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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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does it drive you crazy to see me doing well now
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: bleak boybandisms? future fic? companionship forced by circumstance?
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt:
[FILL] imitation
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: i’m crazy but i’m free, idolverse
Permission to remix: Yes
WC: 835
A/N: look... i know this is a seventeen fest however,
***
Jeonghan dated Seungcheol for three months and immediately following that Nayoung went and dated him for four. “I think it was out of spite,” she concluded after explaining to Jiyeon that it wasn’t ever much of a passionate affair. “He was really nice to me, though. Which I think makes him a much better person than I am.”
“It’s hard to be a good girl all the time,” Jiyeon said, smiling over her coffee. She spoke with a sort of resignation that six or seven additional years of industry experience necessitated. “You have to take the little victories, right?”
Nayoung nodded. “I’m glad I have you to talk to, unnie,” she said, sipping her iced tea and looking out the window. It was a dreary summer day and their drama series was doing absolutely terrible in the ratings.
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Nayoung thought it would be much easier to simply cut off all her old attachments and start over, but unfortunately there was still a bit of sentiment in her. The only answer to this was compartmentalization.
“Things I need here, things that go in the garbage in that box,” she said, directing Yerin to half-formed piles of papers and photos on the floor of her room.
“This is an organized mess,” Yerin observed. “I bet no one could tell you’re supposed to be moving out in two days.”
“Thank you,” Nayoung answered, and continued unloading old junk out of her closet.
Heehyun wouldn’t be there until the afternoon, which was probably better because she had a much deeper understanding of Nayoung’s lingering feelings. With Yerin it was easier to reply to “Do you want to keep this?” with a no after a half-second glance and leave it at that, where Heehyun, who had lived through that era of her life with her, would say, “Are you really sure you want to let go of this?” and it’d be something like an autographed album from some no-name rookie group she’d exchanged with during her third debut promotion cycle, and of course she didn’t want to keep it but now that she’s had to think about it for so long maybe she does have second thoughts.
And that still counted as one of the easy choices.
“This is trash?” Yerin asked. She held a jeweled flower hair clip in her hand. “It’s so pretty, I’ll take it if you don’t want it.”
“Why are you going through the trash pile,” Nayoung despaired. “And no, I want it.”
-
Seungcheol had said yes to her, which was all she needed. He’d do the rest of the work on his own. And she only had to last four months.
-
Yerin missed the torn envelope and note she’d kept with it all these years, and tried to toss away with it too. The clip stayed in her accessories box until Nayoung unpacked it again months later, having already decided to leave her hair down for the day. “Use this,” she asked her hair stylist later that morning, when she was preparing to film for a magazine. There would be a video component uploaded on the internet, but by that point she knew they would already have changed the look to something else.
The photoshoot director really liked the design though, and asked Nayoung to keep it on anyway.
-
Yoon Jeonghan showed up at her metaphorical doorstep the next month, which is to say he clearly actively sought her out. “I’m collaborating with Choi Youngjae,” he said, when she saw him in the agency lobby with an iced Americano in hand and gave the blankest look possible.
“No you’re not,” Nayoung said, and Jeonghan shrugged.
“I wanted to see Hani-sunbaenim,” he said, and she rolled her eyes.
“That’s slightly more believable.”
“I’m looking for an acting agency.”
She blinked. “Wow, I really hope you’re not. You’d be scary at acting.”
“Scary good at it,” Jeonghan said with a grin. Nayoung was suddenly aware that the staff she’d been working with for years were watching them as they got their own coffees and it was really very humiliating.
“I can’t be seen with you,” she said, half-honest. “You shouldn’t be loitering in someone else’s workplace.”
“It’s not just your workplace, you know,” he said. Nayoung didn’t respond. “In all seriousness, I’m waiting for my manager to get back from the bathroom. I really am here to be in talks for some end-of-year collaboration thing with Youngjae. Junnie made him eat something spicy this morning and I think he’s still feeling the aftereffects.”
“That doesn’t actually surprise me. I think you’ve always masked your real intentions by putting them forward first,” Nayoung said. I don’t miss that, she didn’t say, having those types of schedules.
Jeonghan smiled again, the rewards of knowing and being known.
“And you’ve always been good at reading through them, no matter what trick I tried.”
“I learned from the best,” she said simply.
“I think you were good enough at it before we started dating,” Jeonghan replied.
