Status: Closed
This round has closed. It remains open for fills, comments and remixes, but prompts are no longer accepted.
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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- There is no maximum cap.
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- NSFW art should not be visible, please provide a link and a warning. You may crop the artwork and embed a SFW preview.
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Prompting
- Click on [Post a New Comment] at the bottom of this post;
- Change the subject to something interesting;
- Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment and edit the sections. Feel free to add as much detail as you want!
Filling
- Reply to the original prompt;
- Change the subject to [FILL], you may add a title or stay chaotic;
- Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment, edit the sections, and add your text.
You may also upload your fill to the AO3 Collection.
Remixing
- Post as a reply to the fill you are remixing, using the same HTML as above;
- Change the subject to [REMIX].
Art/media
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Re: [REMIX] a kingdom for this
Hwa!!! when I couldn't decide between wonhan/jeongcheol for the fill and simply end up including them both in a way, I never expected it would lead to this. You've taken the details I've merely paid short visits to and spun a vivid story around them and I'm *____*
I had a vague idea of where Jeonghan stood in the grand scheme of things, but until you wrote him, all the pieces hadn't come together yet. Then they did! Everything became so clear--Jeonghan couldn't be anyone else other than this boy who wanted a simple life, had he been born without the weight of a crown upon his head.
I loved the way you build him up. But there was also Jeonghan, a boy who dreamt of slow summer afternoons, lying down by the river, poetry being whispered into his hair. Knowing how the story ended just lodged the knife deeper in between my ribs, because yeah, they could have had that... In a different lifetime, Jeonghan would spend summers by the river, Wonwoo whispering poetry into his hair. (insert painful pterodactyl screech).
The parallels with the original are as wonderful as they are painful, but this one especially got me good: He could do this, with Wonwoo's hand in his, Jeonghan can rule. He could stop doing this alone.
There was a question I received upon posting about what Wonwoo's colour would be in Jeonghan's eyes. Was so giddy that you answered that, as I also wanted to know (lol)
The intricacies of the political conflict in this and also the insinuation that, Wonwoo had once in a while, given suggestions to Seungcheol when he read through letters meant for Jeonghan... perfect. I think it was the biggest ego boost to have seen this email dropped into my inbox. I squealed and screamed and people on my private account could probably attest to how unhinged I was. Thank you for remixing this!! I'll be thinking about them with every surviving brain cell of mine.
hwaranghae <3 [Grammarly did not like this word and underlined it red, but I have fought valiantly for it by adding it to my dictionary]
(I don't believe there's anything you need to make up for-in fact I still owe you for the first chapter ;; whatever the future has in store for you can be king again, I'm always just over to the side waving my pom-poms.)