“It is amusing, is it not,” Mark says, out of breath with sweat shining on his face, “that they dressed you up as a fragile, delicate flower, but—”

“But even roses have their thorns, my prince,” Donghyuck replies. In a sleek, single movement, he disarms Mark and presses the blunt side of his blade up against Mark’s clavicle.

• don't die over college applications [edit 11/4: currently struggling]
• 65k end of year word count [edit 11/4: ~36.7k so far.... heeee]
• successfully finish fic exchange fics without dying [nct secret santa]
• successfully participate in fic fests without dying [little wonder, done]
• some sort of holiday/valentine's day advent [nvm, taegyu binoculars instead]
• successfully switch to different ao3 account [changed my u/n which is close enough, so done]
• nanowrimo [meh wrote 37k/50k]

• finish acadec!au even if it kills you [done]
• nomin 25 lives au, post on my birthday [posted part 1 on birthday, done] 

• chensung please
• beomgyu x renjun or soobin x jeno or jaemin x yeonjun 
• (if time) markhyuck week fic [no longer give a crap abt markhyuck...]
• nomin uni au ft. misunderstandings, north carolina/texas pandering, heejin/hyunjin, ummm [changed idea into taegyu fic, took out the nc pandering hahaha]
• yeonjun (???)/jaemin social media au ft. material wealth vs love, LA influencer culture, literally just pandering to myself... jaemin being superficial yet still having so much love to give............ [nvm i am not writing this.]

• fill up the taehyun/beomgyu void... they are not just a side pairing in my eyes [yes]

• modern royalty
• post-breakup
• enemies to lovers
• jaemin being a complicated asshole [done?]
• write a fic set in korea without breaking out in hives over possible inaccuracies [done]
• math team au... before they age out of it. quickly

• ( more stuff i wanted to do i guess )