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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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if you quit, i quit
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Prompt:
[FILL]: if you quit, i quit
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Additional Tags: idolverse, character study, intrusive thoughts, if you quit i quit
Permission to remix: Yes
could not resist.
***
It was never about cowardice. It was never about the weight of the world over the scrawny shoulders of a teenage boy. It was never about giving up on his dreams, because they were never really his dreams to begin with.
Sure, they became his over time. Nothing beats the rush of adrenaline in his veins when he’s on a stage, bright lights in his eyes; nothing is better than the flavour of fame on the tip of his tongue.
But back then, it wasn’t about that. Back then, when he found Joshua curled up on himself, crying in fear and anxiety, the world didn’t revolve around Seventeen. Back then, Jeonghan didn’t know the taste of his name yelled by a thousand people, in a cacophony that can drown out every beat of his heart.
Back then, it was about Joshua’s broken voice, the “I quit, Jeonghan-ah. I can’t do this anymore.” The salt of his tears, his shaky fingers around Jeonghan’s wrist as if only Jeonghan’s presence at his side could keep him centered.
“If you quit, I quit.”
It was easy to say. It was easy to listen to the voice in his ear, a constant whisper that told him he wasn’t enough, he wasn’t made for fame, for the bright lights.
“You do not want this,” it said, over and over again.
It was about an excuse. It was about taking Joshua’s hands in his, squeezing them, and promising that they’d do this together, be it leaving that world behind or gritting their teeth and pushing through.
It was about Joshua’s eyes, wide, innocent. It was about the way Joshua looked at him, as if he held all the stars in his palms. It was about the feelings curling inside his chest, choking his heart, making it scream in agony every time Joshua’s skin brushed against his own.
They made it, in the end. They chased that glimmer, that flimsy hope for a future made of blinding lights and deafening music, and they made it to the finish line.
The whisper is still there at times, weaker.
“You do not want this,” it repeats at times. “You didn’t want this, to begin with.”
Back then, and even now, it’s always been about Joshua. It’s always been about the smile that spreads on his face when he looks at Jeonghan, the hand that reaches for Jeonghan’s at the end of a concert, circling around his wrist, the arms that hold him at night when he sneaks his way in Joshua’s bed.
It was about wanting to be loved, and fearing of losing the first person that ever showed him what love was all about.
“Why do you need love so badly?” The voice used to ask, dark, mean.
It’s still about wanting to be loved, even if now the love comes from different directions; his family, the fans, the members.
“Why do you need love so badly?” The voice still asks at times, in the deepest hours of the night, when anxiety grips his heart with clawed fingers.
But when he lies down in Joshua’s bed and rests his head over his chest, the voice gets drowned out by the loud beating of Joshua’s heart.
It’s still about wanting to be loved, but there’s no need to chase that love anymore, because it sleeps right next to him.
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wails loudly
rose x
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