17hols | 2025 Round: Quotes

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 soonwoo, or mafia!AU jun8
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: mutually destructive exes
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

But love is impossible and it goes on
despite the impossible. You're the muscle
I cut from the bone and still the bone
remembers, still it wants (so much, it wants)
the flesh back, the real thing,
if only to rail against it, if only
to argue and fight, if only to miss
a solve-able absence.

- Ada Limon "In a Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me’ from the collection Bright Dead Things

&

and all I can do
is stand on the curb and say Sorry
about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

- Richard Siken "Little Beast" from the collection Crush

Ship/Member: Minghao/Junhui, Minghao/Wonwoo, Minghao/Woozi
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

If I say I love you, would you
Reply with the same intensity
The drops of rain cover up tears
Inexplicably filled with emotions and thinking about our relationship
You will come closer or drift further
I will be waiting in the rain

-The8, Cold Love

Ship/Member: Any, but I'm feeling the jihancheol triangulation
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: acts of service as a love language but it's actually repentance, compassion as a reading your bruises on other people, wartime, unrequited love infinity mirrors
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Caravaggio: You're in love with him, aren't you? Your poor patient. You think he's a saint because of the way he looks? I don't think he is.

Hana: I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

- The English Patient (Movie)

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: (Suggestion of) violence
Additional Tags: Breakup? Toxic breakup? Breakup so toxic that someone should probably be in jail?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

You couldn’t tame me right
I was all that you knew
Why were you so good to me?
Was I worth it, baby?
You keep running, running far away
Shouting that you hate me

Chill Kill, Red Velvet

Timmy: Note to self: Never break up with a girl in the Violent Gardening Tools section.

The Fairly Oddparents (2001-2017)

Edited 2024-12-27 12:30 (UTC)

Ship/Member: any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: mcd

Prompt:

I think if the word for love was harder to say and didn't rhyme with anything, there would be less songs about it. I month you :)

- twitter user PhilsLion

this tweet drives me crazy because: 1) the implication that everyone else only talks about love because it's easy, whereas the speaker is in love despite it being difficult; 2) the speaker is feeling something unique and special to their relationship; 3) the speaker has to come up with a whole new language to express what they're feeling, one that specifically references a one month anniversary (it seems). if you know the context for this tweet you might think i'm crazy but please

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Time travel? Dimension jumping? Dramatic modern with no magic AU?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

in all timelines, in all possibilities, only you can show me this.

— Viktor, Arcane s2

Edited 2024-12-27 18:24 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Hoshi/any
Major Tags: canon universe
Additional Tags: career ambitions, etc.
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

What are we now but voices
who promise each other a life
neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting won’t make it so.
We cling to a vine
at the cliff’s edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.

– Tigers, Eliza Griswold

Edited 2024-12-27 13:40 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Any, but consider Gyuhao, Seokhao, Jeongcheol, Seokhan, Verhao, Soonhoon, Meanie
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: idolverse, hidden in plain sight romance, leaning into fan service so no one realizes it's real
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

question

haha i just read a fan fic about you and frankie from mcr going out.

answer

man, you wish that was fiction.

-from pete wentz's old livejournal posts

Edited 2024-12-27 18:17 (UTC)

Ship/Member: any, but also wonhan
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“I feel like we each have one foot chained to a post and are running around and around in circles. You run after me, only seeing me from behind, and I flee from you because I do not want you to see me from the front. In the end, neither of us takes a step forward.”

- Flower of Evil (drama)

a lot of things about this drama make me feel crazy, much like wonhan. so.

Edited 2024-12-29 00:30 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: breakup (nasty?)
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

my fingertips are holding onto
the cracks in our foundation
and i know that i should let go but i can't
and every time we fight
i know it's not right
every time that you're upset
and i smile
i know i should forget but i can't

kate nash - foundations

Edited 2024-12-27 16:01 (UTC)

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

Prompt:

The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
- The Mower, Philip Larkin

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

Prompt:

...The voice never
panders, offers no five-year plan,
no long term solution, no edicts from a cloudy
white beard hooked over ears.
It is small and fond and local. Don't look for
your initials in the geese honking
overhead or to see through the glass even
darkly. It says the most obvious shit,
i.e. Put down that gun, you need a sandwich.
- Wisdom: The Voice of God, Mary Karr

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

Prompt:

They sit together on the porch, the dark
Almost fallen, the house behind them dark.
Their supper done with, they have washed and dried
The dishes - only two plates now, two glasses,
Two knives, two forks, two spoons - small work for two.
...
...They have
One mind between them, now, that finally
For all its knowing will not exactly know
Which one goes first through the dark doorway, bidding
Goodnight, and which sits on a while alone.
- They Sit Together on the Porch, Wendell Berry

