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2026 Round: Quotes

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2026 Round: Quotes

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"Enter any body of water and you give yourself up to be swallowed. Even the stones know that."

"beauty is terror"

"Would you fall in love with me again, if you knew all I've done? The things I can't undo. "

Calling all lovers of poetry and prose, rhyme and reason, screen and stage. Welcome to the Quotes Round, where every prompt must cradle a quotation (or two, or three). Mix the media and let the synergy birth a new order, or keep it short and let the subtext speak its secrets to the right writer.

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✧ 2026 ROUND: QUOTES ✧

2026 FILLS MASTERLIST

NOTION DATABASE (ALL FILLS)

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Ship/Member: Seungcheol
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: infidelity? in the closet? intimacy issues? something more sinister? or just plain uninterested?
Do Not Wants: None, go crazy

Prompt:

Maybe I’m just not better than this, I haven’t tried
‘Cause maybe you’ll finally choose me after you’ve had more time
I thought I was a fast learner
Guess I won’t ever mind crisping up on your backburner

Niki, “Backburner”

So I will wait for the next time you want me
Like a dog with a bird at your door

Phoebe Bridgers, “Moon Song”

Ship/Member: any, consider lee chan
Major Tags: -
Additional Tags: being yourself before becoming us, insecurities
Do Not Wants: -

Prompt:

For two selves to become one 'we', each self must be themself.
Pour que deux moi fassent un nous il faut que chaque moi soit soi.

— Deux Moi, Cédric Klapisch (2019)

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

Prompt:

You thank us for the chasing,
We thank you for the feast.
The grass leaps up about your carcass,
Long and lean and sweet,
We’ll be your chosen hunters.
And you - the god we eat.
― The Silt Verses, Chapter V

Flying in circles, just trying to land
I see you hurting, I do what I can
But I won't save you
― Darren Korb, In Circles

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

Prompt:

Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? Going unseen may be becoming a sign of decency and self-assurance. The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, propriety, autonomy, and voice.
- Akiko Busch, How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

Just like I said, had to come up for air
'Cause I know better than to hold my breath for too long
Now, love, you're not the only onе who's lonely
My final act of love was surrendеr
- Hayley Williams, Disappearing Man

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: disbandment/hiatus? non-famous what-ifs?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

When the historical moment and the present converge in a real place, nostalgia...is aroused.
― Jinghong Zhang, Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

The past lives at the core of our being. And as we make it, the past remakes us...to be is to have been, and to project our messy, malleable past into our unknown future.
― David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country

Ship/Member: Any but consider Jeonghan or the Capricorns (Joshua + Seungkwan)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Somеthing twisted in my chest
Says I'm good but not the bеst
When I was young, that knocked me out
But nothing really shakes me now
―Let Me Be Wrong, Jensen McRae

Ship/Member: Mingyu/Jeonghan
Additional Tags: non-famous; when you're maybe finally getting it right after years of getting it wrong; mentioned nsfw but nothing onscreen. good chat
Permission to remix: Yes

Let Me Be Wrong is meant to be Jensen's answer to "Silk Chiffon" or "I Wanna Get Better" sooooooo....

***

“Are you using my toothbrush?”

The oblong canister in Mingyu’s overnight bag never seems to make it out onto the counter, where his skincare and other toiletries have spilled out.

The sight of the bag, even unpacked, shouldn’t feel so nostalgic. The toothbrush thing doesn’t bother Jeonghan so much as the intention. Past experience tells him that Mingyu is staking a claim, but past experience has him back here. Same place they'd broken up years ago, tripping over each other's intentions to put puzzle pieces in all the wrong places.

“Maybe," comes Mingyu’s muffled reply. His face doesn’t give away any signs of shame from being caught aside from the pinkened tips of his ears.

“You have your own toothbrush, you know,” Jeonghan reminds, not unkindly, but gently. Mingyu’s skin is sleep-warm and soft under his fingertips. The divots of his vertebrae are tiny hills under Jeonghan’s fingers, counting them from where they start at the low-slung waistband of his sleep pants until he reaches the top of Mingyu’s shoulders where there are little crescent-shaped indents. Souvenirs in the shape of him.

Jeonghan’s mouth twists, more amused than anything else, but that seems to get a reaction out of Mingyu.

“So I can eat you out”—and Jeonghan grimaces at the vulgarity, uselessly pushing at an unmoving but giggling heathen. It's a weird kind of dance, swaying side to side and Mingyu blocking Jeonghan's hits—"and you can come in my mouth. But your toothbrush—ow, hyung, stop it—is where you draw the line.”

