- curveball by thestarsabove ♡♡
- genre/tags: baseball au,, baseball player tae, sports reporter jk, fluff, smut, homophobia, angst with a happy ending
- word count: 100.8k
- author summary: In baseball, a curveball is a ball thrown with a strong downward spin, causing it to drop suddenly and veer to the side. In life, we use the term to describe something unexpected or surprising. Or: Star baseball player Kim Taehyung meets rookie sports reporter Jeon Jeongguk, and it’s a whole new ball game for them both.
- truth so loud (you can’t ignore) by thestarsabove
- genre/tags: canon compliant, future fic (starts around debut then goes into the future), smut, angst, a lot of pining
- word count: 72.6k
- author summary: Jeongguk falls in love with Taehyung when he’s 15. Problem is, he never quite learns how to fall out. In short - theirs is a love story a long time in the making.
- our velocity by ghoulie_cruz
- genre/tags: angst, pining, hurt/comfort, smut, fluff, lawyer!tae, store worker!jk, jealousy
- word count: 68.5k
- author summary: Taehyung is a full-time lawyer, part-time voyeur. He knows he's in trouble when the kid he jerks off to makes the first move. If the fall doesn't kill them, their love could outlive the sun. But it's a very big if.
- word of the day by glossssy
- genre/tags: college au, summer romance, fluff, angst, mild smut, coming of age, hurt/comfort
- word count: 51.3k
- author summary: Taehyung's summer is hot and dry.
- Jungkook makes it a little wetter.
- lay the hills undone by snowfallen
- genre/tags: royalty au, prince jk, thief th, enemies to friends to lovers, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, fluff, mutual pining, slow burn, smut
- word count: 103.6k
- author summary: A team. The last thing he and V would ever be. Two people who are constantly irritated with each other and getting into some type of disagreement do not make up a conventional team. Jeongguk almost laughs at the thought of it, although V doesn’t seem to be joking in the slightest.
- “And you’re alright with that?” Jeongguk asks. “The prince and the thief who abducted him working together for mutual benefit.”
- “Considering we won’t have to talk to each other ever again after this is all over, I’m surprised you’re making such a big deal over it.” V shrugs as if this whole thing isn’t a potential recipe for disaster.
- maybe we’re fireproof by thestarsabove
- genre/tags: angst, smut, friends to lovers, college au, roommates au, adventures in dysfunctional body temperature
- word count: 50.1k
- author summary: For as long as Jeongguk can remember (and even before that too), his body has been on fire.
- v for vante by Lilithgirl
- genre/tags: thief taehyung, police officer jungkook, enemies to lovers, slow burn, angst with a happy ending, smut, minor violence, betrayal, heist
- word count: 60.5k
- author summary: Scotland Yard Inspector Jeon Jungkook has finally tracked down Vante, the world’s most elusive master thief. He doesn't expect him to make him an offer he can't refuse.
- stay dark red by redpangur
- genre/tags: canon compliant, slow burn, eventual smut, slice of life with eventual plot, fluff, angst, happy ending
- word count: 83k
- author summary: “Did you just watch Jungkook eat an entire pomegranate?”
- Taehyung looks up, flummoxed. He tries to think of a suitable response. He lands on: “No.”
- Jimin nods slowly, phone resting on his chest. “Alright.”
- i like it! by moonflower1306 ♡♡
- genre/tags: smut, camboy!jk, fluff, jungkook has an onlyfans
- word count: 84.6k
- author summary: In need of money to pay for college, adamantly Straight™ Jeon Jungkook decides to take advantage of the internet and open his own OnlyFans.
- Or, Taehyung gives Jungkook a gay awakening and buys him stockings.
- one scotch, one bourbon, one beer by zerorequiem
- genre/tags: rich!taehyung, bartender!jungkook, age difference, angst, pining, slow burn, hurt/comfort, infidelity (not between tk), strangers to lovers, photographer!jungkook, unreliable narrator
- word count: 83.3k
- author summary: Jeongguk is 22, fresh out of college, working a bartending job that was supposed to last just the summer, and unsure about a lot.
- Manhattan socialite Kim Taehyung, beautiful and confident, suddenly shows up in skirts and high heels and leaves him breathless.
- insatiable by eyedaze
- genre/tags: college au, fwb, strangers to enemies to friends to lovers (sheesh), fast burn, angst, fluff, humor, smut, backwards progression, angst with a happy ending
- word count: 90k
- author summary: "No guy has ever done this for me before,” Taehyung tells him, pressing a kiss to his collarbone. There he goes again - making Jeongguk feel special. Dangerous thing.
