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

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Prompting

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Ship/Member: Any Major Tags: N/A Additional Tags: N/A Do Not Wants: None Prompt: <blockquote>[QUOTE GOES HERE] </blockquote>

Filling

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

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Navigation

❮ ROUND 1: QUOTES ❯

ROUND 2: ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

ROUND 3: LAST WORDS

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AHHHHHHHH THANK YOU T_T is it weird to say i like that line too... soonhoon particularly destroys me because when u really think about it they are so alike and it's so fun to think about the ways that they grapple with that!!! and jihoom is my favorite fool <3 thank you so much for reading!!

NJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when vernon.. and when seokmin.. and when minghao.. !!!!!!!!! this domestic life of theirs is beyond beautiful. i loved this part so much:

"Seokmin does, fluttering his eyelashes a little. A small smile plays on the corner of his lips, and he looks at Minghao like he’s said something revolutionary. He hasn’t. He’s just told the truth."

because it says so much about minghao's character: how amazing he is but literally everybody but him can see it. oh boy :( and minghao comparing his dreams of a simple life of companionship and thinking it's nothing compared to seoksol's dreams of music and art?? this is so valid i could relate to minghao so much im so glad he found his own little dream and learned to love it. i loved this so much <3

I'm laughing -- imagine hwa, doing an evening scroll of the 17hols, sees the prompt, sees the 'mentorship' tag, and goes 'huh, this sounds like something em would fill' AND HERE YOU ARE (pb is very effective)

anyway *___* gosh the density of the information you can in 400 words, the relationship between the three of them. Chan as Jeonghan's mentee, the suggestion that wonwoo was once also Jeonghan's (and how everything angry directed at chan is in fact something repressed and unresolved within himself - ahhHH). all against a superhero au. wow!! thank you for writing <3

this was such an interesting read! i havent read a lot of fics that incorporate filipino mythology, so this is so refreshing. my favorite was soonyoung's commute ride it made me miss my own commutes to campus ;____; wonwoo's sneaky little kiss at the end was so cute too thank you for sharing!!

Ship/Member: Mingyu
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: character study, self reflection, end of a career, self hatred in a way, space metaphors because i am me
Permission to remix: Yes
WC: going for exactly 400 words yay

at first i was like, brekaup. but then i was like, no, make it sadder. i'm sorry!!

***

They always told him that love is weakness. To him, heart pinned on his sleeve for the whole world to see, love has always been strength, the reason he gets up in the morning, a driving force.

The love of his fans that reached him through the letters, the gifts, the calls, the meetings. The concerts, where the thirteen of them used to shine so bright on stages, blinding creatures ready to devour everything around them. The screams, the yelled lyrics, the fanchants, the thrill of their names being repeated over and over, until they lost their meaning and became just a chorus of words that spurred them to continue until they were exhausted, but happy. Always happy, and always full of love.

The love of his members, written in the hugs, the comforting words, the teasing even. The I love yous declared in front of the camera, for the Internet to pry on, and the ones whispered in the dark, when no one else could hear. The small gestures, the hands splayed against backs, the encouraging cheers to never give up, to keep on pushing themselves until their breaths became troubled, until they collapsed on their backs on the practice room floor.

What’s left of that love, if it has always been weakness?

A stronger Mingyu, one that looks himself in the mirror and doesn’t dissect his own body with his eyes, that doesn’t stare at his reflection and hates the dark circles below his eyes and the weird cut of his hairline? A Mingyu that can eat what he wants, at all hours of the day, without caring for the numbers on the scale or his abs disappearing?

Stripped of that love, Mingyu doesn’t really know who he is.

What makes him shine, if not the love that the people around him reflect back on him? The burning light in him is gone, because it was never his to begin with - the way he glowed came from outside.

Planetlight, it’s what it is, the diffuse reflection of starlight on a planet, a dull orb that isn’t bright, or beautiful, or warm.

He keeps the letters, he keeps the post-its, the gifts, but he hides them.

He can’t bear staring at his image in the mirror, because the love that made him shine is gone forever, and what is he, if not made of love?

