#kira's library

[kir4svn]

You’re here, 36th | n.yt

++ Smoker!Yuta AU

Genre: Fluff(?) | 1.5K Words

ⓒkir4svn, 2022

You lift your hand gently to your lips, taking a long drawl of the cigarette clasped between your fingers, a smile gracing your face as the smoke wisps its way into your lungs.

It was a cold night, but you couldn’t care less, clad only in your sloppy pyjama shorts and a white shirt. The first night you went up there you weren’t sure what had compelled you to leave your fifth floor apartment and take the lift all the way up to the 36th when it would have been much easier to just have gone to the steps outside your apartment block. But you don’t regret it even in the slightest.

Your apartment block was dry to say the least. Filled with exhausted college students, single parents and old couples, you never had any major experiences albeit the occasional disapproving sounds you heard from the senior citizens on your way back in from a smoke.

You wanted a more exciting life. You always tell yourself, but in truth you were more than happy with what you had. Sure, it was boring. Sure, it’d be great to be out in the midst of the city rather than in one of the back alleyways leading out of it, but you were satisfied.

You didn’t expect to want to go after a man who you had met at the same place just nights ago. The man with shaky hands who’d lit your cigarette with his battered metal cased Zippo lighter, and stood with you in a comfortable silence. Much less did you expect to make a routine out of it.

Dragging your feet out of your apartment at 2 in the dead of the night and heading all the way to the 36th floor balcony had become a nightly routine now. You did it to see him, as embarrassing as that was to admit.

To see the way his slightly long hair hung just above his eyes, and the way he always tucked both hands into the pockets of his sweatpants to look for his lighter as if he didn’t know which pocket they were lying in. It was how he was so predictable in all his actions but unpredictable in all his words.

Now, knowing that you’d arrived earlier than he would, you lean forward and tip the ashes from your cigarette off the edge of the railings, waiting for him to arrive the same time he always did.

“Oh, you’re here.” you hear the voice you’d been waiting for call from behind you, and it takes every fibre in you not to break out in a stupid smile.

“tiring day today?” you ask, a question you’d only garnered courage to bring up the second time the two of you had met.

The man only nods, pulling his pack of cigarettes out of his pocket and sticking one in his mouth, fumbling around for his lighter immediately after. As always, the lighter is in his left pocket, and he raises his shaky hands to light the cigarette now clasp between his lips.

Only silence ensues for the next minute or so, but you don’t mind it, rather you appreciate it. It’s time to enjoy his presence as much as it’s time to be alone with your own thoughts.

You smile only slightly to yourself, the ring of his name sharp in your head from when he’d told you what it was just last night.

Yuta. You’d been referring to him as just 36th before then, and you’d simply never needed to know his name.

He gave you his number too, and although you didnt memorise it, you knew it was safely in your contact list, saved for when you finally put up the courage to drop him a text.

You glance back in his direction, only to see him with his head hung, his hair covering his eyes in a somewhat shaggy way, piled clump after clump.

He raises a hand to his lips, clasping the cigarette between his index and middle finger to pull it away, and lets out a deep sigh.

“Nothing quite like fresh air while you’re breathing in smoke into your lungs, right?” he remarks, and you can’t help but laugh at the attempt to crack a joke.

“I suppose so, yes.”

You meet him continuously for weeks, and eventually there comes the day he invites you over to his apartment.

It surprises you, to find that the man didn’t live on the 36th floor, but rather the 18th.

Just like you, he’d taken the lift up to the top of the building, for reasons you’d assumed to be the view, to take his midnight smoke.

He pushes open the apartment door carefully, and you kick off your shoes, stepping into the house and past the teak door frame carefully.

His apartment is small, but just right, not unlike yours. There are subtle differences in the layout, where the toilet is, where the bedroom door is facing, but otherwise the apartment might as well have been yours.

He’s quiet when he shuts the door, and when he goes to grab you a drink in the fridge, you watch as he stands with the light of the machine illuminating his face, scanning over it as if considering what you might prefer better.

Eventually he picks out beer, a can for you, one for him, and walks over to you with a slight hobble in his step.

“Do you drink?” he asks as he offers it to you, and you grunt.

“Of course.”

Yuta sat beside you, leaned back on his couch as he stared at the TV before him, watching some old Japanese game show of some guy eating a leather shoe, an unamused expression burned on his face.

You take a short sip of your Asahi Superdry yet again, and he looks over at you, eyes locking with yours with an intensity that made it difficult to even consider tearing them away.

“Yes?” you whisper, afraid making too loud a noise would scare the man out of his trance, and he smiles, a gentle lopsided grin, before his eyes travel to your lips.

