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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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[FILL] what will they say about us?
Major Tags: major character death (implied)
Additional Tags: space — the final frontier, loneliness at the end of the world, apocalypse, loosely based off the silent sea (which i binged yesterday), grief and mourning
Permission to remix: yes ofc!! tag me too!!
WC: 571
[going to try and go for five of a kind!! (5 different AUs)]
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The world is ending when Wonwoo wants to save it.
Minghao laughs before he realizes Wonwoo actually means it. They’re sitting on an edge of a dune, shoulder to shoulder, bangs ruffling in the dusty breeze.
“Sorry,” Minghao giggles, looking Wonwoo up and down. They’re both spindly in different ways. Wonwoo wheezes going up stairs, and the slightest of gales could knock Minghao over. “You and what army?”
“Not like that,” Wonwoo scowls, pushing Minghao over. There’s a smile threatening his lips though.
The dirt is rough. It digs into Minghao’s hands, searing a reminder that they don’t have much time left. They never did.
Wonwoo looks up to the moon. “They’re sending me up there, Minghao.”
Minghao’s breath catches in his throat, seizing his lungs. No. He thought that if they didn’t have time, they’d at least have each other, and that would have to be enough. But now —
“I’ll come back,” Wonwoo says quietly, head tilted up to the sky. “You deserve a better world than this.”
It’s the most romantic thing anyone has ever told Minghao. He believes him.
And so Minghao waits.
Sometimes he gets too angry to take Wonwoo’s calls. You left me all alone. First, he’d say it as a joke. Then it began to morph into something too tangible and real. Too painful to leave festering out in the open like that. Their calls would become quiet after that.
Sometimes he wonders if Wonwoo has eaten. If he’s taking care of himself. If he’s any closer to coming home.
He watches as Balhae Station goes dark. Hundreds and hundreds of crew members, each with their own tiny little universe of people that cared about them — gone. Just like that. No one knows what happened there. If they do, no one will tell him.
Minghao spends the next five years of his life glaring up at the moon. You said you’d come back.
He finds the message later, deep into his digging. Minghao’s fingers shake when he realizes who it’s from. Then he laughs. From joy and from fear and from recognition. There’s a deep, terrible ache in his heart. It’s been five years, and Wonwoo still manages to have the last word.
When he comes across an encrypted file, Minghao doesn’t think twice about what the password could be.
It opens. Minghao buries his head in his hands and lets himself grieve. Just for a moment. The world is ending regardless.
I wanted to show you this, Wonwoo says, the way he appears in Minghao’s memory.
Wonwoo is just as beautiful to Minghao as the day he left.
If you had known what we were doing here, would you have come?
Minghao traces his fingers over the holo-screen. If he knew what a body of water actually felt like, maybe this would be what they called drowning.
“I would have.” Minghao’s voice does not waver. “I would not have left you.” So if Minghao couldn’t protect Wonwoo from the horrible things he had to do, Minghao could at least hold Wonwoo tight after the fact, to kiss everything away. Strip him of his guilt and share the burden. Hand in hand, heart to heart.
Isn’t that what it meant? To not be alone?
Wonwoo’s last words, melancholy and gentle, echoing through time. An apology for something Minghao’s long forgiven him for. I wanted to show you the sea.
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(and then If he knew what a body of water actually felt like, maybe this would be what they called drowning. oh dear I never knew the desire to drown could be romantic BUT HERE WE ARE)
Minghao's default to anger, Wonwoo's moon-like calm. an apology for something Minghao's long forgiven him for ;____; this is beautiful thank you so much for writing!
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i was toying w the idea of drowning but i realized… they would only know in theory bc they’ve never known water in large body form… insane…
if u do remix please let me know bc i would love to see a rendition ala hwa!!!!!!
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- "if they do, no one will tell him" ahhh i like how vague you kept this because the horror of just...not knowing. that hurts
- "if he knew what a body of water felt like, maybe this would be what they called drowning" okay maybe THIS is my favorite line! great little piece of worldbuilding i feel so invested in this universe
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