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hwa ([personal profile] hwarium) wrote in [community profile] 17hols2021-11-25 01:04 pm

2022 Round 1: Quotes

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Seventeen Holidays
Round 1: Quotes


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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] maybe we could all have dinner together

(Anonymous) 2021-12-29 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship/Member: jeonghan/seungcheol(/joshua)
Major Tags: infidelity (implied)
Additional Tags: none
Permission to remix: please ask!

*

When Seungcheol proposes to Jeonghan, Joshua is the first to know.

It’s on purpose, he’s sure. It has to be deliberate. Jeonghan’s eyes stay on him as he retells the conversation, laughing as though it’s nothing. Isn’t Seungcheol so funny? It was ridiculous of him to ask, Jeonghan says airily, waving a dismissive hand. It’s not like they can even do it for real.

“So you aren’t going to do it?” Joshua asks, then, unable to keep the words trapped beneath his tongue where they belong, and Jeonghan’s gaze cuts to his, sharp.

“Of course I am,” he answers immediately. Not quite a snap, but close enough. All his humour gone just like that. Joshua smiles at him, blank and bland.

“I’m happy for you, then,” he says, heart slamming against his ribs.

He is.

He is happy.

Why wouldn’t he be happy?

*

“Marriage is such a big step,” Seungkwan says at dinner when Jeonghan tells the group. The words may be careful but his eyes are wide and impressed, clearly excited at the prospect. Jeonghan’s grin is smug, the cat who got the canary. Having his cake and eating it too.

“Well, it’s just Seungcheollie,” he says. “I’ve known him forever, you know. There’s no one I trust more.”

Seungcheol is sitting next to him and ignoring the rest of them to beam at Jeonghan, eyes liquid with emotion, arm not budging from its perpetual rest around his shoulder. Joshua can’t stop staring, imagining the warm weight of it.

Jeonghan is so loved. Has always been so loved.

On the other side of the table Joshua sits next to Junhui, three friendly centimetres between their arms, and says nothing, does nothing. Eats nothing, even when Vernon gestures questioningly towards the grill with the tongs. When Minghao excuses himself for a smoke a little white later he follows him out without a second thought, making an excuse about needing to get some fresh air that no one hears except Junhui next to him, who barely even looks up from his food.

Outside the restaurant Minghao tilts his head in polite bemusement when Joshua comes up next to him, hesitantly offering a cigarette and looking relieved when he refuses. Joshua shoves his hands into his pockets and just stands there. It’s awkward, honestly, but not enough to make him want to go back in.

“You’re not happy for him?” Minghao asks, finally, around an exhaled mouthful of smoke. Joshua freezes.

“Of course I am.”

Minghao doesn't look convinced, a flat expression of disbelief on his face.

“You're out here,” he points out. Joshua’s stomach roils, turning itself into knots. His palms are clammy.

“I am happy for him,” he lies, tasting ash in his mouth. “He's my best friend. I love — I am happy.”

Minghao stares at him as he stubs out his cigarette.

“Okay,” he says, finally. “Do you want to go back inside?”

Joshua doesn’t.

“Sure.”

His mouth forms the word on its own.

*

When it’s time to leave the three of them share a cab, Seungcheol whining and laughing when Jeonghan makes him squeeze into the middle. Joshua stares out the window and wonders if this means Jeonghan is going to move out. Seungcheol isn’t even technically on their lease. Surely they’ll want something more permanent. Something that’s only for them.

Back at the apartment Seungcheol goes to the bathroom first, leaving Joshua and Jeonghan together in the kitchen. Joshua didn’t drink at the restaurant but Jeonghan did — his cheeks are flushed pink with it, an irritated little scowl on his face that means he’s already starting to get a headache.

Joshua’s hand is so much bigger than Jeonghan’s when he passes over a glass of water. They were the same size once, he remembers. He’s broader now, stronger, but Jeonghan is almost as narrow as he was when they were nineteen. His face looks soft and young in the light of the kitchen.

“Are you going to move out?” Joshua asks quietly, taking a sip of his water. “When you guys — you’ll want to get own place, right?”

“Why would we do that?” Jeonghan asks, face impassive, and Joshua flounders.

“Right,” he says, voice weak. “I just thought — ”

“We’re happy here together, aren’t we?” Jeonghan asks, not letting him finish. It isn’t really a question. The way he’s looking at him is making Joshua’s skin itch. The guilt bubbles in his stomach, nauseating and sour.

“Jeonghan,” he blurts out impulsively, setting his glass down on the counter. “I — ”

Jeonghan’s gaze sharpens. He says nothing, a silent challenge as he waits for Joshua to finish.

“I — ” Joshua starts again, trying, but at the look on Jeonghan’s face the words die in his throat. He’s a coward, he realizes. He’ll never say it out loud. He’ll never be able to tell Jeonghan what he did.

