Round 1 2023: Quotes

[hwarium]

Status: Closed This round has closed. It remains open for fills, comments and remixes, but prompts are no longer accepted. Seventeen Holidays Round 1: Quotes About "Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time." "How inconvenient to be made of desire." "It's me, hi, I'm the problem its me." Calling all readers, lovers of poetry and music, screen and stage. Quote collecters and lyric hoarders, unleash your archive. For this round, every prompt must contain a quote - you can combine them, add commentary, link to articles, do whatever. Steal from a literary classic, or copy WeVerse drama. 🛑 HOLD UP If this is your first time on 17hols please check out our About Page which contains helpful information and links to pages explaining dreamwidth and HTML. We are a prompting fest where all the action happens in the comment section. Rules Sign up is not required. Fills have a minimum of 400 words for prose, haiku-length for poetry (3 lines), and 400px by 400px for art (memes are also art). Other mediums are fine too! There is no maximum cap. Tag and provide content warnings at your discretion, but a good guide are the Ao3 four (Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage) and this list of common CWs (cr: SportsFest). NSFW/Explicit content should be tagged NSFW art should not be visible, please provide a link and a warning. You may crop the artwork and embed a SFW preview. How it works Prompting Click on [Post a New Comment] at the bottom of this post; Change the subject; Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment and edit the sections. Feel free to add as much detail as you want! Need ideas? Check out our 2021 and 2022 Quote rounds. <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Do Not Wants:</strong> None <strong>Prompt:</strong> <blockquote>[QUOTE GOES HERE] </blockquote> Filling Reply to the original prompt; You must change the subject to [FILL] - this is to help the mods track. Feel free to add a title Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment, edit the sections, and add your text. You may also upload your fill to the AO3 Collection. <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Permission to remix:</strong> Yes/No/Please ask *** Remixing Post as a reply to the fill you are remixing, using the same HTML as above; Change the subject to [REMIX]. Art/media Upload your work to any platform (twitter, imgur, youtube, soundcloud, google maps, etc.) Using the same HTML code as above, copy the link into your fill or remix. That's it! Optionally, you can embed a picture into your comment. Please use the following code instead. (To explain, the HTML resizes your picture to 400x400px so that it fits on most screens. Users can view the full size if they click on it. You can also add a link to your work on twitter so that others can share it, or to any other website you want) <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Permission to remix:</strong> Yes/No/Please ask *** <img src="INSERT IMAGE URL" width="400px"> <a href="INSERT ANY URL YOU WANT">TEXT THAT DESCRIBES THE LINK</a> Note! On dreamwidth, you can't edit a comment once someone has replied to it. Navigation ABOUT FAQ CHAT BAITS ✧ FILLS ✧ < ROUND 1: QUOTES > ROUND 2: ALTERNATE UNIVERSES 2021 2022

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[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: jeonghan/seungcheol or mingyu/wonwoo or any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

you ask me to cook for you. i promise you a feast. i give you breadcrumbs in its place. you eat them all without complaint.

can't find the original source but saw this in @/evilscrapbook

it’s really you on my mind

[hoshism]

Ship/Member: Any (but if seokmin/soonyoung speaks to you…)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: mcd

Prompt:

My guy pretty like a girl
And he got fight stories to tell
I see both sides like Chanel

— Chanel, Frank Ocean

[chickenfrog]

Ship/Member: any configuration of minghao/seokmin/any or minghao/mingyu/any would be cool, whether it's break up fic or or love triangle fic or potential poly fic or whatever!
Major Tags: n/a
Additional Tags: n/a
Do Not Wants: none

Prompt:

If you found some other dude
What do I do?
If he loves you truly
How could I not love him too?
If he improves you
More than I used to, hey
I don't want nothing but you
Getting what you need
Even if it ain't from me

'Cause I love you
And what love is
Never selfish
And on purpose

— kamauu, "mango"

[chickenfrog]

Ship/Member: mingyu + minghao or mingyu/minghao
Major Tags: n/a
Additional Tags: idolverse; the gut-sinking feeling of knowing/worrying you're drifting apart
Do Not Wants: none