Ship/Member: Any, but consider Wonwoo
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Bodyguard AU? Knight/Hwarang AU? + when devotion is rancid and fraught
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

"You'd die for the cause, but you won't fight for one?"
—Silco, Arcane S1

I would give my life for you, but not to you.
—Patternmaster, Octavia Butler

Ship/Member: Junhui/Minghao
Major Tags: explicit sexual content, implied violent sex, implied choking, general violence
Additional Tags: small towns, messed-up upbringings, one-sided Minghao/Yixing, second person POV (Minghao's POV), not quite a mafia AU but close, mutually destructive exes, ambiguous ending
Permission to remix: Please ask

***
You know how impossible it sounds when you say it, watching the flames lick the last visible inch of the sturdy leather seat of your motorcycle of ten years, ruined by the only one who has ever known your weak spots, and yet you say it because it's true and you're still too fucking honest for your own good.

It all started because it was fun. Nothing more, nothing less.

*

He had the only bicycle of all the kids living on your lane and a beguiling fucking smile, even at eleven.

You had newly learnt how to do a backflip and dodge a punch in the alley behind school and really, it took much less than that to become someone interesting in a small town where everyone grew up with the singular dream of leaving.

*

By the time you were eighteen, you knew the sound of his footsteps on the gravel outside your window better than you had known your father's face and he knew you would only initiate kisses underwater in the community pool at 6 am but reciprocate no matter how risky and public the events where he tried it.

You realised you had to get away when the most familiar cheek under your tight reared-back-and-ready knuckles was his, even if it was because he wanted you to teach him the one dance you stuck to while all its tamer accompaniments got abandoned the year your mother, too, disappeared.

Maybe it wasn't a realisation so much as a slow awakening to something that was glaring at you all along; you had always liked it when you rode his bike in tandem down the road at the edge of the forest next to down, brambled and twig-lined, bound to rope you both into a fall that split your knees open and scuffed your elbows.

Nobody else you knew believed love was preserved in the act of drawing blood from one's lover with their own hands.

But what the hell did you both even know back then?

It was fun. That's all there was to it.

*

The leaving was inevitable as was the parting. You never told him where you're going and he never asked you to stay--only pushed you into the backseat of his uncle's car and touched you until you begged to be fucked, and then he did. A last act of his love and a last act of your violence. Or vice versa.

*

But you should've known that people like you never got away from anything you were running from. Not the poverty or the fistfights or the only love that cut you down to your bones only to have you desire the pain, not abhor it.

*

So here he is, the forgotten ghost of your past but ghost no more, yours no more, forgotten no more.

If you're as honest as you pride yourself to be, none of that is true. None of it, except all of it.

Because he's here and you did forget how his smile could drive you to murder if you let it. He's here and he punches with intent, not like the limp-fisted boy who seemed alive only when the sun hit his hair just right. He's here, at the club you hang around and do odd jobs for the worst kind of people, arm-in-arm with Yixing, like they're the ones with a history that gave your stupid town its first and only public indecency scare.

Yixing, who has been a bouncer at the club because he doesn't have the means to be anything more but wants to fucking protect people anyway.

Yixing, who you've wanted since the moment you laid eyes on him. Yixing who takes your bloodied body home and fixes you up but never tugs you into his bed, even though surely he knows that the only reason you let him catch you post-fights and unguarded, over and over again, is for that very reason.

He's here and his body is curved around Yixing's and he's not yours and for the first time since you met Yixing you know you don't have to be the one to instigate a fight to top off a bad night.

*

So you find out what shithole he's putting up in and you trash it while he's out pretending Yixing is his type, too, even though you both know he's not. Surely Yixing's never let a lover press their thumb into his wounds and laugh like the world's funniest joke was birthed from the touch of their fingertips to raw hurt.

And then he finds your bike and sets fire to it, no trace of him left behind at the club's lot where you keep it save for the way Yixing won't meet your eyes.

It's okay though. You understand now that he wouldn't have been able to satisfy the madman in you, anyway, would probably hate how you'd wake up the morning after and push him around like it was what he deserved when he didn't.

When you go home, near dawn, it doesn't surprise you to find him sitting outside your door, long legs stretched out and a cigarette dangling from his lips. After all, you've only ever loved beyond the point of obsession and the only thing he's never been casual about is you.

He doesn't ask to be let in and you don't keep him out.

You're too honest to tell him you don't want him and he's never needed words to navigate this anyway.