- In which everything is a competition to Jeongguk, but he never really cared that much about losing until it came to Taehyung.
- don’t stop me now by lilithgirl ♡♡
- genre/tags: rockstars!taekook, enemies to lovers, angst with a happy ending, smut
- word count: 64k
- author summary: The band brought them together. Together, they just might just tear it apart.
- Tiger Lily has survived their first multi-city tour, despite the growing tensions between frontman Jeon Jungkook and bassist/songwriter Kim Taehyung. Now, one stupid decision the night of the afterparty threatens to sabotage the band’s recording sessions for their new album. Trapped with their long suffering bandmates at a remote farmhouse upstate, can Jungkook and Taehyung finally sort things out for good? Or will complications between them destroy everything, now that they’re so close to finally making it?
- autumn leaves by moonflower1306
- genre/tags: strangers to enemies to lovers, slow burn, innocent and shy jungkook, angst with a happy ending, misunderstandings, first kiss
- word count: 95k
- author summary: Taehyung is dared by his friends to search for the rumoured axe murderer that lives alone in the woods at the edge of town.
- Instead of said murderer, he stumbles upon Jungkook — a prickly but shy lumberjack who likes making baskets of flowers and spending time with his dog.
- i forget to breathe (when i’m with you) by locks
- genre/tags: fluff, smut, rich taehyung, androgynous taehyung, college student jungkook, slow burn, non-sexual daddy kink
- word count: 111.7k
- author summary: "Do we have a deal, angel," Taehyung repeats, and Jeongguk can hear that he's losing his patience, hands resting on his hips.
- Jeongguk lifts his head, snapping the lid closed. "Pleasure doing business with you, daddy," he nods, sending a grin up to Taehyung who just narrows his eyes at him.
- “You're lucky I like you," Taehyung mutters, sounding mildly threatening as he steps over to him and tilts Jeongguk's chin up, leaning down to press a kiss against his lips.
- Lucky doesn't even come close.
- Or, Jeongguk's trying to figure out how he ended up with a sugar daddy when all he wanted was a couple packets of instant noodles.
- obviously someday by TheInklings
- genre/tags: canon compliant, angst with a happy ending, smut, mutual pining, friends to lovers, eventual fluff
- word count: 92.5k
- author summary: He feels it like a weight in his chest – dull, deep, throbbing underneath everything. For a long time, it’s easy to ignore, to push away, to lock up in a box that he pretends doesn’t even exist. And so he does. It’s just a little itch, he thinks. It doesn’t mean anything. Not really.
- [In which Jungkook finally realizes there might be a reason why he's so drawn to Taehyung. A canon-compliant story.]
- psychic 10-12 club by ghoulie_cruz
- genre/tags: fluff, smut, strangers to lovers, supernatural elements (not traditionally supernatural), humor, hurt/comfort
- word count: 92.3k
- author summary: All it takes is a phone call for Kim Taehyung, self-proclaimed psychic, to tell you your future. Failing school, miserable in his job and fast running out of money, Jeon Jungkook could really do with some clairvoyance; someone to tell him it’s going to be ok. Even if it was a pile of optimistic horse shit, he’d take it. Probably cling to it for dear life. But nothing—nothing—could have prepared him for the cosmic shift that occurs when he drunk-dials into Taehyung’s cult radio show. Nothing tangible, anyway.
- cruel summer by cuttothequickk
- genre/tags: chaebol!taehyung, photographer!jungkook, first time, strangers to lovers, slow burn, angst, secret relationship, falling in love, fluff, humor, smut, open ending
- word count: 67.1k
- author summary: Once upon a time, a very pretty boy with a penchant for hiding behind a camera lens sneaks out to a ball for the evening. A very pretty prince who looks like an angel and grins like the devil walks up and says hello.
- And they lived happily ever after.
- (Moonlit secret gardens, a rainbow of flowers in the dark night, sneaking in through the garden gate. Taehyung accosting Jeongguk on the stairs, strong hands gripping his hips and warm lips pressing kisses to his neck. Hydrangeas and daisies and hyacinths and cockleshells.
- Oh, Jeongguk thinks, head going cloudy in a wanderlusty haze. Oh yeah, you're right, I want it.)
- soft sounds from another planet by geryoneis
- genre/tags: green card marriage, arranged marriage, pining, miscommunication, slow burn, hurt/comfort, family dynamics, fraud, husbands with slight benefits
- word count: 90.5k
- author summary: There are props to a marriage. First, the person tracking the words. Second, the heart.
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