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2025 Round: Quotes

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2025 Round: Quotes

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"the poem begins not where the knife enters, but where the blade twists"

"beauty is terror"

"you'll just have to taste me, when he's kissing you"

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 a hit tweet.

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✧ 2025 ROUND: QUOTES ✧

2025 FILLS MASTERLIST

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Ship/Member: Any but consider minwon, soonhoon, jeongcheol
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: mcd, unhappy ending

Prompt:

but to love for a lifetime
takes talent

you have to mix yourself
with the strange
beauty of someone
else
wake each morning
for 72,000
mornings in
a row so
breathed and
bound and
tangled
that you can hardly
sort out
your arms
and
legs

- The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 3, Mary Mackey

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

Prompt:

Bar to bar at the speed of sound
Fancy feet dancing through this town
Lost my mind in a wedding gown
Don't think I'll ever get it now (don't think I'll ever get it now)

Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time, Panic at the Disco

Edited 2025-01-07 14:34 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Wonwoo/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: gore

Prompt:

Is it cloak and dagger
Could it be spring or fall?
I walk without a cut
Through a stained glass wall
Weaker in my eyesight
The candle in my grip
And words that have no form
Are falling from my lips

These Dreams, Heart

ok, you know what? this actually ends kinda hopeful? which is like .. a breath of fresh air here lmao. but you can see, slowly, that mingyu's care and patience is paying off. that wonwoo is letting him in little by little. going to him. this like .. ultra condensed slow burn. so many layers. AND U WORKED IN A "WHO DID THIS TO U" I WANT TO PERISH. AHH! why are they so easy to HURT?? ig at least wonwoo seems to be going through it worse for once. HANG IN THERE MINGYU. ONE OF US WILL EVENTUALLY WRITE U A HAPPY ENDING. rip.

Ship/Member: Soonyoung/96z, Soonyoung/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point
between where you've been and everywhere
else, and we were there. All the trees were dead,
and the hills looked flat like in real bad landscape
paintings in some nowhere gallery off an interstate
but still, it looked kind of pretty. Not because
of the snow, but because you somehow found
a decent song on the dial and there you were,
with your marvelous mouth, singing full-lunged,
driving full-sped into the gloomy thunderhead,
glittery and blazing and alive
- Oh Please, Let it be Lightning, Ada Limon

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: discouraging angst bwahahah (but like if u want to who am i to stop your creative genius)

Prompt:

i’d like to take a bite of everything that you say
i’d like to know every letter, every word and how they taste
//
am i coming on too strong
when i say i’d like to get stuck in your mud?
oh, i’ll find a million ways to say it
before i say, i’m in, i’m in —

- (not) a love song, liang lawrence

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

Prompt:

But there you go for the last time
I finally know now what I should have known then
That I could still be ruthless if you let me
But there you go and I'm not done
You're waving goodbye, well at least you're having fun
The rising tide will not let you forget me
forget me

- ruthless, something corporate

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

Prompt:

Well, I'm willing to break myself
To shake this hell from everything I touch
I'm willing to bleed for days my... reds and grays
So you don't hurt so much

So you don't hurt so much

Never again will we fire this gun
No never again your the only one
No never again but you're already gone.

- break myself, something corporate

Ship/Member: Minwon/Meanie
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Fluff
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▢ 1 package (340 g) sundubu extra soft/silken tofu
▢ ⅓ cup thinly sliced kimchi
▢ 85 g pork
▢ 1 to 3 teaspoons gochugaru
▢ 2 teaspoons minced garlic
▢ 1 tablespoon sesame oil use a little more if using more gochugaru
▢ 1 cup water or anchovy broth
▢ 2 to 3 tablespoons juice from kimchi
▢ 1/2 teaspoon saewujeot or salt to taste
▢ pinch black pepper
▢ 1 scallion, finely chopped
▢ 1 egg - optional

1. Cut the meat and kimchi into small thin strips. Add the kimchi, meat, gochugaru, garlic and sesame oil to a small pot, and place it over medium heat. Stir fry until cooked.

The first thing they teach in the class is how to hold the knife.

"Pinch the end with two fingers, then hold on to the handle," the woman says at the front of the room. Wonwoo follows along as she demonstrates. It's like learning the controls before playing the game, Wonwoo tells himself.

