Title: Now Twirl: A not-very-brief discussion on similarities and differences between boybands in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and The West.
Author: virdant
Length: ~6500 words.

Now Twirl
A not-very-brief discussion on similarities and differences between boybands
in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and The West.

( 'Talent' agents would scout for young men who fit a certain critera of handsome-whatever was popular at the time. One notable teen star was scouted when his father got into a car accident. The agent spotted him running hysterically after the ambulance, and thought that said boy had good enough looks to market. After he was signed, they 'recorded' him, where they cut and mixed together several takes which sounded passably on tune. Then he would perform his 'song'-in reality just lip-syncing to his own track to an audience of screaming teenage girls. )

Title: Duality
Author: virdant
Length: 2267 words; one-shot
Rating: PG-PG-13
Genre: General
Pairing: None. JaeChun-ish, but entirely friendship-based.
Summary: “So you're saying you don't want to go out and perform?” “I do,” Jaejoong says, “But it's going to be Youngwoong singing when I walk out.” Jaejoong and Youngwoong are more different than expected.
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Title: Educational Measures[1]
Author: virdant
Length: 1415 words; one-shot
Rating: G-PG
Genre: Crack, Humor, physics, crack
Pairing: none. Good ol' gen-fic.
Summary: “If you're going to name our title track "energy is equal to mass times times the speed of light squared," you might as well add a track called 'force is equal to mass times acceleration.'” ( Read more... )

Title: Hand in Hand Side Story III: Glass Figurines
Author: virdant
Length: 1374 words; one-shot
Rating: PG-13
Genre: AU, Angst
Pairing: none.
Summary: “What did they give you? Money? A whore for your own? Maybe a pretty girl to replace your sister?” (Hand in Hand Chapter 2). Who was Changmin's sister, and what did she mean to him?
Warning: Requires ( Read more... )

Title: Hand in Hand Side Story II: Deaf
Author: virdant
Length: 493 words; super-short
Rating: PG-13
Genre: AU, Angst
Pairing: JaeChun-ish
Summary: There’s nothing of Yoochun left. Not even the sound of his voice, because that has been washed away by the crackle of static.
Warning: Requires knowledge of Hand in Hand
Notes: Decided to play in Hand in Hand ( Read more... )

Title: In Between
Author: virdant
Length: 598 words; super-short
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance
Pairing: JaeHo-ish-maybe-kinda
Summary: The space between Jaejoong and Hero
Warning: Death-ish-maybe-kinda.
Notes: A bit more of an exploratory fic. Just thinking about concepts. Probably will expand this one day, but at the rate I'm writing, that's not going to ( Read more... )

Title: Turn Back Time
Author: virdant
Length: 1,613 words; one-shot
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst, Romance,
Pairing: HoMin, former JaeMin, HoSu.
Summary: On being happy and breaking up.
Warning: Anachronism.
Notes: Secret Santa for oldwillow-brook. Merry Christmas! I hope you like it. ^^;;

Turn Back Time

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Title: Wrong Number
Author: virdant
Length: 601 words; super-short
Rating: PG-13 / R
Genre: Dystopia
Pairing: None unless you have mad OT5 detection skills. No, I really do mean it.
Summary: They watch when they think that he thinks they aren’t watching, monitors flashing. They watch to prevent accidents, they say. For your own good is another phrase that ( Read more... )

Title: Making Special
Author: virdant
Length: 538 words; super-short
Rating: G
Genre: General
Pairing: HoMin if you stare really really really really hard. It's platonic.
Summary: Changmin writes the lyrics to Love in the Ice.
Warning: None
Notes: The result of far too much CAT class. Gratuitous ignoring of Adorno's music fetishism theory, and a complete ( Read more... )

Title: Arts
Author: virdant
Length: 2,734 words; one-shot
Rating: PG
Genre: General
Pairing: HoMin
Summary: In another world, Shim Changmin studies biology and chemistry until his brain pounds in his head from all the organic chemistry.
Warning: Some massive amount of Chem terminology to make my inner nerd happy.
Notes: Hiatus for NaNo? I lied. Totally.

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