Isn’t this too cliche? You think, berating yourself for the cheesy situation you now found yourself in. As your face heats up, you become painfully aware of how red your face must look to the man before you, but yet you don’t budge, sat still, beer can in your hands.

He leans in towards you, your hands move up onto his shoulders, and you lean in too, slowly, until your faces were barely two inches away, and you repeat yourself.

“Yes?”

He smiles. Now that he was so close to you, you could smell the cigarettes on his breath, and he could smell them on yours. His eyes flick upwards, now locked with yours, and your breath hitches.

He leans in closer, and so do you.

When his lips touch yours, your face heats up yet again, and you once again curse yourself for behaving like a teenager. Kissing you gently, his hands roam near your waist, not making contact in case you didn’t like it, a gentlemanly move you added to his list of charms.

You lean your body closer to him, not pulling your lips away from his in hopes he’d understand your gentle attempt at approval, and he does, hands grasping your waist, fingers pressing into the fabric on your skin.

You could barely remember the last time you were kissed, much less did you remember any details, but you were sure when you said you’d never felt a kiss quite like his before. The way he moved his lips on yours, the way that even if you opened your eyes to take a peek at his face, his eyes were kept closed, brows furrowed in concentration as if kissing you was the most important thing he had to do.

The taste of beer on his tongue should have been revolting, especially mixed with the heavy breath of tar the both of you shared, but you only wanted more. You pull back to catch your breath, and the man before you does so too.

When you look up at him again, his lips are swollen, eyes watery from having squeezed them shut, and his hair was messy from how you unconsciously ran your hands through it. He smiles, reaching a hand forward to brush a stray hair out of your eyes, opening his mouth to finally reply your question.

“Nothing. Just wanted to kiss you.”

“Can i let you in on a secret?” Yuta asks, though he knows you’d say yes. He’d gotten good at predicting your actions, given the number of times you’d come over, and the number of times he’d stopped by at your house after your nightly smokes.

Just as he expected you would, you nod, and the man chuckles, a faint chuckle, as he pulls an unlit cigarette out of its box and hands it to you.

“The first time I came here, I came here because I didn’t know what to do with my life, and I didn’t know what was real anymore. But looking at the distance to the ground, those 180 metres, just made it set in.” he begins, turning to look at you, the whites of his eyes standing out like sparks tangled in between strands of his jet black hair.

“Then I met you.”

As he speaks, Yuta smiles, and at his smile, You unconsciously find yourself smiling back, fiddling with the unlit tab in your hands.

“I never planned to come up here everyday. I wanted to see you, and thought that if I just waited up there, maybe you’d come again. And you did.” A chuckle. “You were there before me.”

“I thought, wow. I needed to do this everyday. I needed to see you every day.” he continues, turning away to look at the skyline as he gulps, looking nervous, an emotion you hardly ever observed on him.

“So, I know this is random.” Yuta let’s out as he digs in his pocket, yet again his left, and pulls out his lighter.

“But will you be my girlfriend?”

You look down at his outstretched hands when he pops the question, and immediately tears begin to well in your eyes.

His shaky hands, the ones you remember, stretching out his beaten up lighter your way.

A/N: I think the ending is so choppy help 💀💀

#kir4svn #kira's library #nct fanfic #nakamoto yuta #nct yuta #nct ff #nct fluff #nct x reader #nct 127 #nct imagines #writers on tumblr

[highdio]

Jojo 10th Anniversary: Main Villains key art.

#jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #dio brand #enrico pucci #kira yoshikage #mp #dioposts #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo #kars #DIO #diavolo #graphics library

[thebookaddict7]

Family ain't who you're born with

It's who you die for

#books & libraries #bookworm #books #books and reading #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #new books #fantasy books #fictional men #teen wolf #scott mccall #stiles stilinski #kira yukimura #lydia martin #malia tate #liam dunbar #derek hale #thebookaddict7

[remythologise]

speaking of cherik, have you read 'lay down beside me (so still and so soft)'? bc it's a BANGER

I believe this was on LJ and the author has deleted :( a good reminder I need to get around to trying to download all the fics I've bookmarked as soon as possible

#literally last week I went through and copy pasted all the liquidfic katie forsythe fics from archive.org because that site was down #thank GOD for the wayback machine literally the single most important thing we've ever done #the library of alexandria is burning and only one organisation is putting out the fires... #kira for ts #I think I read the fic bc it sounds familiar... but I can't remember a thing about it! #ask #anonymous

[kira-moonrabbit]

Roland from Ruina with Black and music note themes? for the funny

My condolences... for the rolences... Always playin' a tune for nobody in particular.