Thank you so much, again! And this had been an ongoing prompt in my head for a while and I was glad 17hols gave me that little push to finally work through it :DD

Thank you!!! I'm glad you enjoyed!!! The ongoing Sidapa/Bulan love story was just too good to pass up and I thought "what the hell, let's just do it" and lo and behold, I found a prompt that fit right in. This is honestly an ode to my life pre-pandemic and how I missed the normal every day things I used to do, so I'm very happy it resonated with you, too!

Ship/Member: Seokmin/Minghao
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: established relationship, yearning, the inherent queerness of the first snow
Permission to remix: Yes
Word count: 740

dear kei, you got me real good with this one. i was well and truly baited. enjoy this sappy romantic mess.
**

When he opens his curtains, the first thing that Seokmin does is call Minghao.

He loves the first snow. He’s always loved it. There’s something breathtaking about watching the snow settle on the ground, as it covers the earth and makes everything pure and crisp and clean. He loves the fun of it too, making snowmen and snowball fights and coming back in to the warmth afterwards. But even watching the snow is enough for him. The onset of winter always makes Seokmin buzz with anticipation, wondering when it will arrive, and when it does, it feels like time stops to let the snow fill the world with beauty again.

And really, he shares everything with Minghao, even when they’re separated by borders and sea. So it makes sense for Minghao to be the first one he thinks of. He doesn’t take too long to pick up, even though he’s clearly still in bed, nestled warm in the pillows.

“Myungho-yah! Are you awake?” he asks, conscious of the small time difference.
“Well, now I am. Did something happen?”

“Oh, it’s nothing important,” Seokmin replies, suddenly feeling a little guilty. “I just- the first snow’s here. I wanted you to see it.”

“Go on then. Show me.” Minghao rubs his eyes as he speaks, as he fights through the remnants of his sleep, and Seokmin’s heart jumps at the way Minghao indulges him. he makes his way over to the window, switching the direction of the phone camera.

“Can you see it? Can you see it?” Seokmin asks, moving his phone around to give Minghao a good view through the window.

“Yeah, yeah, I can see it,” Minghao replies. His voice is still a little rough, but his eyes are focused as he watches the snowflakes glide down, and Seokmin loves him like this. He loves that his still-sleepy Minghao will indulge him like this, will let him pretend that he’s young again, as if he hasn’t seen snow a million times before. He loves that Minghao will stand with him and watch the snow, and he loves that he can watch Minghao, with his hair ruffled and his skin a little dry and looking just as gorgeous as the view outside.

After a while, Minghao says,

“I think I’ve looked at the snow long enough now. I want to look at you. Will you let me?”

Something flutters in Seokmin’s stomach. Silly Minghao. Always making Seokmin feel like something special, when really he is the special one. Seokmin moves back over to the bed, turning the camera back.

“I can’t believe you called me before heading out into the snow yourself,” Minghao remarks.

“I mean, yeah,” Seokmin replies, fidgeting a little. “I’m not dressed warm enough yet. I pretty much just woke up and saw the snow, so I wanted to show you.”

Minghao chuckles a little. “You must miss me so much, right?”

And, well. Seokmin’s nothing if not honest. “Of course I miss you. The snow would be so much better if you were here.”

Minghao’s smile is gentle as he looks at Seokmin. “I know. I miss you too. But I’ll be coming to you soon. Just wait a few more days.”

Seokmin’s heart swells at the thought. These days, he daydreams about meeting Minghao at the airport. He already feels a murmur of anticipation now, but he imagines it will only get louder as he waits for Minghao. And then Minghao will step out, tired and makeup-less and beautiful, and Seokmin will feel a wave of calm, like his home has come back to him. When Minghao steps towards him, time will stop to let them look at each other, to let Seokmin take Minghao away from the others waiting, to let them kiss tenderly and hold each other and feed each other with warmth.

That won’t happen for a few days. Seokmin can’t wait.

