Round 1: Quotes

[hwarium]

Status: Closed This round has closed. It remains open for fills and comments, but prompts are no longer accepted. Seventeen Holidays Round 1: Quotes About The world is full of beautiful words. The tongue has no bones but is strong enough to break a heart. Words start wars and end them, create love and choke it, bring us to laughter and joy and tears. There is no falsehood in words, only in things. Calling all readers, lovers of poetry and music, screen and stage. If you have a google spreadsheet of Metric/Marina/Mitski/Macklemore lyrics, now's your time to shine. What does Nobel Laureate Louise Glück have in common with the Future of Kpop Lee Chan? I don't know, but we can find out. Examples Junhui + The Archer "Easy they come, easy they go I jump from the train, I ride off alone I never grew up, it's getting so old Help me hold onto you" Taylor Swift - The Archer Verhao; "I loved him from the moment he walked in" Just thinking about all the verhao soft feelings from the last week of November, especially the killer tweet from @literarykpop with the quote: "I laughed and said, ‘Life is easy.’ What I meant was, ‘Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again." - Miranda July 95 line - R18 "Houston, we have a problem." Rules Sign up is not required. Fills have a minimum of 400 words for prose, haiku-length for poetry (3 lines), and 400px by 400px for art (memes are also art). Other mediums are fine too! There is no maximum cap. Tag and provide content warnings at your discretion, but a good guide are the Ao3 four (Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage) and this list of common CWs (cr: SportsFest). NSFW/Explicit content should be tagged NSFW art should not be visible. Please provide a link to the art. You may crop the artwork and embed a SFW preview. How it works Prompting Click on [Post a New Comment] at the bottom of this post; Change the subject to something interesting and saucy; Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment and fill in the sections. Feel free to add as much detail as you want! <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Do Not Wants:</strong> None <strong>Prompt:</strong> <blockquote>QUOTE GOES HERE </blockquote> Filling Reply to the original prompt; Change the subject to [FILL], you may add a title or stay chaotic; Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment, fill in the sections, and add your text You may also upload your fill to the AO3 Collection <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Permission to remix:</strong> Yes/No/Please ask *** Filling with art/media Do the same as above, also; Upload your work to any platform (twitter, imgur, youtube, soundcloud, google maps, etc.) Insert the link to your work, done! Optionally, you can embed a picture into your comment. Please use the following code instead. (To explain, the HTML resizes your picture to 400x400px so that it fits on most screens, users can view the full size if they click on it. You can also add a link to your work on twitter so that others can share it, or to any other website you want) <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Permission to remix:</strong> Yes/No/Please ask *** <img src="INSERT IMAGE URL" width="400px"> <a href="INSERT ANY URL YOU WANT">TEXT THAT DESCRIBES THE LINK</a>

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[florulentae]

Ship/Member: Mingyu/any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Magical realism, body horror
Do Not Wants: N/A
Prompt: "unmythologically we dragged the bodies / there to find themselves finally bodies / backward dragged them over the leaves' // unrest limbs trussed in our perforated thirst / in blackness the moon like a nail snatched / from bed their heads with nowhere to turn" —The Vale of Malevolent Volume, Justin Phillip Reed

wonwoo + hounds of love

[surjamukhi]

Ship/Member: Wonwoo/Soonyoung
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

When I was a child, running in the night
Afraid of what might be
Hiding in the dark, hiding in the street
And of what was following me
Now hounds of love are hunting
I've always been a coward
And I don't know what's good for me
- Kate Bush, Hounds of Love

[bluerthanbluets]

Ship/Member: Jeonghan/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: can be clandestine relationships idolverse, can be end of the world/future setting, can be any urgent/time sensitive/forbidden (?) kind of relationship
Do Not Wants: cheating

Prompt:

We have only one minute
and I love you.

Dunya Mikhail

*

Love, what is left for us and of us, is this
living remnant, loving revenant, brief kiss

Mandelstam, tr Wiman

[bluerthanbluets]

Ship/Member: Seungcheol/Any
Major Tags: major character death
Additional Tags: love and grief? love after grief? future fic
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

You'll be reading, and for a moment there will be a word you don't understand, a simple word like now or what or is and you'll ponder over it like a child discovering language. Is you'll say over and over until it begins to make sense, and that's when you'll say it, for the first time, out loud: He's dead. He's not coming back. And it will be the first time you believe it.

Dorianne Laux

[bluerthanbluets]

Ship/Member: Mingyu/Hoshi
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: competitiveness as love language, can be not haikyuu/sports related at all
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I swear you got a little bit taller since I saw you
I'll still destroy you

The National

*

"It's simple, really. I want to defeat you at your best."

Haikyuu!

[surjamukhi]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: (do i even need to say it?) Yearning!!
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.
- Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.
- Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

don't tell me you'd miss me

[hyojungss]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: explicit content

Prompt:

[A] gazed into the fire, [his] expression troubled. "Why is it so easy for you to contemplate your death?"
"I'd rather look at a thing squarely than let it catch me by surprise." He grinned. "Don't tell me you'd miss me."
[A] looked away again.

- king of scars, leigh bardugo

watched over word and thought

[hyojungss]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: explicit content

Prompt:

But [A] did not attempt to put his thoughts into words, for he had already too good reason to know that [B] would mercilessly and frostily nip all attempts at sentiment in the bud—or laugh at him, which was ten times worse.

