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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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*farquaad pointing jpg* The Seokgyucore
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: character/relationship study
Do Not Wants: none
Prompt:
just this tumblr post lol. doesn't necessarily have to be a dead serious study or anything i just think this is a neat seokgyu angle and i want to spread the agenda ok
[FILL] i (dis)like you
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: idolverse, character study, ambiguous relationships, reluctant coworkers w an antagonistic relationship but what if it’s because u are Too Similar but also Too Stubborn to admit it, i’ll go down fighting for these guys (& then they will fight each other <3)
Permission to remix: yes ofc!!
wc: 1300
yeah i have no real good explanation for this i just open 17hols every night before i go to bed and voila i get possessed
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“I just — I don’t want to room with Seokmin,” Mingyu’s voice cuts in tiredly, and something about his tone rubs Seokmin entirely the wrong way.
Mingyu’s tired. Seokmin’s tired. They’re all tired. It’s been stop after stop after stop, performing concert after concert, song after song. There are no breaks in between. Sickness lurks beneath the surface, ready to step in at a moment’s notice. Exhaustion wears them thin as their numbers begin to dwindle. Not by choice, of course. The body always knows. It will be the first thing that breaks.
First, Seungcheol. Then, Jeonghan. For a moment it is terrifying. Like staring down the gaping mouth of a deep well, wondering how far it’d be until your body hit the ground. It’s completely unknown territory. But they move forward because they cannot look back.
Before the start of the new year, Jeonghan comes back, just in time for the North American portion of the tour, and everything stabilizes just a little bit. If not Seungcheol, then Jeonghan will know what to do.
But then — Minghao. Jun. Seokmin feels so dizzy and sick at their LA stop that he nearly passes out before they’re due at the stage markers, but he refuses to pull out. No one questions him about it, mouths pulled tight and grim. They’re bowing under the weight. They have been, for a very long time.
It’s been an awesome year.
It’s been an awful year.
“Fine,” Seokmin rests his head on the arm of the sofa, closing his eyes and willing the annoyance to go away. His head fucking hurts too much to deal with Kim Mingyu right now. Kindness is not a virtue he can extend at the moment. Nor does he particularly want to.
“I didn’t want to room with you anyways,” Seokmin grumbles, petulant.
Jeonghan, who is always listening, makes a sympathetic sound. He cards a gentle hand through Seokmin’s hair and hums, louder so that everyone else can hear, “I’ll room with Seokminnie. He’s used to my horrible sleeping habits anyways.”
“Thanks,” Seokmin murmurs into the stitching. He talks to himself in his head, gives himself an impromptu pep talk. They’re tired. It’s been a long day. He just needs some rest.
It’s not enough to stop him from knocking Mingyu’s suitcase over on his way up to his and Jeonghan’s hotel room, though.
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“It’s not like that,” Seokmin barely refrains from rolling his eyes as Mingyu shuffles into the room. “I was just joking around.”
“You complimented everyone but me,” Mingyu whines, heaving a sigh so that his massive chest — which he never lets anyone forget, always finding some vapid excuse to stretch out his biceps behind him in order to show it off — heaves up and down. “I looked so dumb!”
“Congratulations,” Seokmin says drily, collecting his things. “You are just like everyone else, Kim Mingyu.” Besides, Seokmin thinks as he bites his tongue. No one ever sees you as dumb. They reserve that title for me.
Mingyu falls silent behind him. And because Seokmin doesn’t do too well with a quiet room, he whirls around to find Mingyu staring right back at him.
“You meant it, didn’t you,” Mingyu says quietly. “Is there really nothing you like about me?”
Guilt shuffles back up into Seokmin’s throat. Shame pools there too, in the pit of his stomach, coupled with an annoyance that always seems to be around whenever Mingyu’s involved. Tricky emotions to untangle, those two.
What did he want Seokmin to say? What did he want Seokmin to do?
There’s a reason why Seokmin abhors that damned nickname. Second Kindest After God. He wants to laugh at the absurdity. Who can be that nice all the time? Couldn’t Seokmin be mean, if he wanted to? He was allowed to be human, wasn’t he? To be sharp and unforgiving and a little undeserving of forgiveness?
“It was just a joke,” Seokmin tells Mingyu. “Honest. That’s all it was.”
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“What is it about Mingyu that makes him so easy to love?” Seokmin blurts out one day. He and Minghao are piled up on top of each other, browsing through fanmade Youtube videos. Mingyu’s clips always garner so many views, trending because of some random habit or a particularly compelling look.
