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SASO Referees ([personal profile] referees) wrote in [community profile] sportsanime2016-06-09 08:58 pm
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Bonus Round 2: Images

Bonus Round 2: Images


Back by popular demand, this round uses official canon artwork as fodder for speculation and extrapolation.
Please read the rules carefully before posting!

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on June 23 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.


RULES
  • Submit prompts in the form of a canon screencap from one of our nominated fandoms along with a ship. Screencaps can be from the anime or manga, as well as any other kind of offshoot media, e.g. official art, drama CD covers, light novel illustrations, magazine covers, photos from stage plays, and/or caps from games.
    • Doujinshi, fan-made games or any other fan-created work should not be prompted, even if you receive permission. Only prompt official, canon artwork.
    • Keep your prompt concise. Don't prompt a whole manga chapter, for example.
    • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Abe & Tajima). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Abe/Tajima). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
    • Upload the cap somewhere (imgur works well) and post here with the images themselves or a link to them. Including a text-only summary of the image is encouraged.
  • Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work inspired by the cap.
    • Fills can be directly connected to the cap, e.g. panel redraws or writing fic that fleshes out the moment that was capped or that fleshes out what happened directly before/after, but fills can also be more indirectly linked. As long as the work is somehow inspired by the cap, it counts.
    • Fills that are too long to fit in a single comment should have the rest of the fill placed as replies to the original fill comment. The subjects of these extra comments should be something like "part 2 of X" or "continued."
  • Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.


FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.

Required Work Minimums:
  • 400 words (prose)
  • 400px by 400px (art)
  • 14 lines (poetry)
There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:If FILLING:If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
  • Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to, including Grandstand or Sports Teams
  • Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice.
  • Below that, place applicable major content tags (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none")
  • Visual example
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
  • Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to
  • Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E)
  • Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable)
  • NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of the fill in your comment.
  • To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>
  • Visual example
FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
  • Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules
  • Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable
  • NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of your work in your comment.
  • To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" />
  • Visual example


Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.



SCORING
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!

For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)

For fills:

First 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each

All scored content must be created new for this round.


Etc.
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
amisgurumis: (Default)

FILL: TEAM Kobayakawa Sena/Shin Seijuro, G

[personal profile] amisgurumis 2016-06-16 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
words: 994; tags: none canoodling in the woods

Sakuraba learns a lot during the weeks he tirelessly tracks Shin through the woods.

He learns that Shin is actually quite deliberate and thoughtful behind his usual blunt speech intense expressions. He learns this the day he realizes that Shin’s trails through the woods have been slowly getting smaller and neater. There are fewer snapped branches and disturbed bushes as the days pass, until the trails are reduced to nothing but footprints on the ground. The day Sakuraba notices the changes is the day he realizes that Shin had been leaving a clear trail for Sakuraba to follow, to make sure that no matter how far ahead Shin managed to get Sakuraba would be able to follow and find him at the end of the day.

Because of that, Sakuraba learns to believe in himself, more than he was ever able to before. With Shin’s recognition of his determination and ambition, Sakuraba is able to push himself harder and not give up like he would have in the past. He ends most days barely able to catch his breath and sometimes without eating before he falls asleep, but always with a smile because he can check off one more day that he still followed Shin and didn’t admit defeat.

Shin always shows his particular brand of kindness in the mornings. He wakes up before Sakuraba does most days, but he always prepares enough breakfast for both of them, watches Sakuraba like a hawk, and never starts his training until Sakuraba has finished all the food and drinks all the water he’s been given. It turns out Shin knows quite a bit about nutrition and has not only been tracking his own diet to be optimal for mountain training, but has been taking care of Sakuraba’s as well.

On the days that Sakuraba manages to wake up at the same time as Shin, Shin quietly teaches him survival skills like making small fires and catching fish with his bare hands in the mountain’s streams.

When Sakuraba asks him one day how he learned all of these things, Shin looks embarrassed for a split second, but replies that he has prepared for his mountain training by studying and actually taking a short course in outdoor survivalist training.

