run for roses fest: round #1
Jan. 31st, 2026 06:00 pm
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PROMPT:rfrfestmod
Fandom: NMIXX
Pairing: Haewon/Lily
Tags/Warnings: None
Prompt:
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead
â Someone Like You, Adele
FILL:rfrfest
[FILL] never mind
Fandom: NMIXX
Pairing: Lily/Haewon
Tags/Warnings: Canon Compliant, Post-Disbandment
Lily knew it would end eventually.
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:07 pm (UTC)Re: Q&A
Date: 2026-02-02 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-31 09:32 pm (UTC)Pairing: gyuri/jiheon
Tags/Warnings: none / any
Prompt:
- Julio CortĂĄzar
[FILL] ěŹę¸° ë¤ëĽ¸ ě íě§ë ěě´ (rated m)
Date: 2026-02-06 03:32 pm (UTC)warnings: mentions of disordered eating and body image, suggestive content, implied cheating
"Unnie, I've grown up well, haven't I?"
It's a barely disguised trap, and from the way Gyuri's eyes widen, she knows it. Jiheon cares for pretenses as much as she does for the actual answerâit doesn't matter if she's grown up well, but that she has grown up enough.
âWhy are you asking me this?â Gyuriâs eyes stray downwards of Jiheonâs face before snapping back up, like sheâs been doing since Jiheon arrived back at the restaurant in a low-cut top and didnât wait for Gyuri to get up from her chair before bending down to hug her.
Gyuriâs hands are trembling minutely; theyâd been drinking, wine glasses matching with a dinner Jiheon barely picked at before she insisted on accompanying Jiheon back home and handing her full glasses of water for sobering up. By now, all thatâs accomplished is making her go to the bathroom twice in the last hour, but Gyuri is still sitting on the couch in Jiheonâs grown-up apartment, where she pays the bills all by herself.
Jiheon has fucked a girl from her university on that couch. She told Gyuri all about her over drinks, taking some sick satisfaction in the way her eyes darkened before smoothing into the familiar neutral expression Jiheon knows so well. She slides closer, bare thighs sticking to the tiled floor, and rests her shoulder against Gyuriâs knee.
âI just want to know,â she says. âMaybe we could celebrate it, too.â
The reason they drank in the first place: Gyuriâs new role in a movie with international distribution and fromis_9âs summer comeback reaching top 10 on Melon charts, with three new music show wins. Jiheon started to make up new reasons halfway through dinner, talking animatedly while slicing her food into smaller pieces she never brought to her mouth.
The weight she lost for the comeback, for one, though she worded that one as âhaving discipline and working hard,â and if Gyuri picked up on the true meaning she didnât show. Promotions just ended, and Jiheon couldnât trust that if she started eating she would know when to stop.
The wine, though. The wine was easy, flowing as nicely as the conversation. They got sillier with it: they celebrated that Gyuri bought her father the perfect birthday gift, and that Jiheon went grocery shopping instead of ordering in. Jiheon got Chaeyoung to swear on camera; Gyuri saw a dog wearing a silly hat earlier that day.
âI heard Jiheonie got one million views on a fancam,â Gyuri said before taking another sip of wine. Jiheon had worn a bikini top under a see-through shirt for that stage and winked and licked her lips at the camera, and Jiwon had loudly bemoaned the choice as the other members teased her relentlessly.
âDid you watch it?â Jiheon asked, heart fluttering, and by that point Gyuriâs cheeks were flaming red and she averted her eyes when she said no. Jiheon felt a pang of irritation, and she blamed the wine for switching that obvious lie with a truth, âIâm seeing a girl from my Child Development class. Sheâs smart, and she doesnât listen to k-pop, and her parents are conservative Christians, so sheâll never tell anyone about us.â
Now, at Jiheonâs apartment, Gyuri observes her carefully. She shifts her legs, and Jiheon moves with the motion, presses her chest to the length of her shins. Gyuri inhales sharply, and Jiheon can't really be held responsible for what she does next, can she, all that wine in an empty stomach.
