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girlsfest2023-04-03 05:55 pm
sleepyshamrocks) wrote in girlsfest2023-04-03 05:55 pm
Round 1: Quotes
Each prompt should be centered around words that have already been said.
Possibilities include a quote of any kind:
- Existing works (books, poetry, TV shows, movie scripts, video game scripts, song lyrics, articles)
- Speech (celebrity, netizen, anonymous)
- Anything else that fits!
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Characters/Ship: ITZY Ryujin/Chaeryeong
Tags: alternate universe - fantasy, ryujin is marceline chaeryeong is pb!!
Prompt:
Tags: alternate universe - fantasy, ryujin is marceline chaeryeong is pb!!
Prompt:
Marceline: I dreamed about you while I was in my poison coma. I was all old and withered, and you were still nice and pink.
Princess Bubblegum: You think I'm nice?
-- Adventure Time 7x12, "Stakes Part 7: Checkmate"
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Prompts and fills have to center around K-pop girl group member(s). This includes:
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- Female soloists
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Blow all my friendships
To sit in hell with you
But we're the greatest
They'll hang us in the Louvre
- Lorde, The Louvre
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no subject
Tags: idolverse, college!au… anything really, as long as there’s flirting between my beloved 95 liners <3
Prompt:
[FILL] perfect intervals
Tags: canon compliant, meditation on love
Permission to Remix: Yes
a/n: i wrote this in a daze at 3am so i apologize for mistakes .___.
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It’s almost a half-hour past one in the morning when Sojung finally slumps down over her mixer and gives up. Parts of her jaw and skull and elbow press awkwardly against the various keys, conjuring up a raucous chorus of autotuned samples and MIDI piccolo and 160-something click metronome. The sound is so horrendously jarring and wrong that she curses and immediately unplugs the damn thing. Somehow, it seemed as if it was mocking her, laughing at the fact that she can’t seem to get this stupid, bare-bones, barely-working project to resemble anything close to a song.
“Stupid thing,” Sojung mutters under her breath. She frowns at the mixer until she is sure all of the life is sucked out of it, then flings it towards the side cabinet for good measure.
(Gently, of course. No matter what she thinks of the mixer, she’s not stupid. She has to finish at some point, and she can’t afford to spend another 3 million won on another one somewhere in that process.)
She flips her phone over; when the screen faces her in all of its bright, blinding glory, Sojung shuts her eyes and shuts it off flimsily, cursing under her breath again. Her thumb fumbles by the home button, swiping up and scrabbling around as best it can with her eyes closed, until the light seeping through her firmly-shut eyelids lessens and she chances her luck again.
17 unread messages from KKT. Sojung quickly scans through them. A message from someone in the company’s creative team, something about slightly changing the colors on their album design. Honestly, Sojung’s 1 am eyes can’t really tell the difference between the two shades of purple attached, so she files this away to ask Jiyeon or Soobin about later.
Two messages from Jihoon, two minutes apart and each with multiple audio attachments. Sojung files these away to sift through later, when she knows she’ll have more time to pick apart Jihoon’s samples and see if any of his ideas work well enough to stick.
A string of messages in the group chat— likely Dayoung, all facts considered. These Sojung decides she will ignore, for better or for worse.
The last chat consists of one single unread message.
you still up?
Sojung types out the responsible answer, then deletes it before she even finishes the sentence. Instead, she finds herself typing something shorter, more impulsive. Her thumb hangs over the send button for a few seconds as she thinks, then decides that she doesn’t need to think, not about this.
yes
Fifteen minutes later, Sojung slides into the passenger’s seat of Im Nayeon’s car and lets out a long, drawn-out sigh.
“Everything okay?”
Nayeon is parked under a streetlight, just as she said she would be; under the orange-gold haze, her irises glimmer, two bright, white North stars against the milky-dark shadows around them.
This is Nayeon, so Sojung decides on the truth. “I think it will be,” she says, “after tonight.”
