17hols | 2022 Round 1: Quotes

2022 Round 1: Quotes

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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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❮ ROUND 1: QUOTES ❯

ROUND 2: ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

ROUND 3: LAST WORDS

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so fucking funny and yet.. moving. jeonghan would still love hoshi if he was a worm and he would even be SAD he can't horanghae anymore... [EMOTIONAL]

ah thank you!! i'm so glad you liked it <3 (this is the person that wrote it, i just saw the prompt and was in such a rush i didnt even stop to make a dreamwidth account ahaha)

Ship/Member: Wonwoo
Major Tags: folk tale elements, shapeshifting, possession, turning someone into you and thereby transforming yourself, etc.
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: MCD

Prompt:

I'm shedding, I'm shedding, I'm shedding, I'm shedding my snakeskin
You're wearing it, wearing it, wearing it every day yea
(Rina Sawayama, "Snakeskin")

WONWOO AS THE ZUCC?????? soonyoung as jtimbs sends too honestly.

anyway. your mingyu is always so good - the downside of puppy-isms where you're doomed to wait and follow after someone who's no longer interested in having you by their side... it's so interesting to see wonwoo through mingyu's eyes, bc mingyu thinks he knows wonwoo so well and he did at one point! or he thinks he did! but at some point wonwoo threw up walls again, his favorite defense mechanism, and mingyu doesn't know how to move past them.

Ship/Member: Jeonghan/Seungcheol
Major Tags: medieval-esque, king jeonghan & captain of the guard seungcheol, implied violence
Additional Tags: major injury, love as duty
Permission to remix: pls ask!
a/n: i... don't know if this quite fills the prompt but this is where my brain went forgive me

***

If you still want me, please forgive me
The crown of love has fallen from me
If you still want me, please forgive me
Because your hands are not upon me
-Arcade Fire

Seungcheol was not born to be Captain of the Guard. He was born and raised as Jeonghan’s companion, first and foremost, always at the crown prince’s side. Seungcheol was born two months prior, a gift just for Jeonghan.

Wherever Jeonghan went, Seungcheol followed. That was the way of things.

–

“Why are you learning the sword?” Jeonghan is displeased, lying in Seungcheol’s bed, watching as he puts on his practice armour. “Who is supposed to entertain me in the middle of my lessons?”

Seungcheol doesn’t look at him, struggling with his breastplate. “His Highness will have to find new sources of entertainment,” he grunts. Jeonghan watches him struggle for a minute longer before getting up with a sigh. Hopeless fool. He means to be a swordsman? Jeonghan tuts under his breath as he helps lace Seungcheol up properly.

His hand pauses at Seungcheol’s bare neck. Jeonghan hadn’t thought he was serious in his endeavor, until he chopped off his hair, adopting the usual short-cut meant for soldiers. Jeonghan’s own hair is loose and free, to his shoulders. The way he always wears it when it’s only the two of them.

Seungcheol is still, letting Jeonghan touch him. Duplicitous creature, letting Jeonghan do as he wants, and then turning around and doing as he pleases in turn.

“I don’t like it,” Jeonghan declares sullenly, one last protest. “What if I order you to stay?”

Seungcheol grins. “Forgive me, Hannie. Just this once.”

–

Jeonghan thinks it would have been easier if Seungcheol was an only child. That way, he could devote himself solely to Jeonghan. But Seungcheol admires his older brother, newly appointed Captain, and has a score of cousins that he’s always carrying on his shoulders. Laughing, so generous with his love.

Give it only to me, Jeonghan wants to demand. Especially in times like these, celebrations that force him in formal dress, to be seated with his parents and sister, the royal family on display. Seungcheol is a noble, but gets to run around in the streets, full of childish glee.

Most of the time, Jeonghan enjoys being a prince. But sometimes, he thinks he would give it all up. If only to be a boy running free, with Seungcheol.

–

Two years before his coronation, the castle is attacked. Jeonghan watches in muted shock as his father’s personal guard, the one that’s been in service for over a decade, slits his throat. Seungcheol’s brother is quick to react, charging the traitor with a roar. A frantic Seungcheol shoves Jeonghan’s sister in Jeonghan’s arms, and drags him away, hiding them in a secret compartment in the kitchen quarters.

“Don’t make a sound,” he commands. “Don’t leave, until I return.”

Stay with me, Jeonghan means to scream, but Seungcheol takes his sword out, shuts the door, and runs.

In the bloody aftermath, Jeonghan comes out King, shaking and shivering.