Gyuriâs still as a statue when Jiheon crawls on top of her, neck tense as she looks up at the ceiling, tendons standing out. Jiheons brackets her thighs, hands on the upholstery on either side of her shoulders as she lowers herself slowly. She bites her lip as she rests her full weight on Gyuriâs legs, muscles so stiff sheâs more rock than person.
âAm I too heavy?â Jiheon canât help but ask, anxiety singing. One of Gyuriâs hands raises in the air, like sheâs about to comfortâlike sheâs about to touch herâbefore falling to the cushion next to Jiheonâs calf. Gyuri squeezes her eyes shut. She looks like sheâs praying.
âPlease, Jiheon-ah.â Gyuri says. The words sound wrenched out of her throat, and Jiheon observes the undulation of it, skin stretching as she gulps, the delicate expanse as it reaches her clavicles. The tips of Gyuriâs dark hair barely reach her shoulders; she had it cut right under her ears months ago for a previous role, but Jiheonâs only getting to see it up close now, as it grows out. âShouldnât you be doing this with your perfect girlfriend?â
Haein is not officially her girlfriend. Jiheon ignores her, shifts so her knees bear most of her weight, and this time, Gyuri does touch. Grabs her hips, adjusts Jiheon like a doll on top of her, fingers stoking a flame down her sides. Her eyes are tight at the corners, mouth flat, and Jiheon looks at her and remembers Haein under her, soft and willing on this very couch.
Haein really is perfect. Jiheon would love her, if she could choose not to fall for the same woman since she was fifteen.
âThis is a bad idea,â Gyuri says. They're so close, Jiheon can smell the alcohol in her breath.
Gyuri's hands are still on her. She returns the favor, pushes Gyuri's shirt up so she can feel her abs like she used to years ago, this time without the pretense of showing her off for the fans. Just two drunk adults, no cameras. Unless they tell, no one ever has to know.
âUnnie,â she whines when Gyuri gasps, fingers tightening on Jiheon's hips. She rakes her nails down the soft skin of her stomach, and Gyuri spasms and almost knocks them both off the couch, lower lip white from the force she's biting it. If Jiheon didn't know any better, she'd think she was in physical pain.
âHeon-ah. Jiheonie,â Gyuri calls. One of her hands leaves Jiheonâs side, and she misses it immensely until it reappears under her jaw. Jiheon nuzzles the palm that cups her cheek, watching Gyuri's eyes travel down the gaping collar of her top to where her skirt has ridden up her thighs. She gifts her a bitter smile; Jiheon wants to see if it tastes like surrender. âLet's celebrate thisâ
You've grown up better than me.â
Thatâs not true, Jiheon thinks, but Gyuri wonât hear it. She digs her fingers into the delicate spaces between her ribs, taking delight in how the muscles jump. Gyuri gingerly touches her neck, and Jiheon knows that she thinks they have a say in this, that she can choose to walk away and make it all stop. Thatâs not true, but it doesnât matter if Jiheonâs grown up well, anyway.
In the end, Jiheon has grown up hungry.
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From:Re: [FILL] ěŹę¸° ë¤ëĽ¸ ě íě§ë ěě´ (rated m)
From:Re: [FILL] ěŹę¸° ë¤ëĽ¸ ě íě§ë ěě´ (rated m)
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:34 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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Prompt:
â Cool, Gwen Stefani
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:35 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â A Couple Minutes, Olivia Dean
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â Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song), Fiona Apple
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:37 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â Not Now But Soon, Imogen Heap
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:38 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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Prompt:
â Sunny, Eli
[FILL] holy water, hesitation
Date: 2026-02-04 06:04 am (UTC)Pairing: Sohyun/Mayu
Tags/Warnings: CWs for death, implied homophobia
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Sohyunâs father is always watching TV.
She cannot remember a time where the television is not on, nor can she remember one where her fatherâs back is not turned. The picture, the sofa, his silence, every night. Idiot box, she used to think even though it didnât make her feel any better.
