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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ship/member: boochan!!
major tags: canon compliant + that one heart to heart they had in its
additional tags: none
do not wants: none

prompt:

when someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. you just know that your name is safe in their mouth.

the sandstorm disappeared without a trace, and the moon hung in the night sky.
— from the hyyh notes.

you are sunlight through a window, which i stand in, warmed.
— the miniaturist, jessie burton.

Edited 2022-01-04 04:30 (UTC)

ship/member: seokhao
major tags: dream walking, reincarnation au
additional tags: surrealism
do not wants: none

prompt:

it feels like i've loved you my whole life cause i see you everywhere
in dreams where i cannot move, i can only stand and stare.— nathan, flower face.

Edited 2022-01-04 04:36 (UTC)

thank you so much <33

thank you!!! jeonghan setter is actually a Big svt/hq thought, i've seen go around. oikawa and suga are both fits i've thought of for him but never atsumu which is why this was a blast to write in that, jeonghan atsumu only works with miya twins jihan, imo. sorry for rambling as you can see i am still stuck on some of these concepts...thank you for reading!!

lilli!!!!!thank you, glad you agree hehe <3

if you ever want to expand on this wild, brilliant, perhaps fit to just keep on dreamwidth universe, you know who would be ready at first call....
ALSO. that is a very vivid image of me getting clobbered by your shoes raining on me TT

oh wow thank YOU, im glad you enjoyed!!

OH MY GOSH thank you, this is such high praise, im very grateful *_*

OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYY HOLY SHIT LETS GO

god i feel so powerful when i see people who i wasn't actively sniping drop the most ridiculously good fills to my prompts....i love this so so much
Wonwoo struggles to keep an ugly grin off his face. Jeonghan's boy. The next time Jeonghan sees him, he'll be Wonwoo's. SCREAM???
love a wonu who's resentful enough to turn a little ugly himself, thank you for this!!!

dear nj you can do whatever the heck you want with any prompt of mine, if this what i get, i am absolutely eating up the image of scowling mean little deekay, “Fuck you,” Seokmin spits. “You’re no better than I am. Stop trying to act like it.” YEAH this is what im talking about actually!!!! this is the good shit!!!!!

oh you always show up with the most devastating jicheol's for 17hols, and im very very grateful for it...still thinking about your dialect fill from last year and now i will be thinking about this...i think here is where i screamed
she's a bit like jihoon, in some ways. extremely driven, bad with sudden change, not the greatest at starting a conversation but could talk for hours about whatever their primary passion is. they have the same twinkle in their eyes when they realize that the person they're talking to actually gives a shit about what they have to say.

the quiet resignation, the care they show each other despite it all, or maybe because of it...hits so so hard. thank you so much for this!

ki i hate you i love you im shaking you like a coca cola bottle i dont have the mental capacity to process all of this rn but i read it anyway so this is gonna be my suburst minwon fic of the year huh, im so [banshee wails] AAA?
Mingyu figured he’d probably loved Wonwoo for as long as he’d been alive, and maybe even longer, if that was possible. He figured Wonwoo had known the whole time, too.
head in hands, im grateful but also resentful that you made me go through this, ki surjamukhi.....

Ship/Member: seokmin/minghao
Major Tags: just two boys in the rain. they like each other
Additional Tags: au - magical realism, seokhao: it's you it's you it's you, xu minghao wanted for fondgazing crimes, coming of age vibes, love confessions and first dates, seokmin fighting the weather with his bare fists for one(1) xu minghao
Permission to remix: yes!
wc: 525

> i think this will finish off my 5 of a kind, magical realism!!!

hello op!! this was just a really fun thing to write - i'm not entirely sure if it filled the prompt its mostly just vibes and minghao being in love with a silly boy who is sunshine reincarnate.. but!!! here they are!!!!

***

“I like you, Xu Minghao!”

Seokmin stands with two hands planted firmly on the railing. A lion’s roar rips through his chest, slicing through the onslaught of rain. The entire scene is cinematic, lifted from a movie: Seokmin, with his hair sopping wet and soaked shirt clinging to a broad frame that Minghao has only ever let himself admire from afar, his laugh echoing across the valley, wild and bright. A freed love confession, awkward and still new and fluttering, making its way in the world.

Seokmin repeats it again. He can’t stop smiling. Neither can Minghao, though his cheeks flush with embarrassment, making him the likelier of the two to respect local neighborhood ordinance laws. Minghao hisses at Seokmin to keep his voice down, but there isn't a single sharp sentiment in there. Instead, another silly smile threatens to spill out again.

The entire thing is surreal. But then again, nearly half the things that Seokmin chooses to do seem utterly impossible to Minghao. Partly because he’s never met anyone who goes through the world the way that Seokmin does, with so much candor and love that Minghao always feels bowled over witnessing it firsthand, and entirely because, well ―

Minghao is utterly, hopelessly, endlessly in love with Lee Seokmin. Always has been.

“What are you doing?” He half laughs, half giggles. The air is freezing cold, nipping at fingers he lost feeling in about two minutes into their foray into the rain, but all Minghao can feel is the warmth that Seokmin effortlessly radiates.