And Seungcheol, sobbing next to his brother’s corpse, becomes Captain.

–

“No,” Jeonghan shakes his head once all the advisors leave them. Jeonghan knows what being Captain means, especially if their enemies are still at large. His body seizes with fury and fear. Seungcheol belongs to him, not their kingdom. “No, no. It doesn’t have to be you. Be my personal guard instead. Someone else can do it!”

Seungcheol’s eyes are exhausted. “Forgive me, Jeonghan,” he whispers, resigned. He has always loved too much for his own good. “Your Majesty.”

Jeonghan could not have hoped to keep him as his own.

–

Seokmin and Mingyu are handpicked by Seungcheol for Jeonghan’s personal guard. Both strong and sturdy. Jeonghan scoffs when he first meets them, but six months into service, Seokmin kills an assassin before they can even wake Jeonghan up and Mingyu finds the rest of them in three days.

“They’re adequate,” Jeonghan tells Seungcheol when he returns from battle. Seungcheol, even covered in weeks’ old grime and sweat, is still the sweetest sight. Bowing low to Jeonghan in court to report their success.

Bowing in an entirely different way when they are alone in Jeonghan’s chambers.

“Do you mean for them to be your replacements?” Jeonghan asks, naked and sated. Seungcheol snorts lightly.

“If you’d like,” Seungcheol says. A jest.

Jeonghan wonders if Seungcheol has anyone out there, on the battlefield, that is meant to be replacing Jeonghan.

–

Most of the time, Jeonghan hates being King. Especially in times of war, Jeonghan can hardly trust any voice in his ear, maintaining a strong, stoic disposition as he sends more and more men off to die.

Seungcheol leads them all, promising to come back every time.

It is the only promise Jeonghan wants him to keep. He would not forgive him otherwise.

–

Dark wings carry dark words. A messenger hawk arrives with dire news of a lost battle, countless dead men on their side. A missing Captain.

“He’s dead,” Mingyu says, thoughtless in his shock. Seokmin elbows him harshly, and Jeonghan clutches at the letter with white knuckles. Seungcheol isn’t dead. He can’t be. Jeonghan would have felt it if he was, would have collapsed to the ground the moment Seungcheol’s heart stopped.

Jeonghan walks around like a ghost for an entire month before Seungcheol rides back to the castle, half-dead on his horse. It is not proper for the King to be so involved in the healing process, but he’s at Seungcheol’s bedside every night until he wakes up.

When Seungcheol’s eyes finally open, Jeonghan is furious.

“What is more important?” Jeonghan hisses. He should be grateful Seungcheol is alive but he is too angry for that. “Your duty or your life? Or me? If you cared about me, as you did when we were boys, you wouldn’t risk your life so foolishly!”

Seungcheol takes his hand, placing a weak kiss on it. “You are my duty,” he murmurs, half out of his mind. “I care about you more than anything. I carry you with me, everywhere I go.”

Kings do not cry. But Jeonghan does, dropping to his knees, cursing Seungcheol’s foolish, good heart.

If he carries any more of him, there will be none of Jeonghan left to rule.

–

Jeonghan carries Seungcheol with him everywhere as well. He cannot do a single thing without his mind wandering to him. It is a particular kind of agony, to wait on the throne while Seungcheol rides out to fight on his behalf.

He knows, if Seungcheol ever does fall, Jeonghan won’t let him rest alone. He will go to his grave, claw at the dirt with his own fingers, and settle next to Seungcheol’s body.

Wherever he goes, Jeonghan will follow. To hell with everything else.

oh pammie..,..,..... wonhui is such a strange pairing to me bc sometimes they really are just two guys (who care about each other, but have wildly different ways of showing it). you capture their weird coexisting catboyisms so well!! boys who can't talk is so accurate tbh

Ship/Member: Joshua/Any
Major Tags: succession brainworms, ambiguous relationships, power imbalance
Additional Tags: i thought i wanted joshua hong to be tom but maybe...he's greg?
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

[ - would you kiss me?
- what?
- would you?
- kiss you?
- if i asked you to?
- would i kiss you?
- if i told you to?
— tom and greg, succession

if you're goin' crazy, just grab me and take me, i'd follow you down, down, down, anywhere, anywhere — lana del rey, million dollar man
]

Ship/Member: Mingyu
Major Tags: BBBfest elements
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

We want to stop. We can’t.
Is there an acceptable result? Do we mean something when we talk?
Is it enough that we are shuddering
from the sound?
- Richard Siken, "The Dislocated Room"