Prompt:

Stay, stay the same
'Cause everything else will change
And I'll always be to blame
So please just stay the same

Nobody knows you
The way you know you
But I think I do
Well, I thought I knew
Yeah, I thought I knew

— passion pit, "seaweed song"

(*posts two heavy prompts in a row* ok now let's do a silly one)

[chickenfrog]

Ship/Member: textbook definition of dogboi kim mingyu who is maybe just a bit too overeager/any OR number one self-proclaimed romantic xu minghao who ok maybe is laying it on a bit too thick/any!
Major Tags: n/a
Additional Tags: n/a
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Calling too much, you're breaking my phone
Mad when you do and sad when you don't
Chivalry, ooh, you taking my coat
Too cute, no, this ain't me now
Candlelight, out on a starry night
You brush my hair to the side
And you tell me I'm pretty

Yuck, now you got me blushin'
Cheeks so red when the blood starts rushing
Yuck, that boy's so mushy
Sending me flowers, I'm just tryna get lucky
Yuck, lookin' at me all sucky
Yuck, quit acting like a puppy
Fuck, going all lovey-dovey on me

—charli xcx, "yuck"

[svteen]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.

—Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

who's the fool (or not a fool)? who's the metaphorical crocodile? i want to know what you think

[svteen]

Ship/Member: Any, but what if it was 95z or 96z
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: reminiscing on the past (?)
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I would have taken you to the Naz Café
if it had not shut down.
I would have taken you to the Naz Café
for the best view and the worst food in town.

—Imtiaz Dharker, Hiraeth, Old Bombay

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: wonwoo/junhui.
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: canonverse??
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

there's a theory that says you don't exist until someone calls & you respond
- sam sax, hydrophobia.

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: wonwoo/junhui or any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“I love you, and I’m conscious of you all the time.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Katherine Mansfield.

[firmamentss]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: grief
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

What I'd loved in him most was my own aliveness, his ability to give me back to myself

- Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

i promise i was not in love

[firmamentss]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: all bad things must come to an end but holy sht they way u make me feel kind of vibes, wanting things that are bad for you, fwb??
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.”

- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

in the car, in the backseat, I'm your baby

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Jeongcheol/ any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

-I would like to think that you would stick around.
You know that I'd just die to make you proud.
The taste, the touch, the way we love
It all comes down to make the sound of our love song-

the careless black hole

[klav]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: amnesia / memory alteration / Eternal Sunshine au? growing out of a relationship or situation? the liminal space of a difficult conversation?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Not for the first time, your own mind terrified you: the careless black-hole greediness of it, that you could leave things there thinking they were safe, and then turn around and find that they'd been eaten away, gnawed on without mercy or honor so that not even the bones were left, destroyed nonchalantly by something mightier in you, something mightier than you, some big-time fucking asshole, whose name was, what, even? Forgetting. You could forget an entire world, the person you'd been there. It scared the shit out of you.
―America is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo

&

I keep forgetting about yesterday
I don't know what today is either
I keep forgetting the me of yesterday
I'm only twenty-six, yeah, yeah
Why can't I remember?
―Forg_tful by RM trans. by Genius

feeding a criminal appetite

[uglyfics]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: YEARNING!
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

The first semester she was my lifeline. It was a clandestine form of dating—the kind where the person you're going out with doesn't know it's a date. I denied myself, and I denied the fact that she was part of my life, so much so that I denied the dotted line that connected the two of us and our entire relationship to a crime. But the eye of suspicion had been cast upon me from the very beginning, and this extraordinary eye reached all the way back to my adolescence. My hair started to go gray early. Life ahead was soon supplanted by a miserable prison sentence. It was as if I never really had a youth. Nonetheless, I was determined at all costs to become a person who would love without boundaries. And so I locked myself and that eye together in a dark closet.

—Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Mingyu/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

[And when you give me your clothes / and when we're lovers at last
Fresh air, perfume in your nose / there will be teeth in the grass
...
And when you give me your house / when we're all brothers at last
There will be food in our mouths / there will be teeth in the grass

- Teeth in the Grass, Iron & Wine

[uglyfics]

Ship/Member: Any (getting JWW vibes tho...)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: maybe rebound fic? or just complicated emotions
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Maybe you just miss the springtime
Where the petals get pearly from your screen light
You got your phone out early to catch the bloom in her hair
While you're losing your air to the shine
But you just need the springtime
Because the tides are turning now and you find
I get your insides churning
It's not that I'm unfazed, yeah, I just know my place, oh

— Linying, Springtime (bolding my addition)

say what you can't say

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Junhui/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Love is a dress that you made / long to hide your knees
Love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only"
For your daze and excitement / what will you keep for to wear
Someday drawing you different / may I be weaved in your hair?
Love and some verses you hear / say what you can't say
Love to say this in your ear, "I'll love you that way"

- Love and Some Verses, Iron & Wine

sorry for not making you my centerfold

[replaydebut]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: break-up, angst, maybe even divorce if you wanna take it there
Additional Tags: idolverse & the complications of dating your member in the long-term when you both know traditional domesticity isn’t an option…
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Break my soul in two
Looking for you but you're right here
If I can't relate to you anymore
Then who am I related to?
And if this is the long haul
How'd we get here so soon?
Did I close my fist around something delicate?
Did I shatter you?

&

The question pounds my head
"What's a lifetime of achievement?"
If I pushed you to the edge
But you were too polite to leave me
And do you miss the rogue
Who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?
Will you forgive my soul
When you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?
'Cause we were like the mall before the Internet
It was the one place to be
The mischief, the gift wrapped suburban dreams
Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring

—— Coney Island by Taylor Swift ft.The National

home/sickness

[sido_rlo]

Ship/Member: Any, network love line?
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“Is there a direction home that doesn’t point backward?” — Paul Chan

desire as a weapon / desire as a shield

[ghostscissoring]

Ship/Member: jeonghan/any, or any/any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I pretended not to see, although I exploited it, the lust not quite sleeping in his bright, bitter eyes and, by means of the rough, male candor with which I conveyed to him his case was hopeless, I compelled him, endlessly, to hope."

- James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

is this love?

[harbourdreams]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: realization of feelings (but only when it's too late to act on them)
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

The rain against the window
Taps and flickers
Those eyes that appear
That face that appears
Is this love?

— final verse of Is This Love by Hahn Dae-soo, translated by me. Paired with:

When it rains, I miss you.

— predebut acrostic poem by Jeon Wonwoo (even though it's his quote, he doesn't necessarily have to be involved in the story)

is it really love if it doesn't hurt?

[ghostscissoring]

Ship/Member: jeonghan/any (maybe gyuhan?), or any/any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: exes to lovers
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

To be loved by Susan would be to be impaled by a bird's sharp beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door. Yet there are moments when I could wish to be speared by a beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door, positively, once and for all.

The Waves - Virginia Woolf

i beg for empathy, you give me nothing

[hoshism]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: exes, pining
Do Not Wants: mcd

Prompt:

Get a rise out of watching you fall
Get a kick out of missing your call
I hate me enough for the two of us
Hate that I can't let go of you enough, this why
I fuck him 'cause I miss you
I fuck him 'cause I really miss you

— F2F, SZA

i know it’s a little late

[kwontent]

Ship/Member: Any but…….. jeonghan………..
Major Tags: recovering from a serious illness/accident, survivor’s guilt
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

am I supposed to be
grateful
to have survived this?

- brenna twohy

[ghostscissoring]

Ship/Member: jeongcheol, cheolhao, seokhao, or any/any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: seeing each other for the first time after years apart, magical realism or maybe one of them is a god/deity of some kind (if ya want!), hands as instruments of worship
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Rippling gold, I say to him, "Come." And he comes; he crosses the room to where I sit...Our hands touch, our bodies burst into fire. The chair, the cup, the table - nothing remains unlit. All quivers, all kindles, all burns clear.

The Waves - Virginia Woolf