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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.
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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."
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what did my fingers do before they held him?
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: end of a relationship or post-breakup?
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt:
[FILL]: The Ghost of Your Hand in Mine
Major Tags: Angst
Additional Tags: End of Relationship
Permission to remix: Please ask
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Teen and up
This is just a bit depressing and I'm sorry about it
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28529703
[FILL] what if we make ourselves even more meaningless?
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: ambiguous r/s, post breakups, water metaphors and matters of the heart
Permission to remix: please ask!
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Jeonghan tosses his heart into the river when he breaks up with Seokmin.
He stands there, grim satisfaction gripping the back of his throat, staring at the bubbles in the water as it sinks down, down, down into depths he didn’t think it could reach. Watches the way his reflection contorts on the surface, the splash ripping his mirror apart.
Jeonghan didn’t know people could look like that, thought it was only like that in the movies. But here, where the air is still too painful to breathe and everything in him is angry and red and raw, the river’s surface spits him back out all cold and broken and shattered. Ugly on the outside too. It hurts to look at but the truth of what he sees balms his soul: he was never meant for love.
Not a love like this anyways — I think about you every day before I wake and before I go to sleep, thank you for dealing with my existence although I am exhausting to love, it’s you it’s you it’s you it will always be you —
Jeonghan can feel the wound in his chest, gaping wide open. Bared to the world. He looks down, checks to see if it’s a dream, expecting to find a bloodied mess, a tangle of heartache and tears. Instead, he finds that he left the house today with half his collar untucked, and there’s nothing very remarkable about that. Jeonghan does it quite often, and Seokmin would usually be the one to fix it.
Jeonghan closes his eyes. He threw his heart in the river. It should have solved everything. It does not; it only hurts more.
Regret sets in — slow at first, then it files in fast and faster, until he cannot get enough of it, the shame, the guilt, all of it.
Jeonghan drowns standing up straight and completely dry, standing two feet away from the water.
Wait, he says desperately, praying fervently, not at all sure who he’s praying to anymore. Whoever’s waiting at the doors, he guesses. He’s desperate.Wait.
Then he’s wading into freezing cold water searching for his heart again. Despite his poor circulation. In spite of his poor circulation. Although he has poor circulation. Wait. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.
If Seokmin could see him now, would he laugh?
How funny is it that you only learn to love something once you’ve lost it? That you only learn how to say sorry after you’ve seared unforgivable pain after pain after pain onto another body, an unspeakable act of violence in the name of tenderness?
He shuffles his hands through the riverbed, blind with panic. The water is up to his chest now. Waterlogged inside and out. Where is it, the damned thing? Jeonghan searches and searches and searches, teeth chattering, for something that would’ve maybe made a difference if he had done it sooner. Somewhere in him wants to pretend that this one last desperate act is enough to make up for everything else. As if everything would ever be alright again.
His heart beats hard outside his body. It thuds freely, far away from him. A cry for help. A beacon. A sign. Come find me. It’s okay. It’s alright. It’s not too late.
But it is. Too late, that is. Jeonghan no longer has Seokmin. Because Jeonghan tried to toss his hurt away yet he still stands, shackled to his sadness. Because he stared into his reflection and did not like what it had to show him. Because everything he is reminds him of what he has lost.
They say that water has memory.
That it keeps a careful catalogue of everyone who passes through, retains a little bit of everything that is tossed into it. It writes its own history, tells its own stories. If this river could talk, it would tell you about a boy who threw his heart into the water in hopes that his sadness would go away.
But it doesn’t work like that.
In winter, Jeonghan stands in the middle of a river crying into his hands.
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a/n: saw this quote on the tl and recognized it also from 17hols and i couldn’t get the image out of my head one day ill write happier things for seokhan i promise. lyrics are from yang da il’s and then, but this is inspired by loss off his new album (our joys and sadness)
Re: [FILL] what if we make ourselves even more meaningless?
okay but fr the way u described jeonghans pain... wanting to get rid of it by throwing his heart way... then desperately searching for it... absolutely beautiful. ur way with words! so amazing. the emotions! so amazing. the metaphors! so amazing.
what really hit me was when jeonghan looked at himself and noticed the collar thing. u just know how to incorporate the small things perfectly, making them matter and feel Big. one of my absolute fave things in the world and u are a pro at it.
thank you for writing and sharing <33
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"Jeonghan drowns standing up straight and completely dry, standing two feet away from the water." This line just......this lINE. The way it's kind of devoid of emotion in a blank, painful way just made it hurt SO much more
god this is beautiful but ou cH
Re: [FILL] what if we make ourselves even more meaningless?
just kidding bc I, as a seokhan Pain Enthusiast, am simultaneously SCREAMING and also thanking u for this MEAL. this is beautiful, you write sadness so viscerally...Thnks so much for the food friend nom nom
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It's beautiful in the way that I felt all of his misery.. you're amazing ❤️
yes pls, I would love to see happy seokhan 🥺