Eventually, Minghao has to hang up, but not before Seokmin blows him kisses through the phone and Minghao, ever-indulgent, pretends to catch them. Seokmin leaves his phone on the bed and moves over to the window again. The snow still falls gently onto the ground, and Seokmin feels new. And even though he’s just spoken to Minghao for twenty minutes, he thinks of him more, hoping that he will get his message.

The first snow is here. I wish you were too. I love you.

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. why would you do this to poor mingyu who lives for love and loves to love and loves to be loved. my dear boy. but argh your writing is so compelling as always and the PLANETLIGHT METAPHOR!?!?! delicious. mwah

wow! wowwww!!!! "if he calls it a person, he will fall to his knees" oh sweet chan :(

in love with this hardened vernon with a soft spot for dino, the maknae line camaraderie is lovely. can't believe i'm going to say this but it's sort of a grittier maze runner vibe. thank you so much for this one i love it

head in hands oh gosh this line: "Silly Minghao," seokmin says.. you are also silly you silly boy in love!!!! i cant believe you've indulged me like this oh nj this was so sweet and lovely and made me feel so warm despite this story being about the first snow. they're so gentle with one another and i can just see minghao indulging seokmin so clearly because he's just as in love with him as seokmin is... and oh boy this: "When Minghao steps towards him, time will stop to let them look at each other, to let Seokmin take Minghao away from the others waiting, to let them kiss tenderly and hold each other and feed each other with warmth." GAAHHH i am mush. IM MUSH!!! BURY ME IN THE SNOW!!

Companionship is the longest love confession and Soonyoung has years of them written in this room.

I loved LOVED this so much. You filled a craving for fics with Philippine mythology that I forgot I needed. This was excellent, thank you so much!!!!!! Ingat lagi!!!!

OH WOW. the LESBIANS. i love this i love the feminine rituals of applying makeup i LOVE how stupidly jealous jisoo gets. i love the push and pull between jeonghan and jisoo as well, like jisoo basically calling her lashes ugly as an excuse to get close to her? yeah.
LOVED the religious guilt aspect to this too. and like, the lack of it. like jisoo just Doesn't Care anymore because jeonghan is too jeonghan. fascinating stuff. the last paragraph in particular about God being stupid, and making man in His own image? YEAH. that was. WHOO.
also, the title!!! was it meant to be a brideshead revisited reference because that's the first thing i think of haha but even if it wasn't... WHAT a title!! great stuff loved it

Ship/Member: wonwoo/jeonghan/(woozi)
Major Tags: offscreen gang(?) violence
Additional Tags: mentions of blood and injury, ambiguous relationships, whatever the opposite of tender wound healing is
Permission to remix: Yes

A/N: by pure chance, exactly 400 words <3 sorry for second person i was in a mood

***

The first night Wonwoo comes to you, you don’t bother asking why.

No were you in the neighborhood, no did you miss hyung that much. No whose blood are you wearing.

He shows up at your officetel battered and bruised from something you'll coax out of him tomorrow—spiderweb lacerations all down his arms; an angry, dark gash along his jawline that you press your fingers against until his eyes go wide, until he grits his teeth. The way his breathing whistles tells you there's at least one cracked rib.

You see all of this, and remember Jihoon's steady instructions; his calm, professional tone. The things he's taught you about fixing someone when they need it.

But you’ve sworn you’ll never do anything Jihoon tells you to do.

There’s nothing in your medicine cabinet but cobwebs and an expired bottle of pills, anyway.

Dirty mouth, dirty nails, his skin is inch for inch the ghastly pale of a near-dead thing. You can’t help him—but help isn't what he's asking for. There’s a reason, after all, that Wonwoo is here instead of with Jihoon.

Some people are just better at causing pain than healing it, and some people don’t need to be healed no matter how damaged they look. He has no illusions about what hands like yours are capable of.

This is what you, and only you, can do: you can take his arm and hold it above your kitchen sink, empty the contents of an old bottle of vodka over it to hear the way his breath hisses through his teeth again and again as it burns the rawness of his flesh. You can turn his knobbly hand over in yours and duck your head (watching, always watching, how his eyes darken), lick the inside of his wrist where it drips into the drain, salt and iron and alcohol in your mouth and nothing, nothing sweet about it at all—and he might be a long way from home but when you do this, you can taste the city on him.