It's a basic Korean cooking class. His manager had asked him three times if he was sure that this is what he wanted to do but he'd insisted. He'd thought about Joshua to help him out but eventually the embarrassment had won out and he hadn't asked. Almost everyone he knows cooks "with feeling" which is nice for him when he is eating the food they'd made but not helpful for him in learning.

It's much easier for him when things are more precise and the instructions are clear. So, a cooking class. Now it's part of the official Seventeen schedule that Mijoo noona updates. It's listed only as "Wonwoo's solo schedule."

He knows Coups hyung knows what it is but he's not sure if the other hyungs or members know. They don't ask him or tease him about it, so maybe not. It's fine. This is his little secret for now.

He starts out at the back of the room but when their instructor realizes how poor his eyesight is and that he needs more help than the others in the class, she moves him to the station closest to her.

He bows in apology but she only pinches his cheek.

"I don't have many men coming here to learn how to cook for their sweethearts," she says, after a particular hard pinch. She'd asked him curiously, after a particularly disastrous episode with a potato that had slipped from his hands, why he was in this class and he'd told her, in a fit of surprised honesty, that he wanted to cook for someone he cared about. "Certainly not ones as handsome as you are."

"Ah, thank you," he says, voice wavering as he laughs a little awkwardly. He doesn't think he'll ever get used to getting complimented about his looks no matter how many years he's been an idol.

She smiles at him and then promptly tells him that he needs to slice his onions more evenly and that one teaspoon does not mean heaping.

He nods and takes notes on his phone, even as some of the gochugaru smudges on the screen. He's got a long way to go.

2. Pour in water (or broth) and the juice from the kimchi. Bring it to a boil, and continue to boil for 3 - 4 minutes. Skim off the scum.

In his last class, his teacher pinches his cheek one more time and tells him to call her if he needs any help. She hands him a stack of papers with all the recipes they tackled along with her annotations. He can mostly work independently now and is at least now 100% sure that anything he cooks at least be edible if not the most delicious.

His last class also happens right at the start of SEVENTEEN's annual vacation (something they'd added to their renewed contracts once it was time to renegotiate) so he'll be going home and he'll have time to practice away from the other members.

Wonwoo kisses Mingyu goodbye at the door and takes the KTX back home to Changwon, where he subjects his family to his many attempts at perfecting what he's learned in cooking school. The first time he tries to light the stove almost ends in a minor fire and so he's promised his aunt to wait for her so she can supervise before he makes any further.

He still plays games when he's at home and takes Seollie out on her walks. But there's a callous developing on his index finger from the knife he's been using to mince garlic and slice meat. He learns more about soy sauces when he goes to the grocery with his aunt and knows now never to buy Tamari again (the way he did that one time when Mingyu asked him to do the shopping).

The first time his father's face lights up when he tastes the japchae Wonwoo made for the first time makes something warm and please bubble up in Wonwoo's stomach. Bohyuk asks for seconds.

3. Add the soft tofu in big chunks. Stir in the salted shrimp (or salt) to taste (start with 1/4 teaspoon) and black pepper. Cook for 4 -5 minutes. Add the chopped scallion just before removing the pot from the heat. If desired, crack an egg into the stew to serve while it’s still boiling hot.

"Hyung? Are you home?"

Wonwoo wipes his hand on the kitchen towel and surveys the mess he's made of the kitchen. He needs to wipe down the counters and surely he used more bowls than he probably needed but there's kimchi sundubu-jjigae on the dining table that tastes exactly the way Wonwoo had hoped it would and a few of side dishes that Wonwoo's been hiding at the back of their kimchi refrigerator, hoping that Mingyu wouldn't notice. They haven't seen much of each other these last few days with their schedules completely clashing so he thinks he's gotten away with it. The rice cooker chirps beside Wonwoo.

"In the kitchen," Wonwoo calls just as Mingyu comes into view. He's got his head tilted curiously. "Have you eaten?"

Mingyu looks at Wonwoo, taking in the mess of his apron and looking at the messy counters behind him.

"Hyung, did you…cook?" He looks a little alarmed.

