the dummy's guide to lj: how to assert your love
the dummy's guide to lj: how to assert your love
apocryphalic + loveclouds
yunho/changmin
pg-13
when changmin seeks to assert his love for yunho.
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Scattered around the globe to do all sorts of amazing solo things by themselves, the former members of Dong Bang Shin Gi begin to grow restless after nearly a year passes without any sort of physical interactions between them. It's getting closer and closer to December, closer and closer to their five-member anniversary, and Jaejoong, always the most outspoken when it comes to social gatherings, decides to organize one.
Yunho goes back to Gwangju early to prepare for the meet-up while Changmin flies home to Seoul from Paris. Jaejoong is in Vegas with Junsu to make sure Junsu finishes his tour with BoA on time, and Yoochun starts packing his stuff up in New York a day prior to the flight so he can get to the meet-up fashionably late.
Naturally, there's a freak snowstorm the day before JaeSuChun's flights, Jaejoong gets the flu from rage that Mother Nature has ruined his amazing get-together, Junsu catches it from Jaejoong, and Yoochun catches it a dozen states away from sympathy pains for Junsu. Changmin swears he's one-touched with flu germs from Jaejoong all the way across the Pacific Ocean, and on the day of a pathetic two-people party with just Yunho and Changmin, Yunho naturally catches it from the magnae, the entire lot of them snotty and cranky as they spend Boxing Day bedridden and on the internet.
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Bored out of his mind in bed and unable to even complain to Yunho since Yunho's confined in a different room of the apartment in the interests of their speedy recoveries, Changmin gently punches his laptop screen, blows his nose, and logs onto lj.
He stalks his f-list and checks up on everything the other guys are doing, obsessively reading through the comments left by people on Yunho's journal.
Changmin narrows his eyes. Yunho joined a few dance communities and people are starting to get a little friendly with his boyfriend. It's not like he's worried that Yunho's going to have some torrid internet affair behind his back or something, he just needs to make sure that everyone knows that Yunho isn't on the market.
Like every other time he's had a semi-incoherent, slightly psychotic bout of fever-induced neurosis, Changmin seeks out Jaejoong for advice.
Changmin facepalms. Now Jaejoong's never going to let him live it down. He sounds so psycho and possessive and to varying degrees, he is both those things, but Jaejoong's going to make fun of him forever! But he's desperate enough and Jaejoong usually gives good advice.
Usually. But not this time.
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Changmin wakes the next morning to the buzzing of his cellphone. He groans through the congestion and flails for it, bringing it up to his nose to read the text that Jaejoong's sent him.
Free puppies on livejournal? What does that even mean?
Reaching sideways to grab his laptop, Changmin checks his f-list again, waking up immediately when he sees a new entry posted on Yunho's lj. It's directed at him, only.
Puppy!? Changmin goes to his profile page and sees something that's apparently a puppy staring back at him, sighing a bit at Yunho's clumsy little gestures of affection for him. He wishes he could assert his love like this. Despite thinking the puppy looks a mutant hairball, the fact that Yunho sent it to him still means a lot.
Changmin scrambles to leave a comment, spending almost five minutes just looking for a nicer, sweeter icon, trying to assert his love the best he can.
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Yunho's not really bothered by the fact that Changmin doesn't send him a puppy in return. He can tell that the younger man really cares for him if only from all of those changing icons; the nicest, sweetest ones are always reserved for him. He also knows that Changmin's been trying to be more affectionate to him lately. They've reached a stage in their relationship where Yunho's been thinking about proposing and Changmin can tell he's been thinking about it because Yunho's face reflects every single thought process that ever passes through his brain, and Changmin's been surprisingly encouraging in trying to egg him on to pop the question. They have a good relationship. They're good together.
Changmin's just very, very shy, even now, even after decades of time and love shared between them. But Yunho thinks that that's part of Changmin's charm.
Blowing his nose to get rid of his snot, Yunho tries to make himself look less like shit, succeeding in making himself look like shit warmed over instead before he goes to meet Changmin in the kitchen like promised. They risk a hug and a very brief kiss before Yunho assigns himself to the job of making budae jjigae to the best of his ability. He'll never compare to Jaejoong...
Considering the fact that they're both sick, dinner doesn't last as long as it usually would but it lasts longer than it should've. Changmin finishes off the pot of jjigae that Yunho makes for him, his appetite always that much better when it's Yunho's homecooking instead of Jaejoong's or anyone else's. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye before ordering Yunho back to the bedroom, dishes left in the sink for another day.
He's not really bothered by Jaejoong's comment about him being a bad boyfriend...so he tells himself. Changmin's always known that he's not the affectionate type and Yunho's been with him for so many years now that the older man knows that about him as well. Changmin doesn't see a point in sending a puppy, especially when it's not cute and just a virtual gift. Who wants a virtual gift anyway? It's not symbolic of his love for Yunho in any way and Changmin has his own means of showing Yunho he cares. Such as climbing out of bed at 2 in the morning to make sure Yunho's taken his medication for the night.
