girlsfest | 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!

Example:

Characters/Ship: ITZY Ryujin/Chaeryeong
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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CONTENT
Prompts and fills have to center around K-pop girl group member(s). This includes:

All active and former girl group members
Female soloists
Female members in co-ed groups
Any female idol or trainee affiliated with K-pop (e.g. GP999 contestants, AKB48 members who featured in Produce48)
Slash, gen, het, and trans works are all accepted as long as they involve at least one girl group member

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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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[FILL] still I fall

Characters/Ship: Aespa Winter/Karina
Tags: idolverse, predebut, shared trauma
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Characters/Ship: Any
Tags: canon-compliant, a good old blend of admiration, envy, and insecurity
Prompt:

I always thought I might be bad
Now I'm sure that it's true
'Cause I think you're so good
And I'm nothing like you

— Rebecca Sugar, Love Like You

Edited 2023-04-04 15:12 (UTC)

Characters/Ship: Kep1er Yujin/Xiaoting
Tags: when selflessness is selfishness, imbalanced power dynamics, op i am sorry for screwing with your prompt like this
Permission to Remix: Yes
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Xiaoting woke up from a nap to a plate of sliced strawberries on her bedside table. Yesterday it was medallions of cucumbers with a sprinkle of sea salt. The day before it was a cup of jasmine tea, carefully covered to preserve the heat.

She opened the door to her room with a forkful of strawberry in the other hand. Yujin immediately powered off the TV and turned around to face the wrong way on the couch. She’d risk falling off if she wasn’t more careful. “Oh, you’re awake!”

“Mmm,” Xiaoting sounded through the chewing. “Thank you.” She pointed at the plate in the room behind her.

“Of course,” Yujin said, her cheeks flushed red. It always sounded almost like worship, the way she’d thank Xiaoting for the opportunity to perform kindness for her. It was egotistical to think that way, but Yaning said the same thing, albeit facetiously.

FU YANING

Voice Call ✆ [01:04:59]

yeah yujin unnie is in love with you lol

no…

my sweet summer child

At the end of the day it was less that Xiaoting didn’t believe it was possible and more that she simply did not want it to be true. Yes, she’d said over the phone, Yujin openly confessed to finding her beautiful; yes, she regularly flouted the duties of a leader to be impartial in favor of, well, favoring Xiaoting; and everyone in the group was well aware of this. But that was the thing. Isolated atop her pedestal, what did it really mean to be loved by anyone at all?

“We should talk,” Xiaoting said reluctantly, the bright afternoon sunlight feeling entirely inappropriate for the incoming downer of a conversation that she had been dreading.

“About what?” Yujin asked. She was humming as she did the dishes, her orange rubber gloves scrubbing away at the food scraps Hikaru and Hiyyih had left on the coffee table last night. Xiaoting got cold feet just watching her. It was like Yujin was born to labor, she thought. It was like the selflessness of motherhood was her destiny.

“I don’t think you should be so nice to me anymore.” Xiaoting looked down at her feet, almost regretting having said it. Yujin seemed so innocent that talking about this might just hurt her instead of providing any benefit. But it was the right thing to do. Wasn’t it?

Yujin peeled the gloves off and washed her hands before answering. “Why?”

The callousness of it almost startled Xiaoting. I think you like me so much that you don’t see me, she wanted to say. “I’m afraid the others think you’re playing favorites.”

“Did someone complain to you?”

“No,” Xiaoting said. “I can tell, though.”

She leaned in closer to look her deeply in the eyes. “Are you getting bullied?” Yujin looked, possibly, genuinely concerned for her.

Xiaoting shook her head frantically. The scapegoat wouldn’t work any longer. “No one is doing that,” she said. “I think it is a bit burdensome.”

“What is?”

Your form of love. “The weight of popularity,” Xiaoting said. It was crushing her to say this.

Yujin pulled her into a tight hug and it crushed her more. Xiaoting was frozen in place at first, taken aback, her body relaxing slowly in Yujin’s arms. It was dangerous, to succumb so easily to the warmth of another person.

“I will always be here for you, to help hold you up,” Yujin whispered. Yujin did not understand. Xiaoting could not hear any trace of insincerity in her voice.

sick and twisted how you get to the heart of the matter in 500 odd words with such piercing focus....(also sick how you got formatting into this, not me frothing at a box) but thank you as always, risa <3

thank you pb ❤️ it's always a great compliment to hear that from you!!

im not familiar with kep1er but this crushed me... “I think it is a bit burdensome.” / “What is?” / Your form of love. and Xiaoting got cold feet just watching her. It was like Yujin was born to labor, she thought. It was like the selflessness of motherhood was her destiny. too stunned to say words but thank you for writing this was a lovely read T_T

thank you so much for reading and enjoying even though you don't know kep1er! i honestly don't follow them that closely either, so my interpretation of xiaojin is primarily based on these clips: yujin's clear preference for xiaoting's beauty and everyone knowing it, and there's a little in the background about them having been formed on a survival show as well. but yeah thank you so much!!

It was like Yujin was born to labor, she thought. It was like the selflessness of motherhood was her destiny. devastating!! showstopping stunning. i love how cutting and exacting this is, even if I don't know kep1er at all.

Round 1: Quotes

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