"Yeah," Wonwoo says, scratching the back of his neck, flustered. "I took a class."

Mingyu looks up at him from where he's been inspecting the jjigae, leaning all the way down to breathe it in. "What?"

"You know the personal schedule I've been going to every Thursday night?" Wonwoo's face is warming up. In some ways, he'd known he was going to tell Mingyu about the class but he hadn't accounted for how much it would feel like showing his soft belly, even though he knows Mingyu will only take care of him. "It was a Korean cooking class for beginners."

"I thought you were working on a solo album." Mingyu's much closer now, just one step and he'll be close enough for Wonwoo to kiss.

"That's for another time." Wonwoo fiddles with the ends of his apron's ties. "Can we sit? And um, can you tell me if it's any good?"

"Yeah, of course."

Wonwoo scoops out rice for them while Mingyu serves them a bowl each of the jjigae. Wonwoo watches, stomach doing somersaults, as Mingyu brings up the spoon to his mouth. He takes a mouthful of rice slurps up the hot broth. Wonwoo holds his breath.

Mingyu closes his eyes and makes a noise Wonwoo would call a moan if he weren't drowning in anxiety. "Hyung, this is so good."

Wonwoo slumps back against his seat like a puppet cut from its strings. All the anxiety bleeds out of him all at once. "Really?"

"Yes," Mingyu says emphatically. He has another mouthful and follows up the bite with a little kimchi. He moans again.

Wonwoo can finally breathe, relieved. "I'm glad."

Wonwoo takes a bite of his own and is pleased to find that it does taste good. It could maybe use a little more spice but it's far beyond the passable attempts he's made in the past.

"Why did you suddenly want to take classes, hyung? I could have taught you." Mingyu asks between big bites.

"You've been so busy lately." Wonwoo flushes all over again, overcome with shyness all of a sudden. "I wanted to be able to make you something other than ramyun on the nights you're too tired."

"Wonwoo," Mingyu says, voice soft.

"I get it now, why you like to cook for me and for the team."

Wonwoo thinks he finally understands why Mingyu and other members do this. Watching Mingyu enjoy what he made with his hands is like hearing Carats' cheers from the stage, that electric moment of sharing something he and his team made condensed into a bite-sized package, intimate in a way he hadn't quite understood until he'd done it himself.

"I love you," Wonwoo says. He reaches out for Mingyu's hand and squeezes. Mingyu squeezes back. "Let's both eat well."

this hurt but it's in such a good way that i'm just wow, this is soooo good and it fits the prompt perfectly actually and I love it so so much because like watching wonwoo's walls break down bit by bit gives so much hope at the end there, I just love it

my heart is so warm, this is so so lovely and perfect omg I love it so much

omg i'm so glad cause when i first started writing it, the plan was actually for mingyu to let seokmin die because he couldn't risk it but mingyu wouldn't let me lmao I had a mingyu in my head yelling at me that he would never do such a thing and yeah, I'm just so happy you liked it!!!!

i loved this a lot.. have been going about my days recently just thinking about it. you used the . . . . . . . so cleverly, and i love how it draws a parallel between the fishbone and the words they’re not fully able to make each other understand. wnh really are such a good duo to play with the ambiguously unreciprocated dynamic and u captured their respective love languages and attachment styles so well here, that fishbone scene is so brilliant for that!! ww repressed acts of service swallowing his own feelings, jh frustrated that his mouth can’t keep up with his brain and a bit of a jokester to avoid thinking about his feelings too much. thank u for writing i enjoyed it so much!!

josh is so nasty in this it’s delicious. i had to google the whisk trick to fully understand the first scene, but it’s such a clever way to pick up on the cake prompt and to establish first thing how many layers of diffusion/facade/artifice there are to him… the mg characterization is so spot on of course, and his transparent desire to be loved is such a good foil for this interpretation of josh: “Joshua was particular because he despised the person he imagined himself to be without it.” so good!! his self awareness here is one of the things that makes him so terrifying. and the JEONGHAN, i loved how unsettled josh is by yjh’s faith in him, can’t quite rationalize it so he has to play extra dirty… this was so great thank you i’ll be haunted by this joshua hong forever

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

Prompt:

I ask you how you're doing and I let you lie
But we don't have to talk about it
I can walk you home and practice method acting
I'll pretend bein' with you doesn't feel like drowning
Tellin' you it's nice to see how good you're doing
Even though we know it isn't true

Cool about it - Pheobe Bridges

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

Prompt:

sketiana
i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now

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

Prompt:

“To love someone / means to admit extinction. / I tell myself this / so I never fall in love, / so that the fire lights just me.”

