17hols | 2022 Round 1: Quotes

2022 Round 1: Quotes

Status: Closed

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Seventeen Holidays

Round 1: Quotes

About

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

"What is grief, if not love persevering?"

"You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath"

Calling all readers, lovers of poetry and music, screen and stage. Quote collecters and lyric hoarders, unleash your archive. Each prompt must contain a quote - you can combine them, add commentary, link to articles, and more. Steal from a literary classic, or WeVerse drama. Have fun!

Examples

Minghao + Ocean Vuong

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

Ocean Vuong - night sky with exit wounds

Hoshi/Anyone; "Beauty is terror"

Thinking about these two quotes together and the idea of on/off-stage personas:

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful we tremble before it. And what could be more terrifying or beautiful, to the Greeks to to our own, than to lose control completely?" - Donna Tartt, the Secret Histories

"I am calm in everyday life but when I put on my in-ear device and step on stage, I can feel the tension and hear the cheers getting louder as the music gets louder. When the staff tells me it's time to step on stage, I feel something boil inside me. I feel it steaming inside and I think I have to give a burst of something, spill what is inside me." - Hoshi in Hit the Road Ep. 04

Any ship; "It's been so many years"

Hello, hello there, is this Martha?
This is old Tom Frost
And I am calling long distance
Don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more
Now Martha please recall
Meet me out for coffee
Where we'll talk about it all.

Tom Watts - Martha

Rules

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There is no maximum cap.
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How it works

Prompting

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Change the subject to something interesting;
Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment and edit the sections. Feel free to add as much detail as you want!
Ship/Member: Any Major Tags: N/A Additional Tags: N/A Do Not Wants: None Prompt: <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, edit the sections, and add your text.
You may also upload your fill to the AO3 Collection.

Ship/Member: Any Major Tags: N/A Additional Tags: N/A Permission to remix: Yes/No/Please ask ***

Remixing

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Change the subject to [REMIX].

Art/media

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Using the same HTML code as above, copy the link into your fill or remix. That's it!
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Ship/Member: Any Major Tags: N/A Additional Tags: N/A Permission to remix: 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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Navigation

❮ ROUND 1: QUOTES ❯

ROUND 2: ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

ROUND 3: LAST WORDS

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OH JICHEOL! seungcheol trying so hard to fix things between them, for them to go back to normal but jihoon is... jihoon!! but he still concedes in some ways bc in the end, they do love each other. he lets cheol take him by the hand and tuck him into his side T___T i loved this tysm for sharing!

Ship/Member: Any, Minghao/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: themes of water, maybe idolverse?, take this wherever you like!
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

But

in long months alone, I’ve learned there’s love
in drowning. In having someone to watch
as I struggle, each twist of mouth
to sky. To pull my body
from the dark & lay it down.
- Shipwrecks & Drownings by Chelsea Dingman

klav T_T thank u for the kind words oh my goodness (yeah… gosh wonwoo & the moon i really could not resist)

being seen is also an act of love!!!!!!! wanting to do good and make a better place and show minghao what he has never seen before is also an act of love! ty my beautiful soulfriend ilysm

thank u for ur kind words hwa!!!!! god the silent sea has occupied my brain space ever since i sat down and binged it at night… the eerieness and emptiness of space, of being alone and so far away from home… what if something happens to you up there? what if no one knows? etc. just delicious themes to play with!!!

i was toying w the idea of drowning but i realized… they would only know in theory bc they’ve never known water in large body form… insane…

if u do remix please let me know bc i would love to see a rendition ala hwa!!!!!!

ahHHH THANK U RISA!!! i would love to hear ur thoughts on the silent sea if u ever do get through it, i thought it was a rly well done series

💖😭 TY CAT!!!!!

OH YOU RIPPED MY HEART OUT DAMN!!!!! this is so beautiful?!?!? and so perfect for the prompt, i think somehow you nailed exactly the vibe that i was expecting. the what ifs that are irrelevant (bc the world is ending) but you can't help but ask them, wondering what another life would have been. oh, so gentle and hopeful despite the setting. and gyuhan are really perfect for this, what an incredible choice. i love this!!!!! thank you for writing <3

this was one of those fics where I read the description and the pairing and already know that my heart is in your hands, thank you so much em!! never knew I needed an old fading gallery owner x childhood crush au but now I will transpose it onto everything I love.

