you trace the stars in the darkness

Description

They search for each other, an adagio through different lives and deaths, circling in a slow dance before they finally find each other again.

Foreword

I: You trace the Stars in the darkness:

Joohyun and Seulgi through the millennium: lost words and lost souls that attempt to become whole once more.

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A/N:

Hi all!

This is also a little bit different from what I've done previously so let me know what you think / let me know what references you could find! 

The obvious ones?

  • Black Mirror (San Junipero episode; Season 3 Episode 4) - TV Series 
  • Greek myths, bastardised as they are.
    • Charon, the River Styx, the River Lethe
    • Fate? 
  • Songs. 

Did y'all play console games growing up? Eat pringles? Let me know (here or @goldfinchex on Twitter!)

 


II: sing me to sleep

This was an expansion of I, "you trace the stars in the darkness", and my working document called it "Cookie Expansion".

"Is this love? Is this what it feels like? This unknown contentment. This sense of calm."

Joohyun and Seulgi spend a day playing Pokemon. Doing laundry. Lounging in bed. Or counting the stars. 

A Last Day on Earth-esque fic.

(title ripped from: sing me to sleep - alan walker) 

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As noted in the feed.

An A/N: I suppose part of expanding on this verse was also to cement the idea that I sort of idealize an idea of having no apologies/no regrets between two people who love each other? You’ve made a decision, and you stick with it. A sacrifice is a sacrifice, but there is some sort of choice when you pursue love/people/relationships and there shouldn’t be regrets. (even if something ends badly, you choose to stick with it and end it // there is always something gained and lost in everything.) There are good things, there are bad things.
 

I am also aware that a summer moon doesn’t lead to calmer tides lmao Google was very helpful about this HAHAHA.

I tried to make II a mix of lighthearted silliness, but with a few feels slapped into this expansion!


Let me know what you think here or on my twitter (@goldfinchex!)

 

Goldfinchex
I suppose part of expanding on this verse was also to cement the idea that I sort of idealize an idea of having no apologies/regrets between two people who do love each other? You’ve made a decision, and you stick with it. A sacrifice is a sacrifice, but there shouldn’t truly be regrets.

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Oct_13_wen_03 56 streak #1
Chapter 2: beautiful but also painful 🤍
cutey111 147 streak #2
Chapter 1: Now I need to see black mirror! But adaption apart, this is written beautifully! I was bewildered at the opening, and this continues to the end. The way you use words and ideas I'm incredible. I've said this on your other story yet it applies here too and it's that I need and must reread this caise one time won't suffice.
Greta_14 #3
I'll definitely watch Black Mirror now! The whole story's just so beautiful and painful, and sweet... and I feel like I've got to be a lot smarter than I am to actually take it all in. I can't even understand how I can learn so much from just a few thousand words, but I did. I just sat there staring at the ceiling for some time after reading it... It's just... wow! Thank you!
dalgomie
#4
Chapter 1: im sorry i didnt read the foreword.... hehe so while i was engrossed in reading ch 1 i had this feeling of familiarity with the story then it just clicked to me that this is kinda similar to san jupinero my fav episode of black mirror waaah thank you for making this seulrene fic. this is so beautiful.
vitaamor
#5
Chapter 1: This is both beautiful and complicated.their relationship kinda complicated.coz sometimes it doesnt seems real and the both of them ate afloat between dream and reality.but still.beautiful
Yalore #6
Chapter 1: Beautiful story
seulgisdevil
#7
That was beautiful :')
Kang_Seulgifk
#8
Chapter 1: I love this.
tiggerbounced #9
Chapter 1: URGH this is so beautifully written it physically hurts to read. Even more beautiful than Irene I dare say ;)
kanghyunb23 #10
Chapter 1: this is amazing!! love love LOVE IT! and now I can't stop thinking about seulrene in San Junipero haha ♥