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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]
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!