I bet you have all been waiting for this day. Thank you to those who have been extremely cooperative with a bunch of stressed mods.

Special thanks to the pinch-hitters (*) for their help!!!! afffliction and two wonderful anon pinch-hitters!!!! ++++ Super special, standing ovation for istrying, thiswintersky, and doeiros for stepping in at the last minute to write two fics for this exchange!!!!

Anyways to finish off this (rather turmoilous) first '14/'15 round of FORTEXO, feel free to comment your gushings and feels and don't forget to leave details to your socials as a friending!meme.




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Title: Better
Recipient: tiny_estrella
Pairing: Sehun/Kai
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Language, Racist tendencies
Word Count: ~5900 words
Summary: The moon can illuminate the darkest night, but the sun can make it shine brighter.
Author’s Note: I fell in love with your prompts, but I can’t seem to give them justice. This is also unbeta-ed and a little rushed, so I truly apologize for that. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this!
Based on P!nk’s Perfect.

( One of Jongin’s fondest memories of his father back when they were still living in the Peninsula was those times they went out and fixed the vegetable patch at their backyard. Collapse )

Title: in love with someone out of town
Recipient: springmaid
Word count: 2.1k
Pairing: Chanyeol/Kyungsoo, Jongin/Kyungsoo
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): none.
Summary: Chanyeol’s name holds a very special place in Kyungsoo’s heart.
a/n: this is un-beta’d so pls pardon the errors ;A; listened to yuna’s someone out of town when i wrote this :) to Gem (wink wink), I hope you enjoy it~*~ I’m sorry if it seems rushed ;A;




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Title: Mad World
Recipient: zitaochan
Pairing: broken!Yifan/Zitao, mentions of Yifan/Junmyeon
Word count: 4389 words
Rating: PG-13
Warning: angst
Summary: It didn't matter whose mistake it was, Zitao just had to get better.
Author's note: Title taken from Gary Jules's Mad World. This is more Zitao-centric than Yifan/Zitao, to be quite honest. I hope that it is at least close to what you had expected. This is also un-beta'd, so I apologize for any mistakes. May you have a good read!


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Title: Let yourself fall ill
Recipient: candyxiumin
Pairing: Suho/Xiumin
Word Count: 2100
Rating: R
Summary: There are many ways to heal a broken heart, and Joonmyun may have chosen the most difficult one for himself.

Mod Notes: Even though candyxiumin left the exchange a few days ago due to health problems, we felt it would only be fair to continute to gift her the fic because with wishful thinking, we hope it can help her on the road to recovery! Our prayers go out to her in this time of trouble.


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Title: Everywhere I Look
Recipient: EVERYONE
Pairing: Lu Han/Xiumin
Word Count: 2884
Summary: N/A



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Title: Don't You Know
Recipient: whiskerd
Pairing: Sehun/Tao
Word Count: 2770
Rating: PG-13
Warning: major & minor character death, angst, slight language & violence towards the end
Summary: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea. Sehun works for a factory.
Author’s Note: There’s probably a few historically inaccurate bits and grammar errors floating about in the story, sorry for that! Also, to my recipient, thanks for the great prompts! I really hope you like this, although it may not have been very true to your prompts.
Inspired by Imagine Dragons’s Bleeding Out & Ingrid Michaelson’s Parachute




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Postnote: [notes]Just a quick clarification for accuracy purposes -> The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea Tao was working for was actually formed after the Samil Movement in 1919, but I needed an organization for Tao, so I switched it around.

Title: In A World Filled With Darkness
Recipient: akatcuties
Pairing: Baekhyun/Sehun, onesided!Baekhyun/LuHan. Side Pairings: LuHan/Xiumin
Word Count: 10k
Rating: R
Warning(s): minor character death, angst, homophobia, swearing, violence, dry humping.
Summary: Traumatising memories that plague Baekhyun’s mind returns, and so does the boy he had left behind all those years ago.
Author’s Note: Dear recipient, I am very, very, very sorry from straying from the song. I chose U-Kiss. I kind of ended up getting carried away and I think there might be some things you might not like in this and I’m sorry ;A; I hope you enjoy the fic anyway! I slaved over it with my blood and tears orz.



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