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AESPA FICS
- "only you"
The pains of falling in love with your best friend — or, Minjeong and Jimin find love with only themselves.
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- "I've loved you three summers now"
They don't talk about it - whatever transpired on that night they were fifteen during summer break after running away from their siblings debutanté ball until it comes up and it begins to mean something for them. Or, The Jiminjeong 'The summer I turned pretty' inspired AU.
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- "A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground"
Minjeong is safe, she is warm but Jimin will ruin her and she can’t do it, not when Minjeong looks at her like she hung the stars in the sky. Jimin thinks if she was a little more brave and if it was ever possible, she would hang the moon for Minjeong too. Or, Figure skating au! Jiminjeong! Childhood friends! To national rivals! To friends again! And then lovers! And then they're on the same team again!
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- "Your green light (I waited for a long time)"
Jimin strangles a breath of air before grabbing Minjeong’s legs and standing up slowly. Jimin walks them back to Minjeong’s apartment in silence as she listens to Minjeong’s breathing against her neck. She looks up at the sky and sees the stars twinkling abnormally brighter on this night, and something settles in the pits of Jimin’s soul.
She might just be a little (a lot) in love with Kim Minjeong.
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- "In my dreams, you love me back."
The dawning realisation, like a plane crashing — unrequited love that makes you lose yourself in dreams. Or, Minjeong loves Jimin. Winter loves Jimin. Karina loves neither.
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- "Depollute me (gentle angel)"
Jimin’s entire being burns — but not with want and passion, but an unsettling feeling of care and warmth she hadn’t felt in years. Sweetly and kindly, Minjeong doesn’t take anymore, or anything from her at all.
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- Walkin' out the door with your bags"
Jimin’s heart doesn’t stutter this time, but it beats loudly in her ears and rattles all her bones. This is a chance for change and Jimin debates in her loud mind whether or not she should act on her feelings.
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- "I know you (my love mine all mine)"
Everything Jimin does feels like an autumn breeze, even the way she speaks. Minjeong’s favourite season is autumn and she doesn’t like how fleeting it is at all. She wants to hold on forever and she wants to keep Jimin with her for as long as the taller girl wills herself to.
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- "Stinging bee (grow your flowers)"
Minjeong has a sex dream about her roommate, Yu Jimin. Hot & bothered, and very much frustrated, Kim Minjeong decides to act on it one night when she's extra needy. Or, The 'Nevertheless' inspired fic that no one asked for, where: Minjeong and Jimin fall in love and navigate what it truly means to be deeply loved against all fears.
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- "To love (this is our fate)"
You are my In-Yun. I’m always going to love you, Kim Minjeong. Or, Jimin's battle against time and her eternal star, Minjeong.
[part one of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin"
Jimin teaches Minjeong how to live. Minjeong comes back years later to do the same. Or in short, Yu Jimin is a jock and Kim Minjeong is a nerd.
[part two of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "Call you when the party's over"
Karina would give her all to protect the Crown Princess, Minjeong—even if it means giving up her heart. Or, Minjeong falls in love for the first time with Jimin.
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- "Rain, rain, go away"
Minjeong thinks her personality is cool and not at all psychotic in any sense. She’s a teenage girl — a pretty normal one at best. She goes to high school, has a best friend who may be a bit unhinged most days, she has average grades, and sometimes she has homicidal tendencies when thinking about boys in school. Other than knifing down unlawful men, she also does other normal teenage girl things like having a crush on Yu Jimin.
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- "Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?"
The face of Korea and a songwriter fall in love. The love is there, yet never enough. It is brief, yet it is still there. Or, Jimin and Minjeong's love behind closed doors. [part three of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "Everyone wants her (that was my crime)"
Everyone wants Minjeong and she only wants Jimin. Or, Jimin has her first crush on Minjeong and wishes all of her firsts could be with her.
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- Passed me a note (meet me tonight)"
Sworn enemies and rivals Karina and Winter indulge in childish pranks, mouthfuls of trash talk and blatant teasing and neither ever seem to back down. Or, Jimin and Minjeong have been together for three years, give or take.
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- Despite it all (tell me you still love me too)"
Aeri thinks when Minjeong falls asleep, her lips pressed against Aeri’s neck — she thinks that this is why life is sometimes much simpler than people make it sound. She hopes she can hold onto this for a little longer. Or, Despite it all, Aeri learns to love Minjeong again, even if Minjeong isn't hers anymore.
[part four of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "Flashes of a good life (when you know, you know)"
Minjeong sees the future when she holds someone’s hand for the first time and she sees her future in Jimin’s palm.
[part five of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "Need to need you (I will hold on to you)"
Best friends Wonbin and Minjeong find love together in the same year at University. Wonbin tries his luck with love with fellow dance teammate, Sungchan. Minjeong, on the other hand — her love just so happens to be in the hands of Wonbin's older sister, Jimin. Or, Minjeong thinks she's too much and Jimin just wants (needs) to love her.