Seokmin would be lying if he said he wasn’t jealous.
What was it like to have that many people’s eyes on you?
Minghao stares at him. Half out of disbelief, half in awe.
“What,” Seokmin says defensively.
“You really don’t know?”
“I wouldn’t be asking if I didn’t,” Seokmin points out, feeling extra bright and sore from the sudden embarrassment. “You know what, never mind, don’t answer that, it was a silly question—“
“He asked me the same thing about you,” is all Minghao has to offer. He doesn’t say anything more after the fact, even when Seokmin pesters him for more information.
“If you’re so curious, talk to Mingyu about it.” Minghao grumbles fondly, pushing Seokmin’s face away.
Seokmin scoffs. No thanks. As if Seokmin would give Mingyu the satisfaction of knowing that he had the intellectual upper hand on him. It’d only serve to inflate his ego even more, and Seokmin couldn’t be held responsible for what he’d do to Mingyu if that happened.
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“Look at this new knife set I got!” Mingyu bursts into their dorm with a fierce shout, brandishing a shiny and new box. It startles Seokmin into knocking over the ingredients for the pizza he’d been in the process of making with Hansol.
Seokmin groans, throwing his arms up the air. “Mingyu-yah! Look what you did!”
It’s like someone let all the air out of a balloon. Mingyu deflates, tail between his legs. “Aish, sorry. I just wanted to share it with you.”
He walks back out as quickly as he’d come in, a tour de force, scurrying back out in shame. Little trails of flour follow him out. Seokmin sighs. He’s going to have to clean that up later.
“You know,” Hansol shrugs, slowly picking up the pepperoni pieces from the floor, “you could be nicer to him.”
Seokmin lets out a mournful sound at the sight of his precious dough on the floor. He wonders if it can be salvaged. “Why would I? He’s the one who came in here and knocked everything sideways.”
Hansol sets his large eyes on Seokmin’s, wide and unblinking. “He’s trying his best.”
Seokmin scowls. So is he. Sometimes Seokmin lets Mingyu talk to him for hours on end. When it’s late at night and everyone is already asleep, Mingyu gets softer with his words, soft enough that he explains everything to Seokmin without making him feel stupid, without trying too hard to sound like he already knows everything. There isn’t any competition between them. They can just be. This is Seokmin’s favorite Mingyu, the one that comes out when no cameras are watching.
Is anyone going to acknowledge that too?
💥
Maybe the problem is this: when Seokmin sees Mingyu, there is this sense of understanding. A mirror with a distorted reflection, blurred around the edges but clear enough that a general shape is left behind. The essence is understood.
Deep down — deep, deep, deep down, there exists some sort of recognition.
They say hatred comes from a place inside yourself. A dark place, a bad place that lists down all your faults and teaches you to recognize them in other people. We love to hate, and we hate to love. The two are so much closer than you really think.
Seokmin sees Mingyu, and thinks, I see a lot of me when I look at you. I hate it.
Is that what I look like, to other people? Is that what that looks like on me? Am I just as pathetic?
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to say u Get it would be an understatement... the parallels so perfectly baked into this making every reread procedurally painful. GOOD SHIT. the need to be seen and adored manifesting in different ways... THE FUCKING. "To be sharp and unforgiving and a little undeserving of forgiveness" BROOOO EXACTLY... the depths of leeseokmin explored is such a treat n his pov on this is fantastic. so many small notes of it toooo god like the seokhan... "Jeonghan, who is always listening" ARRHGHHHHHH okay i'm gonna stop before furthering embarrassing myself but for real thank you so much for this my day is 110% Made <33333
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“You meant it, didn’t you,” Mingyu says quietly. “Is there really nothing you like about me?”
lmao fuck!!!!!!!!!! i love the way you wrote this, it's so unpleasant but in the best possible way. the feeling is so unfortunately relatable... that childish insecurity that makes you quick to judge and just as quick to regret it. like it's not just recognizing yourself in the other person it's this need to bring them down to your level, almost, only to realize as soon as you've done the horrible thing that you didn't need to do that at all, actually. holding the power over them as soon as you think you have it, and convincing yourself it's okay because the parts of them that you hate are the parts that remind you of yourself. but it's not okay it's just horrible! brutal!!!!
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hhhhhHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA i gasped out loud at this. you're amazing.
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