His gaze doesn’t leave Jeonghan’s eyes in the reflection.

“Don’t be disgusting, Mingyu-yah.”

“I’m just saying,” Mingyu insists, leaning over to kiss him. Toothpaste suds sit on Jeonghan’s cheek and he rolls his eyes, fond. He shimmies onto the bathroom counter, legs crossed at the ankle. Predictably, Mingyu’s eyes follow where Jeonghan’s shorts ride up. The gaze is more curiosity than hunger, only satisfied once the hickey on Jeonghan’s inner thigh comes into view.

For once, circling back doesn't feel like a mistake. The last time had been spite-driven. Every second a screaming warning of wrongness, something to be reminded of when wine-drunk on Joshua's couch while they toyed with the option of marrying each other for the tax benefits. Then, of course, Joshua had gotten married for real and chickened out on their blood oath. Some soulmate he is.

Clearing his throat, Jeonghan tugs his shorts back down over the bared skin. “What time is your flight tomorrow?” he asks. It's the one thing that makes this decision easy. Immediate distance. Time to process, to think it through.

Mingyu catches on, however. Call it a sixth sense after their years of yo-yoing back to each other.

“You’re already kicking me out?” His face changes from humored to pouting, staring back at Jeonghan with wide eyes. Mingyu steps in closer, wriggling himself between his legs.

Jeonghan rolls his eyes. "Can you not put words in my mouth?" he scoffs, leaning back to stare Mingyu dead in the eyes. The guarded concern is understandable. There's only so many times you can hold someone's heart in your hands and break it. Whatever he sees is enough. Or maybe it's the assurance from their friend group that Seungcheol had finally worn him down long enough to go to therapy.

Mingyu brightens.

"Just checking," he says, and Mingyu’s hand finds his, pressing their fingers together. His hand overtakes the tops of Jeonghan’s fingertips and closes over the top in an awkward handhold. "I know how much you like to run."

Once upon a time, there was an engagement band on the ground. Missed calls from a soon-to-be ex. Changed flights and sneaking out after the other person fell asleep. Things look different in the daylight; it's midday now, and all the lights are on. They've led them to each other again. It feels less like a force and more like watching a wave lap on a shore.

"I have a bad ankle." Jeonghan shrugs. He's not leaving his own apartment, nor is he kicking Mingyu out. Their grocery order is probably already at the front door. "And I just wanted to make sure I had all day with you. Since you like to sulk when you don't get attention."

Damp hair falls over Mingyu’s forehead as he leans forward, pressing himself closer until their noses touch. His wintergreen breath clouds the air between them, its sweet scent tantalizing enough for Jeonghan to lean in and press their mouths together, to repeat the last hour.

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

Prompt:

…how your hands clear
easily the wreckage;
how you stand―like a building for a time condemned,
then deemed historic. Yes. You
will be saved.
―Carl Phillips

Take me down to the river bend
Take me down to the fighting end
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be whole again
[...]
'Cause I'm only a crack
In this castle of glass
―CASTLE OF GLASS, Linkin Park

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

Prompt:

To the extent I am
necessary at all, I am
necessary like a roadside deer —
a thing to drive past, to catch
the white of, something
to make a person pause,
say, look, a deer.
— Kaveh Akbar, Forfeiting My Mystique

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

Prompt:

I’m just orbiting you
(I missed you, I lost you)
I’m just circling without traction
(You erased me, you forgot me)
— BTS, 134340

...we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal on their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Ship/Member: 8Jun
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: soulmates, parallel worlds/time travel, can we talk about 8jun using the same 3 motifs in their work since 2017
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Shattered into fragments, I break, break, break my heart
My orbit is changing, change, change this night
On the spot you and I once occupied, I stand frozen, name erased
Come back, back, back, my half, my half
- Gemini, Jun (translation with edits)

If there are two Earths
There could be another me
When I take a step closer
Thorns bloom on the flower road
At that time, you reach out to save me
I'll know, oh
You were my future
I'll know, oh
I was your yesterday
- My, I, Jun & The8 (translation )

In my dreams I travelled across outer space
All my sorrows brushed away
By the light in your eyes that night
- Orbit, The8 (translation own)

This round has closed. It will forever remain open for comments, fills and remixes but any prompts posted after this Junhui will be deleted.

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2026 Round: Quotes

devotion as self-harm

1+1

cycles of godhood

you'd let anyone with a body control you

what could have been

good but not the best

[fill] hard way's the way i want

building, rebuilding

here in the background

lost in orbit

orbital dynamics

PROMPTING CLOSED