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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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Re: [FILL] just as usual
- Grown into the full maturity of his features and yet somehow still as boyishly charming as ever. i love how observant wonwoo is here - the description of soju not dulling mingyu's acuity, it's a lens that is tailored to Knowing its subject. no one else could describe kmg the way jww could.
- the almost coincidence timing of never meeting there till that day despite being right next to each other is so movie-like
- Sometimes the most inherently unromantic things can be romantic in their own right. op how do you get it so much. sidenote that i meant to leave for the end but this piece uses rain /so/ well. rain as a setting, rain as a common thread between two moments and all the associations of it with that tinge of sadness and romance. this is seriously all i could have asked for from this prompt and i think you are amazing.
- “I— I do, yeah,” says Mingyu, after a beat. “You still remember?” / Wonwoo doesn’t answer that. seriously like it is getting me so bad that wonwoo remembers everything and cares so much. that he's SO considerate. that mingyu can't accept not because he doesn't want the kindness but just because he cares about wonwoo that much too, that neither can accept comfort when they know the other person will have it worse. the way: Instead he—hesitating only for a moment—takes Mingyu’s hands in his own and folds them around the money, holding firm even as he can feel Mingyu jolt under his touch. that wonwoo uses his love as a weapon and gets his way but ultimately for mingyu's own benefit. i'm dyeing!!
- “Let me send you home,” says Wonwoo. “One last time.” as soon as i read this line for the first time i knew what direction you were going in. this is such a good line, so charged with history T___T
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- Because I thought it’d be nice, Wonwoo wanted to say. Because I wanted to eat with you today, and tomorrow, and every day after that. because he's not breaking up with him because he doesn't love mg and i love how you convey this so clearly in his narration. and i love that take on mw because it's really so tender AND I LOVE THEM. i want them to be happy, and even if they're not together it really is just so. to know that they care still.
- “I forgot my umbrella,” said Mingyu, curt. “I asked my mom to bring it for me.” / “I have mine.” / “Good for you.” mingyu almost petulant in his hurt but wonwoo STILL CARES SO MUCH!!!! so much that he's desperate for mg to take it
- “You’ll get sick. You always get sick so easily.” again with the Knowing
- Most of the time, Wonwoo tried his best not to be selfish. But just this once he wanted to be, just one more time. (heartbreak emoji) i'm deceased. op thank you sooooo much for this i think you are incredible and i won't be able to stop thinking about this.
Re: [FILL] just as usual
my svt knowledge is actually somewhat outdated so i don't know how well this holds up but i feel like for jww pov i always want to hit on how much he simply pays attention to other people as well as how poetic he is so i'm glad it seemed to translate well T___T also i screamed a little when you said this is really the crux of jww within mw to me and you put it so well... and this too: i'm glad you liked the softer take on them because a lot of the time when i read mw fic i end up just feeling really bad for kmg T___T not to say that i don't also enjoy that dynamic but sometimes i do like to think that jww really cares for him too to the point of being self-sacrificial...
anyways thank you so much again T___T i've been reading this comment over and over and it makes me so happy every time <3