Ship/Member: Any; you can write no ship at all if that’s what feels right. i included quotes by howoo bc their words seemed relevant, but they don’t necessarily have to be in the fill
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: the simple joys + inherent worth of making art and loving art, learning who you are through the process of making art; could be idolverse or non-idol AU/not-doing-art-as-their-main-career AU
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

– Kurt Vonnegut in a 2006 letter to students at Xavier High School in NYC; emphasis is from the original text. Bonus quotes:

Q: Seventeen is known to release songs that bring comfort to fans around the globe. What are the members’ go-to comfort songs?
A: I don’t have a single song to pinpoint, but the idea of music on its own already brings so much comfort for me.

– Hoshi, 220603 group interview with Pinkvilla

Q: Who made you realize you could be an artist full-time?
A: Myself – regardless of odds, my younger self worked hard and continued to make progress over the years. I came to realize that it was me who made it work.

– Woozi, 201020 group interview with Billboard