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About
"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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Re: [FILL] a gap in the teeth
I love stories that pick apart their initial interactions because of a mutual relation to a shared background and culture instead of that instant connection that comes with friends you click with on the basis of the person you become not the person you were born as (one dimensional tabula rasa vs. multi dimensional as a person that is coming into their own) and that running in parallel with a literal ‘connection’ here, “you feel what I feel” and minghao being very against that while jun takes it as it is and allows for it to evolve (also brilliantly ties in how juns usually characterized as a passive actor in narrative and hao an active but here its not in a demeaning way just their approach to life is very Different we’ve discussed before haha) using soulbond to tease out the unique 8jun connection is seriously genius, and this my 10th time reading this after you initially posted this on your dw and I only got how perfect soulbond is for them with this iteration.
This very much adds to the lore of 8jun slight antagonized origin story and to the building of a divergent kind of relationship, not conventional but still sturdy, deep, meaningful -- they’re honestly so so interesting to me because they’re so unlike any other foreign idol pair/group we’ve seen or observed in kpop groups.
But also that’s the thing its active Effort from both, learning, listening, paying attention as Jun does to hao from simply feeling physical deficiencies and providing care for Minghao with vitamins or reading his moods, what he’s hiding behind and gently fostering it forward without force. Minghao feeling juns nerves during his filming, jun calling to ask inane questions about gifts that were given once to hao knowing he’s trying to actually ask for something else, heh the sheer development here! this is a learned trait the consequence of actively trying to exist with someone! Not just a ‘predestined’ soulbond aspect but two people truly learning each other the niches in their reality, its Effort, oh my jumping from empathy into hey what I’d call it love in a way, love is love as love is. 8jun is so earned in my opinion but what can I say im entirely biased.
Favorite quote:
Jun's smile fades, face turning solemn in thought. "It can't be a bad thing, to have some guarantee that you won't die alone. I'm serious," Jun adds, impossibly and wholly earnest when Minghao feels his own mouth twitch. Minghao is honestly the social emotional embodiment of the mortifying ordeal of being known.