kookv ♥︎

• lacuna by meganni
  • genre/tags: enemies to friends to lovers, fake dating, boxer!jk, model!tae, angst, fluff, top!jk, bttm!tae
  • word count: 48k
  • summary: Jeon Jeongguk is an uprising boxer, in dire need of a sponsor; Kim Taehyung is a supermodel, just as desperate to find a partner in crime to cheat out an entire family wealth with – upon meeting, they cannot help but get tangled.
  • (Despite the fact they can barely stand each other, but oh well, destiny plays its own hand as well.)
• cerulean chiffon by perfectaenist
  • genre/tags: strangers to lovers, fake dating, cruise ship, fluff, lots of making out, domestic fluff, light angst, mutual pining, sharing a bed
  • word count: 60.3k
  • chapters: 5
  • summary: Getting mistaken to be the boyfriend of one Kim Taehyung—a stranger whose beauty could rival the sun—was never on Jeongguk's agenda. But if he gets to go on an all-paid cruise with the guy, then, well. How could he say no?
• inure by volataeile
  • genre/tags: exes to lovers, professors!taekook, aged-up characters, mutual pining, ANGST, fluff, top!jk, bttm!tae, hurt/comfort
  • word count: 69.5k
  • chapters: 7
  • summary: Seven years after their breakup, Jeongguk and Taehyung begin to find their way back to each other.
  • Years ago, that would be the look Jeongguk would yearn for, searching for Taehyung’s eyes in every room he enters, wanting his attention, wanting Taehyung to look at him, to see him. He’d look back at Taehyung with just as much fire in his eyes, letting his gaze tell him everything Jeongguk couldn’t yet. How he's going to give him anything he wants in this world.
  • Jeongguk was ready to do that until the day it all ended. Now, Taehyung’s eyes on him feel invasive, having Jeongguk afraid of what they’ll see if they look at him for too long.
• rich bitch by mindheist
  • genre/tags: melodrama au, strangers to lovers, rich!jk, artstudent!tae, light angst, fluff, they met on tinder
  • word count: 28.6k
  • summary: When you make six figures a year, Valentino isn’t that big of a deal.
• and, home will feel like home again by mindheist
  • genre/tags: strangers to lovers, travelogue, fluff, domestic fluff too, mutual pining, light angst if you squint, smut
  • word count: 22.6k
  • summary: Between the oily residue of night market tables and the rickety steps of the Hakone mountains, there is a little bus station in the fog.
• bases loaded by tearhrs
  • genre/tags: enemies to lovers, mutual pining, fluff, top!jk, bttm!tae, denial of feelings
  • word count: 30.8k
  • summary: Auctions sound kind of off-putting. Sports auctions? Well, really, what do those entail? To Jeongguk, it meant the perfect opportunity to act on his hatred for Taehyung. For Taehyung? Just a chance to finally get out of his dorm.
  • Come dropping a shit load of money, and some strawberry waffles, Jeongguk might have gotten a little more than what he bargained for—but in all good nature, the suffering he put Taehyung through was quite worth it. But was it also worth it to slip up on his feelings every once in a while during their time together?
• even if you don't love me by tigerbuns
  • genre/tags: fantasy, dragons & royalty, king!jk, prince!tae, arranged marriage, strangers to lovers, ANGST, emotional manipulation, fluff, top!jk, bttm!tae, flirting, angst with happy ending
  • word count: 37.5k
  • summary: “What is the best way to form an alliance?” Jeongguk speaks after a few moments of silence. It's slow, the way his lips stretch into a smile that’s dazzling and disconcerting at the same time. “Marriage,” he says, the syllable rolling off his tongue like honey but it’s poisonous enough to render everyone in the room speechless.
  • Taehyung’s heart drops in his stomach when Jeongguk beams at them like a maniac.
  • Or, Taehyung is desperate to save his kingdom and Jeongguk agrees to form an alliance with him on one condition: Marriage.