The softness from earlier is all gone from Jeonghan’s face, now, his expression obstinately blank. He’ll never admit that he knows, either. Joshua wonders if it’ll be like this forever. If he’ll ever pull himself free.

Between the two of them, he isn’t sure who he hates more.

“Everything okay?” Seungcheol asks, startling both of them as he comes up behind Jeonghan to wrap his arms around his waist. Jeonghan flinches before he relaxes into it, leaning back to rest his head against Seungcheol’s shoulder. Joshua wonders, as he always does, what it would be like to have that for real.

You did, he reminds himself. He did have it, just that once. It’s just that he didn’t do it right.

It’s just that he wasn’t enough.

“Yeah,” he manages, now, his tongue heavy and swollen in his mouth. “Everything’s fine.”

Seungcheol smiles at Joshua, warm and pleasant, before he presses a kiss to Jeonghan’s temple. Joshua smiles back, but Seungcheol doesn’t see it.

“Great,” he replies, already distracted by the curve of Jeonghan’s neck. “I’m glad.”

But I always said I wanted him to be happy, & now I know it was true all along. I do want that. Even when it looks like this I still want it.

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Re: [FILL] maybe we could all have dinner together

[personal profile] yilinges 2021-12-29 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
APE??? APE???? APE????? WE APING TONITE????????? WE'RE BELLOWING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DARK FOREST??? WE'RE CRASHING THROUGH THE UNDERGROWTH, TWIGS SNAPPING, UNTIL WE RUN STRAIGHT INTO A SEMI ON THE HIGHWAY???? THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING TONIGHT???? BECAUSE IT SURE FEELS LIKE THAT!!! IT SURE DOES!!!!

THIS WAS SO RANCID, BABE, IM OBSESSED. JOSH UR GONNA SUFFER FOR THE REST OF UR LIFE IF U KEEP LIVING LIKE THIS. I FEEL CWAZY!!!
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[personal profile] symbolised 2021-12-29 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
ouch (adoringly)
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Re: [FILL] maybe we could all have dinner together

[personal profile] jibes 2021-12-29 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You did, he reminds himself. He did have it, just that once. It’s just that he didn’t do it right

It’s just that he wasn’t enough.
THIS WAS SO TASTY !! hbd josh my man
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[personal profile] sunwalkr 2021-12-29 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS IS SO EVIL N NASTY N I LOVED IT…. yeah joshua hong u are just a guy. pain You did, he reminds himself. He did have it, just that once. It’s just that he didn’t do it right.

It’s just that he wasn’t enough.
i love u n ur prose n how u paint history behind the barest of lines ugh this is so rich in everything. hate ( a lil towards the self) n guilt n all those fun emotions xoxo the girls are fighting!!
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[personal profile] slytherminie 2021-12-29 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm gonna fling myself off a cliff see you NEVER. oh this is WRETCHED AND EVIL. i uh, hah can relate. bye.
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Re: [FILL] maybe we could all have dinner together

[personal profile] cruelsummers 2021-12-29 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
UNSPEAKABLY HORRID. god. this is so awful and amazing. the tension between jihan, the way jeonghan transforms when he thinks joshua is going to say something... all the unspoken stuff with seungcheol. GOD. god. i am screaming at the top of my lungs.
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[personal profile] hyojungss 2021-12-30 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
this is insane which is exactly what i wanted... i love how you cast jeonghan as the all knowing who won't tell you straight out that he knows but he does know and he'll put you in specific situations pointedly so that you know he knows. i love how - to me - there is a slight misdirect where the attention at the beginning is all on jeonghan when seungcheol was/is the person josh loved... loves. also obsessed with skeptical minghao and how AWKWARD he is with josh... and the showdown between two people who love someone while having a pre-existing relationship and the power that jeonghan has over josh and omg seungcheol ignoring josh bc of jh being right there..... i just love this exploration of like this priority ranking, these conditions that change depending on who is there. they're crazy. thank you for writing :))
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[personal profile] fleurissons 2021-12-30 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
wow feeling a bit insane rn. it went in a direction that had me like... i didn't see that coming but i should have. the guilt!!! shoving everything down deep!!! so awful in the best ways. thank you for this whoa
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[personal profile] amoteamame 2022-01-02 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
really really really fucking evil and delicious i am FEASTING. this line in particular is just so good:

The softness from earlier is all gone from Jeonghan’s face, now, his expression obstinately blank. He’ll never admit that he knows, either. Joshua wonders if it’ll be like this forever. If he’ll ever pull himself free.

RANCID. also the vibes of jeonghan not releasing his claws even after they get engaged and josh just staying there in that house... god it's so delicious i'm eating your brain