Laptop closed and sitting on his desk, Changmin drifts off to sleep after he takes his own round of medication, pillow in arm and covers tugged all the way up to his nose. There's a pill amongst the six he's just ingested that's bound to make him drowsy and he figures that he's in for a night of deep sleep. Changmin sleeps all of fifty minutes before he's up again, images of an LJ puppy the only thing he can focus on every time he closes his eyes. It's all Jaejoong's fault. Jaejoong and the medication. All Changmin sees are those puppies with their heads tilted and mouths opening to bark at him, "You're a bad boyfriend!" between every other woof. He sits up to stare at the laptop and after another fifteen minutes of hearing Jaejoong's voice in his head telling him to assert his love, he grabs the laptop and signs back onto LJ.
An hour and half later, after Changmin's created six sock puppet accounts just to send Yunho three free puppies from each one, he's finally done. At first he'd only wanted to send one but the puppy in his mind wouldn't stop yapping and so he sent another and another and another until soon enough, the puppies went from not so cute to very adorable and all Changmin wanted to do was send Yunho puppies.
He still doesn't think it's a validation of his love for Yunho but after re-reading the older man's obvious comments about wanting a puppy on his profile, Changmin thinks that maybe virtual gifts aren't just for show. Besides, they're free.
After the tedious process of selecting the free puppy and sending it anonymously to Yunho is done and repeated thirty times, Changmin goes back to the older man's profile and waits patiently for them to show. Fifteen minutes in, Changmin's got a finger to the screen and counting; he only sees ten puppies when he's sure he's sent more than that. Frowning, Changmin creates another sock account just to send another three to be safe. He waits and then he refreshes. Still, only ten. Another half hour of waiting later, Changmin decides that maybe LJ's database is slow again--God know's how many times it's been unresponsive just in the last two days alone. Either way, the drugs are hitting him hard and he falls asleep waiting for the last twenty or so puppies to show up, head tilted at an awkward angle as he sleeps.
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Yunho wakes rather early in the morning, a lifetime of being a band leader too ingrained in him to wake any later than 9 at the latest, medication or not. He yawns and decides he's feeling better today, but not fantastic enough to go outside. Movements sluggish, Yunho reaches for his laptop, eyes widening when he sees the amount of lj notifications clogging his inbox.
Puppies!!
Even though they're sent anonymously, Yunho knows that they're from Changmin. The younger man's just so sweet to him like this, trying to send him gifts in secret...
Oh dear.
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ignore the inconsistent timestamps, please. :'D
apocryphalic + loveclouds
yunho/changmin
pg-13
when changmin seeks to assert his love for yunho.
---
Scattered around the globe to do all sorts of amazing solo things by themselves, the former members of Dong Bang Shin Gi begin to grow restless after nearly a year passes without any sort of physical interactions between them. It's getting closer and closer to December, closer and closer to their five-member anniversary, and Jaejoong, always the most outspoken when it comes to social gatherings, decides to organize one.
Yunho goes back to Gwangju early to prepare for the meet-up while Changmin flies home to Seoul from Paris. Jaejoong is in Vegas with Junsu to make sure Junsu finishes his tour with BoA on time, and Yoochun starts packing his stuff up in New York a day prior to the flight so he can get to the meet-up fashionably late.
Naturally, there's a freak snowstorm the day before JaeSuChun's flights, Jaejoong gets the flu from rage that Mother Nature has ruined his amazing get-together, Junsu catches it from Jaejoong, and Yoochun catches it a dozen states away from sympathy pains for Junsu. Changmin swears he's one-touched with flu germs from Jaejoong all the way across the Pacific Ocean, and on the day of a pathetic two-people party with just Yunho and Changmin, Yunho naturally catches it from the magnae, the entire lot of them snotty and cranky as they spend Boxing Day bedridden and on the internet.
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Bored out of his mind in bed and unable to even complain to Yunho since Yunho's confined in a different room of the apartment in the interests of their speedy recoveries, Changmin gently punches his laptop screen, blows his nose, and logs onto lj.
He stalks his f-list and checks up on everything the other guys are doing, obsessively reading through the comments left by people on Yunho's journal.
Changmin narrows his eyes. Yunho joined a few dance communities and people are starting to get a little friendly with his boyfriend. It's not like he's worried that Yunho's going to have some torrid internet affair behind his back or something, he just needs to make sure that everyone knows that Yunho isn't on the market.
Like every other time he's had a semi-incoherent, slightly psychotic bout of fever-induced neurosis, Changmin seeks out Jaejoong for advice.
Changmin facepalms. Now Jaejoong's never going to let him live it down. He sounds so psycho and possessive and to varying degrees, he is both those things, but Jaejoong's going to make fun of him forever! But he's desperate enough and Jaejoong usually gives good advice.
Usually. But not this time.
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Changmin wakes the next morning to the buzzing of his cellphone. He groans through the congestion and flails for it, bringing it up to his nose to read the text that Jaejoong's sent him.