“I’m fighting the weather!” Seokmin calls back, smiling wide. “It’s our very first date! It can’t be raining like this!”

“You can try,” Minghao is too fond. It flows from his mouth naturally, with ease, and with none of the shame or second-hand embarrassment that he usually carries with him. Maybe that’s the most wonderful thing about being with Seokmin: it’s always easy when it’s just them two. “I don’t see it stopping anytime soon.”

Miraculously, the storm breaks.

The sunlight returns with full force. It hits Seokmin just right, illuminating all of his sharp features and softening them with a kind glow, so that he looks like a star reincarnate, forever shining and bright. For a split second Minghao is struck with the intensity of a feeling. Lighting bolt to the heart.

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Minghao stammers, brushing the rain off his coat. “You just got lucky.”

Seokmin replies brightly, completely undeterred. “That’s okay! I have all our lives to convince you that magic exists, Xu Minghao.”

Minghao’s breath hitches in his throat. That thing sitting in his chest swells, just a tiny bit more. He closes his eyes for a brief moment, wanting so desperately to commit this feeling to memory, wanting to trap it in time, so that he can preserve this wondrous boy standing in front of him right now, just as he is.

It’s simple. It’s so lovely. It’s Seokmin. All these things are one and the same.

Minghao opens his eyes. Seokmin is smiling, as always. Minghao savors the taste on his tongue before he takes a step forward.

Seokmin meets Minghao halfway.

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

Prompt:

Your heart's so heavy
Your heart is strange
You wanna love me
But honey, that ain't okay
You're not so heavenly
Not much of you for me
But in the morning, it might just change

pammie T__T you are so sweet to me thank you WAHHH thank you for sharing all the lines that you liked!!! hansol just loves him so much... seungkwan is the sun. i'm glad that the emotions came across well, prints your comment for me to read forever hehehe

eeeee thank you! i tried to make hansol's dialogue scant in this, but his head is just so loud, and his feelings are big, they're gonna come across anyways!! silly boy in love

wah i'm really glad you liked the metaphor, bc i kept kicking myself for not writing OCEAN imagery after making the jeju trip this fill's cornerstone. thank YOU for the insane prompt, it really got to me!!!

Ship/Member: wonwoo/soonyoung/chan, soonyoung/chan
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: au - heroes, magical realism (kinda), it's all very vague, logistically, sacrifices have to be made, chan the martyr, chan the lovely and terribly brave, what happens after you save the world together but not all of you returns whole, moving on but never forgetting, a sort of homecoming - except home isn't a place but two very important people, a happy ending i promise
Permission to remix: please ask!
wc: 920

> going for rarest pair (4 works in the tag!)

bells i love you very much <3 happy new year

***

Chan doesn’t even think twice about what decision he has to make. Wonwoo is frowning the entire time Chan explains the plan, eyes glassy and far away as he runs the calculations. When Chan finishes, Soonyoung looks at Wonwoo, who lets out a discontented huff.

“He’s right. It’s the only way,” Wonwoo heaves a sigh. Soonyoung wants to break something.

“This is for the good of the world,” Chan offers determinedly, with the air of someone who has already made amends with their fate. It’s not fair. It’s not. Soonyoung hasn’t made his peace yet. Doesn't he get a say in this too?

There is a cut running along the edge of Chan’s cheek, a gentle reminder of his ― their ― mortality. He’s not yet eighteen but there’s something in the way that his shoulders straighten as his eyebrows draw themselves together, chin set so stubbornly and headstrong that makes Soonyoung want to throw everything away to cradle him closer to his chest. To protect him for just a bit longer.

Chan’s bottom lip is quivering the entire time. It’s the only thing that betrays how scared he is.

Soonyoung wants to shake him silly. It’s okay to be afraid. You don’t have to do this. We can figure something else. Together. You don’t have to go. It doesn't have to be you.

Instead, he says, “Our lives are gonna suck so much without you in it,” and wraps his arms around Chan for the hug of a lifetime. Soonyoung squeezes him extra hard, just so Chan knows how much Soonyoung hates this, but also so that Chan knows that he is so incredibly loved.

“You’ll have Wonwoo,” Chan reminds Soonyoung gently. He turns to Wonwoo. “And you’ll have Soonyoung. You guys will be alright.”

Soonyoung tries to smile back, but his heart hurts too much to fake it. But you’ll be all alone, he thinks. Who’s going to look after you?

It’s futile, Soonyoung knows. Lee Chan, the unsung hero, ever so self-sacrificing. Willing to put the weight of the world on his back so everyone else can breathe just a little easier.

Chan takes Soonyoung and Wonwoo’s hands, joining them together. His breath is shaky but the smile he gives them isn’t. It’s still so brilliant.

“Ready?” Chan asks.

“Nope,” Wonwoo quips one last time, mouth curling upwards into his trademark grin. The light in his eyes is soft, though. Fond, even.

“I’ll come find you,” Chan promises, voice breaking. “When it’s all done and over, I’ll come find you guys. Don’t think I’d let you guys go that easily. Alright?”

