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hwa ([personal profile] hwarium) wrote in [community profile] 17hols2021-11-25 01:04 pm

2022 Round 1: Quotes

Status: Closed
This round has closed. It remains open for fills, comments and remixes, but prompts are no longer accepted.
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

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  • There is no maximum cap.
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Prompting
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  2. Change the subject to something interesting;
  3. Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment and edit the sections. Feel free to add as much detail as you want!

Filling
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  2. Change the subject to [FILL], you may add a title or stay chaotic;
  3. 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.

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  1. Post as a reply to the fill you are remixing, using the same HTML as above;
  2. Change the subject to [REMIX].
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  2. Using the same HTML code as above, copy the link into your fill or remix. That's it!
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geminisquare: Dear my Dear CHEN - album cover (Default)

repressed gay ppl 👎

[personal profile] geminisquare 2021-12-26 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: yearning pining etc
Additional Tags: nonverbal confessions, sharing a bed, sharing a meal
Do Not Wants: death

Prompt:
and you laugh.
loudly —
head tipping back.
and while your eyes
are on the ceiling,
i am mouthing
something too heavy even
for this steady night to shoulder.
‘this is not a joke.” i mouth.
‘love me. love me.’
letters from Medea, salma deera

venom :)

(Anonymous) 2021-12-26 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: soonwoo
Major Tags: none
Additional Tags: hoshi venom, gyuhao as the ex and himbo doc (optional), domestic bliss (havoc)
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
deadwine: a page from dickinson's herbarium (Default)

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

[personal profile] deadwine 2021-12-26 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Minghao/ Yixing (EXO)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: idolverse/canonverse, unhealthy relationships, death as a metaphor for breakups
Permission to remix: Yes
word count: 400, gunning for that spot~

A/N: Apparently I'm making writing this ship for 17hols an annual thing, sorry for starting us off with a crossover pairing but this grabbed me and took me like thirty minutes to write so. If it's too vague, that's my excuse.

***


Don’t read my eulogy when I’m no longer here to hear it, Yixing liked to say.
Love me when I’m here, don’t love me when I’m gone, his voice boomed across the stadium, sparking fires under Minghao’s skin through the static of his earphones.

Elbows-deep into the sandpit of the playground where Yixing first kissed him, Minghao asks the dirt lining his nails: then why’d you leave before I had the chance to write it?





The exorcism in Beijing takes the longest. Minghao bids his time writing, dancing, forgetting.

The years don’t weather the engraving on the tombstone when Minghao finally arrives.

Don’t love me when I’m gone, it haunts him, the six measured steps between them on set as Yixing leads, everyone else follows.

Two years later Minghao finds yet another Yixing in Shanghai, who sees, across the same six steps the same boy he left behind—dancing.





Seoul’s ghosts are innumerable. Tucked into rented studio buildings, abandoned green rooms and restaurants Junhui hunts out in Jongno only to catch the flash of recognition in Minghao’s eyes.

Sometimes they crawl out of the woodworks, out of loose lips and trade secrets shared between people who know better than to expect miracles out of dead-end streets. Minghao can only pretend, reminded as he is yet again he can’t expect people to mourn that which they have no memory of.

Don’t love me when I’m gone.

Then don’t leave, Minghao wishes he had screamed, wishes he had clutched at the lowering coffin, unearthed the still-warm flesh and pleaded it back to life.

If Seoul is a cenotaph, Minghao is its sole crypt-keeper.





Minghao returns home dreaming of freedom.

Don’t love me when I’m gone.

Idiot, he thinks now. It’s the other way round. There’s nowhere to go until they’re done loving you.

He drinks his tea. He dances with his mother on the balcony. He enquiries after the living.

The house is a newborn, holding no history of his childhood, yet the face staring back at him in the mirror is ten years too young.

Don’t love me when I’m gone.

The part that goes unsaid? The dead will stay dead and you’ll live frozen at the age you stopped growing out of love.