Today it is no different because when Sohyun comes through the door, there it is. Phosphor light in a dark room blaring laugh tracks with too many teeth. Her shoes are wet, and she watches the hard shadow of a finger reach around the armrest to jab once and twice into the center of the remote.
âŚmay include nausea, fever, gastrointestinal pain, insomniaâŚto secure your low price of only nineteen-ninety-nine!âŚjoined now with a developing story. A local womanâs body was found at the bottom of Lake Horsehairâ
Where have you been? asks Sohyunâs father.
Sohyun will never wear these shoes again. Lake Horsehair, she answers.
He doesnât speak for a while. Just grunts. Now why the hell would you go there?
People go there because itâs the closest thing they have to a beach and it doesnât matter if the shore is half rocks and half beer cans because they can swim, and sunbathe, and have a picnic if theyâre careful to pick a spot that is more rocks than it is beer cans.
âŚtwenty-three-year old Mayu Kouma, last seen at the corner of 2nd and MainâŚ
Her name was Mayu and she was twenty-three years old. She was good at finding the rocks but sometimes what that really meant was that she couldnât see anything else, and sat down anyway.
Sohyunâs father is laughing. Whatâs so funny, she says.
Ha. He laughs and laughs some more. Finally.
This is serious. Someone is dead, and even when Sohyun says that she is careful to take a spoon and skim the tremor from her voice.
Stubborn thing, he snorts. A different finger appears around the edge of the couch, into the canal where it can pick his ear. Never wanted the baptism and look at her now.
Sohyunâs face is wet and her shoes are cold. I have been wading for hours and drowning for my whole life, she wants to say. I was the one who found her and you know, just last week she said things were looking up.
But Sohyunâs father is watching TV. I always told you, always. Not to go near her.
And Sohyun thinks, why wouldnât you ever teach her how to swim.
Re: [FILL] holy water, hesitation
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:39 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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Prompt: - e.e. cummings
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â Adore You, Jessie Ware
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:42 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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Prompt:- Mary Oliver
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â Lena Oleanderson
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:47 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â Hysteria, Muse
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:48 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
Tags/Warnings: Witch AU
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â Under Your Spell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:48 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
Tags/Warnings: Canon Compliant-ish?
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â Cherry Blossom Girl, Air
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:49 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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Prompt:âMargarita Karapanou
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â This Mess Weâre In, PJ Harvey
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:54 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â Delilah, Florence + The Machine
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:55 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â I Want You To Love Me, Fiona Apple
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â St Jude, Florence + The Machine
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:56 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â Heavenly Creatures, Wolf Alice
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Date: 2026-01-31 09:57 pm (UTC)Pairing: Any
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â JĂłga, BjĂśrk
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Date: 2026-01-31 10:56 pm (UTC)Pairing: miyawaki sakura/huh yunjin
Tags/Warnings: transmutation, reinvention, evolution
Prompt:
from a balance beam, bright eyes
[FILL] a mouthful of flies, the flies hum my prayers
Date: 2026-02-06 10:49 pm (UTC)Pairing: miyawaki sakura/huh yunjin
Tags/Warnings: transmutation, reinvention, gore
âI'm not sure about this, unnie,â Yunjin says, fingertips touching along the surface of the lukewarm water. Rings appear after each touch, ripples of magic like everything Yunjin touches and Sakura watches them until they disappear, lazily turning her eyes to Yunjin after. âI don't want to hurt you.â
âYou wonât hurt me. You're helping me. Ascending.â
The words are cottony in her mouth, tasting bitter with the aftertaste of tranquilizers and the cheap vodka from the motelâs mini fridge she chased after them. Her tongue is too big as she tries to make each syllable, taking long breaks between each one and her soft encouragement only makes the line deeper between Yunjinâs brows. But even worried, Yunjin wouldnât stop her. Thatâs why she asked her to help.
