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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!
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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was I in your way?
(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 01:59 am (UTC)(link)Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: falling out of love (slowly, quietly, soundlessly,) meeting again years later, looking not at someone but past them, belated realizations, missing something that you aren't sure ever existed
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt:
[Fill]
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: angst, falling out of love, thinking about love that wasn't meant to last, accepting the hurt
Permission to remix: Yes
written at the speed of light bc i love this kinda angst. i didn't really make them meet after years, sorry ://
***
There are days when Hansol's mind is violently pulled towards Seungkwan. Some days it's caused by an old t-shirt he finds during spring cleaning in his closed, other times it's the smell of his one-night stand's cologne and a week after that it's hearing a song he remembers Seungkwan had on their shared playlist, back when they had only one Spotify account and fought to play the music they liked.
Most of the time he thinks about Seungkwan, he's remembering, not wishing for things to change or magically improve, he's just… torturing himself with the memories. And memories are never the true reflection of past events and feelings—they are curated, polished, photoshopped into perfection by his mind's eye. And he knows, he knows, but he still misses that idealized past that never existed.
He wants his Seungkwan back. Not his true self, but the version that will go on to live in his head. And it's not possible.
They are both doing well with their careers, busy with meetings and packed schedules that never seem to slow down the pace, leaving them burnt out. Maybe that's why it didn't work out, Hansol thinks sometimes. Maybe that's the reason Seungkwan stopped looking at him with so much love in his eyes one day. It didn't happen in one day, Hansol understands that, but he noticed it a month before their breakup and it was the moment he knew this was over and the feelings would never come back.
Hansol never texts him, he deleted the number from his phone. He still remembers it, but whenever he catches himself mindlessly typing it on the keyboard, he turns off the device. Seungkwan has called him once over the past two years. It lasted half a minute and Hansol never picked up, just stared at the number on the screen, mesmerized by the way his chest ached.
This wound won't scar. It will always bleed, drop by drop, and all he can do is to stop picking at it so much. He's not sure he can.
He saw Seungkwan with someone in a coffee shop a few days ago. He was laughing, an untouched cup of black coffee standing on the table before him. Hansol imagined himself in the place of Seungkwan's partner for a few seconds.
He couldn't.
That's not what he wants—he wants their past back. He wishes he was twenty again, struggling to balance his job and studying. He misses sharing headphones with Seungkwan and making shitty ramen in their small kitchen at 3 AM. Their love wasn't meant to last.
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