehyung kissed him again. “I am, too,” he confessed, his voice trembling. In which there's a cinema where Yoongi can be who really is and feel free to love who he really loves. Rated M 26k Complete Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80296826

╚𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬╝
𝐀𝐎𝟑🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/80296826

We follow our opener with a story that takes you back a few decades and aims to get you in your feels📽🎞

Story Summary My Type Tags: AU, Post Military Discharge, Friends to Lovers, Yoongi has a strength kink On his last night of social service duty, Yoongi is excited to meet up with his six best friends to celebrate the end of the loneliest time in his life. Their mandatory military service. When Taehyung shows up with muscles upon muscles, Yoongi starts to feel personally attacked. Because the younger man knows. He has to know that he just walked into this bar looking exactly like Yoongi's type. Rated E 7k Complete Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80270406

╚𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞╝
𝐀𝐎𝟑🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/80270406

We kick off our reveals with a spicy little canon divergence story that comes with a guaranteed happy ending😏

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A card that reads Round 1 Reveals with 5 envelopes below it, each describing the title of the 5 stories that will be revealed: My Type, Opening credits, the (v) card, Hey! I just met you.. This is crazy.. Here's my number.. Be my fake mate? Maybe?, and Magic Shop

╚𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝟏 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬: 𝐀 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫╝

Reveals begin 𝟭𝟵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, 𝟬𝟬:𝟬𝟬 𝗞𝗦𝗧

Oh hey, San! Happy Birthday! 🎈🎂🎈
I hope you’re having the loveliest of days 🤍

(And yes, truly a date to mark in our calendars going forward!)

And in what is genuinely complete coincidence (because I truly did not even remember the date), I started this journey with #taegi and we'll commemorate this unexpected anniversary with new taegi, because my new story for @festtaegi.bsky.social will be revealed in a few hours 🤍

a young man is holding a birthday cake with a candle on it . ALT: a young man is holding a birthday cake with a candle on it .

Apparently I created this pseud on twt 2 years ago today.

Truly tho, today is the anniversary of the day I decided to stop lurking on my priv & try my hand at publishing my little fics. I was too impatient to wait for my AO3 invite.

Here's to a great 2 years with ya'll & to many more ahead🍾🥂

It’s been a while, my Taegi moots, but I have something new for you!!

(Yes, I promise I’ll get back to my WIPs sometime this year too 🫠)

An image of a clipboard with the following information on it: Reveals Round 1, 19 April (Sunday), 00:00 KST for New Beginnings: A Taegi Fest

There is no cure-all for that post-concert depression we're all in the throes of, but it doesn't mean we can't try!

We have 5 amazing taegi works to brighten your night, day, or afternoon with our Round 1 Reveals

Starting 00:00 KST, that's one new #taegi treat every 30 minutes!

I’m absolutely not here to police anyone’s (respectful) desires as long as boundaries are maintained (aka I don’t really get the delulus either). That would be hypocritical of me.

These tropes are just conclusions/characterisations I can’t personally relate to 🤷🏻‍♀️ Everything’s ultimately subjective!

There’s a good chance what you have is great but your brain’s stuck on a ‘but what if I write this instead’ and is just refusing to accept that you irresponsibly want to add another WIP to your plate by dressing it up this way.
Believe me, I’ve been there and done that 😅

I fully believe he’s a tenacious personality. I won’t even deny fierce. But I don’t find him threatening? Not in the stereotypical way that fits into the fanfic tropes of cold/scary/intimidating that’s popular w/him.
IMO he can be intimidatingly competent. Never anything but warm underneath it tho 🤷🏻‍♀️

IMO the hardest tannie gazes:
Namjoon: We mean business eyes
Seokjin:You don’t want to see me angry eyes
Yoongi:You won’t phase me eyes
Hoseok:I’ve judged every millimetre of you eyes
Jimin:You’ve already lost eyes
Taehyung:I’ve perceived you eyes
Jungkook:We’ll win so you don’t really matter eyes

Like, his eyes are just too kind for it to work

(Probably) An Unpopular Opinion:

I’ve seen enough to firmly declare that I don’t understand the scary BAMF (ceo/mafia/anything terrifying) Jungkook trope at all.

Not denying the BAMF-ness in the slightest, but he’s too adorable to be cold. He’s like the friendliest German Shepard of them all.

#noticing that every time I write Taegi, my Yoongi’s inevitably a simp for my Taehyung 💀

Screenshot of 3 works on the AO3 stats page.

I’ve reached some new stats milestones with RtR!🍻

I’ve never particularly chased them, but they’re always a lovely bonus, and small fry a writer as I am, I never truly expected these numbers, so the bonus feels extra lovely today 🤍🩶

Does Taehyung refuse to wear denim in the final non-encore because he just goes straight home in those comfy clothes?

He uses the white one for the first part. And then switches to this dark brown(?) shade with the costume change! Happened yesterday too.

I’d say maybe they wanted to communicate a particular vision re:staging for the first concerts, but I don’t see the vision so they weren’t successful or they were doing trial and error this weekend 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ooh. Namjoon changed his lines again.
Ngl, I like this edit better.

I think someone noted it was on the other eyebrow today!

So we’re all expecting the vmin skit before the Not Today-Mic Drop-FYA-Fire run for the rest of the tour, yes?

Incremental progress? 😂
I wonder if the same crew goes to Japan next week 🤔

I actually thought they’re a lot better today than they were yesterday!
I mean, lowkey going to do a side-by-side comparison at some point but still.
At this rate, by the encore, they’ll be perfect 🙃

I’ve been saying!!
Season tickets but for the tour!

😆 and this was only concert #2