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hwa ([personal profile] hwarium) wrote in [community profile] 17hols2025-11-13 06:03 pm
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2026 Round: Quotes


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Seventeen Holidays
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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Re: omens in the skies

[personal profile] firstresponders 2025-12-31 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Hansol startles him when he speaks. "When I was in prison," he says without preamble, "I used to look up at the stars every night and try to spot the constellations I remembered. I was on this planet not very far from the one I'd grown up on, so I could, but, well. After a while, I forgot to look up."

Minghao doesn't say anything. This is more than they're supposed to reveal to each other, all personal information considered unbelievably dangerous. The only secret is one not told. But he listens, hoping against his better judgment to hear more.

"I guess that's what they want," Hansol says. "For us to forget. Forget what we were, who we come from. Our own stories."

Minghao clears his throat before he answers. "I guess so."


This entire sequence really seals the doomed vibes so, so well... you really put such artful gaps in the story for the imagination to grow, e.g. what's the grand narrative they're supposed to follow? What's the actual mission? The focus on how Minghao and Hansol sees the world before they march on reminds me of how real life soldiers just want the war to end quickly so they can come home. And here, too, there's the uncertainty of whether Minghao and Hansol and whatever they're fighting for would survive. With so much mess going on in the world right now, this piece bottles the essence of inevitability so concisely. So, so good!
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Re: omens in the skies

[personal profile] lachrymosy 2026-01-03 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh thank you so much <3 I don't know if you've seen Andor but I definitely wanted to evoke a specific arc in the first season but also give it a different spin, so reading your comment made me feel like this little fic did give a window into that wider story. Thank you so much for taking the time to read!!