• champagne problems by koobear
  • genre/tags: friends to lovers, mutual pining, wedding fluff, the pining is very painful to watch, top!jk, bttm!tae, jk is bad at feelings
  • word count: 15.8k
  • summary: "So, how long have you two been together?" Jeongguk freezes, eyes widening. "Who?" he squeaks.
  • "You and Taehyung?" Seokjin asks, perplexed. "Nah," Taehyung grins at Seokjin. "Jeonggukkie here would be way too out of my league. We're just bros."
  • "Bros," Jeongguk parrots. He can see from the corner of his eye how Jimin seems to be holding in his laughter.
• sugar rush by aeterisks
  • genre/tags: dilf!jk & sugardaddy!jk, sugarbaby!tae, top!jk, bttm!tae, fluff, angst, pining
  • word count: 44.3k
  • summary: After finding himself struggling with money, Taehyung decides to look for a sugar daddy. When he found Jeongguk, he wasn't expecting him to be so young, or for the daddy part to be literal.
• research purposes by aeterisks
  • genre/tags: how to lose a guy in 10 days (movie) au, journalist!tae, businessman!jk, angst, fluff, strangers to lovers, smut
  • word count: 35.3k
  • summary: As a journalist, Taehyung has had to do his fair share of crazy things, but never anything as extreme as the mess he's roped into now: having to date a guy for ten days, with the sole purpose of doing every faux pas in the book as research for his column. Enter Jeongguk, a young marketing executive that looks like sex on legs and who, no matter how insane Taehyung acts, won't walk away from him.
  • (Or, a How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days AU.)
• boyfriends with benefits (love for show) by kvhnoir
  • genre/tags: chaebol!taekook, enemies to lovers, fake dating, dysfunctional family, emotional manipulation, light angst, mutual pining, lots of making out, hurt/comfort, smut, fluff
  • word count: 52k
  • summary: “I heard you sleep with anyone?”
  • “You heard wrong, Kim.” Jeongguk squints his eyes. “I only sleep with the person I’m in a relationship with. Don’t make me sound like I’m a fuckboy.” He winks, the action completely contradicting what he just said.
  • “Very well then.” Taehyung’s puts his knee down on the spot between Jeongguk’s thighs. “We’re dating as of now.” Jeongguk stares, his darkening eyes pooling into Taehyung’s own hazy ones. “There’s a problem though.”
  • “What problem?” Taehyung asks, eyes wavering in slight panic, his heavy breaths fanning Jeongguk’s lips with how close they are.
  • “I don’t sleep with virgins.”
  • “You and your nonsensical rules.” Taehyung softly sighs. “Who said I am one?”
  • Or, where taehyung, the perfect role model is too tired of being perfect and releases his frustrations through rebelling chaebol jeon jeongguk and well it gets too dramatic, both their feelings and their lives
  • moodboard: link
• cuz in a sky full of stars, i think i saw you by wowoashley
  • ships: taekook, namjin, eventual yoonmin
  • genre/tags: the proposal (movie) au, fake dating, sexual tension, friends to lovers, ceo!jk, secretary!tae, angst, mutual pining, top!jk, bttm!tae, ANGST again
  • word count: 64k
  • chapters: 9
  • summary: taehyung always has bad ideas. and jeongguk thinks this might be the best.
• two truths and a lie by aeterisks
  • genre/tags: friends to lovers, sexual tension, mutual pining, smut, confessions
  • word count: 11.5k
  • summary: After unsuccessfully looking for a nude model for weeks for a class project, art student Kim Taehyung musters up the courage to ask his friend Jeongguk to model for him. It wouldn't be a problem, if not for the fact that Taehyung has been in love with him for years.