#kira's mysterious editing tag #library of ruina

[sailorstarr-chan4]

Note: Yes, there is technically a Library Wars anime, however, it doesn't adapt the manga so much as the light novels.

Let's give some love to lesser known titles! ❤

#Starling polls #manga #shoujo #Strobe Edge #QQ Sweeper #Queen's Quality #The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross #The Water Dragon's Bride #Kitchen Princess #Daytime Shooting Star #Mugen Spiral #Kyo no Kira kun #Today's Kira kun #Happy Cafe #Library Wars #otaku issues #original post #less than 100 votes

[crownshattered]

"Arguably, one of the best places in Fontaine is the Duke's office." A strange choice perhaps, but with tea and music...there's not much else she could ask for.

#(im doing 3 character quests at one time and w.rio's is one of them KJDSHJSHDKD) #(the only thing that would make it better for her is a small library XDD) #⪡||⋇ [kira ic] ⋇||⪢ #◹||⋇ |genshin impact| ⋇||◸ #◢||⋇ open ⋇||◣ #◅||⋇ /gi.kira/ ⋇||▻

[the-brainrot-central]

Guyyyyys guess who’s writing more Kiraboss mpreg 😈😈😈

#it’s me. I am #not any new ones #just the ones I’m already posting #the egg fic has been surprisingly tough to write tbh #my writing has been really dry lately and idk why #I need to read more actual books I think lmao #I have a whole stack of them from the library that are just. sitting in my house. #yoshikage kira #kira yoshikage #mpreg #fanfic #kiraboss #status update #author status #authorposting

[crownshattered-arch]

"I couldn't possibly go to school at the Akademiya, mostly because I wouldn't be able to pick one school of thought... But Kshahrewar is very interesting. I already know quite a lot about machines..." Specifically ruin machines.

#(catch k.ira hoarding all of these academic journals in a corner of the library--) #(quest to find parents over. now reading every book in the house of d.aena is her new mission SKJDHKJDSHKJDS) #⪡||⋇ [kira ic] ⋇||⪢ #◅||⋇ /gi.kira/ ⋇||▻ #◢||⋇ open ⋇||◣ #◹||⋇ |genshin impact| ⋇||◸

[wilburisaway]

tag directory post

WanderSMP:

#the nature of a scorpion; drowning // c!kira's offerings

#how to be a human being // c!cybot's harddrive

#eye for an eye (tooth and claw) // c!radio's scrapbook

#a king (alone) // c!spartae's library

#the cells forget the pain (the mind remembers the feeling) // c!stephen's sermon

DSMP:

#ring on the counter // c!beeduo

#the nature of a scorpion; drowning // c!kira's offerings #how to be a human being // c!cybot's harddrive #eye for an eye (tooth and claw) // c!radio's scrapbook #a king (alone) // c!spartae's library #ring on the counter // c!beeduo #the cells forget the pain (the mind remembers the feeling) // c!stephen's sermon

[kir4svn]

Social Media, Bane or Boon?; a discursive essay

Young people have a tendency to fall prey to trends, adverts and fads, and often thrust their money into chasing new material joys they find off their Instagram “explore” pages. With the rise of Social Media, and the prevalence of young people on it, it has become more than easy for attractive young adults to show off their pricey possessions to teenagers watching from behind small screens. In an age where social media entangles itself in our everyday lives, does it serve as more of a bane or a boon? I personally feel it is a polite mix of both.

Money makes the world go round, and in the world of trade, social media is one of the best marketplaces out there. When the whole of the world pools together to form a segregated online space, it becomes far too easy to find someone who’s interested in something you’re selling. This acts as a massive advantage to businesses, allowing them to market their products free of charge, to people with real interest in buying them. For businesses with heftier budgets, turning to the more influential of the online bunch, whose eager followers are often more than willing to spend, usually promises high returns. So for businesses, Social media is surely a boon.

Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame. Seeing the lives the rich and famous enjoy, many wish for a chance to live in the spotlight. Social media can bring one to the public eye, but those who reach often lament about the scrutiny they face. When one’s fame is online, it’s often that they will receive bouts of harassment, even if they far from deserve it. Take celebrities like Charli D’Amelio, who rose to fame at the young age of 15, for example. By the time she was 16, she was receiving threats from the online public, claiming she did not deserve her fame, comparing her to her sister, and pointing out the smallest of her shortcomings. A life in the limelight can be thrilling and enticing, but it can also be detrimental to ones mental health. As such, social media can easily bring harm to those who put themselves at the front of it.