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- "Me between your teeth)"
Jimin has a cute best friend who she may or may not be in love with and she's so cute that Jimin wants to bite her. Or, Jimin's whole world crashes down to reveal what’s really at the centre of it all — a heart that’s hers and a hand belonging to Minjeong that curls around it.
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- "Stolen my heart, that girl's a killer!"
Minjeong has a crush and brazenly confesses to Jimin on her graduation day. To Jimin, recalling her days at high school, Minjeong was like a shot of espresso, and for the first few days and weeks of studying at university, Jimin couldn’t stop thinking about Minjeong. Or, Jimin and Minjeong are dating, and they're trying their best to hide the relationship from her five unnies.
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- "So, kiss me"
Minjeong, student council president, is manning the kissing booth this year at the Valentine's Day festival held on campus and Jimin goes insane. Or, Jimin has had a crush on Minjeong for a very long time and she just wants to kiss her girl.
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- "Your butterflies around me (call it puppy love)"
The four times Minjeong tries to ask Ningning out and the one time she doesn't. Or, Minjeong's crushing on Ningning and all attempts at confessing her feelings end in failure. She thinks the world must be against her, yet she still has to try.
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- "Not as beautiful, but still as sweet"
An open door and a kind smile, Minjeong seeks help and shelter in Jimin. Or, A new chapter in Minjeong's life begins after an epiphany and a helping hand from Jimin. She learns to take care of herself and she learns to believe in something better.
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- "52 blue (I'm not here)"
Minjeong’s favourite colour recently has been blue, just like hers, and so truly blue — Jimin loves Minjeong and Minjeong alone, and she sings a sad song no one responds to, wanting to be held by the ocean like a whale is. She is 52 Blue, the loneliest whale in the world, wandering the deep sea alone with no one to look for her. She hopes Minjeong will still look out for her, even if she harbours these inconsiderate feelings. Or, Suddenly they’re in the between
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- "Lovestagram"
"I’d know if they were dating. Those two grew up together like sisters since elementary school.” Ningning dismisses it. “They’re definitely not dating.” (They definitely are dating.) Or, Minjeong and Jimin navigate a friendship turned into relationship in their own sweet way with the help of their chaotic friends joining in on their journey.
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- "Something close to it"
Twelve years, five months, three days, four minutes and eleven seconds in — Minjeong realises she’s quite fucked. It doesn’t take a genius to identify what she’s feeling, though it takes an idiot like her to realise. She’s in love, and that’s great, but it’s not really. She’s in love with her best friend. Her best friend, Yu Jimin, who she’s known since high school and who she knows inside out. Or, Minjeong learns to accept her feelings for her best friend.
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- "S(hr)imp on the barbie!?!"
Chock full of a bogan mouth, Minjeong tries all her best to look cool in front of her all time crush, Yu Jimin, however she thinks she looks more like a boofhead. Or, Yu Jimin falls for Minjeong's clumsy charm.
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- "A clean sweep (this love we play)"
Minjeong has spent years of unending rumours of supposed beaus and she was never one to deny or accept the rumours. However, one person enters her life and changes everything. Or, Minjeong is retiring from stardom after years of relentless work in preparation of becoming the best housewife to ever housewife, simply because Yu Jimin deserves it.
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- "A good day to be a dog ૮ ᴖﻌᴖა"
The one where Minjeong turns into a puppy and no one really knows what to do, but they still manage and Minjeong doesn't know anything but Jimin.
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- "Polaroid love ♥︎"
Jimin rolls her eyes before she opens her wallet and takes out her card as the waiter of the restaurant holds the card machine to her. Aeri frowns, tilting her head when she notices something. “You keep a picture of Minjeong in your wallet?” Aeri asks. OR, Minjeong and Jimin dance around the barrier of friendship until it means something warm and something more.
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- "Eat you all up (hug you to death)"
An unlikely bond is formed between housemates Jimin, who's part wolf and Minjeong, who's part sheep. Or, Jimin and Minjeong fall in love in their own sweet time despite apprehensive onlookers.
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- "Half of my body, hald of my mind (the same moon we share)"
Jimin is happy and it makes Minjeong happy. She laughs and speaks loudly without care, with all her teeth on display in a childish and canine smile. There is warmth all over and Jimin’s hand sits in Minjeong’s like water. “Come home one day.” Minjeong whispers. Jimin presses a gentle kiss to Minjeong’s lips and tastes the salt of home. “One day.” She whispers like the wind.
[part six of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "Uh oh, I'm falling in love (only if you say yes)"
Yizhuo likes to think she despises her older sister's best friend, Aeri. She's flirty, annoying and a jock. So why is she so sweet and charming? Ugh, Minjeong, her best friend, is putting ideas into her head again. Or, Yizhuo struggles with her developing crush on Aeri, who just seems to want Yizhuo to say yes to her with every desperate bone in her body.