Free puppies on livejournal? What does that even mean?
Reaching sideways to grab his laptop, Changmin checks his f-list again, waking up immediately when he sees a new entry posted on Yunho's lj. It's directed at him, only.
Puppy!? Changmin goes to his profile page and sees something that's apparently a puppy staring back at him, sighing a bit at Yunho's clumsy little gestures of affection for him. He wishes he could assert his love like this. Despite thinking the puppy looks a mutant hairball, the fact that Yunho sent it to him still means a lot.
Changmin scrambles to leave a comment, spending almost five minutes just looking for a nicer, sweeter icon, trying to assert his love the best he can.
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Yunho's not really bothered by the fact that Changmin doesn't send him a puppy in return. He can tell that the younger man really cares for him if only from all of those changing icons; the nicest, sweetest ones are always reserved for him. He also knows that Changmin's been trying to be more affectionate to him lately. They've reached a stage in their relationship where Yunho's been thinking about proposing and Changmin can tell he's been thinking about it because Yunho's face reflects every single thought process that ever passes through his brain, and Changmin's been surprisingly encouraging in trying to egg him on to pop the question. They have a good relationship. They're good together.
Changmin's just very, very shy, even now, even after decades of time and love shared between them. But Yunho thinks that that's part of Changmin's charm.
Blowing his nose to get rid of his snot, Yunho tries to make himself look less like shit, succeeding in making himself look like shit warmed over instead before he goes to meet Changmin in the kitchen like promised. They risk a hug and a very brief kiss before Yunho assigns himself to the job of making budae jjigae to the best of his ability. He'll never compare to Jaejoong...
Considering the fact that they're both sick, dinner doesn't last as long as it usually would but it lasts longer than it should've. Changmin finishes off the pot of jjigae that Yunho makes for him, his appetite always that much better when it's Yunho's homecooking instead of Jaejoong's or anyone else's. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye before ordering Yunho back to the bedroom, dishes left in the sink for another day.
He's not really bothered by Jaejoong's comment about him being a bad boyfriend...so he tells himself. Changmin's always known that he's not the affectionate type and Yunho's been with him for so many years now that the older man knows that about him as well. Changmin doesn't see a point in sending a puppy, especially when it's not cute and just a virtual gift. Who wants a virtual gift anyway? It's not symbolic of his love for Yunho in any way and Changmin has his own means of showing Yunho he cares. Such as climbing out of bed at 2 in the morning to make sure Yunho's taken his medication for the night.
Laptop closed and sitting on his desk, Changmin drifts off to sleep after he takes his own round of medication, pillow in arm and covers tugged all the way up to his nose. There's a pill amongst the six he's just ingested that's bound to make him drowsy and he figures that he's in for a night of deep sleep. Changmin sleeps all of fifty minutes before he's up again, images of an LJ puppy the only thing he can focus on every time he closes his eyes. It's all Jaejoong's fault. Jaejoong and the medication. All Changmin sees are those puppies with their heads tilted and mouths opening to bark at him, "You're a bad boyfriend!" between every other woof. He sits up to stare at the laptop and after another fifteen minutes of hearing Jaejoong's voice in his head telling him to assert his love, he grabs the laptop and signs back onto LJ.
An hour and half later, after Changmin's created six sock puppet accounts just to send Yunho three free puppies from each one, he's finally done. At first he'd only wanted to send one but the puppy in his mind wouldn't stop yapping and so he sent another and another and another until soon enough, the puppies went from not so cute to very adorable and all Changmin wanted to do was send Yunho puppies.
He still doesn't think it's a validation of his love for Yunho but after re-reading the older man's obvious comments about wanting a puppy on his profile, Changmin thinks that maybe virtual gifts aren't just for show. Besides, they're free.
After the tedious process of selecting the free puppy and sending it anonymously to Yunho is done and repeated thirty times, Changmin goes back to the older man's profile and waits patiently for them to show. Fifteen minutes in, Changmin's got a finger to the screen and counting; he only sees ten puppies when he's sure he's sent more than that. Frowning, Changmin creates another sock account just to send another three to be safe. He waits and then he refreshes. Still, only ten. Another half hour of waiting later, Changmin decides that maybe LJ's database is slow again--God know's how many times it's been unresponsive just in the last two days alone. Either way, the drugs are hitting him hard and he falls asleep waiting for the last twenty or so puppies to show up, head tilted at an awkward angle as he sleeps.
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Yunho wakes rather early in the morning, a lifetime of being a band leader too ingrained in him to wake any later than 9 at the latest, medication or not. He yawns and decides he's feeling better today, but not fantastic enough to go outside. Movements sluggish, Yunho reaches for his laptop, eyes widening when he sees the amount of lj notifications clogging his inbox.
Puppies!!
Even though they're sent anonymously, Yunho knows that they're from Changmin. The younger man's just so sweet to him like this, trying to send him gifts in secret...
Oh dear.
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ignore the inconsistent timestamps, please. :'D