• of baby's breath and love confessions by aeterisks
  • genre/tags: friends to lovers, mutual pining, very light angst, fluff, top!jk, bttm!tae, ceo!jk, florist!tae
  • word count: 17.7k
  • summary: Just like all the pieces of a puzzle coming together and forming a perfect picture, the realization suddenly clicks in Jeongguk's mind one day: he and Taehyung are made for each other. And he's going to do anything he can to prove that to Taehyung.
• revival by volataeile
  • genre/tags: age gap, ceo!tae, uni student!jk, fluff, flirting, top!jk, bttm!tae
  • word count: 12.4k
  • chapters: 2
  • summary: After his divorce is finalized, Kim Taehyung decides to treat himself to a long awaited vacation in order to celebrate. He's not into younger men, never really has been until he meets Jeon Jeongguk, a twenty-five year old who's ready to show him all of what he's been missing.
  • “I’ve forgotten a lot of things,” Taehyung says, voice strained. There’s a burst of confidence that explodes inside of him and he leans in incredibly close, close enough to feel Jeongguk’s breath on his skin. “And I wouldn’t mind being reminded of them.”
  • “Yeah?” Jeongguk asks, barely audible. “Like what?”
  • “Come on,” Taehyung whispers, unable to push further than that. “No,” Jeongguk says, soft but firm. “I want you to tell me.”
  • Taehyung swallows thickly. “Kiss me,” he breathes, feeling the desperation as it seeps through his skin.
• scientific discovery by nimm
  • genre/tags: sharing clothes, and they were roommates, friends to lovers, pining, jungkook is bad at feelings sorry not sorry, top!jk, bttm!tae
  • word count: 34.4k
  • summary: Does he like Taehyung wearing his clothes? Well, he's about to find out.
• maybe we're fireproof by thestarsabove
  • ships: taekook, jihope
  • genre/tags: friends to lovers, angst, fluff, pining, and they were roommates, top!jk, bttm!tae
  • word count: 50.1k
  • summary: For as long as Jeongguk can remember (and even before that too), his body has been on fire.
• fever started long ago by thestarsabove
  • genre/tags: friends to lovers, pining, fluff, light angst, canon compliant, top!jk, bttm!tae
  • word count: 22.8k
  • summary: Where there is love, there is warmth. Where there is honesty, there is relief.
  • In which Taehyung eats a magical fortune cookie and wakes up physically dependent on Jeongguk’s body heat.
• to live again by mindheist
  • ships: taekook, namgi
  • genre/tags: historical, royalty, angst, fluff, forbidden love, smut, angst again, angst with happy ending(?)
  • word count: 29.9k
  • summary: Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
• by broken jukeboxes by tearhrs
  • genre/tags: strangers to lovers, light enemies to lovers, greaser!jk, rich!tae, jungkook is whipped, flirting, mutual pining, top!jk, bttm!tae, sexual tension
  • word count: 25.3k
  • summary: Jeongguk's life makes a turn for the better when a certain man in a suit walks into his favorite diner. The steak and hash is unmatched and too attention-grabbing in his opinion, but now, he has something else to look forward to—someone who fails to give him the time of day. And it doesn't come easy (first rejections always hit the hardest, right?) But when have the prettier things ever been less of a challenge? Jeongguk would like to find out.
• like sketches unraveled my way to you by tearhrs
  • genre/tags: travel, strangers to lovers, art student & architect!jk, rich!tae, sexual tension, they're both whipped for each other, top!jk, bttm!tae, flirting
  • word count: 26.2k
  • summary: Lost in more ways than one, Taehyung seeks comfort in one trip that takes him to the islands of Santorini. Yet, all he needs comes in the form of a single watermelon bag; filled with dares and things that he would not otherwise do under a sober mind.
  • Cue Jeongguk, a traveler of some sorts. An architecture student who just so happens to stumble across everything that Taehyung and his friends are looking for and ends up being the subject of his advancements. What was meant to be a day out in the sun and away from home, turns into something more.
  • And as Taehyung searches for those once-absent answers—he finds in a doe-eyed boy whose gaze could rival all the stars in the universe.