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!

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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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Though, I do admit, it came on fast
Still, I do believe that it can last
And I will be loathing
For forever
Loathing
Truly, deeply loathing you
My whole life long

— What is this Feeling, Wicked

FILLING

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[FILL] when the time comes

Characters/Ship: lesserafim sakura/lee chaeyeon
Tags: post-produce48, canon compliant
Permission to Remix: Please ask
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Characters/Ship: miyawaki sakura/huh yunjin
Tags: idol industry nonsense, gratuitous 48g references if that's ok with the mods
Permission to Remix: yes

(also a dual fill for a prompt meme on my site but mainly written for this fest. hope this is alright.)

Lovestruck, she thinks. Lovestruck, she sees in Yunjin, sees it in her wide-eyed stares into their audiences, sees it in the dramatic sway of her hips when she plays her part. Lovestruck, she sees in Yunjin, and reflected back at her is the way she used to be, ten or so years ago by this point, twenty-six now but once twelve and as bright-eyed as this orange-haired child before her with roots bleeding through and smudged eyeliner.

Lovestruck, she once was, having passed that audition and made it onto music video sets with her hair in twintails and a smile on her face and her lips painted a pale pink. Lovestruck, she once was, until somewhere along the line she had found herself in too-tight bikini tops and sat on too-hot sand on a sunny beach with a camera closer to her chest than her face. Lovestruck, she once was, when she found herself in the laps of Sashihara Rino and Watanabe Mayu and too many girls in between, once starry-eyed but then dulled and snuffed out, Mayu something muted and Sasshi— Sashihara something more mature and collected than the whirlwind she used to be when she was pushed into HKT48.

Lovestruck, she hears in the girl's croons on stage, pick in hand and fingers pressed to the strings as she sings about seven years' time and the chaos she brought upon herself. Lovestruck, despite it all; lovestruck, despite the climbing, despite the fighting, despite the forced ferocity she had to wield to make it this far, from Produce48 through to Source through to HYBE and into LE SSERAFIM.

Lovestruck, as Yunjin sings about the girl she wishes she was. Sakura, arms crossed and leaned against a wall stage left but close enough to the edge to see Yunjin's orange hair shine under the spotlights, stands and stares with a scowl.

Lovestruck; oh how uncomfortable it is to feel once more. It's pure foolishness that she thought she had finally grown past when she clawed her way out from a fate like that of Matsui Jurina's, and yet, she finds herself behind the stage, her group-mates catching their breaths or texting their friends, all of them distant from her. Sakura watches the girl who remains on stage and all she finds herself feeling is the same kind of lovestruck she sees in Yunjin's eyes every time the girl smiles back at her and it's never as dishonest as what Sakura gives her first.

She's twenty-six now and sooner than later will they try to make her meet her end again, and it will not be her first time nor will she let it happen without a fight; that much she is sure of, as sure as the day she had a pen in hand and HYBE leadership in front of her. But, standing at this precipice, the gentle strums of an acoustic guitar like nails on a chalkboard to her ears, Miyawaki Sakura contemplates the furthest extent of her jealousy.

this is a little bit painful to read in the best of ways, the 48g references really get to me!!! sakura is such an endlessly fascinating person and idol, with such a long and rich journey, and i really enjoy the repetition of the themes echoing throughout your writing here to really drive the point home

thank you SO MUCH i'm glad someone got the 48g references :') i was being so self indulgent with those lol... she really is endlessly fascinating in everything she does!!! i love her so much. the repetition in this is new for me and thus kind of embarrassing but i'm glad you liked it :)

listen that line about too tight bikini tops made me feel insane.. my kingdom for any and all fic with sakura character study/introspection moments with gratuitous 48g references tbh.. she's been in the industry for so long, i can only imagine what it feels like seeing parts of herself long gone appear in those around her doing it all for the first time.. delicious!

and hey, whenever is a better time to try out something new than during a fest!

YES YES omg that line was directly inspired by an insane fic my friend wrote, i'd link it but she made it private for reasons but like she wrote on a similar wavelength and it rotted my brain so bad i had to draw from it for yet another sakura fic of my own lol... she's just been in this game longer than she hasn't so i'm always left wondering how jaded she could be or if it goes the other way and she's instead like relentlessly optimistic or shaped by her success instead and how she sees through that lens. and i like to write about either one but writing a jaded idol is just too fun hahahah

sad to miss out on good fic, but i respect locking/privating/deleting for whatever reason! and yeah, i think there's a lot of potential in both routes for her - and maybe it's a mix of both, because how can she keep going if she's only jaded? (unless you go full "she doesn't know who she is if she isn't doing this") but it's fascinating to think about all the possibilities

Omg you have no idea how excited i am to see all the 48g references! I've been recently revisiting this old fandom of mine and mourning the lack of fic lol so this is beautiful. Sakura does seem strikingly mature nowadays compared to the little cute baby she was back then, you did an amazing job!

YESSSS YES :DDD the lack of fic is hard but we push through and write deranged little things!!!! i love sakura she is truly my muse in every sense of the word when it comes to idol fic because i can explore both the k-pop and j-idol at once with her and all the messes that come from them intersecting. and I LOVE MESS!!! thank you so much!

Round 1: Quotes

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