That’s not to say that influencers are always right. More often than not, the most well received online personalities plant toxic standards in the minds of viewers and fans. Be it girls with small waists and hourglass figures, or men with broad shoulders and long legs, social media builds an image of the “perfect” body. As time passes, this ideal shape begins to pop up more and more, and evolves into an expectation. This leads to the popularisation of crash diets, bouts of self-hatred, and an increase in eating disorders amongst young people. These unhealthy practices are detrimental to the health of those who fall into their clutches, and affect the growth and development of today’s teens. As such, the unrealistic expectations evolved from social media culture can easily turn social media’s presence into a bane.

Social media allows us to catch up with others, and in some cases, live vicariously through them. It doesn’t matter whether an old friend is an hour or a hundred miles away, social media makes it easy to close the gap. On social media, you can find out what someone has been doing the past month, what someone is looking forward to celebrating in the next few days, or whether someone has just welcomed a child into the family, all in a couple of taps. Along with social media comes the ease of connecting with others, through a platform that requires little to no effort. In this way, social media serves as a boon, giving us the opportunity to come together virtually, no matter how far away we may physically be.

Social Media has clearly proved to be a double edged sword. Despite how it has brought undeniable benefit to our society by shedding light on pressing issues that might not have surfaced otherwise, it has also brought about unrealistic expectations and envy amongst the online community. Many question the ethicality of businesses cashing in on insecurities brought about through social media, and it seems social media is only beneficial to some and greatly detrimental to others. The reality is, nothing can truly be flawless, as consumers of social media, we should be mindful of what we choose to consume. Only then can social media serve as a benefit to us.

#essay #discursive #writing #kira's library

[highdio]

Kira Yoshikage and Killer Queen, JOJO Anime 10th Anniversary.

#jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #diamond is unbreakable #kira yoshikage #killer queen #mp #my4 #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo #jojo anime 10th #graphics library

[1pankekimolsa]

#1pankekimolsa #gece #şiirsel #şiirhayattır #kira kiralina #books and reading #books and libraries #kadrajimdan

[remythologise]

zero and yuki is a deep cut, people suffered

not to be anti-feminist on main but looking back Yuki was annoying as hell and Zero deserved better. having said that #grateful to know I had good enough taste to ship Zero/Yuki even if I had bad enough taste to engage with that series at all

#it’s because my local blockbuster only had so much anime and I went through almost all of it #the worst consequence of this was watching Zero no Tsukaima and #no sorry that was my foray into illegal streaming. the worst consequence of blockbuster dvd selection was love hina #the best consequence was excel saga #sorry just had to look up what love hina was called [google search 2000s harem anime] and - just recalled - #kyo kara maoh ……….. premise ahead of its time #I did read the manga as well for vampire knight at least up to a certain point #hey speaking of vampires . and gay people. and bad anime. #uragiri wa boku no namae wo shitteru………….. #sorry about these tags anon when you asked about one thing and now I’m thinking about the epic highs and epic lows of 2000s anime #I still have the OPs and EDs to vampire knight in my iTunes library. they slayed! #kira for ts #ask #anonymous #so funny I watched so much anime based solely on what was available to me at blockbuster #which is how I somehow never saw some classics #by the time I had streaming access I was a) scarred by my first attempts to find things myself (see above) #and b) subsequently already seeking out That Gay Shit (see above) #and I do mean illegal streaming. let’s be clear on that one #please note absolutely nothing mentioned above is recommended viewing. I’m anti-recommending it all

[kira-moonrabbit]

Prescript:

Make Blue Reverberation Icons with blue flowers as the theme.

-No time limit-

Oh wow, easy as peasy prescript I gots here! Blue, blue, even~! I did my best to use some actual blue flowers and not Some Flowers Recolored To Be Blue to be as true to the prescript as pasta bowl~

#kira's mysterious editing tag #library of ruina

[alizalayne]

my friend meg put out her screamingly funny book

Kira and the (Maybe) Space Princess

today and i really cannot recommend it enough for being one of the only texts i’ve ever read that can do a proper sendup of the magical girl genre, as well as just being one of my favorite books period. Watch the above freak slide out of the trash cans behind our protagonists house and show her the beauty and sparkle of magic!! there is nothing wrong with catacorn!!!! she knows how to put on mascara!! she knows which part of the body mascara is for!! she knows everything normal, like school and what happens at one! None of her organs are shutting down and none of yours will either!!! yay!!! WHEE

Tell your local library that you want them to buy a copy! they listen to stuff like that and then it’s on the shelves for everyone to read!

#art #my praise for the back cover of this book was so weird that they asked me if i could PLEASE not say it like that