- anne of avonlea, l.m. montgomery

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Minghao/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

...Already what I remember
most is the happiness of seeing you. Having tea.
Falling asleep. Waking up with you there awake
in the kitchen. It was like being alive twice.
I'll try to tell you better when I am stronger.
–The Defeated, Linda Gregg

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Post-disbandment – or shortly pre-disbandment
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.
– For M, Mikko Harvey

museum dates

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Mingyu/Minghao or Vernon/Minghao
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I look
At you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together for the first time
– Having a Coke With You, Frank O'Hara

anything dream related

[purplepinkskies]

Ship/Member: Any member or ship
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: heavy angst

Prompt:

So
Sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in
Like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within
Sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushing in
And carry you over to a new morning.
– Poets Of The Fall, "Sleep"

just. go wild with the members dreaming and maybe they're not so sure it was a dream anymore. reality and dreams may be meshed together. let us know where we stand in that new morning.

[insonder]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden

If something Idolverse/ Canon-compliant can be written (looking very hard at [My working week and my Sunday rest]) I'd be over the moon, but it's not necessary!

would you walk into hell or live with me forever

[deadwine]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags:ambiguous relationships? N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I'm living because I can't die"
-Min Yoongi

"I am someone who did not die when I should have died."
-Anne Carson

vampires? elves? witches? ENTS? anybody can be an immortal~

anti-love poem

[deadwine]

Ship/Member: Jihoon/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants:arranged marriage

Prompt:

Or is it fear of dying alone / that moves us toward each other in this room” — Timothy Liu

relationship of convenience? circumstancial relationship?

ghosts

[icarusundone]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: major character death (ghosts)
Additional Tags: ghosts, music
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

And no one needed to write down
Or restate, or make record of, or ever would,
And never will,
The plainspoken music of recognition,

Nor the way I often stood at the window—
The hills growing dark, saying,

As a shadow became a stride
And a raincoat was woven out of streetlight

I would know you anywhere.
- Eurydice Speaks, Eavan Boland

--

summer is only a word, but it’s an orange word, a kind of burning. i play softly. there’s a ghost in the room somewhere. he might be sitting on the bench. he might be evaporating.
- a prose poem about ghosts, Keaton St. James

--

I, too, know the science of building men
Out of fragments in little light
- Dear Dr. Frankenstein, Jericho Brown

the sun on your neck

[capricornia]

Ship/Member: Any, but I like to think about Jeonghan and Seungcheol!
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: From "Once More to See You," by Mitski:

In the rear view mirror
I saw the setting sun on your neck
And felt the taste of you bubble up inside me
But with everybody watching us
Our every move
We do have reputations
Will you keep it secret
Won't let them have it
So come inside and be with me
Alone with me
Alone with me
Alone
If you would let me give you pinky promise kisses
Then I wouldn't have to scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart
If I could see you
Once more to see you

set a fire in my head, tonight

[deadwine]

Ship/Member: Jeonghan/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Would you bleed for me?
Lick it off my lips like you needed me?
Would you sit me on a couch?
With your fingers in my mouth?
You look so cool when you're reading me
-Trouble by Halsey

genuine revelation

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Any (although maybe with joshua)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

"I one-sidedly devoted myself to you, and in the end I was thrown away… It’s wretched, it’s embarrassing, but... The friendship--the love--that I found in you won’t turn into hatred so quickly, you see. Even if things don't turn out well for me... It doesn't mean that the days of youth that we spent together were all lies. The first warm feeling that ever budded in my chest won’t simply disappear. For as long as this warmth persists, I will always be glad to have been born."
-Ensemble Stars

never knew i was a lamp

[deadwine]

Ship/Member: Mingyu or Minghao centric
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
-The Little Things Give You Away, Linkin Park

He put on his shoes.
You started this with your mouth, he pointed.
Where are you going? I asked.
To ride the Ferris wheel, he answered,
and climbed inside me like a window.
-My Brother My Wound, Natalie Diaz

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Any, though Jun/Minghao/Joshua/Wonwoo/Jihoon would be preferable
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Idolverse
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

her accent is a stubborn compass
always pointing her
towards home
-Denice Frohman

If you write this into some of the Korean members having a regional dialect accent and them training themselves to let go of it, eg Wonwoo's Satoori, I will scream.

When the flowers of every color bloom and the flower petals flutter off

[luvisms]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Fiesta, I deeply swallow the sun in my heart
I’ll be burning eternally through all these seasons
My every season and every day are splendid festivals
Come visit at least once
It’s my fiesta
Since the festival is everywhere
It’s my fiesta

- iz*one, fiesta

runnin, im runnin

[deadwine]

Ship/Member: Jun/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

I realized that every man-made road eventually comes to an end
And there’s you, asking me for the answer

You go your own way
You don't have to stop
Don't keep track of our direction
The more we wander, the thirstier we get
-Oasis by EXO

home

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Any (Jun or Minghao-centric?)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: idolverse
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

i want to know what we do with the dead things we carry

[(Anonymous)]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: ambiguous relationships? maybe post-breakup?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

"I would not call it fear
or the absence of fear
that I woke with, but worry,
this morning when I rose
up from the bed, & saw,
with clear seeing, for the first time,
that my chest was a small, red cup,
or bird in my hand, somehow
thirsty, its injury
made me panic for it
& I carried it with me
not knowing what to do
with its small speech, the way
it said your name.

I want to know what to do
with the dead things we carry."

[...]

"Would I trust my mouth
to resuscitate the messenger, small bird,
knowing I could kill it
with my teeth?"

Aracelis Girmay, This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side