He'll follow you to bed and say please and get his hands around your throat and counts your breaths even if you shake your head and you will cry and surrender and slap him for it in the morning; and then you'll find a fight until the itch for him returns, or he will, if the blood stains on his denim jacket are anything to go by--and you'll want to leave by the end of the week because you have always wanted to get away, but ten years and then some apart, you still haven't figured out if away meant away from what was your home or away from him as well, so you'll rail and bitch and threaten to do it but you won't. Not until the itch subsides.

But hey, if history always does repeat itself, at least you can be certain that it will be fun.

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

Prompt:

So when I listen to Jun seriously talk about his dream of wanting to have the moon, it makes me think that he'll get it for real someday.

- Vocal trainer about predebut Jun

Ship/Member: Any, but consider Hoshi, Woozi, Mingyu, Scoups
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags:
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I want my cake on a silver platter
I want a fistful in my hands
I want a beautiful boy's despondent laughter
I wanna ruin all my plans
I want a fist around my throat
I wanna cry so hard, I choke
Well, I want everything I asked for

- Halsey, You Asked for This

Edited 2024-12-27 18:23 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: love that isn't fully reciprocated or that is imbalanced in some way
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Baby, I love you
. . . . . . . .

- STAYC, GPT

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: sports au, or even future fic if you want
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

"...I never left."

-- Daniel Ricciardo, 2021
_{* Daniel Ricciardo is an ex-Formula 1 driver.}
_{_{** in isolation this quote is about proving your haters wrong but in a broader and more delicious context, it's about telling yourself you haven't peaked when you have!!!}}

Ship/Member: Any, Soonyoung/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: idolverse or other fame-centric AU, love as a performance, nsfw?, the inherent horror of being a celebrity
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different color.
—The Passion, Jeanette Winterson

All the world's a stage.
—As You Like It, Shakespeare

And who do you call when it's late at night?
When the headlines just don't paint the picture right
When you look at yourself on a screen and say
"Oh my God, there's no way that's me"
—929, Halsey

Ship/Member: any, though perhaps i may suggest: 8jun
Major Tags: n/a
Additional Tags: sports au, olympics au, the high of winning something together after losing for so many years, team matches
Do Not Wants: explicit sexual content

Prompt:

Shirts off, and your friends lift you up over their heads
Beer sticking to the floor
Cheers chanted, cause they said
There was no chance, trying to be
The greatest in the league
Where's the trophy?
He just comes running over to me
— The Alchemy, Taylor Swift

Ship/Member: any
Major Tags: horror
Additional Tags: lovecraftian horror, cosmic horror, falling in love with an eldritch being and/or vice versa (?)
Do Not Wants: none

Prompt:

Every day, I secretly chase after your footsteps
I'm always careful so you won't notice
— Shadow, F(x)

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

Prompt:

As I say every year, there are so many ways to fall for someone. If you are at the edge of the cliff anyway, consider taking the leap. The ground might be soft enough to hold you and whatever comes next, and if it isn’t there will always be more cliffs, more edges.

—hanif abdurraqib, tell a friend you're in love with them tonight

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: Potentially MCD
Additional Tags: anything, but consider: multiple concurrent realities, dreamwalking, time travel... Doctor Who-esque, or lean into sci-fi
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

["You need to break the time loop. Stop trying to save me. I love you."

[This message has been played 18446744073709551615 times. Would you like to hear it again?] (source)

A fugitive, having lost something important to him, he escaped from the pain of the real world and into a world of dreams. The dreamworld of his own creation is a place where nothing has ever been lost. Here, he relives the happiest day of his life over and over. But eventually, this illusion of perfection begins to fall apart. As time passes, the face of the person he holds dear and recreated in his dreams becomes blurry and distorted. He ignores the truth by covering it up with a white sheet. One day, his creation escapes and he jumps through other people’s dreams to find it again. And he grows determined to turn his city of dreams into reality.

— JxW, This Man audiobook

"[Dreams] occur on a shared astral plane. Potentially in the fourth dimension. And when I enter your dreams, I encounter the same thing. Almost as if a piece of you lives there permanently.”

Almost as if. Exactly as if.

—from The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake

Ship/Member: Mingyu/any crossover
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: canon or idolverse, sexless industry parties get sexy
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

feeling so good at a bad party
we don't have to talk, I know that you want me

Rosé, "drinks or coffee"

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2025 Round: Quotes

we start with pain (bright dead things)

you are my lover but you are so cold

love is an open square

chainsaw revving

if i loved you less i could talk about it more

no subject

horanghae

you're gonna make me an honest man

no subject

foundations

we should be kind

the voice of god

they sit together on the porch

for you

[FILL] bright dead things

no subject

be careful what you wish for

don't you wonder about me?

and for anyone who thought i left...

fame is a firework

who are we to fight the alchemy?

do i keep you up at night?

warm blood

wibbly wobbly timey wimey

drinks or coffee