Sakura has reinvented herself so many times. Sheâs been so many things, had to fit into so many groups, had to please so many different people to the point she doesnât find the way back home. Each time she tries to conjure up her real self, buried under skins she has taken up over the years, she comes back with one of her different inventions â eager survivor show competitor? bubbly power-hungry Japanese idol? too-cool-to-care K-pop idol? Leather over leather over leather, and sheâs barely breathing under. Who is she anymore, if she peels back all these skins?
And Yunjin. Yunjin has done this too, so many times, but differently. She has cut herself into neat little pieces to weave herself into what she is today. Each piece is from her former self; keeping everything with her. And maybe thatâs why Sakura asked her. Because Yunjin did what she failed to do: kept herself intact while she became someone new.
But somewhere in California, in a roadside motel, in this dingy pink tiled bathtub, Sakura is finding herself again.
âY-You just have to say stop and Iâll do it.â
With gigantic exertion, Sakura raises her arm, wrapping her fingers on Yunjinâs wrist.
âEven if I beg, please do it. Itâs a death sentence if you let me slip away.â
Yunjinâs lower lip wobbles, but she nods. She has the loyalty of a child, and Sakura loves her for it. Urgently, just as this thought resurfaces, she tugs on Yunjinâs arm until sheâs leaning over her. Her wide brown eyes are glistening in the low light, unshed tears for lives Sakura doesnât mind killing. With all of her power, she pushes herself up and captures the corner of Yunjinâs lips in a chaste kiss. But Yunjin is quicker, hungrier, and she holds Sakuraâs face in her palms and kisses her like she means it. The kiss tastes like salt and regret.
âThank you for always being by my side,â Sakura says when Yunjin lets her go, and she slips back into the water.
âDonât say things like these. This is not a goodbye.â
âOf course it isnât.â After using up all her energy, her eyes have a harder time focusing. She blinks but then she canât open them anymore. âPlease do it. Do it quickly.â
A whimper is the last thing Sakura hears before she lets her body sink deeper in the water. Sheâs floating, ears covered and for a moment she wished life would end here. In this moment of tranquility, she could find peace. But then, Yunjinâs fingers slowly wrap around her neck, thumbs placing on her windpipe. Then comes the pressure and sheâs slammed to the bottom of the bathtub, every orifice filling with water as she silently tries to scream. The pressure on her neck doesnât let up, and through the pills and the vodka, she claws at Yunjinâs hands. Water rushes into her lungs and all they do is burn, burn, burn.
She feels the first rip in her back, just as her muscles relax. Red fills the bathtub as her skin rips, crimson blood and blackish gray slime oozing out of the gashes and she gurgles through the pain as her bones crack and break into new shapes,rearranging themselves to give space, building up Sakura from the bottom. Yunjinâs lovely hands stay on her throat, even as they tremble.
Her heartbeat slows. Each slow beat opens a new eye; the world turns kaleidoscope as blinking eyes tear through the soft tissues of her body. Wings grow around her, cocooning her from the world and as her dying heart struggles to make its last beat, Yunjin pulls away.
Sakura rises from the bathtub. Six wings and countless eyes, mouth torn apart in a forever scream.
And in front of her, hand circled over Sakuraâs ankle, Yunjin stares at her from her knees.
âYouâreââ Yunjin starts, words tumbling out of her mouth like sobs, like reverend prayers, âyouâre beautiful.â
She sees herself from every angle; from the broken mirror, from the reflection in the water, from the dark pupils of Yunjinâs eyes. Here. Her final trick. Her final reinvention. She has reached divinity. She has reached home.
Re: [FILL] a mouthful of flies, the flies hum my prayers
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From:no subject
Date: 2026-01-31 11:03 pm (UTC)Pairing: lily/haewon
Tags/Warnings: the chase
Prompt:
sets, gregory and the hawk
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Date: 2026-01-31 11:30 pm (UTC)Pairing: any/any
Tags/Warnings: intra-group rivalry
Prompt:
â Hermann Hesse, Demian
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Date: 2026-01-31 11:39 pm (UTC)Pairing: any/any
Tags/Warnings: idolverse, songwriting
Prompt:
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones