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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] cabin lights dimmed
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: more than one place (or person) can be home, set sept 2021
Permission to remix: Yes
WC: 459
A/N: I actually hate to be the third fill on a prompt but how can I not be when this speaks so much to me. ♡
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陪伴是最长情的告白
companionship is the longest confession
“Aren’t you afraid whenever you leave everything you know?” Junhui asks softly, suddenly.
Minghao stirs from across the aisle, blanket sliding off his knees. “I wasn’t asleep or anything,” he says over the hum of the air circulation system. He turns to Junhui, who’s curled up on his side, watching him.
“Oh, I know.” Close enough to see, even without his glasses, even with his terrible vision. “I know your breathing patterns,” Junhui says, impossibly.
(“I couldn’t bear to be that far from you,” Junhui’d joked when Minghao had suggested he take the seat on the left side of the plane. Junhui took the center and the attendant had to move someone else to keep the aircraft weight balance.)
“I’m never afraid because I know I’ll come back to them,” Minghao answers.
“I always love the conviction in your voice,” Junhui murmurs.
Sometimes it feels like all Minghao has to offer him.
“You should sleep too,” he urges after a moment.
“I can’t,” Junhui says, rolling over in his chair and letting his frustration out on the armrest. “I’m thinking about how Mingyu is probably thinking about us now. He always looks so sad when we go but he looked extra sad today. Even Wonwoo...”
“Oh, don’t torture yourself like this,” Minghao complains. He’s tried to forget about Mingyu already and it almost worked too. “I don’t understand you, you’re always so excited to go and then when you have this quiet time to yourself you overthink everything. Mingyu will get over us. Mingyu has separation anxiety.”
“That’s so easy for you to say.”
“It IS easy,” Minghao states. “I know it’s true. You have people waiting for you at home — whether that home today is your family or your members. Either way it is a return waiting to happen. And you’ll always be able to go back again, and look forward to doing so.”
“Not if I die in the sky,” Junhui says thoughtfully. “What will they do then? I’d have to complete the last journey first, I suppose.”
Minghao glares at him. “I try so hard to—”
“Yes, yes, we all know I’d be nowhere without you,” Junhui says dismissively, and turns back around to face the empty seat on the other side of the plane. The thing about Junhui is he’s incapable of making jokes of grand statements that don’t stem from truth. He flicks off his reading light as if he’d needed it in the first place, Minghao was the one who’d loaded his satchel with paperbacks. “I’ll go to sleep now.”
“It’s okay to miss them,” Minghao says at last. “I don’t mean to say you shouldn’t.”
“I know,” Junhui tells him, voice warm. “I just wanted to hear you say it.”
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I love how you chose 8Jun /leaving/ korea, homecoming in the other direction and the shared experience of being in between two different homes with people who love you on both sides. It's so interesting to see grouchy side of Minghao because it rarely comes up in fic (vs zen fairy/memer grandma minghao), but it's a part of him anyway. When it shows up with Jun, it reminds me how it's also a way Minghao lowers his defences with Jun. Because Jun is so familiar, Minghao is more exposed.
“I know your breathing patterns,” // “I couldn’t bear to be that far from you" - just! Jun! casually! impossibly! dropping lines like this. Never sure if he's sincere or joking or he's joking to hide that he's sincere.
He’s tried to forget about Mingyu already and it almost worked too. -- self-defence mechanisms of Xu Minghao!
“I know,” Junhui tells him, voice warm. “I just wanted to hear you say it.” -- what a line to finish on, thank you risa ;___; I need to lie down
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He flicks off his reading light as if he’d needed it in the first place, Minghao was the one who’d loaded his satchel with paperbacks. even this tiny detail is like!!! aurgh this is such a lovely 8jun you've captured them so well thank you T____T
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