- victoria chang, obit

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

Prompt:

“unclench your fists, my lover, the war is over now. (i’ve forgotten how to uncurl my fingers from the trigger.) be gentle, my lover, the war is over now. (i don’t remember what it’s like not to have gunsteel in my bones.) come home, my lover, the war is over now. (i’m back at the place i left but home is gone where i cannot find it.) sleep, my lover, the war is over now. (the war follows me into sleep. i’m afraid i’ll never leave it behind.) kiss me, my lover, the war is over now. (my fingers still drip red and i do not want to stain you with them.)”
- teach me how to be at peace again

Ohhh it's so powerful that there are only two lines of dialogue in this. "good-bye, Wonwoo!" and "You're my King," , each so short and succinct that they hit like a gong, each representative of larger themes. I love all the world-building you did here. the medieval diction worked so well. Knight!Wonwoo is delicious and exactly what I had in mind with this prompt! thank you for sharing this!

sharp and lovely. the way this glides between different conversations is so smooth. the tone of it feels quintessentially wonhui and I enjoyed it so much :') thank you for sharing this!

How did this feel like 200k... It's the only thing worth remembering in the last 3 years of his life. holy shit what a line. what a reconciliation! I love the stormy atmosphere, I love the subtle group dynamics, I love Seungcheol's whining, 100/10 would read an additional million words <3

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: post break-up reflection, maybe kind of hopeful ending?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you
take me back to the night we met
i don't know what i'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you
take me back to the night we met

the night we met - lord huron

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: MCD

Prompt:

you know what they say about monsters. you know what happens to the boys who love them. are you going to do that to him?
- yes & no, natalie wee

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

Prompt:

why don't you show me that little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress? i only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me
- dance dance, fall out boy

ao3 user tigerbox lj user skullchi i will always be your fan... so much to say about this that i loved!! first: you're able to create such visual and visceral scenes so quickly. so many images from this popped into mind in 4k: the glint of joshua removing his ear piercings in the passenger seat in jeonghan's peripheral vision, jeonghan pretending to sleep with his head on joshua's lap while joshua pretended not to wake him, the scene in the guest bedroom. truly insane!! i love how every scene is dipped in nostalgia and jeonghan's muted desperation of clinging to the past. both jeonghan and joshua pretending to be asleep and the other seeing through it... the kindness of playing along and also the ways they still know each other... and the lines that made me need to lie on the floor:

- He imagined it would feel like being able to hold hands with himself. just no words only ache and mind going brrrrr... the yjh/hjs mirror-isms of it all...
- His palms had the tiniest of indentations on them – Jeonghan wouldn’t realize until later when he couldn’t fall asleep that they were remnants from the car ride over, and Joshua had poked himself so hard gripping his earrings that they had left reminders on the surface. u r insane for this!!! /pos. the focus on hands really calling back jeonghan's inability to let go TT___TT

thank you for writing this delicious jihan and gracing 17hols with your presence! ♡

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2025 Round: Quotes

no subject

champagne, cocaine, gasoline

while you were sleeping

Re: [FILL] liquid sunshine, moonlight vapor

see you later

(not) a love song

no subject

no subject

FILL: a hundred pitchers of honey

Re: [FILL] liquid sunshine, moonlight vapor

Re: FILL: a hundred pitchers of honey

Re: [FILL] bite me so i know i’m yours

Re: [FILL] . . . . . . . .

Re: [FILL] sweet tooth

cool about it

inertia

achilles

alone with the ghost

Re: [FILL] for you, my lord

Re: [FILL] i wouldn't ask you

Re: [FILL] 보고 싶다, 이렇게 말하니까 더 보고 싶다

the night we met

protect me from what i want

last call, last resort, first mistake

Re: [FILL] that monster called nostalgia