Status: Closed
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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: blasting the aloneness wide open [FILL]
like pb said, i love how you focused on two Very Real Things (cheols break from OTY and chan either being the youngest in svt or leader of a boygroup that never came to be) but also how you kept weaving the themes of mentorship / that age gap / how chan is the youngest but acts so old vs. seungcheol's sudden realization that he's the oldest + people have to look up to him when he was used to being the youngest in the family
chan gnaws on his lower lip, and the illusion breaks instantly - he looks every bit the child he is. seungcheol isn't very old, either, but eighteen feels like generations away / lee chan is twenty-one years old, but he carries himself like someone much older - there's a heaviness to his eyes that seungcheol doesn't think he had at twenty-one.
AND AND AND THE BITS AT THE END FROM SEUNGCHEOLS MIND...
why did you think it was a good idea to ask me for advice? seungcheol almost cuts back. i barely knew anything more than you did. between the two of us, i thought you had a better head on your shoulders. the admittance that sometimes even if it looks like you've got it all down from the outside looking in we are all terrified on the inside.
i'll be thinking about this for a very long time thank u for writing..
one last part:
all the time, he wants to say. sometimes, i don't think i'm strong enough for this. i wake up and i think someone else should be doing my job.
but to say that would be to tell chan that he's wasted the past seven years of his life chasing a dream that turns into a nightmare that you never know when you'll be able to wake up from.
so instead, he shrugs. "it's hard. but i'm not sure that anyone else could lead the group and have it work.""
Re: blasting the aloneness wide open [FILL]
the admittance that sometimes even if it looks like you've got it all down from the outside looking in we are all terrified on the inside. yes !! csc seeming like he's got everything under control but it takes chan growing up to see straight through him...,.,.,.,
also after research for unrelated reasons i remembered that 1. coups was probably a trainee for 5-6 years (some of the nuest trainees were there since 2009) and 2. he had also been considered for nuest? so like. he would understand chan's pain even more acutely... something i may add in if i xpost this haha.