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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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Re: [FILL] holding knives

[personal profile] rainiest 2026-01-25 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I screamed the day this was posted and have not stopped since because ohhhhh my god. Idk how to describe this but you are SO good at diagnosing the exact dynamic between two people and then selecting the precise AU to bring out everything that is most compelling about the people and their relationship (soonhoon sentinel AU start running because i WILL come for you too). irl gyuhan is so compelling because of their intellectual rivalry, subsequent respect for the other's intelligence and competence, and the genuine care they have for each other beneath it all and this is the perfect au to highlight all those things. Your brain is enormous

Jeonghan approached the sickbed and his expression was wretched. Brows tight, mouth twisted, those floodlight eyes looking for something Mingyu didn't know how to give him. Was Jeonghan this good of an actor, really? That he'd try to kill Mingyu and then come weep at his bedside?
Firstly this makes me Sick just as an image and secondly how Jeonghan is sincere but still all mingyu can see is knives…

It was stupid to underestimate Jeonghan, but Mingyu was beginning to wonder if he'd been looking for vipers in a pit that didn't exist. If Jeonghan's sharpness was exactly what it looked like, and the deeper parts of him were something else.
Again the blend of canon and au is crazy because jeonghan is 100% a knife and he seems to be the only person who doesn't realise it because only he knows that he would (almost) never turn the blade on someone for real. And the banger ending line sums it up so well: is the only difference between cruelty and kindness which side of the blade you stand on?

I also love the fic by averytree you mentioned in another comment and thought of it immediately (though I also have not read scholomance lmao). another 17hols fill from u that will now live in my brain forever ahhhhh thank you for writing!!!!
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