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- "Emergency contact (I'd kinda like it if you'd called me)"
Though Minjeong likes to think Jimin is the biggest thorn in her life, she was at some point the love of her life. And before this, nothing could tear them apart, but it’s been too many years, and they’re not kids anymore. But some things stay the same, like Minjeong’s innate ability to injure herself clumsily. Or, Minjeong ends up in the hospital and coincidentally, her ex, Yu Jimin, is home in Korea too. And she just happens to be the only name that's her emergency contact,
[part seven of '8,000 laters of fate. Over 8,000 lifetimes.' series]
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- "Humiliation and being in love"
Life was humiliation and being humiliated every time she grew another centimetre, and it always felt like she was scared and embarrassed of living in her own skin. And Minjeong was eight, and she was humiliated, and she hated being in love with Jimin. Minjeong is in her twenties, and she’s no longer humiliated, but she still hates being in love with Jimin.
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- "five-year plans and whatnot (haven't seen past you since day one)"
Where does she see herself in five years? Five years sounds like a long time to go for a teenager on the cusp of adulting, and everything’s always been changing. But one constant that’s always stuck with her is her best friend, Kim Minjeong. So she stares at the paper her teacher handed out to everyone. "Where do you see yourself in five years?" She scribbles down a list, and at the top of it she writes, "next to Minjeong."
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- "Garden of Eden (show me your flowers)"
It’s unconventional to most, but to Ning Yizhuo, it makes sense. She may be only twenty-one — well, turning twenty-two — but she’s in a committed relationship with her girlfriend Uchinaga Aeri, her girlfriend Yu Jimin and her girlfriend Kim Minjeong. There’s four of them and Yizhuo likes to think she’s the happiest person in the entire world. Imagine getting loved by three people every day of your life! So for most people, their days look like double dates, but for the four of them — it’s going home and sleeping in one pile on their California king bed.
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- "In front of you, can you see me in the candlelight? (just the way you are)"
It’s Halloween, it’s nearing the end of the year and as most parties tempt college students, this group of friends find themselves at a Halloween party and also disguised as Aeri’s birthday party. And a known fact about Aeri is that she is quite oblivious. About Aeri’s obliviousness and the obvious choice of her friend's costume, she’s been living in bliss for the last three years of college, not knowing her friend has been in love with her for the longest time. So adorning a black mini skirt, high knee-length black boots and a tight white shirt with “Birthday girl’s girlfriend ❤️” printed on the t-shirt, she hopes Aeri will notice her feelings tonight.
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- "'Til Death Do Us Apart"
Brought up and brought down by her family, Princess Minjeong has endured life as it is, and her parents plan to marry her off for the riches, but to her surprise, the one she is to wed is a stranger — but a charming stranger, who is a woman she has met before in a bar while tipsy. Or, Minjeong and Jimin learn to live together; they learn how to rule a kingdom together and consequently, they learn the ins and outs of each other and eventually fall in love.
> part of aespaficfest2024
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- "Truce (let's call it love)"
Ten years of peace ends on a Monday morning when Yu Jimin—the bane of Minjeong's existence since high school and the police academy — walks right into Minjeong's workplace as a transferee. It gets even worse when Minjeong and Jimin are partnered up for the biggest drug case in Seoul. Or, For an undercover mission, Minjeong and her new (annoying and lazy) partner Jimin have to pretend they're married.
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- "Give you everything I have and more"
As a child, Jimin's sister, Sana, had described being in love as wanting to see someone every minute of the day and she believes it since Sana and Mina are always together and if they’re not together in person, they’ll always be on the phone to each other. Jimin was only a kid back then when she met Minjeong, but she always wanted to see Minjeong every minute of the day too. Was that also love?
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- "似聖誕快樂不變這般真理 (Merry Christmas I Love U)"
The one where top-shot celebrity and actress Karina Yu is simple librarian Minjeong's girlfriend. And also the one where Minjeong is ghosted by Jimin for months, but we'll dissect that in a bit.
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- "Nothing, no terrible dream could wake us"
Having grown up together inseparably, it was odd for them to suddenly stop being friends. But Minjeong loves Jimin and hopes Jimin loves her too. Or, Trying to juggle familial appearances, good school grades, and a secret relationship on top of that, Minjeong and Jimin try their best to navigate their final year in high school together.
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- "Birthday present (New Year's idiot)"
Minjeong’s had a terrible week and it’s gotten worse when she has to spend New Year’s and her birthday alone since her girlfriend is on an extended work trip. Or, Aeri, with newly planted ideas from Jimin, tries her best to surprise Minjeong while she’s away at work.
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- "As the world falls down"
It’s New Year's Eve, which is also T-minus a few hours until New Year's, aka Minjeong’s birthday, so Yizhuo, her roommate and best friend in the entire world, is wordlessly tasked with making it a good day for Minjeong. Or, A few things don’t go to plan and most things are impulsive but it’s all good fun in the end because Yizhuo loves Minjeong and Minjeong loves her too.
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- "Futile words (I do, love you)"
Bad decisions almost leads to the end of Mina and Minjeong's relationship.
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- "Happy, happy, happy (I wanna be with you)"
Sana has a huge crush on Mina and it's been tearing down all her defences these days. And it really shows when Sana falls sick and the person to nurse her is her beloved Mitang.
mar 15 2025 +