Minghao cradles the mirror’s frame with his mud-stained hands and asks the ghost standing behind it: why’d you leave before I had the chance to kill you?

infrequencies: (Default)

i know the end

[personal profile] infrequencies 2021-12-26 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: fated for disaster
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
This love letter begins / to Adam, from your ribs / so-called intelligent design / without you, I would die
—Jensen McRae, Adam's Ribs


He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain.


Went looking for a creation myth /
Ended up with a pair of cracked lips
—Phoebe Bridgers, I Know the End


Edited 2021-12-26 23:02 (UTC)
infrequencies: (Default)

all of this is temporary

[personal profile] infrequencies 2021-12-26 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Mingyu/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: insecurity, the looming specter of the breakup
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
But Jesus, you've got better lips than Judas
I could keep your bed warm, otherwise I'm useless
—Halsey, Bells in Santa Fe


Edited 2021-12-26 14:11 (UTC)

love as a knife to the heart

(Anonymous) 2021-12-26 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: wonhui or wonhan or gyuhan. or any, i don't really mind ^^
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: unrequited love.
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“It was a mistake to keep this single knife in my heart so long, but it is my knife, and my heart, too,”
— Richard Jackson, from “Basic Algebra".


sunsparrow: (Default)

BBkeurim papapa

[personal profile] sunsparrow 2021-12-26 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
Shall I make a pretty pose for the camera?
Look at this and smile for me
And please press it
On the bottom, that cute and red
Heart heart
- Twice, Likey

seokmin_liker: (Default)

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

[personal profile] seokmin_liker 2021-12-26 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
SCREAMING AND YELLING. you absolute genius... you've taken it in such a different direction to what i was expecting and i absolutely LOVE that. your writing is so beautiful, with the extended metaphor of death - every reference just punched me in the gut, ESPECIALLY calling minghao the crypt-keeper of seoul. and all that stuff about aging and never quite growing after that love was so powerful too... and all in just 400 words! insane! you're really incredible to be able to write something so impactful so concisely. thank you thank you thank you <3

It’s stuck in the ground and the smallest breeze will turn it

(Anonymous) 2021-12-26 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Jicheol (Jihoon/Seungcheol)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Non-linear, childhood friends to lovers, AU-setting
Do Not Wants: None (go wild, destroy our souls)

Prompt: Hi, just think Jicheol kid fic to adults, where cheol has this complex where he feels like he has to be Jihoon’s carer or has some kind of authority over Jihoon, they’ve only got each other, and all Jihoon wants is to be treated as an equal and maybe be seen as more than the tiny kid that needs taking care of—- the two of them are waiting for a better future and always come back to each other in every situation they find themselves in as they grow apart.
“I want to always be waiting
That makes me feel better
Even if you get lost
And it takes you a while
Come round and round back to me
Even if it’s far ahead in the future.” — SVT Vocal Unit, Pinwheel

surjamukhi: (Default)

by the sea, by the sea

[personal profile] surjamukhi 2021-12-26 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Minghao/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.
- Nizar Qabbani
madeoutcreek: (Default)

i want you to know

[personal profile] madeoutcreek 2021-12-26 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Joshua/Vernon
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Joshua-centric, post-disbandment/idolverse future fic, chance meetings, some BBB squares i'm sure
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

- Federico García Lorca


You are not like the regulars
The masquerade revelers
Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten
I've never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try
I'm still on that trapeze
I'm still trying everything to keep you looking at me

- Taylor Swift

++ for your consideration
surjamukhi: (Default)

Everybody’s got to love something

[personal profile] surjamukhi 2021-12-26 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Wonwoo/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.
- Tony Kushner

madeoutcreek: (Default)

you don't have to be a star

[personal profile] madeoutcreek 2021-12-26 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: failure, insecurity, imposter syndrome
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
Well, I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star

- Your Best American Girl by Mitski

Hey, hey, hey, lover
You don't have to be a star
Hey, hey, hey, lover
I love you just the way you are

- Hey Lover by The Daughters of Eve
Edited 2021-12-26 16:59 (UTC)
surjamukhi: (Default)

[personal profile] surjamukhi 2021-12-26 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Seokmin/Any, Mingyu/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
I think for a brief second that I am dreaming inside of my dream, that I had to make you up twice, just to get it right. You, brushing your dark hair out of your face, smearing batter across your cheeks. You have come and made my dreams smaller, narrower. Filled them with sugar and your body humming in the same room as mine.

