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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: FILL: heart in my chest on wings [4/4]
I don’t even know where to begin. Invoking 本 in 2025 IS UNBELIEVABLE.
The way you wrote Minghao here, he is so much. So himself. Entwining him with the imagery of the forest, of birds (how alike he and Wonwoo are, hello foreshadowing), the tea ceremony, the painting and poetry and Tagore. I am obsessed with his characterization. It’s fascinating that this is all from Wonwoo’s POV. Wonwoo sees immediately what Junhui saw in him. Of course Junhui would like someone like this, artistic and elegant and beautiful in the summer light. (me too junhui) Wonwoo admiring Minghao’s feet, how he points with them, dainty. like a child meeting their best friend's other friend EXACTLY. Minghao sees and names Wonwoo’s envy, his competitive streak. But does he see Wonwoo’s desire? Does Wonwoo see his own desire??
Minghao knowing that Wonwoo would succeed because Junhui himself sent him. Wonwoo, unable to acknowledge this, because he can’t acknowledge /his own/ feelings, let alone the blinding and hopeful possibility that Junhui might feel the same. In the end it doesn’t truly matter if Junhui returns his feelings. Because Wonwoo’s journey is about confessing to himself, finding his own heart, even as that journey is tied inextricably to his feelings for and devotion to junhui. AhhhhHHH what a lovely twist on the confession trope and also a perfect execution of a character ~haunting the narrative~
"You'll savour it more when you have less," Thank you philosopher Xu *heart hands emoji* also cannot stop laughing at the concept of Mormon Wonwoo. Not only your world-building but your setting-building, the description of this specific forest and lodge, is beautiful and atmospheric. So many descriptive turns of phrases tickled my brain it would be impossible to list them all. Wonwoo hitting his head on the windchime <3 he is JUST A GUY <3
It’s been years since I read Kafka on the Shore and there are absolutely references here that are going over my head. but you’ve taken all the parts of Murakami that are most fascinating and breathable and wondrous to me and you’ve made them your own and it’s!! So SO good!! The magical realism!! The hints at possession/spirits/souls. The dreams. THE DREAMS. "甘, the clarity of nature as a taste." your touches on multilingualism, of 8jun’s shared language being another point of jealousy/contention for Wonwoo. I’m obsessed. “A man left his shadow once” followed by he dreamt that he was being choked by his shadow, and he dreamt that he was falling from the sky but Minghao is living whole, Minghao is not the man who left his shadow… oh ho ho there are so many stories here. I love how gently they’re referenced. It feels like looking at an apartment high-rise in the middle of the night, when only a handful of windows are lit, and you get these heartbreakingly intimate glimpses into other people’s lives that then just fade away when the light goes out. Jeonghan in his little houseboat, leaving his husband and returning (assuming it is Jeonghan hmmm). The talking monkey (LOL). Minghao being known to others as more of a dog person (I see what you did there!!).
“When I'm in the forest, I want to walk in as a whole person, my full weight sinking into the earth. When I'm in the rain, I want every part of me to experience the rain. When I wake, I want all of my body to face the morning, even if waking is difficult." And finally, this part. HWA. hwa!!!!!! How could you. How could you take the original Murakami quote and rework it in such a way that synthesizes what you were talking about re: living deliberately, being mindful of time and thought and brainspace and community, in a world which wants us to give these things up. How beautifully this echoes those sentiments. How could you have made me tear up like thisdfjkshfjksdkgjdl. I haven't had a chance to read your longer post on convenience and community yet but I think about what you said on living, and living through the efforts of others, frequently. His brain itched for a game or the dopamine of a youtube video but he doesn’t, he can’t, and this line implies that Wonwoo’s whole mind/body/soul, his genuine individual effort, were needed to find Junhui’s heart—to find his own heart—that the effort itself is exactly what mattered— (how could you have done this!!!!) ;___; <3 (also now I am wondering what it means that Wonwoo let his own heart go free -- will junhui need to quest his way to the forest, too, in order to bring back wonwoo's heart? or were their intentions different enough that wonwoo is now free to love whomever he chooses, unlike junhui who /gave up/ his heart with the intention of loving no one? as always love to think and philosophize over your plots hehehheh)
Thank you + how dare you + in awe of your brain + this one will live on in my heart so bad + HAPPY 17HOLS BABYYYYY!!!
Re: FILL: heart in my chest on wings [4/4]
your prompt was awful (complimentary), I didn't even know I had this story in me until this prompt dug into my soul and pulled out a a never-ending chain of handkerchiefs all going back to my old essay on kafka/murakami's metaphors, my ongoing ruminations on how to live this life, and recent conversations with an oomf about seventeen's differing motivations as an artist.
Which is to say, the story emerged at midnight fully feathered (Wonwoo goes into the forest to find Junhui's heart, and can only retrieve it by giving up his own), but as I wrote over 3 nights, I realised there was so much more I wanted this story to say: about life, about philosophy, about love.
I did think of several epilogues for the story:
- crow lands at Junhui's window
- Minghao makes a call to Jun to come visit, a crow caws overhead
- Wonwoo dreams of fishing with Jeonghan on his lil houseboat (ctrl-paste from in the soop 1)
—as you noticed, in the end it was never about jun reciprocating, but about Wonwoo's journey to look at his own heart and set it free (metaphorically and literally).To your question as to what that action means, yes all those possibilities are now open to Wonwoo, which is the important thing. That ending felt right because I always believe that loving others come from loving yourself first, and even at the end of this story, Wonwoo is not quite there yet (which is why Wonwoo's heart is described as small and brittle, and Jun's as fat and nurtured. Jun's 🎵ready to love🎵 because someone has been looking after his heart). The crow now needs to grow strong until it can one day fly back to Wonwoo (or Jun, hehe). Like everything this year, I realise it's never about the result, but the journey. And for the journey, to put in the honest work because if your heart is in it, nothing will ever be a waste.
The more I wrote the more I thought about how the forest means something different to each of the characters: Minghao, Wonwoo, Jun, Jeonghan. Wonwoo's experience is close to Kafka's (i.e. going through the forest as a metaphor to confront yourself). For Jun, it is a place to hide his heart, to lock it away far away so that it can not affect him, whereas for Minghao, being next to the forest reinforces his need to stay whole, to reinforce his seams, to fight his shadow even as it seeks to destroy him—oh klav your prompt is like a virus I'm fighting. There are so many stories in here because of you.
As for Jeonghan, lets say the relevant data points are:
- bodies without a soul are prone to possession
- wonwoo dreams of jeonghan on the houseboat that night, after seungcheol's call
- the monkey tells wonwoo that he hasn't been dreaming
- jeonghan has cut a soul from it's body before
- Ms Hong's son died young
u___u✌️Some other treats for you!!
> 本 Minghao is absolutely the inspiration for the Minghao in this story, along with in the soop wonhan fishing aesthetics, I thought about artist!minghao from that soop where he paints the shadows of the forest and had to terminate that thought with an axe because I started thinking about a killing commendatore AU (which takes place on a mountain with an artist going through a creative block and has to kill his shadow)
> the tagore poetry collection is of course, stray birds (which felt too pointed to name)
> monkey is inspired by the murakami short stories A Shinagawa Monkey and Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey (paywalled), which is about a talking monkey that steals the names of the girls that he loved
> sappho fragment 31 is the one about jealousy (the lover looking at the beloved looking at someone else) - it was so fun to think about Wonwoo as someone who is content to love from a distance until some competition comes in and sets the heart in his chest on wings
thank you for listening and reading + how dare you for prompting and seeing my soul + happy 17hols and happy new year!