He hadn't expected to walk up to his office and see Seungcheol-from-Daegu standing in the doorway, like a high school ghost, someone Wonwoo keeps up with only by word of mouth. -- ;____; this paragraph about Seungcheol through Wonwoo's experiences speaks so much. Reminds me of the way a small part of fandom reads CheolWoo - larger than life golden boy, local legend x self-perceived nobody, a normal dude (absolutely thinking of rainiest's circles now). And the way that echoes forward in time. Wonwoo's pride, stubbornness to see this through alone, disbelief and distrust of Seungcheol - partly sourced from his own insecurity. And all the hints at the details outside of the story. Wow, wow.

omg wow i don't even know what to say except thank you??? this was so lovely to see in my inbox and it made me sooo happy to see all the quotes you picked out T___T

my svt knowledge is actually somewhat outdated so i don't know how well this holds up but i feel like for jww pov i always want to hit on how much he simply pays attention to other people as well as how poetic he is so i'm glad it seemed to translate well T___T also i screamed a little when you said that wonwoo uses his love as a weapon and gets his way but ultimately for mingyu's own benefit this is really the crux of jww within mw to me and you put it so well... and this too: because he's not breaking up with him because he doesn't love mg and i love how you convey this so clearly in his narration i'm glad you liked the softer take on them because a lot of the time when i read mw fic i end up just feeling really bad for kmg T___T not to say that i don't also enjoy that dynamic but sometimes i do like to think that jww really cares for him too to the point of being self-sacrificial...

anyways thank you so much again T___T i've been reading this comment over and over and it makes me so happy every time <3

this !!! god this hurt but in such a good way !! "The house is a newborn, holding no history of his childhood" i lost my damn mind you are a genius

thank you so much for reading!

i'm glad you liked that line i truly think being unromantic is inherently romantic to me T___T thank you for reading!

that last line im in the woods and i am barking

it makes me really happy that you liked the atmosphere ^__^ thank you for reading!

ahhHHH thank you so much for filling this!! 'boys who can't talk' is such a perfect tag for wonhui bc it's so true, both of them are so awkward in different ways so they can't /get/ each other. The way junhui can stand silences but wonwoo can't, how junhui doesn't say anything but keeps coming back, just so wonwoo Knows but doesn't get anything. This was frustrating in a very delicious way because it was Wonhui haha <3

The anger is gone already. He was never any good at keeping it - this! about wonwoo! was my favourite line

ohhh i'm actually not active on carat twt so i haven't seen that post but the timing feels a little serendipitous! knowing there are echoes of the past in the future is exactly what i was going for, thank you so much T___T

this is so !!! i love a slice of life and the pining .. the confusion . the wonhui of it all !! mmmmmm delightful !!! <3

i'm glad you liked the feel of it, thank you for reading!

Ship/Member: Seungcheol/Jeonghan
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: second chances, exes to lovers, gratuitous references to taylor swift lyrics
Permission to remix: Yes

i saw state of grace and ran with it.
***

The most important lesson that Jeonghan has learnt in his life is that love is a ruthless, ruthless game. It’s unforgivable. It takes, and takes, and takes, and you’re left reeling when it’s gone; left reeling when you have nothing left but jagged pieces of your heart in your hands.

Seungcheol is the one who first teaches him this, but it’s reinforced many times - too many times, honestly, enough that Jeonghan feels embarrassed and small - by too many people.

There’s Mingyu, who wore his heart out on his sleeve, open and ready for anyone to take, but he was so tall, it was out of reach. Jeonghan barely grazed it with his fingertips.

Joshua, who was a mirror of Jeonghan’s soul, but still couldn’t connect, still found him too less, still found him unreachable.

Soonyoung, who was too energetic for Jeonghan to keep up with, because he’s nothing if not lazy, nothing if not unwilling to put in extra effort, even though he wants to. He wants to put in effort, wants to be enough more than anything, but he can’t bring himself to do it. He doesn’t know why.

There’s Seokmin, who had the sun in his smile, but Jeonghan hadn’t been wearing his sunglasses when he met him. He got blinded by his brightness, and sometimes still sees the after-image of the hurt on Seokmin’s face when he closes his eyes. It twists his already wrung out heart, and the phantom ache in his chest after that one never leaves him.

It’s a perpetual pain, Jeonghan thinks, to love. Every time he falls in love, it’s a waiting game - he waits, sitting at the edge of his seat, until it hurts, until it bleeds, until it fades with time. He waits until he’s left alone again, waits until he’s told he can’t connect, waits until love becomes nothing but a burden; until the words remain nothing but a carcass of what he imagines the emotion to feel like.

Love is a ruthless game, he tells himself when he turns around in his bed to find nothing but a cold pillow, love is a ruthless game and you’re better off without it.

The armour he’s been building around his heart since Seungcheol, since he was nineteen and stupider, is almost impenetrable now.

Almost.

///

Seungcheol walks back into his life when he’s at the grocery store.

He looks good, Jeonghan can’t deny it, built bigger and warmer and looking much happier than the miserable college student he was. He’s wearing a flannel shirt and a pair of sandals and Jeonghan is only a little surprised when his battered old heart stutters to life against his hardened ribs.

“Jeonghan!” Seungcheol looks surprised when he sees him at the dairy freezer, “It’s been so long!”

“Seungcheol,” It doesn’t hurt to smile, not as much as Jeonghan expected it would. “How have you been?”

Seungcheol grins.

///

The armour falls.

Jeonghan wishes he could say he was surprised.

