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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] so you'll have to hold me down
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The first thing he smells is smoke, thick in his respiratory system. His limbs twitch. His eyes feel glued shut.
"Dr. Yoon," comes a resolute voice in the distance. "We have to try again."
"Yeah, I'm trying here!" another frantic, high-pitched voice yells out.
Soonyoung is detached from his body. In some corner of his mind, he almost can see the outline of his form flounder about, gleaming yellow-orange and flickering like a sparkler. But it's him. He can see figures huddling around where he's strapped down, holding two old-school defibrillator paddles—
Shit. He tries to force his eyes open—
"Clear!"
The paddles strike Soonyoung's chest with every modicum of electricity that's in them and there's one sharp inhale, and there are people all around him. he's choking. Coughing something up—
"Captain Kwon?"
"Captain!"
"Kwon, can you hear us?"
"Yoon, what the hell is happening?"
"Soonyoung?" a softer, deeper voice asks. "Soonyoung, are you there?"
Through the fog, a sudden tether to reality.
Soonyoung's eyes fly open.
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Click. Beep. "This is Officer Seungkwan Boo. Second-in-command on the Helios 96 Mission. Exploratory Division. Log number—never mind. It doesn't matter anymore. It stopped mattering a long time ago. Today was... today was something, that's for sure. Ah, the crew's still pretty shaken up. I'm still shaken up. I don't even know where to start... No, wait, yes I do. Dr. Yoon has reappeared for the first time in months. He looks... uh. He's definitely seen better days. Whatever he's been investigating is literally eating him alive. Jeon also got the astrophysicists to fess up about the bursts or— or flares, whatever it is that's going on. Jihoon thinks it's somehow connected to the, um, satellite we're supposed to find. And Junhui said he didn't wanna alarm anyone, which makes a lot of goddamn sense now. I'm terrified as hell. The thought that this satellite and its crew just got swept up and destroyed by these... flares... Fuck. Happy thoughts, Boo. Speaking of Jeon, Captain's back. Back from where, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine, Future Boo. Dr. Yoon keeps rambling about this box and psychology but I really have no idea. None of us do. We just found Soonyoung passed out near the laboratory, which forced Yoon out of his hermitage, I guess. Um. I think Jeon and Captain are back to their not-so-secret most-likely-prohibited-by-guidelines relationship, 'cause Jeon is speaking to him comfortably again. Don't really know what happened the first time, but I guess near-death experiences have a way of bringing people back together. Anyway. I keep getting this weird feeling, like... like things are changing here. For the worse, though. For starters, there's that box that supposedly almost demolished Kwon. There's the rogue satellite. There's Director Hong's plan moving forward. I don't mean to be neurotic, but... things might not get any better. It's all up in the air, and I don't like that for me. For us. Future Boo, I know I've recorded countless entries complaining about these guys, but. They are still good guys. They are. I can't help but be scared for Captain Kwon and for all of us, right? Anyway. I better go and get some sleep. We have a disgusting amount of work to catch up on tomorrow. Thank you, station crisis. Ha-ha. Officer Boo, signing out." Click.
Re: [FILL] so you'll have to hold me down
Re: [FILL] so you'll have to hold me down