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"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!
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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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[FILL] my, what beautiful teeth you have
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: weird strange magical realism, obsession with teeth, strange supernatural elements, paranormal happenings and investigations, hansol vernon chwe is Not Human in this one
Permission to remix: yes
wc: 606
going for [five of a kind] (AUs)
this was very fun to keep purposefully vague so really it is up to u to decide what vernon is in this one
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There exists something inside Hansol that should not be touched. Minghao caught a glimpse of it once. It was all teeth, wide and gaping.
They both stood in the shadows. One street lamp flickered desperately in the dead of night, as if it could sense what was hanging in the air. Evil was always more potent in the dark.
Hansol had wiped his mouth with a sleeve and it came away red. “Sorry,” he said, sheepish, in that way of his, eyes wide and full of expression. But Minghao could not tell what he was sorry for — being seen or being caught. There was a difference, however small. Being seen meant to be exposed, to leave your body out in the open so that someone could know every inch of you and still make their way forward. Being caught meant to be caged — you did something you shouldn’t have. You are not what you say you are.
Minghao thinks it the latter.
Hansol Vernon Chwe is not human.
Not completely, at least.
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“Hansol-ah has always been a little different,” Mingyu says placatingly when Minghao tries to bring it up. “Remember when he walked into the door because he was so focused on whatever he was holding?”
“No,” Minghao is impatient. Mingyu isn’t listening. Not in the way that matters. “I know what I saw.”
“What,” Mingyu frowns, tilting his head sideways. “Aren’t people supposed to have teeth?”
Minghao swallows his frustrations down and thinks: No, not like this.
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Minghao tests the waters.
He follows Hansol around, desperate to catch a glimpse of the thing inside. There is a sense of foreboding that tickles the back of Minghao’s throat, but a sense of thrill too, electric in its forbiddenness. A grotesque fascination with the unknown, this sudden desire to keep unraveling the chain to see how far it will go. Pull back skin and find a monster.
He watches as Hansol leaves the hagwon, the hood of his sweater hiked up around his ears. Hansol might be weird but he does all of the things regular students do. Nothing out of the ordinary.
But Minghao is patient. When the sun has fled the sky, Hansol begins his trek home. He skirts in and out of alleyways, kicking at random rocks and pebbles, humming peculiar tunes.
A cat meows twice. First out of curiosity. Then, in obvious distress. Horror flickers briefly, in Minghao’s mind. He should not be here. He should have left Hansol alone. Some things do not have to be witnessed to know their terror.
One moment Hansol is there and the next he is not. He is replaced by some thing, some monstrous creature that swallows and consumes and does not look back.
It happens too fast for Minghao to be sure. It happens fast enough that Minghao can be sure. There is a sickening crunching noise that will haunt his dreams for the next nights to come.
And then Hansol returns, whistling, jamming his hands back into his pockets. As if nothing unholy had happened in the first place.
The street remains eerily silent after that.
///
“What’re you thinking about?” Hansol says to the air one day. He looks exactly at the spot where Minghao is hiding. Unblinking. Unnerving. Like he knew this entire time. It sends a jolt down Minghao’s spine. He shuffles out, ears turning red with the shame at being caught.
“Your teeth,” Minghao blurts out without thinking.
Hansol smiles before opening his mouth. “Which ones?”
Minghao sees canines all the way down.
See, he thinks bleakly. I was right.
He closes his eyes and waits for Hansol’s touch.
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Hansol smiles before opening his mouth. “Which ones?” / Minghao sees canines all the way down. im Barking
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[REMIX] when i put my teeth to her wrist, the world goes everywhere white
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: twisted little lee seokmin, manipulation, vaguely supernatural and dark, vernon is definitely not human but what about seokmin hmm
Permission to remix:Yes
A/N: karina i love your fill and its atmosphere and the whole vibe so so much but the idea of there being a third witness, orchestrator what you will to this has been plaguing me for a weeks and i wrote this in a sudden fit in like 20 minutes so its gonna be super vague and seokmin-centric, i hope you find it okay nonetheless!! ily!!
-natalie diaz title because klav prompt
-going for 5/5 remixes as well as rarest pair (no works in the tag)
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It’s not a coincidence the first time Seokmin meets Hansol, nor the second. It is played to perfection so no one knows any better but it isn’t.
Hansol believes he’s rough around edges, says ‘I stick out like a sore thumb’ more times than Seokmin can remember and Seokmin knows already, by the third time they both pretend to sip at their coffee, that he’s never going to find anyone more perfect, more malleable for what he needs.
See, Seokmin knows what makes a monster useful and it isn’t the fangs he wields so poorly he’s leaving a trail of carcasses behind him wherever he goes—that’s what makes him so terribly easy to trace that first time, after all. The fangs you can fake. It’s the torment Seokmin thrives on.
When Hansol hates the very fact of his own existence, rues the day he was found, hungry and more hungry and then again and again until he’d grown himself something sharper than his blood and thicker than his skin—when Hansol cries for the third time in a week, the flesh behind him still warm under the moonlight, who else but Seokmin will hold him in his arms and whisper promises of hope and sunlight, who else will kiss his already healing wounds, but with bite, as if to say a monster can be a beautiful thing to be.
For every time Hansol has broken himself, Seokmin rebuilds him and when Seokmin finally pushes past the parting of his lips to sink in, it is Hansol who is surprised to find that Seokmin isn’t only the parts of him bared open in the daylight.
It takes months and then some for Seokmin to plant Hansol where he wants him, an awkward misfit at an arts college where everyone is an awkward misfit and Hansol has Seokmin’s Minghao reeled in hook, line and sinker in no time—no one knows the ways of humans like Seokmin does and Seokmin knew the minute he first saw Minghao and willed a future into being that he wouldn’t be able to leave well enough alone.
There is no impatience when Minghao starts following Hansol, not even Hansol falters in his role. The night Hansol reveals himself Minghao is wrapped up in an indigo shawl but there's only a flimsy shirt underneath it, the lines of his neck and his forearms bare to all creatures who dare to pass.
“What’re you thinking about?” says Hansol but Seokmin is the one who holds his breath.
The distance between the two of them reduces slowly but surely until there can be no mistake about what Xu Minghao is being permitted to see and only when they’re a mere hairsbreadth apart does Seokmin step out of the shadows.
Minghao will never know who finally pierced through his bubble and dragged sin from underneath his skin, a press of dark sharpness to his veins that unspooled every single melody sitting in a tangle of tape at his core. Minghao will never know what touched him: the teeth that everyone saw, the ones he knew he had seen correctly or something else altogether.
But it doesn’t matter now, does it?
Minghao’s been starved of touch just as long as Hansol’s been alone and Seokmin?
Seokmin always gets what he wants.
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FIRST OFF SEOKMIN MINGHAO VERNON IS AMAZING i want more it is criminal i have never put two n two together but also fitting that u were the first (again, genius) to do so
SECOND: “ The fangs you can fake. It’s the torment Seokmin thrives on.” SCREEECHING. all thru out this piece u get this feel for seokmin as someone who is kind but keeps ulterior motives and is sharp beneath all of it, how kindness can be cruel and mean and vicious if used in the right way & it just tickled my brain so well #LETDKBEEVIL!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!
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