Shin goes about the rest of his morning as usual, but Sakuraba can’t keep his thoughts off of the fact that he doesn’t know any other high school students who would prepare so thoroughly just for a training camp.

After that, Sakuraba asks Shin to let him take over catching breakfast in the mornings. It always takes him much longer than it did for Shin, but Shin patiently uses the time to do other training. It isn’t much, but to Sakuraba it seems to be the least he can offer to do with his mediocre skill set.

One morning, when Sakuraba stumbles back and apologizes for how long it took him, Shin just shakes his head and points out that it’s better training for him anyway. Sakuraba, after all, is the wide receiver and will need accurate catching skills more than Shin ever will.

Sakuraba falls heavily to the ground once Shin takes the fish from him. He thinks that statement over and realizes that Shin had once again subtly offered him a training method to help Sakuraba improve, and Sakuraba hadn’t even realized it until now.

After that, Sakuraba works tirelessly at his accuracy until he can catch a fish nearly as quickly as Shin ever could.

The day before they’re scheduled to be picked up and return to civilization, Sakuraba find his confidence.

Shin had, probably deliberately, settled them down under an opening in the tree line. They’re both still awake, the fire is burning low, and the moon is bright above them.

Sakuraba, warm and content and happy, rolls to the side and kisses Shin. It’s brief and entirely chaste, and Sakuraba rolls back to the side to settle into his previous position, for the first time in his life not feeling the roil of embarrassment and fear of rejection that tend to go hand and hand with his confessions.

Shin’s face is above his a moment later, eyebrows slightly raised in question.

Sakuraba shrugs and grins up at Shin.

Shin smiles slowly, his face settling into a contented expression he rarely ever shows. Shin’s smiles are a rare gift that don’t usually manage to crack his normal stoic facade, and Sakuraba can probably count on one hand how many times he’s seen Shin smile before this.

Shin moves deliberately so Sakuraba could stop him if he wanted. Sakuraba doesn’t want, of course, so Shin’s lips press quickly and surprisingly gently to the corner of Sakuraba’s mouth.

Sakuraba reaches up and cups his face, moving Shin’s face so their lips meet more squarely. The kiss between them remains chaste and gentle and lasts for only a few seconds before Shin pulls away. The moon is still shining and making a gentle halo around Shin’s head, and Sakuraba watches as Shin lifts a hand to cup one of Sakuraba’s cheeks for a moment, then moves to brush his hair away from Sakuraba’s forehead. Shin presses a second kiss against Sakuraba’s hair line and Sakuraba can’t keep from wrinkling his nose at that because it’s been too many days since he washed his hair and Shin is definitely the braver of the two of them for doing that.

Shin snorts, and flops back to the side, moving in close so he can press his shoulder to Sakuraba’s. In a show of affection Sakuraba would have expected to need to be the one to initiate, Shin takes Sakuraba’s hand and laces their fingers together.

As they lay there, staring up at the moon and stars above them, Sakuraba realizes that he’s found more of himself following and trying to catch Shin on his mountain training than he had during all his years of living for himself before.
stariceling: (Default)

Re: FILL: TEAM Kobayakawa Sena/Shin Seijuro, G

[personal profile] stariceling 2016-06-23 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so sorry for the late comment.

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THIS IS LITERALLY NOTHING ABOUT THIS I DON'T LOVE TO PIECES

Shin leaving a trail for Sakuraba warms my heart! Like all the little things Sakuraba notices Shin doing for him, no fuss just doing them, make me so deeply happy but making sure Sakuraba can find him even if his pace is slower is so important to me!! Catching breakfast as a training exercise fits way too perfectly with the series and made me laugh so much! Shin preparing for the camp like that is so fitting but also him being embarrassed is so very cute!

Also the kisses. I cannot even with the kisses. The whole this is so very, very sweet it makes me so happy! (I laughed so much at the kiss on Sakuraba's hair line because yes they've been out in the woods for a while now.)

Thank you so, so much this is lovely it made me so very happy!