Seungcheol had always been different; had always understood Jeonghan at a wavelength that no one had before. When Jeonghan felt competitive, he’d smirk and draw up their scores on a wrinkled piece of paper; when Jeonghan felt petty, he’d stick his tongue out and say equally cutting words; when Jeonghan felt lonely, he’d curl up around him and let him rest on his broad shoulder.

It’s no different now, Jeonghan muses, when he and Seungcheol are in the midst of cooking dinner. Seungcheol’s phone lies on the counter, a recipe for pasta open on the web browser, and Jeonghan’s phone is leant against the knife-stand, a note open on the screen with the number of times either of them have spilt ingredients typed in victorious, bold Helvetica.

It’s comforting, in a way. Nothing has changed since nineteen, but everything has.

Seungcheol walks back into his life a lot more self-assured than he was when he left, and the armour falls and breaks and disintegrates. Jeonghan can’t say he ever saw him coming, not for the second time, but he thinks it’s better this time around. He knows he’s never going to be the same again - he can never build the armour back to what it was if Seungcheol leaves now.

Somehow, he feels Seungcheol will stay. That Seungcheol too has been inexplicably, irreversibly changed.

He hopes he’s right. This state of grace that they’re in, where they both need each other more than the skeletons in their closet try to fuck it up; where they’re finally fighting for it, fighting for a chance to last, is delicate. It’s delicate and balanced on equal legs, and Jeonghan has both feet in for the first time.

Seungcheol confesses to him one night, his deep voice interrupting the silence of Jeonghan’s apartment. “I’m scared,” he whispers, “I’m scared you’re going to leave.”

Jeonghan’s heart hurts. “Why would I?” He traces the shape of Seungcheol’s cheekbones; counts the eyelashes fluttering against warm skin. Why would he ever leave, when he has everything that he needs here, everything that he never thought he had the right to have again?

“You left last time,” Seungcheol brings his hands to rest on the small of Jeonghan’s back. “You got scared and you left. I can’t handle it if you leave again, Hannie, I can’t,” he sounds fierce, and sad, and absolutely lovely.

“I won’t,” Jeonghan thinks he might cry, “I can’t leave you again. I’ll stay here,” Forever, he doesn’t say. He thinks Seungcheol knows anyway.

“Don’t let go,” Seungcheol presses into his mouth, his fingers bruising the skin around Jeonghan’s sharp hip bones. The jagged pieces of their broken hearts form the most beautiful mosaic art, fragile and new, yet unbreakable.

Never, Jeonghan kisses him back, more confident than he’s ever been. Never.

///

Love is a ruthless game, he tells Seungcheol one day, but he doesn’t know if it’s true anymore. How could it be, when he and Seungcheol feel the way they feel - when they have what they have?

“Love is a ruthless game,” Seungcheol says with mirth in his eyes and love in the hands that cradle Jeonghan’s cheeks, “Unless you play it good. Unless you play it right.”

The armour’s long gone now.

HELLLO ???!?!?!??!?! the jeonghan trickster dynamic and wonwoo swimming out past his depth mmm we love to see it

well who cares lucky me gets /two/ fills to my prompt I'm not complaining :D

This is so lovely to read thank you for filling it <33 the slow build towards realisation, how Minghao recognises that he feels /something/ when Mingyu is there with him but doesn't actually realise until Mingyu has left him - the scene where he just barges into jicheol's room for comfort was a stab between the ribs! oh I love it when minghao gets hyung'ed.

Favourite line:
Instead he leans his head against the window and watches the streetlights stream past outside, looking like dashes of shooting stars. Minghao closes his eyes and wishes for courage. - oh my god the transition from reality to metaphor to reality again

how could you do this im crying real actual tears ;-; this is !!! god this is just so good !! the grief in this is so beautiful and subtle and MWAH i kiss your brain

"For Seokmin to be a healer, somebody has to be hurt." hey !!!!! HEY !!!!! god this !! yeah seokgyu really are It. something about seeing the best and the worst parts of yourself in another person GOD <3

them !!! just two evil lovely little people !!! "It’s a promise masked as indulgence" youre insane i love you

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2022 Round 1: Quotes

Re: can we put the blame on the changing times?

love and drowning

Re: [FILL] what will they say about us?

Re: [FILL] what will they say about us?

Re: [FILL] what will they say about us?

Re: [FILL] what will they say about us?

Re: [FILL] what will they say about us?

Re: [FILL] in another world, would we have been in love?

Re: [FILL] you've never seen a devotion so stubborn & foolhardy

Re: [FILL] just as usual

Re: [FILL] what was left when that fire was gone?

Re: [FILL] just as usual

Re: [FILL] just as usual

Re: FILL: evil isn't born, it's made

Re: [FILL] just as usual

Re: [FILL] Wonhui homecoming

Re: [FILL] just as usual

Re: [FILL] Wonhui homecoming

Re: [FILL] just as usual

[FILL] all we know (don't let go)

Re: [FILL]: Everybody’s got to love something

Re: [FILL] coming home to you

Re: [FILL] what will they say about us?

Re: [FILL] Deep in my enemy I find the lover;

Re: [FILL]: even if it's love, I don't