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

Prompt:

Midnight June. Midnight July. They’ve been going at it for days now.
Getting the bullet out.
Digging out the bullet and holding it up to the light, the light.
Digging out the bullet and holding it up to the light.
- Richard Siken, "The Dislocated Room"

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: hybrids, shapeshifters, angst, explorations of possessiveness
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

(NSFW prompt)
Prompt:

Hey, love, look into your glove box heart
What is there for me inside? This love is tired
I've changed the locks
Have I misplaced you?
Have we lost our minds?
Will this never end?
It could depend on your take

You are wild and I'm in your possession
Nothing's free so fuck me, kitten

- R.E.M., "Star Me Kitten"

I get a little bit Genghis Khan
I don't want you to get it on
With nobody else but me

- Miike Snow, "Genghis Khan"

Edited 2021-12-31 02:02 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Soonyoung/Hoseok (BTS)
Major Tags: Implied NSFW
Additional Tags:does horangi power have horny implications or nah? very vaguely implied studio sex i guess
Permission to remix: lol sure
wc: 403

A/N: It's six or seven am im terribly sleep deprived, low on impulse control and hwa's "ahaha you can try" looked like a challenge to me. Sorry, or you're welcome, depending on what your response to this is lmao.

***

Soonyoung, for his part, feels like he should be surprised it took this long for someone to come to the same conclusion as he had on the very second day.

It's been a long month, and the first coup has only just been put down and the people are being pacified through a quick theatrical release of 2 Horangi 2 Furious to Roar.

Somehow Soonyoung is back where it all began: in BTS J-Hope's snazzy 16th floor studio, something groovy with a thick bass reverberating from the speakers and Hoseok on his knees between Soonyoung's feet.

Maybe he should rewind a little there.

On the third day after Horanghaegate, as Seungkwan calls it-- Soonyoung preferred The Tigercoming... it isn't everyday that Mike fucking Tyson steals a furry superhero epithet for the coming of age ceremony of your fursona. Maybe Soonyoung could ask Bang PD to re-release the Spiderman films fom a tiger's perspective….to keep up with contemporary trends, really.

Anyway, what was Soonyoung thinking about?

The movement between his legs is as clear of a reminder as he'll get.

So the million dollar question that Soonyoung asked himself on day three and that hasn't been broached by anyone else yet, the question only the brave kneeling at his feet have had the foresight to ask: does every part of Soonyoung get bigger and stronger with every fervent horangdan cry released into the skies?

Which is sort of a tame and convoluted way of saying, Soonyoung's horanghae powers are known to give him a crazy number of abilities. Soonyoung has out-bench-pressed every goddamn jacked up kid Mingyu has brought home and flipped Kang fucking Hodong onto a straw mat. They're thinking of making him an ambassador for the next Olympics just so he'll spare them and not participate. Last week Soonyoung got declared as an honorary heavyweight champion.

Soonyoung could do anything right now, given the appropriate encouragement.

But Jung Hoseok, has maneuvered his way around what looked like the entirety of international press outside the Seventeen dorms, and Choi Seungcheol, all because he wants to know if Soonyoung's dick will grow bigger if Hoseok sweet talks to it in tiger tongue.

Pants pooling around his feet, Soonyoung has a sudden thought.

Hyung, did y'all check if horanghae makes my dick grow in size, he sends.

Jeonghan replies in seconds, We did that when you were asleep on the second day itself, Soonyoung-ah.

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

Prompt:

Say those dreams can shake me
Dawn come down and save me
Take this heart, break this heart
And give me some peace
Take this heart, break this heart
Wrap it up and let me sleep

- Midnight Oil, "Sleep"

Ship/Member: Seungkwan/Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: touch-starved, pining
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

We are mentally and spiritually close, therefore we should be physically close too. It's more complete.

-Women in Love (1969)

OH MY GOD THIS IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE COOLEST THINGS I'VE READ THIS YEAR you are so good i am obsessed & in love with you

"“Congratulations,” Seokmin says drily, collecting his things. “You are just like everyone else, Kim Mingyu.” Besides, Seokmin thinks as he bites his tongue. No one ever sees you as dumb. They reserve that title for me."

hhhhhHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA i gasped out loud at this. you're amazing.