“Alright,” Soonyoung says softly, even though he knows the chances of that happening are a zillion to one. He agrees anyway, because hope is what keeps them going.

There’s a glittering tear on Chan’s cheek. It leaves a trail of water in its wake as it quietly falls, shining and shimmering.

It’s the last thing Soonyoung remembers before everything fades to black.

Soonyoung wakes up to nine missed phone calls from Jeon Wonwoo.

“Hello?” Soonyoung croaks, throat bruised like he’d been screaming. His body feels like it is filled with grief, all twisted and bent with its mourning. There’s a heavy weight on his shoulders, an incessant feeling of something being wrong. When Soonyoung tries to reach inside his mind, to figure out what it is, he comes up strangely empty. Something else occupied this space, his brain tries to say. Someone else was here. They mattered to you, a lot. They existed. They took up space.

Remember. Remember. Remember?

Soonyoung doesn't. Can't. Isn't able to. There's nothing there. It's gone. A whole expanse of darkness stares back at him when he tries to conjure up a face, to pin a name to this ghost haunting him. An immense wave of guilt rises up, threatening to swallow him whole.

Wonwoo sounds equally wrecked. His voice is tinny and a little bit lost. Distant. “Hi. Do you feel … different, too?”

Soonyoung nods, beginning to cry.

There is some part of them missing. He can feel it.

But here’s the beautiful thing about life: it goes on. Soonyoung and Wonwoo get swept up in all of it. They exchange kisses, hugs, then rings, and then vows, in front of some of their closest friends. They leave a chair in the front row empty, because Soonyoung had insisted and Wonwoo would have never disagreed. Besides, it just felt right. Wonwoo buys them a home, a real one to always return to, one where Soonyoung can hang all the silly pictures he’s taken of Wonwoo throughout their time together. Even if his thumb is on the lens in almost all of them, Soonyoung wants them up anyways. It makes it a little bit more real. Their life together always feels like a dream.

The ocean breeze is nice on Soonyoung’s face. Wonwoo sits on the edge of the pier, shoulder to shoulder with Soonyoung, their legs dangling over the water, explaining some niche topic that he’d just learnt about. Soonyoung is content to listen.

“See,” a voice says. It’s wry and a little bit sharp but oh so familiar. Soonyoung turns around to find a boy staring back at them. There’s a lovely grin on his face. “I told you guys that I’d make my way back. What did I miss?”

Soonyoung sees him and suddenly, all the puzzle pieces slot back into place. It feels like he’s finally woken up. Wonwoo is already up and running, bare feet pounding against the planks.

“A lot,” Soonyoung says as he barrels into the bodies of two boys he truly really loves. “You have so much to catch up on.”

Chan laughs. The sound is bright and sharp and free. “Good. I’ve got all the time in the world now.”

Edited 2022-01-04 08:02 (UTC)

I LOVE LOVE. hansol tries so hard to cut it down, but his love is fueled by seungkwan's own behavior/actions towards him, so how could it ever die? when seungkwan is so good to him? just that kinda feeling... u kno... thanks for commenting kei i owe u my life

WE LOVE YEARNING IN THIS HOUSE. they are so intertwined, but hansol wants... more... try speaking hansol, it might not turn out too bad. thank you so much!

i'm so glad you liked that last line bc i kept on redoing it, trying to find the right words, and was very satisfied when i finally got it!! this is such a compliment coming from you, thank you!!

EVERYONE TURNING TOWARDS A SMALL SUN! i'm yelling. hansol's feelings here, are so good. that little condescending 'am i this easy to please?' when seungkwan comes out to find him... but then also on seungkwan's end, rushing out to find out if hansol is smoking again, even though he knows he's quit. love this implied push/pull! they aren't far from something!

oh karina i think you really Get seokhao... like i love seeing minghao being in love with seokmin because it's like ha! so true! get in line! but i really think you've captured seokmin and his energy and his joy... and the magic too!!! so very seokmin!!! this made me feel very fizzy i loved it

AAAAAAAH KARINA,,, oh. there's so much grief and love and bravery in this ;; i love them ;; thank you so much for writing

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2022 Round 1: Quotes

and come to me (my, my way)

in this lifetime and the next

Re: [FILL] winter sleep

Re: [FILL] my best heart is a century of hunger

Re: [FILL] my best heart is a century of hunger

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

Re: [FILL] my best heart is a century of hunger

Re: [FILL] hungrier/tides

Re: [FILL] glued

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

Re: [FILL] let me push, let me shove

Re: we had our turn but it can't stay [FILL]

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

[FILL] you, in my memory

no subject

Re: [FILL] a thousand roots, growing

Re: [FILL] a thousand roots, growing

Re: [FILL] a thousand roots, growing

[FILL] i would know you anywhere

Re: [FILL] a thousand roots, growing

Re: [FILL] a thousand roots, growing

Re: [FILL] a thousand roots, growing

Re: [FILL] heliotropism

Re: [FILL] you, in my memory

Re: [FILL] i would know you anywhere