Re: [FILL] imitation
She blinked. “Wow, I really hope you’re not. You’d be scary at acting.” // “Scary good at it,” Jeonghan said with a grin. >> PLEASE... i love the way you write banter (and dialogue in general!) *__* also “I think you were good enough at it before we started dating,” Jeonghan replied. THE WAY I SCREAMED! risa i am so lucky to read your inyyjhs always <3
Re: [FILL] imitation
“That doesn’t actually surprise me. I think you’ve always masked your real intentions by putting them forward first,” Nayoung said....your yjh.......is always evokes such mixed feelings, you really write him as such a Person, if you know what i mean. god this universe has been making me think since the minute you dropped this. the seungcheol treatment in this...googly eyed emoji
[REMIX] drop a heart, break a name
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: idolverse, Yoon Jeonghan (tired sigh)
Permission to remix: Yes
wc: 402 (hwa, pay up)
3/5 remixes
A/N: i'm sorry for going in a completely different direction with this but your fill just wouldn't leave my head, risa, hope you don't mind.
***
“What the fuck are you doing? Hyung.” Jihoon starts without preface the second Seungcheol steps into the studio. “You can’t possibly be trying to pretend that you’re so dumb you don’t see what’s happening—what’s being done to you.”
Seungcheol isn’t that dumb, nor is he a good enough liar to act like he doesn’t know what Jihoon is talking about. Even if Jihoon has given him zero context to work with.
“Who told you?” He finally asks.
Jihoon scoffs. “Does it matter?”
Seungcheol doesn’t have to say anything.
“Soonyoung.” Jihoon finally sighs. “Soonyoung, insinuated something well, I’m pretty sure—”
“—he knows.” There’s only one person who from whom Soonyoung could’ve heard and both of them know there wasn’t any room for doubt in his knowing.
“Do you even know what you’re doing?”
Jihoon’s looks like a part of the torn leather chair he’s sitting on, pen marks on his fingers and the hollow under his eyes amplifying his unimpressed stare at Seungcheol, which is to say, Seungcheol excuses not just the swiftness with which he drops his honorifics, but also the onslaught of questions he’d rather not have to answer because Jihoon is tired—must have spent at least the last two nights in this same room.
Jihoon waits on an answer because he knows Seungcheol like a limb, still, and at the end of the day, someone has to.
“Do I really have to tell you how I feel, Jihoon-ah?” Seungcheol finally sinks into the spare plastic chair, pressing it back against the wall with every long breath he takes.
Jihoon sighs. “No, it was really clear that you were in over your head. Probably still are. Why did you say yes to her?”
“Because she asked.”
“Fuck,” Jihoon curses. “Please, tell me that was a bad joke and you’re not really trying to play martyr for someone else’s future relationship—for your ex’s, no less. Hyung.”
Jihoon knows him better than anyone else and Seungcheol would give him all his truths but how can he hope to ever share this shameful need inside him to be wanted, to be at the centre of something—even if it is a story designed to ruin him?
Seungcheol laughs, a hoarse, bitter thing turning his throat dry.
“Jihoon-ah,” He says, lifting his eyes to the ceiling. “Is it really so hard to believe that I’m hoping this hurts him, too?”
Re: [REMIX] drop a heart, break a name
Jihoon waits on an answer because he knows Seungcheol like a limb, still, and at the end of the day, someone has to. omg. i actually love so much how this remix is set up, you don't have to give any context because like jihoon and coups both know everything without having to say it, the reader knows it all too (if they read the og aklsjdlkd). and everything is a setup for those killer last few lines. i'm like trying to comment about this chronologically but
Jihoon knows him better than anyone else and Seungcheol would give him all his truths but how can he hope to ever share this shameful need inside him to be wanted, to be at the centre of something—even if it is a story designed to ruin him? THIS... this is the heart of coups for real. to me coups is truly just some guy who wants to be loved, deeply. and this is not something i ever said (or consciously thought about while writing) in imitation so i love that you've given him this much depth. it makes me so sad. i love how you said it. and i love that you used jicheol as the mechanism because the trust and history between them is unlike any other. (tinhat voice) i know that coups these days values his r/s with yjh and the support he gets from him above everyone else but that's also why this works soooo well. because of his intense love not working out to the point where he feels like his only option is to -
“Is it really so hard to believe that I’m hoping this hurts him, too?” this circle of hurting is sooooo much. the thing is that you could easily say that the three of them were all doomed to end up unhappy because this is so unhealthy but you’re not really trying to play martyr for someone else’s future relationship—for your ex’s, no less man... it like. really hits worse if jihoon frames it as a step iny took to get to an eventual inyyjh endgame LMAO. coups i feel so sorry for you for real.
pb thank you so much for remixing this it was such a treat, and gave me so much to think about, and reflect back on my own fic too <3
Re: [FILL] imitation
rose xx