Nayeon smiles, softer lines rounding out the edges of her face in smooth strokes. “That’s good.” Sojung recognizes this for what it is: empathy, warm and genuine. Then Nayeon chuckles a bit, a moment later, a sound that is soft and a bit hoarse from the hour. She nods at the time on the dash, analog white against grey and black. “We can’t really call it ‘tonight’ anymore, can we?”
“Tonight, this morning, whatever,” Sojung faux-rolls her eyes. “It’s all just semantics anyway.”
“It being this late is your fault, by the way,” Nayeon says, “for locking yourself in that studio all day.” Her grin shines bright, reaching up to the corners of her eyes.
“And yours,” Sojung shoots back, “for having the shittiest sleep schedule I’ve ever seen.”
Nayeon laughs; the sound comes again from further back in her throat, soft and high and hoarse. “High praise. I hope I can live up to it.”
Sojung means it. For it being past midnight, bleeding into the hours of the morning, Nayeon is fully alive, glowing with a radiance that is softer around its edges than the shine of an idol come into their own on stage. That Nayeon feels barely approachable, untouchable, a force of nature; Sojung has experienced this first hand.
This Nayeon is more personal, more real. More hers, a voice in Sojung’s head thinks before she pushes it aside.
“Where are we going?” Nayeon asks. It’s only then that Sojung realizes they’re still standing in place, the car in park and hugging the edge of the cement curb.
“Anywhere. You’re driving.”
“That I am.”
Sojung grins. “Surprise me, then.”
Nayeon looks away for a moment, eyes staring through the windshield at something on the horizon, lost in thought. It seems to be a good one, at least, because Sojung sees the corners of her lips start to tilt upwards and recognizes how fondness sounds in Nayeon’s voice before she hears it.
'“Do you trust me?”
Sojung doesn’t need to hesitate to answer this one. “Yes.”
Nayeon switches the radio on and hums as she pulls the car out of the street. Her fingers dance on the steering wheel, delicate, intricate, intentional. Sojung watches them and tries to figure out the pattern they tap out, then finds herself envying the leather on the wheel for being infinitely better at remembering it.
Her phone buzzes again. Nayeon tilts her head to the side, enough to show interest without taking her eyes off the road. Sojung tells her that it’s from Jihoon, an attachment with another audio file. Nayeon nods, an acknowledgement of familiarity— she’s had overlapping promotions with Seventeen on many occasions, Sojung knows. When she asks Sojung to go on, Sojung tells her that she has a song she’s struggling on, that she asked Jihoon to help her figure it out, that it’s been nagging at her for weeks and she hasn’t quite been able to figure it out.
“What is it about?” Nayeon asks.
Sojung starts to speak, then stops. “About” is a heavy word, full of intention and meaning deeper than she’s considered so far. She quickly realizes that she isn’t quite sure herself.
“Some kind of love,” she decides on, “but I haven’t quite figured out what.”
Nayeon nods again, somewhat preoccupied as she makes a left turn onto another empty, orange-gold road. It’s only once she’s made the turn that she turns back to Sojung, hints of another grin on her face.
“You should write it about me.”
Sojung groans. “In your dreams.” Then she joins in Nayeon’s laughing and lets Nayeon steer the conversation again as they ride further into the night.
In the end, they stop by the side of the road and watch the sun come up together.
“This isn’t what I imagined us doing,” Nayeon admits when she pulls over.
“It sure isn’t,” Sojung agrees, but she is content with Nayeon and can’t find it in herself to mind.
The first rays of the sun burn streaks of auburn into Nayeon’s dark brown hair. They make Sojung think of sunrises, of heartstrings tied together, of the finality, the resolution of perfect intervals falling together in harmony.
She softly sings the first few lines of a new melody; Nayeon might not recognize it, but she nods, hums in approval all the same.
Huh, Sojung thinks. Maybe I don’t need Jihoon’s help after all.
Re: [FILL] perfect intervals
Re: [FILL] perfect intervals
oh wow i love this!! the trust between them and the honesty + the late night drive vibes are so good ♡♡ and like: “You should write it about me.” / Sojung groans. “In your dreams.” the back and forth between sentimental and banter is just sooo fun!