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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]
The towel was warmer than expected, as if recently dipped in tea and not just tap water. It gave Wonwoo an obligation of ritual, to follow the grains of wood across its breadth, to clean each table slowly, methodically like a man of culture.
Oh the murakami of it all… the beauty of exercising mindfulness during the mundane (and jww feeling like an impostor even as he does it lmao)
There's a look on Minghao's face that's halfway between a pout and a frown. It makes him look younger, petulant, like he knows he's right but doesn't know how to explain it.
LMAO i can see him down to the exact microexpression (any gose in which he gets falsely accused of anything).
As a fellow xmh lover I am so completely charmed by his characterisation here. Xu Minghao the teacher, the painter, the dancer and owner of designer sneakers. Who is certain and comfortable and knows unknowable things and holds influence it seems like no human should. He's perfect and he's the perfect foil to Wonwoo who can’t even bear to look directly at himself
Minghao ignores him. "Interesting. Acting was the reason he gave it up in the first place."
"Gave what up?"
"His heart, of course." Minghao raised an eyebrow, "Aren't we talking about Jun's heart?"
Oh I know EXACTLY what conversation sprouted this idea omg… And we never reached any conclusion about “What is it about acting that Jun finds so compelling” except “maybe it’s because it gives him a way to receive love as someone other than himself” and how you’ve taken and expanded that concept into: he has to literally DIVIDE HIMSELF into parts to pursue his craft. He can receive love (whether via his career or on a personal level (Wonwoo) ((Minghao))) but at the cost of his own ability to give that love back UGH its idolverse meta all the way down
"Can't you stay?"
Jun stood up on the ledge and the wind seemed to pick up him with its breeze, "Where can I stay, Wonwoo?"
This is one of those scenes that gains insane combo points on the reread because now i know!!!! Jun I know exactly where you can stay!!! Wonwoo doesn’t (yet) but I do!!!!
With the amount of canon references weaved into this, I can only imagine how many Murakami (and other) ones there are that I didn't catch. I have said this to u before but your dedication to and passion for immersing yourself in creativity as not just a thing to do but as a way to move in the world is so inspiring to me and I feel very lucky to be able to witness and read the things that come from that!!!
Re: FILL: heart in my chest on wings [4/4]
yes yes, this story came out so smoothly because of our recent conversations about seventeen's motivations as artists, murakami, the hotel fic, and what would each of the sebongs look like if they existed there (and now I will be thinking of your boojun fill!!) I was alr in the trenches with the meta and when I was hit with klav's prompt, all the ideas were within arm's reach, ready for rearranging. like why is jun so afraid of being perceived? why can he only be sincere if he's acting? why junnie, can you say I love you 100 times when drunk but grow embarrassed when wonwoo shares this knowledge??!! why are you afraid of being known as someone who loves others???!!!
- one thing I could do under firewall was watch loop xmh clips on rednote, that man has so many microexpressions and all of them are petulant
- another thing from our conversations is learning that there are many ways to write (and to feel about writing), just like there are ways to live this life. when I finished writing, I realised how the forest may seem dark and malevolent but actually it offers different forms of catharsis to different people, depending on what they want (jeonghan, minghao, jun, wonwoo). and then going back to edit, I wanted to make sure that whatever life advice minghao gave, it wasn't prescriptive but rather understanding. sometimes you need to stay whole, but sometimes you need to send a part of yourself away. both are okay!! as long as you are living well!!
thank you for reading and for being part of the process!! <3 no fic is an island etc etc.