OH sweet little alien vern … loves it bestie :]

PB I AM THROWING ALL MY SHOES ARE YOU WTF THIS IS SOOOO FUNNY AND HILARIOUS AND I'M LAUGHING OUT LOUD ON NEW YEARS EVE, I'm going to be late to a Thing because I've been soo distracted to write and just as I was about to start YOU DROP THIS.

I think my brain shut down after I wrote that so this, seeing this, the future, the vision. Hoshi's World. Where he is the king and tigers rule. A dystopia where capitalism has been crushed by tiger tyranny. I'm laughing at everything, horanghaegate (ahaha love the ref to the twt meltdown), tigercoming, the fact that he actually has a media propaganda machine?? and then the whole nsfw thing is the cherry on top, I'm still young and immature enough to love dick jokes <3 hwaranghae

ehe thank you i had fun with the vibes for this one

Oh OUCH this is lovely and so so sad!! My heart was in my throat the entire time, trying to imagine what it would be like for Minghao in the wake of Mingyu's disappearance... just wow. I love the way you told this in short snapshots, it feels really rich and developed. My favorite line is probably “I always wanted to come back here with you,” Mingyu sounds wistful. - !!!! Would read a million words in this universe, thank you so much!

""The world is going to end, Wonwoo-yah," Soonyoung answered. "Wouldn't it be cruel not to kiss me at least once before it does?"" GOD. this was soooo on point ;____; i am obsessed with how you made everything feel so real and so magical with so little space! this is such a cool piece <3 thanks for writing!

"“I could never be less than satisfied with whatever form of relationship I have with you,” Wonwoo continues. Amazing. “Because that would imply there is a way to be unsatisfied in your presence. And there is not.”" i am going to start screaming and then i'll never ever stop and that will be it. no words, just incoherent yelling. now that snwu have been wangxianed, i won't ever think of something else. thank u and the prompter too. this is amazing. wow.

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

Prompt:

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
(Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock)

When will I be yours? When will I be mine?
(Midnight Oil, “Bells and Horns in the Back of Beyond”)

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
(William Shakespeare, Hamlet 4.5)

Edited 2021-12-31 03:58 (UTC)

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

Prompt:
Thinking about that time Dino said Joshua will do nice things for people and then wait for them to thank/acknowledge him (I can't find the quote T__T) in conjunction with these... What is owed to you, etc.

I passed
through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled
around for a while, and stumbled back out. I made
this place for you. A place for you to love me.
— Richard Siken, "Snow and Dirty Rain”

The days draw long, too long to count, cushioned by the wasting
Restless age, the rusted temple—a place of my own making
No matter what else you've been told, it's still all up to me
And everything you own is mine in the barest degree
— Midnight Oil, “Barest Degree”

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

Prompt:

When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you love it.
Oh, when you used to sing it to sleep.
Here are your upturned hands.
Give them to him and watch how he prays
like he is learning his first words.
— Caitlyn Siehl

I still shiver to recall

how perfectly your fingers
fell into place

along the ridges
of my ribcage.

Go ahead, Love,
take every last bone.

Make of me what you will.
—Nancy Boutilier, "On The Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone"

Ship/Member: Any, but as always I'm partial to Chan
Major Tags: animal traits, magical realism, loyalty, fantasy, action/adventure!
Additional Tags: big cats!!!, mentorship, enemyship, enemymentorship, jealousy, brattiness maybe...
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Does the mark on my skin make you hot with shame?
'Cause I'm in love with the sin, and I know how to take the blame
And I'll let you in
Do I look good in this position, just like him?
— Years & Years, “Palo Santo”

Cats love only their mates and their masters.
— Abigail Hilton, Wolflings and Wizards

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2022 Round 1: Quotes

Re: [FILL] worm.

Re: [FILL] did someone say pain?

snonwoo (snake wonwoo)

Re: [FILL] It’s just that you remind me of a dog I once had and loved very much.

[FILL] heavy is the head

Re: [FILL] Wonhui homecoming

one for the money

an acceptable result

midnight june, midnight july

catboyisms...

[REMIX] does your fursona come with spare parts or are you just happy to see me

we're all looking for a new solution

i need you so much closer

Re: [FILL] my, what beautiful teeth you have

Re: [FILL] i (dis)like you

Re: [FILL] in something greater

Re: [REMIX] does your fursona come with spare parts or are you just happy to see me

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

Re: [FILL] when you are, where i am

Re: [FILL] astronomy in reverse

Re: [FILL] did someone say pain?

what is love? baby don't hurt me

a place for you to love me

when is a monster not a monster?

loyalty.... swirly eyes emoji