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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] your dreams in your hands
now you are making me think of the episode when [redacted] left and jun went up to hold minghao's hand while it all went down even as Minghao said "don't worry I'm fine, I respect his decision but what do we do now?" -- honestly felt like Minghao was on the verge of tears then and he was being tough to push it down and jun can read that, he knows.
minghao being a very head over heart person and having just as big of a heart especially when it comes to loyalty, and jun preferring to go with the flow and take things as it happens, being the social butterfly that he is. -- yeah yeah yeah!! completely agree, and I've actually never thought of that one point, of Minghao being head>heart but unavoidably a heart person too ;___; the conflict will be delicious to write, I must jot this down and come back to it...
thank you for coming back to that point about conservative society -- I can't call myself a lover of blatant angst, but I find myself loving idolverse angst and I think it's because it makes the story feel real. By grounding it in facts, the story becomes more raw, closer to them. It's strange to admit bc it's all fanfiction but, it becomes closer to the heart? Like I could reflect it onto myself and the tough choices I had to make. Would love to pick your brain about Yanan as well! and how his characterisation/persona fits into JunHao <3
Re: [FILL] your dreams in your hands
i've always thought of xmh as very shrewd, and someone who seems almost careful when it comes to his relationships with others. he strikes me as someone that would pick his close friends carefully fsr, and is very realistic and opinionated, + his hobbies are pretty suggestive of a big dreamer in personality which i just read as him tending to be emotionally intense--like it's not repressed at all, i don't think?? he lets himself feel, which in itself can be its own problem lol.
i think idolverse angst can be so good when handled carefully in a way that works, depending on the story; too much and it can come off too heavy and it might not be as immersive anymore, and too light, well i love some stories that can feel a little Too Real, enough that it isn't light-hearted enough to make us think or draw reflections onto ourselves as people, like you said.
yanan is a strange guy to me lol, admittedly he didn't strike me as anyone completely noteworthy or interesting on cyzj, but i vaguely started keeping up with pentagon late last year, was drawn to them ironically because they shared similarities to svt in terms of their dynamics having a lot of clear obvious warmth and comfort in them for a group so big. yanan's bond to his members in pentagon feels very reminiscent of jun and minghao's bonds to seventeen, so i feel like this is something junhao and him have in common and have in understanding every time they mention their respective members on lives. yanan in 2018 went through rough times what with his hiatus due to health, but now that he's back and better, he's free to be a little crazy in such a gleeful way. makes me wonder about the potential disaster that would happen if junan were put in a room together again now--they're two weirdos and minghao is the normal one, almost. when i came across this prompt and op's suggested pairing of junan, i thought about "passion/love in the wrong times" and sort of attributed it to them being very close and seemingly just clicking effortlessly into jun being his most unabashed, unrestrained self towards yanan, the kind of way that minghao can only look on and observe, albeit warily lol.
Re: [FILL] your dreams in your hands
Minghao has mellowed out and matured since then, but I think 2018 was a period of learning how to deal with Fame. I think his doodle diary choreography also links to this era (especially Falling and the Ellish one), and the Minghao we see now is one that developed after self-reflection and realising what worked.
thank you for the down-low on yanan *___* had no idea he had an unhinged side to him too (still remember wu jiacheng imitating yanan spacing out, sitting on the floor, drawing circles on his knee haha). This sounds like exactly the behaviour Jun would enable, like if you put then together in a room the energies would just multiply and Minghao would be helpless to stop it happening. But despite Jun being also a little bratty, he's self-conscious, and now I wonder if Yanan can bring Jun out of his self-reservations.
(++ thank you for explaining how this fic came to me, that's super interesting)