Jeonghan-hyung, he sighs later, when you take him to bed. Not gently, not kindly, but this is what he wants. This is what he needs. Light pollution filters through the slatted window, drawing prison bars over your tangled forms.

Shh, you whisper, smile so full of teeth. I've got you.

IIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS HE IF NOT MADE OF LOVE !!!!!
you are insane oh my GOD

having dreams that are achievable but still just as meaningful nj im lying on the floor i love you

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

Prompt:

[ like weeds, baby, just open your eyes to see, he's growing from inside me and i just don't know what i can do, i thought i cut him at the root — marina ]

Ship/Member: Any besides seokgyu i wanna mix it up
Major Tags: mates (werewolves? other supernatural creatures/shapeshifters?), domesticity, hurt/comfort
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: a/b/o, serious injury

Prompt:

[ and we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire, both our tender bellies wound in baling wire, all the more a pair of underwater pearls than the oak tree and it's resurrection fern — iron & wine ]

Ship/Member: Any, Jun/Joshua
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: mythology, the swan and the archer, healing
Do Not Wants: MCD

Prompt:

[ hold me down, i'm so tired now, aim your arrow at the sky, take me down, i'm too tired now, leave me where i lie — florence & the machine ]

love love love ♡

okay. okay ummm currently breathing rapidly into paper bag/melting into puddle of goo in my chair over this

to say u Get it would be an understatement... the parallels so perfectly baked into this making every reread procedurally painful. GOOD SHIT. the need to be seen and adored manifesting in different ways... THE FUCKING. "To be sharp and unforgiving and a little undeserving of forgiveness" BROOOO EXACTLY... the depths of leeseokmin explored is such a treat n his pov on this is fantastic. so many small notes of it toooo god like the seokhan... "Jeonghan, who is always listening" ARRHGHHHHHH okay i'm gonna stop before furthering embarrassing myself but for real thank you so much for this my day is 110% Made <33333

Ship/Member: Any, Soonyoung/Seungkwan
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: verbal fights as a form of love
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

La comunicazione perfetta esiste, ed è un litigio.
[Perfect communication exists, and it's a fight.]

— Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolcevita

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: sports au - trading? rivalmance? life after injury, etc.
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Love cannot be won or lost; a relationship doesn't have a scoring system. We are partners, paired against the world. We cannot succeed if we are at odds with each other.

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Every bed, every empty fraction
Turned around to be used as a weapon
Even though I can offer connection
Well, I hope that you love this attention
—PVRIS, Loveless

oh i love this so so much...poor sweet seokmin trying to protect himself from what he wants :(

AAAAA GGRRRR BARKBARKBARK "He has no illusions about what hands like yours are capable of." this is everything i wanted and more!!! i'm blown away by how u made the universe shine in just 400w... wonwoo wanting it to hurt. jeonghan being that presence for him. their mutual complicated thing with jihoon. JUST. op. op!!

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2022 Round 1: Quotes

Re: [FILL] don't you hate it when you love someone

Re: [FILL] to dream big and small

Re: [FILL] i die every time you look away from me

Re: [FILL] in love with the villain

[FILL]: feast on your life

Re: [FILL] in love with the villain

Re: [FILL] in love with the villain

[FILL] the first snow is here. i wish you were too. i love you.

Re: [FILL]: feast on your life

Re: [FILL] me, in your blood-stained image

Re: [FILL] the first snow is here. i wish you were too. i love you.

Re: [FILL] in love with the villain

Re: [FILL] et in arcadia, ego

[FILL] wishbone again

Re: [FILL]: feast on your life

Re: [FILL] to dream big and small

sculptures in persephone's infinite garden

diving too deep for a coin

things that drift away

Re: [FILL] the first snow is here. i wish you were too. i love you.

Re: [FILL] i (dis)like you

no subject

carry the burden

Re: [FILL] held my breath for a decade

Re: [FILL] wishbone again