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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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the same old sin
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Prompt:
- Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Alpha Dog by Fall Out Boy
[FILL] pretend that i'm the only one
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Additional Tags: Bridgerton AU set in South Korea
Permission to remix: Yes
***
"There would be nothing worse than to be tied down in a political courtship," Mingyu confessed to Seokmin, forthright. They were walking along the river in the height of spring, and the falling cherry blossoms slid down the spokes of the pale yellow parasol Mingyu held up for them both. The people around them were horribly pretending not to look at them as intently as they were.
"I want to marry for love," insisted Seokmin, saying much of the same thing. "It seems pointless to promise yourself for anything less."
Mingyu paused and turned to face him. "Do we not agree?" he proposed, surprised by their equal footing on the matter for once.
The sleeves of Seokmin's powder blue jungchimak fluttered in the breeze like the petals raining down. He met Mingyu's eyes for such a brief moment that it could almost be mistaken for the sort of consideration he had all but declared Mingyu unworthy of from their first meeting.
Seokmin sighed, "Were you even listening to me at all?", a simple reaffirmation that he still wasn’t. He continued on past the shade of the umbrella, obstinate, and all Mingyu could do was trail after him like any other besotted fool in his wake.
***
They said it was a waste for Mingyu to have status and talent and to be as handsome and charming as he was when he exhibited not the least bit of interest in settling down, season after season. They still pushed their sons and daughters toward him, hoping to catch him changing his mind.
They said Seokmin wouldn’t go a month into his debut without an engagement. Now that it was April, they corrected themselves and said that Seokmin could only be too picky to be satisfied.
Wonwoo said when he noticed Mingyu staring across the courtyard, “Love has turned you desperate,” because he didn’t have the tact to say anything but the truth when it came to people outside himself. “I never thought you were capable.”
Seokmin smiled at the suitor he was walking with. He’d never bothered to look at Mingyu like that before. “At most, it’s a trivial infatuation,” he reasoned thickly. “Nothing more.”
***
Mingyu found Seokmin sitting on the fringes of the festival. “We should dance,” he offered immediately. “There are a lot of people tonight.”
Seokmin was fixated on the crowd. Across where couples were dancing was Yoon Jeonghan, walking alongside his wife. They had married last autumn, just as the gingko leaves fell. Mingyu had been in attendance, and Seokmin had worn the same look of beatific devastation in the distance, merely more hardened and removed now.
“I want to marry for love,” Seokmin said again without looking at him, the only acknowledgment of Mingyu’s presence beside him at all. “I don’t want to settle for less.” He said it like he would rather die otherwise.
Mingyu had enough shame to turn away. “Of course,” he managed. I would love you, if you let me, he meant to say. I already do. But that was too akin to a boyish vulnerability he’d long thought himself above.
He proffered his hand to Seokmin, who met Mingyu's eyes for such a brief moment that it could almost be mistaken for the sort of consideration he had all but declared Mingyu unworthy of from their first meeting, before placing his own in Mingyu’s palm. Mingyu grinned with his canines. “So let’s put on a show,” fueled by that fleeting glance of fatalistic hope, to his own detriment.
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all Mingyu could do was trail after him like any other besotted fool in his wake
he is whipped i love to see it
he didn’t have the tact to say anything but the truth when it came to people outside himself
read jww for filth in just one sentence, amazing
too akin to a boyish vulnerability he’d long thought himself above
oh mingyu...
anyway i enjoyed this sm and your writing is very lovely and introspective, thank you so much for sharing <3
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Mingyu had enough shame to turn away. “Of course,” he managed. I would love you, if you let me, he meant to say. I already do. But that was too akin to a boyish vulnerability he’d long thought himself above.
as always... you ruin me...
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