- Caitlyn Siehl

madeoutcreek: (Default)

the same old sin

[personal profile] madeoutcreek 2021-12-26 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Mingyu/Seokmin
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
"And then we'd be at each other's throats even more." Oh, petal. You say that like it's a bad thing.

- Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War


He's a fighter past his prime
He's in the gutter waving his hand, "I'm just fine"

- Alpha Dog by Fall Out Boy
Edited 2021-12-26 16:58 (UTC)
slytherminie: (Default)

evil isn't born, it's made

[personal profile] slytherminie 2021-12-26 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Jeonghan/Any, Joshua/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
“You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.”

― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“I'm only whatever you make me
And you make me more and more a villain every day”

― Halsey, Easier than Lying
Edited 2021-12-26 16:14 (UTC)
sunsparrow: (Default)

my favorite taste is bittersweet

[personal profile] sunsparrow 2021-12-26 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe


slytherminie: (Default)

made of stardust

[personal profile] slytherminie 2021-12-26 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: soulmates and/or magical realism, reincarnation?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
“I'll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...”

― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy

Edited 2021-12-26 20:37 (UTC)
slytherminie: (Default)

do of this what you please

[personal profile] slytherminie 2021-12-26 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
“Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.”

― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

actorzzz

(Anonymous) 2021-12-26 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: famous/non-famous
Additional Tags: humor
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
Out of my league, old school chic
Like a moviestar from a silver screen
You're one of a kind, livin' in a world gone plastic
Baby, you're so classic

— Classic by MKTO


surjamukhi: (Default)

Deep in my enemy I find the lover;

[personal profile] surjamukhi 2021-12-26 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Seokmin/Mingyu
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

We make each other alive. Does it matter if it hurts?

- Ingmar Bergman



I have nightly since

Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me;

We have been down together in my sleep,

Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat,

And waked half dead with nothing.

- Shakespeare, Coriolanus




We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don’t you? 92 degrees even in the shade. This intensity, this heat, sun like a disc-saw through your body.

- Jeanette Winterson




Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

- Richard Siken


slytherminie: (Default)

[personal profile] slytherminie 2021-12-26 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any, Mingyu/Any, Wonwoo/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: end of the world
Do Not Wants: None

“I know, you know, we know
We weren't meant for each other and it's fine
But if the world was ending
You'd come over, right?
You'd come over and you'd stay the night
Would you love me for the hell of it?
All our fears would be irrelevant”

― If the world was ending, JP Saxe ft. Julia Micheals

Edited 2021-12-26 20:38 (UTC)
hyojungss: zhou jieqiong (Default)

dancing in a downpour

[personal profile] hyojungss 2021-12-26 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Wonwoo/Mingyu
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: need every love story end in a revelation
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
I'm hiding in the rain always smiling
I want an answer
That I don't think I can find

- bittersweet (ft. leehi), wonwoo x mingyu

I'll keep you warm
Dancing in a downpour
Breathe it in, take it off
And soak our skin

Maybe I'll find you
Maybe I won't
Baby, I'll try to
Even if I don't
You are what I never knew I needed
What I never knew I needed

- rainy zurich, the fray
slytherminie: (Default)

fight each other or for each other

[personal profile] slytherminie 2021-12-26 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Any, Seokmin/Mingyu, Jeonghan/Joshua
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
"When I dropped my sword
I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door
And we live in peace
But if someone comes at us
This time, I'm ready"

― Taylor Swift, Long story short

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

:)

(Anonymous) 2021-12-26 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: Wonwoo/Any.
Major Tags: Character Death
Additional Tags: Grieving.
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

"Grief is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go." —Jamie Anderson.