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"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!
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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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catholic school girls
(Anonymous) 2021-12-26 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)Major Tags: boarding school, blasphemy
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt:
[FILL] et in arcadia, ego
Major Tags: none
Additional Tags: they're girls, lesbian religious thinkery
Permission to remix: Yes
et in arcadia, ego
Jisoo thinks that for a Catholic, she should be more ashamed. Religious guilt is cliched enough to have become meaningless to her. If the only way to avoid purgatory was to die as a small child, and she’s seventeen now, tall and strong for a girl, then what has anything in the past decade of her life mattered? No matter how good she is, how pious, how obedient, how demure, she will one day die and wait in purgatory, full of sin.
If there even is a God. Jisoo isn’t quite sure. It feels impossible to think of the world turning without one, but on the other hand, if God made Yoon Jeonghan, and placed her here, in front of Jisoo, and meant for Jisoo to not look and only think of her as a sister, then God is blind and stupid and cruel.
Jeonghan transferred to St. Perpetua et Felicitas from a public school last year, in a flurry of half-admiring, half-judging whispers about her fashionable bangs and bruised knees. She threw her luggage on the empty bed in Jisoo’s dorm room, smiled prettily, and never really left Jisoo’s side again.
Sometimes Jisoo feels a little crazy about Jeonghan. Jeonghan is easily likeable and the other girls seem to be drawn to her. They all call her unnie and ask her to fix their braids after gym glass. Jeonghan has other friends, who she sometimes goes for walks with, eats with, watches movies with. Sometimes Jeonghan comes to their room a second before curfiew, smiling and tired, and forces her way to Jisoo’s neatly made bed in her outside clothes, tucks her head into the crook of Jisoo’s neck, and tells her about how she’s been playing volleyball with Seungkwan and Junhui all evening and Jisoo gets so mad because Jeonghan didn’t invite her even though she hates volleyball but swallows it down because maybe she’s crazy on the inside but no one else needs to know about it, not even Jeonghan.
”That looks weird,” Jisoo opines from her desk, watching Jeonghan pull faces at her pocket mirror, mascara wand wavering in her hand. Jeonghan is the worst kind of beautiful – the effortless kind that makes her barefaced and glowing and inept with makeup. ”Your lashes go downward. You should curl them.”
Jeonghan makes a disgusted face.
”I don’t want to.”
”Do you know how to?” Jisoo asks and is met with a haughty silence that is answer enough. ”I can do it for you.”
Jisoo digs through her makeup bag for the curler and then stands awkwardly in the middle of their room.
”Come on then,” Jeonghan laughs and shuffles to the edge of her bed, long coltish legs dropping down to the floor. She pats her thighs in invitation and Jisoo thinks she should probably protest even a little, instead of giddily sitting down on her. Like this, she’s taller than Jeonghan, and with Jeonghan’s pointy little chin tilted up and eyes closed, it makes Jisoo wonder whether this is how God sees Jeonghan, when she prays or crosses herself.
Jeonghan’s bony fingers dig into the soft give of Jisoo’s thigh, when she presses the curler down on Jeonghan’s lashes. She holds the curl longer than necessary and thinks that maybe it’s not only God who is stupid and cruel. Or that maybe God really did make man in his own image.
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we are literally on the opposite sides of the earth but istg I am yelling so loud my vibes will pierce the mantel and reach you WHERE IN YOUR BRAIN DID YOU FIND THIS. Its literally an hour past my bedtime so you won't get pretty html and quotes you'll just get a keysmash as I holler, scream, throw a tantrum at the fact you had the AUDACITY to write a jihan catholic lesbians AU with lesbian and religious guilt and Yoon jeonghan the beautiful transfer student and Hong Jisoo the righteously repressed!!!
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Sometimes Jeonghan comes to their room a second before curfiew, smiling and tired, and forces her way to Jisoo’s neatly made bed in her outside clothes, tucks her head into the crook of Jisoo’s neck, and tells her about how she’s been playing volleyball with Seungkwan and Junhui all evening and Jisoo gets so mad because Jeonghan didn’t invite her even though she hates volleyball but swallows it down because maybe she’s crazy on the inside but no one else needs to know about it, not even Jeonghan. sorry to requote an entire paragraph back at you BUT i'm obsessed with this!!! the unhinged feelings of jealousy/possessiveness combined with the way jisoo doesn't want anyone to know, the way maybe she is special to jeonghan but it's so hard to tell because jeonghan is special to everybody, that teenage girl insecurity and meanness, all of it is so good and so perfectly encapsulated here. insane brain actually!!!!! you are so good!!!!! every time you share something with us it is always such a gift, and this is no exception ♡♡♡♡
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I'm speechless, this is so grotesquely good!!!! WOW. I want to reread this forever thank you so much
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i also want to throw back the sentence that cat quoted at u, Sometimes Jeonghan comes to their room a second before curfiew, smiling and tired, and forces her way to Jisoo’s neatly made bed in her outside clothes, tucks her head into the crook of Jisoo’s neck, and tells her about how she’s been playing volleyball with Seungkwan and Junhui all evening and Jisoo gets so mad because Jeonghan didn’t invite her even though she hates volleyball but swallows it down because maybe she’s crazy on the inside but no one else needs to know about it, not even Jeonghan there is an insanity to jisoo that i love dearly she just feels so tangible n real (and the object of her desires, yjh) and maybe hinting a little as to how she can be prompted to act on said desires. thank u for writing this was perfect!!
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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
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[REMIX] scio quid hoc est
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: lesbians, sapphics, women who don't realise they love women (yet)
Permission to remix: Yes
when you posted this I literally flipped my cushions and my laundry. you know how much lesbian jihan art I have and my numerous drafts about comphet jihan and self-oppressed jisoo!! ester I am not god's strongest soldier. it makes Jisoo wonder whether this is how God sees Jeonghan, when she prays or crosses herself s c r e a m
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composition referenced from kpop's most sapphic mv, touch touch touch touch touch
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thanks ester xx
Rose